Star Trails

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Star Trails
Star Trails cover
Studio album by Spirit of the West
Released July 6, 2004
Recorded 2003-2004
Genre Folk rock
Length 43:56
Label MapleMusic Recordings
Producer Spirit of the West
Professional reviews
Spirit of the West chronology
Hit Parade
(1999)		 Star Trails
(2004)

Star Trails is a 2004 album by Spirit of the West. It was their first album of new material since Weights and Measures in 1997, and their first for independent label MapleMusic Recordings.

"July" was the album's first single, and the band's first significant radio hit since "Tell Me What I Think" (from the 1995 album Two Headed).

"Come Back Oscar" is a tribute to Calgary musician Oscar Lopez, a friend of the band's who had been absent from the folk festival circuit for several years due to a battle with depression. In what several music critics described as one of 2004's most thrilling moments in Canadian music, Lopez joined the band at the Calgary and Edmonton folk festivals in July to perform the song. According to one writer for the Calgary Sun, "if there was a dry eye in the house, it was glass."

"King of Scotland", the album's second single, is about Idi Amin, who once proclaimed himself king of Scotland after becoming infatuated with the country on a state visit to Great Britain.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by John Mann and Geoffrey Kelly.

  1. "Small, Small World" – 6:00
  2. "Waiting for Martin" – 6:27
  3. "Come Back Oscar" – 3:47
  4. "July" – 3:56
  5. "The Wedding Speech (Drink and Be Merry)" – 3:24
  6. "Out of the Boy" – 4:03
  7. "Be a Guy" – 4:36
  8. "Enough, Already Alright (Hello Cleveland)" – 4:29
  9. "King of Scotland" – 3:12
  10. "Morning in the Bath Abbey" – 3:56