written & recorded by Elizabeth Cotton


https://youtu.be/CpbPk55rnBM

I remember this tune from when I was young, It was always a tune folks wanted to be able to pick and so it was with me. Unlike Elizabeth Cotten, I'm unable to finger-pick so the way it comes out in this cover is radically different then you hear from her but then I'm no great guitar player. Still, I think This tune...

written and recorded by The Brothers In Law

https://youtu.be/QFKX5pC6Qls


I came across this song when perusing my father's record collection, when I was just a boy. The weird thing is that my father was anything but a folk song fan. He was a hard core conservative character but in amongst his Johnny Cash records was a Centennial album by a group called 'The Brother's In Law'. One of the...

written and recorded by Stan Rogers
https://youtu.be/6PWry9S-qH4


Here is a folk song written and recorded by the Canadian folk legend Stan Rogers. 'The Field Behind The Plow' is a song that comes as close as I believe is possible to describing what farm life is all about. Farming isn't a lonely existence and the banker isn't always at the door, nor are farmers holding hoe-downs and barn dances...

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recorded by The New Lost City Ramblers
https://youtu.be/si62_a8Fo5U


I do all of these covers, in part, for the fun of it but my real reason is to expose other amateur entertainers like me to as many different kinds of great music as I can. By doing this I hope to encourage folks to learn more songs and try out different styles of music as well. The more musicians that there...

written and recorded by Stan Rogers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf0Tm3gvehc


Here is a great piece of Canadian folk music written and recorded by one of the greatest Canadian folk singers ever to live, Stan Rogers.
'The Mary Ellen Carter', released in 1979, tells the story of the heroic efforts of a crew to raise their sunken ship. So inspiring is the song that it is credited...