Alberta Mix Tape
These are songs ABOUT Alberta, not necessarily by Albertans.
For you to enjoy while out doing Alberta history or just to enjoy, the Historical Society of Alberta has put together this list of songs. Who knows, as you listen to some great music, you may even learn more about the history and people of this phenomenal province.
Note: we have been able to find and listen to 200 or so of these songs through CDs and downloadable sources but some were never recorded and, indeed, may not have been sung or played in many years. Some of these songs are, today, simply sheet music to be found in archives and libraries across the province.
For the purposes of our list, a song must be about an Alberta place, person or event (in whole or in part). We have given the list twice – first time by song title (complete list), second time by artist.
If you know of songs missing from the list, please send them our way: 403-261-3662 or [email protected].
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Alberta Mix Tape – by Song
Song Artist Song Artist 1942 Terry Morrision John Walter’s Lament John Spearn 16 Wheels Al Owchar John Ware Mark Zagorsky A Butterfly Landed John Spearn Just the Other Day Junior Gone Wild A Cowboy’s Heart Sean Hogen Kananaskis Rick Maidman Alberta Jess Lee Kathleen, He Calls Donna Durand Alberta Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Lacombe John Spearn Alberta Blue Lana Floen Lady kd lang University of Lethbridge singers Alberta Border Diamond Joe White Land of the Shining Ian Tyson Mountains Alberta Bound Paul Brandt Last Saskatchewan Pirate Arrogant Worms Alberta Bound Gordon Lightfoot Let’s Go To the U of L Art The Cedar Tavern Singers Gallery aka les phonorealistes Alberta Champion Waltz Wally Knash Letters from Home James Murdoch Alberta Charm Donna Konsorado Little Foothills Heaven Corb Lund Alberta Christmas Morning Gord Bamford Long Dusty Road Terry Morrision Alberta Crude Laura Vinson Long Gone to Corb Lund Saskatchewan Alberta Crude Tim Hus Longest Stretch of Road Tim Hus Alberta Dreams Macintyre Ranch Howard Cable Alberta Eyes Braeden Gates Magpie Ian Tyson Alberta Homesteader Alan Mills Métis Liberté Song Paulo Alberta Land Mexicanos En La Rob Lennard Estampida song Alberta Moon Kevin Dunn Mountain Fire Tim Hus Alberta My Alberta Mrs. McClung’s Address Maria Dunn Alberta Name Game Paulo My Alberta Home Alberta Rivers Don Swidinisky My Calgary Home Yodeling Slim Clark Alberta Roots George Fox My Sweet Alberta Home Mikel Miller Alberta Rose Stompin’ Tom My Wild Frontier Faith Hill Alberta Says Hello Corb Lund Never Leave the Farm Gary Fjellgaard Alberta Skyline New Brunswick Stacey Read Waltz/Calgary Fiddler’s Waltz Alberta Springtime Porkbelly Futures No Roads Here Corb Lund Alberta Sunny Land North of the Yellowhead Captain Tractor Alberta the Province Hank Snow Ode to Goofy McMasters Rob Lennard – Edmonton’s Eccentric Citizens Oil Boom Boom Paulo Alberta Today Old Alberta moon Ian Tyson Alberta Waltz Rob Young Old Alberta Plains Wilf Carter Alberta Winds On the Ave Dr Blue Alberta with Love One More Oil Boom Tim Hus Alberta Woman One More Round Donna Durand Alberta! One Smooth Coffee White Cats
