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Turn (Great Big Sea album)

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Length
  
43:55

Turn (1999)
  
Road Rage (2000)

Release date
  
22 June 1999

Genre
  
Folk music

Label
  
Warner Music Canada

Artist
  
Great Big Sea

Producer
  
Steve Berlin

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Released
  
June 22, 1999 (Canada) March 7, 2000 (US)

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group

Similar
  
Something Beautiful, Sea of No Cares, Road Rage, The Hard and the Easy, Rant and Roar

Great big sea consequence free


Turn is the fourth studio album by Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea released in June 22, 1999.

Contents

Great big sea feel it turn video


Song information

  • "Consequence Free", "Feel It Turn" and "Can't Stop Falling" have been made into videos and have been released as radio singles.
  • "Demasduit Dream" is based on the life of Demasduwit, one of the last of the Beothuk, the native people of Newfoundland.
  • "Ferryland Sealer" is about the seasonal seal hunting expeditions from the southern Newfoundland community of Ferryland.
  • "Trois navires de blé" is a traditional French folk song associated with the Franco-Newfoundlander community at Port au Port.
  • The lyrics to "Old Brown's Daughter" were written by the famous Johnny Burke, while the original tune was lost, the current music was written by Ron Hynes.
  • "Captain Wedderburn" is an adaptation of the Child Ballad No. 46, Captain Wedderburn's Courtship.

    • Trivia

  • The 2000 U.S. release on Rhino/Wea featured a different track order; "Can't Stop Falling" and "Demasduit Dream" were switched.
  • The song "Consequence Free" was the theme for the Least I Could Do animated series trailer, a series currently in production

    • Songs

    1Consequence Free3:13
    2Feel It Turn3:48
    3Jack Hinks3:01

    References

    Turn (Great Big Sea album) Wikipedia
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