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Frank Renfrow

Frank Renfrow, Kentucky Singer-songwriter musician. Musical genres include Acoustic Folk Music Singer-Songwriter (main genre of my original songs), Indiana Country Folk, Kentucky Bluegrass, Old Time Music, Ohio Soul, Ohio Funk, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Klezmer, Yiddish Folk Music, International Folk Music, Celtic Music, Irish Music, Classical Music. Piano, Accordion, Twelve String guitar.

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The Bobolink Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. I wrote this in the early 1980s after I found Bobolinks setting up territory in a Farm Field in Butler County, Ohio, only to see it had been mowed for hay a few days later. We need to rotate and manage our farmland better to provide nesting habitat for Bobolinks, Dickcissels and other open field birds. Som...

Down In the Red River Gorge Frank Renfrow copyright 1995. My song about one of my favorite places in Kentucky. Nature, Beautiful Scenery, Natural Arches, Waterfalls, Warblers, Hemlock and White Pine Coves, Mountain Laurels, Rhododendrons. If you have not been there it should be on your list of future destinations. Lovely Natural Bridge State Resort...

Diane Lived In the Forest Frank Renfrow copyright 1995 A complex allegorical song about the Goddess Diana, Vulcan at his Forge, Fall Colors, and Martin Luther King Jr. fighting the color lines. The beginning was clipped so a bit choppy there but the rest makes up for it I think.

Everybody's Cookin' At The Contra Dance. Frank Renfrow Copyright 1995. Whimsical song about the American Contra Dance Scene, where everyone is included and anyone can have lots of fun, whether you. are a good dancer or not so good! A great way to meet good folks and get some dancing in at the same time!

I'm a Tobacco Chewin' Jew Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. My autobiographical theme song, About my mixed cultural origins and how I turned out. Recorded by Carl Radens in 1988 with myself on accordion and Stephen Matyi on Irish Bouzouki.

This is my tongue in cheek song concerning industry and government opposition to restrictions protecting our environment in the late 1980s especially after some severe drought years in the Midwest. I still contend there are many toxic chemicals being produce by industry far more problematic than carbon. Nuclear contamination is also a grave threat...

A song about the dramatic flights and sounds of thousands of Sandhill Cranes landing at dusk in Autumn at Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in Northwestern Indiana.

Cincinnati My Republican Hometown Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. This song comes from my grandmother having been a Latin Teacher who loved all the connections between Cincinnati and Roman History. Also a lot to do with working at Baldwin Piano at very low wages while the Rich Executives who lived up in Indian Hill pressured us to donate to charity....

The Bombing of Iraq. copyright Frank Renfrow Protest song written after we learned of the Bombing of the Al-A'amiriya shelter and 408 Civilians the majority of them Women and Children were killed. I was at the court hearing where they put my good friend and fellow Peace Activist Rev. Maurice McCrackin in jail for his opposition to this war. I remem...

The Pronghorn copyright 1991 Frank Renfrow. I most likely wrote this in 1971 when I was 17 years old . About the prehistory of North America and mammalian evolution and extinctions. Shows I have been thinking about these matters for a long time and have come to the conclusion that all species are native to the Planet Earth! Piano licks in this and...

The President's on Vacation in Maine. Frank Renfrow copyright 1991 Protest song against the Persian Gulf War. The sad story of how our country is in the pocket of the munitions manufacturers, with Presidents on Vacation while they send our tax dollars down the drain for war spending. Still the same old story with Joe Biden today. The Old Man of the...

The Falls of the Ohio Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. A song I wrote about the Falls of the Ohio on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky with some romantic drama woven in. A good accordion tune to waltz to. The Falls although their full flow has been diverted for navigation, is a good spot to do birdwatching from the Falls of the Ohio State Park i...

The Trumpeter Swan Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. I wrote this song in the early 1980s when there was a Swan on the Great Miami River near Lost Bridge. I remember trudging through deep snow to find it around a bend. It was a beautiful Swan and it gave a beautiful soft call with a hauntingly beautiful French Horn-like tone. David Styer returned later...

Frank Renfrow copyright 1995.
A song about the Scots Naturalist, Adventurer and Mill Owner George Donaldson who preserved the old growth forest at Donaldson's Woods at Spring Mill and put up a monument to Alexander Wilson, father of North American Ornithology at what is now Spring Mill State Park in Indiana. Born in Renfrewshire he was condemned to...

The Princess of Kuwait. Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. An allegorical protest song I wrote at the start of the Persian Gulf War. There were protests by the way and I was one of the protesters. 408 Iraqi Civilians killed in a shelter in Baghdad was only the beginning of the wrong turn we took led by two Bushes with well over 4400 dead and 31,000 wou...

This song goes back to when I was almost impeached as booking officer for the Leo Coffeehouse for getting in too many varieties of acts some thought were not really folk music. At the board meeting I won a reprieve by a narrow one vote margin. The reward was I got to do a feature act at the Edensong Festival, with Steve Matyi on Irish Bouzouki and...

Alexander Wilson Man of the Birds Frank renfrow copyright 1991. Considered the father of North American Ornithology, Alexander Wilson came to America in 1794. I always had a fascination for reading about his life, as a weaver, poet. musician and bird artist. A rebel against authority, he came here in exile from Renfrewshire, Scotland after penning...

My song about my experience along the Little Miami Trail in a surprise encounter with the KKK. Photo with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the Warren Co. Court bldg. He stood by me in order to win this battle. We fought to make sure no one felt intimidated or insulted due to their ethnicity or religion, while on or near the Little Miami Trail State P...

The Young Editor of the Western Star Frank Renfrow copyright 1995. The story of young Raymond Smith of Lebanon, Ohio who rose very early to the post of editor of Lebanon's Western Star, but died of consumption at age 29 after a trip to the Northern Lakes. He was an ornithologist and he authored a paper on the Birds of Warren County in the 19th Cen...

Kentucky Warbler Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. My song about the Kentucky Warbler and the difficulty in seeing one when you are trying to. A beautiful bright yellow, black masked bird of the Southeastern United States. Very shy also but with a pretty strong voice! Carl Radens on Mandolin and myself on Accordion.

Snowy Owl Frank Renfrow Copyright 1991. I wrote this song in the early 1980s when a Snowy Owl showed up in winter atop a factory building in Sharonville, Ohio. I have seen many since, and they often show up in the darndest places. They have little fear of people as they come down from the Arctic Tundra in winter when their prey is scarce up North.

I wrote this shortly after meeting Veronica after she came to see me in Cincinnati and we went to the Saturday Night Contra Dance together. That was our first official date. Meeting Veronica was quite a stroke of good fortune for me. You can tell from the lyrics I took myself way too seriously back then. However it was good motivation for writing...