TRACK / artist / album / label
(* Australian content)
(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)
29 December 2013
The featured album was KICK THE BUCKET by TANGATA (
www.tangata.co.uk) This EP is from a UK five piece
who recorded seven tracks to demonstrate their versatile approach to a range of acoustic musical styles, mostly original material by the guitarist,
Simon Jackson. While the individual musicians might still be active, the band's website offers no 'recent' information about the band itself.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
SPENCER THE ROVER; RECUERDAS; OAKWOOD STOMP; MY JOHNNY WAS A SHOEMAKER
* BASINGSTOKE / Bernard Bolan / Jamberoo, A Discovery /
www.illawarrafolkclub.com.au
* CHRISTMAS IN MELBOURNE / Broderick Smith / Jamberoo, A Discovery /
www.illawarrafolkclub.com.au
ST KILDA and COPPER KETTLE / Old Blind Dogs / Wherever Yet May Be / Compass-Planet
ERRAND LASSES AND BUFFER GIRLS / Grace Notes / 20 / Fellside-Planet
DEIL'S CAULDRON / Rod Paul / Birlinn / Greentrax
RAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSY / Planxty / Live 2004 / Columbia
* HEPIMIZ DELIYIZ / Kim Sanders & friends / You Can't Get There From Here / self published
DA SHAALDS / Fiddlers' Bid / Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer / Greentrax
* THE OLD PUBS / Bob Campbell / Songs From Giants Leap /
www.fiddlerbob.com.au
BADENOCH / Wendy Weatherby / A Breath On The Cold Glass / Lochshore
HELLO STRANGER / The Carter Family / Country Music Hall Of Fame Series / MCA
FI-LI-MI-OO-RE-AY / The Weavers / Rarities From The Vanguard Vault / Vanguard
WE GOT FOOLED AGAIN / Coope, Boyes & Simpson / As If ... / No Masters
GREEN LIGHT ON THE SOUTHERN / Ed Littlefield Jr / Going To The West / Sage Arts
THE FLOWER OF MAGHERALLY and JIMMY LYON'S / Altan / The Red Cow / Green Linnet
SCALENE / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan / Highlights 99 - NFF /
www.folkfestival.org.au
22 December 2013
This was my usual pre-recorded program for the Christmas season.
THROW ANOTHER CHAIRLEG ON THE FIRE / Artisan / Paper Angels / Bedspring Music
THE FIRST NOEL / Tracey Silverman and Thea Suits-Silverman / A Winter Solstice V / Windham Hill
* EUCALYPTUS CHRISTMAS / Graham Seal / Barbed Wire Ballads / Unvarnished Productions
THE BELLS OF DUBLIN / The Chieftains / Bells Of Dublin / BMG
IL EST NE / The Chieftains with Kate & Anna McGarrigle / Bells Of Dublin / BMG
A CHRISTMAS CAROL / Tom Lehrer / Bah Humbug / Greentrax
GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN and GOOD KING WENCESLAS / Loreena McKennitt / A Christmas Radio Sampler 1999 / Quinlan Road
LEADING OF THE STAR / Ann & Phil Case / Holiday Sampler / Dry Run Recordings
APPLE-TREE WASSAIL / The Watersons / For Pence And Spicy Ale / Topic
JOY HEALTH LOVE AND PEACE / The Watersons / Sound Sound Your Instruments Of Joy / Topic
THE POACHER'S CHRISTMAS / The Kipper Family / The Ever Decreasing Circle / Dambuster
THE MAN THAT SLITS THE TURKEYS' THROATS AT CHRISTMAS / Robin Laing / Bah Humbug / Greentrax
THE BOAR'S HEAD / The Chieftains with The Voice Squad / Bells Of Dublin / BMG
ORKNEY WASSAIL / Ceilidh Friends / The Spirit Of Giving / Ceilidh Friends
FIRST CHRISTMAS / Stan Rogers / Between The Breaks / Fogarty's Cove
JESU JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING / John Palmes / Mouthbow: Small Voices / self published
ES IST EIN' ROS ENTSPRUNGEN and CHRISTMAS BELLS / Joel Mabus / How Like The Holly / Fossil Records
* STILLE NACHT / Melbourne Austrian Choir / Christmas In Australia / self published
CHRISTMAS MORNING / Loudon Wainwright III / Bah Humbug / Greentrax
CELEBRONS LA NAISSANCE and VEN A CANTARLE JESUS / Steve Eulberg / 'Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime / Owl Mountain Music
IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR / Diane Taraz / Hope! Says The Holly / Raisin Pie Music
KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS / Gerri Gribi / Home For Christmas / Lilyfern Records
A DANCE DUET / The Chieftains with Kathryn Tickell / Bells Of Dublin / BMG
15 December 2013
The featured album was SONGS FROM GIANT'S LEAP by BOB CAMPBELL (
www.fiddlerbob.com.au)
An interesting album of mostly original songs and poems recorded to complement Bob's recently published autobiography,
'Giant's Leap - An Activist Folksinger's Memoir'. Bob was pleased to include some photos in the book obtained from the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation under Freedom of Information legislation. ASIO was very interested in Bob, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s,
and they compiled a large file which proved to be of great assistance to Bob while writing his remarkable book. The following tracks
(all * Australian content) were scattered through the program:
STEELWORKS FIRST DAY; STEELTOWN BEFORE THE QUAKE; THE LARK; NOT MADE FOR OLD FIREMEN; KILLER BLACK COAL
LE BON BUVEUR / Le Vent Du Nord / Les Amants Du Saint Laurent / Borealis
LIVERPOOL REEL and THE GREEN SHORES OF FOGO / Christina Smith and Jean Hewson / August Gale / Borealis
THE SWAN NECKED VALVE / Alistair Brown / The Swan Necked Valve / Prospect Records
CALUM'S ROAD / Hugh Morrison / Under A Texas Skye / ACM Records
THE MAID THAT SOLD HER BARLEY / Deanta / Ready For The Storm / Green Linnet
CAMPBELL THE DROVER / Margaret Christl and Ian Robb / The Barley Grain For Me / Folk-Legacy
THE GEESE IN THE BOG / Grainne Hambly / The Thorn Tree /
www.grainne.harp.net
VICKSBURG BLUES / Ernie Hawkins / Whinin' Boy / Corona Records
POLKA PIQUEE / Rosbif / Traditional Music From Central France / Folksound Records
BLACK JACK GROVE / Old Buck / Old Buck /
www.oldbuckmusic.com
ISLE OF FRANCE / Nic Jones / Game Set Match / Topic
TARRY TROUSERS and ALFAZ DEL PI / Pilgrim's Way / Wayside Courtesies / Fellside
THE FINAL TRAWL / Bok, Muir & Trickett / The First Fifteen Years / Folk-Legacy
THORNTON'S / The Bowhouse Quintet / Live In Ennis / Lochshore
THE BANK OF IRELAND / Bobby Casey & John McLoughlin / Paddy In The Smoke / Topic
8 December 2013
The featured album was MOSAIK by VISHTEN
www.vishtenmusic.com High energy Acadian music from the
eastern Canadian provinces. The fiddle style is noticeably different from Quebecois. An enjoyable and fascinating album from a talented trio.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
TOBIE LAPIERRE; SHETLAND'S MAGICAL BUS; LES YEUX NOIRS; TUTTI FLUTTI; LA VIEUX PI LA VIELLE
* HALLELUJAH / Vendulka / Restless / Music Entourage
TIMES ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE and SOLDIER'S JOY / Tom, Betty & Nathan Druckenmiller / 'Til The Clouds Roll By / Little Cat Records
EATHAR DUBH A BRADHAGAIR and DRAM / Daimh / Daimh / Crossing Point / Greentrax
* HUNGARIAN GYPSY SONGS / Blindman's Holiday / Archipelago / SBS Music
RUM AND THE SHAKY SAILOR / Debbie Scott & John Hutchison / Afore The Mast / Veesik Records
JOHNNY GOUDIE'S MONSTER / Andrew Williamson / Afore The Mast / Veesik Records
* THOSE BOLD BUSHRANGERS / Collector / Collector /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
*SALLY'S REELS / Collector / Collector /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
SALT HORSE / The Claque / Sounding Now / WildGoose
* NIGHTMARE SET / New Dogs Old Tricks / New Dogs Old Tricks /
www.tellingtales.net
* LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS / New Dogs Old Tricks / New Dogs Old Tricks /
www.tellingtales.net
JUST AS THE TIDE WAS FLOWING / Shirley Collins / Folk Heritage / Music Club
YOUNG NED OF THE HILL / The Pogues / The Rest Of The Best / Warner Music
GOLDEN SLIPPERS / Gray Sky Girls / Gray Sky Girls / American Melody
