9/13/2008 9:39:19 AM
I must be dumb to think this guy has talent.

8/5/2008 6:21:42 PM
Way to "Gogh", Raymond Porter.

6/14/2008 8:06:27 PM
How faithfully do you check New Releases?

4/26/2008 5:39:18 PM
When you read blogs, do you skip the long-winded posts?

3/11/2008 7:51:48 PM
No I didn't watch the Idol show to see what it was like with Beatle songs.

9/13/2008 9:39:19 AM

I must be dumb to think this guy has talent.

I keep adding videos of songs by the late Stan Rogers, but nobody ever comments. One of the great folk songwriters of the last century, died young, never experienced the full recognition his varied repertoire deserved.

"God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold."


"> Barrett's Privateers

9/13/2008 3:19:27 PM

I LOVE it Kranky ! ... don't know how I missed the other post ??? ... must have been counting sheep or sumpin'

9/13/2008 3:23:37 PM

YES!!!!
That is the REAL deal!

thanks!

I have someone else to investigate now!

Doesn't it make you wish you had a room full of bards to hang out with?
Man....I'm tired of living in the desert.....

9/13/2008 5:13:13 PM

Sure looked like they were having fun.

Yes, I enjoyed that video. Very Canadian...........That music really grows on a person. Thanks for sharing.

9/13/2008 9:00:38 PM

Hey thanks Terry...

I'd forgotten about Stan Rogers to tell the truth, and I should be ashamed to admit it. He was wonderful.

I'd forgotten this great tune too..

They used to play him a lot on WPKN in Bridgeport and I remember when he died.

Wasn't it that weird plane fire in Cleveland or something like that?

Thanks again, I'll go looking for more too.

Glenn

PS.. if a post doesn't get commented on, it doesn't necessarily mean that nobody's interested. With all the political threads lately, stuff gets moved off of the front page pretty quickly. I'm glad you persisted.

9/13/2008 10:09:49 PM

It was Cincinnati as things turned out and it's no rumor that he died trying to save others. I remember interviews with fellow passengers who stated as much.
Stan Rogers on Wikipedia.

I also searched you tube for more and found several versions of Northwest Passage, which sent shivers up my spine again.. a beautiful song.

Thanks again Terry.

9/13/2008 11:05:58 PM

One last thing, lest it look like I'm boinking:

From "The Mary Ellen Carter":

Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

The sailor's tale at the beginning of that video is a reminder to us all that in the darkest hour, there's strength in song...

9/14/2008 6:45:42 AM

Well, you're certainly "boinkers!"

9/14/2008 6:45:42 AM

Well, you're certainly "boinkers!"

9/14/2008 7:36:47 AM

Sam, Scott, Deb, Glenn.

Thanks for responding. Glenn thanks for the extra info and Northwest Passage and Mary Elllen Carter were the other two Stan songs that I posted.

When I was a folkie our band "Fried Beast" used to play Mary Ellen Carter and Fogerty's Cove.

"> Fogerty's Cove

9/14/2008 7:41:34 AM

http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/index.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/

9/14/2008 9:18:36 AM

Divers and Kurt

Thanx for checking into my blog!

It's good to see Roger McGuinn in his current iteration, DD.

I noticed his interest in "roots" type folk. One of the things that first blew away about Stan Rogers was that his songs sounded like "East Coast" roots but were actually originals that he wrote himself.

He has a variety of other styles as well as the Celtic-based East Coast sound. Here's the official website where you can still order $6 VINYL Lp's as well as CD's and cassettes (!!!). The money goes to his widow Ariel.

Stan Site $6 LP

9/14/2008 10:58:29 AM

Never heard of him before, Krankydood, cool video, I enjoyed it.

Pass the goddamn rum when ya play that one!

Dan Zanes recently went through a sea shanty period - might still be in it for all I know. might be worth checkin' out if the sounds of the high sea lighten your load...

9/14/2008 11:09:30 AM

Like Sam, I somehow missed your earlier posting, Terry. I vaguely remember Stan Rogers (these days about the only Canadian import we get is Celine Dion- stop the madness!)

I have a bit of a fondness for sea shanties- the more un-P.C., the better. When you've been drinking, there's nothing better than to belt out a few choruses of "Friggin;' in the Riggin'" or "Barnacle Bill".

I hadn't heard "Barrett's Privateers", but I have heard "Northwest Passage", and Stan Rogers had a great way of using words, and he really had a talent for re-creating the maritimer song form (even though, according to his brother, he could get seasick walking across a wet lawn- no friend of the water). Besides, anyone with a music festival named after them, has to be pretty good.

