Rita MacNeil - Working Man: The Best of Rita MacNeil [1997]

Rita MacNeil's recordings do not easily fit predetermined radio play categories; they range from gospel and country to adult contemporary. Her persona as one who overcomes obstacles (cleft palate, poverty, weight problems, shyness) has built loyal audiences.


Track Listings
01. Working Man
02. Shining Strong
03. Moment In Time
04. I'll Accept The Rose
05. Lupins
06. Flying On Your Own
07. Broken Heartstrings
08. Home I'll Be
09. Leave Her Memory
10. Bring It To Me
11. Crossing
12. Reason To Believe
13. Thinking Of You
14. I Need To Feel Close Agai
15. Old Man
16. Reach The Sky Tonight
17. Good Friends
18. She's Called Nova Scotia
19. Bring It On Home To Me





Rita MacNeil is a Canadian cultural figure of some note, a woman born in the Atlantic Canadian province of Nova Scotia, who achieved significant chart success in the 1980s and 1990s as a middle-of-the-road country-folk singer, not only in Canada but internationally: she had three albums at once on the Australian charts, even a #11 on the British charts in 1990 for "Working Man."


It’s a working man l am
And I’ve been down under ground
And I swear to God if l ever see the sun
Or for any length of time
I can hold it in my mind
I never again will go down under ground

At the age of sixteen years
Oh he quarrels with his peers
Who vowed they’d never see another one
In the dark recess of the mines
Where you age before your time
And the coal dust lies heavy on your lungs