[mplpost] The first indie CD? Another tale from the trenches...

[Liz Harvey-Foulds]

Hey Mapleposters:
Of course I was a mere child at the time but if I recall correctly it was
1970 that a guy from Thunder Bay (living in Peterborough) released an album
called "Moosetracks" on his own label Barge.  That young musician was Ian
Tamblyn and another former Thunderbayite Ken Hamm backs Ian up on the album.
I first obtained a copy of it around 1972 from the Thunder Bay Public
Library. I liked it so much I purchased my own copy but I am sad to report
that I have thoroughly searched our record collection and the basement and
can't locate it - another casualty of many moves over the years I guess.
Ian Tamblyn,   I am happy to report, does not have to be filed under "where
are they now?" or currently living in the USA or even "rich and famous and
retired" (although I guess the rich part might make any folk musician
happy).  And although during the past decades Ian has developed a reputation
as a world traveller, playwright, skilled photographer and producer, his
talent as a singer-songwriter remains undiminished. As I'm sure many of you
know, Ian currently resides in Old Chelsea Quebec.  In fact, he has just
released a much much better album than that first one. "Voice in The
Wilderness"   is receiving wide critical acclaim and it stayed in my CD
player constantly for the first two weeks I owned it.  It is an album rich
in textures and varieties of theme and style and it juxtaposes stories of
mythological creatures, young love, and social justice issues.  The songs
conjure up a rainbow of landscapes and heartscapes - universal themes of
lost loves, the road not taken and diminished dreams. This album is a
reflection of the wide vistas of geographic and emotional territory
travelled by Tamblyn over the years.  Check out Ian's website at
www.tamblyn.com or even better, contact me to book him to play at your folk
club or concert venue and you can hear him live.  Remember, you can bill him
as the first Canadian independent folk recording artist  - and the folkies
will come flocking in I'm sure! (Better make those posters quick as I'm sure
the next maplepost will include mention of an earlier indie recording)
I have to come clean here though cuz in talking to Ian he recalls an
independent recording by Chris Cuddy - entitled Jeremy Doormouse - Ian
figures 1968 may have been the year for that one.....
PS I'm sure Richard knew all this but has just temporarily forgotten
right???

Liz Harvey-Foulds
"Live From the Rock" Blues & Folk Society
By the Bay Productions
Box 119, Red Rock
Ontario. P0T 2P0
807-886-1041
807-886-1042 (fax)
Representing:
Ian Tamblyn - www.tamblyn.com
Tamarack - www.tamarack.cjb.net
Rodney Brown brown@norlink.net
Different Daughters

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Regenstreif" <mike@ckutfolk.com>
To: <maplepost@icomm.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [mplpost] The first indie CD? Another tale from the trenches...


> At 01:57 PM 11/1/01, Richard Flohil wrote:
> >The other Richard claims that the Stringband Canadian Sunset album was
the
> >one of the first indie albums made in Canada, pre-dating Doug McArthur's
> >Letters from the Coast. I'm proud to age myself (and congratulate
myself!)
> >on still having both records in my collection...
> >
> >However, I must put in an earlier claim - I've long said that one of the
> >first indie recordings in Canada was the Downchild Blu's Band's album
> >Bootleg, recorded and released, if my memory serves, in early 1992. The
> >band, which I co-managed at the time, cut the album late in '71 in a
> >miniscule studio on the second floor of the underground parking lot at
>
>
>          Montreal singer-songwriter Chris Rawlings did a self-released LP
> called "Pearl River Turnaround" that came out in 1971 or '72.  I do
> remember it being out at the time that I booked Chris for a concert at
> Dawson College in '72.  As I recall, Chris did a pressing of 1000 copies.
>
>          However, even earlier than that, another Montreal performer, Marc
> Nerenberg, now a criminal lawyer, put out an LP with a pressing of only
100
> copies.
>
>
> Mike Regenstreif
>
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