Log driving songs

Subject: Log driving songs
From: mg
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 03:26 PM

I just had to listen to Jack Haggerty...I think some of the best songs are log driving.

Here is Jack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIhHFjWkD0
jack


For growing up in the pacific northwest of USA, I have heard precious few log-driving or even lumbering songs of this area...new or old (come to think of it, close to zero). One thing that applies to this area, whereas it might not to other areas as much (but I am just guessing) is that, like fishing here, it was not done in English..so songs could exist by the hundreds in Swedish, Finnish,...I don't know what other ethnic groups were represented in large numbers as lumberjacks here..

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 03:30 PM

There are a whole lot of Finnish ones. There's a CD of them, featuring Maria Kalaniemi on accordion among the band (hers was the only name I recognized).

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: mg
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 03:39 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqxnkUQDJI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqxnkUQDJI&feature=related

River in the pines sung by Joan Baez

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: mg
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 04:01 PM

Badger Drive..Newfoundland song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6A5dmZ94rY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6A5dmZ94rY

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: Stewart
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 04:59 PM

River Driving
sung by Jeff Warner

Also "Shanty Boy" sung by Jeff Warner on The Jolly Tinker

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: PHJim
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 05:12 PM

Wade Hemsworth's Log Drivers Waltz
Johnny Doyle

What's the song that starts:

As I sat down one evening
Within a small cafe
A 40 year old waitress
To me these words did say

I see that you're a logger
And not just a common bum
For nobody but a logger
Stirs his coffee with his thumb.

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 05:53 PM

Frozen Logger for PHJim

Jam on Gerry's Rock

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 05:53 PM

"Little Brown Bulls" -- great text but dull tunes, so I wrote my own.
DTStudy: The Little Brown Bulls: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=117581
DigiTrad: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6610

You may find some songs specifically about log-driving in this thread:
Logging Songs: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=92154

Subject: RE: Log driving songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Aug 11 - 06:07 PM

Don't forget the Log Driver's Waltz sung byKate and Anna McGarrigle and animated by Mudcat's own John Weldon.