Music for 7 provinces .... Songs to Explore Canada to !

Ever wonder what songs we listen to as we trek?  Well, the truth is that most of the time we are hiking and listening to birds or chatting to one another.  However at night when we are both working separately writing the blog or editing pictures we do listen to music that we have on us.  With each region and province that we venture through we add new songs to our track listings.

Starting in June of 2019, when we set out from Cape Spear Newfoundland, we released a provincial listing of songs that were our favourites that we had come to enjoy. 

As spring is here, and many might be headed outdoors for a bike ride, a jog, or hike we thought we would take opportunity to re-release our complete song listings – for the first 7 provinces on the Trans Canada Trail– in case you were looking for some motivational music for your own mp3 players in 2021!

Enjoy!

Before the Great Trail (Training and Preparations)

1 - Proclaimers – I would Walk 500 Miles
2 - Imagine Dragons – On Top of the World
3 - Asaf Avidan – One Day / Reckoning
4 - Guster - This Could all be Yours
5 - Hugh Oliver – Oh Canada
6 - The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
7 - Blues Traveler – Run-Around
8 - Jose Gonzalez – Stay Alive
9 - Xavier Rudd – Let Me Be
10 - Little Joy – The Next Time Around
11 – Mumford & Sons – Where Are You Now
12 – Big Country – In a Big Country
13 – Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Our Lives)
14 - The Oh Hellos – This Will End
15 – Travelling Wilburys – End of the Line

Newfoundland and Labrador

1 - The Proclaimers - I would Walk 500 Miles
2 - Bear Attack - The Backpack Song
3 - The Oh Hello's - Lay Me Down

4 - Ricky Skaggs - Simple Life (Transatlantic Sessions Version)
5 - One Republic - I lived
6 - Lumineers - Slow It Down
7 - Opus Orange - Nothing But time
8 - Colin Hay - Waiting for my Real Life to Begin  
9 - Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime
10 - Norah Jones - Sunrise
11 - American Authors - I'm Born to Run
12 - The Oh Hello's - Tree's
13 - Mumford and Sons - Hopeless Wanderer
14 - Great Big Sea - Excursion Around the Bay
15 - The Fables - Heave Away
16 - Xavier Rudd - Walk Away
17 - Ian Whitcomb - I'm Happy When I am Hiking

Cape Breton and Nova Scotia

1 - Passenger - Home
2 - Mumford and Sons - Where Are You Now
3 - Matthew & The Atlas - I Will Remain
4 - Stan Rogers - Take It from Day to Day
5 - Lifehouse  feat. Natasha Bedingfield - Between the Raindrops
6 - Rivvrs - I Will Follow You
7 - The Head and the Heart - Shake
8 - Ben Howard - Only Love
9 - Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain
10 - The Wailin' Jennys - Long Time Traveller
11 - American Authors - Go Big Or Go Home
12 - Nanci Griffith  - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Transatlantic Sessions Version)
13 - Roo Panes - Stay With Me
14 - Caleb McGinn - Roots Go Deep
15 - Mary Dillon - The Green Fields of Canada
16 - The Irish Descendants - Rattlin Bog
17 - Great Big Sea - Consequence Free
18 - Irish Rovers - Farewell to Nova Scotia

 Prince Edward Island

1 - The Head and the Heart - All We Ever Knew
2 - Lumineers - Morning Song
3 - Sam Roberts - Hard Road
4 - One Direction - Ready to Run
5 - Ed Sheeran - Wayfaring Stranger
6 - Bruce Springsteen - Waitin' On A Sunny Day
7 - Passenger - Simple Song
8 - Roo Panes - Where I Want to Go
9 - Feist with Timber - Homage
10 - Mumford and Sons - Awake My Soul
11 - Twin Forks - Back To You
12 - Boyce Avenue - Be Somebody
13 - Monsters and Men - Six Weeks

New Brunswick

1 - The Paper Kites - Bloom
2 - NONONO - Pumpin Blood (The Jane Doze Remix)
3 - Passenger - Setting Suns
4 - The Heard and the Heart - Down in the Valley
5 - Ben Howard - Old Pine
6 - MegaFaun - The Longest Day
7 - Foy Vance - Joy of Nothing
8 - Jef Joslin - Sunshine
9 - The Shins - New Slang
10 - Sean Rowe - The Walker
11 - Matt Simons - Catch and Release (Deepend Remix)
12 - Bahamas - Lost in the Light
13 - Sons of the East - Into the Sun

