What's playing now?

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Jon W.
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 11:25 AM

The last tape I listened to was The Deseret String Band (local, but I believe they are known somewhat outside of Utah) and Smoky Mountain Hymns, a compilation of hymns performed on hand crafted instruments: banjo, dulcimers (both kinds), mandolin, guitar, etc. The next tape is one Murray sent me to test my lyric-interpreting ear: Charley Patton, King of the Delta Blues. (thanks, Murray). I guess he was the king before Robert Johnson was.

P.S. Big Mick, great story. I've seen it before in other contexts, must be folklore;-) I recognize the word 'crather' from the song "Finnegan's Wake". Could you tell us what it means?

Jon W.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 11:23 AM

I just tapped into this computer/radio site. It is pretty good. A lot of ancient "humor" pieces from the time of the great folkscare and a few more recent. All in all, a pretty good mix of new and old folk and folkstyle music.

Midnight Special

This is my first attempt at creating a link, so if this posting doesn't work it only shows that I have much to learn. If, by chance, it does; I owe a lot to the Mudcat threads on HTML stuff.

Allan

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 10:38 AM

For the last hour I've been trying to get Art Thieme's "Outright Bold faced Lies" lp into my CD Player--but it won't Fit.....

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Earl
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 09:39 AM

I have a CD player that holds 150 CDs. It contains folk and rock recordings from the 50's through the 90's and country and blues form the 20's on. There's a little bit of bluegrass, some Australian bushbands, some maritime, Edith Piaf's greatest hits, and a recording of Scott Joplin rags. I most often set it for random play so I don't know what is coming next. It's like a radio station with an infinite playlist and no disk jockey.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Dale Rose
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:50 AM

Well, the old CD player currently has two by Ian and Sylvia ~~ Northern Journey and Four Strong Winds, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the Buckhannon Brothers of St. Louis, and Songs of the Civil War in it. Clean Living is (or rather was) on the turntable, and the cassette player has Karen Kraft and The Dixie Darlin's of Mt. View, AR in it. But really, lately I have been listening mostly to old time music on the internet from Phil and Gaye Johnson, especially the show with David Holt.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:40 AM

G'day,
Having a computer that makes CDs I sometimes make compilations of my favourite tracks. The one I have on now has > 70 mins of Celtic music, the track playing now is "The Five Pound Flute / Donald McLennan’s Exercise / What Pain I Have Endured Since Last Year" by the Old Blind Dogs. (And the original CDs are all my own!)

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: aldus
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:18 AM

I am listening to a terrific CD...Ancient Voices,, an album of Medieval Russian Music.. Glorious Stuff. I was listening to the new June Tabor album which I don"t like at all. Is it just me or is June Tabor getting to be a bit of a bore these days. Saw her in St. Ives last Spring and was disappointed then as well. I also like to listen to Mary Jane Lammond while I"m typing away.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Largo
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:04 AM

Hi,

I'm at work now, but as soon as I reach my Home Sweet Home I will undoubtly listen to Old Blind Dogs and Tannas, then I think it will be Vopli Vidoplyasova last album and a wee bit of Georgian folk by Merabi Kashiya. And fall asleep with Erin the Goddess theme from Lord of the Dance Soundtrack. By the way, does anybody know the words for it :-) There are some like "I wish, I wish, I wish ..." :-)

Cheers, Largo

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: AndyG
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 07:19 AM

To be honest (I'm at work (lunchtime)) so I'm not listening to anything, were I at home I'd be listening to the people I've most recently seen.
Tenterhooks - Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies. Some great songs by Jez on this album.
By Land And Sea - Tom McConville & Pauline Cato. Tom McConville is just so different.
Anything by Les Barker/Mrs Ackroyd Band.

AndyG

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 05:55 AM

I don't know whether you really want to know what I've been listening to lately, but here goes.

