What's playing now?

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.

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: 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:
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: 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: Sheye
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 12:05 AM

Tower of Songs tribute - very own Cohen

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Jaxon
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 11:26 AM

I'm currently listening to a retrospective of Sandy Denny released on Ryko. She was such a talent.
Jack Murray

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 12:47 PM

I'm on my lunch hour, so nothing playing in the background. However, I just added a new song to my family songbook from an unusual (for me) source.

Heard Randy Travis on Good Morning America the other day, singing a GREAT song called The Hole. Finally found it on tape, so this one song cost me $10, but it makes a great bluegrass number. (My first/only Randy Travis album). You can listen to it at http://www.randy-travis.com/you.htm

Imagine it with banjo instead of steel guitar. Imagine it without drums. Imagine it with high tenor harmony. Imagine not being at work . . .

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Nora
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 04:22 PM

How funny! It sounds like some of us are probably listening to the same things. I want to check out the Ancient Voices Cd that aldus mentions.

In my CD changer I have Greg Brown's Slant 6 Mind, one of the Sandy Denny Retrospective volumes, Leonard Cohen's more best of collection, Tom Waits The Early Years Vol 2, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle's Matapedia. All I need to do now is hit play. I've been sitting here listening to the traffic noises.

I've been looking at those 150+ CD changers Earl mentions. I like the idea of putting everything in there and hitting random play.

Nora

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:17 PM

The last things on the CD player were Jean Redpath's "Songs of Robert Burns" and "Old Time Banjo" by Reed Martin, a Wash DC area fellow who seems to have won every clawhammer banjo award and contest known..he is UNBELIEVABLE! (and all the tunes have a real story of how he learned them and such!)

The last 33 1/3's were "Yehudi Menuhin meets Ravi Shankar" and "Ballads of Alaska" by 'Uncle Bob' Pavitt, featuring a sterling rendition of "When the Iceworms Nest Again"

next in line are "Introducing the Beers Family" which I found in a 2nd hand store, and four 10" LP's of Richard Dyer-Bennet!!..

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:51 PM

Hi Jon, "The crather" is a way to say "the creature" which refers to whiskey, and most likely John Jamesons very finest Irish (is there any other) Whiskey. Oops, my bias is showing. I believe it comes from the West of Ireland, as my Grandda, who was a Galway man, used it all the time.

Mick

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From:
Date: 09 Jun 98 - 09:53 PM

Heyla,

At the moment I'm dubbing my "Mind Games" mix - I put together a mix of Celtic/Folk and Classic Rock and am going to drop it off in the mailboxes of a few teachers at my school with a note saying "Let me know if you like the music" and an Email address.. just for fun, to see who responds. The song currently playing is "Reinventing the Wheel", a beautiful little folk song by a local group. Anyone want the lyrics? The song right before it was "Wilderness" by Clannad, the one right after is "Time In a Bottle" by Jim Croce

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:11 AM

Right now I'm listening to 2 cassettes I dubbed via Real Audio (3 hours ) from the Archive Of Folk Culture at the Library Of Congress. It's a wondrous collection recorded in dust bowl era US camps in California by Chas. Todd in 1940 and 1941! http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/afc.html

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:14 AM

Johnny,

You're one of the few that has that LP!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 10:21 AM

--Yeah, Art -- and it's a goodun'

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:56 PM

Yeah, Art, and the rest of us are waiting for a CD!! When's it coming out?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Animaterra
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 07:54 PM

Zap Mama, Adventures in Afropea I. Incredible close harmony and rhythmic technogyric!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 11:23 PM

Joe, Wish I could tell ya when it might be out! Andrew Calhoun (Waterbug Records)wants it to be out by the Fox River Valley Festival (Labor Day) but I kind o' doubt that. Got much to do and need to go to Mayo Cl. for a few weeks first--then maybe a voiceover for a docu-thing on Civil War reinactors---so stuff's on hold.

