Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
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Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Marc Fri 3 Apr 2020 - 2:09
Been meaning to mention that I'd heard this on CBC Radio a few months ago. The song's also been recently covered.
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Re: Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Hobb Fri 3 Apr 2020 - 12:46
Great song!
There is a modern cover (very CBC2-ish in sound) that has great archival footage of Inuit communities but the song is too mellow for me.
I played the muted footage of the modern video with Willie Thrashers's song ...
Watching the kid's jump on ice flows, or paddle around as giant float-planes came in, you can feel exactly where the energy of the song comes from. The modern song drains too much of the wolf out of the song!
There is a modern cover (very CBC2-ish in sound) that has great archival footage of Inuit communities but the song is too mellow for me.
I played the muted footage of the modern video with Willie Thrashers's song ...
Watching the kid's jump on ice flows, or paddle around as giant float-planes came in, you can feel exactly where the energy of the song comes from. The modern song drains too much of the wolf out of the song!
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Re: Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Hobb Fri 3 Apr 2020 - 12:57
Thrasher's songs "Spirit Child", "Old Man Carver" and "We Got to Take You Higher" are featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1. As a result of the revived publicity from the Native North America compilation, Thrasher has undertaken more extensive touring
- Native North America, Vol. 1 - CLICK TO OPEN TRACK LIST:
- Willie Dunn, "I Pity the Country"
John Angaiak, "I'll Rock You to the Rhythm of the Ocean"
Sugluk, "Fall Away"
Sikumiut, "Sikumiut"
Willie Thrasher, "Spirit Child"
Willy Mitchell, "Call of the Moose"
Lloyd Cheechoo, "James Bay"
Alexis Utatnaq, "Maqaivvigivalauqtavut"
Brian Davey, "Dreams of Ways"
Morley Loon, "N'Doheeno"
Peter Frank, "Little Feather"
Ernest Monias, "Tormented Soul"
Eric Landry, "Out of the Blue"
David Campbell, "Sky-Man and the Moon"
Willie Dunn, "Son of the Sun"
Shingoose with Duke Redbird, "Silver River"
Willy Mitchell and Desert River Band, "Kill'n Your Mind"
Philippe McKenzie, "Mistashipu"
Willie Thrasher, "Old Man Carver"
Lloyd Cheechoo, "Winds of Change"
The Chieftones, "I Shouldn't Have Did What I Done"
Sugluk, "I Didn't Know"
Lawrence Martin, "I Got My Music"
Gordon Dick, "Siwash Rock"
Willy Mitchell and Desert River Band, "Birchbark Letter"
William Tagoona, "Anaanaga"
Leland Bell, "Messenger"
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys, "Modern Rock"
Willie Thrasher, "We Got to Take You Higher"
Sikumiut, "Utirumavunga"
Sugluk, "Ajuinnarasuarsunga"
John Angaiak, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Brother"
Groupe Folklorique Montagnais, "Tshekuan Mak Tshetutamak"
Willie Dunn and Jerry Saddleback, "Peruvian Dream"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7F2ixYtaTsciSVeIiugj4UXGOjwu9Qa
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Re: Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Marc Fri 3 Apr 2020 - 19:02
Interesting that in all these years listening to CBC I hadn't heard a mention of the Native North America Vol. 1...and on the note of CBC 2, I've needed to take a break from it. It's precisely because it has become far too dominated by CBC2-ish songs, as you stated in reference to Thrasher's Wolves cover.
I can see why the Willie Dunn song I Pity the Country was featured in the promo for Light in the Attic Records (or the compilation). I am a sucker for singer/songwriter music, and well maybe it's also a combination of the sweet guitar mixed with his voice and lyrics.
It is a song that also - most especially for the voice - made me think of this one that I've really enjoyed:
I can see why the Willie Dunn song I Pity the Country was featured in the promo for Light in the Attic Records (or the compilation). I am a sucker for singer/songwriter music, and well maybe it's also a combination of the sweet guitar mixed with his voice and lyrics.
It is a song that also - most especially for the voice - made me think of this one that I've really enjoyed:
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Re: Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Hobb Fri 3 Apr 2020 - 22:28
I'd call that the 'Gordon Lightfoot' music of my very early youth. A lifetime ago when I was small and everything was big.
Here is some Terry Jacks from 1972-4, the production is poppier but still has a similarity...
Here is some Terry Jacks from 1972-4, the production is poppier but still has a similarity...
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Re: Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
by Hobb Sat 4 Apr 2020 - 17:00
Willie Thrasher - We Got to Take You Higher
The Undisputed Truth - Ball of Confusion (Right On! Take Me Higher!)
Apparently it wasn't just white boys....
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