Installed 02-25-2001, this old (07-31-94) text file will be converted to HTML and updated when I have time.
t = Complete list of track titles appears in the Full Discography
p = Partial list appears, Seth Austen tracks only
(r) = published reviews of this album are listed in section #D
* = listed in the Winter 1994/95, Schwann "Spectrum", p. 56
p.# = Schwann listing page number
Solo Albums
#01)t 1982 * Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Guitar Kicking Mule 174
#02)t 1984 Christmas Day in the Morning Kicking Mule 181
#03)t 1987 * Circles Kicking Mule 183
#04) 1991 * Desert Winds Turquoise 5072
#05) 1993 * Metamorphisis Turquoise ?
#06) ? The Road O'er the Rainbow ? ?
#07) ? Ye Banks and Braes (w/Madeline MacNeil) ? ?
#08) ? When the Snow Lay 'Round About (r) ? ?
Session Work
The Barolk Folk
#09) 1990 Come Let Us Be Merry Earthbeat! 409
#10) 1991 * Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play!
Music for Little People 2275
Nicholas Blanton
#11) 1990 * Ways Upon Bells (r) Gourd Music 109
Madeline MacNeil
#12) 1991 * A Place Apart (r) Turquoise 5078
Various Artists Collections
#13)p 1986 * Silently the Snow Falls (r) Shanachie 95007
#14) ? The Music of Turlough O'Carolan Shanachie 97023
#15) ? The Music of Turlough O'Carolan, Series One Grossman 1013
#16)p 1993 Fingerstyle Guitar, Volume Number 1 Fingerstyle Guitar 9301
#17)p 1994 Fingerstyle Guitar, Volume Number 3 Fingerstyle Guitar 9401
#18)p 1997 Oasis Acoustic Volume 5 (Disc 1) OasisCD -
#19) ? Irish Music for Fingerstyle Guitar ? songbk
#B) Full Discography (top/bottom of page)
[number] = Actual albums I have seen
"Owners" = Who owns, or owned, the album I saw
(see the complete code list in library)
I = solo fingerstyle guitar instrumental
Summary Discography (top/bottom of page) Owners
----------Kicking Mule Records ------
#01) 1982 Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Guitar [CS: KMC-174] * {A}
#01 TAB book, 32 pages (TB: TM-174)
--- (track times are not listed on the cassette)
---
#01. A1 I : Ragtime Annie
#01. A2 I : Red Haired Boy
#01. A3 I : Tennessee Waltz
#01. A4 I : Angelina Baker
#01. A5 I : Carbolic Rag
#01. A6 I : Arkansas Traveler
#01. A7 I : Whiskey Before Breakfast
#01. A8 I : Sandy River Belle
#01. B1 I : Campbell's Farewell to Redgap
#01. B2 I : My Own House
#01. B3 I : Redwing
#01. B4 I : West Fork Gals
#01. B5 I : Chinese Breakdown
#01. B6 I : Maddie's Waltz
#01. B7 I : Old Joe Clark Rode a Flop-Eared Kicking Mule Down by
Cripple Creek Pickin' Wildwood Flowers (medley)
#02) 1984 Christmas Day in the Morning [LP: KM-181] {A}
#02 (CS: KMC-181)
---
#02. A1 I 2:50 Christ, Our Redeemer, Is Born
#02. A2 I 3:14 Greensleeves
#02. A3 I 2:23 A La Nanita Nana
#02. A4 I 2:30 Winter Apples
#02. A5 I 2:17 Maria Wanders Amid the Thorn
#02. A6 I 2:58 Mary Had a Baby
#02. B1 I 2:46 Christmas Day in the Morning
#02. B2 I 3:40 O Come, O Come Emmanuel
#02. B3 I 2:10 Masters of This Hall
#02. B4 I 1:43 Bianco Fiore
#02. B5 I 1:46 Carol of the Bagpipers
#02. B6 I 2:30 Silent Night
#03) 1987 Circles [LP: KM-183] * {A}
#03 (CS: KC-183) *
#03 (CD: KD-183) *
---
#03. A1 I 5:35 Circles
#03. A2 I 6:25 Snowbound
#03. A3 I 8:28 Washington Square
#03. A4 I 3:27 Counting
#03. B1 I 8:09 Recuerdos
#03. B2 I10:57 Painted Desert
#03. B3 I 3:37 Newton's Rings
----------Turquoise
#04) 1991 Desert Winds (CS: TRC-5072) * 2-91
#04 (CS: TRCD-5072) *
#04 (CD: ?-5072)
--- (titles from Seth Austen's order form, see #E Sources)
---
#04. ? : Desert Winds
#04. ? : Clouds
#04. ? : Heat Wave
#04. ? : Glass Rainbows
#04. ? : Waiting...
