Archived Playlists:  July - September 2013

'Come All Ye' is a folk music radio program broadcast on 2MCE-FM each Sunday from 12 to 2pm, heard across the central west of NSW, Australia, in the cities of Bathurst (92.3 Mhz) and Orange (94.7 Mhz), and streamed as well. Bruce Cameron has hosted 'Come All Ye' since 1976, making it the longest running folk / acoustic / roots program on Australian radio still with its original presenter.

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(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)

29 September 2013

This was a repeat program first broadcast in September 2011.

The featured album was NAGEZ REMEURS by GENTICORUM www.genticorum.com (Roues et Archets - Planet) The latest album from a most engaging and talented Quebecois trio whose individual jazz and rock musical backgrounds have now given way to a more traditional and trad-style French Canadian repertoire of songs and tunes, this time with a theme of travel and voyagers - the album's title translates as "Swim Paddlers". The following tracks were scattered through the program:

TOUT LE LONG DU VOYAGE; NAGEZ RAMEURS; LES MENTERIES; REEL CIRCULAIRE; CANOT D'ECORCE

* SONGS FROM THE SIXTEENTH FLOOR / Paul Kelly / Songs From The South / Mushroom

HENRY MARTIN and EMILE'S REELS / Figgy Duff / A Retrospective 1974-1993 / Amber Music

BLOOD BROTHERS / Band Of Hope / Rhythm And Reds / Musikfolk

SKEKLARS / Fiddlers' Bid / All Dressed In Yellow / Hairst Blinks Music

* THE LAKE ISLE OF INNIS FREE / Kate Burke / Australian Folk 2000 / www.folkalliance.org.au

* SONGS OF THE BUSH / Wongawilli / Australian Folk 2000 / www.folkalliance.org.au

TELL TAE ME and APRIL WALTZ / Heritage / Tell Tae Me / Temple

LIZZIE / Bhundu Boys / Friends On The Road / Cooking Vinyl

* LITTLE BURNT POTATO / Jackie Luke / Beauteous Grove / Dulce Melos Music

* MURUROA MON AMOUR / Jackie Luke / Beauteous Grove / Dulce Melos Music

THE BARBADOS LADY and LICHFIELD TATTOO / Brass Monkey / Head Of Steam / Topic

THE SLIP SHOD TAP ROOM DANCE / Ralph McTell / Huntingdon Folk / Speaking Volumes

WATCH OUT WILLIE / Alias Ron Kavana / Huntingdon Folk / Speaking Volumes

JOHNNY TULLOCH / The Rankin Family / North Country / EMI Canada

HIT 'EM UP STYLE / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch

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22 September 2013

The featured album was 500 SESSIONS bu FULLSCEILIDH SPELEMANNSLAG (www.spreefix.com) A much anticipated second album from an eleven piece (seven fiddles!) band from Shetland, playing traditional or trad-based fiddle driven instrumentals. Very stylish arrangements and a wonderfully distinctive sound. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

CRAA DANG PUSSY; SPREEFIX; CAVERS; DA BLINND DEUK

CAPTAIN WARD / Spiers and Boden / Vagabond / Navigator-Planet

APPLE SCRUMPING / Methera / Methera / www.methera.co.uk

* ANDERSON'S COAST / Margaret Walters & John Warner / Pithead In The Fern / Feathers and Wedge

WORKING ON A BUILDING / Two Oceans Trio / Two Oceans Trio / Howdy Skies Records

MASURKA / Over Stok Og Steen / Til Almuen / 2L

BLOW THE WINDY MORNING / Faustus / Broken Down Gentlemen / Navigator-Planet

THE SILVER TASSIE / Lumiere / My Dearest Dear / ABC Classics

NOW YOU KNOW / Show Of Hands / This Is Proper Folk Too / Proper-Planet

* DEVIL'S ISLAND / Bernard Carney / Feathers & Tributes / Dark Horse Records

RACKABELLA / Blackbeard's Tea Party / Whip Jamboree / www.blackbeardsteaparty.com

