TRACK / artist / album / label
(* Australian content)
(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)
26 June 2022
The featured album was MEETING POINT by ALY BAIN, ALE MOLLER AND BRUCE MOLSKY (Whirlie Records) This offers a
terrific combination of Scottish fiddling, American old time and Scandinavian material, performed by three of the leading exponents of their styles,
recorded in concert in 2012. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
SUMMERWALTZ; BOLL WEEVIL; HILLS OF MEXICO; TROLL HUNTING SET; DA SMUGGLER'S GAEN TA HOLLAND
PARCEL O' ROGUES / The Corries / The Best Of The Corries / Pickwick Music
MINUETTE / ULC Quintet / Masquerade / Cope Records
THE LAMBS ON THE GREEN HILLS / ULC Quintet / Masquerade / Cope Records
* RIGHT KEY BABY / The Horse's Leotard / Trad&Now Tapestry Volume 1 / Trad&Now
* ROSEVILLE FAIR / Jim Macquarrie / Trad&Now Tapestry Volume 1 / Trad&Now
SALLY JOHNSON / Rafe and Clelia Stefanini / Never Seen The Like / Yodel-Ay-Hee
* JESSIE STREET / Hoya / Inspirational Women / self published
* THANCOUPIE / Hoya / Inspirational Women / self published
THE HIGH JIG / Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill / Welcome Here Again / Green Linnet
HARD TIME KILLING FLOOR / Hans Theessink / Songs From The Southland / Blue Groove
ONE MILLION LAWYERS / Tom Paxton, Anne Hills, Bob Gibson / Best Of Friends / Appleseed
MORRISON'S / The Elftones / The Moon And Seven Stars / self published
ALL DOWN THE DAYS / Gerry Hallom / On The Periphery / William Boyd Music
DEALAI'S No 1 & 2 / Teada / Ainneain Na Stoirme / Gael Linn
TAMAR VALLEY REQUIEM / Jim Causley / Dumnonia / WildGoose
CORNY BILL / Martyn Wyndham-Read with No Man's Band / Jackeroo / Wynding Road Music
PAT REILLY / Dog Big And Dog Little / Dog Big And Dog Little / Claddagh
19 June 2022
The featured album was A YEAR TOO LATE AND A MONTH TOO SOON by BRYONY GRIFFITH AND ALICE JONES (Splid Records).
www.bryonyandalice.com Debut duo album from two established folk performers. A good mix
of old and traditional folk songs, all from their (I think) native Yorkshire, delivered with excellent harmony vocals and restrained but elegant
accompaniment. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
WANTON LASSES PITY HER; THE GREY MARE; NELLIE O'BOB'S O'T'CROWTREES; THE HUNSLET AND HOLBECK MOOR COCKFIGHT; MY JOHNNY
WAS A SHOEMAKER; WILLY WENT TO WESTERDALE
MOLLY BAN / Ushers Island / Ushers Island / Vertical Records
JOHNNY DOHERTY'S / Ushers Island / Ushers Island / Vertical Records
MEMPHIS FLU / Elder Curry / People Take Warning / Tompkins Square
IZAR EDERRAK / Hiru Truku / Mendebaldeko Euskal Baladak / Nuevos Medios
THE DEIL'S AWA WI' THE EXCISEMAN / Ceolbeg / Not The Bunnyhop / Greentrax
LET ME BE / Kate Rusby / Underneath The Stars / Compass Records
CHANCHULLO / Ruben Gonzalez / Chanchullo / World Circuit
RUUNEPERIN KATRILLI / JPP / Pirun Polska / Olarin Musiikki Oy
MY FLOWERS, MY COMPANIONS, AND ME / Pharis & Jason Romero / A Passing Glimpe / Lula Records
JIM COLEMAN'S / Grainne Hambly / The Thorn Tree /
www.grainne.harp.net
EL BESU / Felpeyu / Tierra / Fono Astur
VERINA / Felpeyu / Tierra / Fono Astur
* AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA / Eric Bogle / The Gift Of Years / EMI
(* This track was followed by an interview with Eric Bogle produced by Roger Hargraves.)
