Subject of Kate Wolf Song?
Laura Tennenhouse Bushnell
though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
It seems to be about a gifted folksinger who had recently
died. Harry Chapin? Phil Ochs? A personal friend who never
even recorded an album? A fictional character? I'd appreciate
more information, if anyone has it.
He took the stories of his people
And gave them back in rhyme
But for the pleasures of the hearth
There was never enough time
He said one day he'd quit
And then he would come home
But there was always one more stage
Always one more song
The candle's burning at both ends, it's burning in the middle
There's no time to stop, between the guitar and the fiddle
A crazy tune, a crazy time, you know the words were true
Smiles lift their eyes, but all he ever saw was you.
Whoever he is, he obviously inspired Kate Wolf, and that has come to
be rather important to me. I recently listened to "Breezes," and
started to realize how much the grace and compassion of her lyrics
evolved in only ten years. I never knew her when she was alive, but
I miss her.
So few ever knew the heart inside the man
But he gave himself away as only poets can.
So did she.
Laura
ten...@rpi.edu
The map is not the territory.
Mary Katherine Aldin
The song is about the late Stan Rogers, gifted Canadian
singer-songwriter who was killed in a plane crash in June 1983 on his
way home to Canada from the Kerrville Folk Festival. Kate's song makes
reference to lines from a Stan Rogers song called "Forty-Five Years,"
and the lines about "he took the stories of his people and gave them
back in song" refers to the many songs about the Canadian Maritimes
that Stan wrote or recorded.
Mary Katherine
EMILY L. FERGUSON (ELF) (FERG)
The singer she is referring to is Stan Rogers.>
MIKE REGENSTREIF
>
>
>Other posts have mentioned the song is about Stan Rogers. Can someone
>post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
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>- Barrie
It's on POET'S HEART. My LP version is (Kaleidescope F-24). I know
that's it's been reissued on CD by Rhino; but I don't have the catalogue #
available.
Mike Regenstreif
"Folk Roots/Folk Branches" on CKUT in Montreal
mre...@vax2.concordia.ca
Brian Morton
On 2 Jan 1996, Laura Tennenhouse Bushnell wrote:
> I have been deeply moved by "All He Ever Saw Was You," even
> though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
> It seems to be about a gifted folksinger who had recently
> died.
The song is about Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers who
passed away in an airplane fire on June 2, 1983. The title comes from a
line in Stan's song 45 YEARS.. "Cause you just walked in the door, but
honey all I see is you".. Eric Bogle wrote the song SAFE IN THE HARBOUR
about Stan.. He also wrote a tribute song to Kate called CORNFLOWER BLUE..
Great songs both of them..
I'd appreciate you sending me the complete lyrics to Kate's song.. If you
have them typed out..
Cheers
Brian
Gary Varner
Barrie McCombs <bmcc...@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>Other posts have mentioned the song is about Stan Rogers. Can someone
>post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
It's on her POET'S HEART album (now CD) from Kaleidoscope Records
P.O. Box O, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (write for free catalogue
it says).
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Barrie McCombs
: I have been deeply moved by "All He Ever Saw Was You," even
: though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
: It seems to be about a gifted folksinger who had recently
: even recorded an album? A fictional character? I'd appreciate
: more information, if anyone has it.
Other posts have mentioned the song is about Stan Rogers. Can someone
post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
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Laura Tennenhouse Bushnell
>Laura Tennenhouse Bushnell (ten...@magritte.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
>: I have been deeply moved by "All He Ever Saw Was You," even
>: though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
>: It seems to be about a gifted folksinger who had recently
>: died. Harry Chapin? Phil Ochs? A personal friend who never
>: even recorded an album? A fictional character? I'd appreciate
>: more information, if anyone has it.
>
>Other posts have mentioned the song is about Stan Rogers. Can someone
>post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
I'd like to thank everyone who posted that the song was about Rogers.
I look forward to hearing his work. "All He Ever Saw Was You" is on
the album called "A Poet's Heart," which also has lots of other good
stuff.
EMILY L. FERGUSON (ELF) (FERG)
I sure hope you come to love Stan's music as much as Kate did. They were
of an age, back in the early '80s in the folk scene which is now long gone.
