The Mobile Goat Song (Tom Cahill) ~ Allison Crowe
The Mobile Goat Song is composed by Tom Cahill, of St. John's, Newfoundland, a frequent collaborator with Newfoundland's First Lady of Song, Joan Morrissey, who released this cheerrful romp on her 1973 LP Home Brew. Both Cahill and Morrissey have left earth's green pastures -- and live on in the hearts and music of islanders.
Naturally, this be the favourite song of Rose Nylund, aka Rosie, whose visage appears in the accompanying video and who's kindly representin' - goats here, there and everywhere! Rosie lives with her people, artists Cara and Pam, another tiny goat, Sophia, together with ten cats and a dog at The Grumpy Goat Gallery in Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland:
She's also loaned her name to Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast at the same location -- described by the hand-writing members of the menagerie as the funniest, loveliest place on earth:
The creatures in the tune hail from Mobile - - on the beautiful Avalon Peninsula -- in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
This recording from Allison Crowe is on her Newfoundland Vinyl LP, the 11th release on Rubenesque Records Ltd. - and out like the spuds on June 25, 2013. Dig it!
As Musical Director for TNL's production of Newfoundland Vinyl: The Flip Side at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival, the Canadian musician, born in Nanaimo, BC, on the Pacific, is active now in her Atlantic setting, curating and arranging songs for this Summer's GMTF cast.
It's a rich and varied collection harvested from the island region's popular music and oral traditions. The album's 10 tracks traverse parlour songs to country tunes and folk favourites, songs of land and sea that share the strength and the struggles, the joys, heartbreaks and the humour of people.
As well as being a premiere songwriter, musician and performer of original material, Crowe's recognized as one of the great modern interpreters of song - via her internationally-acclaimed and much-loved versions of songs by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, and plenty more greats - Allison Crowe's singular performances deliver familiar and much-loved songs afresh and with renewed joy.
Crowe's just returned to her home in Corner Brook, NL, after attending the World Premiere in New York City of Man of Steel, the Zack Snyder-directed Superman epic in which she has a cameo - as a musician performing Ring of Fire, a song made famous by Johnny Cash. MoS is currently the #1 box office draw on planet Earth. (Had things not gone so wrong on Krypton, it'd surely be a smashing success there as well.) Next she rolls on to Cow Head, in Gros Morne National Park -- and says:
I am so grateful to have been asked by Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador, two years in a row, to put together songs and musically direct for a show called 'Newfoundland Vinyl'. As part of the Gros Morne Theatre Festival, I get to work with extremely talented and fun people each Summer in a gorgeous setting - Cow Head, NL. From the vast and encyclopaedic sea of beautiful music to come from, and out of, Newfoundland and Labrador, here is a collection of some of the songs from this year's show.
The GMTF season runs May 31 through September 14 - and Newfoundland Vinyl: The Flip Side, written and directed by Jeff Pitcher, is on the boards July 12 - August 30, 2013!
Newfoundland Vinyl, the limited-edition, 180-gram-quality, vinyl LP is available on Crowe's home islands -- on Atlantic shores at Gary Bennett Music in Corner Brook, and via Craig Payne's daROCK Stories & Songs, and venerable Fred's Records in St. John's, NL. On Canada's Pacific coast, the LP is stocked at Fascinating Rhythm, in Nanaimo, Lyle's Place, in Victoria, and Salt Spring Sound, SSI, BC. In the city of Vancouver, Canada - it's @: Highlife Records; Neptoon Records; Red Cat Records; and Zulu Records.
The album can also be mail-ordered for delivery anywhere, and, digitally, it's available here on Allison's Music Site and on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon and other fine sites that make music available online.