LES OLIES / La Rouzine / Bal Mijote, Bal Rouzine / self published
FAREWELL TO TARWATHIE / Burgess, Adin & Wingard / Doggerland / Sjelvar
THE MILL HOUSE / The Poozies / Infinite Blue / Compass Records
12 June 2022
The featured album was HIGHLAND STRANDS by KEVIN MACLEOD
www.kevinmacleod.co.uk
This was MacLeod’s fourth solo album, released in 2014. Scottish traditional music, mostly, and all played very nicely on mandolin,
bouzouki, cittern and resonator guitar. Accompanists include Luke Plumb, Alec Finn and John Martin. The following tracks were
scattered through the program:
THE FIDDLING SOLICITOR’S REEL; THE BELLTABLE WALTZ SET; JOHN MACCOLL’S MARCH SET; THE OPERA REEL SET; THE ISLAND DENTIST’S JIGS;
THE JACOBITE QUEEN
GAMBLE GOLD / Steeleye Span / All Around My Hat / Chrysalis
THE JUG OF PUNCH / Iontach / A New Journey /
www.iontach.de
PEATA BEAG / Iontach / A New Journey /
www.iontach.de
THE HALF CENTURY SET / Usher’s Island / Usher’s Island / Compass
KING HENRY / The Furrow Collective / At Our Next Meeting / Furrow Records
COLD BLOW / Fine Friday / Gone Dancing / Foot Stompin’ Records
ASU KVAEDI / Anna Palina & Draupner / Sagnadans / Dimma
THE FOGGY DEW / Ye Vagabonds / The Hare’s Lament / River Lea
WILKES LOVELL / Margaret MacArthur / Ballads Thrice Twisted / Whetstone Records
* FATHER ADIEU / Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton / Declaration /
www.kateandruth.com
UP AGAINST THE BUACHALAWNS / The Chieftains / Boil The Breakfast Early / CBS
A LAND FOR THE MANY / The Simon Hopper Band / A Land For The Many / Control-Shift Music
* I’VE BEEN TO BALI TOO / Redgum / Beating Around The Bush / Castle Communications
BLACKWELL MERRY NIGHT / Martin & Eliza Carthy / The Moral Of The Elephant / Topic
I COFT A STANE O HASLOCK WOO / Deaf Shepherd / Even In The Rain / Greentrax
UIST DANCE / Deaf Shepherd / Even In The Rain / Greentrax
RICHLAND WOMAN BLUES / Jim Kweskin Jug Band / Greatest Hits / Vanguard
JUG BAND MUSIC / Jim Kweskin Jug Band / Greatest Hits / Vanguard
* PUNCHA LA ROSA HUELE / Helen Rivero / Jamberoo – A Change Of Season / Illawarra Folk Club
5 June 2022
The featured album was DAY IS COME by THE ALT
www.thealtmusic.com This
is the second release from the outstanding trio of John Doyle, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary. Traditional music and songs beautifully
arranged and performed. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
TA NA LA; FALKIRK FAIR; STOLEN BUTTER; THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS; FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND; PAIDIN O RAIFEARTAIGH
BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALL / Spiers and Boden / Fallow Ground / Hudson Records
TIR IS SAL / Rachel Walker / Gaol / Ros Dearg Records
MRS H L MACDONALD OF DUNACH / Angus Grant / Highland Fiddle / Topic
WRECK OFF SCILLY / Andy Clarke & Steve Tyler / Wreck Off Scilly / WildGoose
AILEAN / Manran / Urar / Manran Records
OH WHAT A TIME / The Ebony Hillbillies / Five Miles From Town / EH Music
THE SUN IS BURNING / Christy Moore / The Iron Behind The Velvet / Tara
MAIDEN LANE / Albireo / Binary /
www.albireo.co.uk
FAILTE NA MIOSA / The Twisted Twenty / The Twisted Twenty / Penny Fiddle Records
MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN / Albion Band / No Roses / Mooncrest
HOP HIGH / Charm City Junction / Duckpin /
www.charmcityjunction.com
