1. The Water Is Wide (3:30)*
2. Greenland Away (3:19) 
3. The Ship The Diamond (3.05)*
4. Shenandoah (2.26) *
5. Sail Away, Ladies 2:52) 
6. Greensleeves (4:15) 
7. Mr. Koto (1.49)* 
8. Scarborough Fair (3.32) 
9. The Star of the County Down (3:31) *
10. The Wabash Cannonball (3:44) 
11. Blackberry Blossoms (3:02) 
12. Oh Susannah (2:22) *
13. Shady Grove (2:34) *
14. Cripple Creek Gal (1:41) 
15. Richland Woman Blues (2:52) 
16. Old Paint (3:35) 
17. Windy Bill (2:16) 
18. Buffalo Gals (2:54) 
19. I Know You Rider (3:40)*

The "Folksinger" CD contains all traditional songs, primarily American. It starts with songs from our maritime heritage and selections from our English and Celtic roots, and a reminder America has roots in the Orient as well. Then it moves into the strictly American with a song of the hobos, and then Appalachian/bluegrass traditions, with some piedmont blues and dixieland thrown in. It finishes up with Westerns, both fast and slow. The whole CD contains both slow, gentle ballads right through to hard driving ones. It is a small cross section of the wealth of American folksongs.

Folksinger. That is a name I took long ago. Like the storyteller, the Bard's role is to play the people's songs for them. Some of these are songs that everyone knows. They are songs people still ask to hear, songs remembered, songs that still move people. Folksongs contain images, ideas, and feelings that span cultures and generations, the way that great art must. Folksongs capture the scenes and language, the lives of people far away in culture and time, and lets us feel the fires that moved them. These are the songs of seamen, cowboys, and hobos; Irish, English, Oriental.

"The Water Is Wide" * begins the album with a soft gentle ballad from the British Isles. I added several male harmonies (all me) though I lacked the female voices for the repeating descant. Hopefully I can add them one day. The images of the sea lead into a couple more driving seafaring songs from the Greenland whalers. Then a gentle "Shenandoah"*, a beautiful tune that became a favorite among seafaring men, though it is a love song from the Shenandoah Valley. "Sail Away, Ladies" is a true song for hauling away, but again, you'll have to imagine the sailor's chorus on the refrain for now. Then I move through a salute to traditional roots with "Greensleeves" and "Scarborough Fair," separated by an instrumental I call "Mr. Koto,"* an original created in response to a request that I play something traditional and Oriental. I sing a personal favorite, "Star of the County Down," * to finish off my following of "roots."

I move on to the branches and their flowers, American Folksongs, starting with "The Wabash Cannonball". I fly through a quick instrumental Appalachian tune, "Blackberry Blossoms," just to show I can, though I'd rather sing! I pay tribute to Stephen Foster with "Oh, Susannah" * though I add some Dixieland in the second verse. I follow that with a couple of fast Appalachian songs, and touch the Blues with a tune I learned from Mississippi John Hurt. I have spent much of my life in the West after I left Virginia, so I still play the old cowboy tunes; this time, a slow "Old Paint," and a blistering "Windy Bill,"  finishing with a bouncy "Buffalo Gals." Finally, I play a traditional Blues and Bluegrass ballad, "I Know You Rider" *, which has achieved perhaps its greatest popularity being performed by The Grateful Dead.

It goes to show, there's still plenty of life left in the old songs, not just because they are traditional, but because they are great music.