Elk-Lake Serenade is the sixth full-length release by Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden

Hayden (musician)

Paul Hayden Desser who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.His early works are a largely eclectic mix of genres from grunge rock to alt country, as demonstrated by his first full album, Everything I Long For, released in 1995. Since then his work has become...

. It was released on 18 May 2004 in Canada (on Hayden's own record label, Hardwood Records

Hardwood Records

Hardwood Records is a Canadian independent record label, owned and operated by singer-songwriter Hayden. Originally formed to distribute his own albums, the label also currently releases albums by Cuff the Duke and Basia Bulat....

) and in the U.S.A. (on the Badman Recording Co.

Badman Recording Co.

Badman Recording Co. is an independent label and production company located in Portland, Oregon. Badman is home to releases by artists like the innocence mission, My Morning Jacket, Mark Kozelek and Starf*cker...

). It was released two months later in the U.K. on Loose Music

Loose Music

Loose Music is a British independent record label based in Acton, London, specialising in in Americana and Alt. Country.-Artists:Since 1998, Loose has released music by the following artists: Giant Sand, M Ward, The Arlenes, Inara George, Neko Case, Blanche, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Handsome...

, and in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 on Spunk Records.

Elk Lake is a community in Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron , the French River and Lake Nipissing. The region has a land area of 802,000 km2 and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it contains only about 6% of the population...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Hayden Desser.

1. "Wide Eyes" – 2:12
2. "Home by Saturday" – 3:19
3. "Woody" – 1:53
4. "This Summer" – 2:56
5. "Hollywood Ending" – 2:55
6. "Robbed Blind" – 2:17
7. "Killbear" – 3:34
8. "Through the Rads" – 1:19
9. "Starting Over" – 2:31
10. "Don't Get Down" – 3:19
11. "Roll Down That Wave" – 1:38
12. "My Wife" – 3:02
13. "1939" – 4:45
14. "Elk-Lake Serenade" – 1:01
15. "Looking Back to Me" – 5:21
16. hidden track – 4:19 (begins approx. 2:14 after "Looking Back to Me")