KUULE KULLA KODOIMA / Leegajus / Eesti Rahvalaule Ja Pililugusid / Melodia
PRUUDIVALSER / Leegajus / Eesti Rahvalaule Ja Pililugusid / Melodia
CHALANERU / Felpeyu / Tierra / Fono Astur
* DREAMBOAT SHREDDER / Jasper Bell & The Double Dole Stringband / Jobs & Growth / self published
POLLY VAUGHAN / Julie Murphy / Black Mountain Revisited / Beautiful Jo
NORTHWARD TO THE SHEDS / Gerry Hallom / Old Australian Ways / Fellside
POLKA D’EL PIPO / Les Piliers de Bal / Open Bal / self published
* HE FADES AWAY / Alistair Hulett / Dance Of The Underclass / Jump Up Productions
3 FORKS OF CHEAT / Beverly Smith & Carl Jones / Somewhere Over Yonder / DittyVille
HAPPY ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE / Beverly Smith & Carl Jones / Somewhere Over Yonder / DittyVille
29 May 2022
The featured album was FROM COFFEE HOUSE TO CONCERT HALL by STAN ROGERS (Fogarty’s Cove) The album was
released 16 years after Rogers’ untimely death in 1983 and spans a decade of recordings from radio, concerts and studio out-takes, some from
before any of his commercial releases. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
TAKE IT FROM DAY TO DAY; ACADIAN SATURDAY NIGHT; BILLY GREEN; THE WOODBRIDGE DOG DISASTER; THE PUDDLER’S TALE
WAGONER’S LAD / Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown / Rounder
CLYDE’S HICCUPS / Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown / Rounder
* INGLEWOOD COCKY / Collector / Pumpkin and Bear / self published
SHENANDOAH / Bright Season / Bright Season / Folkstock Records
VANKARIN POLSKA / Bright Season / Folkstock Records
* PIGTOWN / Dougal Adams & Ormonde Waters / NFF Highlights 2007 / NFF
SHEATH AND KNIFE / Corrina Hewat /My Favourite Place / Foot Stompin’ Records
THE CUCKOO’S NEST / Grey Larsen & Paddy League / The Green House / Sleepy Creek Music
* HEART TATTOO / Enda Kenny & Lindsay Martin / Heart Tattoo /
www.endakenny.com.au
* WHEN THE RAIN TUMBLES DOWN IN JULY / Franklyn B. Paverty / Cobargo FF 2014
THE DANCE OF THE HONEYBEES / Altan / Blackwater / Virgin
AR BHRUACH NA CARRAIGE BAINE / Altan / Blackwater / Virgin
WEST VIRGINIA BOYS / Sarah McQuaid / I Won’t Go Home ‘Til Morning /
www.sarahmcquaid.com
THE BARNYARDS O’ DELGATY / Old Blind Dogs / Tall Tails / Lochshore
THE GALWAY SHAWL / Patrick Street / On The Fly / Loftus Music
THE LONG ACRE / Patrick Street / On The Fly / Loftus Music
THE WILLING CONSCRIPT / Pete Seeger / The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 / Smithsonian Folkways
WELCOME WELCOME EMIGRANTE / Broadside Singers / The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 / Smithsonian Folkways
GENOA / Martyn Wyndham-Read & No Man’s Band / Beyond The Red Horizon / Fellside
JOKIJENKKA / Frigg / Arctic Paradise 2005 / Fimic
COLINDA / Cedric Watson & Corey Ledet / Goin’ Down To Louisiana / Valcour
JOE BANE’S SCHOTTISCHE / BoneZone / I Session / GO’ Danish
LYNCHBURG TOWN / 2nd South Carolina String Band / In High Cotton /
www.civilwarband.com
* FANDANGU / Senor Cabrales / Aqui /
www.senorcabrales.com
22 May 2022
The featured album was ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY by ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY (Mulligan Records). This is a
classic from 1976, recently re-released as a ‘Special Edition’ on CD and “colored vinyl”. Both fine singers and multi-instrumentalists,
