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JAGGER Paddles the Nahanni River “NAHANNI SONG” hasn’t been on any Rolling Stones’ set lists yet
WITH THE RECENT RELEASE of “Nahanni Song” credited to a certain British song- writer by the name of Jagger, it’s no lon- ger a secret that a big-name British rock- er paddled the northern river in 2005. Tat summer, the Rolling Stones were
in Toronto rehearsing for their upcom- ing North American tour. Late in the summer, the 59-year-old vocalist Jagger covertly jetted to the Northwest Terri- tories for a week-long trip on Canada’s most famous canoeing river. Starstruck guides schooled the aging
rocker in river safety and bear protocol before escorting him down the South Nahanni. “I decided it was about time to visit
Canada—the real Canada, not the cit- ies but the wide open country of lakes, mountains and rivers,” said Jagger, whose father wrote books about ca- noeing and nearly raced at the 1948 Olympics. Jagger was so inspired by the Cana-
dian wilderness that he penned a song about the river. A lucky audience got a sneak preview of “Nahanni Song” when Jagger dropped in for a post-trip jam at Yellowknife’s storied Wildcat Café. Te lyrics (Beautiful river/Running
so free/But it’s goodbye/To the Nahan- ni) combine Jagger’s post-trip melan- choly with his fear for the river’s future. “Te song came along when I was at the landing after the trip was all but over… I guess it’s an offering,” Jagger says of the song. Te lyrics provide a rare glimpse at
the nature-lover behind Chris Jagger’s public persona as lead vocalist, guitarist and occasional washboard player for the zydeco-funk band Atcha! You can hear “Nahanni Song” as a bo-
nus track on import copies of Atcha!’s latest album,Act of Faith, alongside a rare duet with Jagger’s older brother, Mick, who also visited Canada in 2005 and is a successful musician in his own right—al-
WHEN YOU NEED ONE? ILLUSTRATION: LORENZO DEL-BIANCO
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beit a less accomplished paddler. Download “Nahanni Song” and read
Chris’ trip journal at
www.chrisjag-
geronline.com. — Tim Shuff
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