TRACK / artist / album / label
(* Australian content)
(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)
28 March 2010
The featured album was ALL DRESSED IN YELLOW by FIDDLER'S BID
www.fiddlersbid.com
(Hairst Blinks Music). Very impressive Shetland
fiddling, with big arrangements on each track, totally unencumbered by
artificially imposed three minute pop-radio limits. One track comes
in at 15:39. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
THE FIDDLERS' BID ODE TO JOY; APO FETLAR TOP; ASTRID'S VALS
* THE RASPBERRY PICKERS' SONG / Harvest Moon Band / In Some Old Shed /
Collective Effort
* (MY DREAM) BILL CASE'S DREAM / Harvest Moon Band / In Some Old Shed
/ Collective Effort
THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND / Alistair Hulett / Riches And Rags
/ Red Rattler
THE SHAMROCK SOD / Bohola / Bohola / Shanachie
GLASGOW LASSIE / Sylvia Barnes / The Colours Of Amber / Greentrax
* REFUGE TO A REFUGEE / Bernard Carney / Feathers & Tributes / Dark
Horse Records
ANOTHER TRAIN / The Poozies / Raise Your Head / Compass
A COSTA DE GALICIA / Sharon Shannon & Friends / The Diamond Mountain
Sessions / Compass
ROLLING DOWN TO RIO / Tom Lewis / Mixed Cargo / Borealis
* INDEPENDENCE PARK / Fred Smith / Independence Park /
www.fredsmith.com.au
SAE WILL WE YET / The Unusual Suspects / The Unusual Suspects Live In
Scotland / Foot Stompin' Records
* BLAME IT ON THE BABY BOOMERS / Pat Drummond / The Descent Of Age /
Shoestring
THE PROUD MAN / Kevin Burke & Ged Foley / In Tandem / self published
THE FRIENDLY JIGS / Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll / The Calling /
www.englishfiddle.com
THE QUEEN OF NORTHERN LIGHTS / Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald /
Calling On Love / Freewheel Records
* LOVE NEVER RUNS ON TIME / Paul Kelly / Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits /
Mushroom
TOM JOAD / Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards / 32c Postage Due / Rising
Son Records
21 March 2010
The featured album was BEYOND THE BORDERS by TRADISH (GO' Danish)
www.tradish.dk Mostly Irish style traditional
and contemporary tunes
and more recent songs from a Denmark based trio of well respected
musicians. This is an uncomplicated and enjoyable album. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
JUST A MAN; SPLENDID ISOLATION; GYPSY; KITTY COME DOWN FROM
LIMERICK
STARRY CROWN / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind /
Music Maker
* KWELA 21 / Andy Rigby and Friends / Andology Vol.1: Tunes Of The
Andys / self published
MARTIN (WHO'S THE FOOL NOW) / General Humbert / General Humbert /
Dolphin Records
FOLLOW ME DOWN / Jackie Daly & Seamus Creagh / Jackie Daly & Seanus
Creagh / Gael-Linn
* ALBION STREET / Terry Hannagan / The Songs Of Don Henderson /
Shoestring
* PIG AND WHISTLE ROLL / Vincent P. Brophy / Down To The Sea In Ships
