TRACK / artist / album / label
(* Australian content)
(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)
26 June 2011
The featured album was LIVE AT PERTHSHIRE AMBER by JULIE FOWLIS
www.juliefowlis.com (Machair-Planet)
What is says on the box - a
concert performance in October 2010. One the finest Scottish singers
in the business, enchanting vocals and cracking good tune sets.
Excellent live album. The following tracks were scattered through the
program:
HO BHA MI, HE BHA MI; M' FHEARANN SAIDHBHIR; LON-DUBH; TURAS SAN
LOCHMOR; HUG AIR A' BHONAID MHOIR; PABAY MOR
* THE FARMING GAME / John Williamson / Celebration - The Spirit Of
Port Fairy Folk Festival / Sandstock
* WIFE TO A COCKY FARMER / Judy Small / Celebration - The Spirit Of
Port Fairy Folk Festival / Sandstock
* JOE CASHMERE'S / Adrian Barker & Ben Stephenson / Undertones /
Tradsville
BEIDH AONACH AMARACH / MacDara / The Love Token / self published
DOG, CANE AND GUN / Emily Slade / Shire Boy / Rustic Thorn
SPEED THE PLOUGH and RAMBLING ROBIN / Spiers & Boden / Vagabond /
Navigator
SHELVIN ROCK / The Freight Hoppers / Mile Marker / Bake Tone Records
COME FARE AWAY / Matthew Byrne / Ballads /
www.matthewbyrne.net
HOLMFIRTH ANTHEM / The Watersons / The Definitive Collection /
Highpoint
BYE BYE SKIPPER / Mike Waterson / Mike Waterson / Topic
I DREAM OF APPLE ORCHARDS and SAY DARLIN' SAY / Putnam Smith / We
Could Be Beekeepers / Itchy Sabot Records
JOIN US IN OUR GAME / Mr Fox / Join Us In Our Game / Castle Music
SALLY WHEATLEY / Bob Fox & Stu Luckley / Box Of Gold / Fellside
NUTLEY WALTZ / The Hosepipe Band / Kettleburgh Fete / Kid Menthal
Music
WHAT IF, NO MATTER / Tom Paxton / Songs From SingOut! v.54#2 /
www.singout.net
CHARLES O'CONOR / Robin Bullock / The Lightning Field / Azalea City
GALILEO / Robbie O'Connell / Never Learned To Dance / Celtica
TRAMPLED ROSE / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig /
Nonesuch
19 June 2011
The featured album was STONES ON THE GROUND by VICKI SWAN & JONNY
DYER (WildGoose)
www.swan-dyer.co.uk
Interesting mix of vocals,
Scottish smallpipes, nyckelharpa, flute, bass, guitar, accordion and
piano. Mostly original tunes and traditional songs. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
BILLY BOY; VIGGO'S VAGGVISA; EN GANG; THE OXFORD AND 'AMPTON
RAILWAY
QUEEN OF WATERS / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Twice Reflected Sun /
Navigator Records
A JUG OF CHARLIE'S WINE / Alan Reid and Rob van Sante / Under The Blue
/ Red Sands Records
* THE BUTCHER BIRD / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and Friends /
Gates Of Gold /
www.tellingtales.net
* BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and Friends
/ Gates Of Gold /
www.tellingtales.net
SHILOH'S HILL / Coty Hogue / To The West / Cello Room Productions
STORMY WINDS / The Watersons / The Definitive Collection / Highpoint
Productions
* SONG OF THE OLD RAKE / Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys / Foggy
Highway / Gawd Aggie Recordings
AMERICAN LIVES / Robbie O'Connell / Never Learned To Dance / Celtica
* FOUR LITTLE JOHNNY CAKES / Collector / Collector /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
SOLDIER SOLDIER / The Clancy Legacy / The Clancy Legacy / Aodoro
SWEET EVELINA / Joel Mabus / American Anonymous / Fossil Records
DEEP ELLUM BLUES / The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore / Heirloom
Music / Neanderthal-Planet
* THE DAY THE VIRGIN MARY CAME TO COOGEE / The Wheeze and Suck Band /
Flash Lads / Fire and Thorn Records
