From Fresh Water

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From Fresh Water
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Studio album by
Released1984
Genre Folk
Length42:04
Label Fogarty's Cove Music
Stan Rogers chronology
For the Family
(1983)
From Fresh Water
(1984)
Home In Halifax
(1993)
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From Fresh Water is a 1984 posthumous album by Stan Rogers. It was one of a series of concept albums Rogers intended to do about the regions of Canada. From Fresh Water is about the Great Lakes area of Canada, while Fogarty's Cove was an album about the Maritimes, and Northwest Passage was about the western provinces and the North.

Track listing

  1. White Squall
  2. The Nancy
  3. Man With Blue Dolphin
  4. Tiny Fish For Japan
  5. Lock-Keeper
  6. Half of a Heart
  7. Macdonnell on the Heights
  8. Flying
  9. The Last Watch (on the Midland)
  10. The House of Orange



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