Did anyone know that Nathan Rogers, Stan’s son, had released a record?
Here’s his website,
http://nathanrogers.ca/index.htm
I had heard nothing about it. I find he sounds like his dad.
Just bought the cd, I’ll let you know how it is.
Correction: I was going to buy his cd, but cdbaby was out of stock, I’ll spring for the extra 6 bucks on Amazon later.
Thanks for the heads up on this CD. I think Stan was one of the great songwriters of his generation (though I prefer Garnet’s vocal technique more). I look forward to hearing what the next Rogers generation will do.
Tyg
I’ve never been able to get into Garnet. I think it’s because I always considered Stan the definitive Canadian folk singer, and I just don’t get the same sort of pride and historical story-telling from Garnet (unless you know otherwise, I actually have never listened to any of his albums). BTW, you got me looking at his Website and under the Q&A section he has this answer to “What records would you recommend?”
Stan Rogers: “Between the Breaks Live”. “Northwest Passage” “Delivery Delayed” and “Lies” are killers. Anything except that f*cking “Barrett’s Privateers.”
Asterix mine. 
Someone once described Garnet as writing songs “with no discernable chorus,” which I found extremely apt.
Probably worried about another Barrett’s Privateers.
God damn them all… I was told we’d…
… cruise the seas for American gold…
I love this song, though I am certain it gets way more attention than Stan’s other works.
My favorites being:
Harris and the Mare
Jeannie C
The Mary Ellen Carter
Northwest passage… this last I would’ve campaigned hard to make the Canadian National Anthem… if only I were Canadian… my sisters is… HHmmmmmmmmm.
I only ever liked Barret’s Privateers, and it was a trad song, not his own. The rest is typical bore-fest folky crap. 
djm
djm, Stan wrote Barrett’s Privateers.
According to legend, he wrote the song in about 25 minutes while at a party, because everyone else had catchy sing-along songs to offer, and he didn’t.
Sorry, I meant in a trad style, not his own style. From what I read, it took quite a bit of research, not 25 minutes, to write. See more here: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~jacktar/barretts.html
I much prefer Friends of Fiddlers Green, who influenced the style chosen for BP.
djm
“The Field Behind the Plow” always brings a tear to my eye.
Last Watch, from “From Fresh Water” is also among my top ten Stan songs.
I’ll second that and add “Lies”, his singing on the chorus gives me the shivers. The subject matter on “Billy Greene” is great. “Down the Road” is an excellent tune, especially when you consider when it was recorded on Coffee House. And “The Idiot” is good fun, especially the introduction on Home in Halifax.
My very favorite Stan Rogers song.
“Tracing one warm line…” --what a lyric, eh?
Here’s some stuffabout it.
Carol
Rollin’ Down To Old Maui!
I used to go on long drives (chasing Steelhead trout) with a Stan fan. Nothing but Stan in the tape-deck, so I learned to love it. One day I’m gonna go find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea.
BTW, I think Garnet’s living in my end of the world right now, just up the road from Robin Williams (?).
Well, I know if I made a living singing songs I certainly wouldn’t stay in Hamilton!
I like a lot of Stan Rogers songs, but Barrett’s Privateers will always be my favorite, I’m pretty sure. It’s the first one I heard and I still get shivers from it.
Thanks for the link Carol.
I’d have to say that Northwest Passage is also my favorite Stan Rogers song. I miss his music intensely, and I can’t help wondering what he’d be writing about today, if he were still among us.
Not much different me thinks. Rogers was nostalgic to a fault about the working man and old Canada, I doubt you’d hear him singing about Iraq or anything like that. The country, the coast, history and the people that lived there and through it were what he was interested in. That and family (40 years, Sailor’s rest etc).