THE LONESOME ROAD TO DINGLE / Niamh Ni Charra / Cuz / Imeartas Records

* LIVE LIKE AN AFGHAN / Fred Smith / Dust Of Uruzgan / www.fredsmith.com.au

THE MAIDEN'S COMPLAINT / Oxford Waits / Switter Swatter / Beautiful Jo Records

THE HOLLAND TRADE / Brian McNeill / The Baltic Tae Byzantium / Mad River

FARE THEE WELL MY DEAREST DEAR / The Askew Sisters / All In A Garden Green / WildGoose

* JIG SET / Emma Nixon and Chris Stone / Roots And All / National Library of Australia

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15 September 2013

The featured album was ARAGON MILL: THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS by SI KAHN AND THE LOOPING BROTHERS (Strictly Country Records). Si Kahn is performing many of his best known compositions with an impressive European bluegrass band. It works well. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

ARAGON MILL; WILD ROSE OF THE MOUNTAIN; GOODBYE MONDAY BLUES; TO HEAR DOC WATSON PLAY; WHAT WILL I LEAVE

* PACKING MY THINGS / Alan Musgrove / A Young Man And Able / self published

THE MAID BEHIND THE BAR / Sharon Shannon / Renegade / www.sharonshannon.com

BRIGHT SHINING MORNING / Poor Old Horse / The Curate's Egg / Folk-Legacy

CAMBRIDGE SET and OEIL AU BUERRE NOIR / The Bills / Let Em Run / Borealis

MY LITTLE CARPENTER / Uncle Earl / Waterloo, Tennessee / Rounder-Shock

* PLOO'BOY LADDIES / Triantan / Triantan / self published

POITIN MARCH / Teada / Ceol & Cuimhne / Gael Linn

THE HOLMFIRTH ANTHEM / The Watersons / The Definitive Collection / Highpoint

BRATISLAVA / Corquieu / Corquieu / Tierra

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER / Hal Parfitt-Murray & Nikolaj Busk / Music From The Edge Of The World / Go' Danish

CAPE BRETON SET / Gerry O'Beirne & Rosie Shipley / Yesterday I Saw The Earth Beautiful / Shipwhistle

* GIMME CHAW TOBACCY / Dev'lish Mary / Dev'lish Mary / www.devlishmary.com

* ARNOLD AP / Alan Scott / Travelling Through The Storm / Fanged Wombat

LES PARTIES DE GREGOIRE / Genticorum / La Galarneau / Roues et Archets

* THE WATER LILY / Kate Fagan / Songs Of Chris Kempster / www.folkfednsw.org.au

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8 September 2013

The featured album was SANDY BELL'S CEILIDH (Greentrax), a compilation album recorded in 1977 (!) and re-released on CD earlier this century. Sandy Bell's Bar is still the pre-eminent folk music venue in Edinburgh and many fine artists have contributed to sessions over the years. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

HORNPIPES (Bell's Big Ceilidh Band); JOHN BARLEYCORN (The McCalmans); FORT CHARLOTTE (Aly Bain); JOHNNY SANGSTER (Chorda); LOWLANDS AWAY ( Bell's Chorus); JIGS (Bell's Big Ceilidh Band)

JUG BAND MUSIC / Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band / Greatest Hits / Vanguard

JOHNNY MURPHY and THINGS (ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE) / Any Old Time / Phoenix / DARA

I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORKCHOP / Johnson, Miller & Dermody / We Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop / Orb Discs

RATTLING ROARING WILLY / The Maeve Gilchrist Trio / Reaching me / self published

* ABERCROMBIE MOUNTAIN / Collector / The Game Is Getting Lively / www.rowethmusic.com.au

* THE STRANGE DEATH OF GEORDIE BELL / The Roaring Forties / We Made The Steel / www.roaringfortiesfolk.com

REINLENDER FRA SOGN / Spaellimenninir / Malargrot / Tutl

YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR EYES / The Young'Uns / When Our Grandfathers Said No / Navigator-Planet

IT COULDA BEEN WORSE / Roy Book Binder / The Good Book / Peg leg Records

A LAND FOR THE MANY / The Simon Hopper Band / A Land For The Many / control-shift music

