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krj
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response 71 of 228:
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Sep 16 00:45 UTC 1997 |
Twila's review gets an "A". Your assignment for next week is... :)
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Continuing our slow-paced review of the 1997 Philadelphia Folk Festival,
from response #62:
From 11 until 4 on Saturday and Sunday, the festival presents informal
"workshop" concerts on three stages around the festival grounds.
The Tank Stage is over by the well faucets, where in earlier days
the water tanker truck was parked. The Craft Stage is located where
the people working in craft booths can hear. And the Camp Stage
is located near an entrance to the festival campground.
I only got to hear one workshop concert on Saturday, but it was the
one I was the most eager for. The theme was "Young People Play Old Songs,"
and there were just two bands, Salamander Crossing
and Cordelia's Dad. Salamander Crossing really hooked in the audience,
got a lot of feet tapping on the dusty hillside.
Cordelia's Dad, on the other hand, almost seemed out to antagonize:
leader Tim Eriksen opened with a long solo acapella ballad which went on
for six minutes or so, and which sent a handful of people wandering off
towards the neighboring stages. It's things like that which make me
describe Cordelia's Dad as "militant hardcore traditionalists."
Cordelia's Dad's drummer Peter Erskine mentioned from the stage that they
had just finished recording their next album, which is now scheduled for
a January 1998 release. Steve Albini (!?!) is producing.
The main stage concert for Saturday afternoon opened with Kate Campbell
and Bill Miller. Miller is a festival favorite; he does a Native American
folk-rock thing, and I probably should pay more attention to him sometime.
Saturday's star was Emmylou Harris; mostly she sang material from her
most recent album, WRECKING BALL, and often it sounded better than the
album. She also had a great song about John the Baptist which I need to
track down. Not sure what else I can say about Emmylou; she was a
childhood favorite of mine when she released her first albums, and it's
interesting coming back to her after so many years. She's got a very
good band working with her.
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mcnally
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response 72 of 228:
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Sep 16 06:22 UTC 1997 |
Steve Albini? Arrrggghh.. I was hoping his record production license
had been revoked or something..
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raven
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response 73 of 228:
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Sep 16 22:14 UTC 1997 |
re #72, why? IMO Albini has produced some of the most influential albums of
the late 80s and 90s, for example PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me," and Nirvana's
"In Utero." Yes his sound is raw and harsh, however, I sometimes find
that refreshing esp. if I have been in a rut say listening to overly
slick, techo, ambient, or hip hop tunes
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lumen
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response 74 of 228:
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Sep 17 05:45 UTC 1997 |
Hrm, but slick is so nice..
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mcnally
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response 75 of 228:
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Sep 17 11:57 UTC 1997 |
re #73: What can I say? I just don't like his sound (and haven't since
his Big Black days..)
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mziemba
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response 76 of 228:
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Sep 19 07:32 UTC 1997 |
I've seen Bill Miller, and have his first album. Stumbled across his in-store
performance at Schoolkids' several years ago, and really enjoyed the album
that I immediately picked up, afterwards.
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krj
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response 77 of 228:
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Oct 9 15:44 UTC 1997 |
I'll just pass a few notes to Twila in public:
The title of the new Dougie MacLean cd is RIOF. I have no idea
what that word means.
I also suspect that I never told you about a Dougie CD which came out
last year called THE PLANT LIFE YEARS. Plant Life was a UK folk
label which had some early Dougie work back in the 70s, maybe early
80's.
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lumen
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response 78 of 228:
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Oct 10 21:37 UTC 1997 |
Sorry to change the subject-- but I wonder what Seals & Crofts are doing,
besides touring. I might have seen them at the Gorge at George, WA some time
ago, but I missed my chance.
I became enchanted with the group listening to _Summer Breeze_ (the album,
not just the song) and _From Here Until Sunday._ I acquired their "best of"
collection when I was a college freshman about 5 years ago. Very refreshing
music, and so interesting to note the Ba'hai references in their songs.
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anderyn
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response 79 of 228:
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Oct 12 01:55 UTC 1997 |
When is it coming out? Must have. Must have. (I am a Dougie FREAK!(
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krj
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response 80 of 228:
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Oct 12 04:19 UTC 1997 |
Twila, Dougie MacLean's RIOF album is probably already out in the UK,
it's being advertised in the current FOLK ROOTS with a claim that it's
available at Virgin Records. Bug Schoolkids Records; they seem to
stock Dougie pretty reliably.
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tpryan
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response 81 of 228:
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Oct 13 03:02 UTC 1997 |
<tpryan gets out his Seals and Crofts vinyl for a possible
listen>
This includes Seals and Crofts I & II, re-issue of their
TA label ablums, Seals & Crofts" and "Down Home"; The TA(Bell)
release "Down Home", then the WB albums: Summer Breeze, Diamond[dale]
Girl, Unborn Child (Quadradic version), Sudan Village, Takin' It
Easy and The Longest Road.
