Alberta's Diamond Joe White was a bright light of Canadian Country music back in the 1970's and into the '80s. Playing clubs, halls and jamborees, he released a number of excellent, now out-of-print Juno-nominated LPs. As the vinyl age faded, White gave up performing and spent a decade supporting his family as a plumber.
Now, thanks to dobro-playing producer Doug Cox, White has returned with this fine effort, mixing re-recordings of such memorable songs as Freedom's Borderline and Ode to Wilf Carter with High Rider, a ballad about a black cowboy from Texas who became a pioneering Alberta rancher.

This 64-minute cd was recorded live in the studio, featuring White's reunited touring band from a decade ago along with Cox sitting in on the Dobro and White's wife, Penny supplying some really nice harmonies. Joe and Penny's duet vocals on Where's the Reason are a highlight of the album. White makes honest, authentic music."
from The Montreal Gazette Aug. 23rd , by Mike Regenstreif

"For 25 years Diamond Joe White has been the rough-hewn poet laureate of the oil rigs and rodeos of Southern Alberta. This Juno-nominated singer-songwriter who has toured with the likes of Merle Haggard and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils,recently put down his plumbing tools and picked up his guitar again in order to resume his career as a working man's troubadour. After getting his old band back together - and adding the tasty dobro licks of producer Doug Cox - he hit the studio with a fistful of new tunes and old classics.With a voice as gruff as campfire coffee and the heartfelt language of a cowboy poet, Diamond Joe dishes out a beguiling serving of earthy Canadiana: prairie gospel, blue collar stomp-alongs, poignant ballads. Whether singing about Louis Riel or reciting one of his "spoken word poems", this larger-than-life western Artist delivers the goods with Honestly - his unpasturized tales from the prairie and coastal heartlands are a welcome antidote to the big hair and bombast of Nashville's New Country."
From Victoria's Monday Magazine by Robert Moyes