New Hampshire Folk Festival Tapes, 1976-1986

Omer Marcoux: Montaigne Reel; Reel de Campagne; Logger Breakdown; Reel Beatrice; Listen to the Mockingbird; Blue Waltz; Longchamp from Canada; Ruin Reel; Canadian Jig; Momeze Vous; Au Grande Cafe; Reel #2

Chris Morgan: The Curse of Drink; Morgan Magan; O’Carolan’s Concerto; Blackwaterside; Primrose Polka; Scottish Strathspey

Chris Morgan: Scottish strathspey (continued from previous tape); As the Sun Shone Brightly; The Court of King Caractacus; William Tell Overture; The Hartlepool Monkey

The Smith Family: Leftover Lovin’; Seven Bridges Road; My Style; Strollerman Blues; Rock, Salt & Nails; Country Girl With Stars in My Eyes; Lovesick Blues; Angel From My Montgomery; Lighter Shade of Blue; Reason To Believe; Sweet Thing

Cora Bardwell: John Hardhat

Cormac McCarthy: Pink Flamingo; Sleazy Bar; Make the Man; The Blue Mountains; Broke Again; Sometimes I Think I’m Home Again; Long Love Can’t You Save Me?

Schankopa Reel; Canadian Reel (White Poach); Broken Sword*; Dancing Bear*; Old Time Quadrille*; Ragmey (?) O’er the Dark; King’s Favorite; G Minor Reel; Cultivator’s Reel; Miss Ball; Earl of Mansfield; La Belle Catherine; Southern Polkas; Chickadee Polka*; McPherson’s Lament; Reels

*Written by Bob McQuillen

Allan Block & Nancy McDowell: Bonaparte’s Retreat; Red Mountain Wine; Barlow Knife; The Patteroller Song; The Florida Blues; Carroll County Blues; Foreign Lander (?); Indian Nation; I Can’t Feel At Home In This World Any More; Belehonte’s (?) Hornpipe; Black Mountain Rag

Sara Grey & Joan Sprung: Boatman's Reel ; ?; Rattle on the Stovepipe; Sweet Sunny South

Sara Grey & Joan Sprung: Rich Farmer; Spring Always Comes Again; Fair Maid Stranded; Mull of Kintyre

Purly Gates: Drunk on a Bottle of Booze; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Jean Harlow; Persian Rug; Bill Morgan and His Gals; Sunny Side of the Street; Shimmy Like My Sister Kate; Feeling Good

Purly Gates: Doing the New Lowdown; Lazybones; I Love You

Bill Morrissey: Newmarket; Marie Osmond; The Packard Company

Bill Staines: One Long Whistle; Old Jack; The Blackfly Song; Rooty Toot Toot For the Moon; Annie Drew; Crazy Leslie; Zane Grey; Haulin’ in the Wood; Brother Earl (Yodeling Song)

Bethlehem Sheiks: ?; Sales Tax Zoning; Just One Way to the Pearly Gates; ?; Ballbust Gel 99 (Woman You Love) (?); ?; Fiddling; Lakes of ? (Irish Ballad); NADA

Bill Morrissey: Newmarket; Marie Osmond; The Packard Company

Bill Staines: One Long Whistle; Old Jack; The Blackfly Song; Rooty Toot Toot For the Moon; Annie Drew; Crazy Leslie; Zane Grey; Haulin’ in the Wood; Brother Earl (Yodeling Song)

John Wardwell Blues Band: Sweet Chicago; I Love the Life I Live; I Gotta Find My Baby; I Got the Blues; It’s Gonna Be Your Funeral; I Love My Girl the Same; You Said You Love Me Now

Bob McCarthy Revival: Living Up On The Mountain; Medley; Need A Whole Lot More of Jesus; Undo For The Lord; Call on Jesus; Keep on the Sunny Side; On A Cloudy Day; Old Home; I Am A Pilgrim; We Shall Not Be Moved; Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Living Up On The Mountain

Purly Gates Band: We’ll Put On A harmony; Sugar Baby; Jean Harlow; Bill Morgan; Song To All You Vipers; Cruel Mother; Ticka Ticka Too; Banjo tunes; Cripple Creek; Black-Eyed Suzie; Doin’ the New Lowdown; Swinging On A Star

Taylor Whiteside & Sammie Haynes: You Don’t Have To Worry; When I Need You Most Of All; One Round Left For Me; Them Dance Hall Girls; A Waltz For You Again; Whippoorwill; Ghost Riders

Harvey Tolman & Jason Little: Medley of strathspeys and reels; Medley of jigs; Lament For Larry —?; Old Grey Cat; Medley of jigs

Kathy Lowe: Rustling of the Coals; Children’s Song; New Hampshire For Damn Sure; Country Gardens; Wedding Dress; ?; When I Come Back?; Swing and Turn Jubilee; Every Night When The Sun Goes Down; No name song; French song; Feeling Safe and Sound

John Perrault: Deer River Blues; Be Mindful of the River; Blues Harp solo; View From The Platform; Drifting in the Waters; New Hampshire; Fly Away; Trouble in Mind; Automobile Blues; Rosalie; Frankie and Johhny; ?

