2005-02-28
Scottish-Canadian David Francey has been rocketing to folk-singer stardom (if there is such a thing) since laying down his carpenter tools in the late 90’s and launching into full time song writing, recording, folk-festival-performing, and troubadour-traveling.His second album, Far End of Summer, won a Juno Award in the Roots and Traditional category in 2002. His 2005 release, The Waking Hour, has received a nomination for the same award.
It’s easy to get comfortable in Francey’s songs; they sound familiar the first time you hear them. He writes simple poems that cover the classic topics of love and heart break, highway traveling, shipyards and coal towns, bus-station characters, war ("And the sabers were drawn from their scabbards/They were rattlin’ for all they were worth . . .") and, oh yeah, Timothy McVeigh.
Francey is accompanied on the album by Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin.
LOU RHODES
Beloved One
ADMIRAL FALLOW
Tree Bursts in Snow
Willy Mason
Where Humans Eat
BIG LEG EMMA
The Color Of Wind
Dan Zanes & Friends
Catch That Train!
JAY FARRAR/BENJAMIN GIBBARD
One Fast Move or I'm Gone
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