Saturday Sounds - Stan Rogers - Rebecca Cohn Halifax 1982 Concert

This week's musical treat features the great Canadian singer-songwriter, Stan Rogers, who tragically died in an Air Canada airplane fire in Cincinnati in 1983. The recording is of a famous concert at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax, NS in 1982 that was broadcast nationally on CBC radio. I remember listening to it when I was living in Alberta. 

I knew Stan from when I was living in Hamilton in the early 1970s and was lucky to see him perform many times as his career developed from performing in coffee houses to becoming a national folk music icon. Most of the concert was released after his death on the album, Home in Halifax though the version here has several songs not on the album. 

1:25 Witch of the Westmoreland

6:26 White Collar Holler

9:10-13:21 Field behind the Plow

16:41-19:45 Night Guard

22:59 - 25:40 The Idiot

26:24 - 32:00 Lies

32:52 - 36:19 Workin' Joe

39:25 - 42:47 The Giant

45:50 - 49:31 Dark Eyed Molly

49:43 - 55:10 Northwest Passage

57:25 - 1:02:04 The Last Watch

1:05:12 - 1:10:00 The Mary Ellen Carter

1:11:16 - 1:15:17 Barrett's Privateers

1:17:00 - 1:22:27 Sailor's Rest

If you don't know Stan's music, you're in for a treat. I particularly recommend "Lies", a song that still makes me weepy, and the anthemic "Northwest Passage".