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Music of the Prairies New album reflects Kaldor's western roots By Deborah Crandall But because the songs never seemed to qune tit the How of her prewous albums - One of These Days In '982, Moonlight Grocery In 1984. New Songs For tt Old Generation m 1986, Lullaby Berceuse In 1988, and Genre or Heart 1989 - most never made It to the As the old saying goes, You can take the gurl out of the (Name, but you cant ' or something like that, Conme Kaldor's latest recording is proof, Indeed. that you can t take the prarne out of a gurl from rural Saskatchewan. no matter where her successful career as a smger/songwnter takes her Wood River {Home Is Where the Heart Is) IS an album Kaldor has longed to put together for many years. At teast, most of the songs whoch appear on the album are kmiy nme favorites that she has wanted to record at one time or another PAGE it mm M; “my. recording stage. There's no denying Kaldor is a tout singer, but she approaches her music with versatility and innovation. As a result, her albums tend to be progressive and contempor- ary A prairie song stuck smack dab in the middte of a cotan of innovative, contemporary pieces just wouldo't work, so Kaidor saved her "special" prairie songs for her concert audiences, “I've thought about doing this project for years," Ketdor says of Wood River. “Some of these songs have been recorded before, but a lot of them just didn't tit into the kind of urban sound we'd be working on tor a particular record - songs have to kind of fit together, and these ones just didnt" Kaldor had pretty tell given up the idea of putting her praune songs Into one recorded package, when early last year she was given the opportunity to film a live-concert soecual, featuring all her prairie songs, for a Saskatche- wan TV station, And the talevosed concert (which also aired on the Giobal teievison network last summer), Kaldor thought, would be the perfect forum in which to record alive album oi the songs she's wanted to do for years. Unfortunately. because of an inept “monitor guy" who had feedback coming from the piano throughout the entire show, all but tour of the cuts had to be re-recorded in a studio. Wood River, released two months ago on Kaldor's own Coyote label. captures the warmth ol her live perfor- mances. despite the technical complications. Perhaps that's because the songs themselves are earthy and hearty and reflect a simple kind of dirt-under. thtrtittiNmails lifestyle'. "These are songs that I love. and which, especially when I'm playing in the prairies. really mean a lot at me. They have a real personal connection." Kaldor says. "I suppose all of my songs do, but these are about where I'm from." o-tsa-uh-a---, (Combusd on page Ito