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Alberta, the Province of Wilf Carter Our Very Own Shul Paulo Riches Galore Alberta’s Centennial Waltz Calvin Vollrath Out Here John Wort Hannam Alberta’s Child Ian Tyson Own Heart’s Delight Ian Tyson Alberta’s Open to You Pay the Freight Tom Hogarth Alexander Calhoun Paulo Peace River Home Amber Valley Pine Black Pioneer Heritage Singers Peace River Jig Don Swidinisky Angel of St. Mary’s Nora Maidman Peace River Waltz Annabelle John Wort Hannam Pembina River Homestead Back Home in Alberta Pembina River Shinny John Spearn Back to the Rockies Laura Vinson Peter Knight Wilf Carter Bar “U” Al Owchar Phantom Train Nora Maidman Bar U Ghosts Al Owchar Pink Cloud of Happiness Donna Durand Bastard of Strathcona Captain Tractor Pittsburgh of the West Coal Creek Boys Beauty in Alberta Plains of Alberta Wilf Montan Big Balls in Cowtown Tim Tamashiro with Ian Tyson Postcard from Pincher Kim Fontaine Creek Big Boned Girl kd lang Prairie Rose, Emblem of Alberta Blood Sweat & Water Corb Lund Prairies of Alberta Corb Lund Blue Canadian Rockies The Byrds Purple Mountain Donna Durand Blue Canadian Rockies Wilf Carter Red Deer to Amarillo Rick Maidman Bob Hope Chris Wynters Red Dog Diner Moby Dicks Boom Gone to Bust Requiem for a Small Town John Wort Hannam Bootlegger Coal Creek Boys Ride Forever Paul Gross Branded Laura Vinson Rocket Girl Doc Walker Buckin’ Horse Rider Corb Lund Rocky Mountainneer Wilf Montan Burnin’ Alberta Michael Dunn and Moanin’ Rocky Rocky Mountains Wilf Montan After Burntown Joe Bird Rodeo Waltz Mark Zagorsky By the Banks of the Bow Paulo Roughest Neck Around Corb Lund C.P. Rail’s Coming to Town! Rob Lennard Roundup Time in Sunny Wilf Carter Old Alberta Cabin by the River Nora Maidman Roy Brown and Wop May John Spearn Calgary Transit Rules of the Road Donna Durand C-A-L-G-A-R-Y and that spells Rumours of Silver and Paulo Calgary Gold Calgary Roundup University of Lethbridge Singers Rumrunner Tim Huss Calgary Stampede Wilf Carter Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon The Guess Who Calgary Stampede Wilf Montan Sam and Jane Livingstone Paulo Calgary, My Home Away Schooner Fare Scott Lake Hill Nora Maidman From Home Can You Blame the Poor Maria Dunn September 1st, 1905 – Rob Lennard Miner? Party Song Canoe Paulo Shuck the Prairie Oyster Can’t Take Alberta From the Soar Barry Westerland Boy Cappy Smart – What a Fire Rob Lennard Springtime in Alberta Ian Tyson Chief!
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Captain Freddie McCall – Rob Lennard Springtime in the Rockies Wilf Carter Amazing WWI Flying Ace Chinook Wind Corb Lund Stampede Strutt Rick Tippe Church of the Long Grass John Wort Hannam Stargazer, Mapmaker Paulo Clearly Canadian George Fox Sweet Alberta Sunshine Come to Alberta Sweet Alberta Woman Larry Gustafson Cowboy in your Heart Gary Fjellgaard Sweet Rose The Swiftys Crowsnest Pass Howard Cable Take Me Back to Old Stompin’ Tom Alberta Crypt Lake Cadence Weapon, Laura Barrett The Albertosaurus Paulo & Mark Hamilton Dear Aunt Marry Paulo The Badlands Mark Zagorsky Deerfoot Paulo The Ballad of Fred Coal Creek Boys Alderson Dick Damron Donna Durand The Deathbridge in Rural Alberta Advantage Lethbridge Do You Know Slim Evans? Maria Dunn The Emblem of Alberta Don’t Fence me In Cadence Weapon, Laura Barrett The Festival John Spearn & Mark Hamilton Edmonton Rural Alberta Advantage The First Stampede Paulo Empty Town Shirley Field The Gertrude Cadence Weapon, Laura Barrett & Mark Hamilton Evalsressel Paulo The Historic Lougheed Rob Lennard House Falling Donna Durand The History Wrangler Rob Lennard Theme Song Family Reunion Corb Lund The Last Man of Truth John Spearn Famous Five Paulo The Mighty Bridge John Palacsik Fiat Lux Lethbridge Community Gold The Mountains and Mary Gordon Lightfoot Band Anne Fire of 1886 Paulo The Muffaloose Paulo Folded in Four Donna Durand The Oil’s Back in Town Corb Lund Fort McMurray Joe Wet The Rat Creek Rebellion Captain Tractor Fort McMurray Jon Brooks The Road Back Donna Durand Fort McMurray Bound Rick Maidman The Truck Got Stuck Corb Lund Four Strong Winds Ian & Sylvia The War Bride John Spearn Frank Slide Paulo This is My Prairie Corb Lund Frank, AB Rural Alberta Advantage This Old Hat (Calgary Gord Bamford Stampede Song) Freddie Hall Ian Tyson Thunder (Give the Woman Cadence Weapon, Laura Back to the Man) Barrett & Mark Hamilton From the Breadline to the Maria Dunn Tom Three Persons: Hero Rob Lennard Frontline of the 1912 Calgary Stampede Ghost from Athabasca Don Swidinisky Tom Wilson The Harvest Dance Glass in the Garden Brett Oliver Tonight We Strike John Wort Hannam Goat Haunt Cadence Weapon, Laura Barrett Toronto Song Arrogant Worms & Mark Hamilton Going Back to Calgary Tim Hus Treasure of Life Mark Zagorsky
