GORDIE TENTREES
NEW RECORD RELEASE - DANDELION BLUE!!
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"That Tentrees prioritizes community, building bridges, and human connection in his music makes it that much more compelling. He uses his rural, multi-ethnic hometown as an entry point, a doorway, through which he not only brings folks into his own world, but brings his world to them, too."
Justin Hiltner, The Bluegrass Situation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 20, 2026
TORONTO ON -- Country blues has always been a major aspect of Gordie Tentrees' sound, and on his latest album Dandelion Blue, the acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Whitehorse, Yukon fully relies on it as the basis for 11 new songs that tell further stories about life in northern Canada. Dandelion Blue follows Tentrees' 2025 collaboration with Jaxon Haldane, Double Takes, which Americana UK described as “ten songs packed with melody, musicianship and morals.”
Tentrees made Dandelion Blue with two of the Canadian blues scene’s leading figures, Jimmy Bowskill and Steve Marriner at their idyllic Ontario farmhouse studio, Ganaraska Recording, with sessions completed over five days, live-off-the-floor, using vintage gear dating back to the 1930s. The album's latest focus track, "Ganaraska Gold," pays tribute to the experience, inviting listeners to join him and his collaborators in their intimate space.
Gordie says, “I felt ready to create a record with minimal overdubs that sounded like a couple of pickers on a front porch who the listener happens to stumble upon. I wrote to Jimmy and Steve and they both loved the idea, and their studio was absolutely perfect for capturing the kind of magic I was looking for."
After laying down an initial six songs in quick succession, with Gordie playing his National steel guitar as well as harmonica, and Jimmy and Steve accompanying him on drums and upright bass, all three could feel their shared chemistry jelling. The rest of Dandelion Blue was completed from there, and after a few mandolin and harmonica overdubs, the end result exceeded Gordie’s expectations.
“I am in a place where I now feel comfortable singing and playing guitar and harp all at once in a studio without overdubbing each,” Gordie says. “This is, to me, a unique sounding record—just three guys working together. It's important for me to try new things and I enjoy failing along the way, but I feel something special happened here.”
Although born and raised in Ontario, Gordie has spent most of his adult life with his own family in the Yukon where he’s also been deeply involved with local Indigenous communities. Still, for most of each year he tours the world, appearing at such prestigious events as Celtic Connections (UK), National Folk Festival (AU), Woody Guthrie Folk Fest (USA) and Auckland Folk Festival (NZ), while sharing stages with friends including Fred Eaglesmith, Mary Gauthier, Danny Michel, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steve Poltz.
A troubadour in the truest sense, Gordie Tentrees lives to share his music, and Dandelion Blue reveals a new facet of his talent, following in the spirit of Ry Cooder and John Hammond.
Gordie Tentrees is available for interviews and on-air appearances.
Written by Jason Schneider Media