 source: http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/OddsAndEnds/DGsBanjoTeacher.htm | Billy Faier William David Faier b. December 21, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York City d. January 29, 2016 at the Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas discography |  source: http://www.hvmusic.com/article/alexander/mik/ |
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| 1 | 195? | Billy Faier: Travelin' Man - Travelin' Man - Downfall Of Paris - Billy The Kid - All My Trials - Wind In The Trees - Dying British Sergeant - Great Assembly - Galveston Flood - Soldier's Joy - Miner's Lifeguard - Pay Day At Coal Creek - Nine Pound Hammer - Diane's Reel - Hell Bound Train prod. by Bill Grauer
notes by Billy Faier notes by Billy Faier = P-Vine PCD 5223 | |
| 2 | 1957 | Billy Faier: The Art Of The Five-String Banjo - The Rakes Of Mallow - H'Kotsrim - Green Corn - Garryowen/MacLeod's Reel/ Haste To The Wedding - Yugoslav Kolo - High Barbary - Spanish Fandango - The Last Of Callahan - Farewell Blues - Dance Of A Spanish Fly - Three Jolly Rogues - Sailor's Hornpipe - The Wren Song - Greek Dance - The Darby Ram - Lute Song For Five-String Banjo assisted by Frank Hamilton, g
notes by Pete Seeger, each song's history by Kenneth S. Goldstein | |
| 3 | 1959 | Folk Song Kit Guitar Instruction prepared by Billy Faier Lee Hays, Milt Okun, voc Standard Note "A"; "A" Chord, "E" Chord, Slip To My Lou; Down In the Valley; "D" Chord Exercise One; Home On The Range; 2/4 Basic Strum, Skip To My Lou; 3/4 Basic Strum; Down In The Valley; Home On The Range; "G" Chord Excerise 2; Chords, B7, C, F, E7, A7, D7, G7; "AM" Chord; "EM" Chord; St. James Infirmary; Venezuela; Greensleeves; A Finale Word; Cindy; Shenandoah; Streets of Laredo; Barabara Allen; Red River Valley; Sweet Betsy From Pike; Frankie And Johnny; Black Is The Color; The Golden Vanity; Gently Johnny My Jingalo; Jinnie Jenkins; on top Of Old Smokey; Eggs And Marrowbone; Turtle Dove; I Wish I Was Single Again; Jesse James; Joshua; Mister Frog Went A-Courting; Wayfaring Stranger; 900 Miles
1 LP box set | |
| 4 | 196? | In White America (Soundtrack) Original Cast Recording Judith Rutherford Marechal presents IN WHITE AMERICA by Martin B. Duberman Directed by Harold Stone Music performed by Billy Faier musical direction by Oscar Brand
Designed by Robin Wagner
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| 5 | 1965 | the beast of Billy Faier - Folksinger's Heaven - Dog's Life - Denver, Colorado - Rose Anne - The Unpleasantness At The Nook - Together Free - Slow And Easy - Cuba Song - Leadbelly's Children - Live And Let Live - Song Of The Coo-Coo rec. January 19 & 20, 1965 at Beltone Studios; Billy Faier, voc, bj; John Sebastian, hca, 2nd g; "Doc" Goldberg, b photo by Leon Kuzmanoff "No orders taken from the State of Mississippi." The album was released in 1965, at the height of the repression of civil rights activism
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| 6 | 1973 | Billy Faier: Banjo @ youtube (full album)Side One - Fiddle Tune - Pizzaraga - Faier's Rag - Zzyzx - Rhinocerus Waltz Side Two - Improvisation In E - Longhorn Express @ youtube - Orion Rising - New World Coming rec. by Alex Osina of Woodstock Visual Arts; Billy Faier, bj cover art by Gloria Charles
Takoma Records discography | |
| 7 | 1987 | Billy Faier: Banjos, Birdsong And Mother Earth - Dear Mother Earth - Song Of The Canyon Wren - Matkatamiba - Bright Angel Rag - Song Of The Cukoo - Cosmo - Five String Fanfare - For Me And My Baby - Kemp's Jig - Fragmented Rag - The Great Assembly - Si Me Quieres Escribir - Cluck 'Ol Hen - Solar System Music rec. at Pilot Productions by Jack Nelson; mastered at Scott Petito's NRS Studios; John Sebastian, mixing; + Gilles Malkine, g; John Sebastian, hca, g
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| 8 | 2007 | Billy Faier: The Downstairs Concert Bootleg - Opening and intro - The Great Assembly - Outro/Intro - Song of The Grand Canyon Mule Driver - Intro - Cluck Old Hen - Intro - Song of the Cuckoo - Outro/Intro - Bright Angel Rag - Intro - Five-String Fanfare - Intro - Zzyxx and Break Announcement - Post-Break Intro - Together Free - Intro - Dog's Life - Intro - Live and Let Live - Intro - It Was a Lover and His Lass - Outro/Intro - South American Tune - Outro/Intro - Whoa Mule - Intro - Miner's Lifeguard - Intro - Folk Singer's Heaven - Encore Call - Little Maggie and Closing Produced by Northern Plains Archive Recordings, Ltd. 32 Tracks, 16 songs, 73.5 minutes total photographer: Angela Henriksen | |
Billy Faier, P.O. Box 343, Marathon, Texas. 79842 Tel. 432 386 4739 The two Riverside LPs are not available on cassette anymore. | |||
Billy Faier 1964
source: David Gahr & Robert Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 93
