Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
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Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: GUEST,Jon Boden
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 11:34 AM

Thanks to everyone at Mudcat for their support, in particularly Joe for linking everything together so assiduously! All the best, Jon

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 08:05 AM

Moorley, don't know what you use to get the podcasts, but if you can find the "insert manual podcast feed" button, then give it the AFSAD main feed.

DM me if you need more info.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Newport Boy
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 07:14 AM

Decent review by Robin Denselow in today's Guardian of Jon's concluding concert at Cecil Sharp House.

Jon Boden's A Folk Song a Day, Cecil Sharp House, London

Robin Denselow guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.30 BST
   
Jon Boden is an intriguing workaholic. He plays with two bands – the massively successful Bellowhead and the Remnant Kings – while also continuing as half of the inspiring folk duo Spiers and Boden. He clearly enjoys collaboration, yet thinks of himself "first and foremost as an unaccompanied singer". Over the last year, he has been trying to encourage social or communal singing by posting a different folk song on a website every day.

He celebrated the end of this extraordinary achievement with a special show in Cecil Sharp House. The hall was packed, but those expecting a mass singalong would have been disappointed – at least until the very end of the performance.

For the most part, Boden stuck to the traditional songs he has been singing on the web, starting with the Copper Family's rousing Hard Times of Old England. He occasionally sang unaccompanied, but for most of the show was backed by his own guitar, squeezebox or fiddle, or by the harmony vocals of the multi-instrumental Remnant Kings, whose inventive arrangements included a brave four-fiddle setting for Rigs of the Time. Then there were guest appearances from other singers, and sturdy performances from Peta Webb, Boden's partner Fay Hield, and the massed ranks of the Cecil Sharp House Community Choir.

He ended with material from his futuristic, self-written, solo album Songs from the Floodplain, and an emotional finale of Bright Phoebus in tribute to the great Mike Waterson who died last week. Now the audience were joining in at last, and Boden encouraged them to follow him to the bar for a furious late-night demonstration of what social singing is all about.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 06:13 AM

Thanks Pip Radish -
(Any "geeky friends" out there?!...)

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 03:38 AM

MM - the MP3s for the last few days can be accessed as enclosures in the RSS feed. If this doesn't mean anything to you, ask a geeky friend - it's not rocket science by any means.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Reinhard
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 03:26 AM

MoorleyMan, you still can download the songs as MP3 albums for $8.99 (or £7.49 or €9.31) a month, and they are in a better quality than the podcasts were.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 02:17 AM

Hi, MoorleyMan-
I think that Simon said there were no plans to do the podcasts again.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 27 Jun 11 - 06:39 PM

Well, Joe, your statement >>The songs will cycle through again over the next year<< is great news.
But I now find that on the AFSAD site blog, it states that the songs will only be streamed ("for the time being") and not made available on the podcast, which is a blow for those of us who missed the early ones and haven't managed to download them at all. Do we know whether the intention is to re-Podcast as the songs cycle through again? It would make sense...

Subject: A Folk Song a Day iTunes numbers wrong
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 25 Jun 11 - 02:42 PM

I recently downloaded the last of the Folk Song a Day podcasts from iTunes, though I didn't realize that at first -- I thought I was a day too early. On iTunes, the last track is listed as #364, Fortune Turns the Wheel, and dated June 23. Track #1 is dated June 24 last year, so it has indeed been one year, and there are no days missing (though there are some bonus tracks).

The problem occurred on May 5 and 6, when both Bonny Bunch of Roses (May 5) and Broomfield Hill (May 6) were called track #316.

If you've been wondering what went wrong, you can now stop wondering.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 24 Jun 11 - 02:51 AM

Excellent job from Jon B (and lots of blatant Bellamism involved - always a good thing). Thank you, Jon!

Rumour has it that next year he'll be taking a break from folk music and doing An Old School Punk Rock Classic a Day for Concertina"... first up is White Riot by The Clash...

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog-finished!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 10:44 PM

The songs will cycle through again over the next year. Gee, I wonder if he'll add a new one for 29 Feb 2012. If you didn't follow this project over the last year, why not try over the coming one?

I've linked the songs to Mudcat sources as best I could. Reinhard Zierke did a lot of work on the "Folk Song a Day" songs at Reinhard's Website, and I'm sure you'll find his work worth reading.

Thanks to Jon and Simon for all their work on this project.

