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In 1976, Rogers recorded and released his debut album, Fogarty's Cove, on Barnswallow Records, a label formed by Stan and the then Winnipeg Folk Music Festival artistic director, Mitch Podolak. The album's subject matter deals almost entirely with life in maritime Canada, and was an immediate success. Rogers then formed Fogarty's Cove Music, and bought Barnswallow, allowing him the luxury of releasing his own albums. Posthumously, another four albums were released. Fogarty's Cove has become a Canadian classic…. One of the finest albums ever recorded in the country.

Track listing

   1. "Watching The Apples Grow"

·        For William Davis, Premier of Ontario, who asked "Ontario! Is there any place you'd rather be?" You betcha, Bill.

Guitars and vocals: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bernie Jaffe and John Allan Cameron Bass: David Woodhead Drums: Jerome Jarvis

   2. "Forty-Five Years"

·        Just a love song-for my future wife, and a day in Cole Harbour.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Piano: Ken Whiteley Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

   3. "Fogarty's Cove"

·        "We're all dressed up in our rubber suits, our rubber hats and rubber boots."

Guitars and vocals: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Long neck mandolin: The Masked Luthier Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bass: David Woodhead Drums: Jerome Jarvis

   4. "Maid on the Shore"

·        For Mike and Tim.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Dulcimer: The Masked Luthier Mandolin: Ken Whiteley Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

   5. "Barrett's Privateers"

·        From a story told to me by Bill Howell in Halifax, with thanks to Friends of Fiddler's Green, who inspired the style.

          Vocals: Stan Rogers, Garnet Rogers, David Woodhead, Ken Whiteley

   6. "Fisherman's Wharf"

·        A tale of Modern Halifax

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs

   7. "Giant"

·        In those parts of Cape Breton Island where the "Old Tongue" is heard more often than English, You'd almost believe that the Giant Fingal migrated west with his people. I feel part of something very old sometimes...

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs 12 string guitar: John Allan Cameron, Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

   8. "Rawdon Hills"

·        In the very heart of Nova Scotia-the scene for yet another corporate rip-off, and a lost dream...

Guitars: Stan Rogers, Curly Boy Stubbs and David Woodhead, Bass: David Woodhead

   9. "Plenty of Hornpipe"

·        Just for fun

Guitar: Stan Rogers Violin: Bernie Jaffe Mandolin: Ken Whiteley Long neck mandolin: The Masked Luthier Flute: Garnet Rogers Bass: David Woodhead Step-dancing: Jerome Jarvis

  10. "The Wreck of the Athens Queen"

·        A yarn spun of Farley Mowat's "The Gray Seas Under" and a story my brother told me... sort of a salvage job.

         Guitar: Stan Rogers Banjo: The Masked Luthier Bass: David Woodhead

  11. "Make and Break Harbour"

·        Where the little boats gave way to the big, leaving old men dreaming on the shore.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Violin: Garnet Rogers Lap Steel and Bass: David Woodhead Vocals: Stan Rogers

  12. "Finch's Complaint/Giant: reprise"

·        A recitation in the old tradition, to be learned by ear and not from the printed (or written) page. The event is very nearly fact, and is included to perhaps illustrate that the Maritimes cannot always be thought of in terms of eating blueberry pie and drinking black rum. My thanks to Canadian Poet Bill Howell, whose poems gave me the language in which to try one of my own.

            Concertina: The Masked Luthier (Grit Laskin)

 

Label

Fogarty's Cove Music

Released

-0001

Genre

Folk