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2007
A Night In The French Quarter • June 2007
'Round My Door • April 2007
2006
San Francisco and Songs Of The Landscape • December 2006
2005
Another Wicked Storm • April 2005
Dodging Tornadoes and Big Medicine • March 2005
UK Winter Tour 2005 • February 2005
On Bill Staines and His Book - The Tour • January 2005
2004
Cider's Last Tour • December 2004
Welcome To Marshall • November 2004
The Palouse and Columbia Plateau • October 2004
The Road to Escalante • September 2004
The Songs of Native Soil • August 2004
Recording • July 2004
Honeymoon • June 2004
The Isle Of Arran - UK Tour
2004 • May 2004
The Mockingbirds Are Back • April 2004
One Night In Bethlehem, PA • March 2004
The Loneliest Road in America • February 2004
Spanish Moss and The Everglades • January 2004
2003
The Motion of Ritual • December 2003
New Guitar And A Broke Down
Fiddle • November 2003
Nevada • October 2003
Scotland and the UK Tour 2003
Part 2 • September 2003
From Bridgnorth to Slough - UK Tour 2003 Part 1 • August 2003
A Song For Everett Ruess • July 2003
Ain't No Popularity Contest • June 2003
The Earliest Rock and Roll • May 2003
The Adventures Of Moby • April 2003
Peace In The Windsor Bush • March 2003
Nashville Folk Alliance • February 2003
One Day From Cairo To Blytheville • January 2003
2002
Beale Street and Tucumcari • December 2002
Following Through • November 2002
Notes on the Songs from Avenue of the Saints • October 2002
A Loaf of Troubadour Bread and a Dave Carter Song • September 2002
Summer Vacation • August 2002
Rhythm of the Season July 2002
UK Tour 2002 and "Safe
Home" June 2002
Asheville Sessions May 2002
Going Home April 2002
"A Vagabond for Beauty" March 2002
Little Egypt and the Kankakee Torrent • February 2002
Getting To Know Asheville and "Talkin'
Ditch Weed" • January 2002
2001
Wyo-braska and "This Town" December 2001
On Turning 40, Grain Elevators and Gravy November 2001
The Outstanding Foliage and Books Tour October 2001
"One door closes, another one opens" September 2001
The Inland Sea August 2001
Summertime in the Hilltowns July 2001
Folk Clubs in England - The Second Week May 2001
Folk Clubs in England - The First Week May 2001
Mud Season April 2001
Avenue of Saints March 2001
Hell on Wheels February 2001
My Fallow Month January 2001
2000
The Big Move December
2000
The North East Regional Folk Alliance Conference November 2000
The North West Passage / "Spokane" October 2000
Camping on the Indiana Toll Road September
2000
Ain't No Cane and #4 on the Folk DJ Charts August 2000
The Susquehanna / Chesapeake Tour July 2000
It's Downhill from Vermont to Texas... June 2000
"The Trade" is Here and the Midwest in May May 2000
Midwest Tour and Kerrville News April
2000
Return to Western Massachusetts March
2000
The Auto Repair Shops Tour February
2000
How Hitchhiking and Waiting for a Record Label are Similar January
2000
1999
December in Virginia December
1999
From "Bound for Glory" to "What Would Woody
Do?" November 1999
Fall Tour 1999 - From Wisconsin to Kansas October 1999
An Album in the Cans and the Touring Season Begins September 1999
Peach Pie and the Planets August 1999
Time at Home and a Trip to the Capitol (contains audio/video clip) July 1999
Recording in Nashville June 1999
Nashville Bound, Sundry Lodgings, and a Good Mood May 1999
California, Oregon tour and Jefferson State April 1999
From Albuquerque to Lincoln March
1999
Winter Tour 1999 February 1999
Listening January 1999
1998
Colby College, Bill Burlinghoff, and The Sounding Board December
1998
Welcome and New Recording Projects November 1998