ADIEU FALSE HEART / Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy / Adieu False Heart / Vanguard

TOM BILLY'S / Gerry O'Beirne & Rosie Shipley / Yesterday I Saw The Earth Beautiful / Shipwhistle Records

* HERO FOR A DAY / Neil Robertson / Unsung Heroes Of Australian History / www.unsungheroesofaustralianhistory.com

MY FORESAKEN LOVE / Kate MacLeod and Kat Eggleston / Songs From SingOut! v.54#4 / www.singout.org

GROWLING OLD MAN AND GRUMBLING OLD WOMAN / Bruce Molsky / If It Ain't Here When I Get Back / Tree Frog Music

* LONG RUN / The Fagans / Milk And Honey Land / www.thefagans.com.au

MICHO RUSSELL'S / Niamh Ni Charra / From Both Sides / Imeartas Records

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1 September 2013

The featured album was NORD by MAJA KJAER JACOBSEN & DAVID BOULANGER (Go' Danish). An excellent collaboration between two highly regarded Danish and Quebecois traditional musicians whose musical styles blend delightfully on an album of mostly instrumental sets, both recent and traditional material. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

BONNE FETE I; THE OVERSTRINGED SET; VALS SOM ER GANSKE NY; UN DANOIS SUR LE PLATEAU

SEND ME A WRECK / West of Eden / Safe Crossing / West of Music

THE TAKEUP REEL and LITTLE SADIE / Tangleweed / Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals / Squatney

* SHE LIED TO ME / Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton / Swapping Seasons / ruthsta@yahoo.com

THE BOYS FROM NORTH CAROLINA / Bob Carlin's Peidmont Stringband / The Boys From North Carolina / self published

PINDONGOS DE MONTEHERMOSO / La Musgana / Temas Profanos / Mad River

MY YOUNG MAN / Kate Rusby / Little Lights / Pure Records

* THE MORNING OF THE FRAY / Warren Fahey / The Larrikin Sessions / ABC

PO' BLACK SHEEP / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch

TINY FISH FOR JAPAN / Stan Rogers / From Fresh Water / Boreallis

* LITTLE FISH / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Another Threshing Day / www.rowethmusic.com.au

* AL GRASSBY'S GRANDFATHER / Neil Adam & Judy Turner / The Keys To The Field / self published

HARD TIMES / Si Kahn / We're Still Here / Strictly Country Music

* THE HOUSE IN ROSE VALLEY / Riogh / Of Kings / self published

* PADDY'S LAMENTATION / Riogh / Of Kings / self published

WEST VIRGINIA BOYS / Sarah McQuaid / I Won't Go Home 'Til Morning / www.sarahmcquaid.com

* MADDY DONOVAN'S / Trouble In The Kitchen / Maldon Turns Thirty / www.maldonfolkfestival.com

HOT ASPHALT / Dave Burland / Benchmark / Fat Cat Records

ST OLAV'S GATE / Tom Russell / St Olav's Gate / Round Tower Music

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25 August 2013

The featured album was AIRS FROM YOUR ELBOW by HUGH MACDIARMID'S HAIRCUT (Brechin All Records). The best named ceili band in Edinburgh, this is their first album after 25 years in existence. Good solid sets driven by excellent piping and snare, with more non-traditional bouzouki, keyboards and bass. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

GAY GORDONS; CANADIAN BARN DANCE; HIGHLAND SCHOTTISCHE; CUMBERLAND SQUARE EIGHT

THE LAZY MAN / Mick Ryan & Paul Downes / Grand Conversation / WildGoose

SPEED THE PLOUGH and HOLD BACK THE TIDE / Kerfuffle / K2 / RootBeat Records

ISAAC LEWIS / Tom Russell / Modern Art / Hightone Records

FIR AN GHUAIL / Marcas O Murchu / O Bheal Go Beal / Clo Iar-Chonnachta

* THE RABBIT TRAPPER / Dave de Hugard / Magpie Morning / Sandstock

UP SLIGO / Charlie Lennon / Within A Mile Of Kilty / Clo Iar-Chonnachta

JACKIE MUNRO / Sandra and Nancy Kerr / Neat And Complete / Fellside

JOHN WILLIE'S PERFORMING NEWT and NOWT ABOUT OWT / The Oldham Tinkers / That Lancashire Band / Topic

