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Various Artists : On The Roam
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Waterbug Records is an innovative, ear-to-the-ground artists' cooperative label specializing in great songwriters and trad folk musicians who do original research.
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
Release Date: 1998
On The Roam Record Label: Waterbug
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Bear - Rick Lee 3:25 Album Only
The Cowboy's Girl - Julie Henigan 2:10 Album Only
The Long Ride Home - Kate MacLeod 3:49 Album Only
Wide Awake in Parsippany - Michael Jerling 3:53 Album Only
Don't Fix My Faucet - Kate McDonnell 2:31 Album Only
Vancouver - Andrew Calhoun 3:19 Album Only
True Story - Kat Eggleston 4:05 Album Only
Corner of the Sky - Susan Shore 3:26 Album Only
Directions - Colum Sands 4:18 Album Only
Consequence of Speech - Sons of the Never Wrong 4:30 Album Only
Ascension - Sam Pacetti 3:34 Album Only
Here Comes the Rain - Sloan Wainwright Band 3:21 Album Only
Fast As I Can - Erin McKeown 6:00 Album Only
Thirty Pieces of Silver - Tom Payne 4:42 Album Only
I Love My Love For She Loves Me - Therese Honey 2:49 Album Only
The Trees Are All Bare - William Pint and Felicia Dale 3:01 Album Only
Go, Stay and Fetch - Les Barker 3:33 Album Only
Courtship of the Brown Recluse - Mary Melena 2:22 Album Only
Texas Waltz - Gina Forsyth 5:14 Album Only
Walk Into Heaven - Cosy Sheridan 3:39 Album Only
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Album Notes

Waterbug is an artists' cooperative CD label founded by Chicago singer-songwriter Andrew Calhoun in 1992. The anthologies are funded by the artists and sold cheap in order to help one another get heard.

"It was much easier to find out who was worth listening to when the whole folk scene was driven solely by people's hunger for meaning. These days I look first to Andrew Calhoun's Waterbug label." - Bob Franke

"...one of America's most consistent independent labels." - Folk Roots, UK

"Andrew Calhoun's Waterbug showcases, like his label, are wonderful not just because of the music and the performances, but because of their great artistic integrity, their sense of love, excitement, and risk taking, and because Andrew has superb taste..." -Bob McWilliams, KANU (folk dj listserv)

"I am continually amazed at the quality of the music/artists available through Waterbug. You people are superb." -C. Huegel, Tarpon Springs, FL

"The Collections that I recently ordered were simply incredible. I would like to place an order for the several artists below..." -S. Arnold, Belle Mead, NJ

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REVIEWS

On the Roam
author: Jane Farrell
An amazing CD. Songs about animals, staying in motels we hate, and other important things that we need to sing more about. I will be buying more from this label.
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I'll wear this one out!
author: Teresa McFarland
The selection of tunes & songs are as wonderful as I expected - every one is worthwhile to listen to and enjoy.
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