BLACK EYED SUSIE / Tangleweed / Where You Been So Long? / Squatney Records
EPISODE 6 / Ivor Cutler / Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol II / Rev-Ola
LEAVE TOWN / James Keelaghan / House Of Cards / Borealis
DUGALD MCCOLL'S FAREWELL TO FRANCE / Kevin Macleod & Alec Finn / From Polbain To Oranmore / Greentrax
FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTEN / Leonard Cohen / The Essential Leonard Cohen / Columbia
1 December 2013
The featured album was DANNY AND AKI by Danny (Diamond) and Aki (?)
www.dannyandaki.com
This is an interesting instrumental album of "music drawn from the Irish, American and Nordic traditions". The medleys are often unexpected
combinations and the fiddle and button accordion both emphasise drone effects. Well worth a listen. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
THE DEVIL IN THE STRAWSTACK; KAHMAN ANTI; MINUET; THE WHISTLE O'ER THE LOVETT
LONDON DANNY / Shay, Michael & Martin Black / What A Time / RTE
CROCKETT'S HONEYMOON and CHASED OLD SATAN / The Stairwell Sisters / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-ay-hee
SIKLEBEKKEN / Trio Hardanger / Trio Hardanger / 2L
* SHIP REPAIRING MEN / Garry Tooth / Garry 4 Cathie / self published
CARTHY'S MARCH and PERFUMES OF ARABIA / Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick / Skin And Bone / Green Linnet
BLACKBIRDS AND THRUSHES / The Outside Track / Curious Things Given Wings / Lorimer Records
THE HAGGIS / James Ross / James Ross / Greentrax
THREE WAULKING SONGS and GENTLE LADY / various / Scottish Drinking And Pipe Songs / Legacy International
* PAMULWAY / Home Rule / Joint Effort / Larrikin
MUINEIRA DE VILANOVA / Milladoiro / Castellum Honesti / Green Linnet
BASEBALL IN MY BLOOD / Erik Balkey / Everything Is Great / Hudson Harding Music
HOORAY FOR HOLYROOD / The McCalmans / Scots Abroad / Greentrax
DONALD WILLIE AND HIS DOG / Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus / Return To Kintail / Culburnie
NO GONNAE LEAVE HERE / Clan Alba / Clan Alba / Clan Alba
THE BEST O' THE BARLEY / Brian McNeill / The Back O' The North Wind / Greentrax
24 November 2013
Mostly double plays from a selection of albums:
THE BANKS OF THE ROSES and ASTURIAS PART 2 / Nuala Kennedy / Noble Stranger / Compass
SAIL AWAY LADIES and TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN FOX-CHASE / Rattle On The Stovepipe / 8 More Miles / WildGoose
HA'PENNY BRIDGE and WILLIAM KIDD / The Makem & Spain Brothers / Home Away From Home / Red Biddy Records
* THE FAREWELL ADDRESS / Trouble In The Kitchen / The Next Turn / Tradsville
* JACKSON'S FAVOURITE / Trouble In The Kitchen / The Next Turn / Tradsville
SWEET SUNNY SOUTH and ROAD TO BANGOR / John McCutcheon / Sprout Wings And Fly / Rounder
THOMAS THE RHYMER and TWO MAGICIANS / Steeleye Span / The Very Best Of Steeleye Span / Park Records
LLAMO and D'EQUI A SOMIO / Felpeyu / Ya! / Secret Street
CAIDE SIN DON TE SIN? and GERMANS / Altan / Runaway Sunday / Virgin
* FAREWELL TO JINDABYNE / Franklin B. Paverty / Folk Revolution /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* HUNGARIAN HOLIDAY / The Bearded Gypsy Band / Folk Revolution /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
KILKELLY / Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane, Robbie O'Connell / Bringing It All Back Home / BBC
YOU COULDN'T HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME / Luka Bloom / Bringing It All Back Home / BBC
BANBURY BILL / Brass Monkey / Head Of Steam / Topic-Planet
REEL CIRCULAIRE / Genticorum / Nagez Rameurs / Roues et Archets-Planet
17 November 2013
The featured album was FULL ENGLISH (Topic-Planet), a recording project co-ordinated by FAY HIELD with a hand-picked ensemble of fine
English musicians. An enormous amount of English folk music has been archived over time and is now becoming available online.
