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 earthâs 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. âHoodakisâ 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, sadnessâŚa 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
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- The Ravens / End of Winter / Get Low
- Hoodaki / Bobâs Farewell
- Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot / Waitâl You Hear This One Boy
- Etoile / Mal Omar / Ma Petite Chou
- Stars for Leisbeth*
- Walk Along John to Kansas / The Road to Malvern
- The Exile of Erin / Kohlerâs Hornpipe
- Katyusha / Korobushka
- Crested Hens*
- Fantastic Reel / Tuttleâs Reel
- Kalyana / Leckan Mor
- Sammyâs Waltz
- Johnny*
- Banjo Crawl / Goinâ to See Eva
- Oconomowoc / Lac La Belle / Re-entry
- A Thin Time
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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
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- Wheat
- Kansas City MoonÂ
- Heaven Right HereÂ
- Heart of the HeartlandÂ
- Prairie WaltzÂ
- The Blue River WaltzÂ
- TallgrassÂ
- The Stig / Flying Home to ShelleyÂ
- Home on the RangeÂ
- A Place in the HeartÂ
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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
Take a Listen
Full Track Listing
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- New Potato / Rossâ Reel #4 / MacArthur Road Â
- The Goat on the Green / The Clare JigÂ
- Peter Eat Your Heart OutÂ
- The Falls of RichmondÂ
- The Grind / Fritzâ FrolicÂ
- The Island of Woods
- The Rolling Wave / The Collierâs Jig / The Maple Leaf / ProvidenceÂ
- The Stig / Flying Home to ShelleyÂ
- The Little HamboÂ
- Home with the Girls in the Morning / Glory in the Meetinâ HouseÂ
- The Pleasant Beggar / SalvationÂ
- Robert and Aliceâs WaltzÂ
- Reel de Mattawa / Reel de Montebello / Fleur de Mandragore
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