Roland Corrigal hopes the single is successful enough to release a second album. (submitted photo/Roland Corrigal)

By Derek Cornet

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Northern musician releases new single called Prairiedise

Apr 2, 2020 | 1:27 PM

Air Ronge’s Roland Corrigal is hopeful his new single Prairiedise released today will be picked up by stations and played on the radio.

“We released the song to iTunes today and it will out on Spotify this evening,” he said. “iTunes is a baseline for how many people were interested in it to begin with because that’s downloads. Within the first hour it was released, it debuted at 63. It will fluctuate. It might even fall off the chart, but debuting at 63 is big.”

The new single follows an album Corrigal released back in 2016 called Small Town Life and a second single that was released a couple of years ago. He mentioned the word Prairiedise is a play-on-words and the song is meant to resonate with those living in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Corrigal hopes there’s enough interest in the single to build off it and perhaps record a second album.

Development of the single began several years ago as it sat in his list of song ideas for some time. It wasn’t until the Canadian Country Music Awards weekend in Calgary last September when it finally began to come together.

“I was hanging out with some people who are in the industry, so it quickly got put together with the song writing, the studio, the art and everything… and it was all planned to be released at this time,” Corrigal said. “We couldn’t really predict what was going to be happening at the time too with the pandemic, but we still released it successfully.”

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Corrigal was originally supposed to perform the song at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards this month in Regina, but the event was cancelled due to COVID-19. Nevertheless, he noted because he lives in northern Saskatchewan, he’s used to releasing his music remotely.

“It’s kind of one of those things where I’ll just keeping doing what I’m doing and we’ll see what happens,” Corrigal said. “My last song I released two years ago didn’t even chart that high. We’re going to try and take that success into radio.”

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