What's playing now?

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 08:00 PM

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Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Jul 98 - 11:52 AM

Oh, two more things.

northfolk, in addition to the card I carry for my day job, I am also a member, with pride, of the local American Federation of Musicians chapter.

And back to the subject of the string, I am listening to "the Christy Moore collection 81-91".

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Jul 98 - 10:29 AM

Hey northfolk,

I work and perform mostly in West and Central Michigan, with the occasional gig in SE Michigan (Detroit)area and once or twice a year on Beaver Island at the Shamrock. That is with my group "The Conklin Ceili Band" (the name is a story in itself) which obviously is an Irish group. I also do the occasional labor gig where I sing the music that helped define our movement as well as the music of the struggles faced by the everyday working person. After over 20 years in the movement, I have about a million stories in my head that I want to set to music, but I am just learning how to craft a lyric. They will be there though, because the stories they tell are too important not to tell.

My email address is [e-mail]. Drop me a line sometime and let me know if we can find a way to hook up.

By the way, what union do you organize for?

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From:
Date: 18 Jul 98 - 07:36 PM

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Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: northfolk
Date: 16 Jul 98 - 07:12 PM

Big Mick, I got the same day job, but don't sing or play. somebody has to be the audience, though. Where do you perform, I'll stop and buy you a pint. (and make sure they are putting scale in the fishbowl)

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Roger Himler
Date: 16 Jul 98 - 05:26 PM

Hello Bubba,

This is Roger in Baltimore, the guy who mentioned Chuck Brodsky's song. I've only been to the Ram's Head once to see Loudon Wainwright III. It's a bit pricey for me. Nice place though, and a diverse offering of live music.

I actually live about 30 miles Northwest of Baltimore in a little town called Westminster. My e-mail is [e-mail]. We might be close enough to get together some time. Or maybe we have already.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Bubba
Date: 15 Jul 98 - 11:24 PM

It's time for bed, but I've been listening to David Wilcox's Big Horizon. By the way I saw him a few weeks ago at the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD, and he did Chuck Brodsky's road rage song. What is it? "Blow Him Away", "Blew Him Away", something like that. Somebody from Baltimore mentioned the song a month or so ago. Before that it was Sy Zentner's "Desifinado", an LP from the 60's, and my weekly taping of "Traditions" Mary Cliff's fine radio program.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 15 Jul 98 - 09:43 PM

My day job (all real musicians have them) is as a labor organizer/Rep. All this talk The Weavers (I will be getting that one Art) and Rosalie and Utah made me haul out Woody Gutherie's Library of Congress recordings and it is playing now.

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Terry in San Diego
Date: 11 Jul 98 - 01:25 AM

I'm listening to a great CD I just bought. Kevin Burke's Open House--"Hoof and Mouth". It's got a great song written by one of the band members, Mark Graham, called "Oedipus Rex".

"Killed his pa and married his ma......They don't even do that in Arkansas!"

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: northfolk
Date: 10 Jul 98 - 10:54 AM

I got the wanderlust a few years ago and took the Julia Belle Swain, bingo cruise, I wasn't ahold of the tiller, and didn't see a barge with a ratchet-bar, it's all hydraulic now. I did spend a couple hours in the pilot house. They were that tourist friendly. Gives you a great feel and appreciation of the river, and how that part of our history might have been. On the other hand, bucolic it ain't. They ought to ban jet-ski's from operating in the same hemisphere as a sternwheeler. Right now I'm listening to Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue. The jury is still out, but to paraphrase the blues guys, they started out on billy bragg,(rock and roll) and then moved on to the harder stuff.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jul 98 - 09:39 AM

Anne,

The Weavers 2-CD set is NOT available as Real Audio as far as I know. It is an actual CD---on OMEGA---OCD 3021/22

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Anne
Date: 10 Jul 98 - 03:10 AM

I'm listening to Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips "The Long Memory." It's a collection of labor songs. Wow, you've gotta hear Aunt Molly Jackson singing for the coal miners.
Art, I had the pleasure of hearing Cindy Mangsen, Anne Hills and Priscilla Herdman during their "Voices of Winter" tour, last Christmas at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northamton, Mass. What a thrill! I am a frequent visitor to the Sounding Board Coffeehouse series in West Hartford, CT; I know they're special friends of yours. What's the deal with this realaudio, that you mentioned in a previous message? Take Care!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Anne
Date: 10 Jul 98 - 03:09 AM

I'm listening to Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips "The Long Memory." It's a collection of labor songs. Wow, you've gotta hear Aunt Molly Jackson singing for the coal miners.
Art, I had the pleasure of hearing Cindy Mangsen, Anne Hills and Priscilla Herdman during their "Voices of Winter" tour, last Christmas at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northamton, Mass. What a thrill! I am a frequent visitor to the Sounding Board Coffeehouse series in West Hartford, CT; I know they're special friends of yours. What's the deal with this realaudio, that you mentioned in a previous message? Take Care!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jul 98 - 02:26 AM

Say folks, I'm doin OK! Went to Mayo & had several days of IV stuff & now using a cane mostly. Got a urologist there (a lady) that sings soul!----Urethra Franklin.

