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Settlers' Town

from Frame By Frame by T. Buckley

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about

This song reflects on how negative, dangerous attitudes and stereotypes can spread through a community, and the damage they do. I grew up next to a reserve and reflecting on and acknowledging the prevalence and the impacts of racism was very sobering. At that time, when I was growing up, there was not a lot of dialogue about the multi-generational mistreatment and resulting trauma experienced by Indigenous people, and it certainly wasn’t addressed in the school curriculum. Of course, we know it hasn’t gone away at all so the song is also a call to action to myself to do better and do more to help in the journey toward reconciliation. Hopefully, telling this part of the story is a step in the right direction.

lyrics

Lyrics to Settlers' Town:

I’m from a settlers’ town
Tiny boxes in tidy rows
The common clay in a wartime home
Western propagation
Raised in a settlers’ town
Most things handed to me
Taken from the land and the sea
And a wounded nation

And all that happened before my time
But sins get passed on down the line
It’s time for me to know
The things I’ve gotta own

Dark secrets of a settlers’ town
Down in the south end
A fence separating us from them
Careful when you cross over
Cos it’s Blackfoot land
There goes the neighbourhood
Folks said they ain’t no good
Dirty looks and cold shoulders

It was easier just to turn a blind eye
Than to stand up against what I knew wasn’t right
It’s time for me to know
The things I’ve gotta own

Hard living in a settlers’ town
Girl in my class in seventh grade
Brown eyes and black hair in braids
The deck was stacked against her
We used to tear her apart
About the way she dressed
And the way she spoke
Did it ‘till her spirit broke
Prey of peer pressure

I used to tell myself I was too foolish and young
To understand the poison that came from my tongue
But it’s time for me to know
The things I’ve gotta own
Yeah, it’s time for me to know
The things I’ve gotta own
Yeah, it’s time for me to know
The things I’ve gotta own

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from Frame By Frame, released November 5, 2021
CREDITS:
RECORDED AT Studio Bell home of The National Music Centre – Calgary, Alberta, Canada. November, 2020
PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY Jeff Kynoch
ASSISTANT ENGINEER Eric Cinnamon
MASTERING Dave Horrocks at Infinite Wave Mastering, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
GRAPHIC DESIGN Roberta Landreth
ALBUM COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Sebastian Buzzalino at Unfolding Creative Photography
LINER NOTES PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Connors and Brett Ferster, The Light Factory

MUSICIANS:
T. BUCKLEY - Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
STEVE FLETCHER - Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano, synths
MITCH JAY - Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, dobro, banjo
JESSE DOLLIMONT - Vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar, piano, tambourine
JEFF KYNOCH - Omnichord, percussion, high strung guitar, synths, mellotron
KEITH REMPEL - Bass, vocals
DAN STADNICKI - Drums, percussion

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY T. Buckley EXCEPT Fathers Child – by T. Buckley and
John Wort Hannam PUBLISHED BY Fallen Tree Songs II (SOCAN)

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T. Buckley stands quietly among a disappearing ilk of true craftsmen. His soul and voice are unmistakably genuine alongside his Western roots resulting in a class of songsmith long revered and scarcely achieved.

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