* THE PUSH ON THE CORNER / Fred Pribac and Friends / The Push On The Corner / Bugswatters@yahoo.com

BEGONE DULL CARE / James Raynard / Strange Histories / Unearthed

ROCK ISLAND LINE / The Tarriers / The Tarriers / Folk Era

THE SHUTTLE KISSING SONG / Gary & Vera Aspey / A Taste Of Hotpot / Topic

SAILING OFF TO THE YANKEE LAND / Karan Casey & John Doyle / Exile's Return / Compass

CLARK'S HORNPIPE / Boldwood / Feet, Don't Fail Me Now / Hobgoblin Records

* CNOC NA FEILLE / Triantan / Triantan / www.indie-cds.com

* BULLOCKY BILL / Loaded Dog / Hair Of The Dog / www.loadeddog.net.au

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18 August 2013

The featured album was VAGRANT STANZAS by MARTIN SIMPSON www.martinsimpson.com (Topic-Planet). A new double CD release from a multi award winning English singer and instrumentalist; equally at home with traditional and more recent material. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

DIAMOND JOE; JACKIE AND MURPHY; MOLLY AS SHE SWINGS; PALACES OF GOLD

* LET THE CANEFIELDS BURN / Graeme Connors / The Best ... 'Til Now / ABC

* PADDY FAHEY'S JIG / Louis McManus / With A Heart And A Hand / self published

BOLD RILEY / Kate Rusby / Hourglass / Pure Records

OLD WHITBY HARBOUR / Martyn Wyndham-Read / Jackeroo / Wynding Road Music

* 4/4 MARCHES / No Such Thing / Dancing 'Til Dawn / iffaj@shoal.net.au

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN / Dylan Sneed / Texodus / www.dylansneed.com

SIX FEET OF EARTH MAKES US ALL OF ONE SIZE and BIG EYED RABBIT / April Verch / Bright Like Gold / Slab Town Records

ALBORADA D'AMADI / Llan de Cubel / IV / Iona

* LILLIBULERO / Nicole Murray & Emma Nixon / The Wish List / www.thewishlist.net.au

MAYBELLE'S DANCE and I'VE GOT A THING ABOUT TRAINS / Gove Scrivener / Shine On / Compass

SKIPPERS & MATES and THE HAMPDEN WHALER / Naming The Twins / Drifters & Dreamers / www.namingthetwins.com

* TUNES FROM COLIN CHARLTON AND PADDY GODDEN / The Emu Creek Band / The Streets Of Forbes / rwillis@westserv.net.au

* THE DIGGERS SONG / Wongawilli / The Streets Of Forbes / rwillis@westserv.net.au

THE HUMOURS OF DRINAGH / Bua / Down The Green Fields / www.buamusic.com

DON'T THINK TWICE IT'S ALL RIGHT / Joan Baez / In Concert Part 2 / Vanguard

TROMBONE SCOTTISH / Basco / The Crow In The Walnut Tree / Go' Danish

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11 August 2013

* YOUR DAUGHTERS AND YOUR SONS / The Fagans / Jamberoo - The First Ten Years / Illawarra Folk Club

* SATURDAY NIGHT AT MARSHALL MOUNT / Wongawilli / Jamberoo - The First Ten Years / Illawarra Folk Club

* A LAND FOR THE MANY / The Simon Hopper Band / A Land For The Many / Control-Shift Music

EDDIE MALONEY'S SET / Frankie Gavin / Up And Away / Gael-Linn

BLACKEST CROW / Missy Raines and the New Hip / New Frontier / Compass

* SHOPPING ON A SATURDAY / Gary Shearston / Here & There, Now & Then / Rouseabout Records

