Claudia Gibson – “The Fields of Chazy”
Americana Highways presents this premiere of Claudia Gibson’s song “The Fields of Chazy,” the title track from her forthcoming album produced by Walt Wilkins and Ron Flynt. The Fields of Chazy was recorded and mixed by Ron Flynt at Jumping Dog Studio in Austin, and mastered by Jerry Tubb.
Musicians on the song are Claudia Gibson on acoustic guitars and lead vocals; Chris Beall on electric guitars; Rich Brotherton on acoustic and tenor guitars, mandolins, and cittern; John Chipman on drums and percussion; Bart de Win on accordion; Mark Epstein on electric and acoustic bass; Ron Flynt on bass, piano, and organ; Warren Hood on fiddle; Geoff Queen on pedal steel guitar; Ray Rodriguez on cajon and percussion; Tina Mitchell Wilkins on harmonies; and Walt Wilkins on harmonies and percussion.
Claudia’s honeyed vocals tell the tale of her grandfather as a young man, characterizing him and adding bits and images until he feels like someone we know.
My paternal grandfather Joseph Thibodeau was born in 1881 in Chazy, NY, a tiny North Country hamlet on the shores of Lake Champlain. When he was 33, Joe lost his first wife Albina and spent the next ten years working farms and planting apple trees before marrying my grandmother. In the summer of 2016, I traveled to Chazy for the first time and was astounded to come across the apple trees my Grandpa Thibodeau planted, nearly 100 years later. My primary memory of my grandfather was of him playing old time Acadian songs on the accordion in his upstate NY kitchen while I danced. – Claudia Gibson
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