20 Dollar Bottle

Take My Hand, Take Me Home

Blues Man

I write a lot of songs at 2 in the morning when I get home from a show.  Typically inspired by the night, or folks at the show, my night cap consists of a whiskey on the rocks and either some recorded airing of Austin City Limits, or some old country on vinyl.  I do try to treat my writing like a trade though, so I have weekly writing sessions.  Wednesday mornings - first thing, I head to the woods where I have friends who are gracious enough to let me write in their cabin.  It is a hand built log cabin heated by a pot belly stove.  Growing up on the border of Prairie and Canadian Shield, Gordon Lightfoot's Song For A Winter's Night always captured my imagination.  I thought this cabin was exactly what he was referring to.  I decided to write a song about the cabin itself.  At the cabin, I arrive early - ok, musician early so like 11 am, I then split wood and put it in the stove...and wait for the room to warm up.  One day I want to record an acoustic record there.  Songs from the Cabin.  anyways, in trying to describe the scene of the cabin, and the warming stove, I tried to capture the imagination of the listener by drawing them into the cabin.  "Shut the door, ain't exactly air tight"...then I wanted to illustrate the scene of the wood stove - I tried using washed up honky tonk singer as a descriptive mechanism for the stove, but it didn't rhyme, so I switched it to Old Colony Mennonite.  So when I say "drop a match, into the old colony Mennonite" I am not lighting an old lady on fire - it is the stove I am referring to.  The photo is a picture of the "Kerosene lamps, light the way at night".  Thanks so much friends for letting me write in your cabin - you are such a support of my music, and I appreciate it so much.

QB

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Producer - Murray Pulver
Engineer - Paul Yee
Vocals - Quinton Blair
Backing Vocals - Murray Pulver
Acoustic Guitar - Quinton Blair
Electric Guitar - Grant Siemens
Bass - Kevin Torgalson
Drums - Ryan Voth
Pedal Steel - Bill Western Jr

04 - Won't Be Missing You

01 - Following Him Around

02 - 300 000 Km

03 - Eye Of The Storm

Living where the Shield meets the Prairies, rural song writing and honky tonk music seem to naturally collide.

Quinton Blair

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