Harpgirl, How did ya know I'd pilot the Julia Belle once in a while? Jokin' & singin' on that boat was the best job I ever had!!! Didn't even mind it being a 16 hour day.The Julia Belle Swain was sold by Dennis Trone---the man who designed and built her. Had to; the gambling boat competition got to be too much. But he's still running his boat the Twilight. Piloting the Julia Belle Swain was like riding an elephant---at least that's what it reminded me of---slow & ponderous yet majestic and wonderfully imposing! The slap-slap-slap of the paddlewheel was like the beating of a heart!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Jul 98 - 10:32 PM

Now listening to Southern Journey-Ozark Frontier-Ballads and old-timey music from Arkansas.Several great songs by Neil Morris and of course Almeda Riddle, who always did her hands in and out to keep time in such a charming and unique way...yeah Art it's great but I"VE never piloted the Julia Belle Swain. Now that would be a thrill!!!!! harpgirl

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jul 98 - 09:29 PM

A new 2-CD set of THE WEAVERS--Kisses Sweater Than Wine

A unique concert from the Weavers private collection! Fritz Schuler sent it to me from Manitowoc! And there are ELEVEN previosly unissued songs (not versions--but all new songs they never had on any format before.)

Will be back in a few minutes---gotta get off line to order a pizza!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Dave Schipper
Date: 08 Jul 98 - 11:37 PM

I have to say I've been listening alot lately to Hans Mayer's Kid's CD See you Later Alligator. My seven year old wants to hear it over and over and over. The song about the imaginary monsters that kids see is excellent, and the "cover" of the girl scout tune of "God Bless my Underwear" gets many requests of AGAIN, again and again.

He's from LaCrosse, and played on recent Bill Miller recordings. His tune of "what you goin do with the babysitter" sung to the tune of "what you goin do with a drunken sailor" is excellent, but I think he wimped out and didn't put it on his CD, TOO Politically correct. Heck half the folk songs handed down wouldn't make it past the PC crowd.

Hey Art, thanks for Grand Marais. You're taxing my memory for the melody now.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: northfolk
Date: 08 Jul 98 - 11:46 AM

Listening to Len Wallace, Great singer,songwriter, and storyteller. Politics are progressive, and he does it all with an accordian. Unbelievable. I drop in to this topic just to listen, and share everyone elses fun, but the northern michigan topics brought back some recollections. North Country folk fest, early eighties, at Gogebic comm. college. Folk dancing at the Armory in town....also... reference harpgirl to hanging with Linda Siglin...I logged more miles than anyone but the performers...getting to the Ark...and the folk festival...missed the first two. Used to live in a cultural wasteland...now if you are in northeast Michigan in the winter, check out the monthly events put on by the Corsair Trail ski counsel, held Nov.-Mar. in the Catholic church social hall in Tawas City. Art, I wish you well, didn't know of your condition, do you still have that dog...the one that was so good that when he was rabbit hunting, he got on two tracks, so he split himself in half and caught both of 'em?

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Jul 98 - 10:34 PM

Art, I have been offline for a couple of weeks due to working so %#$@#$*&%^&^% much.

Sorry I wasn't aware of your circumstance. It reminded me of how blessed I am to be able to share the music. If I can figure out where you are, I will see to it that we stop by some time when we are in Wisconsin (?) and share the music. In fact, we ought to get all the Mudcatters to come up and have a picnic and do a little pickin and grinnin. (WADDYA THINK, FOLKS?)

Gawd, it's been years since I have been to the dump in Newberry and seen those trash eatin bears. Come to think of it, I have been described as a trash eatin bear from time to time.

Just now I am listening to Pat Broaders of Moore and Broaders play the Uillean Pipes. I love that instrument.

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Kiwi
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 09:32 PM

Spider John Koerner tends bar too?!? Wow.. who knew! I thought he was exclusively a musician (fishes for her Koerner tape). Of course, that could be because the only reference I have to him is Spider Robinson's books, which mention the very album that I then went out and found via a friend of mine...

