Music of Howie Bursen
 

Prices listed below include shipping and handling. Please send any orders to Howie Bursen at P.O. Box 98, Abington, CT 06320. Be sure to include the name, quantity and format (cassette or CD) and include payment in the form of a check or money order payable to Howie Bursen.. If you are in too much of a hurry to use snail-mail try  Elderly Instruments or Folk Legacy Records. 

 

Howie Bursen with Jay Ungar, Molly Mason and Bob Pasquarello.  Songs:    Jay & Molly's Wedding,   Pretty Saro,  Malana's Jig,  June Apple, Vinaya,  Mysteries of a Hobo's Life,  I Think My Brains Fell Out, Tommy Thompson, For Pete's Sake,   Maya's Bounce,  Wild Bill Jones,   Bursen's Fancy,  Sally's Upstairs With the Hogeyed Man,  Beat the Reaper,   Hull's Victory      Total Time: 52 minutes of great banjo

 

Listen to clips on Folk Legacy Records

Howie is acclaimed as a true master of the frailed banjo, but his guitar playing is pretty cool, too. And on top of that, he can sing! Here he gives us  some great banjo tunes, matched by some downright raunchy blues. Clara's Hornpipe; Handsome Molly; Green Willis; The New Irish  Girl; The Linnet; Morpeth Rant; When First Unto  This Country; Foxhunter's Jig; Would You Have  Time; Joshua Gone Barbados; Wild Horse; Year  of Jubilo; Greasy Greens; Cherokee Shuffle;  Biscuits; Pacific Slope; My Baby Done Changed the Lock and I Never Cried. (text from Folk Legacy Records)

When Howie Met Sally (CD-$16.50; Cass-$11.50)  Released in 1990 by Flying Fish Records, "When Sally met Howie" includes original pieces as well as pieces by a variety of other well known folk artists. Sally and Howie perform together on many  songs (which include Howie's original very humorous "Plastic Rap") and a medley of reels. 
 

Satisfied Customers with Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen (cassette only- $11.50)  Including: Milwaukee St. Paul/ Small Business Blues/ Way Down the Road/ If I Were a Featherbed/ The Magpie/ King's Peak/ Cattle in the Cane/ Take Me Home/ Nancy/ Paddy on the Railroad/ Jack Orion/ The Gentle Earl/ Abelard and Eloise/ Beggars to God