[guitarman2]

So forgive me for my ignorance if this is someone I should know but can someone enlighten me on this musician.
I'll be vacationing in P.E.I in July with my wife, daughter and 7 year old grand daughter. My daughter wants me to get tickets to Stan Rogers while we're there.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Might be difficult. He passed away in 1983. I'd love to see him too,

 

[Blind Dog]

Here I sit ... in my 59th year ...

Kinda bittersweet eh Mr. Brown. Nice to know young people are still diggin his folk artistry.

 

[guitarman2]

Might be difficult. He passed away in 1983. I'd love to see him too,

ah I misread my daughters text to me.

Stan Rogers :"A Matter of the Heart", A Celebration of the songs and stories of Canada's Legendary folk hero.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Stan Rogers :"A Matter of the Heart", A Celebration of the songs and stories of Canada's Legendary folk hero.

Looks like that is a play. Might be good. I'd rather go to this.

Stan Rogers Folk Festival – Canso Nova Scotia Canada

 

[Electraglide]

I can't think of a bad Stan Rogers song.

A thread about Stan Rogers is a good thread.

 

[b-nads]

I keep promising myself to get to Stanfest...and something keeps getting in the way of it. I didn't check this year's roster, but there are usually some pretty impressive names on it.

 

[Milkman]

Stan has become one of my favourite song writers over the past ten years or so (I'm a late bloomer).

He was as real as it gets.

 

[Milkman]

https://soundcloud.com/user-566229450%2Fbarretts-privateers-2
https://soundcloud.com/user-566229450%2Fnorthwest-passage-2

 

[Milkman]

Not Stan Rogers, LOL

Great Big Sea

https://soundcloud.com/user-566229450%2Fgeneral-taylor-2

 

[Mooh]

Mentions my home town.

 

[Milkman]

Mentions my home town.

One of our members here once posted a clip of him doing White Squall and as I recall it was quite good.

Beautiful song.

Edit:

It was @b-nads

I'm not sure if you still have that clip, but I'd sure like to hear it again.

 

[KapnKrunch]

Mentions my home town.

The Soo or Wiarton?

Best use of dynamics ever. I like the little waves at "They go from calm to 100 knots" and the huge wave at "I watched the rail go under". And it starts so quietly. No one would try that nowadays after "The Loudness Wars".

 

[Mark Brown]

Hands down the greatest artist that ever lived. God how I love him.

Dad played a lot of Stan's tunes and that was my introduction.

I did attend the inaugural Stan Rogers music festival. I remember it being terrible organized, I was only probably 13, but the old man was playing there so there is where we were.

Forty-Five years was the song I played for the first dance with my new bride at our wedding.

I love you Mr. Rogers.

 

[Mark Brown]

This audio isn't fantastic, I think my brother ripped it from a cassette and plunked it onto YouTube. The recording is over 20 years old. It seemed appropriate to post here.

Steve Hiltz - Vocals/Rythm
Wendall Clark? - Fiddle
Sharon Jones? - Upright
Moe Brown - Guitar

Unfortunately I am not positive of those two last names. Sorry

 

[Mooh]

The Soo or Wiarton?

Wiarton. He even talks about it in one of the live versions. He was a champion of folk music. So many great songs.

 

[Mooh]

Garnet Rogers is still out there gigging as far as I know. Good genes.

 

[Milkman]

This audio isn't fantastic, I think my brother ripped it from a cassette and plunked it onto YouTube. The recording is over 20 years old. It seemed appropriate to post here.

Steve Hiltz - Vocals/Rythm
Wendall Clark? - Fiddle
Sharon Jones? - Upright
Moe Brown - Guitar

Unfortunately I am not positive of those two last names. Sorry

If I may ask an indelicate question, is your Dad still with us?

 

[PTO]

Binbrook today must feel quite different than when Stan grew up there. He is obviously known for his Maritime musical heritage but I wonder if he would have explored labour/protest songs had he had more time. I mostly know his hits though, so perhaps there’s some of that in his catalogue?

 

[Mark Brown]

If I may ask an indelicate question, is your Dad still with us?

Not a question not to be asked at all. We all meet the same fate. No he is not. A long life lived hard caught up with him a few weeks after our first was born so I guess that makes it 9 years ago now.