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January 2012
Keep Your Hand In

Country Prose
by Charlie Hansen

Dusty Roads - Harold Noye Dusty Roads - Harold Noye When most people reach the point where they have had a successful and fulfilling life they tend to lay back and enjoy what they have accomplished over their lifetime. This is not the case with Harold Noye. Harold, besides operating the very successful Sun N’ Shade campground along with his wife Marnie, has always kept his hand in the music business.

Harold and Marnie were part of the very successful bluegrass/gospel group Jericho Road. Harold and Vans Bryant were also partners in Dunromin Duo.

After several successful projects in these musical configurations Harold has set out on his own to produce a CD that he calls Dusty Roads. This CD encompasses everything from the sounds of Hank Williams to an instrumental called “Spinnaker’s Landing” that Harold wrote several years ago. All in all this CD represents Harold’s love of country and bluegrass music.

Some of the selections on this CD are the Bill Monroe instrumental, “Tennessee Blues,” a Freddie Hart song called “Hank Williams Guitar,” the Rodney Crowell penned “Til I Gain Control Again” and a bluegrass standard called “Cecil Barfield” written by Bill Castle.

Harold does a fine job on mandolin and guitar as well as lead and harmony vocals on this project while the rest of the instrumentation was handled by Gordie Belsher. The project was recorded at Guernsey Cove Parlour Productions with Gordie Belsher doing the honours.

This is a fine CD, as a matter of fact so fine that it has received a nomination for country recording of the year at the PEI Music Awards to be held this month in Charlottetown.

This project features many songs that may not be familiar to the general listener but they are all a great listen. Some of the tracks on this project are old favourites and those that are not will become new favourites after the first spin.

If you’d like a copy of this CD you can give Harold a call at 902-436-8833 and I’m sure that it’ll be available at The Sun N' Shade campground in Borden-Carleton next spring. Best of luck at the PEI Music awards Harold.

Congratulations to all who have received nominations for the 2012 PEI Music Awards and best of luck to all.

By the time this column goes to print I’ll be in Florida for the winter (across the street from Harold and Marnie) but I’ll be keeping you informed of the comings and goings in the sunshine state. Usually we attend a number of bluegrass and country events and I’m sure that this year will be no different. We like to take in some of the local activities around Zephyrhills and will be reporting on those as well.

Until next month, stay warm and don’t forget to support live country and bluegrass music and listen to Bluegrass Island every Sunday at 9 pm on CFCY 95.1 FM in Charlottetown or at cfcy.fm.

 
 

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