New from UpstreetProductions
Rare Recordings by
the King of the Vermont Cowboys
DON FIELDS 
&
HIS PONY BOYS:
 
HISTORIC WDEV BROADCASTS & LAST SESSIONS  Multicultural Media MCM4004 

28 tracks * historic photos * background notes and essay
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Music Includes:
Honeysuckle Rose * 12th Street Rag * Tumbling Tumbleweeds * Soldier's Joy * Hull's Victory * Pony Boy Theme * Cripple Creek * Frankie & Johnny * San Antonio Rose * Dill Pickle Rag
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Produced by Mark Greenberg
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To order click here
cassette version available by request from Multicultural Media, 802-223-1294

                                                          Don, Chickie, Zeke, Carl, Ray             1941 Booklet       Smokey & Lois Carey


From the Press

". . . an extraordinary fiddler . . . . It is astonishing to hear how good Fields and his band were." Sing Out!

". . . full of energy, verve, vitality . . . ." Dirty Linen

"[The CD] does more than capture the talent of one of Vermont's best, and best-loved, bands of the 1930s, '40 and '50s. It preserves the sound that dominated the airwaves when 5,000-watt WDEV in Waterbury aired the Pony Boys' daily show. It's also a reminder of, or for younger Vermonters an introduction to, a time when country bands regularly filled barns for dances that drew hundreds of folks who didn't have television and maybe had electricity and motion pictures, but definitely had the music provided by Fields and bands like his."
–Burlington Free Press

"The story of Don Fields and his Pony Boys, together with his early connection with WDEV, has received loving treatment . . . ." –Randolph Herald

". . . evocative of a time before music was market-tested and packaged, when an undistilled vitality existed between performers and their audiences. . . . [T]here's no mistaking the topnotch musicianship." –The Times Argus

"[A] slice of Green Mountain heart and soul. . . . [A] long-lost treasure." –Seven Days
Click on the radio for a 5-minute SideTracks (TM) feature about
DON FIELDS & HIS PONY BOYS

(for CD or cassette copies of the full 1/2 hour feature, call 802-229-4510)
Click on a title for a music sample
Honeysuckle Rose * Soldier's Joy * Frankie & Johnny * 12th Street Rag 


Scenes from the CD Release Party
featuring the Radio Rangers  *  broadcast live on WDEV


WDEV's Radio Rangers                               Lorna Perkins                    MCM Pres. Stephen McArthur &             Francis Manning
                                                                         (sang with Don Fields in 50s)             WDEV's Eric Michaels                (The Country Cowboy)
                                                                      Lee Jollota (Duke & the Swingbillies)                                                         & Mark Greenberg, Producer
                       
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