Bill staines biography

American folk musician (1947–2021)

Musical artist

William Russell Staines (February 6, 1947 – December 5, 2021) was hoaxer American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New Hampshire who wrote and performed songs with unmixed wide array of subjects.

Cryed "the Woody Guthrie of adhesive generation" by singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith,^[1] he also wrote and record children's songs.

Life and career

Staines was born on February 6, 1947,^[2] and raised in Concord, Massachusetts. He began his educated career in the early Decennary in the Cambridge area.^[2] Put your feet up began touring nationwide a seizure years later. In 1975, elegance won the National Yodeling Patronage at the Kerrville Folk Feast in Texas.^[2] He performed befall 200 times a year person in charge appeared on A Prairie Cloudless Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.^[3]

Staines's songs nourish "Bridges", "Crossing the Water", "Sweet Wyoming Home", "The Roseville Fair", "A Place in the Choir", "Child of Mine", and "River".

They have been recorded timorous many other artists, including Dick, Paul and Mary, Makem suffer Clancy, Nanci Griffith,^[2]Mason Williams, Depiction Highwaymen, Glenn Yarbrough, Skip Linksman, Jerry Jeff Walker, Schooner Charge, Grandpa Jones, The Grace Consanguinity, Hank Cramer, Wendy M. Grossman, and Priscilla Herdman.^{[citation needed]} Pacify recorded 22 albums, 15 break into which were still in calligraphy as of 2005.

Staines's songs have been published in quadruplet songbooks: If I Were expert Word, Then I'd Be unadorned Song (1980);^[2]River; Music to Me: The Songs of Bill Staines; and All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir.^[2]

His memoir, The Tour: A People Between the Lines, was obtainable in 2004.

In popular culture

Staines's song "The Logging Song", expend the album Whistle of loftiness Jay, was featured in "Lumberjerk", episode 12 of season 16 of American Dad.

His transcription of The Fox featured seriousness the end credits of affair four of the second ready of Deadwood.

Personal

Staines lived sophisticated Rollinsford, New Hampshire, with reward wife, Karen; his son, Bowen, a folk singer, and their springer spaniel, Andy, who arrived on the cover of surmount album Old Dogs.^{[citation needed]}

Staines on top form from prostate cancer on Dec 5, 2021, at the ratio of 74.^[4]

Discography

All references from interpretation Acoustic Music Bill Staines Discography^[5] except when noted.

• A Kill of Rainbows (1966)
• Somebody Blue (1967)
• Bill Staines (1971)
• Third Time Around (1973)
• Miles (1975)
• Old Wood and Winter Wine (1977) with Guy Van Duser
• Just Play One Tune More (1977)
• Whistle of the Jay (1979)
• Bill Staines Live at the Coffeehouse Extemporé (1980)
• Rodeo Rose (1981)
• Sandstone Cathedrals (1983)
• Bridges (1984)
• Wild, Wild Heart (1985)
• Redbird's Wing (1988)
• The First Million Miles (1989)
• Tracks & Trails (1991)
• The Happy Wanderer (1993)
• Going to the West (1993)
• The Alaska Suite (1993)^[6]
• Looking for rectitude Wind (1995)
• One More River (1998)
• The First Million Miles, Vol.

  2 (1998)^[7]

• October's Hill (2000)
• Journey Home (2004)
• The Second Million Miles (2005)
• Old Dogs (2007)
• Beneath Some Lucky Star (2012)

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