Patriation
Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-Andre Tremblay
1) Bring Her Home
2) Eight Men in the Garden
3) Nine Old Judges
4) Three Men in a Kitchen
5) La Chaise Vide
6) Notwithstanding
7) The Women Wouldn't Wait
8) Section Thirty-Five
9) Still No Signature
10) Rain on the Hill
11) A New Understanding
The Night of the Long Knives and Patriation Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-André Tremblay
Eight premiers in a garden. Nine judges who said yes, but. Three men in a kitchen drafting through the night while one province slept. Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-André Tremblay return with their most ambitious record yet, eleven songs telling the story of how Canada finally brought its constitution home, and who was left out when it did. Recorded in the spirit of Woody Guthrie and the old Lomax field recordings, the album moves from wry talking blues to work-song hollers, mournful waltzes, and a bilingual duet built around Quebec’s empty chair. Along the way it finds the women who refused to wait for their rights, the Indigenous leaders who fought to keep their place in the text, and a Queen signing her name in the pouring rain.
It is a record about compromise, betrayal, and a country still working out what it agreed to. A new understanding, still unfinished, never done.
