Life Stories for Minimum Wage

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Life Stories for Minimum Wage
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 24, 2002
RecordedUnknown
Genre indie rock/alternative country
Length38:29
Label Hardwood Records
Producer Steve Krecklo and Lorne Hounsell
Cuff the Duke chronology
Life Stories for Minimum Wage
(2002)
Cuff the Duke
(2005)
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The debut album from Cuff the Duke, titled Life Stories for Minimum Wage, was released in 2002 and recorded at Umbrella Sound and at The House of Miracles in Toronto and London, Ontario, Canada. The album was re-released in 2007 on Outside Music. [2]

Cuff the Duke

Cuff the Duke is a Canadian alt-country band from Oshawa, Ontario. They play a blend of traditional country and folk music with indie rock influences.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Outside Music is a Canadian record label and distributor founded by Lloyd Nishimura in 2001. In 2007, it expanded to include an artist management division which includes Jill Barber, Matthew Barber, Aidan Knight, Justin Rutledge as management clients.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Blackheart" – 4:55
  2. "Hey Baby" – 2:06
  3. "The Difference Between Us" – 2:58
  4. "Hobo Night Stalker" – 3:59
  5. "Long Winter" – 3:52
  6. "Lonely Path" – 2:07
  7. "Ballad of a Lonely Construction Worker" – 5:23
  8. "Anti-Social" – 3:41
  9. "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump" – 2:49
  10. "The Trouble and the Truth" – 6:39

A "deluxe edition" of the album was released to iTunes in 2012, featuring two additional tracks not on the original release, "This City Will Eat You" and "Burger". In addition, the band previously distributed "Deciding on Luther", an unreleased track from the original recording sessions for the album, as a free download from its website.

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Personnel

Paul Lowman is a Canadian musician. He is the bass player for Cuff the Duke.

Wayne Petti is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known the vocalist for indie rock band Cuff the Duke. He has contributed to projects by Blue Rodeo, The Hylozoists and Hayden in addition to releasing material on his own and as part of his side-project Grey Lands.

Joel Andrew Magoffin, best known as Andy Magoffin, is a Canadian musician and record producer. He is the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band Two-Minute Miracles and the touring bass guitarist for Raised by Swans.

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