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MUSIC / FOLKLORE / WISCONSIN & MIDWEST
Songs and dance tunes from the lumberjack era
Bemidji, Minnesota, native Brian Miller teams up with Randy Gosa of Wales,
Wisconsin, to perform the Irish-influenced music once common in lumber camp
bunkhouses throughout the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
A follow-up to Miller’s album
Minnesota Lumberjack Songs
, this CD includes
songs and dance tunes from North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Ontario. Miller and Gosa accompany many of the songs with guitar, bou-
zouki, mandolin, harmonium, and tenor banjo. Included is a booklet with notes
and historical photos.
Songs and tunes included are: The Farmer’s Boy, How We Got Up to the Woods
Last Year, Leizime Brusoe’s/Morton’s, Jails of Buffalo, Roll Drivers Roll, The Fall-
ing of the Pine, Deep Deep Sea, The Heights of Alma, Raftsman Jim, The Day
I Played Baseball, The Templehouse/The Ivy Leaf, Colleen Bawn, and The Jolly
Raftsman.
Brian Miller
(at right above) lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and performs with the
Two Tap Trio, the Máirtín de Cógáin Project, and Bua. He is a two-time recipi-
ent of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This CD
was made possible, in part, through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Randy Gosa
has been playing Irish music since 1999 and studied music at the
University of Limerick. He performs nationally with his band Myserk and also
teaches at the Milwaukee Irish Fest School of Music.
AUGUST
5 ⁵⁄₈ X 4 ⁷⁄₈
MUSIC CD $16.00 T
Distributed for Two Tap Records
• FOR MORE BACKGROUND ON BRIAN MILLER
AND TOUR DATES FOR HIS PERFORMANCES
OF LUMBERJACK SONGS,
VISIT EVERGREENTRAD.COM
MUSIC / ENVIRONMENT / WISCONSIN & MIDWEST
“
Sand County Songs
is wonderful. Tim Johnson has combined creative
musicianship with a keen appreciation of Aldo Leopold’s writing and
experience.”
—Curt Meine, author of
Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
Sand County Songs
draws themes and lyrics from Aldo Leopold’s landmark envi-
ronmental essays in
A Sand County Almanac
. From thoughtful ballads and beau-
tiful instrumentals to spirited bluegrass and finger-style blues, songwriter Tim
Southwick Johnson gives voice to the honesty and respect of Leopold’s land ethic.
Songs and tunes included are: Prologue, Coffee Cup Chorus, Loving Pines, Come
High Water, Red Lanterns, Crane Song, Green Fire, Sky Dance, Good Oak, If I
Were the Wind, Winter Book, Draba, Better Way, and Epilogue.
Tim Southwick Johnson
is an accomplished singer and performer on acoustic
guitar, mandolin, tenor guitar, ukulele, and harmonica who has played his music
in thirty states. He has provided music for video and film, including
Wisconsin
Barns/A Touchstone of the Past
, aired nationally on PBS.
AUGUST
5 ⁵⁄₈ X 4 ⁷⁄₈
MUSIC CD $16.00 T
Distributed for Tim Southwick Johnson
• A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM
THIS ALBUM ARE DONATED TO THE ALDO
LEOPOLD FOUNDATION IN BARABOO,
WISCONSIN
