Variety The Blind Fiddler Millworker Baby Blue Only You Pretty Woman Island In The Sun Shame And Scandal Danny Boy Whiskey In The Jar The Dance All My Ex's Live In Texas Satin Doll Mack The Knife Brown Sugar Boys Of Summer New York State Of Mind Prelude In C Major Malaguena Varieties is our largest selling cd. It was intended to demonstrate our versatility. We have a 1300 song repertory encompassing many forms of music. This cd attempts to show at least part of the spectrum of our music.

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The Blind Fiddler

The Blind Fiddler is a product of the creative mind of Eric Anderson. Eric is a folk singer songwriter who got his start in Greenwich Village in New York in the sixties. I believe he now resides in Norway. Remember? We all thought we were going to change the world with our guitars and songs. Mr. Anderson wrote this song to emphasize the conditions of the coal miners in Harlan County Kentucky. Harlan County has the reputation of being one of the poorest areas in the United States. The miner and protagonist in this story suffered an industrial accident which robbed him of his vision. Needless to say this was before the advent of workers’ compensation. The fellow was forced to eke out a meager existence playing music for tips… Come to think of it things haven’t changed much, have they?

Millworker

James Taylor… wow. It is enough to make a person thank The Great Spirit for making North Carolina so this fellow could have a place to come from. This is one of our very favourite James Taylor songs. Naturally it is about an exploited worker. This girl married a drinking man who met his untimely end in the bottle. She was left with three children and worked in the textile mills to support them. I think someday Heart Of Oak will record a compilation of workers’ songs.

Baby Blue

Here is a song by the legendary Bob Dylan. What a prolific dude! This one goes back to the early sixties. We are certain you will recognize it. Lonnie uses a 12 string Martin on this song. It just seems appropriate somehow. Well, anyway, it’s all over now Baby Blue!

Only You

Contrary to popular opinion this is not simply another song about sheep. That would be “Only EWE!” Here’s a fun fifties rock ‘n roll classic. We wish we could be introduced on a PBS pledge drive by The Iceman! Maybe if you all buy enough cd’s…

Pretty woman

We have always had a lot of admiration and respect for Mr. Roy Orbison. He justly earned the reputation of being a singers’ singer. This was a big hit for him and is still a big hit for us when we play in nightclubs.

Island In The Sun

Lonnie was raised in West Africa and spent a lot of time in the Caribbean. We know he wouldn’t mind being Harry Belafonte. Actually one of the first albums he had was Mr. Belafonte’s concert at Carnegie Hall. We used to do these songs on the cruise ships all the time. We really enjoy a good Calypso but it seems Jimmy Buffett is the only one writing them now. We are accompanied by Roland the Headless Pan Player on this song.

Shame And Scandal

Roland stayed around for this one too. He’s a magnificent pan player. We used to do this one on the ships too. Another really funny Calypso. Let’s go to the jump up!

Danny Boy

Man, if we only had a nickel for every time… oh, never mind. Danny Boy is easily the most requested Irish ballad we do (unless we’re in a real Irish environment). There’s not much to say about Danny Boy except he probably is not a boy any longer. When we were the House Band at the Shamrock Club in West Palm Beach Florida we knew a lovely Irish lady who used to sing the third verse to this famous song with music based on The Londonderry Aire. We will not do the third verse here because we feel it belongs to her…

Whiskey In The Jar

Ok, we admit it. We stole this song from Pat O”Brien. He’s from Athenry but he lives in The City of Chicago now. We met him in Deerfield Beach Florida when we were both entertaining at the Cove. He actually had the testicular fortitude to stay on the Borealis… our leaky old tub of an Alden Schooner. But maybe that’s not all that impressive. After all the marina is only about 10 feet deep so he probably would not have drowned. He used to make a really delicious curry. If one calculates the time difference between Ireland and Liberia it is a fact the Lonnie and Pat were born at the same instant!

The Dance

We borrowed this song from Mr. Garth Brooks. According to him he borrowed it from someone else. We like it as much as he does. It is a very introspective song about pain and pleasure.

All My Exs's Live In Texas

All My’ Ex’s is our interpretation of Mr. George Strait’s hit. We actually do hang our hat (until we get kicked out) in Tennessee. We don’t have a clue in Hades where our ex’s live, though. Nor do we care.

Satin Doll

Oh, alright… we love listening to The Savoy Express… runnin’ down track number four on XM Radio. We wish we were on XM Radio! Wasn’t it great when people could get away with singing like those guys did in the 40’s?

Mack The Knife

Kurt Weil… Bobby Darin… whatta pair! A supposedly “based on the truth” song about a serial killer. Oh the line forms on the right, babe!

Brown Sugar

Mick Jagger… yeah, man. We are joined on this one by the rock section of The Cakewalk Pops. Directed by LDR himself!

Boys Of Summer

We have just always liked this song by Don Henley of the Eagles. It is a really haunting song about lost youth etc. Cakewalk Pops again.

New York State Of Mind

It’s hard to beat Billy Joel. Wendy’s father used to live not far from Christy Brinkley’s place on Long Island. It’s a small world after all. Billy Joel wrote some really enduring stuff and this is one.

Prelude In C Major

Lonnie used a steel string Taylor CE L1 on this J.S.Bach piece. Incidentally this music, with minor arranging, is the background for Charles Gounod’s beautiful melody for Ave Maria. We use that piece in our home page on this website. In that recording Lonnie plays a nylon strung Taylor and Wendy plays the Alto Bowed Psaltery.

Malaguena

Lonnie once again uses the steel strung Taylor on this piece. We based the arrangement of this Malaguena on a piano score by Isaac Albeniz.