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Poster by Frank McTruck  —  who did ‘Pokes posters in the ’70s

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The Central Continental Cowpokes — Winnipeg Folk Festival, 1977
Laney Hunt, Rick McGhee, Sue Hodgson, Bill Hodgson, Andy Roblin

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Sadly, regular Cowpoke drummer, mandolin player and singer Brian Ridd was in Europe this month, but he was ably filled in by longtime drummer friend-of-the-family Ron ‘Deep Torpedo’ Torpey. 

Here’s the sweet opening ‘soundcheck’ — Friend of The Devil — including a video tour around the first flush room — thanks to Ann La Touche —

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Here’s the opening few songs thanks to Leora Kamehanaokala Almstrom —

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere — (The Byrds)
Dark Hollow — (Bill Browning, made popular by The Grateful Dead)
I Am A Pilgrim — (traditional, via The Byrds)
I’m Going Back To Manitoba — (Andrew Roblin)
Why You Been Gone So Long — (Mickey Newbury, via the Country Gazette)

 

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Here’s the bulk of the first set thanks to Brian Humniski —

Dark Hollow — (Bill Browning, made popular by The Grateful Dead)
I Am A Pilgrim — (traditional, via The Byrds)
I’m Going Back to Manitoba — (Andrew Roblin)
Why You Been Gone So Long — (Mickey Newbury, via the Country Gazette)
Andy’s three hammer dulcimer songs:
Lucky Trapper’s Reel — (Andy Dejarlis)
Ti-Jean Bouribale — (Reg Bouvette)
Red River Jig  — (traditional, arranged by Andrew Roblin)
Honky Tonkin’ — (Hank Williams)
Cut It Loose — (Robert Zaporzan) — Hodgson lead vocal
Bobby Starr’s first song — Trouble In Mind (Richard M. Jones, a blues standard made popular by Bertha ‘Chippie’ Hill, Dinah Washington & Nina Simone) 
Bobby Starr’s second song — Every Dark Cloud (Has A Silver Lining Shining Through) — with a Rick bass solo, then Andy takin’ it on the pedal steel
Bobby Starr’s third song

END OF FIRST SET   —   SHORT BREAK

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere — (Neil Young)
Freeborn Man!! — (Jimmy Martin)  — with Rick’s monster vocal performance!

 

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Here’s a stand-alone clip of Bobby Starr’s second song — Every Dark Cloud (Has A Silver Lining Shining Through) — thanks to Ann La Touche —

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Here’s the killer juice of the show — the bulk of the second set — thanks to Brian Humniski  — 

Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms — (traditional, via Flatt & Scruggs)
In My Hour of Darkness — (Gram Parsons) — Zap vocal
Tennessee — (Bill Monroe) — King vocal
Wake Up Little Susie — (Everly Brothers)
I’ve Just Seen A Face — (The Beatles)
Travelers On The Road — (the Andy Roblin masterpiece and title song of the new album)

 

 

How Can She Love Me When I Don’t Have A Car — the Ron Torpey hit
This Gettin’ Old Is Gettin’ Old — the new classic by Will Hodgson
Manitoba — Andrew’s homage to to our home
Henry (!) — (New Riders of The Purple Sage)
Love Is a Rose — (Neil Young)
I Can’t Hold Out (Talk To Me Baby) — (Willie Dixon) — a Dave Zilkie shines song
Not Fade Away — (Buddy Holly)
  —>  Call Me The Breeze — (J.J. Cale) — anutha Zilkie-friendly numbah
Sweet Choral (!) — Hodgson’s early classic
Band introductions  —  “Let’s make this an annual event!”
Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother — (Jerry Jeff Walker)  [first minute]

 

The show’s conclusion — the final 1:36 of  Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother —

— video will turn regular horizontal in 20 seconds —

 

 

Dave Zilkie, Rick McGhee, Andrew Roblin, Ron Torpey, Will Hodgson
photo by Brian Humniski

 

Cool video image collage by Ellen Steimel

 

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Speaking of great Winnipeg musicians — here’s a song I wrote with the guy who formed The Guess Who — Chad Allan.

Here’s the tale of when The Grateful Dead playing my 30th birthday — and a buncha friends from Winnipeg were there.

My rock ‘n’ roll mom Enid ended up having a pretty close relationship with many of my musical friends — so here’s A Song of Enid I Sing I wrote for her.

And since this is about great music played in the ‘Peg — here’s the feature story I wrote for Relix magazine about the Festival Express tour and movie when The Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and many others played there in 1970.

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by Brian Hassett

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