Cabin Fever is a blend of folk-rock with blues and country roots, layered with the Echo Hunters’ signature dynamic vocal harmonies and deep soul grooves. The album starts off with the haunting Walking Home , setting the tone for a collection of songs that explore the darker sides of life, love, and the world in which we live. Songs like Bloody Big World – a look at war, environmental degradation, and the chaos around us – and the sombre Going Down, an eerily haunting ballad. But it’s not all doom and gloom. There are upbeats moments, with songs like Ain’t life sweet, from Canadian folk legend Penny Lang, and the up-tempo country ditty Chester. The band also recorded a french song for the first time, covering O Marie, by world-renowned Daniel Lanois. The love them is also well represented, with the bluesy track In My Dreams.

Musicalement, ”Cabin Fever” est un mélange de folk-rock, teinté de roots country et blues, avec toujours les incomparables harmonies vocales, qui sont la marque de fabrique du groupe. L’album porte bien son nom, puisqu’il a été enregistré dans une cabane du Camp Kinkora, à St-Adolphe-de-Howard. Il commence avec le titre Walking Home, qui donne le ton un peu obscur de l’album, que l’on retrouve dans plusieurs chansons, dont Bloody Big World, un regard sur la guerre, la dégradation de l’environnement, et le chaos du monde, qui est traité aussi dans We Are We et Going Down. Mais l’album comprend aussi des plages de clarté, avec des chansons comme Ain’t Life Sweet, une reprise de la légende vivante du folk canadien Penny Lang, ou la chanson d’amour In my dreams, ou encore Chester, au tempo balancé et entraînant. Le groupe a aussi enregistré pour la première fois une chanson en français, en reprenant O Marie de Daniel Lanois, auteur et producteur canadien de renommée internationale.

Tracklist | Sur le disque

1. Walking Home
2. Crumbling Into Rust
3. Chester
4. O Marie
5. We Are We
6. Ain’t Life Sweet
7. Take Me In
8. In My Dreams
9. Bloody Big World
10. Second Chance
11. Going Down
12. Been Thinking About You

Lyrics | Paroles

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Pressclips | Coupures de presse

”Like the best southern barbecue, the best music often benefits from long, slow cooking….But follow up (20 Years) it has at last, with Cabin Fever, a collection of masterful folk-country-blues originals…its shows have become the stuff of legend. Cabin Fever has already scored major rave reviews and lots of airplay on roots music and college radio.” Greg Quill, Toronto Star

”…dark, edgy songs about alienation and looming environmental disaster …Even good old reliable love’s gone south …Then the sun breaks through as the band launches into a tune like the terrific, harmony-rich, seven-minute cover of Penny Lang’s Ain’t Life Sweet and, for a while anyway, all is good.” Patrick Langston, Ottawa Citizen

“It took these crazy folk-rockers two decades to come up with their debut recording so let’s be thankful that the Echo Hunters took only 4 years to produce a follow-up. Their brand-new disc, Cabin Fever, proves the wait worthwhile…” Bernie Perusse, Montreal Gazettte

“The Echos Hunters’ folk-rock is reminiscent of Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, America, and Loggins and Messina….”Cabin Fever” is a well-crafted, thoughtful and thought provoking album…you will find yourself listening to it again and again. It’s the kind of music that stands the test of time…” David Bush, The Eastern Door, Kahnawake weekly

“Montreal’s popular Echo Hunters has released a haunting sophomore album bridging folk, rock, country, Celtic and acoustic blues. Cabin Fever features a collection of dark laments to a world going to you know where in a hand basket, leavened with a couple of brighter songs to ward off thoughts of depression or nihilism.” Robert Reid, Kitchener-Waterloo Record

“confidently performed songs with engaging arrangements and tight harmonies…” Martin Siberok, HOUR Montreal

“Their music is marked by their 40-year plus perspective; zones of dark and light , reflections on war and the environment; their way of playing with folk by continually invoking yet revoking it, extracting all of an atmosphere’s possibilities, developing arrangements from progressive to pop-rock, adding harmonica, resonator guitar, fiddle, leaving room for langourous textures, (it is) gently rhythmical, whether country, bluesy or simply roots….What stands out are the voices, whether in harmony or unison. They’re deeply felt” Yves Bernard, Le Devoir

2011: Dreams and daring, with moments of defiance and discovery

By T’Cha Dunlevy, Kathryn Greenaway, Bill Brownstein, Arthur Kaptainis, Bernard Perusse, Jordan Zivitz, Pat Donnelly, Brendan Kelly, Jeff Heinrich, Victor Swoboda and John Pohl, The Gazette December 23, 2011 7:06 PM

Dylan bash turns into 7-hour marathon
It was the best birthday party I attended all year– even if the guest of honour was never expected to show.
Bob Dylan turned 70 on May 24 and the Petit Campus was packed to what seemed like double its capacity for a celebratory bash (Dylan obsessives would call it a million-dollar one). Montreal musicians of all shapes, sizes and styles turned up to play favourites from the formidable Dylan catalogue in what turned out to be a seven-hour marathon.
Organized by broadcaster and Dylan fanatic Mitch Melnick, with his friend and business partner Lloyd Fischler, the event was as joyous as they come. The Echo Hunters, Craig Morrison, the Steamfitters, Matt Large and the Smalls, the Bones Malones, Rob Lutes, Felicity Hamer and the Shane Murphy Band were among the homegrown performers who showed up to sing Dylan songs, both comfortably well-worn and ticklingly obscure.
The audience, wildly enthusiastic with just the right pinch of rowdiness, was an all-age group of fans, seemingly from every walk of life, united only in their devotion to His Bobness. As the mini-sets piled up, next-day breakfast meetings and term papers were ignored, to be worried about only when the alarm went off in a few hours.
When the Jimmyriggers and Lee Mellor performed Chimes of Freedom, a group of friends and I raised another pint and sang along with gusto. It was the moment I had hoped for – a reminder of music’s deep, communal spell. And the fact that the night was being driven by such a life-changing body of work allowed elation to cross the line into magic.
Bernard Perusse

Sometimes the finger-picked guitar riffs sound Central Asian, and there’s a general sweetness to their sound. Flute, mandolin, piano, fiddle, and percussion all enrich the mix, and the melodies really sing. The Scotsman Michael Church (June 15, 2009)

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A quote from Cindy Cantelon, owner of the  Copper Sky Café in Madeira Park where they played :
‘The Echo Hunters were wonderful! Thanks for the opportunity to host such quality musicians!’

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The Echo Hunters ont sorti leur deuxième album Cabin Fever en début novembre! Cabin Fever, qui fait suite au premier album du groupe, sorti en 2003 Twenty Years, est l’oeuvre du travail collectif des amis de longue date Larry Cassini, GordonFleming, Kirk Fontaine, et du percussionniste Rob Couture, avec à la basse et les nouveaux venus Sylvain Dancausse, au violon et le jeune bassiste-chanteur Ben Griffin, et Alan Springer à la guitare “résonateur”.