Walk Me to the Corner, a solo recording from late Canadian actor Brent Carver, has been released posthumously.
Produced by Carver himself and orchestrated by his longtime friend and arranger Jim Pirie, the album was recorded by award-winning engineer Gary Gray.
"Brent worked on this album off and on for a decade, from about 2008 to 2019,鈥� says Gray in a statement. 鈥淗e was always a perfectionist, but more so with this project. We would record a song and a few months later he would want to rerecord it. This wasn鈥檛 a small project. Brent lavished huge amounts of talent, time, and money on it. He was doing this his way, unrestricted by the conventions of the commercial music industry.
"Then, one day Brent passed away," Gray continues. "Suddenly I realized I was the custodian of this decades-long, very personal project. I had the recording masters, the sheet music, everything."
Gray contacted Carver鈥檚 sister in British Columbia, and with the help of some of Carver鈥檚 friends, she secured music rights and clearances, finally making Carver鈥檚 longtime project a reality.
The complete track listing follows:
"The Falling In Love With You Part鈥� (Don and Jeff Breithaupt)
鈥淚鈥檒l Change鈥� (Brent Carver/Laura Burton)
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin鈥� Along)鈥� (Harry Woods)/"Great Expectations鈥� (Eric Carmen)
鈥淩unning Out of Heroes鈥� (Griffiths/Vickers)
鈥淎 Lover鈥檚 Concerto鈥� (J.S. Bach/D. Randell and S. Linzer)
鈥淒on鈥檛 Let Me See You Cry鈥� (Void Un Ami Pleura, Jacques Brel)
鈥淨ue Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)鈥� (Ray Evans/Jay Livingston)
鈥淐hanging the Guards鈥� (A.A. Milne)/"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich鈥� (lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, music by Burton Lane)
鈥淢y Land鈥� (Min Vlakke Land, Jacques Brell)
鈥淪i Les Bateaux鈥擨f All the Ships鈥� (Vent Qui Vire Editios: Gilles Vigneault)
鈥淭he World Is Changing鈥� (Leslie Arden)
鈥淭he Man Who Wrote Danny Boy鈥� (Joe Jackson)
Carver, a Tony-winning Broadway veteran whose credits include star turns in Parade and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died August 4, 2020; he was 68 years old. Read his obituary here.
Walk Me to the Corner is available online at and at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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