TRACK / artist / album / label
(* Australian content)
(Intro theme: HERON ELECTION JIG / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / XTRA)
4 March 2012
This was a repeat of a program first heard on 12 November 2006.
The featured album was LONG LONESOME HOME by FRANK HAMILTON (ITR
Records). A good collection of American folk songs, some traditional,
some original and all adapted by this veteran folk singer who was
there in the 1950s with the likes of Guthrie, Seeger and Elliott and
was still in fine voice on this release from 1999. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
DO RE MI; RED ROSY BUSH; JAY GOULD'S DAUGHTER; BRAZOS RIVER; LONG
LONESOME HOME
* THE MAD LADY AND ME / Wheelers and Dealers / Wheelers and Dealers /
www.wheelersanddealersmusic.com.au
* LA GRANDEUSE / Wheelers and Dealers / Wheelers and Dealers /
www.wheelersanddealersmusic.com.au
SANTIAGO / Show of Hands / Live / Isis Records
HAPPY ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE and EBB AND FLOW / Beverly Smith & Carl
Jones / Somewhere / Dittyville
THE BRAES O' KILLIEKRANKIE / Chantan / Primary Colours / Culburnie
XIRANDIYES DE TORNER / Llan de Cubel / Un Tiempu Meyor / Fono Astur
* THE DROVER'S SWEETHEART / Chris Kempster / The Songs Of Chris
Kempster /
www.folkfednsw.org.au
THE FAIR MAID and THE VIRGINIA SET / Dervish / Harmony Hill / Whirling
Discs
* THE OLD BUSH DANCE / Bruce Watson / Australian Folk 2000 /
www.folkalliance.org.au
* THE LAKE ISLE OF INISFREE / Kate Burke / Australian Folk 2000 /
www.folkalliance.org.au
CANADIAN RAILROAD TRILOGY / James Keelaghan / Beautiful - A Tribute To
Gordon Lightfoot / Borealis
* MILLTIMBER JIG / Strathmannan / Strathmannan /
kscott@netspeed.com.au
LANCASHIRE LADS / Dave Burland / Benchmark / Fat Cat Records
* BABY PLEASE DON'T GO / Blues Mainly / Yesterday / self published
THE HURRICANE / James Ross / James Ross / Greentrax
BUSHES AND BRIARS / Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr / Eliza Carthy & Nancy
Kerr / Mrs Casey Records
REUBEN'S TRAIN / Mozaik / Changing Trains / Black Market Music
26 February 2012
The featured album was CRICKET'S LULLABY by JAMES BRYAN & CARL JONES
(Dittyville)
www.dittyville.com
An excellent second album of mostly
old time songs and tunes from a very classy duo. The following tracks
were scattered through the program:
SAM HILL; BLACKIE & EMMA; CLEVELAND'S MARCH TO THE WHITEHOUSE;
BONAPARTE'S RETREAT
CAROLINE OF EDINBURGH TOWN and BELLADRUM OUTHOUSE / The Outside
Track / Lorimer Records
* HEY, CHARLIE PERKINS / Gary Shearston / The Best Of All Trades /
Rouseabout Records
BOSCASTLE BREAKDOWN / Tintagel and Boscastle Players / Hidden English
/ Topic
WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING / Tom Willett / Hidden English / Topic
PEGGY GORDON / Sinead O'Connor / Sean-Nos Nua / Hummingbird Records
THE SANDS OF MEXICO / The Chieftains with Ry Cooder / San Patricio /
Blackrock Records
SAILING TO MEXICO / The Chieftains with Carlos Nunez / San Patricio /
Blackrock Records
WILLIE O and MRS SAMPSON'S DELIGHT / Garry Walsh / Penny Trumpets /
Phaeton Records
* THE SMITHS / Warren Fahey / Classic Bush Poetry / ABC Audio
SCOTLAND'S STORY / The McCalmans / Scots Abroad / Greentrax
NONESUCH and BOXING DAY / Band Of Hope / Rhythm And Reds / Musikfolk
CADAL CHA and THE GABERLUNZIE MAN / Ceolbeg / 5 / Greentrax
* THE RABBIT TRAPPER / Dave de Hugard / Magpie Morning / Sandstock
LONG JOHN MOORE / Bill Jones / Turn To Me / Compass
* SANTY ANNA / Wheeze and Suck Band / Elsie Marley's Mates / Fire &
Thorn Music
1952 VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING / Dick Gaughan / Sail On / Greentrax
