- Penny Downie, Actress: Invictus. Penny Downie was born in Australia. She was determined to make it overseas and her role in Minder (1979), with George Cole and Dennis Waterman, was her big break. She's never looked back, and is regularly seen in TV work. She was known to have a good ear and able to pick up accents, quickly. Her English accent is flawless today.
- Steve Downie (born April 3, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently an unrestricted free agent who was last signed to the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played in the NHL for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Avalanche, the Flyers having drafted him in the first round, 29th overall.
Ogoki Post, Ontario
September 9, 2016
Mike Downie introduced me to Chanie Wenjack; he gave me the story from Ian Adam's Maclean's magazine story dating back to February 6, 1967, 'The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack.'
Chanie was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to walk home. Chanie's home was 400 miles away. He didn't know that. He didn't know where it was, nor know how to find it, but, like so many kids - more than anyone will be able to imagine - he tried. I never knew Chanie, the child his teachers misnamed Charlie, but I will always love him.
Chanie haunts me. His story is Canada's story. This is about Canada. We are not the country we thought we were. History will be re-written. We are all accountable, but this begins in the late 1800s and goes to 1996. 'White' Canada knew – on somebody's purpose – nothing about this. We weren't taught it; it was hardly ever mentioned.
All of those Governments, and all of those Churches, for all of those years, misused themselves. They hurt many children. They broke up many families. They erased entire communities. It will take seven generations to fix this. Seven. Seven is not arbitrary. This is far from over. Things up north have never been harder. Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.
I am trying in this small way to help spread what Murray Sinclair said, 'This is not an aboriginal problem. This is a Canadian problem. Because at the same time that aboriginal people were being demeaned in the schools and their culture and language were being taken away from them and they were being told that they were inferior, they were pagans, that they were heathens and savages and that they were unworthy of being respected — that very same message was being given to the non-aboriginal children in the public schools as well…They need to know that history includes them.' (Murray Sinclair, Ottawa Citizen, May 24, 2015)
I have always wondered why, even as a kid, I never thought of Canada as a country – It's not a popular thought; you keep it to yourself – I never wrote of it as so. The next hundred years are going to be painful as we come to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him – as we find out about ourselves, about all of us – but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, 'Canada.'
'Do we want to live in a haunted house the rest of our lives?' - Joseph Boyden
Proceeds from the sale of Secret Path will go to The Gord Downie Secret Path Fund for Truth and Reconciliation via The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at The University of Manitoba.
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The stories Gord's poems tell were fleshed into the ten songs of Secret Path
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with producers Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin. Recording took place over two sessions at the Bathouse in Bath, Ontario, November and December 2013. The music features Downie on vocals and guitars, with Drew and Hamelin playing all other instruments, except guest contributions by Charles Spearin (bass), Ohad Benchetrit (lap steel/guitar), Kevin Hearn (piano), and Dave 'Billy Ray' Koster (drums).In winter 2014, Gord and Mike brought the recently finished music to comic artist Jeff Lemire for his help illustrating Chanie's story, bringing him and the many children like him to life.
Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada's history – the long-supressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system – with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation.
The ten song album will be released by Arts & Crafts accompanied by Lemire's eighty-eight page graphic novel published by Simon & Schuster Canada. Secret Path will arrive on October 18, 2016, in a deluxe vinyl and book edition, and as a book with album download.
Downie's music and Lemire's illustrations inspired The Secret Path, an animated film broadcast by CBC in an hour-long commercial-free television special in Sunday, October 23. The Secret Path and Road to Reconciliation panel discussion can be watched at cbc.ca/secretpath.
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1. The Stranger
2. Swing Set
3. Seven Matches
4. I Will Not Be Struck
5. Son
6. Secret Path
7. Don't Let This Touch You
8. Haunt Them, Haunt Them, Haunt Them
9. The Only Place To Be
10. Here, Here and Here
I first met Gord Downie and his brother Mike back in the winter of 2014. They wanted to discuss a potential project and, over coffee, they told me the story of Chanie 'Charlie' Wenjack. Gord was then in the final stages of recording his incredible songs based on Chanie's life and he shared the rough mixes with me in the hopes that I would be interested in creating a graphic novel to accompany his album. Before we left the coffee shop I knew I was going to do it. I had to. Chanie's story is one that will not let you go once you hear it. It's a story that can't be ignored. And yet, somehow, it has been ignored. By nearly all of us.
Growing up white in Southern Ontario, I never learned about Chanie Wenjack or about any of the tens of thousands of other indigenous children like him who were part of Canada's residential school system. This is such a massive part of our country's history, yet our schools didn't teach us about it. Why? Maybe because it's easier to live with ourselves if we pretend stories like Chanie's never happened. But they did happen, and still happen. Chanie Wenjack lived and died, and no one knows his story.