Slán, Kiwi

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 09:22 PM

Wally, How can I contact Jonathan Eberhart??

(Now I'm listening to Alan Lomax---Texas Folksongs!)

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 09:19 PM

Harpgirl,

Do those multiple things feel as good as they look? Guys, alas, can't do that. Or are ya faking? ;-)

I've lost track of Jay Stielstra! But I'll check with Craig Johnson & see what he knows!

(As a matter of fact, I'm listening to Craig & the Double Deckers right now---the recording GIDDYUP NAPOLEON.)

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 07:34 PM

re: Grand Marais, Art. That's what I was thinking about when I wrote that...Is Jay still writing and recording...I loved his songs...harpgirl...on to the Hammonds family...

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 10:11 AM

Art -- Wasn't it the Ore Haus --They spelled both names wrong...

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 09:45 AM

GRAND MARAIS by Jay Stielstra (learned from Craig Johnson)

I remember her from another day,
A clever little girl that I knew in Grand Marais,
I was just passin' through-a free & easy liver,
She didn't know what she wanted--there 'tweren't nothin' I could give her.

But we swam without our clothes in Lake Superior's waters,
Played the tavern jukebox--still 6 songs for a quarter,
But she could not get free from all those fatal forces,
And waitin' around for me seemed like wasting her resources.

Eventually she got married to a jackpine savage,
He was no worse or better than the average,
Now she's only 25 & already's got 4 babies.
And in a sportsman's bar he calls her his old lady.

Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy,
Can she bake a cherry pie, charmin' Billy?
She can bake a cherry pie,
Read a movie magazine,
And she keeps her house remarkably clean

But she never skinny dips or drinks wine from a bottle,
She spends her spare time at her snowmobile throttle,
But I remember her from another day,
A clever little girl that I knew in Grand Marais.

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Craig
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 12:43 AM

Oh, to be on the Gunflint Trail on my way to Lake Saganagaw. Craig

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Craig
Date: 01 Jul 98 - 12:39 AM

I had been listening to Ranma 1/2 Best Collection. Beginning and ending music for Japanese animation,but now you've put me in the mood for some Phil Ochs. Thanks. Craig

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Nora
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 11:51 PM

Van Morrison is on now. It's hot here in North Carolina, and I've been contradancing like crazy. Grand Marais must be so lovely right now. I sure miss that big lake. I believe it was Spider John Koerner, tending the bar at the Triangle on the West Bank in Minneapolis, who served me my first Black and Tan. Bless his heart.

Nora

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 09:34 PM

Right now Mary McCaslin WAY OUT WEST LP is on. Never tire of it.Mary is the best.

Mick, It'd be great to get together...problem is I can't pick any longer--walk either. That's why Mudcat has become important to me; I can be with the music and the musicians and all my old road pals vicariously.(E-mail too) I had never touched a computer before January '98.

Would love to be with Phil Kucera & Horse & Frank Youngman & Jay Stielstra watching the bears eat rancid bacon by headlamps in the dump at Copper Harbor...I sure do miss the hangin' out.

Yeah, the more things change, the more they get different!!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 09:05 PM

Between the pop and crackle of the Apalachicola forest fires I can hear the Waterson's, Early Days. It reminds me of hanging out with Linda Siglin at The Ark..a million years ago...with temps at 109 today I wish I was up north again...Grand Marais would suit...harp

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 03:14 PM

Hey Art,

Do you get over to Michigan often? Any time soon? I would love to hook up, or at least see you perform. The Conklin Ceili Band (Where the hell is Conklin?) is always up for a pickin party.

Regards,

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 07:38 PM

How about the year we were housed in the ORE HOUSE in Bessemer I think. Great bar downstairs. Still have photos of Spider John playing pool there.

Sure do hope John is feeling better after his heart by-pass!!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 10:41 AM

Yup - Art - But what better place to stay in Hurley Mi...

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 01:10 AM

Art, when they pad the walls, it's not a jail cell.

Frank i.t.s.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28 Jun 98 - 11:13 PM

One year at North Country they had me housed in a jail cell of some kind---interesting memories.

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Dave Schipper
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 10:56 PM

Johnnie, this will definitely date the festival to say I taped a few of the concerts from a Wisconsin Public Radio re-broadcast on an 8 Track. Complete with the hiss and whirl and pop as it changed from one track to another.

