STOMPIN’ TOM
Kic’ Along
The Hockey Song – To It & At It – The
Coal Boat Song – Margo’s Cargo – Luke’s Guitar – Muckin’ Slushers (A
Damn Good Song For A Miner) – Handy-Man Blues (The I Don’t Know How To
Fix The Damn Thing Blues) – Song Of The Irish Moss – Wreck Of The Tammy
Annie – Black Donnelly’s Massacre – Jenny Donnelly – Tribute To Wilf
Carter – Zakuska Polka – Red River Jane – The Consumer – Muk Luk Shoo –
Okanagan Okee – Rita MacNeil (A Tribute) – Don Messer Story – Believe In
Your Country
Coal Boat Song – Margo’s Cargo – Luke’s Guitar – Muckin’ Slushers (A
Damn Good Song For A Miner) – Handy-Man Blues (The I Don’t Know How To
Fix The Damn Thing Blues) – Song Of The Irish Moss – Wreck Of The Tammy
Annie – Black Donnelly’s Massacre – Jenny Donnelly – Tribute To Wilf
Carter – Zakuska Polka – Red River Jane – The Consumer – Muk Luk Shoo –
Okanagan Okee – Rita MacNeil (A Tribute) – Don Messer Story – Believe In
Your Country
This is without a doubt one of the most ‘tongue in cheek’
CD’s I’ve ever listened to. Stompin’ Tom is well known in Canada,
mostly because of these ‘funny’ songs. However he’s a very good
vocalist. He has a kind of distinguished voice with a lot of
individuality. “Nangy twangy nangy twangy twangy a tweedle another dang
twang.” Well, how can you beat that for an introduction to “Luke’s
Guitar” a pretty long ‘story’ in song, but like nearly everything Tom
has done on this CD, it’s very amusing and humorous. I would like to
think perhaps he’s from Newfoundland, since he mentions this several
times in this 20-song CD. Some of the songs are recorded in a studio,
and some of them are performed ‘live’ so it’s hard to determine if the
same musicians are participating in all the offerings. Tom is a very
clever writer, and specializes in humor in his songs, and from some of
the audience response on the ‘live’ presentations, they enjoy it very
much. He’s also a history-writer as the song “Wreck Of The Tammy Annie”
describes, but it is definitely not a ‘funny’ song. Neither is “Black
Donnelly’s Massacre.” I kind of like this historical documentation of
events from the past, even if it is a bit long. This is how we keep
some of the legends and stories alive through the centuries, Lord knows
commercial music doesn’t want to have anything to do with that. I
really like the fiddle on “Zakuska Polka” and the melody line is really
neat. All in all, the historian’s viewpoint is still alive and well
with Stompin’ Tom from Canada
CD’s I’ve ever listened to. Stompin’ Tom is well known in Canada,
mostly because of these ‘funny’ songs. However he’s a very good
vocalist. He has a kind of distinguished voice with a lot of
individuality. “Nangy twangy nangy twangy twangy a tweedle another dang
twang.” Well, how can you beat that for an introduction to “Luke’s
Guitar” a pretty long ‘story’ in song, but like nearly everything Tom
has done on this CD, it’s very amusing and humorous. I would like to
think perhaps he’s from Newfoundland, since he mentions this several
times in this 20-song CD. Some of the songs are recorded in a studio,
and some of them are performed ‘live’ so it’s hard to determine if the
same musicians are participating in all the offerings. Tom is a very
clever writer, and specializes in humor in his songs, and from some of
the audience response on the ‘live’ presentations, they enjoy it very
much. He’s also a history-writer as the song “Wreck Of The Tammy Annie”
describes, but it is definitely not a ‘funny’ song. Neither is “Black
Donnelly’s Massacre.” I kind of like this historical documentation of
events from the past, even if it is a bit long. This is how we keep
some of the legends and stories alive through the centuries, Lord knows
commercial music doesn’t want to have anything to do with that. I
really like the fiddle on “Zakuska Polka” and the melody line is really
neat. All in all, the historian’s viewpoint is still alive and well
with Stompin’ Tom from Canada
RECORD REVIEW BY BOB EVERHART – www.ntcma.net
for Country Music News International