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"Crossing the Causeway" is the lead-off track on the Grievous Angels' second album, One Job Town. Released as a single, it garnered national radio airplay, but did not reach the RPM charts.
When my brother Tim introduced me to the music of the Grievous Angels, I was immediately drawn to it (even before realizing that Chuck Angus was the same guy who was in L'Etranger and that Lewis Melville was a common link to much of my favourite Canadian music of the period). When our near-annual treks to Newfoundland began in 1999, "Crossing the Causeway" became a staple of the road-trip soundtrack, always playing as we crossed the causeway onto and away from Cape Breton, so it isn't surprising that it made the 2011 Mar*Star list of great Canadian songs.
| Origin: | Toronto |
| Canadian Content: | Plenty, including places (Glace Bay, Ontario, Toronto, Etobicoke) and the experience of a Cape Bretoner displaced to Toronto |
| Release Date: | 1990 |
| Composer: | Chuck Angus |
| Album: | One Job Town |
| Style: | alt-country |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not place |
| Mar*Star 150: | 74 |
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