Podwireless 223 March 2021

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 223 MARCH 2021

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1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) Bandcamp

2. Mari Joyce : Home from the CD Dear Moon (Mari Joyce) Bandcamp

3. Alula Down : Winter Song from the DL EP Postcards From Godley Moor, Winter 2020/1 (Alula Down) https://aluladown.bandcamp.com/

4. Transglobal Underground & European Friends feat. Jim Moray & Nóri Kovács : Lisbon/ Soldier Song From Ördöngösfüzes from the CD A Gathering Of Strangers 2021 (Mule 20) Bandcamp

5. Rafiki Jazz : Tum Na Aaye from the DL single (Konimusic) Website

6. Bishop Dready Manning feat. Marie Manning : Hard Luck & Trouble  from the CD Hanging Tree Guitars (Music Maker) Website

7. Mazäher : Elbahareya from the CD Zar (Ajabu!) Website

8. Breabach : Uilebheist from the CD Dùsgadh (Breabach) Website

9. Gnoss : Tuction from the CD The Light Of The Moon (Blackfly) Website

10. Patterson Dipper : Rere's Hill from the CD Unearthing (Patterson Dipper) Bandcamp

11. Jon Boden : Dream Of The Ocean from the CD Last Mile Home (Hudson) Website

12. Anna Cinzia Villani : E Scusati Signori from the CD Ulìa (Core De Villani) Website

13. San Salvador : La Fin De La Guerra from the CD La Grande Folie (Pagans) Bandcamp

14. L'Alba : Guarisce from the CD À Principiu (Buda) Website

15. Chalk Horse Music : Turtle Dove from the DL single (Chalk Horse Music) Website

16. The John Renbourn Group : Turn Your Money Green from the CD A Maid In Bremen (MIG) Website

17. Steve Gunn : Spring In Brooklyn II from the DL album Spring In Brooklyn (Takuroku) Website

18. Wu Man : Summer from the CD Flow (In A Circle) Website

19. Ben Morgan-Brown : Knotted Pines from the CD Moment (Ben Morgan-Brown) Bandcamp

20. Iona Fyfe : The Wild Geese from the DL single (Iona Fyfe) Bandcamp

21. Lunatraktors : Unquiet Grave from the CD The Missing Star (Lunatraktors) Bandcamp

22. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno : On The Line from the CD Vivian Leyva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt) Website

23. Cath & Phil Tyler : Bruton Town from the DL album To The Dust (Takuroku) Website

24. Honey And The Bear : Unless We Start It from the CD Journey Through The Roke (Honey And The Bear) Website

25. Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood : Trip To Barnard from the CD Alors, On Danse! (Gentile & Wood) Bandcamp

26. Eli West : Johnny Wombat from the CD Tapered Point Of Stone (Eli West) Bandcamp

27. Sara Vidal : Descante Aos Noivos from the CD Matriz (Sons Vadios) Website

28. Carla Pires : Virafado from the CD Cartografado (Ocarina) Website

29. Lil Obeah Meets Dub Colossus : Tacerea (Santur – Tambal) from the CD Tacerea (Sound Of Art To Come) Bandcamp

 

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Podwireless 21stC English Folk 1

 

PLAY LINK: 21st CENTURY ENGLISH FOLK 1

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It's hard to believe that we're already 21 years into the 21st Century!

This programme is the first of two song-lead companion pieces to last June's No Voices (England) which showcased instrumental tracks by English musicians. They're natural successors to my Rough Guide To English Folk and Looking For A New England compilation CDs of a decade back.

For most of the second half of the last century, folk music by English performers tended to get overshadowed by music from Ireland, Scotland and, obviously, America – even to English people. But this century things have really changed and I didn't have to look very far to find loads of great examples. Everything here was included on one of the dozens of compilation CDs and download albums that I assembled for fRoots magazine (RIP) up to the summer of 2019, and the only problem was what to leave out! They were regular showcases for the state of the art, often by newly emerging artists. And another big change to previous decades is the justified predominance of women artists, something where the folk scene has been well ahead of the world of rock and pop.

It's these 21st century newcomers that are the focus here. With just a couple of exceptions, nearly everybody I've included in these two programmes began their playing careers or released their first recordings in the 21st century, adding to the amazing pool of existing, often iconic, artists and their records from the previous generation(s). Many have already established themselves well, a few briefly burned brightly and then slipped away again. All digits are crossed that new performing careers survive the pandemic hiatus and restrictions.

Because I already did No Voices, the only instrumental tracks here are those which open and close each show. But that's another massive element of 21st Century English folk/ roots music for you to investigate!