Perhaps you will be perplexed about why Kate loved Stan. They were quite
different in style - Stan was so broad a sketch, so noisy, so heart-on
his-sleeve, Kate was soooo California, so self-contained, so cool and
professional. All her emotions were in her music, Stan's were all over,
his music, his life, his alcohol, his big humor not always nice. But
they were both working to make a living with music they believed in that
came from their hearts at the same time and in the same musical scene,
and understood each others' intentions - talented, sincere, hard-working
using their music to illustrate their life's assumptions.
Really different styles.
Hope you love them both as much as many of the rest of us do.>
Tonysica
Tennenhouse Bushnell) writes:
>I have been deeply moved by "All He Ever Saw Was You," even
>though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
>It seems to be about a gifted folksinger who had recently
>died. Harry Chapin? Phil Ochs? A personal friend who never
>even recorded an album? A fictional character? I'd appreciate
>more information, if anyone has it.
>
She was writing about the late Stan Rogers with refernces to his "song of
the candle"
>
> The candle's burning at both ends, it's burning in the middle
> There's no time to stop, between the guitar and the fiddle
I think these lines refer to a rogers song "45 years"
A crazy tune, a crazy time, you know the words were true
> Smiles lift their eyes, but all he ever saw was you.
He was one of the greatest songwriters and singers North america ever
produced.
Tony Sica
>
>
Rudyard John Coltman
>: though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about. . . .
>Other posts have mentioned the song is about Stan Rogers. Can someone
>post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
Poet's Heart.
Daniel Reitman
On borrowed account
Max Wolf
>post the name of the record on which Kate sings this song.
Barrie,
As others mentioned here, "All He Ever Saw Was You" is on Poet's
Heart. Kaleidoscope Records, the original publisher, is no more, and
the album has been rereleased by Rhino Records, catalog #71484. You
can reach Rhino at http://cybertimes.com/Rhino/Welcome.html.
If you would like more information about Kate Wolf and her albums,
please visit the Official Kate Wolf Web Site at
http://www.katewolf.com. It is managed by Kate's family.
Best regards,
Max Wolf
m...@katewolf.com
Max Wolf
>It's on her POET'S HEART album (now CD) from Kaleidoscope Records
>P.O. Box O, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (write for free catalogue
>it says).
Alas, Kaleidoscope is no more. You must have one of the original CDs
there. Rhino Records purchased Kaleidoscope's catalog in the early
90s, and has rereleased all of Kate's albums. For more info, visit
http://www.katewolf.com.
Regards,
Max Wolf
MIKE REGENSTREIF
>
>
>On 2 Jan 1996, Laura Tennenhouse Bushnell wrote:
>
>> I have been deeply moved by "All He Ever Saw Was You," even
>> though I don't quite know what Kate Wolf was talking about.
>> died.
>passed away in an airplane fire on June 2, 1983. The title comes from a
>line in Stan's song 45 YEARS.. "Cause you just walked in the door, but
>honey all I see is you".. Eric Bogle wrote the song SAFE IN THE HARBOUR
>about Stan.. He also wrote a tribute song to Kate called CORNFLOWER BLUE..
>Great songs both of them..
>
>I'd appreciate you sending me the complete lyrics to Kate's song.. If you
>have them typed out..
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Brian
CORNFLOWER BLUE is a Kate Wolf song from her album GIVE YOURSELF
TO LOVE.
Eric Bogle's tribute song to Kate Wolf is KATY AND THE DREAMTIME
LAND. In it, Eric sings "I sang Cornflower Blue and thought of you."
Gary Varner
Brian Morton <ge...@wchat.on.ca> wrote:
> The song is about Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers who
>passed away in an airplane fire on June 2, 1983. The title comes from a
>line in Stan's song 45 YEARS.. "Cause you just walked in the door, but
>honey all I see is you".. Eric Bogle wrote the song SAFE IN THE HARBOUR
>about Stan.. He also wrote a tribute song to Kate called CORNFLOWER BLUE..
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Hmmm. My copy of GIVE YOURSELF TO LOVE (the two LP live collection
from Kaleidoscope, now on Rhino I presume) attributes the song to
Kate Wolf. Did you mean that she wrote it about Eric Bogle?