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Sings Canadian History

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These twenty three tunes of tale-taling invoke history, myth and word-of-mouth, in Stompin' Tom's inimitable clear-eyed way;
his voice ringing as if alive in the rockies, rummaging up stories on the beaten path, or plucking guitar in the next-to-last diner.
Although an hour and a quarter may be too much of his patterned plank beat to take at once; there are definitely some stand-outs, and the overall effect is informative and keen, in a gentle rib-tickling way.
My favorites are: Big Joe Mufferaw with its outrageous, lively talk of Joe, how he "drank a bucket of Gin" and "beat the livin' tar out of twenty-nine men" and the hilarious heave of the music; Tribute To Wilf Carter, and its zany yodling, the composed in 1999 Confederation Bridge; the menacing, twisting tale of The Black Donnelys in Black Donnelly's Massacre; the ghoulish inevitability of How The Mountain Came Down; and Name The Capitals, really a teacher's guide.
Stompin' Tom often has a grinning likeability to his voice, and though the music can get repetitive, this isn't a musty lesson in history at all.

MichaelM,
May 20/02

Am very happy with my purchase Was hard to find in stores Found it on Amazon.com They delivered like they said they would Even tho we had Post office was out on strick at the time Am very pleased with the service and will shop there again

Roy Alberta Canada

my friends told me that this is a good cd i love tom and his songs thats y i also bought it no one can love canada as much as he does.