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| 1 | 1957 | Banjos, Banjos, and More Banjos! Dick Weissman - Billy Faier - Eric Weissberg - Buck Dancer's Choice (Faier, bj, Weissberg, g)  @ youtube (side A)- Little Birdie (Weissman, bj) - Glory, Glory (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g, voc) - Old Joe Clark (Faier, bj) - Chilly Winds (Weissman and Weissberg, bj, voc) - East Tennessee Blues and Shout Lulu (Weissman, bj, Rosmini, g) - Pigtown Fling (Faier, bj) - Cape Cod Blues (Weissman, bj) - Hard, Ain't It Hard (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g) @ youtube (side B)- Red Wing (Faier, bj) - A Day In The Kentucky Mountains (Weissman, bj, voc) - You Can Dig My Grave (Faier and Weissberg, bj, voc) - Sourwood Mountains (Weissman, bj) - 900 Miles (Weissberg, bj, Rosmini, g) - Cripple Creek (Faier, bj, Frank Hamilton, g) - Blue Goose (Weissman, bj)
notes by John Greenway notes by John Greenway Dick Rosmini discography | |
| 2 | 1959 | Folk Festival at Newport Volume 3 Earl Scruggs - Flinthill Special Jean Ritchie - What're We Going To Do With The Baby-Oh - Pretty Saro - Shady Grove Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand (accompanied by Billy Faier & Oscar Brand, g; Jean Ritchie, dulcimer) - Paper Of Pins John Jacob Niles - The Hangman, or The Maid Freed From The Gallows Frank Hamilton - Lady Gay Frank Warner - Old Racoon Earl Scruggs - Earl's Breakdown Oscar Brand (assisted by Billy Faier, voc, g) - Which Side Are You On? Cynthia Gooding - Un Domingo - Jalisco Ed McCurdy - The Old Fisherman - When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Earl Scruggs - Cumberland Gap rec. at the Newport Folk Festival, July 11/12, 1959
notes by Studs Terkel
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| 3 | 1963 | The Banjo Story Mason Williams - Banjo Hello Eric Weissberg & Marshall Brickman - Earle's Breakdown Billy Cheatwood - Nine Hundred Miles (Hundreeds Of Miles) Billy Faier - Green Corn @ youtube Art Podell - Ragaputa (Hindu Stomp) David Lindley - Mad Mountain Medley Dick Weissman - Trail Ridge Road Joe Maphis - Flop Eared Mule (Joe's Breakdown) Erik Darling - Banjo Tune Dick Rosmini - Fast And Loose  [MP3]Jim McGuinn - Rumblin' On Mike Seeger - Cripple Creek (Goin' Down There)
notes by Dick Weissman notes by Dick Weissman | |
| 4 | 1964 | 5-String Banjo Greats - Goodman Coonhound
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| 5 | 19?? | The World of Folk Music Hosted by Oscar Brand, Show # 104 (Billy Faier) & Show 105 (The Big Three)
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| 6 | 1960 | All-Star Hootenanny Bob Gibson - Whoa Buck The Homesteaders - Railroad Bill Sonny Terry - Red River Oscar Brand - The E-ri-e Was Rising Cynthia Gooding - I Know Where I'm Going The Staple Singers - Dying Man's Plea Odetta - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Billy Faier - Bahaman Lullaby The Lonesome River Boys - Raise A Ruckus Memphis Slim - Sunnyland Train Eric Weissberg & Dick Rosmini - Hard, Ain't It Hard John Lee Hooker - I Rowed A Little Boat Illustration: Robert Blechman
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| 7 | 1960 | All-Star Hootenanny Vol. Two Bob Gibson - Titanic The Staple Singers - Cottonfields The Lonesome River Boys - Sugar Hill John Lee Hooker - Black Snake Oscar Brand w/ Erik Darling - No More Booze The Millburnaires '63 - What Have They Done To The Rain ? The Homesteaders - Last Monday Morning Odetta - Oh, Papa Billy Faier - The Darby Ram Memphis Slim - Highway 61 Ed McCurdy - Get Up And Bar The Door The Carolina Freedom Fighters - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom
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| 7a | 1966 | Folk Songs For Little Sailors - Sail Away, Sail Away - Bob Gibson - The Walloping Windowblind - Oscar Brand - The Bold Fisherman - Oscar Brand - High Barbary - Billy Faier - The Sailor's Hornpipe - Billy Faier - The Fishes Song - Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - The Golden Vanity - Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - Two Little Boats I Spy - Louise DeCormier - The Mermaid - John Runge - The Flying Dutchman - Dean Gitter - Belfast Hornpipe - Margaret Barry - Sir Patrick Spens - Ed McCurdy - Bunch Of Roses - Oscar Brand - Midnight On The Ocean - Oscar Brand - Sailing Along And Singing - The Renaissance Chorus
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| 8 | 1966 | Folk Songs From The Children's Zoo Ed McCurdy Bob Gibson - The Horse Named Bill Oscar Brand Peggy Seeger The DeCormiers Billy Faier John Runge - Poor Old Horse
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| 9 | 1975 | The Very Best of Country Banjo - Goodman, Coon Hound, His Jig
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| 10 | 1980 | The Banjo Greats, Vol. 1 - Green Corn