STICK STOCK / Emily Portman / The Glamoury / Furrow Records-Planet
TRAD II / Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer / Gleowien / WildGoose
BOSTON HARBOR / Jim McGrath / Red Right Returning / Wepecket Island
Records
DIRTY WORK / Beoga / Mischief / Compass
DIRTY OLD TOWN / Ewan MacColl / Simply Folk disc 03 / Union Square
BLOW BOYS BLOW / Keith Kendrick / Short Sharp Shanties vol.1 /
WildGoose
S-A-V-E-D / The South Carolina Broadcasters / A Thousand Miles Away
From Home /
www.scbroadcaster.com
12 June 2011
The featured album was HAIR OF THE DOG by LOADED DOG
www.loadeddog.net.au This is the
fourth album by an important Western
Australian band who focus on contemporary and traditional Australian
folk music, with some great music from their side of the country,
including original songs and tunes. The following tracks (all *
Australian content) were scattered through the program:
NORTH BY WEST; BULLOCKY BILL; THE CUTTER'S DREAM; ACROSS THE
WESTERN PLAINS; PHIL'S JIG
ROVE RILEY ROVE and OLD GREASY COAT / Bruce Molsky / Poor Man's
Troubles / Rounder Select
* ON THE QUEENSLAND RAILWAY LINES / Roger Ilott & Penny Davies /
Sleepers & Rails / Festival Records
* PLEASE REFRAIN / Russell Hannah, Jim Haynes, John Dengate / Sleepers
& Rails / Festival Records
* SERGEANT SMALL / Tex Morton / Sleepers & Rails / Festival Records
* THE SMELL OF RAIN / Enda Kenny / Cloud Lining /
www.endakenny.com.au
MOLLY NA GCUACH NI CHUILLEANAIN and JENNY PICKING COCKLES / Altan /
Blackwater / Virgin
MICHAEL'S MAZURKA / Kevin Henderson, Jenna Reid, Kevin Mackenzie / Da
Homin /
www.kevinhenderson.co.uk
TRIP TO PAKISTAN / The Flying Toads / In Stitches /
www.flyingtoads.co.uk
SERGEANT EARLY'S DREAM / Cathal Clohessy & Eamonn Costello / Bosca
Ceoil And Fiddle /
www.boscaceoilandfiddle.com
AS CHRISTY ROVED OUT / Planxty / Live 2004 / Columbia
IF I WAS A BLACKBIRD / The Askew Sisters / Through Lonesome Woods /
WildGoose
THE BRISTOL SAILOR / Issy & David Emeney with Kate Riaz / The Waiting
/ WildGoose
THE FRENCH SET and DEIL IN THE LUM / Alistair Brown / Deil In The
Lum / Prospect Records
TIE YOUR DOG, SALLY GAL / Sausage Grinder / Delicious Moments / Mooch
Piddle Records
5 June 2011
The featured album was TRAIVELLER'S JOY by EMILY SMITH (White Fall
Records)
www.emilysmith.org
This is the latest CD from a now well
established Scottish musician, reinterpreting older material and
contributing her own songs to this delightful album. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
TRAIVELLER'S JOY; SWEET LOVER OF MINE; GYPSY DAVY; WHAT A VOICE
HOW WILL I EVER BE SIMPLE AGAIN / Battlefield Band / Quiet Days /
Temple Records
* THE COD THAT ATE THE MOON / Pat Drummond / The Age Of Dissent /
Shoestring
* MAUDABAWN CHAPEL / Catherine Fraser & Duncan Smith / Presence /
Locrian
WE WORK THE BLACK SEAM / Colcannon / Dolphin Bay / Greentrax
GREENLAND FISHERIES / Jim McGrath / Red Right Returning / Wepecket
Island Records
BUDDY LEAVE MY LITTLE JEEP ALONE / Lost Weekend Western Swing Band /
Swingin' Out West / Sonoton Music
KAREN'S WALTZ / Ian Hardie / Westringing / The Planet Company
EPISODE 1 / Ivor Cutler / Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol II /
Rov-Ola
THE GEESE IN THE BOG / Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington / Fortune
Favours The Merry / Clo Iar-Chonnachta
KELVINATOR / James Gordon / My Stars Your Eyes / Borealis
* LEST WE FORGET / The Waifs / Shelter Me /
www.thewaifs.com
THE NORTHERN LASS / Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack / The Beggar
