01 cordelia
02 lessons learned
03 canada day
04 two heads on a pillow
05 klondike
06 ages
07 comeback kid
08 blackhearts of the company
09 bright as you dare
10 swollen sky
11 follow the flowers

"MacDonald and Sedore have created an album that will stand up strongly year after year, regardless of what made up, micro-genre is the flavour of the month"
--Herohill

Cordelia

Lesson Learned

Blackhearts of the Company

Bright As You Dare

Produced, mixed and mastered by Phil Sedore.

Norma MacDonald's third album, Morning You Wake, produced by Halifax multi-instrumentalist Phil Sedore (Amelia Curran, Catherine MacLellan), is undoubtedly the songwriter’s most diverse collection of sounds and stories to date. From the starry-eyed waltz "Bright as you Dare", to the Neko Case-ean "Comeback Kid" the elegiac Springsteen floodof- emotion of "Swollen Sky", her sound mixes the sincerity and grit of car stereo old-country with the polish and sophistication of satellite radio North- Americana. This latest recording also finds MacDonald tackling her hometown’s history; "Blackhearts of the Company" based on the life of William Davis, a coal miner that was shot and killed by mining company police during a protest in 1925.