Irvine and Brady performed as a duo for two years after the breakup of Planxty. They were joined for several tracks on this highly regarded
recording by Donal Lunny and Kevin Burke. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
FRED FINN’S REEL; ARTHUR MCBRIDE; THE JOLLY SOLDIER; MARY AND THE SOLDIER; THE STREETS OF DERRY; MARTINMAS
TIME
HOW WILL I EVER BE SIMPLE AGAIN / Marley’s Ghost / Four Spacious Guys / Olde West
THE SHEPHERD’S WIFE WALTZ / Fennig’s All-Star String Band / Fennigmania / Front Hall Records
DIAMOND JOE / Bruce Molsky / Contented Must Be / Rounder Select
FOUR PROVINCES FLINGS / Mick Moloney, Eugene O’Donnell, Seamus Egan / 3 Way Street / Green Linnet
OSTRICH WITH PEARLS / Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves / Hurricane Clarice / Free Dirt
SOVAY / Caesar Pacifici & Brian Brooks / Brigands / self published
THE BUNCH OF KEYS / Caesar Pacifici & Brian Brooks / Brigands / self published
BRAIGHE LOCH AILL / Rachel Walker / Braige Loch Iall / Skipinnish Records
BARNSWALLOW / The Black Twig Pickers / Friend’s Place / VHF Records
MOONSHINER / The Black Twig Pickers / Friend’s Place / VHF Records
TEQUILA POURLET / Skeduz / Rag Ar Plinn / Keltia Musique
SHAKE SUGAREE / Nicholas Edward Williams / Folk Songs For Old Time’s Sake / EarthTone Records
BAY OF BISCAY / The Norfolk Broads / Yonder Green Grove / self published
DUCK RIVER / Furnace Mountain / Fly The River / Shepherds Ford
PERERIN WYF / Khasi-Cymru Collective / Sai-thain ki Sur / Naxos World
THE ARABIC / TRIP / A Drop For Neptune / self published
SEPTEMBER SEA / TRIP / A Drop For Neptune / self published
CONTRA DANCE SET / Mike Mullins / 8 String Sketches / self published
THE MAID OF AUSTRALIA / Brass Monkey / Flame Of Fire / Topic
15 May 2022
All the tracks in today's program (except the first track) are from the late Frank Povah's CD collection, some of which was recently given to me.
Frank was an Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist with a passion for various styles of music including old Australian, celtic, blues,
early string band, jug band and more. Frank was a polymath and a fascinating character.
* SEESY RIDER / Frank Povah / Illawarra Folk Festival 2014 / Illawarra Folk Club
CHEER UP! SMILE! NERTZ! / Eddie Cantor / Songs of the Depression / MOJO
IF I EVER GET A JOB AGAIN / Dick Robertson / Songs of the Depression / MOJO
* MOVE THE CAMEL / Shemozzle / Shemozzle / self published
* EH ROMEO / Shemozzle / Shemozzle / self published
WILDWOOD FLOWER / Kilby Snow and Mike Seeger / Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp / Smithsonian Folkways
ALL I GOT’S GONE / Ernest Stoneman / Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp / Smithsonian Folkways
* RALEIGH & SPENCER / Moonshine Whiskers & The Ragged Pony / MW&TRP / self published
* WEDDING ON 5TH AVENUE / Moonshine Whiskers & The Ragged Pony / MW&TRP / self published
* WHITEWASH STATION / Couta Blue / Couta Blue / self published
* TROUBLE IN MIND / Couta Blue / Couta Blue / self published
BOLAKINS / Mrs Lena Bare / Anglo-American Ballads Vol 2 / Rounder
CLAUDE ALLEN / Hobart Smith / Anglo-American Ballads Vol 2 / Rounder
WEAVE ROOM BLUES / New Lost City Ramblers / There Ain’t No Way Out / Smithsonian Folkways
ONE-STEP DE RICHE / New Lost City Ramblers / There Ain’t No Way Out / Smithsonian Folkways
THE LITTLE BROWN BULLS / Emery DeNoyer / Anglo-American Ballads Vol 1 / Rounder
OLD KIMBALL / Texas Gladden / Anglo-American Ballads Vol 1 / Rounder
