Clicking on the following YouTube links enables readers to experience music that helped inspire some of the HAND TALKER chapters (JD would write before, during or after listening to these songs to try to capture the mood, rhythm and perhaps a word or two). Many of the songs’ artists self-identify as Dene and/or Canadian. The links are a mix of “pity party” and uplifting audio tracks.
Blood Trail – Johnny Cash – God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Pietà – Margaret Rose & Jimmy Cook – Ave Maria
The Healer – R. Carlos Nakai – Beauty Way and Kinship
Incident at Crooked Creek: A Dog-eat-dog World – Joni Mitchell – Dog Eat Dog
Little Bighorn (Part 1) – Eddie Vedder – Rise
Little Bighorn (Part 2) – Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
Hole-in-the-wall – Buffalo River Dene Drummers – Farewell
Knot a Problem – Jasmine Thompson (cover of Tears for Fears) – Mad World
Kill that Dog! – Stephen Kakfwi – Yahkehgotine
The Cookie Monster
The Snake Man – R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
Border Crossin’ – Merle Haggard – Movin’ On
Reunion – Marty Robbins – My Woman My Woman My Wife
A Visitor – Johnny Landry – Dene Love Song
The Fishermen
Dreams of Unity – Stephen Kakfwi – Prophecy – The Four Directions
The Witchery Way
A New Beginnin’
Tradin’ Post – Mason Williams (Hand-made) – Classical Gas
Hell Riders – Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
Medicine Bundle
Cabin Buildin’ Time – Buffalo River Dene Drummers – Dene
Kids with Kids – Three Tall Pines – Lodgepole
Northern Ghosts
Gray Matter – Evanescence – Lithium
Callin’ Up the Spirits
The Teacher
Father and Son – Yusuf – Father and Son
Sucked – Anne Murray (by Paul McCartney) – Let It Be
Ankle Biters – Men at Work – Down Under
Makin’ Meat – Bob Dylan – Blowin’ in the Wind
Trouble Brewin’
Passin’ Through
The Body – R. Carlos Nakai – Amazing Grace
Wooden Chalice – Lover Boy – Turn Me Loose
To Build a Fire
Refuge – R. Carlos Nakai – Earth Spirit
Beaver on the Barbie
The Snoop – Three Tall Pines – Stone Walls
Brothers – Alison Krauss (by Overstreet & Schlitz) – When you Say Nothing at All
Provoked – Bob Dylan – Lay, Lady, Lay
Poached – NWT Drummers – Prayer Song
The Bath – U2 – With or Without You
Mucked – Jeff Buckley (by Leonard Cohen) – Hallelujah
Checkin’ Out
Swallowed – Hana Pestle – Need
Pissed – Rolling Stones – Angie
Absalom: Playin’ Tug-o’-war – Johnny Cash (cover of Nine Inch Nails) – Hurt
The Town Drunk – The Fray – How to Save a Life
Christmas Communiqué – Glass Tiger (by Gordon Lightfoot) – Song for a Winter’s Night
Solomon – Bryan Adams – Everything I Do
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Ennio Morricone (cover by Hugo Montenegro) – (same title)
The Pegleg – Evanescence – Going Under
Undated Letter from Beth – La Oreja de Van Gogh and Natalia Lafourcade – Maria
Inferno – Kansas – Dust in the Wind (arranged & played by Sungha Jung)
Family Physics
Dreamin’ Big – R. Carlos Nakai – Athabascan Song
A Claim Jumper
Clash at the Old Corral – Pete Seeger (Pete Seeger and Lee Hays) – If I had a Hammer
Bare to the Bone – R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
QwackAnon and the A-hole Prophecy – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Beneath the Gray-haired Parchment – Wolfsblut – Tretet Was Fällt
Ashes to Ashes, Shit to Shit – R. Carlos Nakai – Inner Voices
Cleansin’ Time – Eddie Vedder – Rise
New Clothes: Legacy .45 – Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies
Chant of Chants – Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
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