Name: Bridges
Brand: Red House Records
SKU: 180404
Price: 13.25 GBP
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Bridges

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Album: Bridges
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Pretty Boy Floyd
2)	Moving It Down the Line
3)	Walker Behind the Wheel
4)	Place in the Choir, A
5)	Porcupine Talks to Itself, The
6)	Happy Yodel, The
7)	Bridges
8)	Railroad Blues
9)	Louisiana Storm
10)	Secret Garden
11)	River
12)	I Bid You Goodnight

Album: Bridges

Song Title

Time

Pretty Boy Floyd

Moving It Down the Line

Walker Behind the Wheel

Place in the Choir, A

Porcupine Talks to Itself, The

Happy Yodel, The

Bridges

Railroad Blues

Louisiana Storm

10)

Secret Garden

11)

River

12)

I Bid You Goodnight

Performer Notes

Recorded live at the Coffeehouse Extempore, Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 15-17, 1983.
Personnel: Bill Staines (vocals, guitar); Guy Van Duser (guitar).
Recording information: Coffeehouse Extempore, Minneapolis, MN (07/15/1983-07/17/1983); The Coffeehouse Extempore, Minneapolis, MN (07/15/1983-07/17/1983).
Photographer: Karen Staines.
Recorded live at the Coffeehouse Extempor‚ in Minneapolis, MN, and initially released by the club's record label (with a reissue five years later on Red House Records), Bill Staines' Bridges is a satisfying concert album that finds the veteran folksinger covering folk favorites (Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd," the traditional "I Bid You Goodnight"), repeating old favorites of his own that are beloved of his singalong listeners ("A Place in the Choir," introduced as "my animal song for all you animals out there in the audience"), yodeling ("The Happy Yodel"), and introducing new material ("Moving It Down the Line"). Throughout, Staines, interweaving acoustic guitar lines with Guy Van Duser, sings in his calm, reedy voice, lending a sense of reassurance to his tales of travel and travail. After leading the crowd through "A Place in the Choir," he explains the inspiration for a line about a porcupine, telling a story about his encounter with such an animal on a camping trip ("The Porcupine Talks to Itself"). Although this is his most sustained break from singing, it is of a piece with his songs, gentle, touching, and at times lightly amusing. ~ William Ruhlmann