MICHIGAN WATER BLUES / Clancy Hayes with the Original Salty Dogs / Oh! By Jingo / Delmark Records
TIN ROOF BLUES / Clancy Hayes with the Original Salty Dogs / Oh! By Jingo / Delmark Records
OLD JOHNNY BOOKER WON’T DO / New Lost City Ramblers / Vol ll 1963-1973 / Smithsonian Folkways
AUTOMOBILE TRIP THROUGH ALABAMA / New Lost City Ramblers / Vol ll 1963-1973 / Smithsonian Folkways
BILL CATON’S HORNPIPE / Charlie Walden / Traditional Fiddle Music of Missouri / self published
VEE LATTY’S B-FLAT WALTZ / Charlie Walden / Traditional Fiddle Music of Missouri / self published
RICHMOND POLKA / The Kessinger Brothers / Old-Time Music of West Virginia Vol 2 / County Records
COCAINE / Dick Justice / Old-Time Music of West Virginia Vol 2 / County Records
MULE GET UP IN THE ALLEY / Cannon’s Jug Stompers / The Complete Works 1927-1930 / Yazoo
WALK RIGHT IN / Cannon’s Jug Stompers / The Complete Works 1927-1930 / Yazoo
LIBERTY / The Skillet Lickers / Old Time Fiddle Tunes And Songs From North Georgia / County Records
MOLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON / The Skillet Lickers / Old Time Fiddle Tunes And Songs From North Georgia / County Records
TEXAS TONY / Yank Rachell’s Tennessee Jug-Busters / Mandolin Blues / Delmark Records
8 May 2022
The featured album was THE SEEDS OF LOVE by SERIOUS SAM BARRETT (Ya Dig?) A product of the Yorkshire folk scene,
and an accomplished skateboarder (!), Barrett’s 2021 release includes two originals among reworkings of eight traditional songs to which he brings
a distinctive voice and stylish guitar and banjo accompaniment. I’m enjoying this album very much. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
VALENTINE’S DAY; THE WAGGONNER; BUSHES AND BRIARS; BONNY MAY; THE RECRUITED COLLIER
HOPPING DOWN IN KENT / The Albion Band / The BBC Sessions / BBC
MANORHAMILTON THE EIGHTH OF MAY / Alan Reid & Rachel Conlon / A Quare Yield /
alanreid@gmail.com
LA CIRESE E LA FUNTAN-E / Astrolabio / Spirit Folet / Prince
MARY AND THE SOLDIER / Artisan Row / Wild Winds / LoLa Records
EVERYTIME / Barra McNeils / Racket In The Attic / Greentrax
TULLOCHGORUM / Barra McNeils / Racket In The Attic / Greentrax
NO ONE STANDS ALONE / Blue Murder / No One Stands Alone / Topic
HARVEST HOME / Ben Lennon & Tony O’Connell / Rossinver Braes / Clo Iar-Chonnachta
* RICH MAN’S BLUES / C. W. Stoneking / King Hokum / Inertia
TUNBRIDGE BEAUTIES / Boldwood / Feet Don’t Fail Me Now / Hobgoblin Records
SNOWS OF FRANCE AND HOLLAND / Brian McNeill & Tom McDonagh / Horses For Courses / Greentrax
PO’ BLACK SHEEP / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch
* JIGS / Cath Ovenden, Wendy Hodgins & Steve Cook / The Fiddle Music Of Joe Yates / National Library of Australia
CLOSER TO THE MILL / The Flat Mountain Girls / Idle Talk & Wicked Deeds /
www.flatmountaingirls.com
BIG SCIOTO / The Flat Mountain Girls / Idle Talk & Wicked Deeds /
www.flatmountaingirls.com
CORAZON VIAJERO / Tish Hinojosa / Hills Of Home / Rounder
THORNTON’S / The Bowhouse Quintet / Live In Ennis / Lochshore
* TO LIVE IS TO FLY / James Reyne / And The Horse You Rode In On / self published
HUNTING THE HARE / Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts / Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts / Pure Records
THE PURE DROP / Pierre Bensusan / Hills Of Home / Rounder
SINGING THE TRAVELS / Silly Sisters / Silly Sisters / Chrysalis
