The Resource Page
(credits and all that stuff)

Discography

• Songs of the Stevedore, Dominion Records LPS 21005 - 1968
• Hard Workin' Men - Boot Records BOS 7102 - 1971
• I've Lived - Boot Records BOS 7111 - 1972
• Lester The Lobster & Other Hits of Stevedore Steve - Boot Records Maritime Series -BTM 2004 - 1976
• Miramichi Folk Song Festival, Waterfront Records - 1994
• To The Workin' Man, Waterfront Records - 1995
• Maritime Fun, Waterfront Records - 1995
• New Brunswick Spirit, Volume 1 - Stevedore Steve Productions RDRCD-1757 - 1995

• Stompin' Tom: Story & Song - story by Steve Foote, 1975 - published by Crown-Vetch Music Inc.
• Stompin' Tom: Before The Fame - Autobiography with many mentions of Steve Foote throughout - published by Viking Press, Penguin Books of Canada, 1995
• Stompin' Tom and The Connors Tone - part two of Tom's autobiography - published by Viking Press, 2000
• Singing About Us - compilation of stories and songs by Bob Davis and Bruce Burron - published by james Lorimer & Company, Toronto, 1976
• On A Cold Road by Dave Bidini - mentions a sighting of Stevedore Steve pg 194 - published by McClelland & Stewart Inc, Toronto 1998

• Tales of the Donnelly Feud by Earl Heywood, HR Records - LPS 105 - 1979 (originally released on Dominion Records circa 1969) No mention on the cover crediting the artist.
• Stompin' Tom Connors Sings 60 Old Time Favourites, Dominion Records STC 1 circa 1970. (Front and back of box set featured Western line drawings. No mention of artist)
• Stompin' Tom Connors Sings 60 Old Time Favourites, Boot Records STC 1, 1972. (Re-release of Dominion box set but with a slightly different front cover (dog on porch) and no drawing on back)
• Stompin' Tom Connors Sings 60 More Old Time Favourites, Boot Records STC 2, 1971. (Second volume box set with Western line drawing on front cover)
• Stompin' Tom Meets Muk Tuk Annie, Boot Records BOS-7146, 1974. (Front cover features three of Steve's drawings 'cartoonesque')
• Stompin' Tom Sings The North Atlantic Squadron and other Favourites, Boot Records BOS 7153, 1975. (Front cover coloured line drawing).

• Diesel Drivin' Man by Angus Walker (Canada's Prime Minister of Country Music) on Introducing Angus Walker, Cynda Records CNS 1057, 1975

1937 - Born: Saint John, New Brunswick
1944 - first meeting with Tom Connors in Saint John Hospital
1951 - met Tom Connors in a Saint John greesy spoon
1952 - beginning of many travels across Canada, the US and Mexico. Starts using the nickname 'Duke'.
1962 - applies for a longshoreman's position and union card
1964 - begins performing around Saint John before continuing his travels
1966 - Takes up residency in Toronto.
1967 - signs with Dominion Records. Meets Jury Krytiuk who produces his first LP. Starts using the name Stevedore Steve.
1968 - meets and marries Gini - honeymoons at Britt, Ontario. Releases Songs of the Stevedore.
1971 - Records second album, this time with the fledgeling Boot Records label. Draws the Boot Records logo.
1972 - Records another album with Boot
1974 - Hosts TV show on Toronto's CITY-TV called 'The Stevedore Steve Show'.
1976 - Releases a greatest hits album on Boot
1977 - Quits the music business - claims bankruptcy. Takes up residency in Saint John.
1978 - Sells his guitar and stops thinking music
1988 - stranger knocks on his door claiming he has Steve's original guitar. Gerry Taylor rediscovers Stevedore Steve. Steve Fruitman & Kevin Nan track down Stevedore Steve.
1991 - Inducted into the New Brunswick Country Music Hall of Fame
1993 - featured on ATV program 'At Home Tonight'
1994 - releases his first album in nearly two decades. Performs at Miramichi Folksong Festival
1995 - issues several albums, including his first CD
1998 - retires from music business with large gala send-off at Empire Threater in Saint John

Thanks to Gerry Taylor, a remarkable journalist, completely in love with his work, for having supported the spirit of Stevedore Steve. He, more than anyone I can think of, encouraged Steve to get back into music.

Also, thanks to Ossie Branscombe of the Country Music Store, Toronto; Paul Lyon, Toronto; Maggie Fruitman, Toronto; Tom Connors, Ballinifad, Ontario; Bob Davis and Bruce Burron, Toronto; Raymond Foote, Saint John; Ned Landry, Saint John; The Saint John Museum; Marie Beattie, Arnprior; Kevin Nan, North Bay, Ontario; Sandy MacIntyre, Toronto; and anyone else whom I have forgotten to mention.

And lastly, to the hard sluggin', rough and tumble, rugged Stevedore Steve and Gini.