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Good Medicine: Ask the Lethbridge Community Gold Tribute to Hugh Dempsy, Rob Lennard Horse Band Alberta’s “Mr. History” Good Medicine: Bronc to Lethbridge Community Gold Tribute to the Famous Rob Lennard Breakfast Band Five Good Medicine: The Tie Lethbridge Community Gold Troublemaker Maria Dunn Rope Band Good Medicine: Waiting Lethbridge Community Gold Twas Out in Alberta John Bartlett and Rika for a Chinook Band Ruebsaat Good Ol’ CPR Paulo Twelve Foot Davis Paulo Half Mile of Hell Kevin Dunn Twelve Foot Davis Scotty Stevenson Half Mile of Hell Ian Tyson Twin Butte, Alberta Luther Wright Half-Breed Laura Vinson and Free Spirit Underground Railroad Paulo Hazel of Aspenlund Donna Durand Waitin’ for a Chinook Jesse Ballantyne Heaven in Alberta Warm Alberta Rain Hell for a Basement Big Sugar Waterton Howard Cable Hello Alberta We Celebrate Alberta Here’s Cheers Donna Durand Welcome to Wayne Rebecca Lappa High Rider (The John Ware Diamond Joe White We’re an Alberta Band Story) Hillcrest Mine James Keelaghan Western Skies Blue Rodeo Hippies in Calgary Chris LeDoux We’ve Got Oil! – History Rob Lennard of Oil Discovery in Alberta Homesteader John Spearn Whatcha Doin’ Grant Paulo MacEwan? Horse Thief The Smalls What’s Your Hurry Fort Jim Hagan McMurray Hotel & Saloon Tim Hus When the Crop Comes In John Spearn Hurtin’ Albertan Tim Hus Where the Bow River Wilf Montan Flows Hymn for Pincher Creek Connie Kaldor Where the Great Peace River Flows I Bought a Rock for My Rocky Billy Bushel Wide Opens Space in Mountain Gal Alberta I Bought a Rock for My Rocky Wilf Carter Wild Alberta Iris Donna Durand Mountain Gal I Don’t Live in Norwood Scott Peters Wild Alberta Rose Calvin Vollrath I Love Alberta Wild Roses Donna Durand I Still Hear Alberta Calling Me Wind in the Wire David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic I Turn Into a Cowboy Tim Tamashiro Winds of Alberta Wonitha In the Neighbourhood Ensemble Winter of 1943 Donna Durand In the Shadow of the Rockies Maria Dunn Wintertime in Calgary It Takes a Hockey Town Paul Bellows Ya Ha Tinda Donna Durand It’s Just My Red Deer Scene Flannel Dancer It’s the Calgary Stampede Gerry Madigan
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Alberta Mix Tape – by Artist
Song Artist Song Artist 16 Wheels Al Owchar Sweet Alberta Woman Larry Gustafson Bar “U” Al Owchar Alberta Crude Laura Vinson Bar U Ghosts Al Owchar Back to the Rockies Laura Vinson Alberta Homesteader Alan Mills Branded Laura Vinson Last Saskatchewan Pirate Arrogant Worms Half-Breed Laura Vinson Toronto Song Arrogant Worms Fiat Lux Lethbridge Community Gold Band Soar Barry Westerland Good Medicine: Ask the Lethbridge Community Horse Gold Band Hell for a Basement Big Sugar Good Medicine: Bronc to Lethbridge Community Breakfast Gold Band I Bought a Rock for My Billy Bushel Good Medicine: The Tie Lethbridge Community Rocky Mountain Gal Rope Gold Band Amber Valley Pine Black Pioneer Heritage Good Medicine: Waiting Lethbridge Community Singers for a Chinook Gold Band Western Skies Blue Rodeo Twin Butte, Alberta Luther Wright Alberta Eyes Braden Gates Can You Blame the Poor Maria Dunn Miner? Glass in the Garden Brett Oliver Do You Know Slim Evans? Maria Dunn Crypt