April Limber & Bob McQuillen: Scotty O’Neal; Irishmen's Heart to the Ladies; Jimmie Allen; Jig medley; Planxty To Your Own [Planxty Irwen?]; Patrick Street; Sheebeg Sheemore; Jig medley; Growling Old Man; Newly Wed; Star of Munster; Cary McLain

Silver Dollar String Band: Hail, hail, The Guys Are All Here; Robin; The Old Pine Tree; Sap Beer Song; Little Maggie; Little Red Schoolhouse; Russian Folk Tune; Salty Dog; Ain’t Coming Back

Bill Staines: Old Jack; Blues song; happy Yodel; Sweet Wyoming Home; Concerto in E; Handel Watyer Music; Haulin’ in the Wood; Yodeling Song; Only Remembered

Banzai Band: Mean Mistreated; Keep It Clean; Rollin’; ?; Little Queen of Spades; All By Myself; Statesboro Blues

Fleet Street Shuffle: Have Some Fun Tonight; Rough Riders; I Need Somebody; I’m Tired of Sneaking Around; Saturday Night Fish Fry; A Rainy Night; Funky Bohemia

Omer Marcoux: Au Grande Cafe; Rouen Reel; Star Waltz; Labrador Reel; Maman ?; French Reel; Reel Beatrice; Linda Reel

Bob McQuillen & April Limber: ?

Karen Kayen: Few Days; Johnson Boys; Lord Franklin; Groundhog Song; Woodsmoke and Wine; You Can’t Take Out ?; Blue Blaze Blind Drunk; Don’t You Waste My Time; Mother Earth

Cormac McCarthy: Madness in the Family; Lady’s Like Automatic; A Drift in the Mountain; Pink Flamingo; Uncle Mackie on the Beach; Blue Mountain; Sleazy Beer; Bad Company

Sharon Pyne & Kevin McElroy: Planxty Charles O’Connor; Lakes of Pontchartrain; Reel; Piper’s Chair Medley; Flute & bodhran; Hornpipes; Scottish air; Reels; Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore

Last Chance String Band: Chicken Reel; Milwaukee Blues; Leading The Right Life Now; Sugar Hill; Old Account; Sail Away Ladies; Liza Jane; Rocky Pallet; Saro Jane; East Tennessee Blues; Brother Ephus; Down the Road; Waterbound; John Henry; Just A Little More Time

Second Hand Rose: Ginseng Soldier; Road To ?; ?; Sweet and Slow; Miss Molly; Choo Choo Boogie; ?; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Shipwrecked Man; Luxury Liner; One Way Trip

Taylor Whiteside: Desert Pete; Dark Highway; The Bluebird; Hard Luck Blues; You Didn’t Have To Worry; The Hoodoo Men; Virtuoso-so-so; Way Out There; Whippoorwill

Purly Gates: Awful Lot of Coffee; Cheek to Cheek; Coasting Along; Oh Me Oh My; I Doodle Dare You; Staten Island; Soldier’s Joy; Tic a Tock O Tee; Song For All You Vipers; You Get What You Pay For

Bill Morrissey: Night Shift; Sweaty Woman; She Moves Through The Fair; Snow Outside The Mill; Stupid People; He Drinks Alone; I Want To Go To Art School; Lara Song; Rollin’ in My Sweet Babushka’s Arms; Small Town on the River

Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass Band: Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass: First Song; Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright; Don’t Know My Next Picture ?; With A Small Exception; Riding On The L & M; Rawhide; Doin’ My Time; Old Tennessee; The Bluebird is Singing; Wintery Feeling; Pick Away; Sitting On Top of the World; These Times

John Wardwell Blues Band: First Song; Be Satisfied; All By Myself; Shake Rattle’n’Roll; ?; Sweet Old Chicago; Memphis Blues; ?; Mojo Working

Pam Smith: Who’s Seducing Who?; Goin’ to Frisco; Knock on Wood; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Nothing Lasts Forever; To Gramps; Fever; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Nobody Loves You When You’re Down and Out

Click Horning: Further Down the Line; Wildflower?; The Mountain’s Pride; Mad Dog Song; Ageless Woodland Wonder; Railroad, Railroad; Rainmaker

