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Once Stood Prosperity: Songs of Rural Manitoba

by Brayden Olson

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1.
Owl River Blues 08:08
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2.
Revelation at West Hawk Lake 03:16
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3.
Plum Coulee Stomp 02:30
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4.
Provincial Trunk No.7 Blues 02:22
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5.
Once Stood Prosperity 13:29
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6.
At Tobacco Creek 03:53
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Rural Party Line Blues 02:14
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8.
Rosewood Ramble 02:59
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9.
Shaw's Valse 02:01
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written for home: locations that exist only in mind, and the annals of time.

LINER NOTES:

--Owl River Blues (CGCGCC)--
That which may have sounded at a rural parish c.1924.
Heavily indebted to John Fahey's "When the Catfish is in Bloom" from his Requia album. Main theme is a mixture of "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?" and "All Creatures of Our God and King."


--Revelation at West Hawk Lake (DADF#AD)--
For Thelma "Joan" Todd.


--Plum Coulee Stomp (Standard tuning)--
Performed at the 1970 "Plum Coulee Mennonite Church Talent Show." Striking historical document of "prairie ragtime," which had recently taken the community by storm, much to the protest of some church officials. The piece, however, did not win first prize, which instead went to the "Crokinole Boys."

--Provincial Trunk No. 7 Blues (DGDGBD)--
Legend has it that this tune was written by an itinerant bluesman and preacher who chanced to be passing through Teulon, MB on the highway for which the song is named.

--Once Stood Prosperity (CGCGCC)--
For Prosperity School #1375. Originally in the Municipality of Lyall, the school burned down sometime in the mid 20th-century.

--At Tobacco Creek (CGCGCC)--
Located 150 km south of Winnipeg, the Tobacco Creek Watershed flows into the River Styx to the East. The Creek, populated mostly by catfish and numerous species of Japanese water nymph, it is bordered by numerous retirement villas, one of which is purported to be the home of former prime minister David Crockett

--Rural Party Line Blues (DADF#AD)--
A mostly forgotten early 20th-century practice, many rural communities shared a single telephone line. One night in 1953, our nameless bluesman, now settled down and satisfied with the joys of life on the Ens family farm, calls in, yet remains curiously silent.

--Rosewood Ramble (CGCGCD)--
For the Paci farm in Rosewood Manitoba (now located in the R.M. of Tache), site of many barn dances. Long since demolished. Former location unknown.

--Shaw's Valse (CGCGCC)--
Once heard amongst the shelves.

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released July 7, 2018

Brayden Olson - 6-string guitar, mixing and production.

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