The Rural Alberta Advantage

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Years Active
2005 – present (20 years)
Founded In
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta. View wiki
Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in … read more
Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed… read more

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Top Tracks

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1 Play track Hometowns Don't Haunt This Place
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 216 listeners
2 Play track The Wild Brother
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 119 listeners
3 Play track Hometowns Frank, AB
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4 Play track Hometowns In the Summertime
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5 Play track Hometowns The Ballad of The RAA
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6 Play track Hometowns Drain the Blood
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7 Play track The Wild White Lights
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8 Play track Hometowns The Dethbridge in Lethbridge
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9 Play track Mended With Gold Terrified
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10 Play track Hometowns Edmonton
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Albums

  1. 180,913 listeners

    11 Nov 2008 · 13 tracks

    Hometowns
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  2. 53,626 listeners

    28 Feb 2011 · 10 tracks

    Departing
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  3. 32,131 listeners

    12 Oct 2017 · 10 tracks

    The Wild
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  4. 31,302 listeners

    5 Sep 2014 · 12 tracks

    Mended With Gold
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