The French Song

SONG CREDITS:
9 THE FRENCH SONG
Lucille Cunningham Starr Rise Music

ALBUM CREDITS:
Produced by Doug Cox

Recorded and Mixed by Bil VornDick
Assistant Engineering by Sam Ventura
Mountainside Audio Lab, Nashville, TN, November 2018
Mastered by Randy LeRoy, Tonal Park, LLC


MUSICIANS:
April Verch: Fiddle, Vocals, Foot Percussion
Al Perkins: Pedal Steel, Dobro, C6th Guitar
Ashby Frank: Harmony Vocals
Carmella Ramsey: Harmony Vocals
Jason Coleman: Piano
Joe Spivey: Fiddle
Kenny Sears: Fiddle
Lynn Williams: Drums
Mike Bub: Bass
Redd Volkaert: Guitars

ABOUT THE SONG:
This song has been in the peripherals of my life for as long as I can remember. From before I could even talk my parents would take us camping each year to the Lake Dore Country & Western Jamboree. If Lucille Starr wasn’t on the bill singing this hit herself, then some other artist was. Lucille was born in Manitoba and raised in a Francophone community in British Columbia. Lucille recorded “The French Song” in 1964 for A&M Records (Los Angeles, California) and its international success made her the first Canadian artist to have a record sell over a million copies. I was thrilled when we went to record this song to hear Redd Volkaert exclaim from his guitar booth, ‘“The French Song” by Lucille Starr? That was my first touring road gig!” Shivers.


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