Fjellgaard, Gary - All in the Journey

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"I recorded these songs as a performance with just me and guitar or mandolin without using ear phones. There is a certain amount of emotional energy that’s hard to capture any other way. The other instrumentation was added after the fact but with a high degree of sensitivity and caring. I would like to thank those most excellent musicians including David Sinclair the producer who took my songs to a new level and once again trusted the voice of Linda Kidder to tug away at our heartstrings."

All songs written by Gary Fjellgaard except for co-writers on 6,12
All songs published by Slim Creek Music except for co-publishers on 6,12

FALCON AND THE COWBOY 4:22
Gary Fjellgaard-Silver Songs SOCAN
I always wanted an acoustic version of this song and the environmental message is more relevant today than ever. Folks who make a living from the earth, I’m sure understand this.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Mandolin: David Sinclair
Bass: Rene Worst
BG vocals: Linda Kidder, David Sinclair

ALL IN THE JOURNEY 3:15
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
This was written the year we toured an incredible number of miles and still managed the long haul to Mexico. Pay your toll or take the free road and utter chaos. Lynne kept saying, “It’s all in the journey”
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Nylon string guitar: David Sinclair
Cello: Finn Manniche
BG vocal: Linda Kidder

BACK WHEN BILLY ROBBED TRAINS 3:50
(Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music, SOCAN
Kitchen Table Music-SOCAN)
Billy Miner road up from the States to the South Thompson region of British Columbia. He spent over half his life in prison. I got to thinking about Billy’s crimes in comparison to today’s modern leaders of Nations. Hey, Billy wasn’t all that bad.
Lead vocal and mandolin: Gary
Bass: Rene Worst
Drums: Shawn Soucy
Fiddle: Cam Wilson
Acoustic guitar: David Sinclair
BG vocals: Linda Kidder, David Sinclair

I APOLOGIZE 4:06
Gary Fjellgaard- Slim Creek Music SOCAN
This apology is dedicated to the First Nations victims and survivors of the cultural genocide which occurred in Canada for over a century. No apology can heal the wounds caused by the far reaching effects of the residential school system. I can only add my voice as a member of the generation who allowed this abuse to take place. This song is still available on my web site as a free download.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Drums: Elliot Polsky
Bass: Brian Newcombe
Electric guitar: David Sinclair
Violin: Cam Wilson
BG vocal: Linda Kidder

OLD WESTERN STORY 2:53
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
It’s an old familiar theme of wagon trains heading west. Those early settlers faced all that nature could throw at them but the wagons still kept rolling towards that dream. Today we think of the romance of the journey and not the hell it must have been.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Fiddle: Cam Wilson
Electric guitar: David Sinclair

HORSES IN HEAVEN 3:49
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN/Darrel Delaronde SOCAN
Co-written with Darrel Delaronde who came to me with this wonderful melody, and the idea that heaven could not be truly paradise, without horses. As a lover of the western lifestyle it made perfect sense to me.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Nylon string and electric guitars : David Sinclair
BG vocals: Linda Kidder, David Sinclair
MEXICAN HEAT 3:38
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
It’s a challenge sometimes for a songwriter to put difficult words into a song. Beauganvillea and eucalyptus came to mind sitting in a courtyard in Mexico. Try and spell that.
Lead vocal and mandolin: Gary
Drums: Shawn Soucy
Bass: Rene Worst
Nylon string guitar and mandolin: David Sinclair
BG vocals: Linda Kidder, David Sinclair

RUN LITTLE GUY 3:01
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
It was a crushing experience when we lost our beloved little dog Jake. This song is a tribute to our little guy and I suppose my way of dealing with the loss.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Violin: Cam Wilson
Cello: Finn Manniche
Electric guitar: David Sinclair
BG vocal: Linda Kidder

SHARE THE RANGE 4:16
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
This song deals in a lighthearted way with ranchers who have to sell off small parcels of land to get some much needed cash. I say buy your ten acres, build your house but don’t fence it. Let the rancher continue to use the graze. Everybody wins.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Drums: Shawn Soucy
Bass: Rene Worst
Nylon and electric guitars: David Sinclair

HAVE WE BEEN HERE BEFORE 3:33
Gary Fjellgaard- Slim Creek Music SOCAN
Lynne and I were in the ghost town of Barkerville, B.C. long before any of the restoration, when it was a true ghost town. Looking at all the artifacts hanging on the walls we realized we had used most of them in our many years together. This became our fiftieth anniversary song.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Violin: Cam Wilson
Cello: Finn Manniche

KNOWIN WHEN TO QUIT 3:16
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN
Lynne has asked many times over the years “When are you going to quit the business?” After a particular rough twenty six thousand kilometer journey that question kept coming up more often but with more of a tone of desperation. That beach in Mexico is starting to look better all the time.
Drums: Shawn Soucy
Bass: Rene Worst
Electric guitar,dobro,banjo,jaw harp and tuba sample: David Sinclair

ONE MORE PONY RIDE 4:15
Gary Fjellgaard-Slim Creek Music SOCAN/ Stuart Montgomery-Collins Music BMI/Kitchen Table Music SOCAN
Written in Nashville with Stuart Montgomery, previously recorded, but lyrically fits in with the theme of the CD. During one of the many cattle drives out of Kamloops a wedding took place with the whole entourage on horseback. There wasn’t a dry eye among us as we watched the couple ride off into the sunset and disappear over the crest of a hill.
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Gary
Cello: Finn Manniche
Nylon string guitar: David Sinclair
BG vocal: Linda Kidder

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