Thanks for the reminder on Spider John, he's playing now.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 01:09 PM

Now playing... Joe Heaney, "Say A Song". You can get it from a Northwest Folk Life webpage at:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5305&messages=81

next listening to Andrea Bocelli, "Viaggio Italiano", with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.

A great mix to go from the sean-nós style to the classical Italian.

alice

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 09:55 AM

Yup - North Country Folk Fest -Spider John, Sally Rogers, Claudia Scmidt, The Buckboard Bounders, Art Theime, Jerry Rassmussen, Dan & Roxanne, Don Lange, Charlie Maguire, Those were the days, sure would like a "box Set" of those two three years!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Richard Wright
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 12:46 AM

Fred Eaglesmith, David Essig, Chieftains, Folkways collection, Gary Fjellgaard. Three Canadians and some from away.

Richard

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Dave Schipper
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 11:29 PM

Dan, Thanks for the note, I definitely remember you & Roxanne. We were from Manitowoc at the time and saw you there a few times. Seeing your name reminded once I put together a challenge cassette theme tape for 45 minutes of music on fruits and vegetables. The woman I gave it to had a blast, everything from Vegematic, to Strawberry Fields, but I did slip in Oats and Beans... Beans are a vegetable aren't they?

I recounted more of North Country in what's become a forgotten thread called "the tellin' takes me home"

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Dan Keding
Date: 24 Jun 98 - 11:56 PM

Right now I have Nic Jones on the cd player, the album Penguin Eggs. Great playing & singing.

Dave Schipper, I remember the days of the North Country Folk Festival well. I played there twice wqith my ex partner Roxannne. It was truly a wonderful experience and great people.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Will
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 11:50 PM

Just dug out my "Songs of Bertolt Brecht" tape, which is playing now. Armstrong and Van Ronk singing (separately), with Rosselson also playing on Armstrong's songs. They recorded it in Vancouver, I think originally produced by Festival Records.

Great straight-forward singing and basic accompaniment. Armstrong and Van Ronk's voices and styles suit Brecht.

Van Ronk: " ... and if someone gets kicked, that will be you."

Armstrong: "...my son, if you think I brought you into the world so painfully to have you lie under it so meekly and ask for more ..."

Van Ronk's version of Mack the Knife doesn't sound much like Bobby Darrin, or whoever it was did the top-40 version in the 60s.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Will
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 11:28 PM

Barbara, yes, I remember Roy Bailey and Leon Rosselsohn as part of a small-stage workshop with Armstrong. Bailey's voice was especially powerful.

I also recall thinking that Dave Van R was well into his cups, especially by the time of the main stage show that night -- your friend did his job well. (Out of curiousity, who was your friend? I used to know a few of the people who hung around the the Folk Festival crowd).

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Barbara
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 06:30 PM

Well, the good news is my ll year old daughter not only listens to the Beatles a lot now, but also has for about 5 years, and loves them.
The bad news is she also swiped my Dazed and Confused CD with oh, such wonderful groups on it as Alice Cooper, Foghat, Lyrnyd Skyrnrd and Black Sabbath. Hey, what can I say? I wanted some DANCE music, and now she's checked out the video of it which is full of casual kid cruelty (to each other), drugs and **** words.
But yes, the early Beatles in particular seem to be very popular with the young teen set today.
She's got my anniversary compilation Beatles CDs in her room and I have to keep asking for them back.
And since we don't have TV, she's still only getting a miniscule dose compared to what most kids get. I don't like it, but I think she's got a right to know about this stuff.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 06:22 PM

My son just told me that The Beatles were the best band ever, because they knew how to make all those really cool songs. I agree. Unique classics that will stand the test of time for generations to come.

alice

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: kiwi
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 06:11 PM

Earl, Alice, Jon,

I think there IS a trend starting. :) My chamber choir sang a couple Beatles songs this past scholastic year, and I promptly confiscated all my parents' Beatles vinyls and have them stashed in my room next to my turntable. :)

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Jon W.
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 01:09 PM

Wow. On our Scout campout last weekend, I had a 12-year old ask if I had any Beatles tapes to listen to as we were driving (unfortunately I didn't).

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Earl
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 11:56 AM

Alice, There may be a trend starting here. Our 11 year old has confiscated our Sgt. Pepper CD and, at his urging, we just bought a CD copy of the White Album.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Frank Maher
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 11:18 AM

Right now I'm listening to a CD of the Flanagan Brothers.Old Irish Music from the 1920s.Really Dynamic Stuff!!!!!!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 98 - 01:28 AM

my son's current favorite tape, the Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's... we listened to it in the car, singing loudly (he is 10, and he's into Batman and the Beatles)