STEAM!

Music

STEAM has recorded three full albums. All of these can be purchased as physical CDs (complete with liner notes and beautiful artwork!) or as digital downloads through our bandcamp page. Please follow us on bandcamp!

Find the lyrics to each of the songs here. If you do not want to use bandcamp, let us know! We’d be happy to mail you a CD directly.

Hoodaki

For STEAM!, the earth’s annual revolution around the sun is marked by the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield KS each September. Between Winfield 2018 and 2019, we lost three dear friends: Charlie Hall, Cathy Barton, and Sam Broyles. “Hoodakis” remind us of our friends; a term New Zealanders use for thingamajigs, whatchamacallits, or in Costa Rica, chunches. This album honors our friends, living and dead, and celebrates the weird junk we find tossed in the kitchen drawer.

I will say that the first tune of the first medley on this album is reason enough to buy the new Steam! CD, Hoodaki. The Ravens, written by fiddler Alice Boyle is just one of those tunes. It fills you with wistfulness, hope, sadness…a cocktail of emotions in a few notes and a simple chord progression. I had to hit repeat three times before I could allow the rest of medley to play. Instant classic tune… [read the whole review]

–Sam Bartlett

Take a Listen

Full Track Listing

      1. The Ravens / End of Winter / Get Low
      2. Hoodaki / Bob’s Farewell
      3. Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot / Wait’l You Hear This One Boy
      4. Etoile / Mal Omar / Ma Petite Chou
      5. Stars for Leisbeth*
      6. Walk Along John to Kansas / The Road to Malvern
      7. The Exile of Erin / Kohler’s Hornpipe
      8. Katyusha / Korobushka
      9. Crested Hens*
      10. Fantastic Reel / Tuttle’s Reel
      11. Kalyana / Leckan Mor
      12. Sammy’s Waltz
      13. Johnny*
      14. Banjo Crawl / Goin’ to See Eva
      15. Oconomowoc / Lac La Belle / Re-entry
      16. A Thin Time

Buy Hoodaki here

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Heartland

We are thrilled to share a whole album of waltzes, all inspired by or written by folks from the heart of North America, and especially, the prairies of Kansas.

Take a Listen

Full Track Listing

      1. Wheat
      2. Kansas City Moon 
      3. Heaven Right Here 
      4. Heart of the Heartland 
      5. Prairie Waltz 
      6. The Blue River Waltz 
      7. Tallgrass 
      8. The Stig / Flying Home to Shelley 
      9. Home on the Range 
      10. A Place in the Heart 

Buy Heartland here

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Jackalope

Our first album! Still fun and chock-full of great dance tunes.

Congratulations on a well worthwhile and well executed project! The most impressive thing, to my uninitiated ear, is the very high quality of the instrumental ensemble: whatever instruments you are each playing there is always good balance, excellent tone, and all the signs that you are listening to each other — like a good madrigal group or string quartet.

Dr. A. M. C. Waterman

Read the whole review!

Take a Listen

Full Track Listing

      1. New Potato / Ross’ Reel #4 / MacArthur Road  
      2. The Goat on the Green / The Clare Jig 
      3. Peter Eat Your Heart Out 
      4. The Falls of Richmond 
      5. The Grind / Fritz’ Frolic 
      6. The Island of Woods
      7. The Rolling Wave / The Collier’s Jig / The Maple Leaf / Providence 
      8. The Stig / Flying Home to Shelley 
      9. The Little Hambo 
      10. Home with the Girls in the Morning / Glory in the Meetin’ House 
      11. The Pleasant Beggar / Salvation 
      12. Robert and Alice’s Waltz 
      13. Reel de Mattawa / Reel de Montebello / Fleur de Mandragore

Buy Jackalope here