Wavelength Music Special: Folk Music

Introduction

This program showcases the English-speaking folk music I've experienced  in my lifetime.  When I was a young man in England, the '60s UK folk resurgence was in full swing.   My friends and I greatly enjoyed the 400 year old 'Blue Boar' pub, just outside Newbury on the Berkshire Downs.  Oliver Cromwell stayed there the night before the first Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War, on September 19th/20th, 1643.  There's a Civil War song from Martyn Wyndham-Read in the second hour of this program.

On Friday and Saturday nights, we'd gather there and sing along with local folk singers Brian Howe and Mike Campbell-Cole;  and on Sunday evenings, we'd head to the Waggon & Horses, in Newbury, for the weekly Folk Club session.  My lifelong love of folk music was born in these experiences, and it's a pleasure to share with you here the songs I've been fortunate to acquire over many years.

Playlist

Introduction   (01.30) Paul Brady/Arthur McBride (check Tiernan McBride's 1977 film, Youtube)  (08.14) Kate Wolf/September Song  (12.15) Waterson 
Carthy/Stars In My Crown  (15.13) Bob Dylan/Girl From The North Country  (18.10) Declan Affley/Carrickfergus   (21.56) James Fagan & Nancy Kerr/Banks Of The Condamine  (25.33) Kathryn Tickell/Lads Of Alnwick  (31.22) Ewan MacColl/Shoals Of Herring (from 'The Radio Ballads')  (35.11) Joan Baez/Joe Hill (live, Woodstock, 1969)  (37.46) Project Smok/Woodlands Drive_Arisaig (recorded for BBC Radio Scotland, Sept 2020)  (42.16) Ian & Sylvia (Tyson)/Four Strong Winds (live, CBC TV, 1986)  (46.43) Richard Fariña/Birmingham Sunday  (50.41) Luke Kelly/The Rising Of The Moon  (53.49) The Wilson Family/The Plains Of Waterloo  (56.49) Christine Wheeler/When The Children Come Home   

(01.02.05) Gordon Lightfoot/Early Morning Rain  (01.05.15) Karine Polwart/Follow The Heron  (01.08.13) Martyn Wyndham-Read/When The King Comes Home  (01.11.00) Joe Hutton/Scottish Air  (01.13.00) Dave de Hugard/Across The Western Plains  (01.17.00) Steeleye Span/Thomas The Rhymer  (01.20.00) The Fagans/Dark As The Dungeon   (01.25.00) The Dubliners/Dublin In The Rare Ould Times  (01.32.49) Alistair Hulett/He Fades Away (live, Blue Mntns Music Festival)  (01.37.05) Shirley Collins/The Unquiet Grave  (01.40.25) The Chieftains/Brian Boru's March  (01.43.33) Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem/October Winds  (01.46.02) Nic Jones/Ten Thousand Miles (John Peel [session #7], July 8, 1976)  (01.49.15) Dolores Keane/My Own Dear Galway Bay  (01.52.18) Incredible String Band/Mercy I Cry, City  (01.54.55) The Albion Band/The Green Mist (vocals, Cathy Lesurf)   

(02.02.12) Martyn Wyndham-Read/In Memory Of Bill (live, New Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath, March 3, 2011)  (02.06.09) Ramblin' Jack Elliott/Hard Travellin' (Live, Tris Elies Winebar, Katoomba, March 26, 1999)  (02.10.30) American Civil War Medley (from Ken Burns's 'The Civil War'):  Shelby Foote/Intro - John Hartford/Lorena - Kathy Mattea/The Vacant Chair - Ken Burns/Commentary  Jay Ungar/Ashokan Farewell  (02.20.05) Dave Cohen/I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning  (02.22.22) Phil Ochs/There But For Fortune  (02.24.55) Eva Cassidy/Tall Trees In Georgia  (02.28.30) Dave Loggins/Wonderin' As The Days Go By  (02.32.15) Documentary - Collits's Inn, Hartley:  A conversation with (2012) owner, Col MacDonald, with music from The Dubliners (Fields Of Athenry), Dave de Hugard (Across The Western Plains), Paragon Café (Currency Lass) & Project Smok (Mountain Road);  poetry read by Peter O'Shaughnessy (Dame Mary Gilmour's 'Old Botany Bay')   (03.01.25) AL 'Bert' Lloyd/The Cocky From Bungaree

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