Article: Musical ground well-covered by Sunshine Records.

Hailing from Fort Vermilion is 15-year old country / pop singer and guitarist Charlie Goertzen. Handful of Hope is his second album and first of original tunes. Goertzen's 1994 self-titled debut was a collection of covers (mostly Elvis, with some Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly) which peaked at number two on the Canadian Aboriginal Top 40 chart.

This 10-song album covers a lot of musical ground. Basically, it's country / pop, but thankfully, not of the current Nashville style. There's Holly-esque rockabilly in That's What John Said, a doff of the Stetson to Dwight Yoakum, Buck Owens and the Bakersfield sound in Indian Cowboy, and a couple of songs are reminiscent of ...

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