/ Hard Yacka Records
I'LL TELL MY MA / Sinead O'Connor / Sean-Nos Nua / Hummingbird Records
FRYING PAN / Barbara Lamb / Twisty Girl / Lots Of Coffee Records
* THE SHEARERS / Loaded Dog / That There Dog O' Mine /
hugatree@iinet.net.au
THE JIG SET / J.P.Cormier / X8 A Mandolin Collection / Patio Records
* WILLIAM CONQUEST TURLAND / Walters & Warner / Who Was Here? /
Feathers and Wedge
* THE DARK EYED GYPSIES / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Another Threshing Day
/
www.rowethmusic.com.au
* LOCH-KEEPER / Eric Bogle / At This Stage / Rouseabout Records
BUFFALO GALS / David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic / Cowboy Ceilidh /
Centerfire Music
GLENLOGIE / Smithfield Fair / Scotland, Fair Scotland / Stevenson
Productions
THE NEW IRISH BARN DANCE and THE CATALPA / Green Fields Of America /
Green Fields Of America / Compass
JOHNNY TODD and SUITE DE LOUDEAC / Kevin Burke & Ged Foley / In
Tandem / self published
14 March 2010
The featured album was LA BIBOURNOISE by GENTICORUM (Mad River)
www.genticorum.com A fine CD by an
excellent Quebecois trio,
currently on another Australian tour. The following tracks were
scattered through the program:
LA BIBOURNOISE; LE BRANDY CULOTTE; LE MOINE BLANC; VALSE BEAULIEU;
LES CULOTTES DE V'LOUR
THE LIGHT DRAGOON / Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr / Live At Fairbridge
Festival /
www.fairbridgefestival.com.au
* SAMBA LA VIDA / Los Chasquis / Live At Fairbridge Festival /
www.fairbridgefestival.com.au
* CASEY JONES / Ten Cent Shooters / Sweet To Mama / Ten Cent Records
BEAUTY SPOT / Carlene Anglim & Allister Gittens / Mellow Frenzy /
Lochshore
THE SUCKING PIG / Jim Causley / Down 'Pon Ole Dartymoor / Wren Music
SUITE DE 6/8 / Mike Bond & Band / Down 'Pon Ole Dartymoor / Wren Music
* HARD LUCK STORIES / The Bushwackers Band / Flash Jack From Gundagai
/ Avenue Records
THE MOLE CATCHER / Issy & David Emeeney with Kate Riaz / The Wailing /
WildGoose
THE LITTLE FIDDLER / Moxie / Moxie with Frank Ferrel & Friends / Great
Meadow Music
* CHENDIE'S MEATLOAF BLUES / Paul Lawler & The Just Desserts / A Taste
Of Good Music /
www.peculiarhand.com
* NA GAMHNA GEALA / Triantan / NSW - State Of Play /
www.folkfednsw.org.au
FENNARIO / Sylvia Herold & Euphonia / Lovely Nancy / Tuxedo Records
I GOT MINE / Roy Book Binder / Some People Play Guitar ... Like A
Lotta People Don't / Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
* TWEED AND LISMORE / Cocky's Joy / The Joy / self published
DAMNED OLD PINEY MOUNTAINS / Rattle On The Stovepipe / No Use In
Cryin' / WildGoose
* LONG WEEKEND AT HOME / Wongawilli / Australia Street /
www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
7 March 2010
The featured album was SONGS FROM SINGOUT! v.53#2, the latest
compilation album from the excellent American folk magazine, SingOut!