#04. ? : Round Midnight
#04. ? : Be
#04. ? : Ayre
#04. ? : Moonrise
#04. ? : Computer Is Down, The
Seth Austen
Freyda Epstein
Tom Espinola
Ralph Gordon
Tom Jones
Madeline MacNeil
Bob Read
#05) 1993 Metamorphosis (CS: TRC-5088) * 9-93
#05 p.416 DDD (CD: TRCD-5088) *
----------?
#06) ? The Road O'er the Rainbow (LP: ?)
#07) ? Ye Banks and Braes (w/Madeline MacNeil) (LP: ?)
#08) ? When the Snow Lay 'Round About (?)
subtitle: "Christmas Music for Celtic Harp, Guitar
and Hammer Dulcimer"
by Tabby Finch and Seth Austen
Session Albums (where Seth Austen appears on albums by other artists):
----------Earthbeat!
#09) 1990 Come Let Us Be Merry (CD: EB-D409)
by The Barolk Folk (Carrie Crompton, Michael Rose and
Celia Wyckoff), with Seth Austen
----------Music for Little People
#10) 1991 Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play! [CS: MLP-2275] * {C}
#10 p.446 (CD: MLP-D2275) *
--- by The Barolk Folk, with Madeline MacNeil, Barbara Hess
--- and Seth Austen
---
#10. A1 2:53 Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play
#10. A1 -- Hunt the Squirrel
#10 A2 1:48 Humpty Dumpty
#10 A2 -- Hunsdon House
#10 A3 2:25 Blow, Wind, Blow
#10 A3 -- Up With Aily
#10. A4 1:48 Hickory Dickory Dock
#10. A4 -- Haste to the Wedding
#10 A5 2:06 Keeper's Son, The
#10 A6 1:12 Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
#10 A7 2:20 Do You Know the Muffin Man?
#10 A7 -- Shepherd's Lamb
#10 A8 1:36 To Market, To Market
#10 A8 -- Jockey to the Fair
#10 A9 2:01 Dance to Your Daddy
#10 A10 3:16 Oh How Lovely Is the Evening
#10 A10 -- Oranges & Lemons
#10 A10 -- Christchurch Bells
#10 B1 2:26 Old King Cole
#10 B1 -- Broom, The Bonny Bonny Broom
#10. B2 0:00 ??