JOSEFIN'S DOPVALS / Vasen / Essence / Ethnic

BOLD GENERAL WOLFE / Martin Simpson / Purpose + Grace / Topic-Planet

* D MINOR REELS / Spoot O Skerry / Noxious Reeds / self published

* THE WESTGATE BRIDGE DISASTER / Clive Stark / The Complete Book Of Australian Verse / ABC

HEY AWAY / Bill Jones / Two Year Winter / Compass

LA PISTACHE A TANTE NANA / Ganey Arsement / Le Forgeron / www.ganeyarsement.com

SONG COMPOSED IN AUGUST and THE GREAT WHITE HERRING / Battlefield Band / Line-Up / Temple

CHARLIE IS MY DARLING / Eddi Reader / The Songs Of Robert Burns / Reveal Records

* ELSIE MARLEY / Wheeze and Suck Band / Elsie Marley's Mates / Fire and Thorn

* THE ROUTE MARCH / Christine Wheeler and Friends / Rain In The Mountains / christinewheeler55@gmail.com

THE DRUNKEN HICCUPS / Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, John Herrmann / Songs From The Mountain / Sugar Hill

* JACK'S LAST RESTING PLACE / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Daisy Hill / www.rowethmusic.com.au

CHINKY PIN / Clark Kessinger / Old Time Country Music / Smithsonian Folkways

WAYFARING STRANGER / The Hollands / Over Lands & Leas / Dutchy Love Records

THE PITCHFORK REEL and THERE WAS A MAID IN HER FATHER'S GARDEN / North Cregg / Summer At My Feet / Greentrax

NO GODS AND PRECIOUS FEW HEROES / Brian McNeill / No Gods / Greentrax

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4 August 2013

The featured album was THE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS - DELUXE EDITION by EDDI READER www.eddireader.com (Reveal Records). A re-release of a 2008 album including mostly songs associated with Scotland's best known 18th century poet. The project developed originally from a plan to record a concert performance. Fresh, interesting interpretations of some very well known material. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

JAMIE COME TRY ME; WILLIE STEWART; YE JACOBITES; WILD MOUNTAINSIDE; BROSE AND BUTTER

* PRETTY PEGGY-O / Hildebrand / Early Live Recordings / self published

THREE RUSTY SWORDS and THE FACTORY GIRL / The House Band / October Song / Green Linnet

COMBINATION RAG and A LAZY FARMER BOY / The Dust Busters / Old Man Below / Smithsonian Folkways

THE BALLAD OF TIM EVANS and MOTHER'S DAY / Burning Bridget Cleary / Pressed For Time / www.burningbridgetcleary.com

HOW DOES A GLASS EYE WORK? and SHIP IN THE CLOUDS / Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry / You've Been A Friend To Me / Barker Records

* YUPPIETOWN / Alistair Hulett / Dance Of The Underclass / Intercord

SHEFFIELD GRINDER / Roy Bailey / Sit Down & Sing / Fuse

JERRY'S BEAVER HAT and THE COTTON MILL SONG / Craob Rua / The More That's Said The Less The Better / BTB Records

CRYSTAL SPRING / Waterson:Carthy / A Dark Light / Topic

KING HENRY / Fay Hield / Looking Glass / Topic-Planet

BAYOU ANGLAIS / Ganey Arsement / Le Forgeron / www.ganeyarsement.com

THE RISING OF THE MOON / Sean Tyrrell / The Best Of Sean Tyrrell / ARC Music

* YOUR DOG'S DEAD / John Dengate / Highlights - 2003 National Folk Festival / www.folkfestival.asn.au

* TRAIN TRIP TO GUILDFORD / John Dengate / Jamberoo - The First Ten Years / Illawarra Folk Club

