Watch Gord Downie record the final track for his upcoming album
"This is my solo record. Each song is about a person." — Gord Downie
In anticipation of Gord Downie's new double album, Introduce Yerself, coming out Oct. 27, Arts & Crafts released a video documenting the creation of the album's closing song, "The North." The video gives an intimate look of Downie in studio, and a window into his creative process.
"A lot of these I wrote the words in advance," Downie says in the video. "Like poems. I'd get one or two a day and then I'd have to stop. Because that's about all … the soul or whatever, would give up. And then, so with music, it becomes pretty easy."
Watch the late Downie in studio while recording his newest, and final, album.
For a deep dive into Introduce Yerself, read "Decoding Gord Downie's final masterpiece."