1. Click here to listen to Set I

Set I

After Yeats
Queen’s Confessor
Mud
Iroquois Waltz
Pretty Little Widow/Salt Creek
Don’t Leave Me Here Tonight
Too Many Things
Riding on a Load of Hay/Carving the Pumpkin
Conversation’s Free
The Split

2. Click here to listen to Set II pt.1

Set II

Lonesome Gone
Sean’s Favorite
Hoad’s Tornado
Cold Coffee/Sour Oats
Set II pt. 2
Snake River Reel/Over the Waves/Whiskey Before Breakfast
Barroom Waltz
Far From Shore
Encore
My Anxious Heart

Fiddler’s Hearth 2/8/08 recorded by Andyman Hopkins is posted here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=goldmine%20pickers
It’s in four installments but all available for downloading in mp3 and a few other formats. Keep checking back to www.archive.org for more live show postings.

Set I

1. After Yeats
2. Queen’s Confessor
3. Mud
4. Fisher’s Hornpipe
5 Bantor
6. Hoad’s Tornado
7. More Pretty Girls Than One
8. LA County
9. Sean’s Favorite
10. Dance All Night
11. Pretty Little Widow/Salt Creek
12. Baton Rouge
13. Cold Coffee, Sour Oats

Set II

01. I’ve Been All Around This World
0.2. Worried Man Blues
03. Don’t Leave Me Here Tonight
04. Stealin’
05. Snake River Reel/Over the Waves/Whiskey Before Breakfast
06. Stumblin’ Lenny
07. I’m Walking the Dog
08. High on a Mountain
09. Iroquois Waltz
10. Black Mountain Rag
11. Minor Swing
12. Lonesome Gone
13. The Split

Set III

1. Too Many Things
2. Riding on a Load of Hay/Carving the Pumpkin
3. John Hardy

CD info goes here

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1. Prelude
2. Queen’s Confessor
3. Mud
4. Seans Favorite
5. Dont Leave Me Here Tonight
6. The Split
7. Barroom Waltz
8. After Yeats
9. Far From Shore
10. Lonesome Gone
11. Iroquois Waltz
12. Postlude

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Well folks, when Luke asked me to write a description of our first recording, I was a bit irritated as he obviously hadn’t put any more effort into it than to write “Recorded in late 2004…blah, blah, blah”.  To be perfectly honest, I haven’t listened to this disc in a very long time and anyway, how are you supposed to be objective about your own work?  So here I am writing and REALLY listening to the original Goldmine Pickers cd for the first time in who knows how long and all that really comes to mind is, “Wow!  This sounds really great!”  All of the instruments sound clear and warm and the feeling of the recording is so relaxed that I feel like I should be sitting on the front porch watching a summer storm come down.

Suddenly, I am remembering the pure joy that I felt when we all first started playing together and the excitement of recording our first album with some really great musicians and new friends!  I’d never recorded on anything before and I don’t think we really had any sort of preconceived ideas or cared about what we thought the Goldmine Pickers should sound like.  It was just four excited musicians recording in a cluttered barn w/ isolation booths made of half sheets of plywood and covered in old blankets!  I’m not sure if we will ever be able to recapture the excitement and innocence that we felt during that time, but it certainly comes through in this recording and even after 4 years, I can still say that I can go back and hear new things in it!

My recommendation is that you find a front porch, a summer rainstorm and some headphones for this one!

Sean - May, 6th 2008

1. Hoad’s Tornado
2. Loneliness & Desperation
3. Too Many Things
4. Stumblin’ Lenny
5. Cold Coffee, Sour Oats
6. Conversation’s Free
7. Riding on a Load of Hay/Carving the Pumpkin
8. Greed
9. Tequila Caesar