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Ragged Ass Road

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Released
  
October 1995

Genre
  
Heartland rock

Label
  
Capitol

Recorded
  
1995

Length
  
53:53

Major cities
  
Yellowknife

Producer
  
Tom Cochrane, John Webster

Similar
  
The Wildcat Cafe, Northern Arts and Cultural, Yellowknife River, Great Slave Lake, Prince of Wales Northern

Ragged Ass Road is the third solo studio album by Red Rider frontman Tom Cochrane, released in October 1995. The album was named for Ragged Ass Road, a street in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Songs from the album include "I Wish You Well", which became the first Canadian song to debut at #1 on the RPM Canadian Singles Charts, as well as three other Top 20 hits in Canada: "Wildest Dreams" (#5 RPM Canadian Charts), "Dreamer's Dream" (#4 RPM Canadian Charts) and "Crawl" (#11 RPM Canadian Charts). Ragged Ass Road earned two Juno award nominations and achieved Platinum sales status in Canada. The album was produced by Cochrane and John Webster at Metalworks Studios and Ragged Ass Road Studios.

Contents

Map of Ragged Ass Rd, Yellowknife, NT, Canada

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Cochrane unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

  • Tom Cochrane - guitars, harmonica, mandolin, vocals
  • John Webster - keyboards, engineer
  • Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve - bass
  • Alex Lifeson - guitar
  • Bill Bell - guitars (acoustic & electric)
  • Annette Ducharme - guitar (acoustic), backing vocals
  • Dick Smith - percussion
  • Gregor Beresford - percussion, drums
  • Evanne Cochrane - vocals
  • Molly Johnson - backing vocals
  • Saffron Henderson - backing vocals
  • References

    Ragged Ass Road Wikipedia