The James Gordon Catalogue :
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Pipe Street Records Proudly
Presents
The James Gordon Catalogue :
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the 'original cast' studio recording of James Gordon's acclaimed folk opera
"Hardscrabble Road"
This ground-breaking musical theatre production, technically an 'opera' since the play is entirely sung, uses sharp political satire and serious dramatic commentary to tell the tale of a group of homeless people in an inner Canadian city. Six main characters sing of their plight and point out the personal impact that our current global situation can have on us all. Gordon's most ambitious work, with 24 new songs; it manages to convey an important and timely, politically-charged message with a sense of humour. Quite possibly the first "anti-globalization activist musical", Hardscrabble Road raises the art of the 'protest song' to a new and entertaining level!
Inspired by the "Beggar's Opera" and its successor the "Three-Penny Opera"- Hardscrabble Road's music is a hybrid combination of folk, pop, jazz, rock and world beat sounds. Recorded at Guelph's Pipe Street Studio and produced by James and his son Evan, this recording features the original cast from the 2003 live debut at Guelph's River Run Centre. Gordon shares the lead vocals with a 'Who's Who" of the Guelph area's music scene: Ken Brown, Nonie Crete, Sandy Horne, Amy Nodwell and Ryan Schneider. Lois Cherry, Marion Linton, Evan Gordon and Randall Coryell join James as the principle instrumentalists.
Robert Reid of Nightlife Magazine said this about the play: "Gordon's satirical wit is sharp, but it's leavened with moments of compassion and tenderness, which makes for a poignant musical experience".
We think you'll agree.
You can order the CD by Cicking Here by calling in an order at 519-837-3757 or faxing 519-837-3776 The CD costs 18.00 Cdn plus applicable taxes and shipping... BUT HERE's THE COOL PART...
You can get in on the JUNE Special if you order before July 1st.... Buy a copy of HARDCSRABBLE road... and get ANY OTHER CD available on the website for HALF PRICE!
The release of the CD co-incides with a live presentation of the show in Brampton Ontario June 17th,8:00 p.m. at Ken Whillans Square beside City Hall , as part of the Brampton Folk Festival pre-festival events.
"ENDOMUSIA" On Borealis Records
14 new songs- BCD161
Small Town Prairie Gigs/ Randal Dooley/ Weapons of Mass Instruction/ the Queen of the Bingo Palace/ Carlyle Lake/ The Bonny Earl of Murray/ Just Like Davey Jones/ The Seeking/ To The Walls/ Mesopotamia/ Saugeen Gypsies/ World Gone Mad/ Traverse City/ Friendly Fire/
Listen to "Weapons of Mass Instruction" and "To The Walls" in mp3 format by CLICKING HERE
NOTE: Endomusia is not available through the order form on this Website: Instead , go directly to the Borealis Records On-line Store : at their Website: www.borealisrecords.com, or by phoning their toll-free number: (877) 530-4288
THE SONG THE RIVER SINGS
PSR24 2004
13 Songs about Canadian Heritage Rivers.. Commissioned by the Canadian Heritage River Society
1. Lessons Of The River (Missinaibi) 2. Far From Home (Fraser) 3. Maggie of the Margaree 4. The Barren Lands (Coppermine) 5. Roll On North Saskatchewan 6. Ol' Cane (Bay du Nord) 7. She Is Fickle (Grand) 8. Soper River Song 9. Swamp Fever (Rideau) 10. The Sault Ste. Marie Canal (St. Marys) 11. Yukon River Jig (The Thirty Mile) 12. Le canot d'écorce (Jacques-Cartier) 13. The Song The River Sings
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'1 in 5' PSR20-
12 songs about mental health issues by James Gordon and Sandy Horne.
A special fundraising and awareness-raising project, with profits going to NAMI Michigan. This CD is distributed throughout the U.S.A in conjuntion with the "Songs of Hope" tour by James Gordon and Sandy Horne, a series of concerts to raise awareness about mental illness and to raise the spirits of those who have experienced illnesses of the brain. Available in Canada only through this Website.
