Old Time Country volume 1; Music From the Pontiac; 1987 Eric Campbell, fiddle, Evelyn Campbell, guitar, Betty Cameron, piano, Basil Hodgins, jew's harp. Not currently available.

Old Time Country volume 2; Fiddlers of the Past; 1988 Eric's tribute to the elders who taught him to play. With Evelyn, Betty and Basil. This was the first recorded on hifi VHS, and mastered to DAT, so duplication is ongoing. Many fans rate this as having the best sound of the entire series. Includes list of tunes.

Old Time Country volume 3; House Party; 1989 features Basil Hodgins on harmonica and singing, Betty Cameron, piano, Andy & Claire Devine, guitar & vocals, Shawn & Virginia Schwartz with Melanie Walls, fiddles and Isabel Schwartz, piano, Dominic Curley on fiddle with Luella Curley on piano (recorded at the Home on the Hill), Bonnie Burgess sings and plays guitar. Includes list of players.

Old Time Country volume 4; Favourite Fiddle Tunes 1990; Eric and Evelyn Campbell and Betty Cameron play a selection of tunes popular in the Ottawa Valley. Includes two songs sung by Evelyn.

Old Time Country volume 5; 1990 Fiddler's Jamboree. Held in the old dance hall at Pine Lodge in Bristol, Quebec, the jamboree is strictly amateur, free to all who want to play or listen! This tape presents highlights from the evening, including a performance by the late Nap Charbonneau, gentleman, engineer, and violin maker.

Old Time Country volume 6; 1991 Second Annual Fiddler's Jamboree. Present on this night was a couple who had been married 25 years ago to the day, and had their reception in this very hall! This kind of event can't be bought with money. As with all the Jamboree tapes, the tunes are not identified; players are indicated.

Old Time Country volume 7; 1992 Third Annual Fiddler's Jamboree. Includes the last public performance by Dominic Curley, reciting the poem, "Fiddler at the Pearly Gates". Also available as a two-hour hifi VHS video!

Old Time Country volume 8; 1993 Fourth Annual Fiddler's Jamboree. Includes wacky stories, songs, jokes, along with high-spirited fiddling from young and old. Also available as a two-hour hifi VHS video!

Old Time Country volume 9; 1994 Fifth Annual Fiddler's Jamboree. Fiddling, singing, dancing and joking, with performers ranging from beginner to semi-professional. Featuring the last Jamboree performance by the late Davis Hodgins. Also available as a two-hour hifi VHS video. Note; due to unknown technical difficulties, this video did not turn out well (the picture is sometimes dark, and the sound level is low). The few remaining copies are therefore available at a special price of $10 plus postage.

Old Time Country volume 10; 1995 Sixth Annual Fiddler's Jamboree So much good music, I had to do two parts, one hour each! OTC vol 10, pt 1 & pt 2. Pt.2 includes Mathilda Murdoch, a surprise visitor from Nova Scotia, who writes and plays fiddle tunes with the very best of them! 

Old Time Country volume 11; 1996 Seventh Annual Fiddler's Jamboree. Again, too much good music for one cassette; singing, joking, horsing around, all in good fun and good tune.

Old Time Country volume 12; 1997 Eighth Annual Fiddler's Jamboree . Some kind of milestone, I suppose! Again, two parts, known as OTC 12, part 1 & part 2.

The Fiddler's Jamboree takes place the first Saturday night in November, at the Pine Lodge in Bristol, Quebec. Admission is free, but you are encouraged to bring a contribution to the potluck lunch, such as squares, sandwiches, sliced vegetables, etc. Those in the know arrive early to get a good seat, as it's standing room only from 7:30 to 10 or more...If you play an instrument, bring it along, of course! (acoustic only, except for bass guitar).

SongWriter Cassette Album Catalog

Limited Number Available! 45-rpm phonograph record Julie & Next Time by Sir Arthur & Co. Rare recording from 'way back when! (Before they were famous!) Should be well worth $10 plus postage to any serious collector.

The following started as songwriter's demo recordings which got carried away, and came to be regarded as finished works in themselves. Not necessarily the flavour of the month, but closer to the feeling of writing  and recording a song yourself.

Friction Fit; 1981 by Robert Wills. Original songs, in eclectic folk/rock styles, strung together as a fictional radio program. Includes: the Way I'd Always Intended, Night Comes to the Cumberlands, What If Royalty Lived Next Door?, I Can't Even Afford the Blues, more!

Echoes from the Hippie Museum; 1987 by Robert Wills. On the twentieth anniversary of the Summer of Love, an assortment of songs, mostly RW originals, including: Coping With Love, Making Love Real Slow (a tantric bedroom number) We're Not the Kids Anymore, and Imagine (done in Reggaebilly style and mixed with bits of Bob Marley songs), more..

Yard Sale; 1989 by Robert Wills. Recycled riffs, antiques and collectibles: Karma Road, I Miss You, That Polka Magic, with reggaebilly covers of We Gotta Get Outta This Place, Let It Be Me, Ghost Riders in the Sky, etc. The first Songshop album to utilise MIDI.

Written in Rust; 1994 by Robert Wills. 90 minutes of folk/rock with sequenced accompaniment, incl: Bordertown, Now It Can Be Told, Jabberwocky, the Wolf, Look at My River, This Could Be the Love of a Lifetime, the New Girl, Do the California, I'm Hurtin', I Can't Compete With That, reworked versions of For Your Love, Wichita Lineman and more.

Home-Made in the Pontiac; 1994, various Pontiac singer-songwriters, incl: Karen McCorriston, Tom Towle, Christiane Thibault, Arnold Trudeau, Dalton Belaire, Bonnie Burgess, Mary Lou Senftenberg, Basil Hodgins, Tom Fishel, more...

Work in Progress: Elvis Has Left the Planet by Robert Wills (Hey, these things take time)

Honky-Tonk Piano; 1995, Dorothy  Porteous with George Taylor, bass. Dorothy applies her inimitable styling to favourites from the 1890's to the 1940's. Includes Whispering, Frankie and Johnny, Drifting and Dreaming, Shanty Town, more...

This Old House; 1997, Dorothy Porteous with George Taylor and Alan Bradley. More Honky Tonk, plus some singing, on Blueberry Hill, Down Yonder, Who's Sorry Now?, Johnson's Rag, etc...

Supper Time; 1997, the Burgess Family. Bonnie, Lynn, and Bucky play guitars and sing Old Time Country favourites. Includes; Only a Beautiful Picture, Uncle Tom, Mary of the Wild Moor, etc.

The following are not SongShop recordings, but are available through SongShop.

Eponymous; 1992 by Hank Sinatra and the Honky Tonk Nightmare. Nine original songs, well-written, played, and recorded. Country swing with a vengance; dance music for hippie bikers. @40 minutes.

Wingfield Farm Series; 1990, written by Dan Needles. A series of three one-man plays, about Walt Wingfield, a Toronto investment broker who buys a farm and attempts to make a living as a farmer. Rod Beattie plays all the parts, including women, with an astonishing variety of voices. Letters From Wingfield Farm, Wingfield's Progress, and Wingfield's Folly are each on 90-minute cassettes, sold as a set for $36 plus postage.

 for ordering information, email with subject; "cassettes"

or write;

Robert Wills

Box 266, Shawville, Quebec

J0X 2Y0

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