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The Shield

from Heirlooms by Tragedy Ann

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Every note of The Shield urges you to surrender to the infectious sense of wonder evoked when driving North and West around Superior. The Shield is as lush and dynamic as the locations it describes.

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Morning sun
Pale polygraph
Of powerlines
Across our dash
Tells me that
Our car is pointed North

Now to our left
The inland sea
That rolls beside
Sault Ste. Marie
Plays hide and seek
From in between the pines

Pass the road
To reach Hornepayne
God I miss
Stuart McLean
We’ve never made this drive
Without his voice

When the one way round
Is the long way round
And The Shield makes you
Surrender and submit
Obstacles are where this beauty lives

Shift downhill
To save our brakes
Outside the range
Of CAA
We’ll find the grave before
This wagon does

Roll your eyes
Declare me champ
When I spy my millionth
Beaver dam
On antler-watch
Some things are left observed

Rushing River
Find our site
Little red tent
In warm twilight
My mother stopped here
Forty years ago

When the one way round
Is the long way round
And The Shield makes you
Surrender and submit
Obstacles are where this beauty lives

Early swim
Stretch our legs
The highway hints
At Winnipeg
We’ve gained an hour
We’ll be there before noon

When the one way round
Is the long way round
And The Shield makes you
Surrender and submit
Obstacles are where this beauty lives

credits

from Heirlooms, track released April 5, 2022
Liv: voice, mission organ, ukulele, accordion, piano, glockenspiel, autoharp, hammond b3
Braden: voice; acoustic, 12-string nashville, electric, and baritone guitars
Peter Klaassen: electric bass
Mark Mariash: drums
Jillian Sauerteig: cello
Adrian Irvine: violin
Katie Clark: trumpet
Anita Cazzola: voice
Sam Boer: voice, shaker, tambourine

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Tragedy Ann Guelph, Ontario

Tragedy Ann is a Forward-looking Folk duo from Guelph, Ontario.

Braiding organic vocal harmonies with accordion, singing saw, guitars, and ukulele, Tragedy Ann’s arrangements are as delicate as they are driving.

With their new album "Heirlooms", Liv Cazzola and Braden Phelan issue a call for deeper connection with each other and with the natural world.
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