I've spent the last three years living with Chanie's story and living inside Gord's music. Gord's haunting songs introduced me to Chanie Wenjack. Music is universal. It crosses languages and cultures and speaks to everyone, and I've always felt the medium of comics could do the same. It's our hope that one day Secret Path will be taught in schools and that it will help to shed a light on this all too often ignored part of Canada's past. I think, above all else, that's what Gord and I wanted to create: something that can't be ignored. Every Canadian should know Chanie Wenjack's name and I hope Secret Path helps to make that a reality.
The Secret Path was created, written, and directed by Gord Downie, composed by Gord Downie with Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin, and illustrated by author Jeff Lemire. The film is executive produced by Mike Downie, Patrick Downie, Gord Downie, and Sarah Polley. The Secret Path is produced by Entertainment One (eOne) and Antica Productions Ltd. in association with CBC, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. Jocelyn Hamilton is executive producer for eOne Television and Stuart Coxe is executive producer for Antica Productions. Animation is directed by Justin Stephenson, produced at Solis Animation Inc. and composited by Even Steven Inc.
The Secret Path was broadcast by CBC in an hour-long commercial-free television special in Sunday, October 23. The Secret Path and Road to Reconciliation panel discussion can be watched at cbc.ca/secretpath.
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The Downies and Wenjacks are also raising money for the newly created Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund. The Fund operates out of the Toronto Foundation and focuses on cross-cultural education to support healing and recovery. It will also directly support the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at The University of Manitoba.
The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) embodies Gord Downie's commitment, and that of his family, to improving the lives of First Peoples. The Fund will foster new relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, while strengthening the voices and work of groups already making a difference. Money raised for the DWF will be used to create new relationships for reconciliation.
For the place called ‘Canada' – past, present, future
All of us.
Words by
GORD DOWNIE
Graphic Novel & Illustrations by
JEFF LEMIRE
Songs by GORD DOWNIE
with KEVIN DREW & DAVE HAMELIN
Produced and Mixed by
KEVIN DREW & DAVE HAMELIN
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars by GORD DOWNIE
All other instrumentation by KEVIN DREW & DAVE HAMELIN
Guest Musicians:
CHARLES SPEARIN - Bass
OHAD BENCHETRIT - Lap Steel & Additional Guitar
KEVIN HEARN - Additional Keys
DAVE 'BILLY RAY' KOSTER - Drums
Engineered by NYLES SPENCER
Recorded and Mixed at The Bathouse Recording Studios, Bath, ON, Canada
November 3 - November 10, 2013
November 27 - December 2, 2013
Mastered by ERIC BOULANGER, The Bakery, Culver City, CA, USA
Art Direction by JONATHAN SHEDLETZKY
Design & Layout by ISIS ESSERY
Website Design by IAN PORTER
Jeff Lemire
Antica Productions
Press: Ken Beattie | Killbeat Music
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| Released | October 27, 2017 | ||
| Length | 73:42 | ||
| Label | Arts & Crafts Productions | ||
| Producer | Kevin Drew | ||
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Introduce Yerself is the sixth solo album by Canadian singer and songwriter Gord Downie, released posthumously on October 27, 2017, ten days after his death.[1] A double album consisting of 23 songs which Downie has described as each being about specific people in his life,[2] it was the last solo album Downie completed,[3] although his brothers Patrick and Mike subsequently confirmed that additional unreleased material would be released in the future;[4] the album Away Is Mine, which comprises the last songs Downie ever recorded and was completed by producer Nyles Spencer following Downie's death, was released in 2020.
Background[edit]
Downie and producer Kevin Drew began work on the album in early 2016, after Downie received his diagnosis with glioblastoma but before it was publicized.[3] Due to Downie's health status, and the uncertainty around how much time he would have to complete the album, most songs were included as first takes; 17 songs were recorded over the 2016 sessions, but then the project was placed on hold as Downie and his band The Tragically Hip undertook the Man Machine Poem Tour, and the release and promotion of Secret Path.[3] In 2017, Drew and Downie reconvened to record 10 additional songs Downie had written during the intervening time.[3]
Critical reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Rolling Stone | [5] |
| Pitchfork | [6] |
| The Spill Magazine | [7] |
| Exclaim | [8] |
| Toronto Star | [9] |
| Toronto Sun | [10] |
Brad Wheeler of The Globe and Mail wrote that the album is much more direct and personal than Downie's typically oblique songwriting with The Tragically Hip.[11] He ultimately concluded that '[b]ecause it was completed in Mr. Downie's final months, Introduce Yerself will be compared to the leave-taking LPs of David Bowie (Blackstar) and Leonard Cohen (You Want It Darker). But where Mr. Bowie flashed a cape and disappeared with a dramatic flourish and Mr. Cohen offered something of a prayer, Mr. Downie's kind-hearted sentimentality compares more closely with the folksy manner of Neil Young's Prairie Wind, recorded after the singer-songwriter's near-death experience in 2005.'[11]
For Exclaim!, Calum Slingerland compared the album's instrumentation to Downie's previous album Secret Path, and concluded that 'Introduce Yerself finds Downie fully, completely and unequivocally himself.'[12] The publication ranked the album #10 on their list of the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2017.[13]
Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star wrote that the album 'cannot be divorced from the tragic circumstances of its creation, nor is it really intended to be.' He noted as well that 'Although he's by turns as cryptic and wryly humorous as ever, Downie has never opened himself up this much on record before, actually naming names on tunes like 'Nancy', 'Ricky Please' and 'My First Girlfriend' but otherwise peopling the songs on Introduce Yerself with so much specific detail that the recipients of that love will recognize themselves in the music when they hear it.'[14] Bartender 3 0 64.