One in Five/ There's A Light/ Virginia's Day/ Ryan's Dream/ Who Cares For the Caregiver?/ Ivy/ Sing With Me/ Harry In The Hole/ Did You Already Know?/ What the Lily Pads Are Thinking/ I Would Not Give It Away/ We Can Give You Hope.
Listen to "One in Five" by Clicking HERE
and then choosing which way you'd like to listen to "One In Five" on James Gordon's MP3.com site
then, go to ORDERFORM
( August 2002)
TUNE COOTIES: PSR19 14 new songs plus eleven previous "Basic Black" humourous hits from "Songs From Basic Black" ( now out of print) and "More Songs From Basic Black"- (just about out of print!)
We're Canadians, And We're Sorry /Piece of the King /Servin' Squirrel / Winnipeg ( "It's In The Middle)/ Spleen Readin' Man / Supermarket Rage / Why Does The Newt Cross the Road? / Dale The Mystery Plumber / Chicken Poop for the Soul / Surfer Street Kids / Jello Girl / Tune Cooties/ Snowflakes and Raindrops and Pretty Girl's Smiles / and my fond farewell to the show: The Last Regular Paycheque I Ever Had . AND- The Humline Song / Dear Rover / Men Don't Clean Toilets / Opera Singing Dog / Sweaters For Penguins /Donut Life / Five Penis Wine / Last Call At The Cyber Saloon / Gypsy Sock / Line Dancers From Outer Space / Dear Mr. Guinness . So, you get 25 songs in all!
Listen to "GYPSY SOCK" or "Sweaters for Penguins" by
and choosing which way you'd like to listen to the song on James Gordon's MP3.com site
Go to the ORDERFORM
SONGS FROM THE LOST VILLAGES PSR26 2004
12 Songs about the Lost Villages of The St. Lawrence, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the flooding of these historic settlements to create the St. Lawrence Seaway
On Pipe Street Records, you can order this CD directly through the Lost Villages Website, www.lostvillages.ca, or contacting the Lost Villages Museum 613-534-2197 cfmarin@sympatico.ca
The CD featurs an extensive booklet with archival photos, anecdotes, and maps of the area.
1. Aultsville Memories 2. Old Barbershop Days 3. Hydro Man 4. Mille Roches Girls 5. Ghosts Of Our Villages 6. No Road Home 7. Rosie And Clay 8. Mary Lynn Johnston's Chore 9. The Soul Of Moulinette 10. The Moccasin 11. Back in 1893 12. Sunday Afternoons
PSR18 "Out on A Rural Ramble" July 200212 songs about Ontario's pastoral Northumberland County. Commissioned by Northumberland Federation of Agriculture.
Out On a Rural Ramble/ The Apple Blossom Waltz/ River Country/ Brighton/ The 4-H Show at the Fair/ Burdy/ Northumberland Waltz/ Cobourg Waltz/ Apple Blossom Tyme/ The Roseneath Carousel/ Signor Farini/ Cobourg is Calling You/ The Hills of Old Northumberland/
This CDis only available from Northumberland Federation of Agriculture. www.rural-ramble.com
to order call 877 461-FARM or email homac@sympatico.ca It costs 15.00 plus 3.00 shipping plus GST... cheques can be mailed to Rural Ramble 70 McCann Rd. Codrington ON KOK 1R0
One Timeless Moment BCD141- February 2002
Find out all about it on
the NEW RELEASES page:
not available through the order form on thi s Website: Instead go directly to the Borealis Records On-line Store : at their Website: www.borealisrecords.com, or by phoning their toll-free number: (877) 530-4288 or by e-mailing info@borealisrecords.com
Dan McPhee/ The Old Troubador/ Michhipicoten/ Virginia's Day/ Another Big Box Store/ Unspoken/ Rapunzel/ Sing With Me/ Funny Old World/ A Really Lousy Late Winter Day/ Sunset Song/ It's Not Summer Anymore/ How Many Mistakes?
