Biography

A1	August Woman	2:33
A2	Seventeen Years On The River	4:32
A3	Livin' In The Country Written-By – C. Herrick*	3:30
A4	The Streets Of Montreal Written-By – B. Farquahr*	2:52
A5	Merrilee	3:15
B1	Life's Begun	4:20
B2	Blue Line Dobro – David Bromberg Piano – Oz (59)	2:05
B3	To The Women Of My Life	3:15
B4	Song To Vermont	4:02
B5	Waiting For An Old Friend Guitar [Bottleneck Guitar] – David Bromberg

Arranged By [Arrangements] – Barry Seidel, The Sky Dog Band
Art Direction [Art Director] – Des Strobel*
Backing Vocals [Background Mouth] – (Sky Puppy) A. J. Mulhern*
Drums – John O'Leary (2)
Engineer [Engineering] – Warren Dewey "The Wonder Dog"*
Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Randy Burns (2)
Mastered By [Mastering] – Gilbert Kong
Photography By – Joel Brodsky
Producer – Barry Seidel
Vocals, Bass – Bruce Samuels
Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano – Matt Kastner
Written-By – R. Burns* (曲: A1, A2, A5 to B5)

A1	Hold On	3:20
A2	I'm A Lover, Not A Fool	3:00
A3	She's No Good	2:01
A4	Seasons	4:15
A5	Country Rain	2:06
A6	Lady Rain Again	2:56
B1	Circle Of Joy	3:40
B2	Lisa	3:57
B3	Sing Out	2:58
B4	Rocky Road Backing Vocals – A.J. Mulhern	1:49
B5	Christmas Lights	3:35

Arranged By [Strings] – Tom Sellers
Art Direction – Ron Nackman
Backing Vocals – Allan Nicholls, Carl Caldwell, Hilda Harris, Tasha Thomas
Bass – Bruce Samuels
Design – Frank Gauna
Drums – Dave Mohn*
Engineer – Tom Flye
Fiddle – Kenny Kosek
Guitar – Matt Kastner
Mastered By – Robert Ludwig*
Percussion – A.J. Mulhern
Photography By – Frank Kolleogy
Piano – Tommy (Fat Fingers) Sellers*
Producer – Barry Seidel
Steel Guitar – Bill Keith
Supervised By [Production Supervisor] – Peter K. Siegel
Written-By – Bruce Samuels (曲: B3), Dardenella (曲: B4), Jesse Fuller (曲: A3), Randy Burns (2) (曲: A1, A2, A4 to A6, B1 to B3, B5)

Live Dogs 1970

Randy Burns & The Sky Dog Band

We are proud to offer a 1970 Acoustic Live performance by Randy Burns and the Skydog Band, recorded at the New Haven (CT) Folk Festival. This is a fun album, displaying the excitement of both the band, and an era itself. Meticulously remastered from original tapes recorded by Joe Phillips on that August evening, it remains as a snapshot of a timeless event. Also included is a Bonus live track of Randy's heartbreaking "Christmas Lights" as a duet with Skydog background vocalist, A.J. Mulhern, recorded at the Enormous Room Coffeehouse at Yale University in 1970. This CD is a MUST for Randy Burns collectors! A WildCat Production.

Biography

Randy Burns (born Randall R. Burns on 14 April 1948) is an American folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He recorded a number of albums from the mid-1960s under his own name and with a band as Randy Burns and the Sky Dog Band. He has continued to perform and record occasionally.

Burns's career began in the Connecticut and New York folk coffee house scene of the mid-1960s, including New Haven's Exit and Greenwich Village's Gaslight. From a start covering traditional material and songs by writers including Eric Andersen and Tom Ghent, he soon moved on to his own song-writing and to fronting bands called "The Morning" and Randy Burns and the Sky Dog Band. He recorded for ESP, Mercury and Polydor in the late '60s and early '70s.

In the late 1970s, Burns relocated to Dublin, Ireland, for two years, continuing to perform in bars. After returning to the US, he released the cassette-only album The Cat's Pajamas in 1991 on his own Picket Fence label.

He began performing again in 2009, and released an album, The Simple Things. This was followed, in 2010, by Hobos and Kings.

Website: RandyBurns.net

In 1966, Randy Burns was dropped off on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Street, with a bag over his shoulder and a guitar in his hand…ready for anything Randy had gotten his start a year earlier at The Exit Coffeehouse in New Haven, Connecticut but soon left to join the Urban Folk Revival in Greenwich Village. The first three months he slept in flop houses, on subways and park benches in Washington Square Park. Every week he played the open mic nights at the original Gerdes Folk City, The Gaslight Café and The Bitter End. Impressed by his talent, Clarence Hood, the owner of the legendary Gaslight hired Randy as the permanent opening act. At only eighteen he was opening for the biggest folk stars in the country, artists he’d only heard on records. Randy shared the stage with John Hammond, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Eric Andersen, Spider John Koerner, Steve Gillette, Sonny and Brownie, Phil Ochs, Carolyn Hester, Washboard Sam and many, many others. During this period, he recorded three albums with a small independent label.

As the Folk Revival was fading, he formed the electric folk rock group, Randy Burns and the Skydog Band . Within months his first major label album was released on Mercury Records and two albums soon followed on Polydor Records.

Randy Burns and the Skydog Band played all the legendary clubs in the country, the Cellar Door in DC, The Bijou Theater in Philadelphia, The Troubadour and Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles, The Bitter End and Electric Circus in New York, The Quiet Night in Chicago, The Hungry Eye in San Francisco, Berkeley Folk Festival with Buddy Guy and the Hollywood Bowl with the Smothers Brothers.

