Billy Faier discography

sources: http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/OddsAndEnds/DGsBanjoTeacher.htm and http://www.hvmusic.com/article/alexander/mik/

This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm. All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own. Stefan Wirz   www.wirz.de Billy Faier LPs # year of release title label # / notes 1 195? Travelin' Man - Travelin' Man - Downfall Of Paris - Billy The Kid - All My Trials - Wind In The Trees - Dying British Sergeant - Great Assembly - Galveston Flood - Soldier's Joy - Miner's Lifeguard - Pay Day At Coal Creek - Nine Pound Hammer - Diane's Reel - Hell Bound Train prod. by Bill Grauer Riverside RLP 12-657 = Washington 740 = P-Vine PCD 5223 2 1957 The Art Of The Five-String Banjo - The Rakes Of Mallow - H'Kotsrim - Green Corn - Garryowen/MacLeod's Reel/   Haste To The Wedding - Yugoslav Kolo - High Barbary - Spanish Fandango - The Last Of Callahan - Farewell Blues - Dance Of A Spanish Fly - Three Jolly Rogues - Sailor's Hornpipe - The Wren Song - Greek Dance - The Darby Ram - Lute Song For Five-String Banjo + Frank Hamilton, g liner notes by Pete Seeger each song's history by Kenneth S. Goldstein Riverside RLP 12-813 3 1959 Folk Song Kit Guitar Instruction prepared by Billy Faier Lee Hays, Milt Okun, voc Standard Note "A"; "A" Chord, "E" Chord, Slip To My Lou; Down In the Valley; "D" Chord Exercise One; Home On The Range; 2/4 Basic Strum, Skip To My Lou; 3/4 Basic Strum; Down In The Valley; Home On The Range; "G" Chord Excerise 2; Chords, B7, C, F, E7, A7, D7, G7; "AM" Chord; "EM" Chord; St. James Infirmary; Venezuela; Greensleeves; A Finale Word; Cindy; Shenandoah; Streets of Laredo; Barabara Allen; Red River Valley; Sweet Betsy From Pike; Frankie And Johnny; Black Is The Color; The Golden Vanity; Gently Johnny My Jingalo; Jinnie Jenkins; on top Of Old Smokey; Eggs And Marrowbone; Turtle Dove; I Wish I Was Single Again; Jesse James; Joshua; Mister Frog Went A-Courting; Wayfaring Stranger; 900 Miles 1 LP box set Elektra EKL 5001 (mono) Elektra (1967) "How To Play Folk Guitar" 4 196? In White America (Soundtrack) Original Cast Recording Judith Rutherford Marechal presents IN WHITE AMERICA by Martin B. Duberman Directed by Harold Stone Music performed by Billy Faier musical direction by Oscar Brand Designed by Robin Wagner Costume supervision by Patricia Quinn Stuart with Gloria Foster, James Greene, Moses Gunn, Claudette Nevins, Michael O'Sullivan and Fred Pinkard Columbia KOL6030 5 1965 The Beast Of Billy Faier - Folksinger's Heaven - Dog's Life - Denver, Colorado - Rose Anne - The Unpleasantness At The Nook - Together Free - Slow And Easy - Cuba Song - Leadbelly's Children - Live And Let Live - Song Of The Coo-Coo rec. January 19 & 20, 1965 at Beltone Studios John Sebastian, harm, g "Doc" Goldberg, b Faier Records 1 6 1973 Banjo Side Two - Improvisation In E - Longhorn Express - Orion Rising - New World Coming Side One - Fiddle Tune - Pizzaraga - Faier's Rag - Zzyzx - Rhinocerus Waltz Takoma C 1037 Takoma discography 7 1987 Banjos, Birdsong And Mother Earth - Dear Mother Earth - Song Of The Canyon Wren - Matkatamiba - Bright Angel Rag - Song Of The Cukoo - Cosmo - Five String Fanfare - For Me And My Baby - Kemp's Jig - Fragmented Rag - The Great Assembly - Si Me Quieres Escribir - Cluck 'Ol Hen - Solar System Music rec. by Jack Nelson at Pilot Productions mastered at Scott Petito’s NRS Studios John Sebastian, mixing + Gilles Malkine, g John Sebastian, harm, g     "Banjos, Birdsong & Mother Earth" cassette tape is available ($15) from: Billy Faier, P.O. Box 343, Marathon, Texas. 