* OUTSIDE TRACK / Wongawilli / Australia Street /
www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
* CAPTAIN CAMPBELL / Kejafi / Coast /
www.kejafi.com
1 May 2022
The featured album was THYLACINE by AUSTRAL www.australband.com (self published) Debut release by an
energetic Australian Celtic band from Melbourne. Interesting mix of songs and tune sets. The following tracks (all * Australlian
content) were scattered through the program:
THROWDOWN HOEDOWN; POUND A WEEK RISE; NO FRILLS; BEESWING
HAL-AND TOW / The Changing Room / Splann / self published
SEKVENSSIPOLKKA / Troka / Troka / Olarin Musiikki Oy
SUIT OF GREY / Jack Crawford / Pride Of The Season / WildGoose
BINT EL SHALABIYA / Banda Adriatica / Babilonia / Finisterre
* HOME TO ME / Enda Kenny / Six Of One /
www.endakenny.com.au
REELS / The London Lasses with Chris O’Malley / The One I Loved The Best /
www.londonlasses.net
THE BOW TO THE SAILOR / Ange Hardy / The Lament Of The Black Sheep / Story Records
I AM A PILGRIM / Ernie Hawkins / Bluesified / Say Mo' Music
JIMMY BURNES AND DINKIES / De Dannan / Anthem / Dara
DIGLAKE FIELDS / De Dannan / Anthem / Dara
THE GALLANT GRAHAMS / Alan Reid & Brian McNeill / Sidetracks / Temple
POCSOK PERGETOJE / Khamaro Budapest Band / Hungarian Gypsy Music / ARC
DARK AS A DUNGEON / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / EMI
PLANETS / Kate Rusby / Awkward Annie / Pure Records
BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMROSES / Fairport Convention / Angel Delight / Island
I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT / Bob Dylan / John Wesley Harding / CBS
HORNPIPE / Duck Soup / Everything And . . . ? / Hebe Music
ALL THINGS ARE QUITE SILENT / Wendy Stewart / Standing Wave / Greentrax
BRING A LITTLE WATER SYLVIE / Eric Bibb & J J Milteau / Lead Belly’s Gold / Stony Plain Records
I WAS A YOUNG MAN / The Mick West Band / A Poor Man's Labour / Claytara Music
CLARET / Boreas / Ahoy Hoy / Isle Music
TANGO NO. 2 / Duo Ramirez Satorre / Cobargo Folk Festival 20th Anniversary / Yuin Folk Club
24 April 2022
The featured album was 20 PRINTEMPS by LE VENT DU NORD (La Compagne du Nord). This is the 11th album in "20
springtimes" from one of the best Quebecois bands with their usual mix of fiddle and hurdy gurdy driven tune sets and some new and older
songs. Their excellent standard is being maintained. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
TOUR DU MONDE; DANS L'EAU-DE-VIE DE L'ARBRE; VOS AMITIES LA BELLE; L'AUBERGE; LA CENTAUREE
BRAW SAILIN' / Old Blind Dogs / Four On The Floor / Compass
GOATS / Old Blind Dogs / Four On The Floor / Compass
* WIDOW IN WAITING / Judy Small / Folk Revolution / Illawarra Folk Club
* FAREWELL TO JINDABYNE / Franklyn B Paverty / Folk Revolution / Illawarra Folk Club
THE GLAD EYE / LYRE LYRE / Gin and Strathspey /
www.lyresounds.com
JOCK O' HAZELDENE / Andrew Murray / Hell Or High Water / White Cow Music
TIPPIN' BACK THE CORN / Ken & Brad Kolodner / The Swift House / Fenchurch Music
JOHN HOBBS / Jon Wilks / Midlife / self published
THE COLLIERS / Aaron O’Hagan and Luke Ward / From The Devil’s Punchbowl / self published
SISONA DARCHIA / Iberi / Supra / ARC
POLLY VAUGHAN / Julie Murphy / Black Mountains Revisited / Beautiful Jo Records
LUCKETT SUNDAY / Stefan Grossman & John Renbourn / Stefan Grossman & John Renbourn / Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
