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Mentioned in song : song traditions of the loggers of Newfoundland and Labrador / Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media & Place ; School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media & Place, School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c2014.

634.9809718 M549r

Loggers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.

Logging -- Songs and music.

Logging -- Canada, Eastern -- History.

Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.

Newfoundland and Labrador -- Songs and music.

Back on track series.

Alternate title:

Song traditions of the loggers of Newfoundland and Labrador

87 p. : ill., maps, 20 cm + 1 CD.

"New and archival recordings"-- Cover.

Program notes by Ursula Kelly in English and lyrics in English and French (87 p. : ill. (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm) accompanying CD.

Sung in French and English ; recitations in English.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87 of booklet).

The Gambo way / written and performed by Stanley Pinsent -- Cut that timber down / Byron Chaulk, Gerald Mitchell (Shirley Montague) -- Indian Bay Song / Job Hunt (Samuel Button) -- Birch rind Pete / written and performed by Baxter Wareham -- Bert Chaffey's Camp / written and performed by Moses Harris -- The Badger drive / John V. Devine (Maude Sullivan) -- LumberJack breakdown (Larry Barker, Gerald Quniton, Moses Harris) -- Shearstown woods song / written and performed by Solomon Mercer -- The Labrador star (John Crane) -- The foresters' song / Jim Carew, Pat Carew (Pamela Morgan) -- Sandy Harbour town / William Wilson (Tobias Pearson) -- Brophy's Mill / Ed Payne (Forward Ayre) -- Billy the lumberjack / written and performed by Leander Peach -- Slaughter Cove Pond / Bridget Traverse (Kathleen O'Quinn) -- Wedding at the bottom of the bay (Lemuel Snow) -- The business of makin' the paper / written and performed by Omar Blondahl -- Johnny Payne / written and performed by Daniel Lacey -- North Twin Lake (Obediah Payne) -- The peelwood song / written and performed by Jim White (LeBlanc) -- Stand up for Jesus / George W. Webb (Moses Harris) -- Chanson de b ucherons = Lumberjack song (Josie LaCosta (Josephine Costard)) -- The IWA song / Harold White (Martin Pilgrim) -- The ballad of Constable Moss / Henry Carew (Crooked Stovepipe) -- The forest fires of '61 / Alfred Whiffen (Bernice Duke) -- Will there be any bucksaws in heaven/Lumberjack's meditation (John Crane) -- When the roll is called up yonder / James M. Black (Newman Sound Men's Choir) -- Auld lang syne / Robert Burns (Loggers of Bowater Camp 29, District 4).

Guest producer, Ursula Kelly ; Series producers, Beverly Diamond and Meghan Forsyth.

Stanley Pinsent (track 1), Samuel Button (track 3), Maude Sullivan (track 6), Solomon Mercer (track 8), John Crane (tracks 9, 25), Forward Ayre (track 12), Leander Peach (track 13), Kathleen O'Quinn (track 14), Daniel Lacey (track 17), Jim White (LeBlanc) (track 19), Josie LaCosta (Josephine Costard) (track 21), Bernice Duke (track 24), vocals ; Shirley Montague, vocals, guitar (track 2) ; Moses Harris, vocals (track 5), instruments (track 7), handsaw (track 20) ; Larry Barker, accordion (track 7) ; Gerald Quinton, harmonica (track 7) ; Pamela Morgan, vocals, guitar, tin whistle (track 10) ; Baxter Wareham (track 4), Tobias Pearson (track 11), recitation ; Lemuel Snow, vocals, banjo (track 15) ; Omar Blondahl, vocals, guitar (track 16) ; Obediah Payne, vocals, guitar (track 18) ; Martin Pilgrim, vocals, guitar (track 22) ; Crooked Stovepipe (Neil Rosenberg, banjo, Dave Rowe, mandolin, Ted Rowe, vocals, guitar, Matt Hender, bass) (track 23) ; Newman Sound Men's Choir (track 26) ; Loggers of Bowater Camp 29, District 4 (track 27).

The production includes a CD of restored and new arrangements of a wide selection of the logging song repertoire and a booklet that contains a written and pictorial account of the place of song in logging culture in Newfoundland and Labrador, notes on the song composers, performers and collectors, a historical timeline of logging, a logging lexicon, and song lyrics.

East Coast music.

Canadian music.

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