www.singout.org The following tracks were
scattered through the program:
LITTLE WHEEL SPIN AND SPIN (Buffy Saint Marie); TIGER'S FIRST REEL
(Kathryn Tickell); THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN (Liam Clancy); SCOTCH
PINE (Johnsmith); GROWIN' TRADE (Levon Helm); BARE KNUCKLE (Jez
Lowe)
SLEEPY EYED JOHN and OLD YELLER DOG / The Flat Mountain Girls / Idle
Talk & Wicked Deeds /
www.flatmountaingirls.com
* AROUND THE BOREE LOG / Wongawilli / Australia Street /
www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
IT'S TIGHT LIKE THAT / Sunshine Skiffle Band / Beat It, Blow It, Strum
It, Hum It / Flying Fish
LA VALSE LEA / Gaston Nolet / Gaston Nolet Joue Alfred Montmarquette /
gaston.nolet@sympatico.ca
WHERE DID THE BRUMBIES GO / Stan Graham / Music & Friends / Magpie
Music
* I KNOW MY LOVE / Touchwood / Big Things / Hop Records
* GOING HOME / Don Henderson / The Songs Of Don Henderson / Shoestring
* A HERD OF GOWS / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club & friends / Gates Of
Gold /
www.melbournescottishfiddlers.com
THE THREE MEN / Issy & David Emeney with Karen Riaz / The Waiting /
WildGoose
* HEY CHARLIE PERKINS / Gary Shearston / The Best Of All Trades /
Rouseabout
THE THATCHER and HUG AIR A' BHONAID MHOIR / Julie Fowlis / Cuilidh /
Spit&Polish-Planet
JIG JAZZ / Brendan Power & Andrew White / Power & White / Candyrat
MY LITTLE CARPENTER / Beverly Smith & Carl Jones / Glow / Dittyville
SUSSEX CAROL / Kerfuffle / Lighten The Dark / RootBeat Records
* BULLSHIT BILL / Alan Musgrove / The Bagman's Gazette /
thalia-@hotkey.net.au
* HENRY LEE / Joy & Hildebrand / Still A Mem'ry Living / self
published
* THE MINES OF AUSTRALIA / Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton / Swapping
Seasons /
ruthsta@yahoo.com
FISH UPON THE HOOK / Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring / Starch & Iron /
Heard Her Squeal Records
28 February 2010
The featured album was EXILE'S RETURN by KARAN CASEY & JOHN DOYLE
(Compass-Planet). Two former members of Irish/American band Solas
collaborate on an album of songs with stripped back accompaniment,
relying mostly on Doyle's beautiful guitar work for basic but
effective accompaniment. Excellent harmonies on several tracks are a
feature. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
EXILE'S RETURN; SAILING OFF TO THE YANKEE LAND; THE BAY OF BISCAY;
MADAM I'M A DARLING; FALSE LOVER JOHN
* THE COLOUR CO-ORDINATED CO-DEPENDENCE SONG / K'Crasher / Towards The
Light / Bristlehead Music
I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE / Fiddlers 4 / Fiddlers 4 /
Compass
TENDING THE STEER / Duncan McGillivray with Battlefield Band / Harp,
Pipes & Fiddles / Temple
* WOOLLOOMOOLOO LAIR / The Bushwackers with Greg Champion / Jubilee /
ABC Music
* BILLY OF TEA / The Bushwackers with Ted Egan / Jubilee / ABC Music
JOHNNY O'LOU / Dile Gallop / Between The Sound And The Sea /
Smithsonian Folkways
BOOZE YACHT / Jule Garrish / Between The Sound And The Sea /
Smithsonian Folkways
* SWING 42 / Bohemian Nights / Bohemian Nights /
www.erniegruner.com
STEALIN' BACK TO MY SAME OLD USED TO BE / Alistair Hulett / Riches And
Rags / Red Rattler
WALKIN' IN MY SLEEP / Uncle Earl / She Waits For Night / Rounder-Shock
* THE MOSS VALE TRAIN / Alan Scott / Travelling Through The Storm /
Fanged Wombat
* NO LIFT FOR JACKY / Keith McKenry / Travelling Through The Storm /
Fanged Wombat
PARTY IN THE CATSKILLS / Jerry Holland & John Doyle / Helping Hands /
Fiddlesticks Music
UNCLOUDY DAY / Sarah McQuaid / I Won't Go Home 'Til Morning /
www.sarahmcquaid.com
THE WIND & THE RAIN / Martin Simpson / True Stories / Topic-Planet
THE MOLDAVIAN SCHOTTISCHE / Brass Monkey / Head Of Steam /
Topic-Planet
TOMORROW NIGHT / Bob Dylan / Good As I Been To You / Columbia
* MAMDOUH HABIB / Jane M. Harding / Songs From The Road / self
published
REDICAN'S MOTHER / Pride Of New York / Pride Of New York / Compass
* STRUAN ROBERTSON'S / Strathmannan / Strathmannan /
kscott@netspeed.com.au
21 February 2010
I was otherwise engaged today, so the program was presented by my 2MCE
folk colleague, Roger Hargraves, the presenter of 'The Connection'
each Sunday evening from 6 to 7 pm on this fine radio station. Thanks,
mate.