#10. B3 0:00
#10. B4 0:00
#10. B5 0:00
#10. B6 0:00
#10. B7 0:00
----------Gourd Music
#11) 1990 Ways Upon Bells: Early and New Hammered Dulcimer Music
#11 p.416 (CS: GM-109) *
#11 AAD (CD: GM-109) *
by Nicholas Blanton, with Seth Austen and Ralph Gordon
----------Turquoise
#12) 1991 A Place Apart (CS: TRC-5078) * 7-91
#12 p.137 (CD: TRCD-5078) *
by Madeline MacNeil, hammered dulcimer
Seth Austen: guitar
Ralph Gordon: cello
----------Shanachie - collections
#13) 1986 Silently the Snow Falls [LP: 95007] {Z}
#13 p.512 (CS: C-95007) * 7-93
#13 1989 DDD [CD: CD-95007] * {W}
--- (all 11 tracks are listed in "collections.guitar")
--- (the other tracks are by Steve Tilston and Peter Finger)
---
#13. A2 1:55 Angels on High (with Madeline MacNeil)
#13. A4 I 2:57 Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
#13. B6 I 2:28 Oh Holy Night
#14) ? The Music of Turlough O'Carolan (CS: 97023)
Seth Austen, Duck Baker, Angelo Eleuteri and Steve Tilston
with Alastair Anderson, Madeline MacNeil, Maggie Boyle and
Tony Hinnigan
----------Stefan Grossman
#15) ? The Music of Turlough O'Carolan, Series One (CS: GW-1013)
by Seth Austen and Ed McMeen
(instructional cassette from Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop,
P.O. Box 802, Sparta, NJ 07871)
(information from article #95)
----------Fingerstyle Guitar (magazine + cassette) - collections
#16) 1993 Fingerstyle Guitar, Volume Number 1 [CS: FG-9301] {A}
--- magazine not dated, it would have been 9-10/93, 56 pages
--- (all 10 tracks are listed in "/f/fingerstyle.guitar")
---
#16. A5 : River Rising
#16. mag TAB River Rising
p. 37, standard notation and TAB
#17) 1994 Fingerstyle Guitar, Volume Number 3 [CS: FG-9401] {A}
--- magazine not dated, received 2-17-94, 68 pages
--- (all 12 tracks are listed in "/f/fingerstyle.guitar")
--- From
#17. A3 I : Fields #05
#17. mag TAB Fields #05
p. 42-3, standard notation and TAB
Summary Discography (top/bottom of page)
#18) 1997 Oasis Acoustic Volume 5 (Disc 1) [CD: no catalog #] {A}
--- (all 22 tracks are listed in the Oasis CD Sampler Discography)
---
#06. 19 3:08 Desert Winds
Songbook:
#19) ? "Irish Music for Fingerstyle Guitar"
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#C) Ads/Articles/Reviews (top/bottom of page)
Advertisements:
.Fingerstyle Guitar, (9-10/93), Vol. #1, p. 35
#94 .Fingerstyle Guitar, (2/94), Vol. #3, p. 49
Articles (by Seth Austen):
"Working Out Cross-String Fingerings"
.Fingerstyle Guitar, (9-10/93), Vol. #1, p. 36-7
"Composing in the Tradition"
.Fingerstyle Guitar, (2/94), Vol. #3, p. 40-3
Articles (about Seth Austen):
#95 "Fair Melodies: The lyrical music of Turlogh O'Carolan
--- for guitar", by Art Edelstein
--- Acoustic Guitar, 9-10/93, Vol. 4(2), Issue #20, p. 39-41,
--- (p. 41, selected O'Carolan sources: books, instructional videos,
--- recordings and videos)
#95. mag TAB George Brabazon, Second Air
arranged by Art Edelstein
Reviews: (reviewer)
Albums:
(#08) "When the Snow Lay 'Round About"
#96 .Dirty Linen, 12/92-1/93, Issue #43, p. 62 (Mike Parrish)
(#11) "Ways Upon Bells"
#97 Dirty Linen, 6-7/91, Issue #34, p. 68
(#09) "The Barolk Folk"
#98 .Dirty Linen, 12/92-1/93, Issue #43, p. 62 (Mike Parrish)
(#12) "A Place Apart"
.Dirty Linen, 12/91-1/92, Issue #37, p. 73 (Laurie Devine)
(#13) "Silently the Snow Falls"
#99 Dirty Linen, Winter 89/90, Issue #27, p. 75
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#D) Sources (top/bottom of page)
See my Bibliography for complete bibliographical information.
There is no mention of Seth Austen in any of the sources I have seen
so far.
Cassettes, and CDs are available from:
Sethstrings Music (703) 678-0031
4 Peyton St., Apt. 1-B
Winchester, VA 22601
CS - $10 #03, #04, #05 Shipping $2 first item, 50 cents for
CD - $15 #03, #04, #05 each additional item, plus 4.5%
sales tax for Virginia residents
(information from #94)
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