''Provincial Road 222'' is an EP by Canadian musician John K. Samson, released on September 21, 2010."John K. Samson Writes Song About Former Philadelphia Flyers Player Reggie Leach"
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, August 18, 2010. The second in a series of EPs thematically inspired by roads in Samson's home province of

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, the disc is named for

Manitoba Provincial Road 222 Provincial Road 222 (PR 222) is a provincial road in Manitoba, Canada. Essentially a northerly continuation of Highway 9, the road extends for 42.6 kilometres between the communities of Gimli and Riverton along the western shore of Lake Winnipe ...

, which links the towns of Gimli and Riverton. The song "Petition" recites the text of Samson's online petition to induct

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, a native of Riverton, into the

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. Samson formally presented the petition to the HHOF in 2013. The song "Stop Error" is set to the music of a chorale by

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. The song "The Last And" is set at Riverton Early Middle School, where a teacher ponders the disintegration of her affair with the principal. In some early live performances, Samson described "The Last And" as having been subconsciously inspired by the relationship between

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and

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on ''

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''.Performance in

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, November 15, 2009. The tracks were later re-recorded and released, along with those on ''

City Route 85 ''City Route 85'' is a solo EP by John K. Samson of The Weakerthans, released October 30, 2009 on Grand Hotel van Cleef in Europe, and November 3, 2009 on ANTI-/Epitaph in North America. Samson's first solo release since the EP '' Little Pictu ...

'', on Samson's solo album '' Provincial''.

Track listing

References

External links

''Provincial Road 222''
at

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