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Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter, one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager Eaglesmith hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and performing. He is known for writing songs about machines or vehicles, including songs about trains, tractors, trucks, cars, and engines. Rural life, dogs, guns, drinking and farming/ranching are other common themes. Many of his songs are about failing farms and small businesses. Down and out characters dealing with loss of love or livelihood, and quirky rural folk also populate his songs. His songwriting uses many of the techniques of short story writing, including unreliable narrators, surprise endings, and plot twists.
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105 | Unknown Album | |
18 Wheels | Unknown Album | |
49 Tons | Unknown Album | |
6 Volts | Unknown Album | 2:24 |
Alcohol And Pills | Unknown Album | |
Alternator | Unknown Album | |
Angel Of The Lord | Unknown Album | 3:38 |
Been a Long Time | Unknown Album | |
Bell | Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline | 2:55 |
Bell | Unknown Album | |
Betty | Unknown Album | 2:18 |
Betty Oshawa | Unknown Album | 3:34 |
Big Hair | Unknown Album | |
Blue Tick Hound | Unknown Album | 3:05 |
Brand New Boy | Unknown Album | |
Bullets | 50 Odd Dollars 1999 | 5:29 |
Car | Unknown Album | 5:31 |
Careless | Unknown Album | 3:06 |
Carmelita | Unknown Album | |
Carne Del Toro | Unknown Album | 3:29 |
Carter | Unknown Album | |
Cemetary Road | Unknown Album | 2:17 |
Chain Gang | Unknown Album | 2:38 |
Cigarette Machine | Unknown Album | 4:32 |
Codeine | Unknown Album | 5:03 |
Cold War | Unknown Album | |
Crashin' & Burnin' | Unknown Album | |
Crazier | Unknown Album | |
Crowds | Unknown Album | |
Cryin' Yet | Unknown Album | |
Cumberland County | Unknown Album | |
Dancin on the Bar | Unknown Album | 4:13 |
Dangerous | Unknown Album | 3:10 |
Do You Love Me Now | Unknown Album | |
Don't You Try to Change My Mind | Unknown Album | 2:27 |
Drinking Too Much | Unknown Album | 3:56 |
Drive-in Movie | Unknown Album | |
Drunk Girl | Unknown Album | 3:09 |
Dusty | Unknown Album | 4:44 |
Dynamite And Whiskey | Unknown Album | 3:37 |
Fancy God | Unknown Album | 1:01 |
Freight Train | Unknown Album | |
Get on Your Knees | Unknown Album | 5:30 |
Gettin' to Me | Unknown Album | 2:34 |
Go Out and Plough | Unknown Album | |
Gone Too Long | Unknown Album | 3:00 |
Good Enough | Unknown Album | |
Harlod Wilson | Unknown Album | |
Here's the Keys | Unknown Album | 3:01 |
Hey Baby | Unknown Album | 3:12 |
I 75 | Unknown Album | |
I Ain't Ever Givin' In | Unknown Album | |
I Like Trains | Unknown Album | |
I Pray Now | Unknown Album | 1:53 |
I Wanna Buy Your Truck | Unknown Album | |
I Would | Unknown Album | 3:40 |
Indian Motorcycles | Unknown Album | 2:18 |
Indiana Road | Unknown Album | |
Jericho | Unknown Album | |
Joe | Unknown Album | |
Johnny Cash | Unknown Album | 3:21 |
Kansas | Unknown Album | 3:44 |
Katie | Unknown Album | 3:42 |
Killing Me | Unknown Album | 2:58 |
Killing Me II | Unknown Album | 3:21 |
Last Six Dollars | Unknown Album | 5:05 |
Mighty Big Car | Unknown Album | |
Milly's Cafe | Unknown Album | 5:28 |
Nobody's Friend | Unknown Album | 1:55 |
Old Coach Driver | Unknown Album | 3:34 |
Ordinary Guy | Unknown Album | 3:14 |
Pontiac | Unknown Album | 4:49 |
Pretty Girl | Unknown Album | 2:23 |
Quietly | Unknown Album | 3:09 |
Rainbow | Unknown Album | |
Rebecca Street | Unknown Album | 2:38 |
Reprise | Unknown Album | 1:13 |
Rev It Up | Unknown Album | |
Rocky | Unknown Album | 6:01 |
Rodeo Boy | Unknown Album | |
Rodeo Rose | Unknown Album | |
Rough Edges | Unknown Album | |
Rough Edges Reprise | Unknown Album | 1:10 |
Seven Shells | Unknown Album | |
Seven Shells (Crash) | Unknown Album | |
Shallow | Unknown Album | 4:06 |
Sharecroppin' | Unknown Album | |
Ship | Unknown Album | |
Shoeshine | Unknown Album | |
Shoulder to the Plow | Unknown Album | 2:14 |
Silhouettes | Unknown Album | 3:40 |
Sliver Of The Moon | Unknown Album | 3:11 |
Soda Machine | Unknown Album | |
Soft on My Shoulder | Unknown Album | |
Spookin' the Horses | Unknown Album | |
Stand | Unknown Album | 3:14 |
Stars | Unknown Album | 3:16 |
Steel Guitar | Unknown Album | |
Sugarcane | Unknown Album | 2:57 |
Summer Is Over | Unknown Album | 2:36 |
Summerlea | Unknown Album | |
Sunflowers | Unknown Album | |
Sweaburg General Store | Unknown Album | |
Sweet Corn | Unknown Album | 2:59 |
Take Your Things | Unknown Album | 4:40 |
Tell the Engineer | Unknown Album | |
Ten Ton Chain | Unknown Album | 3:23 |
The Highway Callin' | Unknown Album | 1:23 |
The Light Brigade | Unknown Album | |
Things Is Changin' | Unknown Album | 3:06 |
Thinkin' 'Bout You | Broken Bridges 2006 | 3:19 |
Thinkin' Bout Her | Unknown Album | |
Thinking | Unknown Album | |
Thinking About You | Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline 1997 | 3:16 |
Thirty Years of Farming | Unknown Album | |
Time To Get A Gun | Unknown Album | |
Tinderbox | Unknown Album | |
Tired | Unknown Album | |
Tricks | Unknown Album | |
Trucker Speed | Unknown Album | 5:11 |
Tunnel | Unknown Album | |
Water In The Fuel | Unknown Album | 5:21 |
Wheels | Unknown Album | 2:36 |
When | Unknown Album | |
Whichita | Unknown Album | |
White Ash & Black Ash | Unknown Album | 3:42 |
White Rose | Unknown Album | |
White Trash | Unknown Album | |
Wilder Than Her | Unknown Album | |
Worked Up Field | Unknown Album | 2:07 |
Yellow Barley Straw | Unknown Album | 1:30 |
You Can't Trust Them | Unknown Album | 3:39 |
Your Sister Cried | Unknown Album |
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