written and recorded by Stan Rogers
https://youtu.be/fF-XQ69Heqk


Many years back I joined a local jam group called the Westman Jams. I quickly found that most of the musicians there tended to play Traditional Country Standards and there was precious few songs performed there that I wasn't familiar with. So I decided to make a point of finding stuff, on the net, that I had never heard and found...

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...

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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvRFSNtvnc

Stan Rogers was a Canadien Folk artist that wrote many very fine songs like this one. 'The North-west Passage' was a quest that was in many ways fruitless and costly in both lives and resorces, but it resulted in the mapping of vast tracts of Canada through the arctic, prairies and mountans. Please take the time to listen to this cover and you will see why Stan was so beloved by many folk music fans durring his all too short career.