Flatpicker Hangout Top 20 Folk Songs

Elzic's Farewell

The Farmer is the Man

This song came out after the civil war when the Midwest was filling up with farmers turning it into the breadbasket of the world. When the railroads raised their freight and storage rates and the price of corn and wheat tumbled the railroads and the banks began to forecdlose on the newly developed farmlands. This gave birth to the Farmer Alliance and the Greenback-Labor Party. The Great West , a paper distributed at the first Populist convention said "Men of the West, the party of the common peo...

Smokey's Delight

A change of pace- a relaxing Sunday Morning start to the day... triple tracked on the D-28

Wildwood Flower Collaboration

Since Tom had a couple guitar breaks I thought I'd try to add a couple of different things. It's certainly nothing to brag about on my part, but it was fun.

Hard Times Come Again No More

Performing this at a local gig.

Sweet Hour of Prayer

Played on my Stanford PSD10 capo'ed on the 3rd fret in the key of Bb.

Over The Waterbrook

A song I wrote many years ago in the key of A played on my Stanford PSD10. This song is flatpicked entirely with no fingerpicking done.

Lost Sailor

Rosie, vocals / guitar, Ian Fairbairn. mandolin. Traditional Folk Song About A Young Woman`s search for her lover, lost at sea.

Lowlands Of Holland

Rosie, vocals / guitar. Tom McConville, fiddle.Chris Parkinson Keyboards. A Traditional Folk Song relating the anguish of love lost, due to war.,