We must watch out for the Octopus he's no longer in the deep he's amongst us .... The Octopus The reach of the octopus stretching out amongst the weeds The tentacles creep close Sticky with need No one knows where they are heading anymore…

An in-progress tune I started playing today on my new old harp. Sounds pretty good even just as it is; but I'm imagining it with some light percussion, a little violin, and maybe a guitar? We'll see how it goes.

I wanted to record a version of this lovely traditional East Coast Canada / USA tune. It's been done many times, in different ways, with variations on the lyrics. I've leaned on Solas's and Stan Rogers's versions, and added a verse of my own…

vocals - Janette Salisbury additional production and master Tim Alexander we’re starving children, left alone knocking on the door, but no one’s home how many days have we been here how any nights in the cold praying that someone will…

A little ditty I found in the vaults, with Greg Connor on the Banjo doing his thing, trouble is, neither of us can remember when .......

Pat Bondi here at Alonetone does a great and quite different version of this folk song entitled Maiden on the Shore, so I dug into my demo archives and found this version that I recorded long ago. Long before the Internet, I used to listen…