Alberta Slim with Evan Kemp & the Trail Riders – "Brother, You're Not Dead" (1956)

Canadian country. This is a 1953 recording that Sparton reissued in 1956. Billboard ran a brief item on Slim in the Mar. 2, 1957 issue: "Canada's Alberta Slim has purchased an auto court just outside of New Westminster, B.C. Slim's latest on the Sparton label are 'Leave Me Alone and Let Me Be' b.w. 'Brother, You're Not Dead' and 'The Laughing Horse' b.w. 'Hold What You Got, Boys (And Don't Let Her Go).'"
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In this Video Artist(s) Evan Kemp and The Trail Riders
Posted: Dec. 25, 2025
Filmed: Jan. 1, 1956

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