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mcnally
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response 125 of 157:
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Oct 31 17:19 UTC 2003 |
Geez, there's so much violence in song lyrics these days..
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dbratman
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response 126 of 157:
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Nov 8 06:15 UTC 2003 |
My all-time favorite folk music concert was a Martin Carthy solo
concert about 20 years ago, highlighted by a riveting performance of
the long ballad "King Willy." Which has certain thematic resemblances
to "Famous Flower."
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krj
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response 127 of 157:
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Feb 3 21:54 UTC 2004 |
The "Celtic Heartbeat" show on BBC Radio Wales just mentioned the
Steeleye Span 35th Anniversary Tour, with an accompanying new CD.
Park Records' website confirms this bare-bones information and
lists some UK dates in the spring. Supposedly there will be USA
dates later in the year.
The lineup is to be Maddy Prior, Rick Kemp, Peter Knight,
Liam Gennocky and Ken Nicol (guitar). I guess Bob Johnson
is really retired from the band this time.
Steeleye fiddler Peter Knight says that he's going to close the
Q&A section of his web site for a while, because Steeleye is
taking up more time.
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gelinas
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response 128 of 157:
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Feb 5 00:54 UTC 2004 |
Sounds like fun, Ken. :)
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eeyore
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response 129 of 157:
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Feb 15 01:26 UTC 2004 |
For those who seem to be Richard Thompson fans, he was Emmy Lou Harris'
"backup band" at the Folk Fest a couple of weeks ago. Was kind of cool :)
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mcnally
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response 130 of 157:
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Feb 15 04:49 UTC 2004 |
D'oh! An Emmylou Harris / Richard Thompson team-up? I'd've really
have loved to have seen that.
I wonder what the resulting work would sound like if Thompson started
recording with Emmylou's recent producers, Danile Lanois and/or Malcolm
Burn. In my opinion Thompson's only recently starting to recover from
the appalling influence of Mitchell Froom..
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anderyn
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response 131 of 157:
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Feb 15 15:48 UTC 2004 |
Damn -- that I missed.
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krj
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response 132 of 157:
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Feb 15 22:08 UTC 2004 |
Yeah, if only the Emmylou / Thompson thing hadn't been one of those
Folk Festival Surprises... Thompson wasn't on the bill at all, to
the best of my recollection.
What did you think of the last Thompson studio album, Mike?
(THE OLD KIT BAG)
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eeyore
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response 133 of 157:
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Feb 16 01:12 UTC 2004 |
No, he wasn't. We were pretty surprised. Happy, though. :)
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krj
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response 134 of 157:
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Feb 18 20:06 UTC 2004 |
Well, here's a disappointing bombshell. Dave Pegg and his wife Chris are
splitting. Dave Pegg has been the bass player for Fairport Convention
since 1969, and Dave and Chris together have been the business team behind
Fairport's label and studio Woodworm Records, and the annual Cropredy folk
music festival which is one of the largest in Europe. Woodworm Studio is
being sold; as part of the divorce settlement Dave's instrument collection
is also being liquidated.
It looks like the 2004 Cropredy Festival will be the final one. Chris'
quote from the Telegraph article: "I have been running Cropredy for 23
years. We do not have a big organization behind it and it is a huge
task. I think Dave will be going to live abroad with his new partner
and I do not think I can continue."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F02%2F12%2Fn
fairp12.xml
"Marriage Split Costs Fairport Star His Guitars"
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anderyn
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response 135 of 157:
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Feb 18 20:15 UTC 2004 |
Well, I am glad I saw them at the Ark last year, then. I was kind of hoping
to try Cropredy some year, but ....
Wow.
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krj
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response 136 of 157:
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Feb 18 21:20 UTC 2004 |
Fairport the band is expected to continue.
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mcnally
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response 137 of 157:
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Feb 18 21:48 UTC 2004 |
It might be a small part of the misfortune of the divorce, but how sad
to have to break up the instrument collection.
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krj
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response 138 of 157:
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Feb 18 22:29 UTC 2004 |
Here's Dave Pegg's statement on the instrument sale, from the official
Jethro Tull website. (Pegg spent several years playing with Jethro Tull.)
http://www.j-tull.com/news/davepeggsale.cfm
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dbratman
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response 139 of 157:
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Feb 25 07:13 UTC 2004 |
Pegg says he's selling the instruments voluntarily, so that he can give
his wife 50% of the proceeds. It wasn't forced on him in the
settlement.
Sad that this may be the end of Cropredy, but all things have to. I
went to one festival, the 25th in 1992, and had such a good time that I
never went back. The combination of the great music (for they had a
lineup particularly to my tastes that year) and the novelty of it kept
me happy, and kept me from noticing things like the discomfort of
living in a wet cow pasture for three days. I feared that if I went
back, the wet and the cow pies would become my chief memory, and I
didn't want that to happen.
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krj
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response 140 of 157:
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Feb 25 15:26 UTC 2004 |
Note for future investigation: I'm listening to a replay of the Celtic
Heartbeat show on BBC Radio Wales and they've just played something very nice
by the Duncan McFarlane Band, very much in the geezer folk-rock style.
