Rosalie Sorrels (1933 - ) is an American folk singer/songwriter who resides near Boise, Idaho. During the early 1960s she was an active folksinger/performer in many clubs in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Rosalie Sorrels
A performer at the Newport Folk Festival since 1966 Rosalie recorded more than 20 albums including the Grammy nominated "My Last Go 'Round" and wrote two books. In 1990 Sorrels was the recipient of the 1990 World Folk Music Association Kate Wolf Award. In 1999 she received the National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence Award for "exceptional commitment and exemplary contributions to the art of storytelling." In 2001 she was awarded the Boisie Peace Quilt Award and in 2003 was profiled by NPR.
Notes: Sung by Rosalie Sorrels, with Jim Sorrels, guitar.
Songs: The lineman's hymn -- Brigham Young -- Winter song -- Death of Kathy Fiscus -- I'll give you my story -- The girl that played Injun with me -- Utah's Dixie -- Empty cots in the bunkhouse tonight -- Tying knots in the devil's tail -- The fox -- Way out in Idaho -- My last cigar -- The wreck of the old Number Nine -- The house carpenter -- The wild colonial boy -- I left my baby -- The Philadelphia lawyer.
Songs: Go With Me -- Goodbye Joe Hill -- I Think of You -- If I Could Be the Rain -- Il Pleure -- In the Quiet Country of Your Eyes -- I've Got a Home Out In Utah -- Jesse's Corrido -- One More Next Time -- Some Other Place, Some Other Time -- Starlight on the Rails -- Up Is a Nice Place to Be -- Walking Down That Lonely Street
Songs: Songs: Just a country girl -- Nobody's -- Roadrunner #2 -- Too many strangers -- Come and be my driver -- Elegant hobo -- First fall of snow -- Hall of fame -- Rock, salt and nails -- Another woman's man -- The toast -- Brightwood fire
Songs: Mehitabel's theme.--Baby rocking medley.--Song for David.--Hey little girl.--Apple of my eye.--The caterpillar & the butterlfly.--Did I knock.--Red wine at noon.--When I was in my prime.--Song for my birthday.--The moth
Books
Sorrels, Rosalie; McCarl, Robert (1991), Way out in Idaho : celebration of songs and stories, Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, ISBN0917652835
Sorrels, Rosalie; Rudokas, Jean; Schoeberlein, Liz (1974), What, woman, and who, myself, I am :an anthology of songs and poetry of women's experience, Sonoma, Calif.: Wooden Shoe, ISBN0825699053
Stringfellow, Nancy; Sorrels, Rosalie (1990), Report from Grimes Creek after a hard winter, Boise,Id.: Limberlost Press, ISBN0931659078