Boy Of The North / Harbourtown Records
IF YOUSE A VIPER / Sausage Grinder / Delicious Moments / Mooch Piddle
Records
LET NO MAN STEAL YOUR THYME / Anne Briggs / Simply Folk Disc 03 /
Union Square Music
* THE MUSIC TREE / New Dogs Old Tricks / New Dogs Old Tricks /
www.tellingtales.net
CELL SONG / The Albion Band / Ashley Hutchings 5 / Talking Elephant
BONNY TYNESIDE / Liz Law and Terry Conway / Of Riots And Rabbits /
Stonehouse Music
THE MINSTREL'S FANCY / Cathal Clohessy & Eamonn Costello / Bosca Ceoil
And Fiddle /
www.boscaceoilandfiddle.com
29 May 2011
The featured album was GRITSTONE SERENADE by BRIAN PETERS (Pugwash)
http://brian-peters.co.uk/ The latest
album, mostly English and
mostly traditional songs and tunes, from a master musician,
instrumentalist and arranger at the top of his game. Very good
supporting musicians, production and sleevenotes complete this
excellent CD. The following tracks were scattered through the
program:
TURPIN HERO; PADDY RESOURCE; THE DEVIL'S COURTSHIP; JACKSON'S
UNTITLED HORNPIPES NOs 1 & 2; THE COTTON LORDS OF PRESTON
THE SEALER'S BALL / A Crowd Of Bold Sharemen / A Crowd Of Bold
Sharemen / Singsong
THE SLIDE FROM GRACE / B Brozman, J McSherry, D O'Connor / Six Days In
Down / Riverboat Records
* HIS NAME WAS EDGAR WATERS / Gary Shearston / Renegade / Rouseabout
Records
THE BLARGE INN / John Carty / Yeh, That's All It Is / Shanachie
* LAND OF BROKEN DREAMS / Blackwood / Never At Home / Making Music
BOATS UP THE RIVER / Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin / Return /
www.jodyandkate.com
THE STRAY-AWAY CHILD / Cathal Clohessy & Eamonn Costello / Bosca Ceoil
And Fiddle / Key Stone Records
LORD MAYO / The Flying Toads / In Stitches /
www.flyingtoads.co.uk
MY FOUR REASONS / Sausage Grinder / Delicious Moments / Mooch Piddle
Records
* ANNABEL / Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton / Summer's Lonesome Tale /
Tradsville
DIDO BENDIGO / The Watersons / The Definitive Collection / Highpoint
Recordings
DIDO FIDO / The Kipper Family / Since Time Immoral / The Dambuster
THE BLACKSMITH / Planxty / Live 2004 / Columbia
HICKORY WIND / The Byrds / Sweetheart Of The Rodeo / Columbia
SANDY BOYS / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
* GALILEO / The Fagans / Kitchen Dance /
www.thefagans.com.au
WHERE DID YA RIDE THAT TRAIN, JOE? / Kila / Lemonade & Buns / Kila
Records
IF YOU SAY YES / Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen / Cross The Water / Sleepy
Creek Music
LIBERTY / Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Just A Plain Old Country
Boy / Proper Records
22 May 2011
The featured album was SMOKE & DUST by THE THREE CITY FOUR (Fuse
Records). A single CD re-release of some excellent selections from
the two LPs recorded by an important English folk group from the
1960s. Martin Carthy, Marian KcKenzie, Leon Rosselson, Ralph Trainor
and, replacing Carthy for the second LP, Roy Bailey. Carthy turned 70
on 21 May 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70 on 24 May 2011 and some people
thought the Rapture was going to happen on 21 May, so several themes
crept into the program. The following tracks from SMOKE & DUST were scattered
through the program:
SALLY FREE AND EASY; TIM MCGUIRE; OXFORD TOWN; 15 MILLION PLASTIC
BAGS
* SHOREHAM'S GREEN SHORE / Wheeze And Suck Band / Vincent Street /
Fire and Thorn
* THE BLACKBIRD / Louis McManus and Martin Carthy / With A Heart And A
Hand / self published
* BATAVIA / The Roaring Forties / Life Of Brine /
www.roaringfortiesfolk.com
WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER / Red Molly / Never Been To Vegas /
www.redmolly.com
MEETING IN THE AIR / Flat Mountain Girls / Honey Take Your Whiskers
Off /
www.flatmountaingirls.com
LET THE MYSTERY BE / Kerr, Fagan, Harbron / Station House / Fellside
EN MONDANT LA RIVIERE / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
* MR DEPOT AGENT / Welcome Strangers / Nuggets From Here And There /
greganol@optushome.com.au
THE EAVESDROPPER / Any Old Time / Any Old Time / Mulligan
SILVER AND GOLD / Drever, McCusker, Woomble / Before The Ruin /
Navigator
THE TREES THEY DO GROW HIGH / Martin Carthy / Simply Folk: disc 1 /
Union Square
WATERMAN'S HORNPIPE / Brass Monkey / Simply Folk: disc 1 / Union
Square
THE DIVER BOY / Maeve Mackinnon / Don't Sing Lovesongs / Foot Stompin'
Records
* TANGOETTE / The Celebrated Emu Creek Bush Band / A Friday Night At
The Spring Gully Hop / self published
* PASTIME IN GOOD COMPANY / Psallite / National Folk Festival
Highlights 2007 /
www.folkfestival.asn.au
WHERE DO THE CAPELIN GO? / A Crowd Of Bold Sharemen / A Crowd Of Bold
Sharemen / Singsong
CINDY GAL / Three Mile Stone / Three Mile Stone /
www.threemilestone.com
SAD EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS / Bob Dylan / Blonde On Blonde / CBS
15 May 2011
The featured album was ROSE CITY RAMBLE by LAUREN SHEEHAN
www.laurensheehanmusic.com
(Wilson River Records). First album in
six years from an impressive singer songwriter and multi (stringed)
instrumentalist. Original and older folk and blues at its sweetest.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
IN THE WEE MIDNIGHT HOURS; CARROLL COUNTY BLUES; HONEY BABY BLUES;
BLACK IS THE COLOR; SATISFIED MIND
PATRICK PEARSE and TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR / Tom McConville /
Tommy On The Bridge / Tomcat Music
* THE BLOODY FIELDS OF WHEOGO / Collector / The Game Is Getting Lively
/
www.rowethmusic.com.au
BOBBIN JOHN and HOLD BACK THE TIDE / Wendy Weatherby / Two Loves /
Lochshore
LE PETIT PRINCE CHARLES VA-T-AU CARNAVAL / Les Chauffeurs A Pieds /
Partons Allons / Scorbut
EXMOOR ANTHEM / Jim Causley / Dumnonia / WildGoose
* LARKIN'S BAR / Wongawilli / Musical Traditions In Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
* TESORITO / Tunari / Musical Traditions In Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
THE MURDER OF GINGER GOODWIN / Enoch Kent / Take A Trip With Me /
Borealis
SHEPHERDS ARISE / Regal SLip / Bandstand / Dingle's Records
CHINQUAPIN HUNTIN' and NELLIE KANE / Two Oceans Trio / Two Oceans
Trio / Howdy Skies Records
* PROSPECT PROVIDENCE / The Fagans / Milk And Honey Land /
www.thefagans.com.au
BOO'S JIG / Angus Lyon & Ruaridh Campbell / Simple Tricks / Lochshore
BLACK EYE SUSIE / Roscoe Holcomb / An Untamed Sense Of Control /
Smithsonian Folkways
BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND / Matthew Byrne / Ballads /
www.matthewbyrne.net
BRIAN MONTAGUE'S / Three Mile Stone / Three Mile Stone /
www.threemilestone.com
CORNBREAD AND BUTTERBEANS / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro
Jig / Nonesuch
8 May 2011
The featured album was STRETCHED ON YOUR GRAVE by RUNA
www.runamusic.com A tightly crafted
album of mostly Irish songs from
an innovative Philadelphia based trio. Excellent vocals with stylish
percussion, strings and flute accompaniment. The following tracks
were scattered through the program:
THE NEWRY HIGHWAYMAN; MAID OF CULMORE; FIONNGHUALA; THE HOUSE
CARPENTER/JOLENE
MAGGIE LAUDER / The Makem & Spain Brothers / Up The Stairs / Red Biddy
Records
