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Fogarty's Cove

"This is my first album, and I hope you enjoy it. It's really where I'm from and I think that's appropriate for a first album."

Stan's first album is named for the song that caught the ear of Mitch Podolak, who had recently started the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and when first hearing the title track's demo version, was "blown away". He provided financial support for the recording, which was extremely well-received and so successful, it gave fans the impression that the Ontario-born Stan was actually a Maritime musician. Nevertheless, it began a series of albums that eventually would chronicle Canada from coast to coast.

Track List / Details

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Watching The Apples Grow
For William Davis, Premier of Ontario, who asked "Ontario! Is there any place you'd rather be?" You betcha, Bill.

Guitars and vocals: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bernie Jaffe and John Allan Cameron Bass: David Woodhead Drums: Jerome Jarvis

Fourty-Five Years
Just a love song-for my future wife, and a day in Cole Harbour.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Piano: Ken Whiteley Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

Fogarty's Cove
"We're all dressed up in our rubber suits, our rubber hats and rubber boots."

Guitars and vocals: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Long neck mandolin: The Masked Luthier Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bass: David Woodhead Drums: Jerome Jarvis

Maid on the Shore
For Mike and Tim.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Dulcimer: The Masked Luthier Mandolin: Ken Whiteley Violins: Garnet Rogers, Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

Barrett's Privateers
From a story told to me by Bill Howell in Halifax, with thanks to Friends of Fiddler's Green, who inspired the style.

Vocals: Stan Rogers, Garnet Rogers, David Woodhead, Ken Whiteley

Fisherman's Wharf
A tale of Modern Halifax.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs

Giant
In those parts of Cape Breton Island where the "Old Tongue" is heard more often than English, You'd almost believe that the Giant Fingal migrated west with his people. I feel part of something very old sometimes...

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs 12 string guitar: John Allan Cameron, Bass: David Woodhead Drums and percussion: Jerome Jarvis

Rawdon Hills
In the very heart of Nova Scotia-the scene for yet another corporate rip-off, and a long dream...

Guitars: Stan Rogers, Curly Boy Stubbs and David Woodhead, Bass: David Woodhead

Plenty of Hornpipe
Just For fun

Guitar: Stan Rogers Violin: Bernie Jaffe Mandolin: Ken Whiteley Long neck mandolin: The Masked Luthier Flute: Garnet Rogers Bass: David Woodhead Step-dancing: Jerome Jarvis

The Wreck of the Athens Queen
A yarn spun of Farley Mowat's "The Gray Seas Under" and a story my borther told me... sort of a salvage job.

Guitar: Stan Rogers Banjo: The Masked Luthier Bass: David Woodhead

Make and Break Harbour
Where the little boats gave way to the big, leaving old men dreaming on the shore.

Guitars: Stan Rogers and Curly Boy Stubbs Violin: Garnet Rogers Lap Steel and Bass: David Woodhead Vocals: Stan Rogers

Finch's Complaint/Giant: reprise
A recitation in the old tradition, to be learned by ear and not from the printed(or written) page. The event is very nearly fact, and is included to perhaps illustrate that the maritimes cannot always be thought of in terms of eating blueberry pie and drinking black rum. My thanks to Canadian Poet Bill Howell, whose poems gave me the language in which to try one of my own.

Concertina: The Masked Luthier (Grit Laskin)

Liner Notes

Welcome to Fogarty's Cove.

There is no such place. At least on any map.But if you trace with your finger along the shore of Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, from the town of Guysborough north-east toward Canso Town ( as differentiated from the Canso Strait), you will encounter names like Half Way Cove, Queensport, Half Island Cove, Fox Island, Hazel Hill, and Canso herself, where my mother was born, and where she grew up. She married a Pictou county boy, and when I was born, she took me home to show me to the folks.

Mom's brothers, most of them, anyway, played or sang, or both, and I guess it naturally followed that one of my earliest memories would be of my uncles sitting around my grandparent's kitchen, "half shot", playing guitars (some of them home-built) and singing old tear-jerkers by Wilf Carter, Hank Snow, and Hank Williams, with Aunt June and Mum and all the rest joining in, in more-or-less harmony, while dad looked on, smiled, and played referee. It was one of these uncles, Lee Bushell, who made me my first guitar when I was five, out of Ontario birch, welding rods, and an old toothbrush. A fine-sounding instrument - I still have it...

I guess you might say my roots are pretty firmly set in tat part of the world.So much so, I suppose, that when Aunt June (by now Ms. Sam Jarvis) suggested that I start writing songs about the place, I couldn't resist, and "Fogarty's Cove" came along. Most of the other songs on thhis album, and indeed the whole idea behind it, kind of evolved from there. The single exception is "Maid on the Shore", a traditional Newfoundland tune which I learned from a couple of Annapolis Valley boys, Mike and Tim Curry, when we shared an apartment in London, Ontario. Many were the nights, over much home-brew...

This is my first album, and I hope you enjoy it. It's reallly where I'm from (thanks to a great producer and some senstive musicians), and I think that's appropriate for a first album. But, if you don't like it, I make no apologies, but refer you, instead, to my aunt, June Jarvis, in Canso, N.S. After all, the whole thing was her idea!

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