Oh, and don't miss John Thompson's Australian Folk Song a Day project.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: John Boden - Congatulations on a year of songs
From: I don't know
Date: 23 Jun 11 - 06:23 PM

Congaratulations to John Boden on completing 365 songs. Such dedication to the music industry should be reconised.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 01:20 PM

Breakfast with Boden is the name of my Deep Blue Something cover band.

I'm sorry.

OT: I came into it during February, it's been brilliant for someone who's looking at learning some songs. I've got a fair few on my list :)

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: PercyBysshe
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 12:26 PM

I'm dreading it ending - breakfast with Boden has become part of my daily routine.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 02:55 AM

This remarkable one-year project began on June 24, 2010 - that means it will end this week. I hope you'll stop and take a look before it disappears....or is reborn???????

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 May 11 - 07:58 PM

Gee, this project has been going for almost the whole year. now. I hate to see it drawing to a close.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:17 AM

Thanks Joe, have now got Winamp and the ones available and will buy the others. I thought that was the case but Calum had advised the older ones were achievable.
Al

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 05:18 PM

Hi, Abdul-
The Podcast Feed is http://www.afolksongaday.com/podcast/podcast_feed.xml, and it works only in some browsers (like Internet Explorer, but not Google Chrome). It allows you to download only the last month or so of recordings. You have to buy the earlier recordings if you want them. They're available at Amazon and iTunes and emusic.com - and probably lots of other MP3 outlets.

Hope that helps.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:09 AM

Can't see where to down load all the previous no matter how old they are tho.
Al

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 08:44 AM

Seems I just wiped the whole of my stuff on iplayer. All my recorded music plus all the JB songs. Have it all in alternate bits here and there but not the podcasts. Thanks for the Winamp headsup.
Al

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:08 PM

Thanks, Calum. The URL (address) for the Podcast feed is:

http://www.afolksongaday.com/podcast/podcast_feed.xml

On Winamp, you should find a selection titled "Podcast Directory" on the left-hand side of your screen under "media library." Copy-paste or type the feed URL into the "Add Feed" box at the bottom of the page, and click the "Add Feed" button. I think most media players can be set to automatically download podcasts. I confess that this is the first time I've tried it - it's very easy to do.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: GUEST,Calum Mckemmie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:01 PM

You can get all the songs for free by subscribing to the podcast. With winamp ( free from winamp.com ) you can download all of the previous songs, however old they are.

Calum
http://www.myspace.com/tozerandmckemmie
http://www.youtube.com/user/TozerAndMckemmie

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - June 2011
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:51 AM

Here are the June songs: June 1: Just As The Tide Was Flowing June 2: The Beggar Laddie (Child #280) June 3: Garden Hymn (not at Mudcat) June 4: Streams Of Lovely Nancy June 5: Let Union Be June 6: After The Ball June 7: Innocent When You Dream (Tom Waits)-not at Mudcat June 8: Poverty Knock June 9: Abe Carman from Bellamy's The Transports June 10: Lock Keeper June 11: The Ghost June 12: The Exile Song June 13: Wild Mountain Thyme June 14: Rag Fair June 15: Rose of Allandale June 16: Farmer's Boy June 17: Grand Conversation With Napoleon June 18: The Eighteenth Day Of June June 19: Roll Alabama Roll June 20: Bold Archer June 21: The Way Through The Woods (Kipling/Bellamy) June 22: Banks Of Sweet Primroses June 23: When Fortune Turns the Wheel June 24: The Larks They Sang Melodious June 25: Farmer’s Toast June 26: Young Roger Esquire June 27: One Night As I Lay June 28: Earl Richard June 29: White Cockade June 30: Rose In June




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Jon started this project on June 24, 2010. I wonder how far he'll go into June, 2011.

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - May
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:51 AM

Here are the May songs: May 1: Hail, Hail The First Of May (Dave Webber) May 2: Hal And Tow May 3: The Outlandish Knight May 4: The Verdant Braes Of Skreen May 5: Bonny Bunch Of Roses May 6: Broomfield Hill May 7: Death and the Lady May 8: Gathering Rushes (Underneath Her Apron) May 9: [Heather] Down the Moor May 10: As I Roved Out May 11: Searching For Lambs May 12: My Husband’s Got No Courage In Him May 13: Sweet Nightingale May 14: The Gardener May 15: Oh What a Beautiful Morning May 16: Charming Molly May 17: P Stands For Paddy I Suppose May 18: Gypsy Rover May 19: Lillibulero May 20: Big Rock Candy Mountain May 21: Roseville Fair (Bill Staines) May 22: The House Carpenter May 23: Farewell to the Gold (Paul Metsers) May 24: Little Sally Racket (Haul 'er Away) May 25: The Rout of the Blues May 26: The Banks of the Ohio May 27: The Birds Upon the Tree (not at Mudcat) May 28: Babylon / The Bonnie Banks Of Fordie May 29: Icarus (Anne Lister) May 30: Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard (Child #81) May 31: Claudy Banks