Part 2 of will be along in mid-March, featuring Spiro, The Rheingans Sisters, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Bird In The Belly, Kitty Macfarlane, False Lights, Alula Down, This Is The Kit, Jack Rutter, Ruth Theodore, Nancy Wallace, Mawkin Causley, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock, Katie Rose, The Lords Of Thyme, Spiers & Boden, Jackie Oates, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Hladowski & Joynes, Jon Wilks, Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp, Sam Lee, Dogan Mehmet, Lori Campbell, Heg & The Wolf Chorus, Julian Gaskell & His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and Gadarene.

 

1. Three Cane Whale : Dancing Ledge from the CD Three Cane Whale (Idyllic) Website

2. Eliza Carthy : Pretty Ploughboy from the CD Anglicana (Topic) Website

3. Sproatly Smith : The Blue Flame from the CD The Minstrel's Grave (Folk Police) Website

4. Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith : A Monument To The Times/ The Stepped Ford from the CD Many A Thousand (Jimmy & Sid) Website

5. Olivia Chaney : The King's Horses from the CD EP Olivia Chaney (Olivia Chaney) Website

6. You Are Wolf : As Sylvie Was Walking from the CD Keld (Firecrest) Website

7. Telling The Bees : Windflower from the CD Steer By The Stars (Black Thrustle) Bandcamp

8. Lucy Farrell & Jonny Kearney : Hares On The Mountain from the CD EP The North Farm Sessions (Rabble Rouser) Website

9. Harp And A Monkey : The Manchester Angel from the CD All Life Is Here (Moonraker) Website

10. Bella Hardy : All Things Are Quite Silent from the CD Night Visiting (Noe) Website

11. Ian King : Four Loom Weaver from the CD Panic Grass & Fever Few (Fledg'ling) Website

12. Mary Hampton : Forget-Me-Not from the CD Folly (Teaspoon) Website

13. Long Hill Ramblers : Lady Diamond from the CD Beauty & Butchery (Long Hill Ramblers) Website

14. The Memory Band : Come Write Me Down from the CD Apron Strings (Peace Frog) Website

15. Jim Moray : William Of Barbary from the CD Upcetera (NIAG) Website

16. Emily Portman : Stick Stock from the CD The Glamoury (Furrow) Website

17. Lutine : Death And The Lady from the CD White Flowers (Front & Follow) Website

18. Jason Steel : We Danced from the CD Crucible Songs (Rif Mountain) Website

19. Thom Ashworth : Work Life Out To Keep Life In from the CD Hollow (TAUK) Website

20. Martha Tilston : Lovely On The Water from the CD The Sea (Squiggly) Website

21. Tim Van Eyken : Fair Ellen Of Ratcliffe from the CD Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves (Topic) Website

22. Rhona Dalling : I Don't Mind from the DL album Walk Me Round (Rhona Dalling) Bandcamp

23. Tim Jones & The Dark Lanterns : Blossom & Fruit from the CD Blossom & Fruit (Tim Jones Music) Bandcamp

24. Lisa Knapp : Pleasant Month Of May from the CD Till April Is Dead (Ear To The Ground) Bandcamp

25. Nick Hart : The Rakish Young Fellow from the CD Nick Hart Sings Nine English Folk Songs (Nick Hart) Website

26. Rachael McShane & The Cartographers : Sheath And Knife from the CD When All Is Still (Topic) Website

27. Stick In The Wheel : Roving Blade from the CD Follow Them True (From Here) Website

28. Leveret : The Good Old Way from the CD In The Round (RootBeat) Website

 

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Podwireless 222 February 2021

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 222 FEBRUARY 2021

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1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) Bandcamp

2. The Young Tradition : Randy Dandy-O from the Chicken On A Raft EP (Transatlantic/ Castle)

3. Edward II : Hold Em Joe from the CD Dancing Tunes (Edward II) Website

4. La Talvera : Anuèit A La Talvera from the CD A Tu Vai (Cordae La Tavera) Website

5. Amparanoia : El D’a Que No from the CD Himnopsis Colectiva (Mamita) Website

6. Jon Wilks : The Lover's Ghost from the CD Up The Cut (Jon Wilks) Bandcamp

7. Jim Causley : Childe The Hunter from the CD Devonshire Roses (Hroc Music) Website

8. Vaev : Klaphopsa from the CD Vaev (Go' Danish Folk Music) Website

9. Kjorstad Brothers : Katta Satt Oppå Takje from the CD Kjære Min Maur (Ta:Lik) Bandcamp

10. Britt Pernille Frøholm : Møllarguten Sin Halling from the CD Fokhaugen (Kviven) Website

11. Komasi : Doni Doni from the CD Mezclatotal (Komasi) Facebook

12. Anansy Cissé : Talka (Poverty) from the CD Anoura (Riverboat) Website

13. Kitty MacFarlane : Half Wild from the DL single (Gilded Lily) Website

14. Sarah McQuaid : The Silence Above Us from the DL album The St Buryan Sessions (Shovel And A Spade) Website

15. Myles Cochran : Churrito from the CD Unsung (9Ball) Website

16. Mandel : Mini Suite iii from the DL EP Nha Trang Mini Suite (Bedroom Community) Bandcamp

17. Cuarteto Aguilar : Fiesta Mora en Tánger from the DL album Secret Museum Of Mankind: Guitars Vol. 1 (Jalopy) Bandcamp

18. Jack Gregory : Minore Tou Teke from the DL album Secret Museum Of Mankind: Guitars Vol. 1 (Jalopy) Bandcamp

19. Malika & Party : Si Bure Mambo from the CD Zanzibara 10 (Buda) Website

20. Stella Chiweshe : Sarura Wako from the CD Ambuya! (Remastered) (Piranha) Website

21. Dave Townsend : The Princess Royal/Old Tom Of Oxford from the CD Concertina Allsorts (Serpent Press) Website

22. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne : The Jolly Highwayman from the CD Rakes & Misfits (Grimdon) Website

23. Tuuletar : Taival from the DL EP Vetten Vuoro (Bafes Factory) Website

24. Las Lloronas : Me Confio from the CD Soaked (Muziekpublique) Website

25. Staritsa : Kak u nashej u Dunyashi from the CD Klyukva (CPL-Music) Website

26. Lewis Barfoot : Sweet Dreams from the DL single (Lewis Barfoot) Website

27. Dowally : Three Little Babes from the CD Early Bird // Night Owl (Dowally) Website

28. 4 Mars : Baxsanow Ismaacil from the CD Super Somali Sounds From The Gulf Of Tadjoura (Ostinato) Website

29. Vis-A-Vis : Kankyema from the CD Obi Agye Me Dofo (We Are Busy Bodies) Bandcamp

30. Hairetis Harper : Lost In The City from the DL album Draft (Same Difference) Bandcamp

 

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Podwireless Deserted Island Discs 2

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS DESERTED ISLAND DISCS 2

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Following on from mid-November's Deserted Island Discs 1 which got lots of nice feedback, here's a second collection resulting from pandemic lockdowns allowing more time for listening to old favourites, usually a rare luxury when all the great new releases keep piling in.

Deserted Island Discs 2 is once again a random and totally self-indulgent selection of music I've loved and accumulated down the years since discovering there were alternatives to the pop music heard on the radio when I was a young teenager. Mostly folk, roots and what used to be called world music, but as before it does go off-piste a few times!

Apologies that again there are no web site links given. A lot of these CDs were out of print before web sites became a thing. If they're not available from your usual retail source and you want to track them down, Mr Google and Mr Discogs are probably your best starting points.

 

1. (Sig) The English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik)

2. Paul Brady & Andy Irvine : Plains Of Kildare from the CD Andy Irvine & Paul Brady (Mulligan)

3. Shirley & Dolly Collins : Salisbury Plain from the CD Love, Death & The Lady (Fledg'ling)

4. The Mekons : Ghosts Of American Astronauts from the CD So Good It Hurts (Sin)

5. Devon Sproule : The Well-Dressed Son To His Sweetheart from the CD Keep Your Silver Shined (Tin Angel)

6. Chuck Berry : Down The Road Apiece from the CD On The Blues Side (Ace)

7. Bo Diddley : I'm Looking For A Woman from the CD Bo's Blues (Ace)

8. Howling Wolf : Keep What You Got from the CD Sings The Blues (Ace)

9. Marika Papagika : Smyrneiko Minore from the CD Black Mirror (Dust-To-Digital)

10. Eleftheria Arvanitaki : Ta Kormia Kai Ta Machairia (The Bodies And The Knives) from the CD Ta Kormia Kai Ta Machairia (Polydor Greece)

11. Kristi Stassinopoulou : Amorgos Passage from the CD The Secrets Of The Rocks (Hitch-Hyke/ Wrasse)

12. Jelly Roll Morton : Winin' Boy Blues from the CD New Orleans Memories (Commodore)

13. Mose Allison : Ever Since I Stole The Blues from the CD My Back Yard (Blue Note)

14. Mory Diely Kouyate : Djoudjouba from the cassette Mory Diely Kouyate De Kankan Et Son Ensemble (Unlabelled)

15. Orchestra Baobab : Utru Horas from the CD Pirates Choice (World Circuit)

16. Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn : Strange Lullaby from the CD There You Go! (Big Beat)

17. Davy Graham : I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes from the CD Folk, Blues & Beyond... (Fledg'ling)

18. Shoukichi Kina & Champloose : Haisai Ojisan from the CD Music Power From Okinawa (GlobeStyle)

19. Flaco Jimenez : Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio from the CD The Best Of Flaco Jimenez (Arhoolie)

20. Frank Stokes : You Shall from the CD Creator Of The Memphis Blues (Yazoo)

21. Charley Patton : Moon Going Down from the CD Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues (Revenant)

22. Jim Copper : Lemany from the CD You Never Heard So Sweet (Topic)

23. Gordon Hall : A Dream Of Napoleon from the CD Good Things Enough (Country Branch)

24. Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians : Left All Alone Again Blues from the CD Old Time Mountain Blues (County)

25. The Holy Modal Rounders : Euphoria from the CD Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2 (Big Beat)

26. Youssou N'Dour Et Le Super Etoile De Dakar : Bekoor from the CD Djamil – Inedits 84-85 (Celluloid)

27. Master Mwana Congo & Freddy De Majunga : Viens Danser from the LP Les 2 As (ANC)

28. Shel Silverstein : It Does Not Pay To Be Hip from the CD Inside Folk Songs (Water)

29. Spider John Koerner : Stewball from the CD Stargeezer (Red House)

30. Dr. Strangely Strange : Ballad Of The Wasps from the CD Heavy Petting And Other Proclivities (Hux)

31. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp : The Sheep That Said Moo from the CD Rotorotor (Moi J'Connais)

32. XTC : Love On A Farmboy's Wages from the CD Mummer (Virgin)

33. The Old Swan Band : Walter Bulwer's Polkas Nos 1 & 2 from the CD No Reels (Free Reed)

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Podwireless 221 January 2021

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 221 JANUARY 2021

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1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) (Bandcamp)

2. The Rheingans Sisters : Salt Of The Earth from the CD Receiver (Bendigedig) (Website)

3. Burnett & Rutherford : All Night Long Blues from the CD box The Harry Smith B-Sides (Dust-to-Digital) (Website)

4. Burd Ellen : Cutty Wren from the CD Says The Never Beyond (Burd Ellen) (Website)

5. Kate & Corwen : Look To The North from the DL single  (Kate & Corwen) (Bandcamp)

6. Mossy Christian : Market Rasen Feast / Louth Quickstep from the CD Come Nobles And Heroes (One Row) (Website)

7. Gadarene : Mr Key's Hornpipe from the CD Butchers Of Bristol (Gadarene) (Website)

8. Diamond Platnumz feat. Koffi Olomide : Waah! from the DL single (Diamond) (Facebook)

9. Nahawa Doumbia : Ndiagneko from the CD Kanawa (Awesome Tapes From Africa) (Bandcamp)

10. Omar Sosa feat. Olith Ratego : Thuon Mok Loga from the CD An East African Journey (OTA) (Website)

11. Steve Tilston : It's A Crying Shame from the CD Such Times (Riverboat) (Website)

12. David Marquiss : The Raven from the CD David Marquiss (David Marquiss) (Bandcamp)

13. Anandammide : Anandi from the CD Earthly Paradise (Lizard) (Bandcamp)

14. Annown : Bal Maiden's Wish from the CD Becoming (Annown) (Website)

15. Bayless Rose : Black Dog Blues from the CD Matchbox Bluesmaster Series - Set 1 (Saydisc Matchbox) (Website)

16. Nellie Florence w. Barbecue Bob : Midnight Weeping Blues from the CD Matchbox Bluesmaster Series - Set 2 (Saydisc Matchbox) (Website)

17. Ross & Ryan Couper : The Lucky Child from the CD An Den Dey Made Tae (Couper) (Bandcamp)

18. Afro Celt Sound System : Lockdown Gorroch Reel from the CD Sounds Like Knockengorroch 2020 (Knockengorroch) (Bandcamp)

19. Carolanne Pegg : The Sapphire from the CD box Sumer Is Icumen In (Grapefruit) (Website)

20. The Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band : The Wood-Gathering Man from the CD box Sumer Is Icumen In (Grapefruit) (Website)

21. Ayom : Egum from the CD Ayom (Amplifica) (Website)

22. Altin Gun : Ordunun Dereleri from the CD Yol (Glitterbeat) (Bandcamp)

23. Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band : Angst from the CD Strømmen (Galileo) (Website)

24. The Magpie Arc : Cinnabar from the DL EP2 (Collective/Perspective) (Website)

25. Ninebarrow : You Who Wander from the CD A Pocket Full Of Acorns (Ninebarrow) (Website)

26. Steve Hunt w. Corncrow : Spencer The Rover from the DL album Tomorrow Will Be Better (Steve Hunt) (Bandcamp)

27. Marjo Smolander : Kukkani My Flowers from the CD Cosmologies (Marjo Smolander) (Website)

28. BJ Cole with Dave Eastoe : Slinky Hula Heaven from the CD Daydream Smile (Cow Pie) (Website)

29. Karin : Uiteruyo? from the CD Rough Guide To Avant-Garde Japan (World Music Network) (Website)

30. Nathan Salsburg : VII (Coincident Constellation) from the DL album Landwerk No. 2 (Nathan Salsburg) (Bandcamp)

 

 

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