Ed Gerhard: Crow; Medley; Nightbirds; Untitled; Medley; Untitled

John Wardwell Blues Band: Be Satisfied; Chicago; All By Myself; It Wasn’t Right; Check Out On My Baby; Wardwell Boogie

Bill Morrissey: Small Town on the River; It’s Dangerous Out There; Barstow; Morrissey Falls In Love At First Sight; ?; Petticoat Junction; Texas Blues; Swimming (?); Rosie

New England Tradition: Medley of 4 reels; waltzes by Sarah Bauhan; Three jigs by Ros M; Three Scottish waltzes; medley of reels

Cormac McCarthy: Madness in the Family; Another Year; French Western Song; Wop it (?); Friend of the Family; We’re Dumb and We Drink; Blue Mountains; Make It A New Start; A Drift in the Mountain; Pink Flamingo

Speed The Plough: ? (fiddle tunes); Jessie James/The Glendale Train; White Freightliner Blues (Townes Van Zandt); Temperance Reel and 3 others; We Shall Rise; Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette; Bill Cheetham; Fish and Whistle (John Prine); What Goes On (Lennon-McCartney); Whisky

Ed Gerhard: The Little Irishman; Going Home/Long John

Bill Staines: Talking about how he got started in music; his early influences; stage experience; songwriting; favorite song; being a sponge; yodelling; remember to change the mood; going blank; his worst concert experience; future for the music business

Mink Hill Band: Good Morning Country Rain; Hickory Wind; El Comencharo; Goodbye Marie; My Blue Tears; Instrumental; Johnson Boys; Bye Bye Love

Mitch Shuldman (tape unplayable): Take a —? Chance; Take A Woman Like You; Something Special; ?; ?; ?; Tango of Dreams

Blackwater String Band: Katie Donahue; I Want A Man; One For The Morning Glory; Instrumental; Sullivan’s John; Do You Want Your Old Lover?; Men Behind The Wire; Goin’ Back Where I Came From; Pop There Goes Boston; Dance tunes; Spiritual; Beale Street Blues

Poor Howard: Omaha; Jack’s Red Cheetah; St. Paul Woman; Chicken Cordon Blues; Elaine —?; St. Louis —; Draft Dodger Song; Charles Street Rag; John Dillinger; Bull Frog Blues; New Grape

Purly Gates: Things Are Going My Way; Fiddle Tune; Zippedy Doo Dah; Roses and Daffodils; Fiddle Medley; You Come Out of the Closet; Move Over To The Other Side; Barbed Wire; Fiddle Medley; Flea and Fly; Coffee; Don’t You Go Reaching

Pam Smith: Honeysuckle Rose; God Bless The Child; Love Slips Away; Hobo; Gramps; Lover Man, Where Can You Be?; Rock, Salt and Nails; Strollerman Blues; Leo Kottke Song; Gold Old Wagon

Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass: Opening Tune; Just Think I’ll Stay Around; Sweet Little Miss Blue Eye; Some Old Day; Instrumental; On and On; Darlene, Think Of What You Do; Live and Let Live; Life of a Railroad Man; Doin’ My Time; Listenin’ To The Rain; Mountain Railroad; Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright); Goodnight

R.P. Hale, Sylvia Miskoe & Justine Paul: Loggerman’s Breakdown; Snowflake Breakdown; Two jigs; Omer Marcoux medley

Paul Mangion: Still House; Bonnie James Campbell; The Old Hungry H— House; As Time Draws Near; Going Across The Mountain; Wild Bill Jones; Cooko Cooko; Morning Blues

Capt. Fiddle: Blues Come Around; Fiddle Medley; Been All Over This World; Medley; Over The Hill

Alouette Iselin: Healing Water; A Magic Song; Your Daughters, Your Sons; Alouette’s Waltz; The Haying Song; Midnight on the Water; The Tinkerman’s Daughters; The Friend You’ve Been

Karen Kayen: Two Hands; Jubilee; Saw You My Magic; Old Man Tenney; Handgun Song; Christie Warden (?); The Road Not Taken; A Nice Place; Working Girl Blues; Margaret’s Quilt

Click Horning: Copper Kettle; Good Man Blues; Venice is Sinking; Mad Dog; Guitar Store Dream; It Could Happen To You

John Perrault Band: Road Keeps A Rollin’; New Hampshire; Chocorua; Drifting On The Water; Mondale Song; Keep A Watch On the [Road]?; Sonny’s Back; Lucky Jim

