Stuart’s song for his mentor, 50’s and 60s great Rolf Cahn, who died in 1994. “When he found that the end was near, he called me from Santa Fe.  He said he was going on a trip, and wanted to wish me ‘Good Road.’ I didn’t find out until six months later that he was actually saying goodbye, the sneaky bastard.” 
Stuart, vocals and guitar; Jack, vocals and banjo

Good Road

Written by Jack on the anniversary of 9/11. Despite the tragedy, fear and war fever that followed, Americans can look to the heroic passengers who stopped hijacked Flight 93 reaching its target. Jack adapted Guthrie’s 1942 “Reuben James,” itself adapted from “Wildwood Flower for this moving tribute.

United 93

The Carters’ wonderfully uplifting song must have been to the Great Depression what ‘Bright Side of Life’ was to the Thatcher/Reagan era. Accurately mastering Maybelle’s syncopated guitar break is no easy task. Earl Scruggs did it though.

You Are My Flower

The haunting tune, from “Pretty Polly,” sung very plainly by Guthrie, was later used by Dylan for “The Death of Harry Sims.” Ours borrows elements of banjo-led versions of the old ballad like Clarence Ashley’s.  



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We Are All Charlie Now

Jack Warshaw and Stuart Michael Burns have been performing folksongs and making new ones for fifty years.  From 60s Greenwich Village to trans-Altlantic touring, each has met, learned from and shared stages with greats like Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, the Seegers, Ewan MacColl, Ed McCurdy, Townes Van Zandt, Jesse Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Barbara Dane, Rolf Cahn, Frankie Armstrong, Leon Rosselson, Sara Grey, Roy Bailey, Jean Ritchie, Clarence Ashley, Karaxu and many others.  Their traditional and original ballads, love songs, blues, humour and powerful topical material excites, provokes and elevates. With over a hundred years of music creation between them, they don't act- they just are.   

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