Here are a few videos featuring Jim Rooney from the treasure trove that is YouTube
SONGS FROM AN OLD GUITAR CASE
This video is really the outcome of me first going to sing for my neighbors in Strafford, Vermont, John and Kate Linehan, as they neared the end of their lives. COVID was just winding down and I hadn’t been out to perform for many months.
OCEANS OF DIAMONDS w/ The Irregulars – Shawn Camp and Tim O’Brien on twin fiddles, well-known rhythm guitarist John Prine, Richard Bailey-banjo, JellyRoll Johnson-harmonica, Dan Dugmore- steel guitar. You can hear the Jimmy Martin version in Podcast #4
HIGH ON A HILLTOP w/ The Irregulars featuring “Lonesome Pat” McLaughlin w/ Shawn Camp on electric guitar, Alan O’Bryant on banjo, Bill Kenner on mandolin, Dan Dugmore wailin’ on pedal steel
KEITH & ROONEY Audio track medley of song first released on their 1963 Prestige Folklore album. Bill Keith’s banjo-picking is so good on this tune, in fact, that it got him hired away to join Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys.
KEITH & ROONEY Some short excerpts from the Prestige album – there’s so much record surface noise that it sounds like it was recorded in the 20s – except that bluegrass hadn’t been invented yet
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TALKING WITH SHAWN CAMP A literally laid-back, casual interview with songwriter/fiddler/guitarist Shawn Camp, who co-produced the 2014 Grammy-winning Guy Clark album MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU and the 2013 Grammy-nominated and 2012 American Music Assn. Album of the Year THIS ONE’S FOR YOU , a tribute to Guy featuring a Who’s Who of folk-country artists .