BRIAN ROONEY'S / Brian Rooney / The Godfather / Racket Records
19 February 2012
The featured album was WOTCHEOR! by JEZ LOWE AND THE BAD PENNIES
(Tantobie)
www.jezlowe.com New release of
well crafted songs based
around past and current life in Lowe's native North East of England,
presented in radio ballad format inspired by "the legendary BBC Radio
programme 'Wot Cheor, Geordie'". The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
BARNSTORMING; THE JUDAS BUS; BARE KNUCKLE; HANDS FEET
THE HERRING'S HEAD / Chris Foster / Jewels / The Living Tradition
NANSAI OG NI OBARLAIN and O'DONNELL'S HORNPIPE / Triptych / Laura
Risk, Kieran Jordan, Paddy League /
www.triptych.com
THE SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELOW / Tom Russell / Songs Of The West / HMG
WHISTLING RUFUS / Orpheus Supertones / Going To Town / Mudthumper
Music
* THE SEA-BIRDS / Christina Mimmocchi / Rumours Of Summer /
www.christina8arms.com
LINUS PA LINJEN / Peter Puma Hedlund & Company / Another Way / RPM
AN GILLE DUBH CIAR-DHUBH / Christine Primrose / Without Seeking,
Without Asking / Temple
THISTLE HORNPIPE / Fiddlers Three Plus Two / Vol. 1 / Lochshore
MON AIMABLE BRUNE / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
BROWN ADAM / Spiers & Boden / The Works / Navigator
IBIAS / Felpeyu / Tierra / Fono Astur
JIG DELLA INQUIETUDINE / O'Stravaganza / Fantasy on Vivaldi and the
Celtic Music of Ireland / Virgin Classics
ISLE OF MAY / Cilla Fisher / People And Songs Of The Sea / Greentrax
SHOALS OF HERRING / The Corries / People And Songs Of The Sea /
Greentrax
THE GYPSY POACHER / Damien Barber / The Furrowed Field / DJC Records
BURNSVILLE LOOP / Ian Hardie / Westringing /
www.ian-hardie.co.uk
* AMONG PRODDY DOGS AND PAPES / Alistair Hulett / Dance Of The
Underclass / Mighty Boy
OLD PAINT / Big Hoedown / Big Hoedown / Rounder
12 February 2012
The featured album was COBARGO 2012, a sampler of tracks from
performers appearing at the Cobargo Folk Festival later this month.
Delightful location for a festival, on the NSW far south coast.
www.cobargofolkfestival.com
The following tracks (all * Australian
content) were scattered through the program:
JOSEPH NKOLO IS SINGING (Judy Small); CACTUS (Jimmy The Fish); THE
ROAD TO BALLYVAUGHAN (Chris Aronsten); CITY UP ON HIGH (Nick Charles
with Peter Fidler); DANNY AB'S #1 AND #2 (Cornerbrook); TROPNALA ORO
(Chaika)
FRIEND OF THE DEVIL / Demon Barbers / +24db / self published
SEVEN YELLOW GYPSIES and THREE RUSTY SWORDS / The House Band /
October Song / Green Linnet
LIMBO / Ruth Notman / Threads / Mrs Casey Records
LORD BATEMAN / Jim Moray / Sweet England / Niblick Is A Giraffe
SHADY GROVE / Otter Creek / Hunter's Moon /
www.ottercreekduo.com
BOTH SIDES THE TWEED / Dick Gaughan / Prentice Piece / Greentrax
LOUISIANA 1927 and LA RIVOLTE / Martin Simpson / Prodigal Son /
Topic-Planet
BERNIE'S WELCOME TO BUTNER and GREENLAND'S ICY WATER / Battlefield
Band / Zama Zama / Temple Records
LOST JOHN / Old Man Luedecke / Hinterland / Black Hen Music
MULL OF THE MOUNTAINS / Grainne Hambly & William Jackson / Music From
Ireland And Scotland / Mill Records
BUCKETS OF FUN / Frank Kelly / Let's Go With The Glen Abbey Show /
Cabaret
MOLTON / Blowzabella / Dance /
www.blowzabella.com
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY / Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick / Straws In
The Wind / Topic
* THE PICKERS' TRAIN / Neil Adam / Aussie Lullaby /
www.melbournescottishfiddlers.com
5 February 2012
The featured album was FOGARTY'S COVE by STAN ROGERS (Fogarty's
Cove - Borealis).