Awards[edit]
At the Juno Awards of 2018, the album won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, Downie and Drew won Songwriter of the Year for 'A Natural', 'Introduce Yerself' and 'The North',[15] and Downie won the Artist of the Year. In a tribute to Downie at the Juno Awards ceremony, Sarah Harmer, Dallas Green and Kevin Hearn performed a medley of the album's title track with the Tragically Hip song 'Bobcaygeon'.
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Gord Downie
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'First Person' | 3:10 |
| 2. | 'Wolf's Home' | 3:14 |
| 3. | 'Bedtime' | 3:38 |
| 4. | 'Introduce Yerself' | 2:44 |
| 5. | 'Coco Chanel No. 5' | 3:32 |
| 6. | 'Ricky Please' | 2:34 |
| 7. | 'Safe Is Dead' | 3:52 |
| 8. | 'Spoon' | 2:39 |
| 9. | 'A Natural' | 3:47 |
| 10. | 'Faith Faith' | 3:01 |
| 11. | 'My First Girlfriend' | 4:19 |
| 12. | 'Yer Ashore' | 1:30 |
| 13. | 'Love Over Money' | 2:41 |
| 14. | 'You, Me and the B's' | 2:46 |
| 15. | 'Snowflake' | 4:09 |
| 16. | 'A Better End' | 4:06 |
| 17. | 'Nancy' | 2:25 |
| 18. | 'Thinking About Us' | 2:08 |
| 19. | 'The Road' | 3:04 |
| 20. | 'You Are the Bird' | 2:48 |
| 21. | 'The Lake' | 3:09 |
| 22. | 'Far Away and Blurred' | 4:38 |
| 23. | 'The North' | 3:48 |
| Total length: | 73:42 |
Charts[edit]
| Chart (2017) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Albums (Billboard)[16] | 1 |
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References[edit]
- ^'Gord Downie to release new solo album Introduce Yerself'. CBC News, September 27, 2017.
- ^'Gord Downie to release new solo album 'Introduce Yerself''. Toronto Sun, September 27, 2017.
- ^ abcd'Gord Downie, a Canadian Rock Legend, Sings Goodbye'. The New York Times, October 18, 2017.
- ^'Gord Downie's brothers say more projects are coming from the singer'Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine. Victoria Times-Colonist, March 24, 2018.
- ^Hermes, Will. 'Review: Gord Downie, Tragically Hip Singer, Bids Tender Farewell on Final LP'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^Marsh, Calum (November 17, 2017). 'Gord Downie Introduce Yerself'. Pitchfork. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^Bossy, Gabrielle. 'SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: GORD DOWNIE – INTRODUCE YERSELF'. The Spill Magazine. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^Slingerland, Calum (October 23, 2017). 'Gord Downie Introduce Yerself'. Exclaim. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^Rayner, Ben (October 27, 2017). 'Gord Downie's final album Introduce Yerself will haunt you: review'. Toronto Star. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^Sterdan, Darryl (October 24, 2017). 'Review: Gord Downie's Introduce Yerself a beautiful parting gift from a Canadian music icon'. Toronto Sun. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ ab'Gord Downie's final album Introduce Yerself is an altruistic farewell'. The Globe and Mail, October 24, 2017.
- ^'Gord Downie: Introduce Yerself'. Exclaim!, October 23, 2017.
- ^'Exclaim!'s Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, 10 to 1'. Exclaim!, November 29, 2017.
- ^'Gord Downie's final album Introduce Yerself will haunt you: review'. Toronto Star, October 27, 2017.
- ^'Early Junos Go to Gord Downie, Grimes, Alvvays and More'. Exclaim!, March 24, 2018.
- ^'Downie, The Hip, Kelly Clarkson Hot On The Albums Chart This Week'. FYIMusicNews. November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
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