The last one was Skunk Anansie: Stoosh (a sort of punky gutsy rock band with attitude and a sense of social justice), Kavisha Mazzella: Mermaids in the Well (an Australian/Italian/Bulgarian(?) woman with an amazing voice and a wonderful mix of ethnic styles), some African music, some Moroccan music, some flamenco music, some classical music (Bobby McFerrin: Paper Music, Vivaldi: Four Seasons) and to top it all off a really incredible techno-percussion group called Leftfield, which my boyfriend won't even listen to because it's techno.

Are you sorry you asked, now?

Helen

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Barbara
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 02:04 AM

What I've got in the three slot turntable are the first Voice Squad CD; Bang on a Can, which is Brian Eno's latest Airport Music CD; and Mauna Kea, White Mountain Journal - Keola Beamer slack key guitar instrumental. Barbara

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: alison
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 01:17 AM

Hi Will,

well I was listening to "a Celtic Heartbeat Christmas" (Yes I know it's June..... but it's cold in Sydney!!)

But seeing as you mentioned it I'm off to get "Rock the Cashbah"...

Slainte

Alison

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Sheye
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 12:05 AM

Tower of Songs tribute - very own Cohen

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Jun 98 - 11:15 PM

Glad you asked. I am listening to a fourty+ year old recording of Brendan Behan singing the folksongs of Ireland a cappella. He has obviously been into the crather as he was making the recording, and he sings "The Aul Triangle" on the tape. It is over an hour of him telling stories and singing songs. Very unstructured. The poor quality of the recording adds to the charm. Which reminds me of a story about the Behan's, if you would all be so kind as to indulge me.

I heard the story from Liam Tiernan (one of the founders of Barleycorn) when he was last in my precincts. Apparently he was very close to the Behan's. He tells the story of how Stephen Behan, who believe or not really enjoyed a proper jar of the old dark stuff, was cautioned by his lovely wife, Aul Katch (Old Kate for my english speaking friends), not to spend the day in the pub as she wanted him to dig the garden for planting. Then off she went to work. She wasn't gone 15 minutes, and Stephen was in the Public House enjoying a jar of the heavy. Next thing he knew, most of the day was gone by and he hadn't put the spade to the first shovel of dirt. Now Aul Katch's temper was legendary and he did not want to face her after her warning him that very morning. So he hit on the following idea. He placed an anonymous call to the RIC barracks and informed them that the IRA had a cache of arms buried behind a house in the neighborhood. Then he gave them his address. The lore is that within 20 minutes they pulled up and dug ferociously for the arms, found nothing and left. When the good woman got home, she was pleasantly surprised to find Stephen putting the finishing touches on the sod.

That's Tiernan's story, and in the tradition of my people, You tell it and I'll swear to it.

Slan,

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From:
Date: 08 Jun 98 - 10:41 PM

Nothing, but you reminded me I wanted to listen to the Greg Brown "Slant 6 Mind", Just got it at the Golden Ring Saturday..

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Zane
Date: 08 Jun 98 - 10:11 PM

"Deep in the Blues" CD by James Cotton. My latest purchase. Anyone heard it? Zane {from Canada eh}

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jun 98 - 09:59 PM

You caught me in an unusual situation, Will. Right now, I'm listening to near-silence, the sound of the blower on my computer. I almost always have music playing. On the top of my stack of music to listen to is the "Money for Nothing" CD by Dire Straits, since Alison happened to mention them the other day.
Come to think of it, I wish this computer were a litter closer to silent. Wouldn't it be nice to have a computer that didn't make noise?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: What's playing now?
From: Will
Date: 08 Jun 98 - 09:45 PM

I'm curious to know what music we play with Mudcat. You might think of this as a bit like a "Come as you are" sort of party, but with better taste. What music are you playing (CD, tape, vinyl, ...), if any, while you read this?

I'll admit that I've got a Clash compilation "Super Black Market Clash" on, along with the Tiger's game.