www.vwml.org www.fayhield.com/the-full-english
Fay Hield was commissioned by the English Folk Dance and Song Society to create new music from the archives and this album is the (first) result.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
AWAKE AWAKE; STAND BY YOUR GUNS; WILLIAM AND NANCY; CREEPING JANE; MAN IN THE MOON
* PRETTY JESSIE / Alan Musgrove / Jamberoo - A Change Of Season / Shoestring
* PUNCHA LA ROSA HUELE / Rivero / Jamberoo - A Change Of Season / Shoestring
RUFFORD PARK POACHERS / Jim Moray / Low Culture / Niblick
CUQUINA / Felpeyu / Felpeyu / Fono Astur
BOAT'S UP THE RIVER / Erynn Marshall / Calico / Merriweather Records
BARNYARDS OF DELGATY / Old Blind Dogs / Tall Tails / Lochshore
VALSA AN TSONAIS / Buttons & Bows / Grace Notes / Gael-Linn
* SAILING THROUGH HISTORY / Jim Low / Above The Creek Bed /
http://jimlow.net
EN MONTANT LA RIVIERE / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
YOR TORN'LL SURELY COME / The Keelers / Tyne & Tide / Keelmusic
CRETAN SYRTOS / Stanley Greenthal / First Song /
www.stanleygreenthal.com
* EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD / Ruth Hazleton & Kate Burke / A Thousand Miles Or More /
www.kateandruth.com
CANOL ROAD / Stan Rogers / Northwest Passage / Borealis
CASTLE GRANT / Tabache / Waves Of Rush / Lochshore
SAM STONE / John Prine / John Prine Live / Oh Boy
LA BELLE JEANETTE / Brass Monkey / Flame Of Fire / Topic-Didgeridoo
10 November 2013
The featured album was 22 DAYS by JOHN MCCUTCHEON (Appalsongs)
www.folkmusic.com This new album is the
result of an intensive period of songwriting for McCutcheon inspired by the story of Vedran Smailovic,"The Cellist of Sarajevo", who played each day
for 22 days at the site of a bombing which killed 22 people. The album is quite diverse and the material does not focus on the Bosnian conflict.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
FORGOTTEN; HEAVEN'S KITCHEN; DRY LAND FISH; THE NIGHT THAT DAN RYAN GOT LOCKED IN THE PUB; TONIGHT
CHERE JOUES ROSES / Pine Leaf Boys / Blues De Musicien / Arhoolie
SLEEPY TOON / Dick Gaughan / Sandy Bell's Ceilidh / Greentrax
THE LILTING FISHERMAN / Bell's Big Ceilidh Band / Sandy Bell's Ceilidh /Greentrax
* BOURKE STREET ON A SATURDAY NIGHT / Welcome Strangers / Nuggets From Here And There / self published
NIPPONPOLKA / Vasen / Keyed Up / NorthSide
THE MINOR LAKES OF PONTCHARTRAIN / Gren Morris & Sam Stephens / Hums Ancient And Modern /
www.grenmorrisandsamstephens.com
RUSTY GULLY / Sandra and Nancy Kerr / Neat And Complete / Fellside
CAVERS / Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag / 500 Sessions /
www.spreefix.com
KITTY THE HANDSOME CAT / Tony Hall / One-Man Hand / WildGoose
SIR JAMES THE ROSE / Steeleye Span / The Very Best Of Steeleye Span / Park Records
TORONTALI TANCOK / Muzsikas / The Bartok Album / Festival
THEY SENT A WUMMAN / Enoch Kent / Songs Of Love, Lust And Loathing / 2nd Avenue
SUNNY / The Poozies / Changed Days, Same Roots / Greentrax
* IT ALL HAD TO STOP / Neil Adam / Aussie Lullaby /
www.tellingtales.net
