STAN ROGERS - Songs Of A Lifetime - Music, Lyrics, Stories (with Complete Songbook) - 5LP - Vinyl Box Set [FEB 23]

5LP - The Stan Rogers - 'Songs Of A Lifetime' vinyl box set and songbook is a limited edition with only 1000 being manufactured worldwide.

It is testament to Stan Rogers' impact as a songwriter that 40 years after his sudden tragic death in a fire aboard an airplane in 1983 at the young age of 33 - people young and old are still singing his songs and celebrating his influence. His songs "Northwest Passage," "Barrett's Privateers" and "The Mary Ellen Carter" are woven into the fabric of North American Maritime culture.

Recipient of the Diplome d'honneur by the Canadian Conference of the Arts and a posthumous induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019 are among his many awards. Stan Rogers' legacy was honoured on a postage stamp series issued by Canada Post in 2021. Annually people from across North America flock to the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso, Nova Scotia to celebrate folk music and its namesake's legacy. The music and lyrics of Stan Rogers continue to inspire and influence musicians around the world.

An essential item for any traditional folk music fan, 'Stan Rogers, 'Songs Of A Lifetime' is a limited edition collectible box set that includes the entirety of his songwriting in a beautifully designed book of sheet music with notation and introductions written by Stan and those who worked with him. The book is packaged together with 49-recordings from three albums on five vinyl discs including the rare re-release 'For The Family' first issued only months after his passing, and for the first time ever on vinyl, 'Coffee House to Concert Hall' and 'Home In Halifax'.

The Stan Rogers - 'Songs Of A Lifetime' vinyl box set and songbook is a limited edition with only 1000 being manufactured worldwide.

Tracklist (See also Gallery): 

From Coffee House To Concert Hall:
Side A
1. Guysborough Train - Stan Rogers
2. Pharisee - Stan Rogers
3. It All Fades Away - Stan Rogers
4. Love Letter - Stan Rogers
5. Take It from Day to Day - Stan Rogers

Side B
6. Acadian Saturday Night - Stan Rogers
7. Billy Green - Stan Rogers
8. Straight and True - Stan Rogers
9. The Woodbridge Dog Disaster - Stan Rogers
10. Louise's Song - Stan Rogers

Side C
11. Past Fifty - Stan Rogers
12. Evangeline - Stan Rogers
13. A Matter of Heart - Stan Rogers
14. Famous Inside - Stan Rogers
15. At Last, I'm Ready for Christmas - Stan Rogers

Side D
16. Your Laker's Back in Town
17. The Puddler's Tale
18. Music in Your Eyes
19. Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
20. Down the Road

Home In Halifax:
Side A
1. Bluenose
2. Make & Break Harbour
3. Field Behind the Plow
4. Shriner Cows (Dialogue)
5. Night Guard
6. Morris Dancers (Dialogue)

Side B
7. The Idiot
8. Lies
9. Free in the Harbour
10. Band Introductions (Dialogue)
11. Working Joe
12. The Legend of Fingal (Dialogue)
13. Giant

Side C
14. Forty-five Years
15. Mary Ellen Carter Intro (Dialogue)
16. The Mary Ellen Carter
17. Barrett's Privateers
18. Sailor's Rest Intro (Dialogue)
19. Sailor's Rest

Side D
Discoveries •  Rare Live Recordings:
1 Paint Me a Picture
2 Skyway
3 Jamie
4 Love Can't Be Bitter All the Time
5 The Old Rose & Crown

For The Family:
Side A
1. Lookout Hill - Stan Rogers
2. Cliffs of Baccalieu - Stan Rogers
3. Strings and Dory Plug - Stan Rogers
4. The Badger Drive - Stan Rogers
5. Cape St. Mary's - Stan Rogers

Side B
6. Two Bit Cayuse - Stan Rogers
7. Scarborough Settler's Lament - Stan Rogers
8. Yeastcake Jones - Stan Rogers
9. Up in Fox Island - Stan Rogers
10. Three Fishers - Stan Rogers