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Row, Row Your Boat

from My Northwest Home by Wes Weddell

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I was approached mid-project by the UW Office of Undergraduate Education to compose a song for retiring Dean Fred Campbell. As I sat in a meeting with some of his close friends, family, and colleagues, I was struck by the extent to which Dean Campbell had touched these individuals’ lives—and the affectionate eloquence with which they were able to place these effects into words. The more I probed, the more I discovered that Dean Campbell’s life had the very elements of charm and intrigue that I was looking for in my project songs—heck, the man rowed himself to campus for years (on a boat named ‘The Undergraduate’)! Here indeed was a fascinating regional character right under my nose.

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from My Northwest Home, released December 8, 2001

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Wes Weddell Seattle, Washington

For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. "Always heartfelt and well-constructed" ("Seattle Weekly"), listeners have come to expect Weddell's songs to "speak for themselves" ("No Depression"). ... more

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