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - April
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:51 AM

Here are the April songs: April 1: One April Morning April 2: Rose In April (Kate Rusby) April 3: There Once Was A Lover And He Loved A Lass (Shakespeare)-not at Mudcat April 4: Brave Wolfe April 5: The Banks Of The Tees (Graeme Miles) April 6: The Gaol Song April 7: The Roman Centurion’s Song (Kipling) - nothing at Mudcat April 8: The Port Of Amsterdam (Jacques Brel) April 9: Palaces of Gold (Leon Rosselson) April 10: Lord Bateman April 11: Payday (Roger Wilson) April 12: John Blunt (Child #275) April 13: John Barleycorn April 14: Gentleman Soldier April 15: Copshawholme Fair April 16: Seven Yellow Gypsies April 17: A Week Before Easter April 18: Sister Josephine April 19: Bellman April 20: Maid in Bedlam April 21: Dust to Dust (John Kirkpatrick) April 22: The Recruited Collier April 23: I Am A Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble April 24: Pace Egging April 25: Sheepshearing (Drink, Boys, Drink) April 26: I Know My Love By His Way Of Talking April 27: Geordie April 28: New York Mining Disaster 1941 April 29: Auld Triangle April 30: Reynardine

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - March
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:50 AM

Here are the March songs: March 1: The Lakes Of Pontchatrain March 2: Four Angels (Kipling) March 3: Willie's Lady March 4: Worcester City March 5: Swansea Barracks March 6: Wife Of The Soldier March 7: Bold Fisherman March 8: Sweet Mossom March 9: Corduroy March 10: Weaver’s Daughter March 11: Plains Of Mexico March 12: Farewell Sweet Lovely Nancy - not the Copper Family Song March 13: Take This Hammer March 14: Dalesman’s Litany March 15: Billy Don’t Weep For Me March 16: Springfield Mountain March 17: The Green Fields Of America March 18: Jack Orion March 19: Turkey Rhubarb March 20: Horn Fair March 21: Lovely On The Water March 22: All Hail A Brighter Day March 23: Adam And Eve March 24: Scarborough Fair March 25: Turtle Dove March 26: Tommy (Kipling/Bellamy) March 27: Ye Mariners All March 28: Whiskey Is the Life of Man March 29: Maid on the Shore March 30: Juniper, Gentle, and Rosemary March 31: Lemady

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - February
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:50 AM

Here are the February songs: February 1: Sheffield Apprentice February 2: Won't You Go My Way February 3: Clyde Water February 4: The German Musicianer February 5: Cold Blow And The Rainy Night February 6: When First I Came to Caledonia February 7: King Henry Was King James’ Son February 8: Queenie (Strip Polka) February 9: (Young) Simon John February 10: Rolling Down to Rio (Kipling/Bellamy) February 11: Hanging Johnny February 12: Butter and Cheese and All February 13: Don't Go Out Tonight, Dear Father February 14: Cupid's Garden February 15: Young Banker February 16: Donkey Riding February 17: I Sowed the Seeds of Love February 18: Over the Hills and Far Away February 19: Bird in the Bush February 20: Shoals of Herring February 21: Grey Funnel Line February 22: A Pilgrim's Way February 23: Widow's Curse February 24: Maid and the Palmer February 25: Sir Patrick Spens February 26: Fiddler's Green February 27: Captain Wedderburn February 28: Oor Hamlet

Subject: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - January
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 05:48 AM

Happy 2011!!

