Songs From The North Country

by Jamie Kallestad

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1.	North Country 00:53	buy track
2.	The Tempest 04:02	buy track
3.	Black Friday 04:54	buy track
4.	Window 02:26	buy track
5.	Lyngen Ferry 01:33	buy track
6.	Amanda 04:06	buy track
7.	Working In The Forest 02:10	buy track
8.	After Love 04:31	buy track
9.	Letters From America 03:45	buy track
10.	Kvaløya (Northern Lights) 02:06	buy track
11.	Easy Love 03:31	buy track
12.	North Country (Reprise) 00:37	buy track
13.	In The Bleak Midwinter 03:07	buy track

about

In the fall of 2015 I went to Norway with a grand plan to visit the small town of Kallestad. More than anything, I wanted to get a photo of myself standing under a road sign emblazoned with my last name. In order to accomplish this, and really come to grips with the rest of the country, I spent three months over there, working on small Norwegian farms. The season was stressful and beautiful and lightening.

These songs were written in Norway, Minnesota, Vermont, Upper Michigan, and Boston. The lyrics are mostly about love. Turns out that picking turnips, feeding chickens, digging holes, splitting wood, selling sausages, and shoveling shit, for hours on end, can really open up a lot of headspace.

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released December 21, 2017

Jamie Kallestad sang and played guitar, piano, mandolin, organ,
Ben Cosgrove played accordion, keyboard, organ
Tony Petersen played electric guitar, guitar effects
Jenn Fagre played violin, viola
Malia Chan created the original watercolor used for album design

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Jamie Kallestad Watertown, Massachusetts

Jamie Kallestad is a folk/rock singer-songwriter from Cloquet, MN. A longtime guitarist and vocalist for the MN stomp-grass trio Saint Anyway, he is also one half of the New England Americana duo 90-Mile Portage. Jamie currently lives in Watertown, MA.

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