MAY REEL NO 1 / Dr Faustus / The First Cut / Fellside
THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS / Fairport Convention / Live Across The Centuries
/ Smith & Co
THE DUKE OF LEINSTER and THE DIAMANTINA DROVER / The Unwanted /
Music From The Atlantic Coast / Compass-Planet
THE DEVIL HAD A HOLD OF ME / Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / Hell
Among The Yearlings / Acony
WRECKING BALL / Gillian Welch / Soul Journey / Acony
* CALEB MAYER / Sue Daley And The Sea Of Heartbreak / Tales Of Whiskey
& Sugar / self published
SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR and HULLABALOO BELAY and GREY FUNNEL LINE
/ Hanging Johnny / Visions Remain /
www.chanteycabin.co.uk
JIM O'KEEFE'S / Green Fields Of America / Green Fields Of America /
Compass
ALL THE BELLS / Arthur Brown / The Voice Of Love / Cote Basque
JEEMIE LOWRIE'S / Fullsceilidh Spelemennslag / Spreefix /
www.spreefix.com
CORSICAN LADY / Pert' Near Sandstone / Needle & Thread /
www.pertnearsandstone.com
SAAPMI / Oreka Tx / Nomadak Tx / Harmonia Mundi
LONG DISTANCE CALL / Muddy Waters / Muddy & The Wolf / Chess
* DON'T GO DANCING DOWN THE DARKTOWN STRUTTER'S BALL / C.W.Stoneking /
King Hokum / Inertia-Shock
IMIDIWAN / Tinariwen / Imidiwan: Companions / Independiente
14 February 2010
At short notice I was not able to present the program, so we repeated a program
first heard some time back in 2007.
7 February 2010
The featured album was HERE & THERE, NOW & THEN by GARY SHEARSTON
(Rouseabout Records)
www.garyshearston.com
An anthology of songs by
an Australian singer songwriter who was reasonably well known in the
late 1960s, now actively touring and performing again after something
of a hiatus while his other career as a clergyman took precedence.
Includes many outstanding songs of social commentary and perceptive
observations of the times. The following tracks (all * Australian
content) were scattered through the program:
THE BASIC WAGE DREAM; IT'S ON; SOMETIME LOVIN'; DUKE'S SONG; THE
OLDE VICEROY; SYDNEY TOWN
KATIE SHAW and THE ROGUES MARCH / Kerfuffle / To The Ground /
RootBeat Records
* BELLS AND BULLOCKS / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Another Threshing Day /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
ROAD TO LOCH TAY / Rodney Miller & Elvie Miller / Spyglass Waltzes /
Brimstone Corner Records
THE OVERGATE / The Malkies / Suited And Booted / Limbo
LANDS END and FAIR FLOWERS OF THE VALLEY / Tim O'Brien / Fiddler's
Green / Howdy Skies Music
THE GUILDEROY / Lustukru / Gigues Reels Polkas Gavottes / Fonovox
RAY'S REELS and THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL / Ray and Greg Walsh /
Generations /
www.walshfamilyband.com
HOW LONG / Uncle Earl / She Waits For Night / Rounder
SILVER AND GOLD / Drever, McCusker, Woomble / Navigator sampler CD /
Navigator
* SIXTEEN COME NEXT SUNDAY / Mothers Of Intention / Watersong /
www.mothersofintention.com.au
DA SHELTIE SET and PUIRT A BEUL / Dochas / The Second Glance /
Macmeanmna
JIGS IN G / Brenda Stubbert / Endless Memories /
www.brendastubbert.ca
THE GIRL BEHIND THE BAR / Big Medicine / Fever In The South /
Yodel-Ay-Hee
THE MASON'S APRON / Whistlebinkies / Timber Timbre / Greentrax
31 January 2010
In place of a featured album today I played a selection of tracks by
ALISTAIR HULETT
www.alistairhulett.com
Alistair was an influential
singer songwriter whose passing on 28 January after a short illness
has shocked and saddened his many friends around the world. A
tireless fighter for social justice, people's rights and a better and
fairer world, Alistair was a personal friend who will be dearly
missed.