Here are the January songs: January 1: January Man January 2: Daddy Fox January 3: Old Brown's Daughter January 4: Peggy Bann January 5: Apple Tree Wassail January 6: Pilgrim On The Pennine Way (by Pete Coe - nothing at Mudcat or Reinhard's Website) January 7: Captain Ward January 8: Otago January 9: Peggy Gordon January 10: In the Month of January January 11: The Snow It Melts the Soonest January 12: Off to the Epsom Races - not at Mudcat January 13: Ruins by the Shore - not at Mudcat, but you'll like this link. January 14: Days Gone By - by Jon Boden, not at Mudcat January 15: Smuggler's Song (Kipling/Bellamy) January 16: Lowlands January 17: Five Hundred Miles January 18: Maria's Gone (Ritchie Family) January 19: Ballina Whalers January 20: The Last Leviathan January 21: The Cuckoo January 22: John Ball January 23: I Drew My Ship January 24: Two Magicians January 25: Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away January 26: Bungay Roger January 27: My Son John January 28: Banks of the Nile January 29: Anachie Gordon January 30: I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen January 31: Dark as a Dungeon (Merle Travis)

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:07 AM

I've been buying these monthly albums from emusic.com, but they don't have November OR December....

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Cllr
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:54 AM

I first listened to Squeezy and Scratchy live at the Manchester extravaganza half a dozen years ago and later in various incarnations mainly at Sidmouth FF, as a mainly unaccompanied singer i cannot praise enough the FOlk song a day project.
I Recently saw Bellowhead at Oxford on the hedonism tour and i was completely blown away by JB's amazing stage presence (and the rest of the band) I had to rush off and buy tickets for the NYE gig at South Bank. What a fantastic range within the folk scene an i can't get enough of it!

Cllr

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: GUEST,elfpix
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:06 AM

The Tam Lin is thus far definitely the very best of the output in my opinion. I love having the daily dose arrive in my iTunes Podcasts folder. I wish I'd caught on to this project when he started. I'm shy a month or so at the beginning.

I must say, however, that the uniformity of his voice makes listening to a whole group of them much less than pleasant to me. I'm always relieved when he lets an instrument or another voice into the mix. For that reason I can't imagine actually purchasing an entire CD of the project.

As a very traditionally oriented folky I'm only tepid on Bellowhead, even though I understand most of its sources and references. As a '60s folkie, even a '50s folkie, my tolerance for the integration of folk and rock is still pretty small and a big piece of me really resents the importation of all that gloss and light show from the rock scene. What's wrong with just performing the music with humor, gusto and skill?

It is interesting to me to watch the links grow between Jon and John. I wonder how John feels about this all, as he hews closer to the more traditional presentation in his late middle age. Brass Monkey will never be Bellowhead.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Reinhard
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:27 AM

I just downloaded the December MP3 album from Amazon. Did Jon release it early so that we can hear all of it at Christmas?

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 04:36 PM

The song for December 15 is another carol, Remember, O Thou Man. We have very few of these carols at Mudcat. I was thinking maybe we should make an effort to post them, but5 maybe there's no need. There's a Website called Hymns and Carols of Christmas that does excellent work on carols. Why duplicate their efforts?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 01:38 AM

I only know Jon Boden for his work in Bellowhead,
one of my favourite recent bands,
but he's starting to get on my nerves a bit on the latest CD and TV promotion appearances.

I've been aware of his name for a few years but just haven't found time or inclination to explore his back catalogue.
So, out of fairness I've just been checking out brief samples of his solo CD
"Songs From The Floodplain";

yeah ok, I'm interested enough to explore further...

It's a voice not unlike countless 1970's prog and glamrock/artrock LP's I've enjoyed over the years..
and seems to me to be better integrated and more appropriately bedded into the soundscape of "Songs From The Floodplain"

So lets see how I can catch up on these 'songadays' for a better perspective,
and check out ebay for a cheap copy of his solo CD.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 12:43 AM

I was so proud of us because I was able to find Mudcat threads or Digital Tradition entries for almost all of the songs in Jon Boden's A Folk Song a Day project. Guess we need to get cracking....

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:58 AM

Superb! Many thanks, Joe - you're a star.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:00 PM

I've tried to link each day's recording to pertinent information at Mudcat. We have information on almost all of the songs Jon has recorded for this project. Follow the links, and you'll find some terrific stuff.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 04:38 AM

Well, I think it's a real shame that Jon's including so many songs that aren't folk songs, however good a job he does on them (his version of David Ackles' "His name is Andrew" was stunning). There are few enough places dedicated to bringing folk songs to a wider audience as it is.