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| 11 | 1991 | Folk Song America, Vol. 2: A 20th Century Revival - The Rakes Of Mallow
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| 12 | 1996 | The Riverside/Folklore Series Vol. 3: Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival - Green Corn - Dance Of A Spanish Fly - Three Jolly Rogues rec. 1955-1958
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| 13 | 2006 | Imaginational Anthem Vol. 2 James Blackshaw - River Of Heaven Peter Lang - Future Shot At The Rainbow Jose Gonzalez - Suggestions Jesse Sparhawk - Light Cycle/Tetrahedra Michael Chapman - Leaving The Apple Sean Smith - What Blooms In Summer Dies In Winter Fred Gerlach - Devil's Brew Christina Carter - Ascend Mem Jack Rose - Cross The North Fork II Billy Faier - New World Coming Sharron Kraus - Looking For The Hermit's Cave Robbie Basho - Kowaka D'Amour
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| 14 | 9/2013 | Live At Caffè Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013 disc one: Intro by Lena Spencer / Guy Carawan - Cripple Creek (1970) Hedy West - Shady Grove (1968) Intro by Lena Spencer / Sleepy John Estes - Holy Spirit (1974) Frank Wakefield and Friends - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1971) Jean Ritchie - West Virginia Mine Disaster (1969) Billy Faier - Hunt The Wren (1967) Greenbriar Boys - Hit Parade of Love (1968) Mike Seeger - O Death (1971) Jacqui and Bridie - Hello Friend (1974) Tom Paxton - Morning Again (1968) David Amram - Little Mama (1974) Patrick Sky - Reality Is Bad Enough (1971) Rosalie Sorrels - Travelin' Lady (1974) Smoke Dawson - Devil's Dream (1968) Utah Phillips - The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia (1974) Michael Cooney - Thyme It Is A Precious Thing (1974) Kate McGarrigle and Roma Baran - Caffè Lena (1972) disc two: Intro by Lena Spencer / Dave Van Ronk - Gaslight Rag (1974) Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (1968) Barbara Dane - Mama Yancey's Advice / Love With a Feeling (1968) Roy Book Binder - Ain't Nobody Home But Me (1974) Intro by Lena Spencer / David Bromberg - The Holdup (1972) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Pretty Boy Floyd (1992) Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (2010) Aztec Two Step - The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty (1989) Happy And Artie Traum - Trials Of Jonathan (1974) Rick Danko - It Makes No Difference (1988) Paul Geremia - Something's Gotta Be Arranged (1989) Robin and Linda Williams - -S-A-V-E-D (1987) John Herald - Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1991) Pete Seeger - Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat) (1985) disc three: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Folksong (2013) Anais Mitchell - Wedding Song (2013) Bill Morrissey - The Last Day Of The Furlough (1990) Patty Larkin - Island Of Time (1992) Greg Brown - Flat Stuff (1989) Mary Gauthier - I Drink (2013) Sean Rowe - Old Black Dodge (2013) Tom Chapin - Cats In The Cradle (1987) Intro by Lena Spencer / Christine Lavin - It's A Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind (1987) Bill Staines - Sweet Wyoming Home (1990) Bucky and John Pizzarelli - I Like Jersey Best (1989) Rory Block - That's No Way To Get Along (1989) Chris Smither - Killing The Blues (1989) Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone (2013) John Gorka - Down In The Milltown (1990) Lena Spencer - Dear Little Cafe (1972) unreleased performances
3 CD box set | |
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Billy Faier on front cover of Takoma C-1037
(cover by Gloria "Cosmo" Charles)
| # | year of release | artist / title / instrument(s) played by Billy Faier / label # / notes | |
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| 1 | 1952 | Frank Warner Sings American Folk Songs And Ballads banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier - Keep Your Hands On The Plow - Hold My Hand, Lord Jesus - Lord Lovel - Battle Of Bull Run - The Unreconstructed Rebel - He's Got The Whole World In His Hand - The Days Of Forty-Nine - Gilgary Mountain - Blue Mountain Lake - Tom Dooley - Days Of '49
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| 1a | 1957 | Logan English: The Days of '49 Songs of the Gold Rush - What Was Your Name In The States? - Sacramento - A Ripping Trip - Sweet Betsy From Pike - Crossing The Plains - Prospecting Dream - Life in California - I Often Think Of Writing Home - The Days Of '49 - He's The Man For Me - Clementine - The Gambler - Joe Bowers - The California Stage Company - California Bloomer - Sacramento Gals rec. by Kenneth S. Goldstein; Logan English, voc, g; Billy Faier, bj (Faier not mentioned on sleeves & notes!)
notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein
Logan English discography | |
| 2 | 1958 | Ed McCurdy: Children's Songs - Billy Boy - My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean - S-M-I-L-E - Tree In The Hole - I Had A Little Rooster - One Man Went To Mow - 'Sing' Said The Mother - The Old Woman And The Pig - A Hole In The Bucket - Froggy Went A Courting - O Suzzana - Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor - The Little Black Bull - Three Fisherman - O Dear, What Can The Matter Be - I Wish I Was - I Had A Horse - Mr Rabbit - Keemo Kimo - The Noble Duke Of York - God Bye, My Lover, Good Bye - Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier
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| 3 | 1958 | Ed McCurdy: When Dalliance Was In Flower Vol. 2 Ed McCurdy, vocals Robert Abramson, harpsichord LaNoue Davenport, recorders William Faier, guitar and banjo Erik Darling, solo banjo
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| 4 | 1958 | Theodore Bikel & Geula Gill Sing Folk Songs from Just About Everywhere banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier
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| 5 | 1959 | Oscar Brand: Every Inch A Sailor plus Billy Faier, Mike Seeger, Milt Okun, Russ Savakus, and Ted Tyle
- Destroyer Life
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| 6 | 1959 | Ed McCurdy: Son Of Dalliance banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier
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| 7 | 1960 | Oscar Brand: Election Songs Of The United States banjo & guitar accompaniment by Billy Faier
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| 8 | 1961 | Oscar Brand Sings for Adults banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier
- The Good Peanuts
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| 9 | 1967 | The Best Of Ed McCurdy banjo accompaniment on side 1 by Eric Darling, banjo and 2nd guitar accompaniment on side 2 by Billy Faier
- Dear Evelina
= ASTOR GGS-853 (NZ) | |
| 10 | 1976 | Cathy Chamberlain: Rag'n Roll Revue banjo accompaniment by Billy Faier
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Billy Faier's water bag 1964
source: David Gahr & Robert Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 68
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| In '912 Greens' Ramblin' Jack Elliott tells the tale of his 1953 trip south with some buddies (Frank Hamilton and Guy Carawan) to look up Billy Faier, 'a 5-string banjo picker' who - at that time - lived 912 Toulouse St. in New Orleans (read Ramblin' Jack Elliott Goldmine interview at www.ramblinjack.com) ------> read lyrics | |||
| 1 | 1967 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Young Brigham - 912 Greens
re-released (along with re-released 2000 on Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography | |
| 2 | 1981 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Kerouac's Last Dream - 912 Greens rec. April 24 & 25, 1980 at Tonstudio St. Blasien, Northeim-West, Germany
= Wundertüte CD TUT-CD72.163 re-released (+ additional material from those sessions) 1997 on CD: Appleseed Recordings 1021 Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography | |
| 3 | 1995 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Me & Bobby McGee
- 912 Greens
re-release of 1967 Reprise LPs RS 6284 ("Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Young Brigham") and RS 6387 ("Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Bill Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks") Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography | |
| 4 | 1997 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Kerouac's Last Dream
- 912 Greens
re-release of Folk Freak LP FF 4005 (+ outtakes from the sessions), recorded 24th and 25th April 1980 at Tonstudio St. Blasien, Northeim-West, Germany Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography | |
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Billy Faier for additional info
 Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand & Billy Faier at Newport Folk Festival '59, July 11/12, 1959 source: ebay auction; minor damages photoshop cleared up by Stefan Wirz (a cropped version of this photo is published on the back cover of Vanguard VSD 2055 / VRS-9064 "Folk Festival at Newport Volume 3") photographer: "Lawrence" (Larence N.) Shustak
Billy Faier
Billy Faier Dave Guard's Banjo Teacher?
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