Michael Hakanson-Stacy

Blues
Ware, Massachusetts, USA

1991 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7771)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, acoustic guitars, national wooden body guitar, slide guitar, harmonicas
Rico Spence - Bass
Brooks Williams - Slide guitar on “Philco Blues” and “5 Holly Road,” slide guitar and acoustic guitar on “Shake the Dust”

1. 5 Holly Road
2. Philco Blues
3. Newspaper Blues
4. Shake the Dust
5. Michael's Kind of Blues
6. Heather & Snow / Salted With Fire
7. John the Revelator
8. Just Before the Blues
9. Everybody's Got the Blues
10. Highway 41
11. Toad & The Baker
12. Mildred Gets Her New Shoes
13. Do You?
14. Brighter Maybe Later / Amanda's Lullaby

1992 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7772)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, resonator guitar, bottleneck guitar, harmonicas
Arnie Fox - Harmonicas on “Blues in the Belfry,” “Mean Old World,” “Hardtimes,” and “Bullrush Blues”

1. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
2. Railroad Bill's Blues
3. Blues in the Belfry
4. Dawn
5. Bullrush Blues
6. Denomination Blues
7. Exiled to Patmos (Part 1)
8. Mean Old World
9. Hardtimes
10. Pizza Blues
11. Zachary Taylor Crosses the Nueces
12. Bourgeois Blues
13. Deichytown Blues
14. Katy Did

1993 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7773)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Acoustic guitar, resonator guitar

1. Angel's on Holiday
2. Heather & Snow
3. Salted With Fire
4. Galashiels to Kelso
5. Taking Refuge in Kirkhope Tower
6. The Dry Bones
7. Brighter Maybe Later / Amanda's Lullaby
8. The Ball & the Cross
9. Gone But Not Forgotten
10. Exiled to Patmos
11. Inquisition of Gerard Groote
12. Dawn
13. Waiting for the Fatted Calf
14. Zachary Taylor Crosses the Nueces
15. Katie Did

The cover notes that these are guitar instrumentals recorded live. Eight of the songs are new, the rest are different from the originals.

1993 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7774)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, harmonica
Brooks Williams - Acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Lesley Smith - Backing vocals
Rusty Annis - Backing vocals

1. Down to My soul
2. Atlanta Moan
3. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
4. Watch What You're Doing
5. St Valentine's Blues
6. It Hurts Us So
7. Lake of Fire
8. Ball and the Cross
9. Civil War Song
10. New Cool Glass of Water Blues
11. Wrong Turn Blues
12. Heather and Snow
13. How 'Bout You
14. The Dry Bones
15. Shake the Dust
16. Philco Blues
17. Gone But Not Forgotten
18. John the Revelator
19. Michael's Kind of Blues
20. Amanda's Lullaby

1994 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7775)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, harmonica
Brooks Williams - Acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Jeff Garfin - Drums
Brian Weiland - Backing vocals
Max Cohen - Backing vocals

1. Quabbin (4:25)
2. Slavery Chain (2:34)
3. Where Would I Be? (3:56)
4. Lion's in the Den (instrumental) (2:59)
5. Whole Night Through (3:00)
6. Letter of the Law (2:39)
7. I Belong to the Band (2:24)
8. Last Farthing (instrumental) (2:30)
9. Sing It (4:51)
10. Connecticut River Valley Blues (2:30)
11. Statesboro Blues (2:56)
12. Blue Plate Special (instrumental) (2:53)
13. Drink Deep (4:22)
14. Weakness of the Flesh (2:52)
15. Swing the Choir (instrumental) (1:53)
16. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (2:54)
17. Colonel Mustard (instrumental) (3:08)

1994 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7776)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, mandolin, harmonica
Jeff Garfin - Drums
Rusty Annis - Backing vocals

1. Georgia 12 String (3:42)
2. Long Winter Blues (3:10)
3. Step by Step (2:59)
4. Lily on Horseback (1:20)
5. News From the Corner Store (2:48)
6. Small Talk (3:16)
7. Hard Times (3:40)
8. Dawn (2:05)
9. Shake It On Down (4:18)
10. The Rooster (3:53)
11. Education (4:20)
12. Whitingham Revisited (2:32)
13. God Don't Like It (3:02)
14. Gonna Go With Jesus (3:08)
15. Bullrush Blues (3:09)
16. G.K.'s Teetotaler's Blooze (2:19)

1995 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7778)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Lead vocals, backing vocals, resonator guitar, dobro, mandolin, harmonica
Rusty Annis - Backing vocals

1. Political Blues (2:42)
2. Old Boy (3:28)
3. Death of Rev. Dan (3:14)
4. I am the Light of the World (3:00)
5. Running From the Blues Police (2:10)
6. Double Shot (3:15)
7. Shout Sister Shout (2:17)
8. When the Roll is Called Up Yonder (2:47)
9. Stagolee (3:17)
10. Constantly Thinking (2:49)
11. Under My Strings (3:06)
12. Cotton Needs Pickin' (1:38)
13. I Saw the Light (2:18)
14. Farmer's Lament (2:33)
15. Casting Pearls (0:43)
16. Born to Preach the Gospel (3:11)
17. Railroad Bill's Blues (3:41)
18. Casting Stones (2:58)
19. Gallows Pole (4:58)

1996 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7780)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, dobro, 12-string acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica, tiple

1. Creepin' (4:20)
2. You Drink Too Much (2:25)
3. Blues in the Belfry (2:49)
4. Pizza Blues (3:03)
5. 1944 Blues (2:45)
6. Sanctuary Blues (1:46)
7. God's Gonna Cut 'em Down (3:13)
8. Death Don't Have No Mercy (6:09)
9. Denomination Blues Part II (4:22)
10. Ring Him Up Easy (2:12)
11. Old Time Religion (2:11)
12. Delchytown Blues (2:59)
13. New Pony Blues (3:37)
14. Wiscassett Narrow Line (4:43)
15. Eutychus' Dream (3:27)

1998 Time & Strike Music (T&S 7786)

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Vocals, instruments

1. This Train (2:45)
2. Here That Whistle (3:06)
3. Over the Hill #2 (4:21)
4. Old Time Religion (2:08)
5. Box Car Bound #7 (1:28)
6. Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John (2:36)
7. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (3:37)
8. Passing Thru (2:52)
9. Shepherd Blues (1:21)
10. Oh Mary Don’t You Weep (2:40)
11. Old Gospel Ship (3:48)
12. I Shall Not Be Moved (2:33)
13. Cakewalk Into the Kingdom (1:21)
14. Second Coming Shuffle (2:32)
15. Paul and Silas (2:37)
16. What a Friend We Have in Jesus (4:23)