In a departure from Rogers's earlier collections of typically original compositions on his own Fogarty's Cove label, this album features renditions of traditional Canadian folk songs as well as songs written by Rogers's uncle Lee Bushell and grandfather Sidney Bushell.

[3] It is a studio album, with backing performances by Garnet Rogers on fiddle, and bassist Jim Morison.

The album was recorded in October and November 1982[2] and was released only weeks after Stan Rogers perished in a fire on board an Air Canada flight in June 1983.

For this recording, Garnet created an arrangement of Charles Kingsley's poem Three Fishers which has since been taken into the repertoire of several other musicians.

[citation needed] He writes, "Stan brought this poem to rehearsal one day with the idea we could work it into an a-cappella tune.