Album Notes

Internationally renowned Yukon artist Gordie Tentrees is coming for your town next. This captivating multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer is fully armed with his searing solo show or equipped with his exciting new outfit Lonesome Buckaroo, poised to bust up the folk music world featuring Ken Hermanson (guitar, banjo, lapsteel), Aiden Tentrees (upright bass, trumpet) and Patrick Hamilton (drums, banjo), blessed with roots infused swamp boogie folk explosions resonating tornado yelps of RL Burnside, The Sadies and Greg Brown.
He has released 3 albums, the most recent " Mercy or Sin" produced by Juno Winner Bob Hamilton, was nominated for a 2010 Western Canadian Music Award for 'Roots Solo Album of the Year". The title track was also a finalist out of 15 000 entries in the 2010 International Songwriting Competition. Judges included Tom Waits, Loretta Lynn and Jerry Lee Lewis. He performed at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for the New Songs New Voices concert selected as the best of Canada’s songwriters to perform during the games. He was also selected by CBC Radio's 2009 Song Quest as one of Canada’s top songwriters and hosted the prestigous SOCAN songwriters circle at the 2009 WCMA's.
He has toured with Fred Eaglesmith, Kelly Joe Phelps, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. He will be performing 200 concerts in Canada, US, Europe, UK and Scandinavia in 2011 while entering the studio to record his 4th album. A live solo album "Naked in Scandinavia"will also be released in 2011.

"Tentrees is so relaxed and unpretentious it's impossible to not get dragged into his world" NO DEPRESSION

" In the rough cut vein of Fred Eaglesmith or Kelly Joe Phelps, Tentrees is gifted" GLOBE & MAIL

"He has an intense ability to capture the human condition with writing and performing that oozes truthiness" AMERICANA MUSIC TIMES


Mercy or Sin is the much-anticipated follow up to critically-acclaimed Bottleneck to Wire (2007) and 29 Loads of Freight (2004). This album finally captures the bands dynamic live show and unique growth of songwriter Gordie Tentrees. There are 12 tracks delivering story-driven songs, edgy foot-stompers and heart-worn odes that can only be cultivated by a road warrior.