Lake Cadence Weapon, Laura From the Breadline to the Maria Dunn Barrett & Mark Hamilton Frontline Don’t Fence Me In Cadence Weapon, Laura In the Shadow of the Maria Dunn Barrett & Mark Hamilton Rockies Goat Haunt Cadence Weapon, Laura Mrs. McClung’s Address Maria Dunn Barrett & Mark Hamilton The Gertrude Cadence Weapon, Laura Troublemaker Maria Dunn Barrett & Mark Hamilton Thunder (Give the Woman Cadence Weapon, Laura John Ware Mark Zagorsky Back to the Moon) Barrett & Mark Hamilton Alberta’s Centennial Waltz Calvin Vollrath Rodeo Waltz Mark Zagorsky Wild Alberta Rose Calvin Vollrath The Badlands Mark Zagorsky Bastards of Strathcona Captain Tractor Treasure of Life Mark Zagorsky North of the Yellowhead Captain Tractor Alberta Michael Bernard Fitzgerald The Rat Creek Rebellion Captain Tractor Burnin’ Alberta Michael Dunn and Moanin’ After Hippies in Calgary Chris LeDoux My Sweet Alberta Home Mikel Miller Bob Hope Chris Wynters Red Dog Diner Moby Dicks Bootlegger Coal Creek Boys Angel of St. Mary’s Nora Maidman
Pittsburgh of the West Coal Creek Boys Cabin by the River Nora Maidman The Ballad of Fred Coal Creek Boys Phantom Train Nora Maidman Alderson Hymn for Pincher Creek Connie Kaldor Scott Lake Hill Nora Maidman Alberta Says Hello Corb Lund It Takes a Hockey Town Paul Bellows Blood Sweat & Water Corb Lund Alberta Bound Paul Brandt Buckin’ Horse Rider Corb Lund Ride Forever Paul Gross
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Chinook Wind Corb Lund Alberta Name Game Paulo Family Reunion Corb Lund Alexander Calhoun Paulo Little Foothills Heaven Corb Lund By the Banks of the Bow Paulo Long Gone to Corb Lund Canoe Paulo Saskatchewan No Roads Here Corb Lund Dear Aunt Marry Paulo Prairies of Alberta Corb Lund Deerfoot Paulo Roughest Neck Around Corb Lund Evalsressel Paulo The Oil’s Back in Town Corb Lund Famous Five Paulo The Truck Got Stuck Corb Lund Fire of 1886 Paulo This is My Prairie Corb Lund Frank slide Paulo Wind in the Wire David Wilkie and Cowboy Good Ol’ CPR Paulo Celtic Alberta Border Diamond Joe White Métis Liberté Song Paulo High Rider (The John Ware Diamond Joe White Oil Boom Boom Paulo Story) Rocket Girl Doc Walker Our Very Own Shul Paulo Alberta Rivers Don Swidinisky Rumours of Silver and Paulo Gold Ghost from Athabasca Don Swidinisky Sam and Jane Livingstone Paulo Peace River Jig Don Swidinisky Stargazer, Mapmaker Paulo Dick Damron Donna Durand The Albertosaurus Paulo Falling Donna Durand The First Stampede Paulo Folded in Four Donna Durand The Muffaloose Paulo Hazel of Aspenlund Donna Durand Twelve Foot Davis Paulo Here’s Cheers Donna Durand Underground Railroad Paulo Kathleen, He Calls Donna Durand Whatcha Doin’ Grant Paulo MacEwan One More Round Donna Durand Alberta Springtime Porkbelly Futures Pink Cloud of Happiness Donna Durand Welcome to Wayne Rebecca Lappa Purple Mountain Donna Durand Fort McMurray Bound Rick Maidman Rules of the Road Donna Durand Kananaskis Rick Maidman The Road Back Donna Durand Red Deer to Amarillo Rick Maidman Wild Alberta Iris Donna Durand Stampede Strutt Rick Tippe Wild Roses Donna Durand C.P. Rail’s Coming to Rob Lennard Town! Winter of 1943 Donna Durand Cappy Smart – What a Fire Rob Lennard Chief! Ya Ha Tinda Donna Durand Captain Freddie McCall – Rob Lennard Amazing WWI Flying Ace Alberta Charm Donna Konsorado On the Ave Dr Blue Mexicanos En La Rob Lennard Estampida Song In the Neighbourhood Ensemble Ode to Goofy McMasters Rob Lennard – Edmonton’s Eccentric Citizens My Wild Frontier Faith Hill September 1st, 1905 – Rob Lennard Party Song It’s Just My Red Deer Flannel Dancer The Historic Lougheed Rob Lennard Scene House
