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Live recording of traditional old-time country song with audience participation.
Traditional African-American folk song about escaping from slavery. Lead vocals and guitar by Steve Suffet, banjo by Eric Levine, additional vocals by Anne Price and Jody Koolodzey.
A true story. Boy meets girl in 1968. Back-up vocals by Anne Price, banjo picking by Robin Greenstein, and fiddling by Gina Tlamsa.
A prayer for peace in the Holy Land and beyond. Back-up vocals by Gina Tlamsa and Ray Korona.
Old-time style outlaw ballad. Banjo picking by Alan Friend, harmonica by Allen Hopkins.
A cowboy classic from 1911 by John Grafton Rogers and John H. Gower. Tow headed means blonde. A quirt is a small whip. I stole this song from my good buddy Anne Price, who sings on the refrains. Allen Hopkins added the harmonica part.
Title song from Steve Suffet's newest CD.
Traditional blues. Second vocal by Laura Munzer. Harmonica by Allen Hopkins.
Traditional folk song from the Appalachian Mountains. Trio with Anne Price and Gina Tlamsa on choruses, duet with Anne Price on verses.
Gospel song from the African-American tradition, performed a cappella with Hillel Arnold, Jaque DuPree, and Anne Price.
The story of Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Back-up vocals by Laura Munzer. Fiddle by Gina Tlamsa. Free download, never released on CD.
The Passover story, old-time country style. Back-up vocals by Jody Kolodzey, Joel Landy, and Eric Levine. Fiddle solo by Gina Tlamsa.
Traditional 19th century British miners' song. With Steve Suffet on dulcimer, Gina Tlamsa on fiddle, and a chorus of People's Music Network members from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Dedicated to all the warriors of organized labor, past, present, and future. Back-up vocals by Joel Landy, Eric Levine, Jody Kolodzey, and Ray Korona.
Traditional North American lumberjack song set to a Celtic tune. The shantyman in this case was an immigrant from Ireland who went to work in the north woods.
The tragic but swinging story of Truckstop Sal and Cowboy John. Heather Lev and Joel Landy join me on the choruses. Fiddling is by Gina Tlamsa and banjo picking is by Eric Levine.
Traditional old-time country song. Steve Suffet: lead vocal and guitar. Anne Price: back-up vocal. Eric Levine: banjo. Gina Tlamsa: fiddle.
Traditional old-time American country song, sung in harmony throughout with Gina Tlamsa, and with Heather Lev singing a third part on refrains. Banjo picking by Steve Suffet. Fiddling by Gina Tlamsa.
Traditional American folk song known throughout the South and Southwest. Alberta is also known as Roberta, Kempie, or Cappy, but she always wants a $10 shawl.
A song about the Gowanus Canal, an industrial waterway that runs about two miles through Brooklyn, New York, from Butler Street to New York Bay. Back-up vocals on the choruses are by Jessica Feinbloom, Joel Landy, and Anne Price.
Traditional American hobo song. The Danville in the song is believed to be Danville, Virginia, a major railroad junction.
Just another Gospel song. Or is it? History teaches us that the wheel is always turning. Back-up vocals by Joel Landy and Heather Lev.
Written in traditional old-time country style. Back-up vocals by Joel Landy, Jessica Feinbloom, and Gina Tlamsa.
Traditional old-time country outlaw ballad. The real John Hardy was hanged for murder in West Virginia in 1894.
Emily lived in the Hudson Valley in the early 19th century. I was inspired by a question she wrote in her diary: "Why was I born with such passion?" As the song says, it's not about right and wrong.