Rolling Stone Magazine said, ‘Nobody, but nobody, sings anything like Randy Burns.’ The New York Times called Randy “Vocally Convincing.” Billboard Magazine wrote that “Randy’s voice is so intrinsically right that it wraps the listener in a pool of contentment.” When Randy played The Troubadour , the Los Angeles Times said, “Randy is the best country flavored rock singer since Graham Parsons, who was, and is, as good as anyone before him.”

Frustrated with the music industry, Randy returned to his folksinging roots and hit the road again as a folksinger. For years he was literally homeless – ‘It would have been a waste of money,” he says, “I was singing so many places that I’d leave a bag of clothes wherever I usually played so I could travel light.” A headliner at Kenny’s Castaways, in the late 70s, owner Pat Kenny arranged for Randy to tour Ireland. It was off to Dublin, where he played coast to coast two years in a row. A pure folksinger again, Randy played for many seasons on Block Island Rhode Island, and of course he returned and played New Haven many, many times. The places and list of clubs he’s played is endless, and he still has dedicated fans everywhere.

After fifteen years, Randy is back with a brand new CD out on Music Maker along with several other projects in the works. Recently Randy returned to New Haven where he had a sell-out performance that was met with rave reviews.

If you were around New Haven, New York or Los Angeles in the 60s, 70s and 80s…you’ve probably heard stories or have your own stories to tell about him. They’re all still true. Randy Burns is a folksinger’s folksinger, always was and will always be.

Biography

Randy Burns is a minor figure on the Greenwich Village '60s folk scene, but his albums are largely enjoyable examples of post-Dylan psychedelic folk; the first three have the added collector value of being on the legendary New York indie ESP-Disk although they're not as interesting as, say, Pearls Before Swine.

Burns was born in Connecticut in 1948 and ran away from home at the age of 17. After the requisite period spent bumming around with a guitar on his back, the teenager ended up in New York City at the tail end of the folk boom of the early '60s, sleeping in Washington Square Park and busking for spare change. In early 1966, at the age of 18, he landed a regular gig as the permanent opening act at the legendary Gaslight Club on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. Shortly thereafter, Burns was approached by ESP-Disk founder and president Bernard Stollman, who invited the young folk singer to record for his label. Although Burns' style was far more "normal" than anyone else on the label (his cohorts included the Fugs and the Godz, plus the best of the city's free jazz scene), he dutifully recorded his first album, 1967's Of Love and War, a pleasant but fairly unremarkable folk album of the time with Burns' smooth voice accompanied only by his acoustic guitar and Emery Fletcher's occasional 12-string accents. Burns only plays three originals (all quite good), with the rest of the album consisting of scene standards by folks like Eric Anderson and David Blue, with a haunting version of Irene Paul's haunting 1940s anti-war ballad "Mr. War" the highlight.

The Village folk scene petered out during the summer of love, and like many of the New York folkies of the time, Burns became intrigued by the possibilities of psychedelic rock. Briefly returning home to New Haven, Burns hooked up with a local psych-pop band called the Morning. Thus inspired, he returned to Greenwich Village and formed the Sky Dog Band, which consisted of Burns on vocals and both electric and acoustic guitar, Mat Kastner on piano and organ, Bruce Samuels on bass and flute, and John O'Leary on trap kit and (more often) hand percussion. The new foursome gigged around town in the winter of 1967-1968 and entered the studio to record Burns' second ESP-Disk album, Evening of the Magician, the following spring. A huge improvement over Burns' rather pedestrian debut, Evening of the Magician is a minor classic of acid folk with ten excellent new Burns originals and none of the uninspired covers that dragged down Of Love and War.

Burns kept the Sky Dog Band for his third and final ESP-Disk release, 1970's Song for an Uncertain Lady. The psychedelia is somewhat toned down on this release, and a newfound country tinge colors several tracks. The country-rock feel suits Burns' voice and songs very well, and this album is nearly the equal of its predecessor.

When ESP-Disk began winding down in the early '70s, Burns made the major-label jump that only his erstwhile labelmates the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine had previously managed. Signing with Mercury Records, Burns recorded 1971's Randy Burns and the Sky Dog Band, another fine country-rock effort. Unfortunately, it didn't sell much more than his ESP-Disk material had (hardly at all, in other words), and Mercury dropped him. Polydor came to the singer/songwriter's rescue for two more albums, 1972's I'm a Lover, Not a Fool and 1973's optimistically titled Still on Our Feet. Polydor followed Mercury's lead after that album, which remained Burns' final release for nearly two decades.

Burns didn't give up performing in the '70s and '80s. He and Kastner, who switched from keyboards to guitar and bass, played folk festivals and coffeehouses throughout those years, and in 1991, the pair recorded The Cat's Pajamas, a cassette Burns self-released on his own Picket Fence label, selling most of them at shows. Burns continued to perform through the '90s while writing his autobiography, Before the Road Ended. Excerpts from this book appeared in a variety of folk-related zines and websites in the late '90s. All three of Burns' ESP-Disk releases came out on CD as part of the German ZYX label's ESP-Disk reissue campaign in the mid-'90s. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Randy Burns – The Simple Things

Randy Burns – Hobos And Kings

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Randy Burns – The Exit & Gaslight Years 1965-69

Randy Burns – The Exit & Gaslight Years 1965-69

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Randy Burns – The Simple Things

Randy Burns – Hobos And Kings Not On Label – none

Randy Burns – The Exit & Gaslight Years 1965-69

Randy Burns – The Exit & Gaslight Years 1965-69

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Randy Burns – Hobos And Kings

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