LA 51 / Genticorum / La Galarneau / Roues et Archets
HIGH BARBARY / Gordon Bok & Cindy Kallet / Neighbors / Timberhead
PIQUE LA BALEINE / The Young'Uns / When Our Grandfathers Said No / Navigator-Planet
CIDER / Bruce Molsky / Soon Be Time / Compass
THE THOMPSON BOYS / The Occasionals / Reel Of Four / Greentrax
3 November 2013
The featured album was BARRULE by BARRULE
www.barruletrio.com (Wardfell Records)
A trio, with some friends, from the Isle of Man playing a mix of traditional and more recent Manx material, showing interesting similarities with,
and differences from, nearby musical neighbours. This is a well performed and produced album, giving a fascinating introduction to a
less well-known musical tradition. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
MYLECHERAINE'S MARCH; IN SEARCH OF MANANNAN; THE GIRLS OF BALLADOOLE; SHE LHONG HONNICK MEE; ENGAGE
THE FIT'S COME ON ME NOW / Belshazzar's Feast / John Playford's Secret Ball / WildGoose
THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND / Chris Foster / Jewels / The Tradition Bearers
* DON'T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN / Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton / Summer's Lonesome Tale / Tradsville
LEAVING LIVERPOOL and VALPARAISO ROUND THE HORN / Joe Stead / Valparaiso Round The Horn / A Private Label
TU SERAS AVEC MOI / Cedric Watson / Cedric Watson / Valcour Records
THE LADS IN THEIR HUNDREDS / Gas Mark 5 / Gas Mark 5 / Festival
RING THEM BELLS / The Copper Ponies / Ring Them Bells / Hudson Harding Music
PUCK'S SONG / Sam Lee / Oak Ash Thorn / Folk Police Recordings
THE SOUL OF A MAN / Ernie Hawkins / Mean Little Poodle / Say Mo' Music
ALL THE TUNES IN THE WORLD / Janet Russell / Gathering The Fragments / Harbourtown
I'D RATHER BE MARRIED THAN LEFT / North Cregg / The Roseland Barndance / Greentrax
* THE LONG PADDOCK / Penny Davies & Roger Ilott / Waterbag Ballads / Restless Music
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME / Steve Tilston / Of Many Hands / ADA Recordings
THE WEXFORD LASSIES / Brian McNamara & Tim Collins / Reed Only / Drumlin Records
LET THEM FLY / Kate Rusby / Make The Light / Pure Records
* THE STRUGGLE / Bruce Watson / Balance /
www.brucewatsonmusic.com
THE CONSTANT LOVERS / Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson / Lady Diamond / Selwyn Music
27 October 2013
The featured album was SONGS FROM SINGOUT! v55#3
www.singpout.org The compilation album accompanying
the most recent edition of SingOut! magazine. Excellent, as always. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
THE PREACHER'S WHISKEY FLASK (Larry Penn); SHOUT LITTLE LULA (Dubl Handi); LES CORPS DE METIERS (Yves Lambert Trio);
OLD KIMBALL (Anna & Elizabeth)
WALKIN' IN MY SLEEP / Highwoods Stringband / Live! / Mudthumper Music
* AT EACH GATE THE SHEARER STOOD / Warren Fahey & The Larrikins / Cobargo 2009 /
wwwcobargofolkfestival.com
* THE WATERWITCH / Alan Musgrove & His Watsaname Band /Cobargo 2009 /
wwwcobargofolkfestival.com
* CAPE BRETON SET / Catherine Fraser & Duncan Smith / Presence / www.locrian.com.au
