| Northwest Passage | |||||
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| Studio album by Stan Rogers | |||||
| Released | 1981 | ||||
| Genre | Folk | ||||
| Length | 39:38 | ||||
| Label | Fogarty's Cove Music | ||||
| Producer | Paul Mills | ||||
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Northwest Passage is a 1981 (see 1981 in music) album by Stan Rogers.
Track listing
- Northwest Passage
- The Field Behind the Plow
- Night Guard
- Working Joe
- You Can't Stay Here
- The Idiot
- Lies
- Canol Road
- Free in the Harbour
- California
This is also a song by Stan Rogers, a well known Canadian singer/songwriter. It is based around the quest for the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Strait to the Beaufort Sea). This, though, belies a deeper meaning. As Stan Rogers' seminal work Fogarty's Cove sang the experiences of the Canadian Maritimes, and his album From Fresh Water those of the Great Lakes provinces, Northwest Passage is an album putting into song what Rogers' viewed as the experiences of the westerner and territorian. It is to this end that the title track speaks not solely about a man seeking a literal northwest passage to the Indies, but Stan Rogers' personal northwest passage as he now brings his focus from what was initially the east, his adopted home Nova Scotia, further north and west to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Territories.
Features
Aside from featuring on the Stan Rogers album, of the same name, the song appeared as the finale of the last episode of Due South, as the two main Characters leave to find "The hand of Franklin, the reaching out one."
