Long Time Traveling
After twenty-five years of recording, nine albums with 170 tracks, seventy years of living, here is a collection of some of my favorite recordings along with four newly recorded songs.
I’m a Long Time Traveling
Every Grain of Sand (Bob Dylan)*
Black Jack Davy
The Cuckoo
The Range of the Buffalo
Garry Owen/Mick Ryan’s Lament (Robert Emmet Dunlap)
Los Estados Unidos (Sid Hausman)
Bob Fudge (Ian Tyson)
Johnny Hard (Woody Guthrie)
Jackhammer John (Woody Guthrie)
The Cape (Guy Clark)
Sourdough/Miner’s Song (Bill Staines)
Manzanar (Tom Russell)
Cold Missouri Waters (James Keelaghan)
Don’t Ask What a River is for (Pete Seeger)
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan)*
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Gone, Gonna Rise Again (Si Kahn)
Shelter from the Storm (Bob Dylan*)
Huckleberry Finn (Bob Dyer)
Sailing Down this Golden River (Pete Seeger)*
Magpie (Ian Tyson)
Last Train (Arlo Guthrie)
Song of the Bund (m. trad./English: John Shreve)
*neue Aufnahmen
€ 15
Let it Shine
Songs for children, children's songs.
€ 10
Known You of Old
A collection of music with the Appalachian dulcimer.
The dulcimer is the American cousin of the hummel, the Scheitholt, the epinette desVosges, the citera and the langeleik, all played in central and northern Europe.
The dulcimer used was built by George Looney in June 1977 and purchased in Lynn McSpadden’s Dulcimer Shoppe in Mountain View, Arkansas in the summer of 1977.
€ 10
just beyond silence
Words, naked words, without the instrumental backing, without voices of harmony which can carry words of lesser quality. These are not songs to listen to while dusting your shelves or preparing dinner or driving. They demand attention. Words, one after the other, and the silence between.
Dedicated t the city and the residents of Venice, where I learned the value of stillness and slowness.
€ 10
Oftimes Do I Think of Thee
Diese Lieder trage ich ein Leben lang mit mir herum. Meine Mutter sang einige davon, andere lernte ich von meinem Großvater. Sie waren in der Luft, im Radio, auf Schallplatten. Einige dieser Lieder stehen in Verbindung mit der Carter Family. Alle Lieder wurden 1944 on Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston und Sonny Terry in New York für Moe Asche aufgenommen. Am 19. April starteten Woody and Cisco mit der Aufnahme von 56 Liedern und Balladen. Am darauffolgenden Tag kamen 17 hinzu. Sonny Terry kam ab dem 24. April hinzu und es wurden 50 weitere Lieder aufgenommen. Die Aufnahmen sind die Versionen, die sich in meinem Kopf festgesetzt haben, seitdem ich in den 70er Jahren diese Schallplatten entdeckte. Die Lieder erzählen davon, was es heißt, Mensch zu sein. Es geht um Liebe, Verlust, Sehnsucht, Verrat, Trauer, Glaube, schöne und schlechte Zeiten und natürlich um den Tod.
Diese Aufnahmen sind meinem Freund Heiner Thomas (1940-2015) gewidmet.
1. At My Window
2. From Baltimore to Washington
3. Columbus Stockade Blues
4. Ezekiel Say the Wheel
5. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
6. Hey Lolly Lolly Low
7. Poor Boy
8. Crawdad Song
9. Lonesome Day
10. Stepstone
11. Little Black Train
12. Foggy Mountain Top
13. More Pretty Girls than One/ Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
14. Black Jack Davy
15. Will You Miss Me?
€ 10
Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?
An EP against Trump.
1. Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? (Tom Russell, adaption John Shreve)
2. Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman)
3. Los Estados Unidos (Sid Hausmann)
4. Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie)
5. The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen)
€ 5
Leap of Faith
After two collections of songs about the American West, here is a collection of some of the best songs I know, songs about life and death, about faith and the grace of God. Two-thirds of the way down the one-way road we travel, one stops to think about things, where one has been and where the road is leading. That why I made this CD. It is in memory of my father, Ben Shreve and dedicated to my children. This is not intended to be a CD that is used as background music.
Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf)
Always a Train in My Dreams (Steve Gillette, Charles John Quarto)
Starlight on the Rails (Utah Phillips)
I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan)
The Cape (Guy Clark)
Little Birdie (traditional)
Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
The Ones Who Made Home (James Keelaghan)
Planter's Bar (Jerry Rasmussen)
Stuff that Works (Guy Clark)
Weepy Doesn't Know (Utah Phillips)
Huckleberry Finn (Bob Dyer)
Larimer Street (Utah Phillips)
Johnny Hard (traditional)
Gone, Gonna Rise Again (Si Kahn)
Desperados Waiting for a Train (Guy Clark)
Last Train (Arlo Guthrie)
€ 10
Wild and Windy Places
In the vastness of the American West, time has always been a slippery object, has always followed its own twisted path. Those peoples who have known the land for thousands of years understand time not as a straight line, leading from the past over the present to the future, but as a circular process, always returning to the beginning. In circular time there is no progress, only change within a never-ending cycle. In the West, past and present have always mingled with one another. San Francisco was a cosmopolitan city while just a few hundred miles to the east, native peoples still lived as their ancestors had done thousands of years before. Tourists were traveling west on the transcontinental railroad before the tribes of the Plains had been defeated. The story of the West can best be told by the places where it has taken place: along the rivers of Texas, in the border town of Laredo, the mining camp of Ludlow, the valley of the Little Big Horn, in Hell's Canyon, at the Grand Coulee Dam, in the Manzanar Internment Camp, in the hobo jungles along the endless rails, in a rundown trailer park in Seattle and in all the dry and dusty places where men and women don't belong. For all who have lived in the West it has meant adjusting to the rapid changes taking place and coming to terms with all those wild and windy places.
The Brazos River Song
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill / Cruising Down the Boyne (Eddie Smyth)
No, Not Columbus (David Campbell)
White Woman‘s Clothes (Andy Wilkinson)
Garry Owen
Mick Ryan's Lament (Robert Lee Dunlap)
The Grand Coulee Dam (Woody Guthrie)
Don't Ask What a River is for (Pete Seeger)
Dust Bowl Refugee (Woody Guthrie)
The Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill)
Ludlow Massacre (Woody Guthrie)
Manzanar (Tom Russell)
The Whistle in the Night
Old Wing (Pat Garvey)
Blue Wing (Tom Russell)
Magpie (Ian Tyson)
Cowboy's Lament
Bluebird Café Berlin Records
CD 06 - 0024
"Just wanted to let you know that I received the CD yesterday and have been listening to it in my car. A fine piece of work. Many thanks!"
John Gulliksen - Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
€ 10
From Texas to Montana
From Texas to Montana. It's a journey through a wild and windy land, a journey through time and a tough trip of transformation, from the buffalo range to the cattle range, from prairie grass to power dam. Riding wild mustangs, cowboys - former southern soldiers, former slaves, vaqueros from Mexico, all just a step past boyhood - drove longhorn cattle north to the railheads in Kansas and to the northern plains beyond. The buffalo herds were still enormous and the Comanches and other plains peoples still lived free, but both were doomed. Their destruction paved the way for the future. Immigrants came to the West seeking gold and work and hope. But the land is harsh. For most, the dream of gold proved to be a nightmare. Some were overwhelmed by the vastness of the land and their own isolation therein. Work was to be had, yes, but it demanded men willing to following it, building dams, cutting trees and harvesting wheat. For many, rootlessness became a way of life and some never found their way home.
There is nothing fanciful about these songs. They are hard-bitten reality. They tell the tales of actual events, honest emotions and above all of real people: the buffalo hunter Crego, Quanah Parker, Charlie and Mary Goodnight, Bob Fudge, the Blocker brothers, Bessie Mulhern, Wagner Dodge as well as the Cherokee cowboy, the Mexican immigrants, the unemployed cowboys, the dead hobo and all the others who remain nameless.
From Texas to Montana. A tough trip.
John Shreve
1 Old Chisholm Trail
2 The Range of the Buffalo
3 Anthem, 1 (Buck Ramsey)
4 Power in the Wind (Andy Wilkinson)
5 Soldier’s Joy
6 The Pecos Stream
7 A Woman’s Life (Andy Wilkinson)
8 The Freedom Song (Andy Wilkinson)
9 Los Estados Unidos (Sid Hausman)
10 Anthem, 2 (Buck Ramsey)
11 The Old Double Diamond (Gary McMahan)
12 Diamond Joe
13 Bob Fudge (Ian Tyson)
14 Nothin‘ to Do But Go (Henry Herbert Knibbs)
15 Old Buddy, Goodnight (Utah Phillips)
16 Sourdough/The Miner’s Song (Bill Staines)
17 Jackhammer John (Woody Guthrie)
18 Bessie and Me (Tom May)
19 Deep Water, Ice and Snow (Ben Perkins)
20 Cold Missouri Waters (James Keelaghan)
21 Roll On Owyhee (Ian Tyson)
22 Anthem, 3 (Buck Ramsey)
23 Montana Backroads (Bruce Carlson)
24 bonus track: Walking After Midnight, sung by Kay Shreve
€ 10
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