79842 Tel. 432 386 4739 The two Riverside LPs are not available on cassette anymore. Billy Faier 05/06/2005: "Any one who simply must have it may get a hand made CD from me for $25. This until I do a commercial run of it." Thanks to Gilles Malkine for info / scan of 'Banjos, Birdsong & Mother Earth'   Billy Faier 1964 from David Gahr & Robert Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 93   Anthologies / Compilations / Samplers containing music performed by Billy Faier # year of release title / songs performed by Billy Faier label # / notes 1 1957 Banjos, Banjos, and More Banjos! Dick Weissman - Billy Faier - Eric Weissberg - Buck Dancer's Choice (Faier, bj, Weissberg, g) - Little Birdie (Weissman, bj) - Glory, Glory (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g, voc) - Old Joe Clark (Faier, bj) - Chilly Winds (Weissman and Weissberg, bj, voc) - East Tennessee Blues   and Shout Lulu (Weissman, bj, Rosmini, g) - Pigtown Fling (Faier, bj) - Cape Cod Blues (Weissman, bj) - Hard, Ain't It Hard (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g) - Red Wing (Faier, bj) - A Day In The Kentucky Mountains (Weissman, bj, voc) - You Can Dig My Grave (Faier and Weissberg, bj, voc) - Sourwood Mountains (Weissman, bj) - 900 Miles (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g) - Cripple Creek (Faier, bj, Frank Hamilton, g) - Blue Goose (Weissman, bj) Judson J 3017 = Washington WLP-704 Five String Banjo Jamboree A Treasury Of Banjo Music 'Folk music of the World' series (Riverside label subsidiary) Dick Rosmini discography 2 1959 Folk Festival At Newport 1959 Vol. 3 Oscar Brand, assisted by Billy Faier, voc, g - Earl's Breakdown Vanguard VRS 9064 3 1963 The Banjo Story - Green Corn Horizon WP 1623 more info 4 1964 5-String Banjo Greats - Goodman Coonhound Liberty LRP 3357(mono) + LST-7357 (stereo) more info 5 19?? The World of Folk Music Hosted by Oscar Brand, Show # 104 (Billy Faier) & Show 105 (The Big Three) 6 1960 All-Star Hootenanny Bob Gibson - Whoa Buck The Homesteaders - Railroad Bill Sonny Terry - Red River Oscar Brand - The E-ri-e Was Rising Cynthia Gooding - I Know Where I'm Going The Staple Singers - Dying Man's Plea Odetta - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Billy Faier - Bahaman Lullaby The Lonesome River Boys - Raise A Ruckus Memphis Slim - Sunnyland Train Eric Weissberg & Dick Rosmini - Hard, Ain't It Hard John Lee Hooker - I Rowed A Little Boat Illustration: Robert Blechman Riverside RM 7539 [mono] RS 97539 [stereo] 7 1960 All-Star Hootenanny Vol. Two Bob Gibson - Titanic The Staple Singers - Cottonfields The Lonesome River Boys - Sugar Hill John Lee Hooker - Black Snake Oscar Brand w/ Erik Darling - No More Booze The Millburnaires '63 - What Have They Done To The Rain ? The Homesteaders - Last Monday Morning Odetta - Oh, Papa Billy Faier - The Darby Ram Memphis Slim - Highway 61 Ed McCurdy - Get Up And Bar The Door The Carolina Freedom Fighters - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom Riverside RM 7543 [mono] RS 97543 [stereo] 7a 1966 Folk Songs For Little Sailors - Sail Away, Sail Away - Bob Gibson - The Walloping Windowblind - Oscar Brand - The Bold Fisherman - Oscar Brand - High Barbary - Billy Faier - The Sailor's Hornpipe - Billy Faier - The Fishes Song - Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - The Golden Vanity - Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - Two Little Boats I Spy - Louise DeCormier - The Mermaid - John Runge - The Flying Dutchman - Dean Gitter - Belfast Hornpipe - Margaret Barry - Sir Patrick Spens - Ed McCurdy - Bunch Of Roses - Oscar Brand - Midnight On The Ocean - Oscar Brand - Sailing Along And Singing - The Renaissance Chorus Riverside LAB 1424 8 1966 Folk Songs From The Children's Zoo Ed McCurdy Bob Gibson - The Horse Named Bill Oscar Brand Peggy Seeger The DeCormiers Billy Faier John Runge - Poor Old Horse Riverside LAB 1425 9 1975 The Very Best of Country Banjo - Goodman, Coon Hound, His Jig United Artists UA-LA411-E 10 1980 The Banjo Greats, Vol. 1 - Green Corn Piccadilly Records Pic 3305 11 1991 Folk Song America, Vol. 2: A 20th Century Revival - The Rakes Of Mallow The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings.- Sony Music Special Products RD 046-2 12 1996 The Riverside/Folklore Series Vol. 3: Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival - Green Corn - Dance Of A Spanish Fly - Three Jolly Rogues rec. 1955-1958 Riverside RCD-9911-2 more info 13 2006 Imaginational Anthem Vol. 2 James Blackshaw - River Of Heaven Peter Lang - Future Shot At The Rainbow Jose Gonzalez - Suggestions Jesse Sparhawk - Light Cycle/Tetrahedra Michael Chapman - Leaving The Apple Sean Smith - What Blooms In Summer Dies In Winter Fred Gerlach - Devil's Brew Christina Carter - Ascend Mem Jack Rose - Cross The North Fork II Billy Faier - New World Coming Sharron Kraus - Looking For The Hermit’s Cave Robbie Basho - Kowaka D'Amour Tompkins Square 1424 www.tompkinssquare.com     Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!   Billy Faier on front cover of Takoma C-1037 (cover by Gloria Charles)   (Guest) Appearances on other Artist's recordings # year of release artist / title / instrument(s) played by Billy Faier label # / notes 1 1952 Frank Warner Sings American Folk Songs And Ballads banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier - Keep Your Hands On The Plow - Hold My Hand, Lord Jesus - Lord Lovel - Battle Of Bull Run - The Unreconstructed Rebel - He's Got The Whole World In His Hand - The Days Of Forty-Nine - Gilgary Mountain - Blue Mountain Lake - Tom Dooley - Days Of '49 Elektra EKLP-3 (10") = EKL 153 (1958) Our Singing Heritage Vol. 3 reissued as 'American Traditional Folksongs' (196?) Frank Warner page 1a 1957 Logan English The Days of '49: Songs of the Gold Rush - What Was Your Name In The States? - Sacramento - A Ripping Trip - Sweet Betsy From Pike - Crossing The Plains - Prospecting Dream - Life in California - I Often Think Of Writing Home - The Days Of '49 - He's The Man For Me - Clementine - The Gambler - Joe Bowers - The California Stage Company - California Bloomer - Sacramento Gals rec. by Kenneth S. Goldstein; Logan English, voc, g; Billy Faier, bj Logan English discography notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein Folkways FH 5255 = Chants Du Monde FWX-M-55255 (Fr) 2 1958 Ed McCurdy: Children's Songs banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier - Billy Boy - My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean - S-M-I-L-E - Tree In The Hole - I Had A Little Rooster - One Man Went To Mow - 'Sing' Said The Mother - The Old Woman And The Pig - A Hole In The Bucket - Froggy Went A Courting - O Suzzana - Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor - The Little Black Bull - Three Fisherman - O Dear, What Can The Matter Be - I Wish I Was - I Had A Horse - Mr Rabbit - Keemo Kimo - The Noble Duke Of York - God Bye, My Lover, Good Bye - Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star Tradition TLP 1027 3 1958 Ed McCurdy: When Dalliance Was In Flower Vol. 2 Ed McCurdy, vocals Robert Abramson, harpsichord LaNoue Davenport, recorders William Faier, guitar and banjo Erik Darling, solo banjo Elektra EKL 140 4 1958 Theodore Bikel & Geula Gill Sing Folk Songs from Just About Everywhere banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier Elektra EKL 161 5 1959 Oscar Brand: Every Inch A Sailor plus Billy Faier, Mike Seeger, Milt Okun, Russ Savakus, and Ted Tyle - Destroyer Life - To A Wave - Guantanamo Bay - The Reuben James - Steam Torpedo - Barnacle Bill - Home Boys Home - The Captain - Didn't She Ramble - The Battle Of Ormoc Bay - Laws Of The Navy - Sub Division Nine - Zamboanaga - We Ain't Going To Sea No More Elektra EKL 169 [mono] EKS 7169 [stereo] www.oscarbrand.com 6 1959 Ed McCurdy: Son Of Dalliance banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier Elektra EKL 170 7 1960 Oscar Brand: Election