Steve Key: Discography

2003 release, recorded at house concerts in Maryland in May 2002, with separate tracks for songs and intro's. Includes funny songs like "Oat Bran Muffins" and "Sale-ing", ballads like "Home is the Place" and "Your Old Grand Dad"

Steve compiled 3 CDs which sample the diverse folk talents of the Washington DC area. On Vol. 1, the 17 tracks includes Steve Key's "Oat Bran Muffins", recorded live at the legendary Birchmere nightclub. Also includes tracks by Magpie, Pete Kennedy, Bill Danoff, Mary Chapin Carpenter's sidemen John Jennings and Jon Carroll, and many more. Sponsored by the Institute of Musical Traditions, www.imtfolk.org

Steve has recorded several tracks on CDs produced by the nonprofit Hungry for Music. A Holiday Feast Vol. 5 includes the Key original Christmas Hideaway; Vol. 6 includes Steve's rendition of On Christmas I Got Nothing (by Chuck Brodsky). Diamond Cuts (Turning Two) features Steve's performance of the song Shoeless Joe Jackson (by Jeff Deitchman).

This song was recorded by the trio Freyda and Acoustic Attatude (their spelling) on the Red House Records label. Bob Vasile sang lead, with harmonies and fiddling by Freyda Epstein, upright bass by Ralph Gordon. Freyda was killed in a car wreck in 2003. Red House re-released this CD, with proceeds to benefit a scholarship in Freyda's name. Freyda was an amazing singer, musician, teacher and dancer. And this is a magical recording; I'm honored to have my song included.

This song has been recorded by DC-area folk singer-songwriter Doug Alan Wilcox (Small Town CD); Canadian duo Sweet Harmony, produced by Alan Rhody (For the Runnin' CD); Nashville-based vocalist Sheri Lynn DiGiovanna (who also recorded Broken Branches on her debut CD). Look for it soon on a CD called "Turn Up the Music", marketed to parents of kids 4-9 years old, available at Best Buy, Borders and the Baby Depot at Burlington Coat Factory stores.

covered by two husband-wife duos: Indiana's Noah & Irene Carver, on their CD, "You're Always There", and in live performance by Iowa's Michelle & Scott Dalziel (Michelle also sings a version of my song, "Welcome to My Real Job", using my chorus and her verses).

1992 was a good year for my songs. Kathy Mattea discovered this song that year, releasing it in the fall on her Mercury/Polygram CD, "Lonesome Standard Time". Pittsburgh-based artist Anne Feeney also cut it that year, on her "Look to the Left" album, also recorded in Nashville.

First song of mine to be recorded by someone other than me! Greg Trafidlo & Laura Pole (of the Roanoke VA area) recorded it twice: on their 1992 CD, "Read My Heart to Me" and a later CD made for their Caregiver Programs entitled, "To Those Who Feel".

I recorded four songs for Fast Folk, including a performance of "Record Time" at Fast Folk's 10th Anniversary Concert at the Bottom Line nightclub in New York, where Kathy Mattea heard the song. It was a 3-night event. Josh Joffen brought my song to the show, and performed it on the night Kathy was there. I got to perform it on opening night, sharing the stage with Jack Hardy, Suzanne Vega, Pierce Pettis, Lucy Kaplansky, Dave Van Ronk, Richard Shindell and many more. Fast Folk is now distributed by Smithsonian Folkways. You can order custom CDs or cassettes, possibly downloads too.