TENDER / Saltfishforty / Bere / Cellar Records
WHISKY / Saltfishforty / Bere / Cellar Records
FALL ON MY KNEES / The Mammals / Rock That Babe / Signature Sounds
GRAND TASSO / The Red Stick Ramblers / The Red Stick Ramblers / Louisiana Radio Records
DANSE CARREE / The Red Stick Ramblers / The Red Stick Ramblers / Louisiana Radio Records
DAINTY DAVIE / The London Lasses with Chris O’Malley / The One I Loved The Best /
www.londonlasses.net
THE NIGHT VISITING SONG / The Voice Squad / Concerning Of Three Young Men / Tara
17 April 2022
The featured album was OUR VOICES ECHO by RURA
www.rura.co.uk A short but
sweet album from a multi award winning Scottish contemporary folk quartet which formed in 2010. Only six tracks, each including a guest
artist, mixing tune sets and songs. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
FAMOUS LAST WORDS; DH'EIRICH MI MOCH MADAINN CHEOTAR; A' MHAIREAD OG; CHI MI'N GEAMHRADH
MY LITTLE CARPENTER / Uncle Earl / Waterloo, Tennessee / Rounder
VISTE FACH / Xavier Vidal et ses invites / Le Bal / Dralhe
SCOTTICHE DE PLANARD / Xavier Vidal et ses invites / Le Bal / Dralhe
KNIGHT WILLIAM AND THE SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER / The Young Tradition / Oberlin 1968 / A Wing & A Prayer
THE DUBLIN REEL / Dordan / Irish Traditional And Baroque / Gael-Linn
THE HARMONIOUS BLACKSMITH / Dordan / Irish Traditional And Baroque / Gael-Linn
PUIRT A BEUL / Anna Murray / Tri Nithean / Lochshore
MAZURCA E POLCA DI U PUGHJALE / Roland Ferrandi / Cetera / SCP
GET UP AND DO RIGHT / Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer / Get Up And Do Right / Community Music
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS / Steve Goodman / Old Town School Of Folk Music Songbook Volume Four / Old Town Recordings
PARADISE / John Prine / Old Town School Of Folk Music Songbook Volume Four / Old Town Recordings
KOF-GAR KOAT / Dremmwel / Traou Mad / self published
THE DUTCHMAN / Michael Smith / Old Town School Of Folk Music Songbook Volume Four / Old Town Recordings
EST / BEV / Variabile-Naturale / Robi Droli
NA CANSOUN DA GNINT / BEV / Variabile-Naturale / Robi Droli
SAVE YOUR MONEY WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG / Margaret Christl & Ian Robb / The Barley Grain For me / Folk-Legacy
THE FATAL WRECK OF THE BUS / Mainer's Mountaineers / People Take Warning / Tompkins Square
THE BEGGAR BOY OF THE NORTH / Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack / The Beggar Boy Of The North / Harbourtown Records
HERSELF AND MYSELF / Thomas McCarthy / Herself And Myself / Tin Folk Music
ANNACHIE GORDON / Nic Jones / The Noah's Ark Trap / Trailer
TROOTS / Shooglenifty / A Celebration Of Scottish Music Vol 2 / SFF Records
10 April 2022
The featured album was PRODIGAL SON by MARTIN SIMPSON
www.martinsimpson.com
(Topic) A fine multi instrumentalist singer and a prolific recording artist with albums going back to 1976. This outstanding
release won Best Album at the BBC Radio 2 folk awards in 2008 with its mix of original and older songs, and should have been my featured album at
least a decade before now. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
BATCHELOR'S HALL; PRETTY CROWING CHICKEN; LAKES OF CHAMPLAIN; LITTLE MUSGRAVE; DUNCAN & BRADY; NEVER ANY
GOOD
THE FLIGHT OF THE TERMITE / Deanta / Deanta / Green Linnet
THOUSANDS ARE SAILING / Deanta / Deanta / Green Linnet
