If the sound of Canadian music truly is roots rock, then Stony Plain is our Motown or Blue Note. Over the course of 25 years, the Edmonton-based independent label has released more than 250 roots, folk, country, and blues records and helped define the twanging sound of Canada. This two-disc set shows the diversity of founder Holger Petersen's label, featuring tracks by Canuck stars like Sylvia Tyson, Valdy, and bar rocker David Wilcox as well as international artists like a just-out-of-jail Steve Earle, blues shouter Duke Robillard, and N'Awlins piano giant Professor Longhair.

Tracklist:

Standing Here - Tom Landa & The Paperboys
Price to Pay, The - Ray Bonneville
Hometown Blues - Steve Earle
So Long Baby Goodbye - Jo-El Sonnier
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
Poet's Highway - Jr. Gone Wild
Lost Herd - Ian Payne
Darkhouse - Spirit of the West
Roll on Down - Linda McRae
Big Mamou - Queen Ida
I Don't Want to Know - Bobby Charles
Thrown to the Wolves - Tom Russell
What Does She See - Cindy Church/Ian Tyson
Can't Pull This Train - Valdy/Gary Fjellgaard
Write Your Own Song - Asleep at the Wheel/Willie Nelson
Ballad of Leonard & Cecile - Grievous Angels
Saturday Night - Shirley Myers
Farther Along - The Holmes Brothers
Train to Texas - Duke Robillard/Herb Ellis
Just a Little Bit - Rosco Gordon
Don't Leave Me Baby - Duke Robillard
Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson/Powder Blues Band
Linin' Track - Long John Baldry
Going to the River - King Biscuit Boy
Bert's Boogie - Amos Garrett
Let's Work It Out - Billy Boy Arnold
I Need a Vice - David Wilcox
Mean Ole Frisco - Jimmy Witherspoon
Say Forward, I'll March - Jay McShann
No Special Rider - Jim Byrnes
Cakewalk Into Town - Big Dave MeLean/Colin James
Grasshopper in My Pillow - Maria Muldaur
Doin' It - Professor Longhair
It's Been So Long - Downchild Blues Band
Sassy Sally - Rockin' Highliners
Tupelo - Rita Chiarelli
I Must Be Crazy - Dutch Mason
If I Ain't Got - Kristi Johnson
Blues on My Birthday - Sonny Rhodes
Born Under a Bad Sign - Ellen McLiwaine
Turkey in the Straw - Big Walter Horton

UPC: 772532127424
Label: Stony Plain Music
Release Date: 5.15.01
Format: CD

25 Years Of Stony Plain / Various - 25 Years of Stony Plain / Various (2 CD)