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North Country (WORD)
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North Country (ABRIDGED)(WORD)
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You can play along with the 1st video in GCEA tuning, if you put your capo on the 5th fret. Thanks to Arlene McIntosh for bringing this song to BUG!
The song, "North Country", was released in 1993 as the second single from The Rankin Family's third studio album, North Country. It peaked in the top 10 on the RPM Country Tracks and Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. North Country is the third studio album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. It was released by EMI on August 24, 1993. The album peaked at number 1 on the RPM Country Albums chart. A revised version was released in the United States in 1994.
The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards. The Rankins come from a family of 12 siblings, all of whom would entertain the neighbours musically every third weekend as part of a cèilidh. The first Rankin Family band formed in the 1970s when siblings Geraldine, Genevieve, David, John Morris, and Raylene Rankin began performing at local weddings and dances in Cape Breton. As the older siblings went away to college and university, the younger siblings Jimmy, Cookie and Heather took their places.