Stan Rogers • From Coffee House to Concert Hall
- From Coffee House to Concert Hall
- 1999 - Fogarty's Cove FCM 012D CD
- Tracklist
- Guysborough Train — Recorded in CBC Radio's Studio 4S, Toronto, for a 45rpm EP for radio play, 1973
- Pharisee — Recorded live at the Fiddler's Green pub, Toronto, in 1975
- It All Fades Away — Turnaround out-take, 1977
- Love Letter — Recorded in CBC Radio's Studio H, Halifax
- Take it from Day to Day — Written in 1980 for the CBC project Famous Inside, recorded live at the University Theatre, Calgary, in 1981
- Acadian Saturday Night — Fogarty's Cove out-take, 1975
- Billy Green — Written and recorded in 1975 for the CBC Radio show Touch the Earth
- Straight and True — Written in 1974, recorded as a demo in Daniel Lanois' first studio
- The Woodbridge Dog Disaster (Royston Wood) — Recorded live at the University Theatre, Calgary, in 1981
- Louise's Song — Written and recorded in 1976 for the CBC Halifax Anecdote series
- Past Fifty — Recorded in CBC Radio's Studio 4S, Toronto, for a 45rpm EP for radio play, 1973
- Evangeline (Robbie MacNeill) — Recorded live at Change of Pace coffee house, London, Ontario, in the late 1970s
- A Matter of Heart — Written on commission for the CBC Radio musical So Hard to Be So Strong, a folk opera based on the Olympics in the mid-seventies
- Famous Inside — Written and recorded in 1976 for the CBC Halifax Anecdote series
- At Last I'm Ready for Christmas — Recorded live at the National Arts Centre's annual Christmas show, Joy to the World, in 1982
- Your "Laker's" Back in Town
- The Puddler's Tale
- Both written in 1982 as part of a group intended for inclusion on From Fresh Water
- Music in Your Eyes (Willie P. Bennett) — Recorded at Studio A at KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles during an interview for the folk music program Folk Scene in May 1983
- Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her (Trad.) — Recorded live in Holsteins Tavern, Chicago, at a benefit concert for the folk magazine Come for to Sing
- Down the Road (Mary McCaslin) — Recorded at McCabe's, Santa Monica, in May 1983
- Musicians
- Stan Rogers: Guitar, Vocals, & Whistling (Tracks: 14)
- Steve Hayes: Piano (Tracks: 1, 8, 11), Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 8)
- David Essig: Second Guitar (Tracks: 1, 11)
- David Brown: Drums (Tracks: 1)
- Denis Pendrith: Electric Bass (Tracks: 1)
- Curly Boy Stubbs (Paul Mills): Second Guitar (Tracks: 2, 6, 8), Guitar (Tracks: 7)
- Dennis Lepage: Banjo (Tracks: 3)
- Rob Dann: Dobro (Tracks: 3)
- David Woodhead: Electric Bass (Tracks: 3, 6, 10), Vocals (Tracks: 6)
- Barry Keane: Drums (Tracks: 3)
- Garnet Rogers: Violin (Tracks: 5-6, 10, 15), Flute (Tracks: 8, 12-13), Vocals (Tracks: 6, 13), Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 3, 8-9, 12, 15)
- Jude Johnson: Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 3)
- Craig Jones: Bass (Tracks: 5), Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 9)
- Jerome Jarvis: Drums, Percussion (Tracks: 6)
- Bernie Jaffe: Fiddle (Tracks: 6)
- Jim Ogilvie: Electric Bass (Tracks: 8)
- Bill Usher: Percussion (Tracks: 11)
- Carl Keesee: Bass (Tracks: 11)
- David Alan Eadie: Bass (Tracks: 12), Vocals (Tracks: 13), Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 12)
- Jim Morrison: Bass (Tracks: 15, 17), Harmony Vocals (Tracks: 15)
- Claude Desjardins: Drums (Tracks: 17)
- Credits
- All tracks written by Stan Rogers, unless otherwise noted.
- Producers: Paul Mills, Ariel Rogers
- Executive Producer: Ariel Rogers
- Remastered March 1998-July 1999 at Music Lane, Richmond Hill, Ontario
- Engineer: Ted Carson
- Front Cover Photograph: Finn Larsen, Vancouver
- Design: Muse Design Inc., Toronto
- Notes:
- This is a compilation album of unreleased songs which were recorded before Stan's death.
- Perhaps the most interesting recording being the last, "Down the Road", which he recorded just five days before he died.
Publisher's Notes Stan used to say that he didn't care about being a star; he'd settle for being a minor comet. That he was rapidly on his way to becoming the former is true. It's also fair to say that he cut a comet-like swath across the path of folk music. He changed it forever and his untimely death changed us in ways we never could have imagined.
This album is the last release of Stan's unpublished music. Paul has explained in his notes the criteria for the choices. It has taken over three years to put this all together and for those of you who feel some impatience at the long wait, I can only say that it will have been worth it. Half of the songs are in coffee house or concert hall venues—the rest are a wonderful cross-section of Stan's "other gigs" over the ten years of the best of his writing.
The growth of his ability as a craftsman of fine lyrics is more than evidenced, as is his increasing presence as a performer. His brother Garnet, of whom Stan said "no other person can claim to have so much influence on my music", plays on seven cuts and sings harmony vocals on another two. Other musicians performing herein, also well-researched musical guidelines and standards. Stan was very clear about the process of creating his own definitive sound.
In this album you will find another side man who left such an indelible mark oh? music—the person who worked with author of related disciplines and breathed an expanded life into their work through careful attention to the underlying themes. This is a man who wrote in the wee small hours, combing the beaches of his imagination for the treasures he left with us. Many of the songs are solo pieces, or unfinished works which needed some minor adjustment. And some of them were written by dear friends.
There will be many questions, and no doubt more than a little analyzing of the songs— a guarantee of years of entertainment!
Thank you to my children: David, Elisabeth, Kathryn and Nathan. They have enriched my life making my path easier with their love, youth and joy.
Thank you to all of my friends who've been there for me through the rough and smooth, especially Jane Theodore and Jim Hamilton keepers of the goal posts...
Thank you to Paul and Bev Mills for friendship and support. Paul's willingness to teach me so many things and still keep his sense of humour, made this album possible.
Thanks also to:
Ted Carson, Music Lane, and his wife Cheryl for her wonderful hospitality;
Don Monty, engineer for the concert at University Theatre at the University of Calgary; Normand Bouchard and the Theatre Services Dept., University of Calgary; also Astrid Wright, Barrie McComb, Vic Bell, & Michael MacLeod; Carl and Annie Grindstaff, London, ON for the Change of Pace tapes;
Bill Howell, Barbara Brown & Roy Harris at CBC; Rich Warren, WFMT, Chicago; Holstein's;
Roz and Howard Larman, Folk Scene, KPFK 90.7, Los Angeles, CA;
Jack Schuller and staff at Festival Distribution, found at their website: www.festival.bc.ca
Stan's devoted fans, who have continued to buy the albums and spread the word!
Design:
Ariel Rogers
Muse Design Inc. Toronto /
