Then What's It For?

1. Howlin' Blues
2. Praised the Plainest Stone
3. Down on Penny's Farm
4. Cardboard Signs
5. Col. John Irwin
6. Diggin' On the New railroad
7. Breton/Cornish Set
8. Joe Hill's Will
9. I Am Not Free
10. West 4th Alley
11. Ain't No Grave can Hold My Body Down
12. Egil's Saga
13. Folded Arms
14. Da Slockit Light

Original songs and instrumentals nestle up against blues, country, string band and Celtic classics in this eclectic but stripped down album. A genre-defying tightrope walk over Folk Music falls. "Then What's It For?" is influenced by blues, gospel, mountain music, Irish tunes and international acoustic sounds creating a sonic landscape for Chico's original music.
$15.00 (includes shipping)

Driving By Moonlight

1. Here on Earth
2. What I Know About Love
3. Let me In
4. Opposable Thumb
5. Totem
6. Les Etoiles d'Aspiran
7. God 4 My Soul
8. Photograph
9. Uncle Rondo
10. T'Shuvah (Turning)
11. Blair Lake
12. In My Dream
13. An Phis Fhliuch
14. Driving by Moonlight
15. The Song I Haven't
      Written Yet

More dreams and nightmares with acoustic psychodrone accompaniment. Ten songs, a trad Irish tune and four new instrumentals. I play ten guitars (!) as well as mandolin, fiddle, viola, lap steel and stuff. Guests include the Schwall Street Journal and Linda Danielson, Sharon Rogers and Jack Aldrich.
$15.00 (includes shipping)

Celtic Holiday

1. Rocky Road to Dublin/
    Another Jig Will Do/
    Boys of Ballisodare
2. John Barleycorn
3. Lieutenant MaGuire's Jig/
    Vermont Highlanders' Jig
4. Shakin' o' the Pocky/
    Clydesdale Lasses/
    The Perrie Werrie/
    Lady Montgomery
5. Adar man y Mynydd
    (The Small Birds of the
    Mountain)
6. The Scholar/
    Star of Munster
7. Welsh Suite: Morfa'r Frenhines/
    Pedwar Post y Gwely/
    Bwced/Musen yn ey Menyg
8. Ambell y Gan
    (An Occasional Song)
9. Y Gwr A'l Farch/
    Hefo Deio I I Dywyn
10. "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
    (Dylan Thomas)

Here it is, at last, our annual live show, just as we do it at Cafe Soriah. David Stuart Bull reads 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' with musical accompaniment by Linda Danielson and Chico Schwall. We also perform a set of music from around the Celtic world: dance tunes from Scotland, Wales and Ireland and songs in English, Irish and Welsh. Start warming the cider!
$15.00 (includes shipping)

Cut Off the Line

1. What Will It Be?
2. Call the Authorities
3. Pledge and Promise
4. Chapin Creek
5. Things fall Apart
6. Serve the Spirit
7. Hard Winter
8. Power Failure
9. Fire Into the Crowd
10. Job's Tears
11. Hungry Ghosts
12. Sadness Is Better
13. What Goes On?
14. A Matter of Time

My first CD, from '96. Some of these songs have stayed with me the whole trip. Some guest spots by Eugene folks, some of the more political songs and TWO (2) banjo instrumentals. Victory Music review called it 'inspiring and thought provoking.'
$15.00 (includes shipping)