In the lead up to the release of Gord Downie’s new double album, Introduce Yerself, check out the new video that documents the creation of the album’s closing song, “The North,” courtesy of directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicolas de Pencier. The video is an intimate look at Downie in studio during the album’s recording with producer Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin, and engineer Nyles Spencer at The Bathouse studio in Bath, Ontario. “A lot of these I wrote the words in advance,” Downie said of the album

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