* DESTITUTION ROAD / Roaring Jack / The Cat Among The Pigeons / Mighty
Boy
* THE DAY THAT THE BOYS CAME DOWN / Roaring Jack / The Cat Among The
Pigeons / Mighty Boy
* FRAMED / Roaring Jack / 12" single / Mighty Boy
* HE FADES AWAY / Alistair Hulett / Dance Of The Underclass / Mighty
Boy
* JOHN MCLEAN'S MARCH / Alistair Hulett / In The Back Streets Of
Paradise / Red Rattler
* A MIGRANT'S LULLABYE / Alistair Hulett & Dave Swarbrick / Saturday
Johnny & Jimmy The Rat / Red Rattler
MRS BARBOUR'S ARMY / Alistair Hulett & Dave Swarbrick / Red Clydeside
/ Red Rattler
ARE THERE HONKY TONKS IN HEAVEN / The Malkies / CD sampler
* MICKEY DAM / Jimmy Gregory / Highlights 2000 /
www.folkfestival.asn.au
* LION ISLAND / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Highlights 2000 /
www.folkfestival.asn.au
MON AIMABLE CATIN / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
MUSIC & FRIENDS / Stan Graham / Music & Friends / Magpie Music
* SILVERY MOON / The Poachers / The Poachers / self published
* GREEN LIGHT UPON THE GREEN / Barry McDonald and Marooan / Where The
Sun-Lights On The Dew-Drops Shine / Harbourtown
THE SPOONS MURDER / Con O'Driscoll / The Rough Guide To Irish Folk /
Rough Guides-Planet
HIGH ROAD TO LINTON / B Mulholland, B Hendry & P McSherry / The Rough
Guide To Irish Folk / Rough Guides-Planet
PENNEN DEN / Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter / 2:Forty / Celloharp
Records
THE OLD MAN / Kate Rusby / Awkward Annie / Pure Records
THE BUNDLING SONG / Graham & Eileen Pratt / To Friend And Foe /
Dingle's Records
LE POUVOIR DU FANTOME and C'ETAIT UN P'TIT OISEAU / Les Chauffeurs A
Pieds / Partons Allons / Scorbut
24 January 2010
The featured album was NATURAL ANGLE by GRADA
www.gradamusic.com
(Compass). The latest well crafted release from an excellent Irish
group, include interesting collaborations with American
multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter, Tim O'Brien. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
ABE'S AXE; JOHN RILEY; THE HUTT REELS; THE BUTCHER BOY; LOUIS
COLLINS
PICK POOR ROBIN CLEAN and SANDY RIVER BELLE / Tangleweed / Most
Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals / Squatney
BOLD RILEY / Moody Penner & Swain / Sounth Bound / Manitoba Film &
Sound
* MAC'S DELIGHT / Wheelers & Dealers / Full House /
www.wheelersanddealers.com.au
* THE CALL OF LORD HOWE ISLAND / Lord Howe Island Central School /
Songs Of Lord Howe Island / Lord Howe Island Arts Council
GANKA'S SONG / Chavo / Umbrellowhead / Megafone-Planet
NO PARDON / The Queensberry Rules / Take Your Own Roads / Fellside
RONDO A LA TURKEY / Belshazzar's Feast / Umbrellowhead /
Megafone-Planet
* SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD / Fred Smith / Texas /
www.indie-cds.com
MOLLY AND JOHNNY / Dervish / Playing With Fire / Whirling Discs
MUNERA'L CENTRO / Felpeyu / Ya! / Secret Street
* BOUND FOR WESTERN PORT / Wongawilli / Bulli - The Tradition
Continues /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* JACK SWEENEY, BULLI MINER / Vivienne Sawyer / Bulli - The Tradition
