One Job TownOne Job Town

One Job Town released by Grievous Angels on Moose Records March 1990
released by Stony Plain Records of Edmonton Alberta, September 1990
Also released in Europe and Japan

One Job Town was nominated for a Juno Award as top roots/traditional album for 1991
Grievous Angels nominated as top country band in Juno Awards 1992

Band line-up:
Michelle Rumball: vocals
Peter Jellard: accordion, fiddle,
Chuck Angus: guitar, lead vocals on Kapuskasing Highway Song
Peter Duffin: drums
Tim Hadly: bass

Order of songs:
Crossing the Causeway
When Love Came Around
Ballad of Leonard and Cecile
B.C. in the Wintertime
Sarah Gordon
Peter's Shuffle
Staying in On Weekends
Friday Night
Kapuskasing Highway Song
(Last Room on the Left) At the Ramore Hotel
Death's Dark Stream
Gordie and My Old Man

Here's what the reviewers said:

"They're a national treasure the Grievous Angels, they really are. Like the people they sing about -- labourers, miners, loggers, roughnecks and fishermen --there's nothing flashy about the Angels. Indeed, they look like they just came off a two-week shift tree planting. No, it's their music, the audience has come to hear. To be precise, the superb songs of Chuck Angus. Make no mistake, Angus will one day stand as tall as Stan Rogers, Ian Tyson and dare we hope, Gordon Lightfoot, when great Canadian songwriters are discussed."
--The Edmonton Journal

"If Stony Plain is Canada's version of Rounder Records, the Grievous Angels are Canada's version of Highway 101. The Toronto quintet is fronted by singer Michelle Rumball whose raw, twangy country voice rips through the songs with impressive authority. Peter Jellard's fiddle and accordion lend a folksy two-step feel, but its the songs of Chuck Angus that distinguish the group."
-- Washington Post

"It's no secret that the songs of Chuck Angus should be required learning in Canadian classrooms."
-- Canadian Composer

"On One Job Town the Grievous Angels offer a rich, evocative collection of tales about misplaced Canadians trying to hang on in the midst of tough times. With such themes at the centre of virtually every song, this album could be the soundtrack for life in Canada in the early '90s."
-- Inside Tracks

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