Stu Phillips A Journey Through The Provinces

A tortuous path took Stu Phillips from Montreal, Canada to Nashville. His first stop was Edmonton in western Canada, and he began recording there. He was a radio and TV star in Canada by the late 1950s, and he signed with Rodeo Records and recorded three distinctively Canadian LPs, 'Echoes Of The Canadian Foothills', 'Visit Old Quebec' and 'A Visit To British Columbia'.

Those three LPs are on this CD, and they contain some of the best narrative and descriptive country music ever recorded. The backings are simple and evocative. So often Canadian country music is a pale imitation of Nashville country music, but this was something different.