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krj
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response 82 of 228:
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Oct 24 19:34 UTC 1997 |
Somebody, in some item in this conference, was interested in sea songs.
While digging in the basement I came across a couple of CDs by people
who specialize in them: Pint and Dale, and Tom Lewis. Let me give the
Pint & Dale discs a spin and I'll get back to you. I saw them at the
Philadelphia Folk Festival some oodles ago...
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anderyn
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response 83 of 228:
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Oct 25 02:16 UTC 1997 |
I'd be interested in the Tom Lewis. I've toyed wiht buying an album
of his off and on, but haven't quite decided yet...
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diznave
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response 84 of 228:
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Oct 25 19:56 UTC 1997 |
Thanks, Ken...I believe that was me. Yeah, tell me how they sound. How many
oodles ago, exactly?
tpryan, I'm not sure of the name of the song, but there's a Seals and Croft
song that has the line, "...we may never pass this way, again...". I just
recently "discovered" this song and am in love with it.
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krj
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response 85 of 228:
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Oct 26 16:01 UTC 1997 |
I don't recall how many oodles ago I saw Pint & Dale at the Philadelphia
Folk Festival, but they are still around; they have a new CD out on
the Waterbug label. Twila: There is a $5 copy of Tom Lewis's
SEE DOG, SEA DOG album at Wazoo in EL, I'll go pick it up so we can
have a listen.
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diznave
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response 86 of 228:
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Oct 26 16:27 UTC 1997 |
Cool, Ken...I'll look for it.
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krj
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response 87 of 228:
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Nov 8 01:35 UTC 1997 |
--- IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT --- (woo, I am excited!!)
Elderly Instruments has now put their recordings catalog on line!!
http://www.elderly.com/recordings/recordings.htm
David, take a look at the "sea songs" category.
You could do worse than the various artists compilation on Topic Records,
BLOW THE MAN DOWN.
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diznave
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response 88 of 228:
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Nov 8 08:31 UTC 1997 |
Thanks, Ken!...what a great web page! I'm going to try to check out a few of
these.
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krj
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response 89 of 228:
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Nov 8 08:43 UTC 1997 |
I neglected to mention in #87 that Elderly Instruments is America's
largest discounter of folk music CDs. Hannibal and Green Linnet labels
priced at $12.50/disc; most other labels between $13.50 and $15.
Elderly probably has the most comprehensive selection of folk CDs
in the US; the stuff they do not have is generally only distributed
regionally.
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goose2
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response 90 of 228:
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Nov 8 16:27 UTC 1997 |
I'm going to Elderly's in about a half hour, to go bass shopping not
folk shopping.
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mziemba
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response 91 of 228:
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Nov 8 19:40 UTC 1997 |
I'll grab thgat note in my car I scribbled while listening to some guy play
sea tunes. He's got an album out called _Voices Across the Water_...
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krj
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response 92 of 228:
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Nov 23 07:54 UTC 1997 |
NP: "Classic Anne Briggs," a compilation of material recorded by the
British revival singer between 1963 and 1971. Briggs usually sang
unaccompanied, or with a very spare guitar/bouzouki accompaniment,
and a lot of the 70's electric folk singers took a bit from her,
in both material and in style. Maddy Prior on Anne Briggs:
"Before her there was a twee style of women singing English
folk songs and she brought balls to it really. I think it changed
the way that English women folk singers sang." (From the liner
notes, of course.)
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tpryan
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response 93 of 228:
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Nov 23 16:16 UTC 1997 |
Sigh, I haven't been in music.cf since Oct 12th. Yes, Dave
the Seals and Crofts song you seek is "We May Never Pass This Way
(Again)" on their greatest hits CD and their "Diamond[dale] Girl"
album, that I haven't seen in CD format.
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mziemba
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response 94 of 228:
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Dec 22 07:50 UTC 1997 |
I have now heard 1/6 of the Smithsonian/Folkways reissue of Harry Smith's
_Anthology of American Folk Music_. I have to play it again, in fact, because
I was so absorbed by the liner notes!
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eeyore
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response 95 of 228:
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Dec 31 09:05 UTC 1997 |
Well, I fiannaly managed to wander my way into here...:)
I'm a HUGE fan of Dar Williams, and have managed to get as many people as
possible hooked onto here. :) I also went to her concert in sept at the Ark,
and loved every minute of it. There was a guy opening for her by the name
of Richard Shindell that was really really really good. (I'm actually
listening to his "Great Divide" cd right now!!) One of the songs that he and
Dar did at the concert is called "The Ballad of Mary Magdelan", sung from
Mary's point of view...It's a wonderful son, and at the concert, Dar actually
sang it with Richard doing the backups on it...it was WONDERFUL!!!!!! I
actually got the cd that night. :) I can highly reccomend it. :)
My other major favorite folk group is actually not touring anymore. (or if
they are, they shouldn't be!) I grew up listenig to Kingston Trio, due to
the fact that my dad has all of their RECORDS. :) Talk about massively
wonderful. :)
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