Concerned with the disappearance of folk music from the radio airwaves,
former Byrds founder and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Roger McGuinn decided to keep traditional folk songs alive by recording and posting downloadable versions of many of the genre's standards on his Website.

Since 1994, Roger has posted a "new" old song every month on the "Folk Den" page of his Website (http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/), complete with lyrics, guitar tablature, personal reminiscences and evocative artwork. In an effort
to bring these songs to a wider audience, Roger decided to re-record many
"Folk Den" selections and some other compatible songs with friends and
influences from his past. Traveling up and down the Eastern Seaboard with his wife and a portable computer with studio software, Roger recorded 18 songs with the help of Tommy Makem (with the Makem Brothers), Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Odetta, Jean Ritchie, Josh White Jr. and acclaimed newcomer Eliza Carthy.

For the TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN CD, Roger, Tommy
and the Makem Brothers recorded two of Roger's favorites from his teenaged days of seeing Tommy & the Clancy Brothers perform at Chicago's Gate of Horn club, "Finnegan's Wake" and "Whiskey in the Jar."Among the other songs on the FOLK DEN CD are "Alabama Bound, " "In the Evenin'," "Dink's Song" and "Pete's Song" (all with guest Pete Seeger), "Wagoner's Lad" and "Willie Moore" (both with Joan Baez and Eliza Carthy), "Fair Nottamun Town" and "John the Revelator" (with Jean Ritchie, and Odetta on the latter), and many other selections from the golden era of folk music.

For more information, sound samples, and secure online ordering for Roger McGuinn's TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN, please visit www.appleseedrec.com.

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