But I don't want to detract from the project, which is quite extraordinary & includes some fantastic performances - refreshing my memory from the lists above, I'd put Queen Jane, Boston Harbour, Bill Brown and Tam Lin in my highlights of the series so far.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 03:54 AM

It's interesting to see the songs Jon chose that are not purely folk songs. His choice for Sunday was Love at the Five and Dime, by Nanci Griffith. It's a lovely song, and he does a great job of it.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Reinhard
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:36 PM

The October songs will be available for download on November 7 (according to Amazon). The June songs will be released together with the June 1-23, 2011 songs in July 2011.

Parallel to Joe's lists you can also find a song list on my A Folk Song a Day page.

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:17 PM

Yes Joe! We love this thread too!!! :)

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - December
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:17 PM

December is upon us....

Here are the December songs: December 1: Babes in the Wood December 2: Hark Hark - another Sheffield carol, with no info at Mudcat. December 3: Snow Falls (John Tams) - nothing at Mudcat December 4: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Pentonville) December 5: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Sweet Chiming Bells) December 6: Come All You Weary Travellers (Not at Mudcat) December 7: Mistletoe Bough - once again, not at Mudcat December 8: Cells (Kipling/Bellamy) December 9: The Boar's Head Carol December 10: A Roving on a Winter's Night December 11: Spout Cottage - nothing at Mudcat. These carols are killing us! December 12: Poor Little Jesus December 13: All Hail The Power Of Jesus’ Name - not at Mudcat December 14: The Holly and the Ivy December 15: Remember O Thou Man - not at Mudcat December 16: Jingle Bells (not your usual version) December 17: Mount Moriah December 18: We Wish You a Merry Christmas - see Reinhard's page December 19: Awake Arise Good Christians - not at Mudcat December 20: While Shepherds Watched (Lyngham) December 21: Stannington - not at Mudcat, but see Sheffield Carols December 22: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (!) December 23: First Noel - unusual melody December 24: Shepherds Arise December 25: On Christmas Day December 26: The King December 27: O Little Town of Bethlehem - name of the melody?? December 28: Little Pot Stove December 29: I'd Like to Tell to You December 30: Rocking Me Babies December 31: Cornish Wassail Song

Oh, and don't miss Simon Holland's Properganda Alternative Advent Calendar. Simon is doing a lot of the work on the "A Folk Song a Day" project.

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Happy 2011!!

January 1: January Man

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - November
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:16 PM

Here are the November songs: November 1: Spectre Review (Die nächtliche Heerschau) November 2: His Name Is Andrew November 3: (Up to the Rigs of) London Town November 4: Spencer the Rover November 5: Cob a Coalin November 6: South Australia November 7: Love At The Five And Dime November 8: Boston Harbour November 9: Mary Ann November 10: A Chat With Your Mother (F-Word Song) from Peter & Lou Berryman of Wisconsin November 11: If You Want To See The General November 12: Bruton Town November 13: Rose of Tralee November 14: I’ll Go With Him Wherever He Goes (Do You Love an Apple?) November 15: See, See The Cape’s in View November 16: Hard Times (Come Again No More) November 17: Unfortunate Lass November 18: Cholera Camp (Kipling) November 19: I Once Was a Fisherman (Barry Dransfeld) November 20: My Johnny Was a Shoemaker November 21: At Jacob's Well November 22: Poor Fellows (Nothing at Mudcat - from Bellamy's The Transports November 23: Warlike Lads Of Russia November 24: Fire Marengo November 25: Grey Goose and Gander November 26: The Weaver and the Factory Maid November 27: Sweep Chimney Sweep November 28: Farewell To Old Bedford (in the DT-no discussion) November 29: Cold Blows The Wind (The Unquiet Grave) November 30: The Brown Girl

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - October
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:16 PM

Here are the October songs: October 1: Prickle-Eye Bush October 2: The Huntsman - not at Mudcat October 3: Deep Blue Sea October 4: New York Girls October 5: The Jersey Girl (Tom Waits) October 6: The Poor Man’s Labours October 7: Bay of Biscay October 8: Gallant Hussar October 9: The Constant Lovers October 10: Hunting the Hare October 11: Courting Too Slow October 12: The Dawn of the Day (not at Mudcat) October 13: The Sheepstealer October 14: Marrowbones October 15: Old Joe Clark October 16: (The Death of Poor) Bill Brown October 17: My Johnny’s Gone to Hilo October 18: Sea Coal October 19: Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth October 20: Close the Coalhouse Door October 21: All For Me Grog October 22: The Santa Fe Trail October 23: Jock Stewart October 24: The Death Of Queen Jane October 25: The Good Old Way October 26: Doffing Mistress October 27: Blackleg Miner October 28: Goodnight Irene October 29: Mad Family (not at Mudcat) October 30: Dig My Grave October 31: Tam Lin

