Nominated for a 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award, this is traditional string-band instrumentation, played heavy handed with power and passion. The 9 new songs maintain the frantic energy that Jack Pine and The Fire is known for while sinking deeper into steady new grooves. This is not your grandmother’s folk band.

Jack Pine and The Fire’s 2nd Full

Nominated for a 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award, this is traditional string-band instrumentation, played heavy handed with power and passion. The 9 new songs maintain the frantic energy that Jack Pine and The Fire is known for while sinking deeper into steady new grooves. This is not your grandmother’s folk band.

Jack Pine and The Fire’s 2nd Full length album, Left To Our Own Devices, was written at an island cabin built by Grandpappy Jack in remote Northern Ontario.

The isolation inherent to this wild and unique site inspired, Jack Pine [aka Singer-Songwriter-Producer, Gareth Auden-Hole] to write about loneliness, love, and longing. The contrast to Jack’s homelife in Capital City Ottawa also led him to appreciate a simpler approach to life, while celebrating a natural world that popular society so often neglects. Left To Our Own Devices is about relationships… To ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.

Jack Pine and the Fire is Gareth Auden-Hole [Jack Pine – Mandolin, Guitar, Voice], Martin Newman [Upright Bass], Mike Essoudry [ Drums], Stuart Rutherford [Dobro, Fiddle], Anders Drerup [Guitar, Pedal Steel]. Guest Musicians include Pat McLaughlin [Guitar, Tenor Guitar], Kelly Prescott [Vocals], Al Wood [Harmonica], and Chris MacLean [Vocals].

Left To Our Own Devices was written, produced Gareth Auden-Hole [aka Jack Pine], recorded in his mother’s lakeside log cottage in White Lake, Ontario. It was mixed at Gareth’s weeVOXsound Lab and Mastering to tape by Philip Shaw Bova. Emil Mateja created the original album artwork.

Jack Pine and The Fire's debut release hit the shelves in December 2011 with an official launch in January 2012. This self-titled album contains 9 songs for fearless wanderers, helpless wonderers, and broken hearted lovers.

Credits:

Gareth Auden-Hole - Mandolin, Guitars, Vocals Martin Newman - Bass Tim Watson - Drums, Percussion Anders Drerup -

Jack Pine and The Fire's debut release hit the shelves in December 2011 with an official launch in January 2012. This self-titled album contains 9 songs for fearless wanderers, helpless wonderers, and broken hearted lovers.

Credits:

Gareth Auden-Hole - Mandolin, Guitars, Vocals Martin Newman - Bass Tim Watson - Drums, Percussion Anders Drerup - Guitar, Pedal Steel, Vocals John Showman - Fiddle Andre Desroches - Guitar, Tenor Guitar Stuart Rutherford - Dobro Kelly Prescott - Vocals Paulie Roberto - Vocals Tara Porter - Vocals

All songs written, produced, and mixed by Gareth Auden-Hole
at his weeVOXsound Studio in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Copyright 2011 Gareth Auden-Hole (SOCAN) www.weevoxsound.com

Additional engineering by Tom Brown, Anders Drerup, and Tom Loguisto All songs arranged with the assistance of all performers

Mastering by Siegfried Meier at Beach Road Mastering

Logo, Design and Layout by Mykal Jinx Inside Photo by Nick Alpin

The recording of this album was funded with the help of the City of Ottawa.

Special Thanks to: The City of Ottawa, Anders Drerup, Andre Desroches, Andrea Simms-Karp, Andrija McVicar, Arthur McGregor, Chris Landry, Garrett Verge, JP Davidson, Lisa Poushinsky, Little Richard, Martain Pearson, Mykal Jinx, Nick Alpin, Randall, Tracy, Kelly, Kaylen, and everyone at Lakeside Studio, Tara Porter, Tom Brown, Mom, Dad, my ever growing family, and everyone who has ever loved and supported my music. Much Love.