Judy Collins/Eric Andersen: "Thirsty Boots"

From 2002 with Tom Rush and Arlo Guthrie.

We Five: "You Were On My Mind"

Jimmy Rodgers: 3 From "The Singing Brakeman" (1929)

December 27, 1929.

Bob Dylan: "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie"

Peter Paul and Mary: "500 Miles"

Sydney, Australia 1964

Hammered Dulcimer: "Rakes Of Kildare"

James Taylor/Dixie Chicks: "Sweet Baby James"

Bothy Band: "Farewell To Erin"

Billy Bragg: The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie

Byrds: "Chimes Of Freedom"

Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967.

Melanie: "Look What They've Done To My Song Ma"

John Prine: "Angel From Montgomery"

Richard/Linda Thompson: "A Heart Needs A Home"

Dougie MacLean: "Feel So Near"

Mance Lipscomb: "Jack Of Spades"

Pentangle: "People On The Highway"

John Gorka: "Road Of Good Intentions"

Paul Brady: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain"

1977

Nanci Griffith: "It's A Hard Life"

Folk Queue: 100th Post

Bruce Springsteen: " Follow That Dream"

Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, Ca. 10/13/86

Judy Collins/Muppets: "I Know An Old Lady"

Garcia/Grisman: "When First Unto This Country"

Mill Valley, Ca. 12/17/90

Glen Campbell/John Hartford: "Gentle On My Mind"

it's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch and it's knowing i'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds or the ink stains that have dried up some line that keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my memory that keeps you ever gentle on my mind

it's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking it's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when i walk along some railroad track and find that you're moving on the backroads by the rivers of my memory and for hours you're just gentle on my mind

though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junkyards and the highways come between us and some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned and i was gone i still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face and the summer sun might burn me 'til i'm blind but not to where i cannot see you walking on the backroads by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

i dip my cup of soup back from some gurgling crackling cauldron in some trainyard my beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face through cupped hands around a tin can i pretend to hold you to my breast and find that you're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my memory ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
--john hartford

Joan Baez: "Sweet Sir Galahad"

Woodstock, 1969.

Phil Ochs: "The Highwayman"

the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
and highwayman came riding-
riding-riding-
the highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door
--alfred noyes 1880-1958 (from "the highwayman ")

Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash: "Girl From The North Country"

Stationary Willberries: "Whiskey In The Jar"

Mississippi John Hurt: "Lonesome Valley Blues"

Planxty: "Arthur McBride"

Stanley Brothers: "How Mountain Girls Can Love"

John Herald/Frank Wakefield: "Danville Girl"

Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger: "Union Maid"

Silencers: "Wild Mountain Thyme"

Bruce Springsteen: "John Henry"

Verona, Italy (October 5, 2006)

Peter Rowan: "On Raglan Road"

1990

Peter Paul and Mary: "San Francisco Bay Blues"

1965

Sam Roberts: "Steel Rail Blues"

Loreena McKennitt: "Between The Shadows"

Thames River, Ontario, Canada

Joan Baez: "Oh Freedom"

Stockholm, Sweden 1966

Graham Nash/David Crosby: "Guinevere"

1970

John Fahey: "Tell Her To Come Back Home"

Film By Thomas Edison

John Renbourn: "Snows That Melt The Soonest"

Pavia, Italy 9/7/05

Brothers Four: "500 Miles"

Sinead O'Connor/Chieftains: "The Foggy Dew"

The bravest fell, and the requiem bell

Rang mournfully and clear

For those who died that Easter-tide

In the springing of the year.

And the world did gaze with deep amaze

At those fearless men but few

Who bore the fight that freedom's light

Might shine through the foggy dew.

--from "The Foggy Dew "

Patsy Watchorn: "The Dying Rebel"

Mediaeval Baebes: "Scarborough Fayre"

Eric Andersen: "Thirsty Boots"

1986 Philadelphia Folk Festival

Chad Mitchell Trio: Medley

With Roger McGuinn On Bell Telephone Hour

Dick Gaughan: "Tom Paine's Bones"

Richard And Mimi Farina: "Bold Marauder"

Ramblin' Jack Elliott: "Pretty Boy Floyd"

1987

Ranarim: "Hem Igen"

Bob Dylan: "Lay Down Your Weary Tune"

Photography By Miranda Jane

Hamza El Din: "Helalisa"