Continues /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* EVERYONE I KNOW / Alistair Hulett / In The Back Streets Of Paradise
/ Red Rattler
JERRY'S RED MOUNTAIN JIG / Emile Benoit / Vive La Rose / Amber Music
MARY CLARE MOLLOY / Tom Russell with Dolores Keane / The Man From God
Knows Where / Hightone Records
THE WILD WEST WAGON TRAIN / Sharon Shannon / Saints & Scoundrels /
Daisy
BUFFALO SKINNERS / Tim O'Brien / Fiddlers Green / Howdy Skies
MY LITTLE CARPENTER / Beverly Smith and Carl Jones / Glow / Dittyville
* SING BIRDIE SING / Dave de Hugard / Songs Of The Wallaby Track /
www.dehugard.com
17 January 2010
The featured album was THE BALTIC TAE BYZANTIUM by BRIAN MCNEILL
(Mad River) One of the elder statesmen of Scottish folk music
explores the Scots' long association with mainland Europe, including
the circumstances of his own parents' meeting. Another fine album
from a master singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
THE BALTIC TAE BYZANTIUM; BOTHWELL; THE HOLLAND TRADE; BRING THE
LASSIE HAME
* GALILEO / The Fagans / Kitchen Dance / Mossbawn Music
* THE PICK-UP SHED / The Fagans / Kitchen Dance / Mossbawn Music
MRS SAMPSON'S DELIGHT / Garry Walsh / Penny Trumpets / Phaeton Records
HOW WILL I EVER BE SIMPLE AGAIN / Marley's Ghost / Four Spacious Guys
/ self published
DEV'LISH MARY / Dev'lish Mary / Dev'lish Mary /
www.devlishmary.com
PLAINS OF WATERLOO / Martin Simpson / Bootleg USA / Simpsonian
CONTENTMENT IS WEALTH / Kevin Keegan / The Music Of Kevin Keegan / Clo
Iar-Chonnachta
* LET THE CANEFIELDS BURN / Graeme Connors / The Best ... 'Til Now /
ABC
DANCING AT WHITSUN / Tim Hart & Maddy Prior / Summer Solstice / B&C
Recordings
L'ALCUENTRU / Igor Medio & Lisardo Prieto / Dual / self published
WIND AND RAIN / Julie Fowlis / Uam / Shoeshine Records
* THE FRENCH SONG / Greg Champion / Greg Champion and the Coodabeen
Champions / ABC Country
* THE GLENBURGH WOOL / Chloe & Jason Roweth with Jim McWhinnie / A
Voice That Was Still /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
INTOXICATED RAT / New Lost City Ramblers / American Moonshine &
Prohibition / Smithsonian Folkways
EN FILANT MA QUENOUILLE / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
WEE WEAVER / Hannah James & Sam Sweeney / Catches & Glees / RootBeat
Records
* FRANKIE AND ALBERT / Joy & Hildebrand / Still A Mem'ry Living / self
published
MUNEIRA DE ANXIRIS / Leilia / Hent Sant Jakez / Shamrock Records
10 January 2010
The featured album was A RETROSPECTIVE 1974-1993 by FIGGY DUFF
(Amber Music) A compilation album presenting a sample of the work of a
celebrated Newfoundland folk rock band whose legend lives on. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
WOMAN OF LABRADOR; BREAKWATER BOYS BREAKDOWN; TARRY TROUSERS; THE
FISHER WHO DIED IN HIS BED; GEESE IN THE BOG
* SONG FOR THE MIRA / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club & Friends / Gates
Of Gold /
www.melbournescottishfiddlers.com
