welcome to dad's songbook recording archive

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This is a collection of historic songs from the underground railroad, women't suffrage movement, the labor/union movement and very early civil rights songs. These are not my stories, but they are stories I've learned and can pass along to you. 

This is a collection of some of  my protest song favorites from then and now (including a couple originals).  

This is a collection of folk songs for children from the olden days. These were recorded in one pass with no overdubs, edits or other production.  Think of them as a singalong party for kids.

Each of these songs had meaning and memories for my family.  They were each recorded in one take, mostly from memory, with no overdubs, edits or other production. Think of them as a fireside singalong. 

Many more songs!

I started playing and singing folk music when I was nine years old.  One day I realized I was fifty nine and had been playing for fifty years.  We had a big party and I recorded a CD of  these songs to give away as party favors.

Progressive, inclusive, singable,  songs for church gatherings. 

Progressive, inclusive, songs for church gatherings.

This is a collection Bruce and I wrote together trying to get in with the Nashville country music world back in the 1990s.  We really needed to move to Nashville.  Bruce was willing, I wasn't.  Bruce died in a car accident a couple years ago.  So the story ends.  We had a great time in the interim.