Welcome To Hat Creek Records

Hat Creek Records is committed to quality music. We connect with singer-song writers around the world to get the music to you. We help you get the best music available. We have strong musical knowledge and can match your individual needs to the music. At Hat Creek Records, we pride ourselves on giving expert advice in a pressure free environment. It’s about world music with local flavour. Hat Creek Records is a resource for the music and arts community in Alberta and beyond. You can find CDs and vinyl here from all over the world at Hat Creek Records.

Hat Creek Records receives support from the Silk Road Arts Council of Hat Creek, Alberta.

David Baxter – DAY AND AGE

Toronto musician David Baxter has been on the Canadian musican scene for a long time.  He is a journeyman guitarist, an award winning songwriter and an award winning producer.  David Baxter has been writing, performing and producing music all his life.  He has been a professional since 1975 when he received his first break as a member of legendary Toronto band David Wilcox and the Teddy Bears. In the late 70’s he was a member of seminal Toronto band The Sharks, 2 members of which went on to found Blue Rodeo.

As a producer, David Baxter has been involved with with albums for Canadian songwriter Bob Snider.   His other productions include records with Loi Yates, Justin Rutledge, Northern Pikes, Treasa Levasseur, The Undesirables, Catherine MacLellan, Penny Lang, Michael Laderoute.

David Baxter tours as guitarist with Lori Yates,  Justin Rutledge and Michael Levasseur.  His guitar can be heard weekly on the soundtrack to CTV series, Degrassi: the Next Generation, and on many records as a sideman.

Day & Age is David Baxter’s debut album as a singer. In a career of working with great voices, he had always left that job to the experts. “I was politely encouraged to stick to the guitar,” says Baxter, “but I always wrote songs, as a collaborator.”

Day & Age is an original collection of 12 songs all penned by David Baxter.  Playing with David on Day & Age are Brian Kobayakawa, Treasa Levasseur, Justin Rutledge.  You can also hear the voices of Catherine Macleelland and Jenn Grant, Lori Yates and Soozi Schlanger singing back up.  The album was recorded at the knob and tube recording studios in Toronto, ON by David Baxter.  It was mixed a the Meat Locker in NYC by Harvey Goldberg.  Day & Age is dedicated to David’s parents (Ruth and Edward Baxter).

Nathan Tinkham Sings WILF CARTER

Long time session guitarist and sideman, Nathan Tinkham has released his first solo CD entitled Nathan Tinkham Sings Wilf Carter.  This CD has been a long time in the making and Nathan has just returned from a successful tour in the Maritimes playing his songs of Wilf Carter.
Nathan will be touring Alberta in the spring with this new CD.

Wilf Carter made his mark in Canada and world with a career that lasted for more than 60 years.  From the glimmer of an idea as a child until his death in 1996, Wilf Carter was true to his fans and his ideals everywhere he went.  In his quiet way, Wilf Carter became one of the most influential singers & songwriters in country music history.  He almost single handedly invented and defined the cowboy singer and was an inspiration to Gene Autry, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggart and including Alberta’s own Ian Tyson.

In 1995, Nathan Tinkham put together a retrospective gleaned from many hours of interviews with Wilf and friends.  Wilf’s story is an amazing one.  From his humble beginnings as the son of a Nova Scotia preacher to his performances on the world stage he made his fans one by one. Wilf’s music was the real thing.  That was back in the 1930s and it’s just as true today. With Wilf’s blessing, Nathan tells the story of how Wilf achieved his dream of being a cowboy singer and performs some of Wilf’s most popular songs.

Ian Tyson – YELLOWHEAD to YELLOWSTONE

Penny Davies & Roger Ilott – MOON CALLER

For over 30 years PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT’s performances of songs such as Hey Rain!, Where the Cane Fires Burn, Beside a Railway Line, Ridin’ on the Fruit Train, The Monkeys Sing Soprano and When the Cooper’s Coming Down have been taken to Australia’s heart and are part of the Australian psyche.

MOON CALLER is their latest release and features son Jordy on drums along with old bandmate Jed Hudson on bass – creating a strong rhythmic feel on every track. The album features songs about people, climate, greed, the price of war, human achievement and human frailty, the lessons of history, bushrangers, growing up and growing older.

The moon is a strong symbol throughout this new album – with its focus on the mysteries and the tides of human life on this planet. MOON CALLER is their 17th album. Tracks: She’s Like A Tree, Aurelia, Four Horsemen, The Circle Game, Crazy Weather, O’Mara’s Front Verandah, The Goldfield, Wet Season Blues, Song Of The Artesian Water, Pte. Herbert Thomas Scard, Must Have Been The Moon, Armstrong, Goodbye To Your Schooldays, Peaceful, Storm King Jam.

MOON CALLER is available to order directly from Penny Davies and Roger Ilott at RESTLESS MUSIC.

Trio Yumuri – AZUCAR DE CUBA

Trio Yumuri
Evelio Morejon, Marialis Abreu Y Alonso Cobas

Trio Yumuri is from Matanzas Cuba. They perform nightly in Varadero at the Varadero Oasis 1920. The sound is typically Cuban with much jazz and arabic influences combining with their strong vocal harmonies. Trio Yumuni has released two CDs which are available directly from them by mail.

Led Ka’apana & Mike Kaawa – FORCES OF NATURE

An exciting LIVE recording by two of Hawaii’s strongest and most loved slack key players. There are 13 tunes on this new CD.

Julie Kerr – DEEPER STILL

Julie Kerr is an exciting songwriter and vocalist born and raised in Calgary. She is a member of Calgary’s hottest bluegrass band WIDOW MAKER and she was a member of the now defunct alternative bluegrass/country band Great Uncle Bull. Julie’s most recently has released her second album of 14 original tunes. The CD is DEEPER STILL and is all strong lyrics, combined with Kerr’s smooth and earthy voice that is built on a dramatic, emotional and musical landscape. Julie Kerr is spicy and sultry. She is poignant and powerful. Julie Kerr blends folk, bluegrass and country music to create her own unique feel.

Kimmie Rhodes – WALLS FALL DOWN

Al Warden – The VOICES CAME FROM BOSTON

The Voices Came From Boston is a brand new cowboy CD from Al Warden of the Bar Lazy W in Eastern Ontario. This collection of seven original songs is Al Warden’s first CD. All the songs are well crafted stories from the pen of Story Teller and Singer Al Warden. The songs all have a true cowboy feeling as well as some salt water reflecting Al’s “Maritime Period.