Listen to "Michipicoten" by Clicking HERE
and choosing which way you'd like to listen on James Gordon's Mp3.com site.
Song of Our City:
A Musical Celebration of Guelph's 175th Anniversary
April 2002
CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK!
1. Song Of Our City / 2. Kahkewaquonoby/ Machumus/ 3. Far From Our Shieling / 4. Charles Coghlin / 5. Journey To Guelph / 6. Selling Apples in Guelph Market in the Palmy Daysof 1879/ 7. My Ain Folk/ 8. The Unconquered Dead/ 9. Elinor Glyn/ 10. Two Beautiful Rivers/ 11. When Every Parlour Had A Piano/ 12. When St. George's Square Was Pretty/ 13. Promise To Gow's Bridge/ 14. The Wet/Dry Blues/ 15. Home's Not Just Where The Heart Is/ 16. O Come With Me In The Summer Night
AND February 2003- SONG OF OUR CITY is now available on Video! ( We're embracing the VHS technology just before it disappears!) Centred around the live concert version of the CD 'Song of Our City" ( see above)- taped at Guelph's River Run Centre in August 2002- This One-hour Television Special includes many of the songs from the album, as well as great historical photos, a visual tour of the city, and detailed commentary on each of the songs presented.
Go to the Orderform!
ROAD KILL HAT (Even More Songs From Basic Black) July- 2001
Road Kill Hat/ Pouches for Wombats / Stage Fright/ A Canadian Heritage Minute/ Pity The Poor Apostrophe/ Polar Bear Ball/ You're A Boomer/ Come On Arthur, Give It A Try! The Old Songwriter/ It's Hard To Find Good Bear Scat These Days/ Toad In A Can/ I'm Wearing Rover Now
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Mining For Gold- Sept. 2000 Borealis Records....
Double CD featuring the Best Of James Gordon's songs from 1981 to 2001
CD1- Frobisher Bay/ Harvest Train /Home To You Once More / Oh Klondike / No Herring Left in the Bay/ The Greenland Whale / Fields of Rock and Snow / Stuart and Lillian/ Lonesome Cowboy's Lament/ Pawpine/ The Virginia Brand/ Pioneer Tower Road / Leaving Inverarden/ Banks of the Rocky Saugeen/ Tugboat Days/ Highway Seventeen/ We Owe It To The Pioneers / Chippewa Smile/ Mining For Gold
CD2- Looking For Livingstone / Your Wandering Gypsy Boy/ Head Me Home / Caledonia Street / Farther Along/ This Poor Old Village/ Essequibo River/ The Human Cannonball/ Without You/ Kootenay Mountains/ God Snapped Her Fingers/ Margaret's Waltz/ Back Before Wal-mart/ Ivy / St. Patrick's Day/ Anna's Dress/ Harry In The Hole/ Hockey Town/ There Is No Silent Night
NOTE: Mining For Gold is not available through the order form on thi s Website: Instead , go directly to the Borealis Records On-line Store : at their Website: www.borealisrecords.com, by phoning their toll-free number: (877) 530-4288, or by
MORE SONGS FROM BASIC BLACK
-June 2000Sweaters For Penguins/ Donut Life/ Five PenisWine/ Last Call at the Cyber Saloon/ Gypsy Sock/Arthur's Lonely Sock Club/ Bring Back the Stubby/ Dear Mr. Guinness/ Headless Chicken Day/ St. Albert/ Cheezies/ Cheese Suite/ We Spawn and We Die.
NOTE: THIS ONE IS VERY CLOSE TO BEING PERMANENTLY OUT OF STOCK.. THE "HITS" from it are contained on the new "TUNE Cooties" CD though.
Get it While you can on the ORDERFORM
Songs For Kids- July 2000
Just 12 dollars!