Alouette Iselin: Black Jack Oak; Song For Pierre; For Real; Joke song: The Case For The Defense; Blacksmith’s Daughter; The Defense Department’s Fundraiser Song; Highway Hunter; I Had An Id; The Good in Living

Odds Bodkin: Ghost Town; When The Troubadour Comes Home; Three Little Pigs

Mark Hopkins & Jon Norling: White Mountain Home; Beach Song; You Never Knew Who; Frankie; Just A Boy; Empty Glass Blues; Mobile Home Song; Back to new England; Sarah; My Town

Joe Pomerleau, Milt Appleby and Friends: Bowing the Strings; Redwing; Mouth of the Tobique; Whiskey Witch; Montreal Reel; Cyclone Reel; Highway Reel; Dance Around Molly; Redwing; Waltz; Train Songs; Irish Washerwoman; Grey Eagle; St. Anne's Reel

Canterbury Orchestra: Mary Desrosiers intro; Farewell to Whiskey/Money Musk; Mutual Love, aka The Flight; Glenn Towle (written by Dudley Laufman); The Gentle Maiden; La Grandeuse; Coleraine Jig; Yellow-Haired Laddie; Prince William; Scotty O’Neal (written by Bob McQuillen)

Solomon’s Seal: Medley #1; Medley of Reels; Julia Grover; Medley; Farewell My Friends; All The Hay Was In; We L– Away (?); Medley

Harvey Reid: Suite in F; No Trouble a $ Won’t Cure; Cryin’ Shame; Political song; Greensleeves medley; Nobody Comes To Call; Dirty Dish Rag; Very Old Song

Susie Burke: Coal Mining Woman; I Wish You Were Here; Wheels; Color Song; Shelley’s Blues; Ballad of Penny Evans; We Are the Boat; A Chat With Your Mother; People Like You

Gary Hull: Howard Grades; Going To Heaven Song; She’s Nobody’s Fool; Anybody Can Write Rock’n’Roll; Love in our Lives; Grandfather Song; Frontal Lobotomy; Yodel Song; Oscar the Angel

T.J. Wheeler: Casey Jones; Smokers; Let Me Have Some Love; The ‘A’ Train; Save, Save, Save; Blues is a Healer

Odds Bodkin: Dream of Branwen; The Blossom Tree; Dragon Tails; Three Little Pigs

Crossbow: Love Come Home; Joe English; Fiddle tunes; The Battle of New Orleans; Fiddle tunes; Darlin’, I Don’t Mind; Fiddle tunes; Sitting On Top of the World; Sevilla Jones; Growling Bear

Susie Burke: Shelley’s Blues; Baby Needs A Parent; Love Comes To The Simple Heart; Deportee; Love Me Like Mad; White Collar Holler; Aint Life A Brook; Colour Song; A Chat With Your Mother; A Sailor’s Prayer

Taylor Whiteside: The Martin Grey; Roll Ocean Roll; The Blind Fiddler; To be Loved and Loved By You; Daddy, Don’t Let Go; If I Had The Wings of a Goose; Fiddle Medley; The Rattlin’ Bog; Mary Ellen Carter; I Do Believe

Joe Pomerleau, Milt Appleby and Friends: Susie tune; Grande Reel Canadienne; Crooked Stove Pipe; Golden Button Reel; La Bastringue; Irish Washerwoman/Laura Appleby/Irish Washerwoman; Casey Jones; Old 97; Redwing; Father’s Waltz; St. Anne’s Reel; Washington Lee Swing; The White Horseman; When They Ring The Golden Bells; Soldier’s Joy

Allan Block: Yellow Barber; Handsome Molly; Calico; Red Mountain Wine; Goin’ Round This World; No Bugs On Me; Wedding Dress; Big Sciota; John Henry; Going Back To Dixie; White Rose Waltz

Cosy Sheridan with guest Susie Burke: Maggie; The Mower; Mermaid Song; Love/Sex; Leaving His Love Behind; That’s What Little Kids Do; Wild Women; Nobody Home But Me; Murder Ballad; I Wish I Had Someone To Love; Lullaby; (with Susie Burke) Spring Roses/October Roses; Tell Me Why; Going Home To Caledonia

Cormac McCarthy: Mill Wheels Turn; Married Man; Friend of the Family; Cows; Barbecue; French Western Song; Nobody Loves Me Like You; When My Boat is Built Again

Boogaloo Swamis: Bosco Stomp; Cajun Two Step; Jole Blon; Sugar Bee; How Long; Diggi Diggi Lo; Port Arthur Waltz; Hound Dog Baby; Hot Tamale Baby; Built for Comfort; I Can’t Stop It; Back Door; Boogaloo Boogie; ‘Tit Fille; Zydeco Boogaloo