Songs Of The United States banjo & guitar accompaniment by Billy Faier Folkways FH 5280 8 1961 Oscar Brand Sings for Adults banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier - The Good Peanuts - Hey, Dig'A'Diggy - Locks And Bolts - Talking Atomic Blues - Red Light Saloon - Wanderin' - Fiddlers 3 - Old Dolores - Talking Guitar Blues - Molly Brannigan - Parties ABC Paramount ABC 388 ABC-Paramount discography 9 1967 The Best Of Ed McCurdy banjo accompaniment on side 1 by Eric Darling, banjo and 2nd guitar accompaniment on side 2 by Billy Faier - Dear Evelina - Green Grow - The Lilacs - Dreary Black Hills - The Bower - Hush Little Baby - Billy Boy - My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean - Sing Said Mother - Little Black Bull - Three Fishermen - Twinkle Little Star Tradition TLP 1051 = ASTOR GGS-853 (NZ) 10 1976 Cathy Chamberlain: Rag'n Roll Revue banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier Buddah 5686 = WB 3032 (1977)     Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!   Billy Faier's water bag 1964 from David Gahr & Robert Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 68   Other Artist's recordings, on which Billy Faier is mentioned ;-) # year of release artist / title label # / notes In '912 Greens' Ramblin' Jack Elliott tells the tale of his 1953 trip south with some buddies (Frank Hamilton and Guy Carawan) to look up Billy Faier, 'a 5-string banjo picker' who - at that time - lived 912 Toulouse St. in New Orleans (read Ramblin' Jack Elliott Goldmine interview at www.ramblinjack.com) ------> read lyrics 1 1967 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Young Brigham - 912 Greens Reprise R/RS 6284 re-released (along with "Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Bill Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks") 1995 on CD: Rounder CD 0368 re-released 2000 on Japanese CD Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography 2 1981 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Kerouac's Last Dream - 912 Greens recorded 24th and 25th April 1980 at Tonstudio St. Blasien, Northeim - West Germany Folk Freak FF 4005 (D) = Wundertüte CD TUT-CD72.163 re-released (+ additional material from those sessions) 1997 on CD: Appleseed Recordings 1021 Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography 3 1995 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Me & Bobby McGee - 912 Greens Rounder CD 0368 re-release of 1967 Reprise LPs RS 6284 ("Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Young Brigham") and RS 6387 ("Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Bill Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks") Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography 4 1997 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Kerouac's Last Dream - 912 Greens Appleseed CD 1021 re-release of Folk Freak LP FF 4005 (+ outtakes from the sessions), recorded 24th and 25th April 1980 at Tonstudio St. Blasien, Northeim - West Germany Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography   Billy Faier's Banjo Book.- Hargail Music 1958 contains six tunes: Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynne, Sailor’s Hornpipe, Hunt The Wren, Green Corn, The Dance Of The Spanish Fly, and Irish Medley (Haste To The Wedding, Garry Owen, and Miss McLeod’s Reel)   Pete Seeger: "The Goofing-Off Suite" Instrumental Pieces for 5-String Banjo and Guitar and Mandolin arranged by Peter Seeger, transcribed by Billy Faier Hargail Folk Anthology H 606   CARAVAN the magazine of folk music APR-MAY 1959 #16 Published in NY3 by Billy Faier   Billy Faier is member of the population of Humbead's Revised Map of the World   from http://www.woodstock-online.com/events/bday3.html   Billy Faier Dave Guard's Banjo Teacher? bio / interview

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