GALILEO and THE MAN FROM CONNEMARA / Robbie O'Connell / Never Learned To Dance / Celtica
DEN STREJKENDE GENERAL / Kristian Bugge / Kristian Bugge / Radium
* FOLLERIN' UP / Loaded Dog / Dusty Gravel Road /
www.loadeddog.net.au
IGGIE AND SQUIGGIE / James Ross / James Ross / Greentrax
PRENTICE BOY / Faustus / Broken Down Gentlemen / Navigator-Planet
TALADH NA BEINNE GUIRME and BOISE MONSTERS / Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac / Seinn / Turtlemusik
THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS / The High Level Ranters / Northumberland Forever / Topic
* LADY OF CARLISLE / Kate Delaney / Highlights 2009 National Folk Festival /
www.folkfestival.org.au
* BRING OUT THE BANNERS / Danny Spooner / Highlights 2009 National Folk Festival /
www.folkfestival.org.au
THE VINE TREE / The Old Swan Band / Swan For The Money / WildGoose
SEELINNIKOI / Varttina / Seleniko / Xenophile
BEESWING and THE BEESWING HORNPIPE / Tom McConville / Tommy On The Bridge / Tomcat Music
THERE IS A TIME / Uncle Earl / She Waits For Night / Rounder
BOTH SIDES THE TWEED / Ewan Wilkinson / It Never Snows / Brechin All Records
THE SILVER SLIPPER / Altan / Local Ground / Vertical
20 October 2013
The featured album was TYNE & TIDE by THE KEELERS
www.keelers.net (Keelmusic) This is the most recent
CD by a four man Tyneside folk and shanty singing group which formed in 1986. Strong true vocals and an interesting song selection, including
original settings of six poems by the 'nautical' poet Cicely Fox Smith. The following tracks were scattered through the program:
OLD BILLY BLUE; AH CUD HEW; THE LANDLORD'S DAUGHTER; BLACK AND WHITE; FIFTEEN MEN
BULGINE / Blackbeard's Tea Party / Whip Jamboree / Proper
THE ROSCOMMON REEL and JOHNNY TODD / Kevin Burke & Ged Foley / In Tandem / self published
ORO, SE DO BHEATHA BHAILE / Sinead O'Connor / Sen-Nos Nua / Hummingbird Records
* BEN CHERRY'S / Barry McDonald / Still A Long Way From Home / self published
HAD AWAY GAN ON / Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies / The Parish Notices / Tantobie
BAYOU SARA / Sara Grey & Ellie Ellis / Banklands / Fellside
THE DERRY BOAT / Hoghton Band / Banklands / Fellside
GAMMEL OTTETUR PA LANGS / Maja Kjaer Jacobsen & David Boulanger / Nord / Go' Danish
VICHTEN / Vishten / Vishten / www.vishten.ca
THE MONEY SHUFFLE / Richard Thompson / Dream Attic / Proper-Planet
AS A THOIRSEACH and SEANN TRIUBHAIS UILLEACHAIN / various / The Captain's Collection / Greentrax
LOTS OF OIL / Roy Bailey / Yelp! / Mrs Ackroyd Records
POLKA / Over Stok Og Steen / Til Almuen / 2L
JOHN THE GUN / Fotheringay / 2 / Fledg'ling-Planet
* LES TROIS GRANDS LUTHIERS / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club & friends / Reel Cool /
www.tellingtales.net
THE MERRY FELLOWS / The Keelers / On The North Sea Ground / Keel Music
THE RIGHTS OF MAN / Ceoltoiri Chualann / Plearaca An Riadaigh / Gael Linn
WHITE SQUALL / Stan Rogers / From Fresh Water / Borealis
13 October 2013
The featured album was CUZ by NIAMH NI CHARRA
www.niamhnicharra.com (Imeartas Records).
