Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology

by Willie Dunn

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v i r g o v a n d a l There’s nothing to say here that the music hasn’t already. 🇺🇸 Favorite track: I Pity The Country.

zzzacck Legendary folk whose prominence should've come with those Yorkvillians in the 60s. Better late than never though.

simonrickards Thanks for making this album available here and thanks very much for the high resolution Wav files!

In any case this is a great album by a great artist; a Canadian legend who was far undervalued in his country.

There's nothing but substance in each of his songs and the album sounds fantastic. Favorite track: I Pity The Country.

sutebensan I just discovered Willie Dunn via the Aquarian Drunkard site, and have been listening to this new anthology constantly for the last 5 days. Comparing him to other 1960's artists is a bit of a disservice to Dunn; his singing and songwriting is revelatory to say the least. As the bandcamp reviewer, Mariana Timony, expounds, Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies is an essential release. Give it a listen. Favorite track: The Ballad of Crowfoot.

brasherkid These songs are made to break our cold cold hearts. And they do Favorite track: Charlie.

Zine Of Timeless Music Archival release of the year! Favorite track: Son of the Sun.

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1.	The Ballad of Crowfoot 09:54	buy track
2.	Peruvian Dream (Part 1) 02:44	buy track
3.	Charlie 03:07	buy track
4.	Broker 02:52	buy track
5.	I Pity The Country 02:56	buy track
6.	Crazy Horse 03:22	buy track
7.	Louis Riel 03:01	buy track
8.	School Days 01:41	buy track
9.	The Carver 03:43	buy track
10.	O Canada! 02:10	buy track
11.	Down by the Stream (Starlight Maiden) 01:39	buy track
12.	Rattling Along the Freight Train (To the Spirit Land) 01:55	buy track
13.	Pontiac 02:50	buy track
14.	The Pacific 09:49	buy track
15.	Nova Scotia 02:53	buy track
16.	The Dreamer 02:47	buy track
17.	Sonnet 33 and 55 - Friendship Dance 02:22	buy track
18.	Wounded Lake 03:37	buy track
19.	Métis Red River Song 03:54	buy track
20.	Son of the Sun 03:46	buy track
21.	The Lovenant Chain 03:10	buy track
22.	Bear and Fish 03:28	buy track

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How did you first experience the poetry, music, and film of Willie Dunn?

In a Montreal coffeehouse during the mid-1960s? On a CBC Indian Magazine broadcast with host Johnny Yesno? At a Toronto record store or Native Friendship Centre at the turn of the 1970s? Waiting outside of the Mohawk Nation Longhouse? Maybe in your parent’s record collection on the Rez? A White Roots of Peace gathering? Pow wow? The Mariposa Folk Festival? Or was it that Save James Bay Benefit back in ‘73? On a good friend’s stereo? Sitting around a crackling campfire? How about an old NFB film reel or VHS tape in high school? Or while attending Manitou College? A German concert hall in the 1980s? Maybe a direct action protest on the colonial streets of Canada? Busking in Ottawa during the 1990s? College radio? At Willie’s celebration of life service in 2013 alongside Alanis Obomsawin and Willy Mitchell? LITA’s Grammy-nominated Native North America (Vol. 1) compilation or the very anthology you hold in your hands?

There should be no judgement for coming to things when you do. All that’s important is remaining open to life-changing messages such as these…

Willie Dunn shared truth through song and celluloid. His original composition, “I Pity the Country,” is an unparalleled statement on the greed and hate created by humankind, recorded in 1971 and still unfortunately needed today. “It’s like the reason you’re supposed to make music,” said Kurt Vile about the song to MOJO Magazine in 2015. With “Charlie,” Willie was the first to deliver the devastating story of Chanie Wenjack and the Canadian residential school system to the music community, nearly 50 years before the much-celebrated Secret Path, yet ignored outside of Indian Country and the folk festival circuit. Dunn’s film technique, featured in 1968’s The Ballad of Crowfoot (NFB), predates the “Ken Burns effect” to great effect. Are you catching the drift? Willie Dunn was not only a trailblazing leader in his time, but well ahead of the curve, simply without the PR push and big money backing of major label players.

“He was our Leonard Cohen,” said singer-songwriter Eric Landry about his musical hero. The only difference is that Willie refused to play the Hollywood showbiz game. In talent, he is Cohen, Dylan, and Cash rolled into one and along with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, and A. Paul Ortega, brought a new set of perspectives and realities to the folk music tradition. Willie spoke directly to his people and Mother Earth through his creations, not only from experience, but by examining his roots and connecting with the world in which he lived. We are humbled to help honour Willie Dunn. May he never be forgotten… PEACE

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