Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest

For many years working a variety of jobs in British Columbia construction camps, railroad gangs, logging and tugboat crews—Stanley G. Triggs’s resume would make any outdoorsman proud. Add folk singer and mandolin player to the list, and you have all the ingredients for Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest. Triggs eventually turned to photography and music-making for his living, but the repertoire he performed consisted mainly of those “folk” songs he had heard and sung in the logging and construction camps. He became a part of Vancouver’s folk revival scene, and someone suggested that he send a demo tape to Sam Gesser, a Canadian producer for Folkways Records.

The tracks featured on this album are drawn from Triggs’s experiences, and were still commonly heard in the camps at the time of the recording. Liner notes include lyrics and notes on the songs, illustrated with some of Triggs’s original photographs of the Canadian Northwest.

Track Listing

101	The Oda G.	Stanley G. Triggs	02:27
102	The Wreck of the Number Nine	Stanley G. Triggs	02:02
103	The Blue Velvet Band	Stanley G. Triggs	02:13
104	The Homesick Trapper	Stanley G. Triggs	01:35
105	The Grand Hotel	Stanley G. Triggs	01:15
106	The Kettle Valley Line	Stanley G. Triggs	02:10
107	Lardeau Valley Waltz	Stanley G. Triggs	02:00
108	Tony Went Walking	Stanley G. Triggs	00:57
109	Sandy Morgan's Gin	Stanley G. Triggs	02:24
201	The Wreck of the C. P. Yorke	Stanley G. Triggs	03:38
202	Meadow Blues	Stanley G. Triggs	00:49
203	Brown Eyes	Stanley G. Triggs	01:25
204	The Lookout in the Sky	Stanley G. Triggs	02:01
205	The Mad Trapper of Rat River	Stanley G. Triggs	02:53
206	Lake of Crimson	Stanley G. Triggs	01:11
207	Moonlight and Skies	Stanley G. Triggs	02:04
208	So Long to the Kicking Horse Canyon	Stanley G. Triggs	02:03
209	Pretty Words and Poetry	Stanley G. Triggs	01:30