Recordings – Harry Tuft Music

The Harry Tuft and Grubstake recordings are available at our Store.
(The Golden Ring recordings are available from the Smithsonian)

Harry Tuft – Across the Blue Mountains

1. In 1845
2. You Gonna Quit Me, Baby – MP3 Sample
3. Harvest Song
4. Lord Gregory
5. The Mermaid
6. I Saw Her As She Came And Went
7. Lucy Ann Rag
8. Old Dolores
9. Sweet Substitute
10. Snowbird
11. California Boy
12. Across the Blue Mountains
13. Griesly Bride
14. Mrs. Ravoon – MP3 sample

Friends Harry Tuft, Jack Stanesco, and Steve Abbott – aka Grubstake – were well known in the Colorado folk scene for over 40 years.

Best of Grubstake

The “best of” are selections from our previous five albums (listed below)

Grubstake at Forty

1. River of Joy – MP3 sample
2. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
3. Morning Blues
4. Telluride
5. Love at the Five-and-Dime
6. Clean Up at Home
7. Willie Jean
8. Shawnee Town
9. Boomer’s Story
10. The French Girl
11. Baton Rouge
12. Saint James Infirmary
13. Ain’t No More Cane
14. Sweet Baby James
15. The Goodnight Song

Grubstake – Millennium Collection
1999-2004

1. Huckleberry Finn
2. In the Jailhouse Now
3. Bully in the Alley
4. Tide and the River Rising
5. Wild About My Lovin’
6. A Chat with Your Mother
7. Bristlecone Pine
8. Do-Re-Mi
9. You Gonna Quit Me Baby
10. The Field Behind the Plow/Bosque County Romance
11. Come Back Baby
12. Mister I Don’t Mind
13. Walker Behind the Wheel
14. Ripple – MP3 sample

Grubstake – “Warts and All”

1. Red Velvet
2. Evangelina
3. Days of ’49
4. Challenged Sailor
5. Play the Guitar
6. 110
7. Joshua Gone Barbados
8. Miss Maes
9. Rise Again
10. Jody and Chico
11. Navajo Rug – MP3 sample
12. Bourgeois Blues
13. I Did It Their Way
14. The Devil
15. Rollin’ and Ramblin’

Grubstake Live – What You Do With What You Got

1. Tugboats
2. Chicken on a Raft
3. Della and the Dealer – MP3 sample
4. Spanish Flang-Dang/Spotted Pony
5. Who Woulda Thunk It
6. Mobile Line
7. Rice and Peas/Mary-O Pang-a-Lang
8. Night Rider’s Lament
9. Leavin’ Louisiana
10. The Gift
11. Chunder
12. Can’t Be Satisfied
13. One Man’s Trash
14. Richmond/Last Letter Home
15. De Donkey
16. What You Do With What You Got

Grubstake

1. Colorado State Song – MP3 sample
2. Mole’s Moan
3. Buffalo Skinners
4. Roll and Go
5. Precious Memories
6. Roll Alabama Roll
7. Broad Daylight Woman
8. Devil Got My Woman
9. The Hills of Isle Au Haut
10. Two Woman
11. Willie O-Winsbury
12. We’ll Rant and We’ll Roar

Harry also participated in several “New Golden Ring” recordings –
available from the Smithsonian. He is the lead vocal on the asterisked songs below, sings with the group on many other songs.

The New Golden Ring –
Five Days Singing, Volume I

1. Waterbound
2. The Waters of Tyne
3. World of Misery
4. Benjamin Bowmaneer
5. Over the Waterfall
6. Ginny’s Gone to Ohio
7. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
8. Lord Bateman
9. The Rolling Hills of the Border
10. D Composition in C
11. Poor Howard
12. Sundown
13. Temperance Reel
14. It Soon Be Done

The New Golden Ring –
Five Days Singing, Volume II

1. Rolling Home
2. Angeline the Baker
3. Sammy’s Bar
4. The Kangaroo Song
5. Few Days*
6. Calvary
7. Mortality
8. Ah, Robin
9. Over the Water to Charlie
10. Sam Gone Away
11. Jute Mill Song
12. The Galveston Flood
13. Mist Covered Mountains
14. Goodbye, Fare You Well

The New Golden Ring –
For All the Good People

1. Singer’s Request
2. Grandma’s Song/The Reindeer Song
3. Springtime Brings on the Shearing
4. Richmond/Last Letter Home*
5. Damned Old Piney Mountains
6. Goodbye to the Lowlands
7. Devil in the Garden
8. Stoney’s Waltz
9. When You and I Were Young, Maggie
10. Weaver’s Reverie
11. Little Creek
12. Early
13. Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
14. Dark Island
15. Golden Years
16. The Last Wagon
17. Last Train to Glory*
18. All the Good People

Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold