31 December 2021

Podwireless 233 January 2022

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 233 JANUARY 2022

(This playlink is to Mixcloud streaming: you can also download the podcasts from Podomatic )

 

1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Gordana & Miroslav Evacic : Spevaj Der Mi Maro from the DL Single (Intek Music) Bandcamp

3. Bert Jansch : Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning from the CD L.A. Turnaround (Virgin/EMI) https://www.bertjansch.com

4. Spell Songs : Jay from the CD Spell Songs II: Let The Light In (Quercus) Website

5. Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl : Da Dim from the CD Heal & Harrow (Heal & Harrow) Website

6. Justin Adams & Mauro Durante : Amara Terra Mia from the CD Still Moving (Ponderosa Music) Website

7. Laurel Premo : Till The Warfare Is Over from the CD The Iron Trios (Laurel Premo) Website

8. C Joynes : Night Over Djerba from the CD Poor Boy On The Wire (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sophomore Lounge) Bandcamp

9. Roscoe Holcomb : Swanno Mountain from the vinyl LP The Old Church (Jalopy) Website

10. Joseph Spence : Brown Skin Girl from the CD Joseph Spence Encore (Smithsonian Folkways) Website

11. Glen Peters : Let No Man Steal Your Thyme from the CD Just For The Record (Fflach) Website

12. Iona Fyfe : Poor Ditching Boy from the DL Single (Iona Fyfe) Website

13. Dafné Kritharas : Mystika Pos S'Agapo from the CD Varka (Lior Editions) Website

14. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee : N'yanyan from the CD Bamanan (Real World) Website

15. Ben Morgan-Brown : Down By The Great River Ouse from the CD Down By The Great River Ouse (Old Hemp & Co) Bandcamp

16. Megan Henderson : Almost Home from the CD Pilgrim (Megan Henderson) Website

17. Park Jiha : Light Way from the CD The Gleam (Glitterbeat) Bandcamp

18. Michael Hurley : Beer, Ale And Wine from the CD The Time Of The Foxgloves (No Quarter) Bandcamp

19. Dave Kelly feat. Jo Ann Kelly : Where's My Good Man At from the CD Keeps It In The Family (BGO) Bandcamp

20. Lisa Knapp : Cherry Tree Carol from the DL Single (Lisa Knapp) Bandcamp

21. Gwen Màiri : Khanta Zagun (Let's All Sing) from the CD Douze Noëls (Gwen Màiri) Website

22. The Wilderness Yet : Drive The Cold Winter Away from the CD Turn The Year Round (The Wilderness Yet) Website

23. Barbecue Bob : Goin' Up The Country from the CD Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 6 (Matchbox Bluesmaster) Website

24. Memphis Jug Band : Move That Thing from the CD Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 6 (Matchbox Bluesmaster) Website

25. Papa Charlie Jackson : Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants from the CD Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 6 (Matchbox Bluesmaster) Website

26. Daahl! : Fans Hoppsa Efter Johan Dahl from the CD Daahl! (Smålands Musikarkiv) Website

27. We Are The Monsters : Trouser Worrier from the DL Single (We Are The Monsters) Bandcamp

28. Adam Geoffrey Cole : Life Is A Fable from the vinyl LP Fallowing (Sunstone) Bandcamp

29. Loes Van Schaijk : The Wind And The Water from the CD All I Ever Really Seem To Say (Loes Musician) Bandcamp

30. Divanhana : Cilim from the CD Zavrzlama (CPL Music) Website

31. Mamaliga Orkestar : Te Lubesc, Te Lubesc, Te Lubesc from the CD Da! (Home Records) Website

32. Damien McGeehan : Errity's Jigs from the CD Kin (Damien McGeehan) Website

 

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06 December 2021

PODWIRELESS BEST OF 2021


 

The 50 favourites from more than 350 new CD releases that made it through selection for Podwireless play in 2021.

 


BEST ALBUM OF 2021

JUSTIN ADAMS & MAURO DURANTE 

Still Moving (Ponderosa Music) Website

 

2.  LAUREL PREMO Golden Loam (Laurel Premo) Website

3.  SPELL SONGS II - Let The Light In (Folk By The Oak) Website

4.  ALASDAIR ROBERTS og VÖLVUR The Old Fabled River (Drag City) Website

5.  ANTONIS ANTONIOU Kkismettin (Ajabu) Website

6.  ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS Raise The Roof (Warner) Website

7.  COMORIAN We Are An Island But We’re Not Alone (Glitterbeat) Website

8.  HANNAH JAMES & TOBY KUHN Sleeping Spirals (Jigdoll) Website

9.  PUULUUP Vijmane Suusataja (Ounaviks) Bandcamp

10. SPIERS & BODEN Fallow Ground (Hudson) Website

 


 

 


Best compilation, re-issue or historical album of 2021

JOSEPH SPENCE 

Encore (Smithsonian Folkways) Website

 

2   VARIOUS ARTISTS Summer Is Icumen In (Grapefruit) Website

3.  VARIOUS ARTISTS Zanzibara 10 – First Modern Taarab Vibes from Mombasa & Tanga (Buda) Website

4.  VARIOUS ARTISTS Weirdshire At Babar Cafe (Sproatly Smith) Bandcamp

 


 

The Rest Of The Best (Alphabetically)

 

L’ALBA A Principiu (Buda) Website

CHRISTINA ALDEN & ALEX PATTERSON Hunter (Alden & Patterson) Website

LEWIS BARFOOT Glenaphuca (Lewis Barfoot) Website

COHEN BRAITHWAITE-KILCOYNE Rakes & Misfits (Grimdon) Website

BURD ELLEN Says The Never Beyond (Burd Ellen) Website

CGS Meridiana (Ponderosa Music) Website

TOUMANI DIABATE & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Kôrôlén (World Circuit) Website

DORAN Doran (Spinster) Bandcamp

NAHAWA DOUMBIA Kanawa (Awesome Tapes From Africa) Bandcamp

JOHN FRANCIS FLYN I Would Not Live Always (River Lea) Website

DOBET GNAHORE Couleur (Cumbancha) Website

GRANNYS ATTIC The Brickfields (Grimdon) Website

KATE GREEN A Dark Carnival (Kate Green) Website

DEVIN HOFF Voices From The Empty Moor (Kill Rock Stars)  Bandcamp

MARI JOYCE Dear Moon (Mari Joyce)  Bandcamp

KHASI-CYMRU COLLECTIVE ’Sai-thaiñ Ki Sur (Naxos World) Website

IAN KING Inebriate Of The Air (Fledg’ling) Website

LE REN Leftovers (Secretly Canadian) Bandcamp

LUNATRAKTORS The Missing Star (Lunatraktors) Bandcamp

MASSILIA SOUND SYSTEM Sale Caractere (Manivette) Bandcamp

SIMON MAYOR & HILARY JAMES When Summer Comes Again (Acoustics) Website

MISHRA Reclaim (Mishra) Website

MONSIEUR DOUMANI Pissourin (Glitterbeat) Website

PATTERSON DIPPER Unearthing (Patterson Dipper) Bandcamp

POLLY PAULUSMA Invisible Music (Oli) Bandcamp

RADIO TUTTI & BARILLA SISTERS Xogo (Lamastrock) Website

ISLA RATCLIFF The Castalia (Isla Ratcliff) Website

NATHAN SALSBURG Psalms (No Quarter) Bandcamp

SOLIA Tous Les Parfums (Home) Website

PETER STAMPFEL 20th Century In 100 Songs (Louisiana Red Hot) Bandcamp

STUNDOM Ma Jeg Holde Din Hand (Go’ Danish) Website

LA TALVERA A Tu Vai (Cordae La Talvera) Website

ANNA CINZIA VILLANI Ulia (Core De Villani) Website

WARSAW VILLAGE BAND Uwodzenie Waterproduction (Karrot Kommando) Website

JON WILKS Up The Cut (Jon Wilks) Bandcamp

BARBORA XU Olin Ennen (Nordic Notes) Website

 


 

and… 4 vinyl-only releases, mentioned in despatches

ADAM GEOFFREY COLE Fallowing (Sunstone) Bandcamp

ROBB JOHNSON Minimum Wages (Irregular) Website

GEOFF MULDAUR His Last Letter (Moon River Music) Website

VARIOUS ARTISTS Songs Without Authors (Broadside Hacks) Bandcamp

 

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30 November 2021

Podwireless 232 December 2021

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 232 DECEMBER 2021

(This playlink is to Mixcloud streaming:  you can also download the podcasts from Podomatic )

 

1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss : It Don't Bother Me from the CD Raise The Roof (Warners) Website

3. Oysterband : The Time Is Now from the CD Read The Sky (Running Man) Website

4. Doran : Our Captain Cried All Hands from the CD Doran (Spinster) Bandcamp

5. Harp & A Monkey : Growing Together – The Orchard Song from the DL single (Harp & A Monkey) Website

6. Julie Abbé : Derrière Chez Nous from the DL single (Julie Abbé) Bandcamp

7. Solia : Tous Les Parfums from the CD Tous Les Parfums (Home) Website

8. Kasai Allstars : Ngoma Yande from the CD Black Ants Remixes (Crammed) Website

9. Etran de L'Aïr : Toubouk Ine Chihoussay from the CD Agadez (Sahel Sounds) Bandcamp

10. The Memory Band : The Trees They Do Grow High from the CD Colours (Hungry Hill) Bandcamp

11. Kate Green : Lady Diamond from the CD A Dark Carnival (Kate Green) Website

12. Laurel Premo : The Minstrel Boy Has Gone To War from the DL single (Laurel Premo) Bandcamp

13. Catfish Keith : Bimini Gal from the CD Land Of The Sky (Fish Tail) Website

14. Old Blind Dogs : Here We Go Again from the CD Knucklehead Circus (Old Blind Dogs) Website

15. Seth Lakeman : Coming For You Soon from the CD Make Your Mark (Honour Oak) Website

16. Marvara : High On Life from the CD High On Life (Go! Danish Folk Music) Website

17. Sababa 5 : Rosenzweig from the 45 single (Batov) Bandcamp

18. Ritva Nero : Trepatska Thrasher from the CD Immortal Tradition (Bafe's Factory) Website

19. Pamela Wyn Shannon : Woolgathering from the CD Weirdshire At Babar Café (Weird Shire) Bandcamp

20. Burd Ellen : Death Of Queen Jane from the CD Weirdshire At Babar Café (Weird Shire) Bandcamp

21. Sophie Lukacs : Too Many Times from the CD Falling (Sophie Lukacs) Website

22. Tamala : Tule, Tuul from the CD Lumba (Muziekpublique) Website

23. Dawda Jobarteh : Golden Horses from the CD Soaring Wild Lands (Stern's) Bandcamp

24. The Norfolk Broads [feat. Nick Hart] : Geordie from the CD Yonder Green Grove (Norfolk Broads) Website

25. Sairie : Sylvie from the Various Artists CD Undulating Waters 6 (Woodford Halse) Bandcamp

26. Vis-A-Vis : Cherie Bondowe from the CD The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style (We Are Busy Bodies) Bandcamp

27. Black Masters Band : Wonnin A Bisa from the CD Essiebons Special 1973 – 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa) Bandcamp

28. Janie Mitchell : If I'm Not Home For Christmas from the DL single (Janie Mitchell) Bandcamp

29. Hurray For The Riff Raff : Rhododendron from the CD Life On Earth (Nonesuch) Website

30. Xanthoula Dakovanou [feat. Nikos Filippidis] : Miroloi On Clarinet from the CD Lamenta (Quart De Lune) Website

 

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31 October 2021

Podwireless 231 November 2021

 

PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS 231 NOVEMBER 2021

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

2. Robb Johnson : This Is Your History from the CD Minimum Wages (Irregular) Website

3. Christy Moore : Clock Winds Down from the CD Flying Into Mystery (Sony Ireland) Website

4. Mishra : I Never Will Marry from the CD Reclaim (Hudson) Website

5. Stick In The Wheel : The Cuckoo from the CD Tonebeds For Poetry (From Here) Bandcamp

6. Mec Yek : Sidzjar Mamo from the CD Taisa (Choux De Bruxelles) Website

7. AySay : Kader Olsun from the CD Su Akar (Nordic Notes) Website

8. Kuunatic : Titian from the CD Gate Of Klüna (Glitterbeat) Website

9. Le Ren : May Hard Times Pass Us By from the CD Leftovers (Secretly Canadian) Bandcamp

10. Hannah James & Toby Kuhn : Jealousy from the CD Sleeping Spirals (Jigdoll) Website

11. C Joynes : Waverley Cross from the CD Poor Boy On The Wire (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sophomore Lounge) Bandcamp

12. Dan Walsh : Calliope House/ Tuesday Night Session from the CD Live At The Floodgate (Rooksmere) Website

13. Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjad Khan & Mudassir Khan : I Know This Place from the CD One Morning In Gurgaon (Riverboat) Website

14. Lewis Barfoot : Tabhair Dom Do Lámh from the single (Lewis Barfoot) Website

15. Simon Mayor & Hilary James : Lovely Joan from the CD When Summer Comes Again (Acoustics) Website

16. Amy Thatcher : Look At You Now from the CD EP Let What's In, Out (Amy Thatcher) Bandcamp

17. Isla Ratcliff : Tune For Annabelle from the CD The Castalia (Isla Ratcliff) Website

18. Frank Stokes : Frank Stokes' Dream from the CD Frank Stokes 1927-29 The Remaining Titles (Matchbox Bluesmaster) Website

19. Big Bill Broonzy : Police Station Blues from the CD Big Bill Broonzy 1927-32 (Matchbox Bluesmaster) Website

20. Buffalo Nichols : How To Love from the CD Buffalo Nichols (Fat Possum) Website

21. Jackson Lynch : In My Time Of Dying from the CD All By My Ownsome (Jalopy) Bandcamp

22. Pierre Bensusan : Corps Vaudou from the CD Azwan (Le Triton) Website

23. Octantrion : Bältares Lângdans from the CD II (Quart De Lune/UVM) Website

24. Jenny Sturgeon : Violet Rae from the CD Sense Of The Place (Stonehaven Folk Club) Website

25. Mànran : Briogais from the CD Ùrar (Manran) Website

26. Louis De Bernières : Olives, Wine And Bread from the CD Despatches (Khaki Angel) Website

27. The Longest Johns : Hard Times Come Again No More from the CD Smoke & Oakum (Decca) Website

28. Hartwin Dhoore : Allikas - Source from the CD Valge Valgus (Trad Records) Website

29. Stundom : Spejlhuset from the CD Må Jeg Holde Din Hånd? (Go'Danish Folk Music) Website

30. Jørgensen & Sørensen : Iversen from the CD Rå Og Usødet (Go'Danish Folk Music) Website

31. Norman Blake : Just Tell Them That You Saw Me from the CD Day By Day (Smithsonian Folkways) Website

32. Geoff Muldaur : Michigan Water Blues from the 2xLP His Last Letter (Moon River Music) Website

33. Freedom To Roam : The Rhythms Of Migration from the CD The Rhythms Of Migration (Goatskin) Website

 

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