Side B
6.   Together Free
7.   Slow and Easy
8.   Cuba Song
9.   Leadbelly’s Children
10. Live and Let Live
11. Song of the Cuckoo

This is an LP I produced myself back in 1964.  All original songs.  John Sebastian plays guitar and harmonica on it.  It may have been his first paying music gig. I first met him when he was a young man apprenticed to a guitar maker.  He talked me into letting him redo my guitar, free of charge, under the supervision of his employer.  I went for it and never regretted it.  When he delivered the rebuilt instrument to me and I was strumming it to see how it was, John took a harmonica out and played along with me.  He was already a great harp player, as his father was before him, and I think I talked him into going professional with his harp.  He did so, and I don’t think he ever regretted it either.

Side A has five cuts.  Folksinger’s Heaven, Dog’s Life, Denver Colorado, Rose Anne, and The Unpleasantness at the Nook. I play banjo only on the third and fifth. 

Side B.  This is the political side of the album. 
1. Together Free, about the loneliness of complete individual freedom.
2. Slow and Easy, an allegorical tale of a black man looking for  freedom in Washington, D.C.
3. Cuba Song, a musical amusement sketching the history of the Cuban Revolution.  Written during the missile crises between Kennedy and Krushchev.
4. Leadbelly’s Children.  As the years go by I get more and more comfortable with this song.
5. Live and Let Live.  Says it all.
6. Song of the Cuckoo, or Coo Coo, as I spelled it then.  The only song I ever made any real money off of.

For better or for worse, this Album is my contribution to the Civil Rights movement in the sixties.

Side 2
1. Just Another Dream (Improvisation in E)
2. Longhorn Express
3. Orion Rising

A lot of people thought the dog’s name was Banjo.  Actually it was Pizza.

I also have a CD of a show
I did at Café Lena, in Saratoga Springs,
New York.  Of all the live recordings
I ever did this one is, head and shoulders,
above all the rest in performance quality.
I never played better on tape.  I was
only in my thirties at the time and I am
not crazy today about what I did and
said then. But I think the banjo playing
is worth putting up with the player.
It is unedited.  Intros, applause, and all.
I do three or four Beatle Songs on it.

$25.00 for the CD. 

Disc 2
11. Norwegian Wood
12. Jig Saw Puzzle**
13. When You Have Found Your
         Superman**
14. Daddy, I had a Dream Last Night**
15. Willy Moore
16. Hunt the Wren
17. Leadbelly’s Children
18. Together Free
19. Folksinger’s Heaven
20. *The Hell Bound Train
21. *Wind in the Trees and Dance of
           the  Spanish Fly

*  In both these numbers reverb was added by the unknown person who recorded the program.

**These seven songs are Billy Faier originals that have never been recorded.

This CD was recorded on October 13, 2007 in St. Paul Minnesota at the home of Gene Henriksen who twisted my arm for months until I agreed to do it.  As usual I hated the recording, and was reluctant to have it issued, but Gene assured me that everyone who heard it thought it wonderful.  And so, recalling the similar feelings I had about my first LPs fifty years ago, I agreed.

Since this is a commercial issue and not a handmade CD, the price is only $20.00.

1. Rakes of Mallow
2. Solar System Music
3. H'Kotsrim
4. Irish Medley--Gary Owen, Macleod's Reel, Haste to the Wedding
5. Yugoslav Kolo
6. Spanish Fandango
7. Last of Callahan
8. Farewell Blues
9. Dance of the Spanish Fly
10. Greek Dance
11. Lute Song for the Five String Banjo
12. Downfall of Paris
13. Fragmented Rag
14. Diane's Reel
15. Dear Mother Earth
16. Kemp's Jig
17. Five String Fanfare
18. Wind in the Trees
19. For Me and My Baby
20. Bright Angel Rag