MOTHER FARQUHAR / Ceolbeg / Ceolbeg 5 / Greentrax

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28 July 2013

* TO HER DOOR / Paul Kelly / Songs From The South

JUMP BACK and PARIS WALTZ / The Stairwell Sisters / Feet All Over The Floor

THE WEST COAST OF CLARE and THE KILDAREMAN’S FANCY / Planxty / Live 2004

* DON’T GO DOWN THE MINE DAD / Harvest Moon Band / In Some Old Shed

WALLS OF TIME / Salamander Crossing / Passion Train

JOY OF MY HEART / The Tannahill Weavers / Cullen Bay

HANNA LARSSON’S SCHOTTIS / Peter Puma Hedlund / Another Way

* HUMPIN’ THE DRUM / Blackwood / Never At Home

XONERIA / Tejedor / Llunaticos

THE NANCY / Stan Rogers / From Fresh Water

* HILL END AND TURON RIVER MAZURKAS / Cath Ovenden, Wendy Hodgins & Steve Cook / The Fiddle Music Of Joe Yates

* SWEET WILLIAM / Cath Ovenden, Wendy Hodgins & Steve Cook / The Fiddle Music Of Joe Yates

BILLY BOY / The High Level Ranters / Northumberland Forever

ROVING GAMBLER / The Dust Busters / Old Man Below

LE CHATEAU FIGEAC / Vishten / Vishten

* BOLL WEEVIL / The Hobart Smiths / Old Time Blues

HUG AIR A’ BHONAID MHOR / Julie Fowlis / Cuilidh

ISLE OF FRANCE / Eamonn Doyle & Kris Drever / Story Map

THE SHORT MESURE OFF MY LADY WYNKFYLD’S ROWNDE / Philip Pickett & Richard Thompson / Bones Of All Men

* HOW TO MAKE GRAVY / James Reyne / And The Horse You Rode In On

THE TORNADO SONG / Little Miss Higgins / Across The Plains

OLD MAN / Neil Young / Harvest

* CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW / Loaded Dog / Dusty Gravel Road

FAIR AND TENDER LADIES / Lumiere / Lumiere

A SLIGO AIR / Teada / CEOL & CUIMHNE

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21 July 2013

The featured album was THE GOOD BOOK by ROY BOOK BINDER (Peg Leg Records). Very experienced finger picking blues and ragtime guitarist with a distinctive vocal delivery well-suited to the material. A man fortunate to have a direct link to the old blues players, particularly Rev. Gary Davis. Good music. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

THE GOOD BOOK; IT COULDA BEEN WORSE; POKER PLAYIN' PAPA; THEY CALLED HIM JR; ELECTRIC CIGARETTE BLUES

* THE TRIFECTA SONG / John Dengate / Bulli - The Tradition Continues / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au

* A NIGHT IN GAN EYDN / KaOZ Klezmer / Bulli - The Tradition Continues / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au

* MOLLY NA GCUACH NI CHUILLEANAIN / Saoirse / Music Evermore / www.myspace.com/saoirseoz

JOHNNY COPE / The Tannahill Weavers / IV / Plant Life

* AT PENNYWEIGHT FLAT / Jim Low / The Further I Travel / Rouseabout Records

GWERZ PENMARC'H / Sonerien Du / Gwerz Penmarc'h / Arfolk

SKIP TO MY LOU / Pete Seeger / American Favorite Ballads / Smithsonian Folkways

* THIRD AT DOOMBEN / Cath Ovenden / The Fiddle Music Of Joe Yates / self published

YELLOW COAT and AIR A GHILLE THA MO RUN / Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac / Seinn / Turtlemusik

COAL CREEK / Roscoe Holcomb / An Untamed Sense Of Control / Smithsonian Folkways

* KING WILLY / Cloudstreet / Clouds On The Road / www.cloudstreet.org

CANTA / I Muvrini / E Piu Belle / Ricordu

BEAUTIFUL BIBULOUS BABYLON / Mike Craver / Bosh & Moonshine / Sapsucker

* BEAN SETTING / Wheeze and Suck Band / Flash Lads / Fire and Thorn

TENTE REDDE / Rosbif / Traditional Music From Central France / Folksound Records

* THE COOMA CAVALIERS / The Settlers / Songs Of The Snowy Mountains / BMG

THE IRISH STRANGER / Andy M. Stewart / Donegal Rain / Green Linnet

TRINKAMP / Pennou Skoulm / Trinkan / Innacor

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14 July 2013

The featured album was THE RY COODER ANTHOLOGY - THE UFO HAS LANDED by RY COODER (Rhino). A double CD dipping a toe into some of the musical genres recorded by the legendary singer, writer, instrumentalist, world music innovator and producer over a long career. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

