The Sounds of Sleeping Dogs

Posted by Coral Andrews Sep 25, 2006

Odette found Quebec yodeler Petunia at a recent Toronto gig and asked him to cover several Jimmie Rodgers songs from Hobo's Meditation to I'm Lonesome Too.

Country stringband The Backstabbers also features Miss Kristine Schmidt singing Mystery of Number Five - so the CD's a mighty fine scrapbook of yodeling yarns mixed in with country / bluegrass melodies.

The songs on Sleeping Dogs were produced and engineered by Odette's pals J. Richard Hutt and Ron Chilton, at Kitchener's Cedar Tree Studios, and by Neil Clark at Toronto's Soulkiosk Studios.

These 15 tracks from Petunia's Yodeling Cowboy to Gwen Swick's soulful lament of the film's title song, provide perfect harmony to Odette's unsentimental family tale set in no-name suburbia.

The soundtrack was part of a LCBO brown paper swag bag supporting cast-members Tom and I received along with sharpie pens, plus nylon navy Sleeping Dogs farmer's cap.

The soundtrack is now available for public consumption, y'all sally on forth and grab one.

Yeehah!