HAGS PURSE and GREENGROCERS DAUGHTER / Four Men & A Dog / Wallop The
Spot /
www.fourmenandadog.com
* SIXTEEN COME NEXT SUNDAY / Mothers Of Intention / Watersong /
www.mothersofintention.com.au
FISHERMAN'S REEL / Minnie White / The Hills Of Home / Singsong
SAWCHUK and HOME FROM THE USA / Ron Hynes / Stealing Genius /
Borealis
* CLOSE TO THE WIND / Wheeze and Suck Band / Wheeze & Onions / Fire &
Thorn
BYE AND BYE / Jody Stecher & Late Brislin / Songs Of The Carter Family
/ Appleseed
FLOWER OF SCOTLAND / The Corries / The Complete Collection / Lismor
COME ON IN MY KITCHEN / Robert Johnson / The Complete Recordings /
Columbia
THE JOLLY TINKER / Alan Kelly / After The Morning / Black Box Music
I HUNG MY HARP UPON THE WILLOWS / Alan Kelly with Eddi Reader / After
The Morning / Black Box Music
* WILLIAM CONQUEST TURLAND / Margaret Walters & John Warner / Who Was
There? / Feathers and Wedge
* ARGYLE IS MY NAME / No Such Thing / Going To The Barndance / self
published
* OLD AUSSIE BAND / Bob Campbell / The Divide /
www.fiddlerbob.com.au
BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM / Michael Connolly and Miller McNay / The Mandolin
Casefiles /
www.emptysea.com
TAKING ON MEN / Bob Fox / The Blast / Topic
THE YELLOW BARBER / A McGlynn, C Newman, N Casey, M ni Chathasaigh /
The Rough Guide To Irish Music / Rough Guides - Planet
1 May 2011
The featured album was TY ODE by BEROAL TRIO. (self published) A
charming and stylish collection of mostly traditional tunes, played on
flute, harp and bass by a group from central Brittany. Creative
interpretations of the material, arranged well for the instruments at
hand. A private release, worthy of wider distribution. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
KING OF THE FAIRIES; MARV EO MA MESTREZ; TRI MARTOLOD; FAIRY DANCE
I DIDN'T DRINK THE RUM and THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND / Tickle
Harbour / Battery Included / SingSong
THE SUN JUMPED UP / Tim O'Brien / Songs From SingOut Vol54#1 /
www.singout.org
TOO LATE FOR THE BACON / Red Hen / Songs From SingOut Vol54#1 /
www.singout.org
* PORT ARLINGTON SET / Madd Marianne / Get Madd / self published
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD / The Beez / Look What They've Done To My
Song /
www.thebeez.de
* CSS SHENANDOAH / Bill Jackson / The Nashville Session / Sound Vault
Records
TWO CROWS / The Devil's Interval / Blood & Honey / WildGoose
TAKE ME IN YOUR LIFEBOAT / The South Carolina Broadcasters / A
Thousand Miles Away From Home /
www.scbroadcaster.com
HEDEVIGS / Fiolministeriet / Fiolministeriet / Go' Danish
* OLD WILCANNIA TOWN / Dougie Young / The Songs Of Dougie Young /
AIATSIS & NLA
* VICTOR PODHAM'S RUSTY HUT / Harvest Moon Band / In Some Old Shed /
Collective Effort
THE BLACKSMITH AND THE TOFFEEMAKER / Jake Thackray / The Very Best Of
Jake Thackray / EMI Gold
GIPSY PRINCESS / Three Mile Stone / Three Mile Stone /
www.threemilestonemusic.com
PLAY ME BACKWARDS / Joan Baez / Play Me Backwards / Proper Records
QUEEN OF WATERS / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Twice Reflected Sun /
Navigator
WHERE RAVENS FEED / Alistair Brown / Deil In The Lum / Prospect
Records
* PADDY KELLY'S / Billy Moran / Irish Button Accordion / self
published
* RALLY ROUND THE DRUM / Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys / Foggy
Highway / Gawd Aggie
24 April 2011
10 April 2011
17 April 2011
3 April 2011
I was out of the country for a month so I'm sure the program was greatly
improved by the presence of guest presenters Terry and Roger.