www.borealisrecords.com
An early recording by the
late great Canadian singer-songwriter, now digitally remastered and
with additional sleevenotes. The man was brilliant and this album
included several of his best songs. The following tracks were
scattered through the program:
FORTY-FIVE YEARS; THE MAID ON THE SHORE; THE WRECK OF THE ATHENS
QUEEN; MAKE AND BREAK HARBOUR
ALL YOU PRETTY GIRLS / Jim Moray / Low Culture / NIAG-Planet
* SPOONFUL / Daniel Champagne / Cobargo 2010 /
www.cobargofolkfestival.com
* POLITICALLY CORRECT WALTZING MATILDA / Shortis & Simpson / Cobargo
2010 /
www.cobargofolkfestival.com
GATHERING PEASCODS and THE CROCKERY WARE / Brass Monkey / Going &
Staying / Topic
INIS OIRR IN INIS OIRR / Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola / An Raicin Alainn /
www.aransinger.com
MONTREAL / Sultans Of String / Move /
www.sultansofstring.com
ISLE OF FRANCE / Nic Jones / Game Set Match / Topic
FREE LITTLE BIRD and FAREWELL TRION / Red Hen Stringband / Birds
Of A Feather / Wepecket Island Records
* THE DARK EYED GYPSIES / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Another Threshing Day
/
www.rowethmusic.com.au
THE LONESOME DEATH OF UKULELE IKE / Tom Russell / Mesabi /
Proper-Planet
I'M A BEAR IN A LADY'S BOUDOIR / Ukulele Ike / I'm A Bear In A Lady's
Boudoir / Yazoo
THE WHITE HEATHER FOXTROT / The Occasionals / Live / Greentrax
THE HOUSE CARPENTER and AN BUACHAILLIN BAN / Runa / Stretched On
Your Grave /
www.runamusic.com
THE CHIMP AND THE POODLE / Davie Robertson / Star O The Bar /
Greentrax
PRE-NUCLEAR SKIES / The SIn City Band / Pre-Nuclear Skies & Sheet
Metal Lullabies / Sam Saddle Music
* TABLELAND REEL / Wongawilli / Australia Street /
www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
29 January 2012
The featured album was LIVE AT THE FREIGHT AND SALVAGE by SUZIE
GLAZE & THE HILONESOME BAND
www.suzieglaze.com Traditional mountain
songs from the Jean Ritchie collection and several originals. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
COME ALL YE FAIR AND TENDER LADIES; ONE MORE MILE; GO DIG MY GRAVE;
MORNING COME AND MARIAH'S GONE; PILGRIM
SWEET AFTON / Nickel Creek / Nickel Creek / Sugar Hill
BLOW YOUR CHANTER and HIELAN' HARRY / Ceilidhdonia / Circadian
Rhythms / Brechin All Records
THE WHALE HAS SWALLOWED ME / Michael Jerome Browne / The Road Is Dark
/ Borealis
* LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA / Mandy Keating & Helen McLachlan / Our Town /
www.indie-cds.com
SPIKE ISLAND LASSIES / Michael McGoldrick / Wired / Vertical Records
* OLD JOE'S CANE / David Ross Macdonald / Knuckled Brass And Bone /
Pepper Tree Records
OLD TOM OF OXFORD / The Morris On Band / The Mother Of All Morris /
Talking Elephant
BLACK JOAK / Jim Moray / The Mother Of All Morris / Talking Elephant
* BARKING CREEK BELL RINGER / John Lewis / Deep Water Blue /
Aussiefolk Recording
OLD TIPPERARY / Grey Larsen & Paddy League / The Green House / Sleepy
Creek Music
IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD / The Pogues / The Rest Of The
Best / Warner Music
* SWEET TO MAMA / Ten Cent Shooters / Sweet To Mama / Ten Cent Records
THE LONESOME DRUNKARD'S WALK / The House Band / Stonetown /
Harbourtown Records
BILLY BOY / The High Level Ranters / Northumberland Forever / Topic
SOUTHERN RAILROAD BLUES / Norman Blake / The Fields Of November /
Flying Fish
THE HUMOURS OF GALWAY / Frankie Gavin / Frankie Goes To Town / Bees
Knees
TRAMPS AND HAWKERS / Ewan McLennan / Rags & Robes / Fellside
DICK GOSSIP'S / Harriet Bartlett / Eyes Wide Open / Greentrax
22 January 2012
The featured album was WE HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORKCHOP by JOHNSON,
MILLER & DERMODY
www.johnsonmilleranddermody.com (Orb Discs) A mix
of old and recent country blues songs from three long-established
artists who certainly deliver the goods working as a trio. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
THE RAIN DON'T FALL ON ME; I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORKCHOP; I'D DO