9/14/2008 12:34:13 PM

Well, you're certainly "boinkers!"

9/14/2008 4:57:01 PM

Hugh and Steve thanks for checking in.

There's a lot more to Stan than sea shanties.

"> Oil Industry

9/15/2008 12:03:18 AM

Fantastic stuff Terry!

Thanks for opening me eyes wide!!!

9/15/2008 3:12:27 AM

Thanks, Terry, for the additional Stan tunage. I figured he had to have more to him than sea shanties (even Oscar Brand does other things). He had an almost Burl Ives quality to his voice (I mean that in a nice way). Not enough baritones around. It's a shame that he died so young.

9/15/2008 7:04:26 AM

Yes, I was just hearing the Burl Ives tone to his voice as well. Definitely a variety of "manly man" singing (lol)...keep it real and rock on...
H

9/15/2008 9:09:15 AM

"Yes, I was just hearing the Burl Ives tone to his voice as well."

I was talking to a musical buddy (from as far back as high school!) yesterday and related a story about Stan's voice.

He saw Stan playing on the waterfront in Toronto and swears that at about 150 feet from the stage he could hear Stan's voice from the stage rather than through the sound system.

Another great Canadian baritone from Crash Test Dummies -- remember this one ( one of my all-time favourites):

"> Superman

9/15/2008 9:40:02 AM

Stan Rogers is great, he sounds very traditional scottish.
I also love the "Crash Test Dummies"

Two excellant videos's Terry, thanks for posting.

9/15/2008 6:57:01 PM

Thanks for checking in to my blog Rob and Ray.

9/15/2008 9:09:36 PM

erm...

9/15/2008 9:15:23 PM

I respect all this hugely, but don't ask me what it is that makes my flesh crawl when I hear this sort of stuff. Maybe it's the note intervals in the melodies or something but I'd rather hear no music at all than this area of music. It's a bit like being able to hear the smell of rotten eggs for me.

I have no idea why because it's all music.

I have no way of explaining why it's actually repulsed by my brain.

As a kid, my mum took me to countless orchestral performances in London, from weird Bach organ stuff to light Handel to heavy Beethoven. And it paid off in a way. I can now see music as a load of shapes (best I could do as a kid, I suppose), almost like a 4 dimensional action graph :)

And I choose to make a giant racket rather than be a concert pianist - is there such a thing as a concert bassist? no there isn't. A concert drummer? well slightly but none of them can play drums properly. But I understand how music works and I'm thrilled to be taken on any musical journey - ie any track/song/symphony I haven't heard before.

Anyway the point was... I really wonder why this Gaelic music, as a complete whole, is like a foul sewer-smell to me. I can see no reason at all for that reaction - it's still just some notes.

I have partial synethsesia but it only works with certain smells being a mustard yellow, although mustard is horrible and I get not colour for it. It goes no further than that. So it it's not that unless it is. But ... no, that can't work, so forget it.

I have the same with Folk and Country & Western, but to a lesser degree - I could stay in a car with it for about half an hour before having to leap out, whatever speed we're going, and even if I'm driving - in the same way you'd tolerate 15 people all pulling on your hair and skin that long.

Why is this?

I demand a scientific grant immediately.

peter

9/15/2008 10:37:44 PM

It's alright Peter ... Nobody's perfect ... :)

9/15/2008 11:41:49 PM

Ah, that sounds patronising, so it does...

you bad man ;)

9/16/2008 4:14:33 AM ---- Updated 9/16/2008 4:15:07 AM

Personally, I'll take the Chieftains over the London Symphony Orch. any day.


And I really like both!

9/16/2008 6:03:06 AM

TV:

I get pretty bored with any style of music after twenty minutes to an hour max. I crave variety. (I guess you missed the parts where i emphasized that stan has a variety of styles and subject matter.)

But yeah, you're right, it is funny how some kinds of music really annoy "music lovers". These days I really appreciate the video because I will watch all kinds of music being played -- stuff i wouldn't close my eyes and listen to. I appreciate that little bit of mind-opening anyway.

But otherwise, sure, I'm just as prejudiced as anybody else -- my jazz has to be very accessible, but not "easy listening"; I'd have to be at an opera or orchestra in real life to enjoy that ( for twenty minutes to an hour); country & western must have no fake accent or pretensions to small town life; etc. etc. It's all bullshit really. If you don't like it, leave it alone. (No smiley face inserted)

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