On A Portland Play Along Selection, Betsy Branch, Clyde Curley, and Susan Songer invite musicians to pick up their instruments and play along with this representative cross section of the music in the two tune books published by Songer and Curley, The Portland Collection Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest (1) and 2. The tunes are individually tracked, even though they are played in medleys. Most of the tunes are played at a moderate tempo with only one lead and one back up instrument at a time. The recording is engineered so that the listener can pan right to hear the melody, pan left to hear the back up, or pan center to hear both together. The first and last sets on each disc are played faster with variations and harmonies to give a feel for how the music would be played at a contra dance. No tunes are duplicated from either of the two previous Portland Collection companion recordings. Album Tracks 1. Jamie Allen 2. Scollay S Reel 3. The Bottom of the Punchbowl 4. Old Grey Cat 5. Camp Pleasant Jig 6. Sonny Brogan S 7. Fair Jenny S Jig 8. Grasshopper Sittin on a Sweet Potato Vine 9. The 28th of January 10. Buck Mountain 11. Batchelder S 12. Golden Wedding Reel 13. Pacific Slope Hornpipe 14. The Banks of the Allan 15. The Sailor S Wife 16. Bert Ferguson 17. Sheehan S 18. Mother S Delight 19. Hand Me Down the Tackle 20. Democratic Rage Hornpipe 21. Dominion Reel 22. Saratoga Hornpipe 23. Flat-Footed Henry 24. Cuffy 25. Hughie Shorty S Reel 26. The Barrowburn Reel 27. Trip to Windsor 28. Mrs. Monroe S Jig 29. The Grey Buck 30. Up the River 31. Going to the Free State 32. Black-Eyed Susie 33. John Brown S March 34. Johnny, Johnny Don't Get Drunk 35. Little Dutch Girl 36. Miller S Maggot 37. Stan Chapman S Jig 38. The Steeplechase 39. Farrell O Gara 40. George White S Favorite 4