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Cowboy in Your Heart Gary Fjellgaard The History Wrangler Rob Lennard Theme Song Never Leave the Farm Gary Fjellgaard Tom Three Persons: Hero Rob Lennard of the 1912 Calgary Stampede Alberta Roots George Fox Tribute to Hugh Dempsey, Rob Lennard Alberta’s “Mr. History” Clearly Canadian George Fox Tribute to the Famous Rob Lennard Five It’s the Calgary Stampede Gerry Madigan We’ve Got Oil! – History Rob Lennard of Oil Discover in Alberta Alberta Christmas Gord Bamford Alberta Waltz Rob Young Morning This Old Hat (Calgary Gord Bamford Edmonton Rural Alberta Advantage Stampede Song) Alberta Bound Gordon Lightfoot Frank, AB Rural Alberta Advantage The Mountains and Mary Gordon Lightfoot The Deathbridge in Rural Alberta Advantage Anne Lethbridge Alberta the Province Hank Snow Calgary, My Home Away Schooner Fare from Home Crowsnest Pass Howard Cable I Don’t Live in Norwood Scott Peters Macintyre Ranch Howard Cable Twelve Foot Davis Scotty Stevenson Waterton Howard Cable A Cowboy’s Heart Sean Hogen Four Strong Winds Ian & Sylvia Empty Town Shirley Field Alberta’s Child Ian Tyson New Brunswick Stacey Read Waltz/Calgary Fiddler’s Waltz Freddie Hall Ian Tyson Alberta Rose Stompin’ Tom Half Mile of Hell Ian Tyson Take me Back to Old Stompin’ Tom Alberta Land of the Shining Ian Tyson 1942 Terry Morrision Mountains Magpie Ian Tyson Long Dusty Road Terry Morrision Old Alberta Moon Ian Tyson Blue Canadian Rockies The Byrds Own Heart’s Delight Ian Tyson Let’s go to the U of L Art The Cedar Tavern Singers Gallery aka les phonorealistes Springtime in Alberta Ian Tyson Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon The Guess Who Hillcrest Mine James Keelaghan Tom Wilson The Harvest Dance Letters from Home James Murdoch Horse Thief The Smalls Alberta Jess Lee Sweet Rose The Swiftys Waitin’ for a Chinook Jesse Ballantyne Alberta Crude Tim Hus What Your Hurry Fort Jim Hagan Going Back to Calgary Tim Hus McMurray Burntown Joe Bird Hotel & Saloon Tim Hus Fort McMurray Joe West Hurtin’ Albertan Tim Hus The Mighty Bridge John Palacsik Longest Stretch of Road Tim Hus A Butterfly Landed John Spearn Mountain Fire Tim Hus Homesteader John Spearn One More Oil Boom Tim Hus John Walter’s Lament John Spearn Rumrunner Tim Hus
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta
Song Artist Song Artist Lacombe John Spearn I Turn Into a Cowboy Tim Tamashiro Pembina River Shinny John Spearn Big Balls in Cowtown Tim Tamashiro with Ian Tyson Roy Brown and Wop May John Spearn Pay the Freight Tom Hogarth The Festival John Spearn Calgary Transit The Last Man of Truth John Spearn Calgary Roundup University of Lethbridge Singers The War Bride John Spearn Lady kd lang University of Lethbridge Singers When the Crop Comes In John Spearn Alberta Champion Waltz Wally Knash Annabelle John Wort Hannam One Smooth Coffee White Cats Church of the Long Grass John Wort Hannam Alberta, the Province of Wilf Carter Riches Galore Out Here John Wort Hannam Blue Canadian Rockies Wilf Carter Requiem for a Small Town John Wort Hannam Calgary Stampede Wilf Carter Tonight We Strike John Wort Hannam I bought a rock for my Wilf Carter Rocky Mountain Gal Twas Out in Alberta Jon Bartlett and Rika Old Alberta Plains Wilf Carter Ruebsaat Fort McMurray Jon Brooks Pete Knight Wilf Carter Just the Other Day Junior Gone Wild Roundup Time in Sunny Wilf Carter Old Alberta Big Boned Girl kd lang Springtime in the Rockies Wilf Carter Alberta Moon Kevin Dunn Calgary Stampede Wilf Montan Half Mile of Hell Kevin Dunn Plains of Alberta Wilf Montan Postcard from Pincher Kim Fontaine Rocky Mountainneer Wilf Montan Creek Alberta Blue Lana Floen Rocky Rocky Mountains Wilf Montan Where the Bow River Wilf Montan Flows Winds of Alberta Wonitha My Calgary Home Yodeling Slim Clark
Alberta Mix Tape – Songs of Alberta Historical Society of Alberta