Songs of a New York Lumberjack sung by Ellen Stekert

Folkways Records - FA 2354

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Bounding the U.S. (2:02)
A2 Hills of Glenshee (2:41)
A3 The Western Pioneers (1:47)
A4 The Two Sisters (1:37)
A5 Johnny Troy (4:58)
A6 Poor Old Anthony Rolly (3:07)
A7 Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade (1:43)
A8 The Drummer Boy (2:34)
A9 The Trouble Down at Homestead (2:20)
B1 The Fox (1:51)
B2 The Cumberland and the Merrimac (3:02)
B3 The Singular Dream (2:39)
B4 Lakes of Ponchatrain (1:48)
B5 The Black Cook (4:08)
B6 Abe Lincoln Went to Washington (1:52)
B7 The Shanty Boy and the Farmer's Son (3:07)
B8 Les Raftsman (1:25)
B9 The Jealous Lover (3:06)
[Credits]
Ellen Jane Stekert (vocals)
Producer: Kenneth S. Goldstein, Liner Notes: Ellen Jane Stekert
[Notes]
Folklorist Ellen Stekert collected the eighteen songs on this album from Ezra "Fuzzy" Barhight, a retired lumberjack in Cohocton, New York. Here, she sings a selection of songs that Fuzzy learned from his mother and from other lumbermen in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.