From "No Grownups Allowed"-
1985
Don't Do This and Don't Do That/ A Cowboy's Got A Horse/ The Waltz of the Fireflies/ The Stew Song/ Up in the Treefort/ The Monster Song/ Bruce's Tooth/ The Wild Boy of Borneo
From "Bouncy Bouncy"- 1987
Bouncy Bouncy/ Bucky the Wonder Horse/ The Dinosaur's Dance/ I Don't Want To Go To School/ The Rhythm of the Earth/ Under the Bed/ This Big Old World/ Ogopogo/ I Am A Grownup/ Who Needs A Zoo?/ Blue-Eyed Lullabye Bonus Track- 2000 : Gypsy Sock
PIPE STREET DREAMS.Thirteen intimate songs. James at his solo best. 1999
Robin Hood's Bay/ That Old Cedar Strip/ If You Hear the River Call/ My Insomnia/ Jumbo's Last Ride/ Coke Oven Brook/ Far From Our Shieling/ Did You Already Know/ Lamas On the Road/ The Uneeda Rest/ Too Canadian These Days/ Hamilton Beach/ Isn't It Time To Go Home
NOTE: We've just got in a new shipment.. so we're no longer out of stock on this one...
ALSO NEW..
James Gordon Guitar String Jewellery
My friend Mark Videan has come up with a really great design for guitar-string bracelets and earrings... he's added stirling silver to them, and they look quite lovely if I do say so myself. Each item is made from a well-worn string that once lived on my 1967 Martin D-18 Guitar. Songs were written on those strings. Many shows were played, ( I'm kinda lazy about changing them ). These strings have been all over the place, and now they could end up on your wrist. Cool, eh?
There's an even cooler part.
With each purchase, The value of one set of six NEW strings will be donated to the ArtsCan Circle, an organization which collects and delivers musical instruments to Native communities, where teams of creative artists bring hands-on instruction and encouragement to at-risk youth...no strings attached. Find out more about ArtscanCircle and the work of it's founder, harmonica virtuoso Mike Stevens at their website: www.artscancircle.ca
I hope you enjoy wearing these strings as much as I did playing them. Here's what they look like. They cost 45 dollars plus taxes and shipping, and you can order them from the orderform page by CLICKING HERE
Breaking The Mask- 2001 A video about Mental Health Produced by James Gordon. Find out more about it by CLICKING HERE. Order it by CLICKING HERE
Songs From Basic Black 1999-
45 minutes of relentlessly silly music from Gordon's regular comedy-song feature on CBC radios' Basic Black programme. The Humline Song/ Piece of the Moon/ Trust Your Local Mechanic/ Dear Rover/ Nathan and Marjorie/ Generic Singing Eulogy/ The Dolphins Are Leaving/ Wooden Car/ The Wet-Dry Blues/ Cat Commercial/ Hard Hat Stetson/ Opera Singing Dog/ Fishin' For Ice/ I'm a Movie Guy/ I'se The Politically Correct B'ye/ Men Don't Clean Toilets
NOTE: THIS CD IS NOW PERMANENTLY RETIRED, OUT OF STOCK. FINISHED. However, several of the hits from it are on the new "TUNE COOTIES " CD.
Here's the oldie but goodie section:
Looking For Livingstone, 1987 , cassette and, if you are really brave, vinyl!.
Farther Along, 1991; cassette and CD
Hometown Tunes, 1994 , cassette only ( currently out of stock )
Dim Lights,Small City, 1995; CD only
More Hometown Tunes, 1997; CD and Cassette
Soundtrack recording; The Spirit of Shivaree, 1990 cassette only
With David Archibald- Jim and Dave's Awesome Environmental Adventure, 1990; Jim and Dave's Awesome Search For the Golden Toad , 1992; Jim and Dave's Awesome Supernatural Camping Adventure, 1993. All cassette only
For albums with Tamarack, check out the Tamarack Website
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