OF TIME AND RIVERS RUNNING / Lehto & Wright / A Game Of Chess / New Folk Records
THE PINERY BOYS / Sara Grey / Back In The Airly Days / Waterbug
* EYES OF THE ENGINEER / Bernard Carney / West /
www.bernardcarney.com
JOHNNY GALLAGHER / Brian McNeill & Tom McDonagh / Horses For Courses / Greentrax
WAGONER'S LAD / Roger McGuinn with Joan Baez & Eliza Carthy / Treasures From The Folk Den / Appleseed
ST KILDA WEDDING / Kathryn Tickell / The Gathering / Park Records
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS / Martin & Eliza Carthy / The Moral Of The Elephant / Topic
FOLLOW ME DOWN TO CARLOW / Joe Burke with Charlie Lennon / The Morning Mist / New Century Music
THINK AGAIN / Dick Gaughan / A Different Kind Of Love Song / Celtic Music
UKRAINIAN NOW / John McCutcheon / online single /
www.folkmusic.com
SPEED THE PLOUGH / Kerfuffle / K2 / Root Beat Records
STOLT SIGNILD / Phonix / Nu / Go' Danish
STAR OF THE EAST / James Bryan & Carl Jones / Cricket's Lullaby / Ditty Ville
THE OUTLANDISH KNIGHT / Fred Jordan / Hidden English / Topic
BOSCASTLE BREAKDOWN / Tintagel and Boscastle Players / Hidden English / Topic
MOUASSAL / Charbel Rouhana / The Art Of The Middle Eastern Oud / ARC
THE HUMAN RACE / Gillie McPherson / Our Street / self published
MUNEIRA DE LLIBERDON / Llan de Cubel / Deva / Fono Astur
3 April 2022
The featured album was HELL BROKE LOOSE IN VOLO by THE VOLO BOGTROTTERS (Marimac Recordings). A double CD
selection of songs and tunes drawn from three cassettes released between 1987 and 1991 by this excellent long-established old-time string band
from the Chicago area. (Yes, there is a town named Volo and, yes, there is a Volo Bog.) The following tracks were scattered through
the program:
COTTON EYED JOE; DON'T YOU HEAR JERUSALEM MOAN; SAN ANTONIO; HELL BOUND TRAIN; HOME HAPPY HOME; ARRINGTON'S
BREAKDOWN
LIMBO / Brass Monkey / Flame Of Fire / Topic
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S MARCH / Brass Monkey / Flame Of Fire / Topic
FADED COAT OF BLUE / Jim Watson / Don't Tell Me, I Don't Know / Barber Records
* BELLA CIAO / I Viaggiatori / Suitcase Serenata / self published
OEDIPUS REX / Kevin Burke's Open House / Hoof And Mouth / Green Linnet
* FIRE IN THE GLEN / Gordon McIntyre and Kate Delaney / Caledonian Dreaming / Blackwater Productions
SLIP JIGS AND REELS / Fine Friday / Gone Dancing / Foot Stompin' Records
DEEP SEA WORLD / Fine Friday / Gone Dancing / Foot Stompin' Records
* JACKSONS / Fred Pribac and Friends / The Push On The Corner / self published
* DAUGHTERS OF THE TALIBAN / Peter Hicks / Cobargo 2013 / Yuin Folk Club Inc.
JOTA ALISTANA / La Musgana / El Diablo Cojuelo / Sonifolk
YONDER BANKS / Archie Fisher / Sunsets I've Galloped Into / Greentrax
TIGGARVISOR / Methera / Methera /
www.methera.co.uk
IN ITS TIME / Methera / Methera /
www.methera.co.uk
GLOOMY WINTER / Niteworks with Hannah Rarity / A' Ghrian / self published
ASK ANY FARMER / John McCutcheon / What It's Like / Rounder
* BARN DANCE MEDLEY / Dave de Hugard / Beating Around The Bush / Castle Communications
* TRAVELLING DOWN THE CASTLEREAGH / Dave de Hugard / Beating Around The Bush / Castle Communications
DEEP BLUE SEA / Happy Traum / Just For The Love Of It / Lark's Nest Music
* GIMME CHAW TOBACCY / Dev'lish Mary / Dev'lish Mary / self published
* WE'RE ONLY OVER HERE FOR EXPLORATION / Poteen / Out On The Ocean / Green South Records