IT ALL AGAIN; I SHALL NOT BE MOVED
* PRETTY JESSIE / Alan Musgrove / Jamberoo - A Change Of Season /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
ANGELINE THE BAKER'S GONE / Euphonia / The Old Jawbone /
www.sylviaherold.com
AN TAILLIUIR BAN and NA CEITHRE THIOMAINT / Jackie Daly & Seamus
Creagh / Jackie Daly & Seamus Creagh / Claddagh
FAREWELL TO GERALDINE / Phil Garland / Jamberoo - A Change Of Season /
www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
THE RUINS BY THE SHORE / Brian Peters / The Seeds Of Time /
Harbourtown
BIG SCIOTY / Ken and Brad Kolodner / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music
ANDALUCIA / Sultans Of String / Move /
www.sultansofstring.com
* THE WASH-HOUSE SET / Growling Dogs / Australian Fiddle Tunes /
greganol@optushome.com.au
SAILING OFF TO THE YANKEE LAND / Karan Casey & John Doyle / Exile's
Return / Compass-Planet
* LIVE LIKE AN AFGHAN / Fred Smith / Dust Of Uruzgan /
www.fredsmith.com.au
BEGGAR BOY and MARY ANNE / Spiers & Boden / Vagabond /
Navigator-Planet
VALS DE LIBUNCA / Milladoiro / As Fadas De Estrano Nome / Green Linnet
THE TREES THEY ARE SO HIGH / Jackie Oates / Saturnine / ECC Records
BRAW SAILING ON THE SEA and DRUNK AT NIGHT, DRY IN THE MORNING /
Ossian / Dove Across The Water / Iona
I THREW IT ALL AWAY / Bob Dylan / Hard Rain / CBS
LOGGERMAN'S BREAKDOWN and THE RED CORVETTE / John McCutcheon / Water
From Another Time / Rounder
* HANDS IN THE SOIL / Blackwood / Home Soon / Making Music
THE LITTLE PACK OF TAILORS / Skylark / Light And Shade / Claddagh
15 January 2012
The featured album was THIS LAND: WOODY GUTHRIE'S AMERICA by JOHN
MCCUTCHEON
www.folkmusic.com
(Appalsongs). Fifteen of Guthrie's
compositions recorded by McCutcheon to celebrate Woody's 100th
birthday, coming up next July. This is McCutcheon's 35th album and
maintains his excellent standard over many years. The following
tracks were scattered through the program:
BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE; DEPORTEES; HOWJADOO; PASTURES
OF PLENTY; PRETTY BOY FLOYD
REBEL SOLDIER / Waylon Jennings / Songs Of The Civil War / Columbia
BETTER TIMES ARE COMING / Kate & Anna McGarrigle + Rufus Wainwright /
Songs Of The Civil War / Columbia
JOCK O' HAZELDEAN / Annie Grace / Take Me Out Drinking Tonight /
Greentrax
* THE ATHOLL HIGHLANDERS / Chris Duncan & Muriel Johnstone / Sandy
Ower The Sea / Chris Duncan Music
SIGHTS OF LONDON / Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes / Another Round /
WildGoose
* EILEEN MCCOY'S SPANISH WALTZ / No Such Thing / Going To The
Barndance / self published
LOW AND LONESOME SEA / Ivan Rosenberg & The Foggy Hogtown Boys / The
Hogtown Sessions / Vole-O-Tone
FAREWELL TO CAPE HELLES / Kevin Macleod & Alec Finn / Polbain To
Oranmore / Greentrax
COURTING IS PLEASURE / Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts / Kate Rusby &
Kathryn Roberts / Pure Records
COME FARE AWAY / Matthew Byrne / Ballads /
www.matthewbyrne.net
GO TELL THE DEVIL / Sharon Shannon with Imelda May / Saints And
Scoundrels / The Daisy Label-Planet
DEADHEADS AND SUCKERS / Flat Mountain Girls / Honey Take Your Whiskers
Off /
www.flatmountaingirls.com
* DA SLOCKITT LIGHT / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club / Musical
Traditions In Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
* SHEARING, SHEARING, SHEARING / Alan Musgrove / Musical Traditions In
Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE / Flook / Haven / Flatfish Records
* SALVATION JANE / Us Not Them / One Man's Weeds - Another Man's
Flowers /
www.rowethmusic.com.au
CURLY-HEADED PLOUGHBOY / The Hosepipe Band / Kettleburgh Fete / Kid
Menthal Music
* GALILEO / The Fagans / Kitchen Dance /
www.thefagans.com.au
LAND'S END / Tim O'Brien / Fiddler's Green / Howdy Skies Music
8 January 2012
The featured album was FOLK REVOLUTION - 2012 ILLAWARRA FOLK FESTIVAL
www.illawarrafolkfestival.com.au
This album is a selection of tracks
from artists performing at the festival next weekend.
