James Gordon Discography
Recent works:
The Highway And I- 2007 -Audio Book-
5 CDs-
5.5 hours of
spoken word road tales plus one CD
of Road songs from Gordon's Loooong career.
James Gordon has been collecting comic tales of action and
misadventure from his long career in the Canadian music business
for 30-odd years. Very odd years. Since he began including a
new story each month on his now-legendary e-newsletter, fans
have been clamouring for a book-form collection of these tales.
After pulling them all together, James realized that these road
stories should be listened to while YOU are on the road, and
the result is "The Highway And I", a FIVE CD AUDIO
BOOK! You can take it with you and listen to these road reminiscences
on the same highways he's been criss-crossing for a generation.
Five and a half hours of listening! The first four CDs contain
SIXTY-ONE stories, and the fifth is a compilation of TWENTY road
songs that James has recorded, drawing on his catalogue of over
30 CDs. Included are three new songs never before recorded.
Some of the stories not to miss: "The Great Duncan Heist",
"Astronaut For A Day", "Moose On The Highway",
"Thorndale Farmer Appreciation Night", "The Stroke
Survivor's Luncheon" and "Montana And Idaho",
which details an infamous gig at a nudist resort.
Nine Green Bottles- 2007
James Gordon And Sons-
The first collaboration with the 3 Gordon
Boys, James, Evan and Geordie.
Inukshuk/ The Moon Looks Like It's Crying/ Another Silver Maple Comes Down/ Casey Sheehan Didn't Die For Nothing/ Short Line/ Levee's Broken/ Shkendemowin/ Nine Green Bottles/ Manitoulin/ Since This Is Just A Song/ Rattle Of A Teacup/ The Secret Of Rock And Roll.
ORDER From the Borealis Records Website: www.borealisrecords.com
24 Original songs in James Gordon's 'activist
musical'- INFO
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SONGS FROM THE LOST VILLAGES
- PSR26 June 2004 12 Songs about the Lost Villages of The St. Lawrence Aultsville Memories / Old Barbershop Days / Hydro Man / Mille Roches Girls / Ghosts Of Our Villages / No Road Home / Rosie And Clay / Mary Lynn Johnston's Chore / The Soul Of Moulinette / The Moccasin / Back in 1893 / Sunday Afternoons |
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THE SONG THE RIVER SINGS
- PSR24 May 2004 Lessons Of The River (Missinaibi) / Far From Home (Fraser) / Maggie of the Margaree / The Barren Lands (Coppermine) / Roll On North Saskatchewan / Ol' Cane (Bay du Nord) / She Is Fickle (Grand) / Soper River Song / Swamp Fever (Rideau) / The Sault Ste. Marie Canal (St. Marys) / Yukon River Jig (The Thirty Mile) / Le canot d'tcorce (Jacques-Cartier) / The Song The River Sings |
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ENDOMUSIA - BCD161 March
2004 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 |
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'1 in 5' - PSR20 12 songs about mental health issues 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 |
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TUNE COOTIES - PSR19 Aug. 2002 - 14 new songs plus eleven previous "Basic Black" humourous hits 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 |
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OUT ON A RURAL RAMBLE -
PSR18 July 2002 12 songs about Ontario's pastoral Northumberland County 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 |
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ONE TIMELESS MOMENT - BCD141
Feb. 2002 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? |
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SONG OF OUR CITY - April 2002 - A Musical Celebration of Guelph's 175th Anniversary "SONG OF OUR CITY" is currently out of print...... I hope to fix this soon though...
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ROAD KILL HAT - July 2001
- (Even More Songs From Basic Black) 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 - Best Of Double CD 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 |
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SONGS FOR KIDS - July 2000
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: Gypsy Sock |
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MORE SONGS FROM BASIC BLACK
- June 2000 Sweaters For Penguins / Donut Life / Five Penis Wine / 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 |
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PIPE STREET DREAMS - 1999
- James at his solo best. 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 We've just got in a new shipment.. so we're no longer out of stock on this one... |
...and even more...
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