Quebec

1 -  Frances Luke Accord – Maria
2 -  Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railway Trilogy
3 – Family and Friends – Winding Roads
4 – KONGOS – Traveling On
5 - The Paper Kites - Halcyon
6 - The Oh Hello's - Like The Dawn
7 - Sean Rowe - Long Way Home
8 - Passenger - The Wrong Direction
9 - The Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
10 - One Republic - Something I Need
11 - The Lumineers - Ho Hey 
12 - The Oh Hello's - Wishing Well
13 - The Weepies - Can't Go Back Now
14 – Ade Mai – Way She Sings
15 – Rob Drabkin – It’s a Beautiful Day    

Eastern Ontario

1 - Willie Nelson - On The Road Again
2 - Opus Orange - Crystal Clear
3 - American Authors - What Live For
4 - Radical Face - We're On Our Way
5 - Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway
6 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend
7 - Old Man Canyon - The Road
8 - The Oh Hello's - In Memoriam
9 - Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
10 - The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
11 - The Beatles - Free as a Bird
12 - Sweet Thing - Change of Seasons
13 - Current Swell - Young and Able 
14 - Alpha Rev – Sing Loud
15 - Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
16 - Shakey Graves - Word of Mouth
17 - Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down
18 - Bruce Springsteen - Shackled and Drawn
19 - Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon
20 - Blue Rodeo – Lost Together

Greater Toronto Area Ontario

1 - Vandaveer - However Many Takes it Takes
2 - American Authors - Home
3 - Opus Orange - Balance
4 - Sam Roberts - Canadian Dream
5 - American Authors - Oh, What a Life      
6 - Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
7 - Phillip Phillips - Home
8 - Eddie Vedder - Rise
9 - Roo Panes - Little Giant
10 - One Republic - Good Life
11 - Monsters and Men - Numb Bears
12 - Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
13 - Imagine Dragons - Thunder
14 - Jordan Klassen - Call and Answer
15 - The Tragically Hip - Ahead By a Century
16 - Travelling Wilburys - Handle With Care 
17 - Neil Young - Old Man
18 - Bruce Springsteen - Long Walk Home   

Northern Ontario

1 - Priscilla Ahn - Rain
2 - Florence and the Machine - Shake It Out
3 - Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad
4 - James Taylor - The Copperline
5 - The Backwoods - Picture (Mighty Oaks Cover)
6 - Rivvrs – Walk in the Wild
7 - The Strumbellas - Spirits
8 - Gregory Alan Isakov - Words
9 - Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes
10 - Lord Huron - Meet Me in the Woods
11 - The Weepies - Nobody Knows Me At All
12 - Nickel Creek - Tomorrow is a Long Time
13 - Alexi Murdoch - Toward the Sun
14 - Blitzen Trapper - Furr
15 - The Paper Kits - Woodland
16 - Zach Williams - Chain Breaker
17 - Caroline Herring - Song of the Wandering Aengus
18 - Bruce Springsteen – If I Should Fall Behind
19 - Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald   

Eastern Manitoba 

1 - Ted Longbottom – Ballad of Gordy Ross
2 - Frances Luke Accord – Nowhere to be Found
3 - I Am Oak – Trees and Birds on Fire
4 - The Radical Face - The Mute
5 - The Head and the Heart - Another Story
6 - The Tallest Man on Earth - Burden of Tomorrow
7 - Puscifer – The Humbling River
8 - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Man on Fire
9 - Roo Panes - Ran Before The Storm
10 - First Aid Kit - Wolf
11 - Ted Longbottom - The Buffalo Song
12 - The Boy and Bear - Rabbit Song
13 - The Oh Hellos - Hello My Old Heart
14 - The Melodic - When I Feel Free
15 - James Bay - Hold Back the River
16 - Jack Johnson - Better Together
17 - The Tragically Hip - At The Hundredth Meridian
18 - Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost

Reflecting on two years on the Great Trail 

1 – Long Walk Home
2 – Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – I Need Never Get Old
3 – Seasick Steve – Walking Man
4 – The Cave Singers – Summer Light
5 - Churchill – I Still Remember
6 - Charles William – Where you Wanna Be
7 - Haim – The Wire
8 - Rafferty – Apple Pie
9 - Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
10 - Arcade Fire – Wake Up
11 - Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
12 - Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes
13 - Rob Drabkin – It’s a Beautiful Day
14 - Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine
15 - One Direction – Ready to Run
16 - Matt Simons – Catch & Release
17 – Syd Matters – To All of You
18 – Mikky Ekko - Smile
19 - Drew Holcomb & The Neighors – Just your Memory
20 – Ben Howard – Old Pine
21 – Lord Huron – I Will be Back One Day
22 - Passenger – Home
23 – Bruce Springsteen – If I Should Fall Behind

See you on the trail!

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