The October Crisis
Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-Andre Tremblay
1) Front de Libération
2) Two Men in a Green Chevrolet
3) The Lawn on Robert Street
4) Reading Between the Lines
5) Just Watch Me
6) Four Hundred and Ninety-Seven
7) The Ballad of Pierre Laporte
8) Tanks on Sherbrooke Street
9) Cuba Libre
10) The Long Manhunt
11) What the Measures Left Behind
The October Crisis Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-André Tremblay
Two kidnappings, one manifesto, eight thousand soldiers, and a prime minister who told the country to just watch him. Gordie Mackenzie and Marc-André Tremblay turn one of Canada’s darkest chapters into eleven songs of front-porch folk in the spirit of Woody Guthrie, sung in English and French and recorded with the crackle of an old acetate disc. From mailboxes in Westmount to a farmhouse tunnel near Saint-Luc, The October Crisis follows the FLQ, the War Measures Act, and the hundreds of poets, singers, and ordinary citizens swept up in between. It’s witty where history allows and gentle where it demands, and it never pretends the hardest questions have easy answers.
Songs of a troubled time, for a country still deciding what its freedom is for.
