Our Labrador is extraordinary for its ordinariness. Few albums today have the ingenuousness of the old-style country songs in this collection--songs that celebrate, in simple words with simple chord progressions, a disappearing lifestyle in which settlers, innu, and inuit all relied heavily on the land as a means of subsistence. These songs, sung in English, Innu-Aimun, and Inuktitut, are a treasure.

Our Labrador
1995 Butter and Snow (RDRCD-722)

The Grand River Song (Montague, Shirley); Old Mokami (Mitchell, Gerald); Nainimut (Metcalfe, Margaret); Take Me to the Country (Martin, Harry); We Sons of Labrador (Mitchell, Gerald); Atatab Kilangmitub (Metcalfe, Margaret); Shanty Town (Martin, Harry); Nantem Minuataman (Penashue, Gregory); Woman of Labrador (Montague, Shirley); Pearl River (Mitchell, Gerald); Labrador Rose (Gardiner, Dick); Inutokaunerme (Metcalfe, Margaret); The Ode to Labrador 44:11