Here's the link I found. Looks like the album may only be available from
the band:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/duncan.mcfarlane/cds/cdsintro.htm
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krj
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response 141 of 157:
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Mar 10 20:14 UTC 2004 |
Something new which finally straggled in: I'd been thinking about
ordering it since late November, finally ordered it in late January
and then Amazon.co.uk took over a month to deliver it.
The album is by Skilda, title is "13 Dreams." Scottish folk-sortof
with a heavy flavoring of dance pop percussion and electric guitars.
Four songs are traditional, the rest are original but in a consistent
enough style that I can't tell which are the traditional ones.
I'm a sucker for electric guitars in a folk context.
The band is a protege' of Capercaille, their album is released through
Capercaillie's label Survival Records, and Skilda are promoted somewhat
on the Capercaillie web site last I looked.
The Scots certainly seem to be the market leaders in folk-techno.
Needless to say, I first heard this on BBC Radio Scotland, probably
on the Celtic Connections show.
Now I have to make some time for the Anna Massie album, also from
Scotland.
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krj
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response 142 of 157:
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Apr 9 21:09 UTC 2004 |
I've had the 2004 Steeleye Span album, THEY CALLED HER BABYLON, on
hand for almost a week now, and I've played it a couple of times. My
initial reaction is that it's like a friendly, comfy pair of
slippers. Maddy sounds great, even though it's clear she's getting
older along with the rest of us. So far there's only one song, the
title track, which makes me wanna hit the "next track" button.
Mostly I like Maddy's lead vocals the best, but I'm even getting to
appreciate the version of "Dives and Lazarus" on which one of the
guys sings lead. (Sorry, the CD case is in the car...) (I still
like the June Tabor & Oyster Band version of "Dives" better though!)
So: not as good as classic 1970s Steeleye Span; probably not the best of
the reunion-era albums, but in the top half of that group. I think fans
will find it worthwhile. (You can compare this with my reactions to
the most recent Fairport Convention studio albums, which I haven't
wanted to play through once; I've now scratched new Fairport
recordings off my shopping list.)
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dbratman
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response 143 of 157:
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Apr 28 05:47 UTC 2004 |
Steeleye's "They Called Her Babylon" has made its way here. The band
sounds good: Maddy Prior is in fine voice, Rick Kemp's vocal croaking
is managable despite there being way too much of it, and new guitarist
Ken Nicol fits in well to a still-cracking instrumental sound.
But the songs are another matter. Except for "Heir of Linne", there's
not a one I didn't like better on first listening than on second. That
is a very, very bad sign.
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mcnally
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response 144 of 157:
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Aug 11 20:52 UTC 2004 |
The most recent EP release from one of my favorite bands, Yo La Tengo,
has a cover of a song called "Needle of Death" by Bert Jansch.
It's a pretty bleak song, but the cover interests me enough that I'd
be interested in hearing more about Jansch's solo career as well as his
years in Pentangle. Where would be a good place to start checking out
his work?
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krj
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response 145 of 157:
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Aug 18 02:20 UTC 2004 |
That's probably my cue, and I don't have much to offer; I've picked
up a number of Jansch's albums from his 40?-year career but nothing
leaps out, he's very consistent.
Bert Jansch first comes to light as part of the British folk/acoustic
blues scene in the 1960s; a cover of Davy Graham's instrumental tune
"Angi" made his initial reputation. He's still active; today
I heard a new song on BBC Radio Scotland. The only band he was
in was Pentangle; the classic lineup from 1966?-1971?, and then
he was in the reunion band for a few years in the 1980s.
I'll have to google the name of that cover
and see if I can find out where Jansch originally recorded it.
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mcnally
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response 146 of 157:
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Aug 18 16:14 UTC 2004 |
Apparently it's on his eponymous debut album from 1965.
Unrelated: I tried to look that up last night while I was upstairs
in our house's living room, browsing on my Mac laptop. Unfortunately
they've screwed up the HTML for my formerly-beloved All Music Guide's
home page so badly it wouldn't render on IE under MacOS 9 well enough
for me to even find the search box to type in Jansch's name. <sigh>
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krj
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response 147 of 157:
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Aug 18 18:14 UTC 2004 |
I can't recall if I have that CD or not. amazon.co.uk has samples
from the first 4 or 5 tracks.
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mcnally
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response 148 of 157:
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Aug 18 18:43 UTC 2004 |
I presume the track "Anji" that you mentioned Jansch covering is the
same one that Simon & Garfunkel covered on "The Sounds of Silence"?
It's also on this first eponymous solo album, apparently, if that jogs
your memory.
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krj
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response 149 of 157:
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Aug 18 20:57 UTC 2004 |
Likely it is; Paul Simon was hanging out with the British folkies in
that mid-60s period; it's long been known that he borrowed Martin
Carthy's arrangement of "Scarborough Fair."
Chumbawamba borrowed "Anji" and wove it into a song on their "Readymades"
CD, which makes extensive use of British folk samples, riffs and guest
vocals.
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