Harry Tuft: Across the Blue Mountains

Folk-Legacy Records FSI-63

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1976
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Old Time
[Tracklist]
A1 In 1845 (2:58)
A2 You Gonna Quit Me, Baby (2:53)
A3 Harvest Song (3:02)
A4 Lord Gregory (3:16)
A5 The Mermaid (4:09)
A6 I Saw Her As She Came And Went (2:29)
A7 Lucy Ann Rag (2:43)
B1 Old Dolores (3:11)
B2 Sweet Substitute (2:45)
B3 Snowbird (3:54)
B4 California Boy (3:29)
B5 Across The Blue Mountains (3:08)
B6 Griesely Bride (3:04)
B7 Mrs. Ravoon (3:26)
[Credits]
Harry Tuft (guitar/vocals) Artie Traum (guitar/vocals) Dick Weissman (banjo/guitar/vocals) Ed Trickett (dulcimer/vocals) Jay Ungar (fiddle)
Liner Notes: Harry Tuft and Sandy Paton, Photographer: Larry Shirkey, Engineer: Dave Crawford and Sandy Paton
[Notes]
Originally released by Folk-Legacy Records in in 1976, Harry Tuft's Across the Blue Mountains is a collection of traditional and new folk songs in the spirit of the folk revival. First an important figure in the Philadelphia folk scene of the late 1950s, in the 1960s in Colorado Tuft went on to establish the Denver Folklore Center, one of the city's most significant venues for folk music, welcoming the likes of Doc Watson and Leo Kottke. On Across the Blue Mountains, Tuft plays arrangements that sound both traditional and contemporary, inspired by trends in fingerstyle guitar playing from the 1970s. Highlights include a gorgeous 12-string rendition of The Mermaid (Child 289) featuring Ed Trickett, and a version of Lord Gregory (Child 76) taught to Tuft by the great Karen Dalton.

Woodstock Moutains: More Music From Mud Acres

Rounder Records 3018

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Bluegrass Boy (3:17)
A2 Cold Front (3:09)
A3 Sleep With One Eye Open (3:10)
A4 Killing The Blues (3:47)
A5 Waiting For A Train (3:03)
A6 Morning Blues (2:37)
A7 Weary Blues (2:47)
B1 Mason Dixon's On The Line (2:23)
B2 My Love Is But A Lassie Yet (1:05)
B3 Woodstock Mountains (3:43)
B4 Long Journey (2:45)
B5 Sally Ann (2:50)
B6 Barbed Wire (3:00)
B7 Whole World 'Round (2:15)
B8 Amazing Race (2:28)
[Credits]
Artie Traum (guitar/vocals) Happy Traum (banjo/melodica) John Herald (guitar/vocals) Eric Andersen (guitar/vocals) Paul Siebel (guitar/vocals) John Sebastian (vocals) Lee Berg (vocals) Rory Block (vocals) Bill Keith (banjo) Jim Rooney (guitar) Pat Alger (guitar) John Sebastian (harmonica) Paul Butterfield (harmonica) Gordon Titcomb (mandolin) Roly Salley (bass)
Producers: Artie Traum, Happy Traum and George James, Designer: Pat Alger, Photographer: Ceci Sebastian, Engineers: John Holbrook, Thomas Mark and John Nagy
[Notes]
"Woodstock Mountain: More Music from Mud Acres" features Pat Alger, Happy and Artie Traum, Eric Andersen, Lee Berg, Rory Block, Paul Butterfield, John Herald, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Roly Salley, John Sebastian and Paul Siebel. This album brought it all together! Their peak. Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, N.Y., on January 13-15, 1977.

Mud Acres: Music Among Friends

Rounder Records 3001

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1972
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Cowpoke (1:27)
A2 Done Laid Around (2:50)
A3 Darlin' Corey Is Gone (3:29)
A4 Titanic (4:02)
A5 Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents (1:49)
A6 Out Of Joint (1:47)
A7 Jackhammer Blues (2:53)
A8 Oh, The Rain (4:56)
B1 Hobo Blues (3:12)
B2 Off To Sea Once More (4:21)
B3 Fifteen Miles To Birmingham (2:35)
B4 Lonesome Pines (3:44)
B5 Prison Wall Blues )2:20)
B6 Parting Friends (1:38)
B7 Mud Acres (2:04)
[Credits]
Performers: Artie Traum, Bill Keith, Eric Kaz, Happy Traum, Jim Rooney, John Herald, Lee Berg, Maria Muldaur and Tony Brown
Liner Notes: Happy Traum, Designer: Lloyd Ziff, Photographers: David Gahr & Lloyd Ziff, Engineers:Jim Rooney & Mark Harmen
[Notes]
Music Among Friends' was just that – an album concept brought to the fledgling Rounder Records in 1971 by Happy & Artie Traum, and featuring a wide variety of their musical friends from the Woodstock area. Happy Traum, Artie Traum, Maria Muldaur, John Herald, Eric Kaz, Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, Tony Brown, and Lee Berg, yielding an album that was at once relaxed, spirited and diverse yet very coherent. As so many of the folk labels of the early Sixties left folk music seeking greener pastures, 'Mud Acres' captivated listeners hungry for music that better embodied a real sense of community emblematic of the times. This is the album that spawned several successors over the following years.