Sleeping Giant has released 10 other albums since its debut: six more folk recordings, including one by Fredonia's "not oppressively formal" NewtonStreet Irregulars, and four by poet and spoken word artist Vincent Quatroche of Dunkirk.

This year Dan felt it was time to revisit that first recording and give it what he calls "the clean, fresh sound the music deserves," thanks to the digital remastering expertise of Northern Roads Productions' Alan Bartenhagen.

"The field recordings (such as Irishtown Breakdown) of Cecil Butler that I did in the winter of '75 are so clear on the new CD," Dan reports, "that you really feel like you're in his kitchen listening to him fiddle. He taught me some tunes and told me stories about my grandfather."

Butler, 89 years old at the time of the recording, played for North Country square dances for 66 years.

Adirondack Green earned Berggren an invitation to perform at the renowned Caffe Lena in Saratoga, and praise from critics like Martin Sokolich of the Cleveland music magazine Polution Control: "Sung with a strong, rich voice ... Berggren serves as a conduit to carry a local heritage into the present"; and broadcaster Miran Belec of Radio Logatec in Slovenia: "A wonderful and careful songwriter who makes every word count."

In addition to collecting, writing and singing songs about his boyhood home in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Dan was the producer, with Fredonia State Sound Recording Technology student Anthony Distefano the engineer. The joint projects continue, as Berggren and Fredonia State SRT senior James Briggs III are currently engaged in the production of a concert recording made last May at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House.

Since 1977, Dan and his wife Nancy have lived in Fredonia, where they've raised their daughter Jenny. A junior at Fredonia Sate majoring both in Music and International Studies, Jenny is an accomplished musician in her own right and has performed in concert with her father and on several Sleeping Giant CDs.