Richie’s Reindeer
©2020 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
All guitars and vocals by Wayne Krewski <> Fiddle by Gabe Mann <> Bells by Irene Krewski
A song about a memorable Christmas sleigh ride with Richie Mann on a cold, clear winters night. His grandson Gabe plays the fiddle.
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Jeldness Tea Party
©2001 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Filmed and recorded live at the Miners Hall in Rossland on 3 January 2004 with Booty Griffiths.
All guitars, harmonicas, and vocals by Wayne Krewski
Olaus Jeldness hosted a legendary party at the top of Red Mountain in 1900
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Jug In The Sun
©2003 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Filmed and recorded live at the Miners Hall in Rossland on 3 January 2004 with Alfie Albo.
All guitars and vocals by Wayne Krewski
Roy Stephens almost burns his car up at the Cascade waterhole.
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Ghost Cat Of Plewman Basin
©2001 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Recorded live during a Sessions broadcast on Ridge Radio on 5 Nov 2022.
Guitar and vocal by Wayne Krewski
In 1947 Chick Jones & Jim Douglas were cutting trees on the top of Red Mt for the first ski run, when a Mitchel Bomber crashed in Plewman Basin, killing everyone aboard. You can hear Jim Douglas tell the story of that day on the Rossland Talking Tour page. The Ghost Cat in the song was a big white cat I saw a few times in winters years ago in Plewman Basin. It looked like it was about 150 lbs, so too big for a lynx but had no tail. It also had a smaller head relative to it’s body size than a lynx, more like a cougar, and definitely cougar sized. I remember sitting with Audrey and Richie Mann at their place one time … Audrey had seen the cat as well, and Richie figured it was likely he was a cougar who had lost his tail. I originally wrote and recorded the song in 2001 in 4/4 time. I think now it feels more like a 3/4 time song so I’ve reworked it.
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Joe Moris
©2001 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Recorded live during a Sessions broadcast on Ridge Radio on 30 April 2022
A song about how mining started in Rossland
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Jimmy Fuller
©2001 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Recorded live during a Sessions broadcast on Ridge Radio on 30 April 2022
Guitar and vocal by Wayne Krewski
Have you ever heard the expression “to be yappy” or “to shut your yap” ? Well I’m pretty sure this is the origin of that. It starts in Liverpool in 1891 and ends in Rossland in 1911 at the Leroy Mine with a beaker of cyanide. And along the way a diary from Jack the Ripper makes a cameo appearance.
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Fanny’s Gift
©2006 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
From the Through Your Eyes film soundtrack.
Guitar, harmonica, and vocal by Wayne Krewski
Fanny Albo tragically passed away as an uncaring right-wing provincial BC Liberal government gutted health care and service to seniors while at the same time they were wasting billions of dollars mismanaging the 2010 Olympic construction.
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Through Your Eyes
©2006 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
From the Through Your Eyes film soundtrack.
Guitar and vocals by Wayne Krewski <> Bagpipes by Jim Albo <> Harmony vocals by Seth Martin
Alfie could put a picture in your head of what life was like 100 years ago, from the perspective of someone who lived it.
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The Killing Of Mah Lin
©2002 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)
Recorded live during Sessions broadcast on Ridge Radio on 30 April 2022.
Guitar and vocal by Wayne Krewski
In 1900 Ernest Chenoweth, an eight year old Rossland boy, became, and remains to this day, the youngest person in Canada ever tried for a capital crime in the murder of Mah Lin. His half brother Roy Stephens, whose gun was used in the murder, remained in Rossland for the rest of his life and made his fortune leasing the War Eagle mine when Cominco leased their properties out after they stopped operating them. After the trial Ernest moved to Chico, California with his mother Mary Chenoweth.
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