A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
In late summer, 1975, I was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for an exhibition of Soviet Union spacecraft. Before heading back to the U.S., I stopped at a communist/socialist bookstore, where I bought a Tom Connors 33-rpm album (there were lots of interesting books, none of which I wanted to explain to Customs on the way home).
Stompin’ Tom was a fierce Canadian patriot, no friend of the U.S., and a musician more comfortable in a beer hall than a concert hall. Most of his songs sounded the same; were it not for his stompin’ board, he might have been named Three-Chord Connors. Here he is in a dance hall setting, stompin’ out Gumboot Cloggeroo. Make sure you listen long enough for the dancing girl to appear.