BILLY THE KID; GET RHYTHM; DO RE MI; MARIA ELENA

HEATHER DOWN THE MOOR / Brass Monkey / Going & Staying / Topic

* WHIP JAMBOREE / Rocky River Bush Band / Sea Boots And Songs / self published

* ROBBERY AND MURDER / Jane M. Harding / Songs From The Road / www.janemharding.com

THE NEW HIGH LEVEL HORNPIPE / Canongate Cadjers Ceilidh Band / Open With Care / Brechin All Records

SAILING TO ALASKA and THE BEAUTY OF ALASKA / Si Kahn / Bristol Bay / Strictly Country Records

BALLARAT JIG and BAILE AN OR / Battlefield Band / Zama Zama / Temple

THE WIDOW / The Poozies / Raise Your Head / Compass

WORRIED MAN BLUES / Woody Guthrie / Woodie Guthrie / Object Enterprises

NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD / Andy Irvine / Rain On The Roof / self published

PASUCAIS DE LA VIGA / Llariegu / Llariegu / self published

THE SWEET NIGHTINGALE / Jackie Oates / Saturnine / ECC Records

LORD FRANKLIN / Martin Carthy / A Collection / Topic

BOB DYLAN'S DREAM / Bob Dylan / The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan / CBS

LA NOVIA / Xavier Vidal / Le Bal / Dralhe

FLAMING MAMIE / Lee Stripling / Hogs Picking Up Acorns / Voyager

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7 July 2013

The featured album was LEAVING EDEN by CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS (Nonesuch) www.carolinachocolatedrops.com The third full-length album by a very entertaining multi-instrumentalist and vocal trio (this time with some friends), with a focus on Southern US black string band music but also including elements of blues, jazz and folk. The following tracks were scattered through the program:

RIRO'S HOUSE; KERR'S NEGRO JIG; RUBY, ARE YOU MAD AT YOUR MAN?; BOODLE-DE-BUM-BUM; NO MAN'S MAMA; PO' BLACK SHEEP

SIXTEEN JOLLY ROVERS and CATCHING THE BUS AND THE LATE TRAIN / Tradish / Roots And Shoots / Go' Danish

* HOW'D YOU BE / Alex Hood / The Second Hundred Years / Paul Hamlyn

MY FORSAKEN LOVE / Kate MacLeod and Kat Eggleston / Songs From SingOut! vol.54#4 / www.singout.org

PRETTY JACKALS / David Francey / Songs From SingOut! vol.54#4 / www.singout.org

PORT RORIE DALL / Ronn McFarlane / The Scottish Lute / Dorian Recordings

DANCE TO YOUR DADDY / Bob Fox / Borrowed Moments / Topic

ECONOMIC MIRACLE / Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger / Naming Of Names / Cooking Vinyl

HATHAWAY'S CAVALIER / Basco / Big Basco / Go' Danish

KERBAYOU / Helene Brunet & Nicola Hayes / Travelling / Sigfried

WOMEN OF DUNDEE / Margaret Christl / The Picture In My Mind / Waterbug

* THE LAW / Eric Bogle / At This Stage / Rouseabout

MARCEL AUCOIN / Vamm / Vamm / www.vamm.co.uk

BUY US A DRINK / The Malkies / Suited and Booted / Limbo

BADDU A RIEBULA / Roland Ferrandi / Cetera / SCP

RILEY THE FURNITURE MAN / The Stairwell Sisters / Feet All Over The Floor / Yodel-Ay-Hee

ROOKERY REELS / Alan Kelly / After The Morning / Blackbox Music

* FANNIE BAY / The Bushwackers / Flash Jack From Gundagai / Avenue

DIDO BENDIGO / The Watersons / The Definitive Collection / Highpoint Recordings

* RUGBY PARADE MARCH / Alan Musgrove / That Old Time Feeling / self published