James Gordon (Canadian singer-songwriter)
- James Gordon (Canadian singer-songwriter)
] He wrote the weekly song for the CBC Radio program "Basic Black". He has toured internationally in North America, the British Isles, Southeast Asia and Cuba. [cite web |title=James Gordon |url=http://www.abetterworld.ca/Pages/WFVIArtists/JamesGordon.htm |format=short bio|accessdate=2008-01-20]
Recordings with Tamarack
* "Au Canada" 1980
* "Wind River"
* "Spirit & Stone"
* "13"
* "Fields of Rock and Snow" 1993
* "Frobisher Bay" 1993
* "Leaving Inverarden" 1995
* "Blankets of Snow" 1998
Other and Solo Recordings
* "Looking for Livingstone" 1987
* "Mining for Gold: Twenty Years of Songwriting" 2002
* "Tune Cooties" 2002
* "Endomusia" 2004, contains "Weapons of Mass Instruction"
* "Nine Green Bottles" 2007, includes "Casey Sheehan Didn't Die for Nothing"
Covers of his songs
* Cowboy Junkies "Mining for Gold"
* Melanie Doane
Cinema
* "Mining for Gold" on the soundtrack of the film "Silver City" 2004
* "Two Steps and a Glass of Water"
Folk Operas (Musicals)
* "Hardscrabble Road" 2003
* "Two Steps and a Glass of Water" 2005 deals with mental illness and health, also a film by Glenn Curtis [cite web |title=Healing and Recovery Through the Arts International Conference |url=http://www.cubaconferences.com/pages/healing_arts.htm |accessdate february 21, 2008]
* "Tryst and Snout" 2007 [cite web |last=Van Wagner |first=Danielle |title=Tryst and Snout (2007) |url=http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/a_tryst_and_snout.cfm |format=web review |accessdate=2008-02-19]
References
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