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Traveling four routes woven into the prairie landscape, Provincial, the first solo album by The Weakerthans singer/songwriter John K. Samson, finds familiar landmarks and forgotten ones; shivers through long winters and uncertain memories; works its way home. Since 1997, John K. Samson has written four acclaimed albums with The Weakerthans. This too is a collec-tion of loud, quiet, beautiful songs.
Provincial began with a simple idea: to explore four different roads in Manitoba, the province where Samson lives. The result is this collection of evocative songs, recorded in April 2011 at Toronto's Six Nassau Street, and Prairie Recording Co. in Winnipeg. Working with producer Paul Aucoin and mix engineer Cam Loeppky, Samson gathered an eclectic and talented group of musicians, old friends and new, including bassist Doug Friesen, guitarist Shotgun Jimmie, Constantines drummer Doug MacGregor, and Samson's partner and collaborator, the songwriter Christine Fellows. Other songs benefited from the strings and percussion of the Correction Line Ensemble.
Side A
1. Highway 1 East
2. Heart of the Continent
3. Cruise Night
4. Grace General
5. When I Write My Master's Thesis
6. Letter in Icelandic from the Ninette San
Side B
7. Longitudinal Centre
8. www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/
9. The Last And
10. Stop Error
11. Highway 1 West
12. Taps Reversed
Provincial began with a simple idea: to explore four different roads in Manitoba, the province where Samson lives. The result is this collection of evocative songs, recorded in April 2011 at Toronto's Six Nassau Street, and Prairie Recording Co. in Winnipeg. Working with producer Paul Aucoin and mix engineer Cam Loeppky, Samson gathered an eclectic and talented group of musicians, old friends and new, including bassist Doug Friesen, guitarist Shotgun Jimmie, Constantines drummer Doug MacGregor, and Samson's partner and collaborator, the songwriter Christine Fellows. Other songs benefited from the strings and percussion of the Correction Line Ensemble.
Side A
1. Highway 1 East
2. Heart of the Continent
3. Cruise Night
4. Grace General
5. When I Write My Master's Thesis
6. Letter in Icelandic from the Ninette San
Side B
7. Longitudinal Centre
8. www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/
9. The Last And
10. Stop Error
11. Highway 1 West
12. Taps Reversed
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