This thoroughly enjoyable album is a tribute to Terry 'Cuz' Teahan, a much loved and respected musician originally from Co. Kerry
who spent most of his life in Chicago. Niamh Ni Charra, from Killarney, is a first rate concertina and fiddle player. She has assembled
a fine group of supporting musicians to produce this excellent collection of tunes, and one song, either composed by or associated with Cuz Teahan.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
TADHG AND BIDDY'S; JOHNNY I DO MISS YOU; FRANK THORNTON'S; THE DOLLY VARDEN; GAELIC PARK; THE BIG FURZE BUSH
HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN / Wood & Cutting / Live At Sidmouth / R.U.F.
OUT IN AUSTRALIA and THE PATAGONIA ISLANDERS / Battlefield Band / The Road Of Tears / Temple
* ALL THE FINE YOUNG MEN / Wheelers & Dealers / Wheelers & Dealers /
www.wheelersanddealers.com.au
OFF THE HOOK / Chris Newman / Fretwork / Old Bridge Music
FAREWELL JOHNNY MINER / Bob Fox & Benny Graham / How Are You Off For Coals? / Fellside
* NO NO BLUES / The Ten Cent Shooters / Sweet To Mama / self published
ROLLING DOWN TO RIO / The Young'Uns / When Our Grandfathers Said No / Navigator-Planet
STORIES WE CAN TELL / Gambetta & Crary / Synergia / Thunderation Music
THE QUEEN AND THE SOLDIER / Grada / Cloudy Day Navigation / Compass
THE SHIP IN DISTRESS / Brian Peters and Gordon Tyrrell / Clear The Road / Harbourtown
THE BURNING BABE / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical / Park Records
ALL DOWN THE DAYS / Gerry Hallom / On The Periphery / William Boyd Music
OH, MARY DON'T YOU WEEP / Marley's Ghost / Four Spacious Guys / Sage Arts
BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY / John Doyle / Shadow And Light / Compass-Planet
* RANDY DANDY O / The Roaring Forties / Life Of Brine /
www.roaringfortiesfolk.com
6 October 2013
The featured album was OLD BUCK by OLD BUCK
www.oldbuckmusic.com Traditional style old time stringband
repertoire from a formidable quartet of singer-instrumentalists. Very impressive interpretations of some familiar material. The following tracks
were scattered through the program:
CHILLY WINDS; TRIBULATIONS; HIGHLANDER'S FAREWELL; FALSE HEARTED LOVER'S BLUES; FISHERS HORNPIPE
STREETS OF LONDON / Ralph McTell / Best Of British Folk / Castle Communications
SEOLTA GEALA and THE ANDARA GIRLS and AN GHEALOG / Altan / The Poison Glen / Compass-Planet
* GERONIMO'S CADILLAC / Colcannon / Step It Out / self published
I DREW MY SHIP ACROSS THE HARBOUR and KAFOOZALUM / Bellowhead / Matachin / Navigator
TAILS AND TROTTERS / Ann Mayo Muir / The Music Of Ann Mayo Muir / Folk-Legacy
LUCKY FOR SOME / Dick Gaughan / Lucky For Some / Greentrax
MUNEIRES DE RIBESAYA / Corquieu / Corquieu / Tierra Discos
* TALE OF THE PHANTOM SHIP / Jim MacQuarrie / Time Can't Erase / NewSouthFolk
THE BOYNE HUNT / Brian Rooney / Leitrim To London / Claddagh Records
* STRINGBARK AND GREENHIDE / Cloudstreet / The Land Of Bright Gold /
www.cloudstreet.org
IN THE LAND OF THE PATAGARANG / Patrick Street / Irish Times / Special Delivery
THE TENPENNY BIT / Boys Of The Lough / Twenty / Lough Records
FROM CLARE TO HERE / The Fureys and Davey Arthur / The Fureys Finest / Epic
ALIMONY / Ry Cooder / The UFO Has Landed / Rhino