* COOL / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club & Friends / Gates Of Gold /
www.melbournescottishfiddlers.com
TOM PAINE'S BONES / The Glee / Different Season / Shee Records
FAREWELL ANGELINA / Show Of Hands / Dark Fields / Hands On Music
THE RAFTMEN'S SONG / The Barefoot Boys / Sweetwater Passage /
www.richbala.com/barefootboys.htm
* A STARRY NIGHT FOR A RAMBLE / Alan Musgrove / Songs They Used To
Sing /
thalia-@hotkey.net.au
* RAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSY / Wheelers & Dealers / Wheelers & Dealers /
www.wheelersanddealersmusic.com.au
WORLD GONE WRONG / Bob Dylan / World Gone Wrong / Columbia
NOEL DINN / Emile Benoit / Vive La Rose / Amber Music
APPLE SCRUMPING / Methera / Methera /
www.methera.co.uk
MARDI GRAS / Burgess Adin & Wingard / Doggerland / Sjelvar
PLANETS / Kate Rusby / Awkward Annie / Pure Records
* THE PUSH ON THE CORNER / O'Leary & Hildebrand / Together Again Again
/
greganol@optushome.com.au
THE DOFFING MISTRESS / Brass Monkey / Going & Staying / Topic
* THE DRINKER'S DREAM / Warren Fahey / Classic Bush Poetry / ABC Audio
GAOL SONG / Hannah James & Sam Sweeney / Catches & Glees / RootBeat
Records
DINNY O'BRIEN'S / Garry Walsh / Penny Trumpets / Phaeton Records
3 January 2010
The featured album was MUSIC FROM THE ATLANTIC COAST by THE UNWANTED
(Compass / Planet)
www.unwantedtrio.com
Cathy Jordan, Rick Epping and
Seamie O'Dowd offer a highly entertaining collection of songs and
tunes described as "the combined traditions from Ireland to Appalachia
and beyond". Excellent album. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
OUT ON THE WESTERN PLAINS; SWEET BECKY AT THE LOOM; ANGELINA BAKER;
AN PHIS FLIUCH; EILEEN A RUIN
* ALFRED BREMER'S ORGAN / Pat Drummond / Tales From The Local Rag /
Shoestring
ITALIAN BOY IN LONDON and ERIK RYDVALLS MARCH / Kate Bramley /
Little Canaan / Tantobie
DELIA / Martin Simpson / Bootleg USA / Simpsonian Music
THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL / Skip Gorman & the Waddie Pals / Dogie Music /
Old West
HAYES'S FAVOURITE / Ben Lennon & Tony O'Connell / Rossinver Braes /
Clo Iar-Chonnachta
THE HARLEY SET and SIMMER DIM / Hom Bru / No Afore Time /
www.hombru.co.uk
* MR CIRCLE / Fred Smith / Bagarap Empires /
www.fredsmith.com.au
* CHILLAGOE SMELTER / Jane M. Harding / Songs From The Road / self
published
GREEN MOUNTAIN / Brenda Stubbert / Tamarack 'Er Down / Cranford
Publications
THE STEALTH COMMA / Les Barker / National Folk Festival Highlights
2008 /
www.folkfestival.asn.au
* BOB IN THE WASH HOUSE / Collector / National Folk Festival Highlights 2008 /
www.folkfestival.asn.au
PANCHO AND LEFTY / Steve Earle / Townes / NewWestRecords
THE MIRACULOUS FISH / Graham and Eileen Pratt / To Friend And Foe /
Dingle's Records
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY / The New Scorpion Band / Master
Marenghi's Music Machine /
www.new-scorpion-band.com
FLORA, THE LILY OF THE WEST / Jed Marum / Sands Of Aberdeen /
www.jedmarum.com
* LONG RUN / The Fagans / Milk And Honey Land /
www.thefagans.com.au