CALEDONIA (Dougie Maclean); * TRAVELLING MAN (Sunas); * MASTERS
BUTTONS (Enda Kenny); * MR 9 O'CLOCK (The Woohoo Revue); * STANDING
AT THE GATES OF TIME (Songs From The Scaffold); * LAMBING FLAT (Lime
and Steel)
EN FILANT MA QUENOUILLE / Gadelle / Gadelle /
www.gadelle.com
OLIVE AND THE VINE / Martyn Wyndham-Read / Jackaroo / Wynding Road
Music
WHITE and LAKE WILLOUGHBY / Ari & Mia / Unruly Heart /
www.ariandmiafriedman.com
TWELVE GATES TO THE CITY / Grant Dermody / Lay Down My Burden / Hearth
Music
NANCY JANE / Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies / Western Swing
Chronicles Vol 1 / Original Jazz Library
GALLO DEL CIELO / Tom Russell / Songs Of The West / HMG
THREE SHIPS and BRANSLES / Kerfuffle / Lighten The Dark / RootBeat
Records
WAGONER'S LAD and SHOVE THE PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER INTO THE
FIRE / Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown / Big Hoedown / Rounder
JEUNE ET JOLI / De Temps Antan / Les Habits De Papier / Hearth Music
* THE KILLIMER / Peter Woodley / Southerly Breeze / Artsound
THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL / Ray and Greg Walsh / Generations /
www.walshfamilyband.com
OS TRES CASAMENTOS / Pancho Alvarez / Florencio, O Cego Dos Villares /
Boa Music
ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT / Alan Jabbour & Ken Perlman / Southern Summits /
www.kenperlman.com
MOVING ON SONG / Triptych / Triptych /
www.triptychtrad.com
* DOWN THE RIVER / Loaded Dog / That There Dog O' Mine /
www.loadeddog.net.au
THE SAILOR'S RETURN / Gerald Trimble / First Flight / Green Linnet
1 January 2012
The featured album was SHADOW AND LIGHT by JOHN DOYLE
www.johndoylemusic.com
(Compass-Planet) Dublin born and American
based, Doyle has long been a highly regarded guitar accompanist and in
recent years has become firmly established as an important
singer-songwriter. The following tracks were scattered through the
program:
CLEAR THE WAY; KILLORAN'S CHURCH; LIBERTY'S SWEET SHORE; THE
ARABIC; TRIBUTE TO DONAL WARD
WILD GOOSE SHANTY / Pegleg Ferret / Not Fooling Anyone / Harbourtown
Records
FOX ON THE TOWN and LOGAN SQUARE DANCE / Tangleweed / Please Punch
Richard For Me / Squatney
* JENNIE JENKINS / Cole, Kirkpatrick & Van Dijk / Musical Traditions
In Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
* THE MAN WITH THE CONCERTINA / Dave de Hugard / Musical Traditions In
Australia /
www.folkalliance.org.au
THE MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE / Jimmy McBeath / Music And Song From
Scotland / Greentrax
STAGGER LEE / Danielle Miraglia / Box Of Troubles / Trespass Music
ADIEU MY LOVELY NANCY / Altan / Local Ground / Vertical Records
* WHAT WILL I LEAVE / Jim MacQuarrie / Time Can't Erase / self
published
SYRTOS ARGOS / Stanley Greenthal / Melodie / Madrona Ring Music
GIPSY PRINCESS and LAST WINTER WAS A HARD ONE / Three Mile Stone /
Three Mile Stone /
www.threemilestonemusic.com
SULLIVAN'S JOHN / Paddy Reilly / Paddy Reilly Live / RTE
OXFORD CITY / Julie Murphy / Black Mountains Revisited / Beautiful Jo
Records
PA SNEL / Fribo / The Ha' O Habrahellia / Fellside
* RUM AND RASPBERRY / Wongawilli / After The Tradition /
www.wongawillcolonialdance.org.au