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JACOB'S REUNION
"JACOB'S REUNION" (1975)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DdLv4AUf6uo6sDB7ryXeC8lNfv89WocV?usp=sharing

Just 50 years ago, the old Chelsea House in West Brattleboro recorded and released an album that had a very big impact around here.

The 1970s brought great changes to the Brattleboro area's music community. John Clark started his first tour of duty at WTSA, Cap'n Bullfrog's record store opened in the Latchis building, Ralph and Pat Baker started up their Sound Hole musical instrument shop on Elliot Street, John and Tony arrived at Marlboro College, and the Chelsea House opened for a run of about seven years of concerts and folk dances. The release of this album, "Jacob's Reunion" on Chelsea House Records, was one of the biggest events. The download option appears after clicking the downward-pointing caret to the right of the album's heading. Several cuts from this album were especially popular. The first of those to come up is Track 2, "Ontario."

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MARY SHIMINSKI I LOVE YOU
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Mary Shiminski, I love you
Oh lord what was I doin'.....

The comments were not showing so I couldn't see who wrote what. "Mary Shiminski, I Love You," got its premiere performance, by the MacArthur Family, at the Chelsea House in West Brattleboro. Ron Karpius was one of the people who repainted Mary Shiminski I Love You.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

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Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of li...

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The music collection I am compiling has tracks you should hear. The first is by Jacob's Reunion (incorrectly credited to John Coster). The Bandcamp illustration shows Yosef Oxenhandler of that band. RiP Yo.

https://johncoster.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-could-see-you-clearly

It was recorded in the barn by the diner on the road from Brattleboro to Marlboro.

The second is falsely credited to Extreme. Extreme wrote it and had the hit but this is sung very prettily by Carolyn Mehta, whose photograph illustrates this post.

https://missmehta.bandcamp.com/track/more-than-words

To me, it is beyond belief that I am the only person who has bought the Carolyn Mehta track via Bandcamp.

I'm hashtagging this message, against the possibility others may want to hear either of these two beautiful pieces. [It has become necessary to use the hashtag, #musicfeed, to get your posts picked up by the Music Feed.]

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ALISTAIR ANDERSON
"PEACOCK BLUE AND ISSAC'S CUT"

Peacock Blue & Issac's Cut
from Hethpool Linn by Alistair Anderson

https://alistairanderson.bandcamp.com/track/peacock-blue-issacs-cut

-- Or --

https://alistairanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hethpool-linn

Hover over Track 1 and then click on Buy Track.

When Alistair Anderson played the Chelsea House in West Brattleboro, Vermont, in the 1970s, during a performance of a Scott Joplin composition there came a crack of lightning. Anderson made a crack of his own, something to the effect of it being a warning for playing a Joplin rag on an English concertina. That concert was terrific. I bought this track, from a recent release, as the best available way to reminisce.

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CHELSEA HOUSE
West Brattleboro, Vermont

The big red barn in its heyday - Chelsea House was at the forefront of folk music scene

November 4, 2023 | Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
Page: B07 | Section: News
766 Words

Credited to the Brattleboro Historical Society.

The Chelsea House was a music venue, mostly folk, that operated in West Brattleboro, Vermont, from 1974 to 1981. It drew heavily from more populous areas to the south. The second petroleum crisis and new competition in Northampton, Massachusetts, did much to sink Chelsea House finances. Bill Gehman told me the recording studio was the only part of the operation that was making money.

Margaret MacArthur initially thought a Brattleboro folk coffeehouse would not work. Soon, though, she started making valuable suggestions about ways to make this project succeed. She was the featured act on opening night.

One of the "local" opening night musicians, referenced in the Reformer article but not named, was and still is John Roberts of the folk duo, John Roberts and Tony Barrand. Of John, Tony once said, "John is not a true basso profundo but he's very smart."

The Brattleboro Folk Festival started in the Chelsea House. In later years, it was moved to the West Village Meeting House and then outdoors. The outdoors festival featured the most amazing custom-made speakers one could ever hope to see, made up of countless small speakers. As unorthodox and odd looking as this concoction was, the sound was remarkably good.

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Chelsea House Founders

William Howard Gehman (1939-2007)

Carol Margaret Levin (1941-2020)

Tony Ashe was also very important to the Chelsea House.

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Brattleboro Reformer articles, behind a paywall, are available to subscribers as well as to people who purchase the newspaper. There may or may not be a set number of free articles online. I am posting this publication information here for the benefit of anyone who can and who wants to hunt up the article.

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