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - September
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:15 PM

Here are the September songs: September 1: The Prentice Boy - not much on this song at Mudcat (from Marrowbones) September 2: Light Dragoon September 3: London Waterman (Charles Dibden) - nothing on this song at Mudcat September 4: Noah’s Ark Shanty September 5: King of Rome September 6: On a Monday Morning (Cyril Tawney) September 7: Fakenham Fair (needs better information) September 8: Rambling Robin September 9: In The Shade Of The Old ‘arris Mill September 10: Sleep on Beloved September 11: Hey John Barleycorn September 12: Fathom the Bowl September 13: Water Is Wide September 14: The Rigs of the Time September 15: On Board (a) 98 September 16: Oats and Beans and Barley September 17: Rickety Tickety Tin September 18: The Bush Girl (Henry Lawson) September 19: The Lord Will Provide September 20: NaCl (Sodium Chloride) September 21: Down Where The Drunkards Roll (Richard Thompson) September 22: The Trees They Do Grow High September 23: Blood Red Roses September 24: A Begging I Will Go September 25: (Blow The Winds High-O ) Ten Thousand Miles Away September 26: Sparrow September 27: Three Ravens September 28: Waltzing Matilda September 29: Brisk Young Widow September 30: All Of A Row

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - August
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:15 PM

Here are the August songs: August 1: (Now) Westlin Winds August 2: Two Young Brethren August 3: The Land (Kipling) August 4: Greenland Whale Fishery August 5: Brown Adam August 6: Shepherd of the Downs August 7: Derry Gaol August 8: Frankies Trade August 9: Ca the Ewes August 10: Two Pretty Boys August 11: Cruel Knife (Jealous Lover at Mudcat) August 12: Nostradamus [by Al Stewart] (not at Mudcat) August 13: Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy August 14: Bold Sir Rylas August 15: Dream of Napoleon August 16: Live Not Where I Love August 17: Polly Vaughn August 18: Saucy Sailor August 19: Abroad For Pleasure (Holmfirth Anthem) August 20: The Oggie Man August 21: Golden Glove August 22: Country Life August 23: Rolling Down To Old Maui August 24: Jordan Is A Hard Road August 25: Leave Her Johnny August 26: Doleful Dance of Death August 27: Lord Randal August 28: Bonny House of Airlie August 29: Yorkshire Couple August 30: William Taylor August 31: Yarmouth Town

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' - July
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:15 PM

Here are the July songs: July 1: Tyne of Harrow July 2: The Hunt is Up July 3: I Wish that the Wars were all over July 4: Blackwaterside July 5: Barbara Allen July 6: Cruel Mother July 7: Chickens in The Garden July 8: Across the Line (The Sailor's Way) July 9: Pretty Cock / As I Stood under my Love’s Window July 10: Banks of Green Willow July 11: Danny Deever (Kipling)(not at Mudcat) July 12: Mercedes Benz July 13: Rambling Sailor July 14: Yellow Roses July 15: Big Steamers July 16: Lucy Wan July 17: Come Write Me Down July 18: Bloody Gardener July 19: Go and Leave Me July 20: The Rain it Rains (Nothing at Mudcat) July 21: The Stonecutter Boy July 22: Sally Free and Easy (Cyril Tawney) July 23: Young Edward In The Lowlands July 24: The Days Of ‘49 July 25: Tha’ Lowks A Proper Swell Lass (nothing at Mudcat, and Reinhard had trouble, too) July 26: Banks of Red Roses July 27: A Blacksmith Courted Me July 28: Maid of Australia July 29: Child Morris July 30: The Old Songs July 31: Tom Padget

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 02:38 PM

Jon's recordings for July, August, and September are available on Spotify, and they can be purchased at emusic.com. I'll bet they're available at the other usual MP3 outlets.

Good stuff.

-Joe-

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I can't find the June recordings - are they available for purchase somewhere?

Here are the June songs: June 24: The Larks They Sang Melodious June 25: Farmer’s Toast June 26: Young Roger Esquire June 27: One Night As I Lay June 28: Earl Richard June 29: White Cockade June 30: Rose In June

Subject: RE: Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' blog
From: Reinhard
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 02:01 PM

It was just a tad late waiting for the bonfire to be lit.