Rockaday Johnny--Thanks--that live LP on Kicking Mule used to be a compact disk--then I fed it a Viagra and an hour later--lo & behold--12 inches! "Tell your ma--tell your pa--our love's gonna grow--doo waa, doo waa!!"

art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jun 98 - 11:27 PM

RIGHT NOW I'm listening to the BULLS GAME!!!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jun 98 - 12:11 AM

Gee, Art - I thought all that BULL was coming from you.....
Uhhhhh, sorry...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Jon W.
Date: 11 Jun 98 - 04:15 PM

Well, Art, I'm glad someone's happy. Here in Utah the depression is almost unbearaBULL.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jun 98 - 08:56 PM

You've a fine team in Utah---We're just as scared here in Illinois that the games might shift back to Salt Lake. So the Bulls MUST win it tomorrow night or I'll be on the road & can't watch 'em when Michael & Scotty & Dennis win it all out there!

And any state that's named after Utah Phillips can't be all bad! (Do you folks go out on the salt flats & build "salt castles"?) 30 Years ago I saw a mirrage on the Flats---an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN I was watching just up an' DISAPEARED!Truly amazing. Also, I heard that Brigham stayed there 'cause he was sure corn'd grow on salt!!

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Grubby
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 09:37 AM

Right now I'm listening to James Keelaghan a great Canadian singer/songwriter. Discovered his songs when he visited Australia a couple of years ago. Would be interested to know if any othe mudcatters have come across this talented performer Regards Grubby

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 10:30 AM

Time to load the CD Changer - This time; Geoff Muldaur - Sleepy Man Blues - Jack Elliott - Ramblin' Jack (His Topic Stuff) Bob Dylan - Guitars Kissing (The live 1966 "Royal Albert Hall" concert with the band)Cindy Mangsen Songlines (What a WONDERFUL voice) Paul Clayton - Wanted For Murder and Blind Willie Mctell - 1940 - the Library of Congress Co0llection --The cartridge I just pulled had all 6 of the Anthology which has been playinmg constantly lately...

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 11:05 AM

Johnnie---GREAT TASTE! All are grand! Cindy is the only other voice that EVER was on any recording with me. She sang harmony on a version of the Texas Rivers song that was re-written for IL & WI. (other than that one cut it was just me and my instrument.

Cindy & Anne Hills have a marvelous new CD out---title: NEVER GROW UP! Cindy & her husband, Steve Gillette are great friends to us & wonderful folkies!

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Rockaday Johnnie
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 11:47 AM

I've been waiting for the Hills/Mangsen to come out --I'm looking forward to hearing it..I love Annie when she does the trad songs---like the "Panic" lp?cd --Gee Art, I'll bet that's your voice I hear in "while I Sleep". Steve & Cindy will be in the area in Nevember - hope to get some time with them..It's been a while.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 07:35 PM

Johnnie---Yep, it was me on that song with lots o' others. Annie'd get upset when we'd sing, "While you sleep, While you sleep, Lend me your car while you sleep, You won't need it then..."

That sure was a LONG TIME AGO--a whole other marriage.

Cindy & Anne do a great job on a song I taught 'em--"The Master Of The Sheepfold"---on the new CD! I was gonna be on that track with 'em but couldn't do that. (It will be on the CD I'm doin... (Say Johnnie, Do I know you?)

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jun 98 - 08:05 PM

I will be posting a new thread about "The Master of the Sheepfold"...I have an old gospel hymnal with what must be the 'original' of that...verses in black dialect, but obviously 'same' song. I'll get the book out and type 'em in.....

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 01:14 AM

That'd be great to see for certain. But in a day I'll be gone for a few weeks. I'll look tomorrow and then when I get home.

"Master Of The Sheepfold" , as I was told, was found in Maine by Bill Bonyun. He sang it to Susan Richardson who took it to the New York Pinewoods folk camp in Massachusetts. Jerry Epstein, at Pinewoods, taught it to me. Driving back to Chicago after Pinewoods that summer I stopped to hang out with my old Chicago friend, Cindy Mangsen, who then lived near Albany, New York. I showed that to her then for the first time. Later I changed the language of the song from the very heavy Afrom-American dialect I'd learned it in----"Massa Ob De Sheepfold" became "Master Of The Sheepfold". I think it's now twice as beautiful as it was before. And Cindy & Anne make it sound like an angel chorus! To make this fit into this thread I ought to let you know I'm listening to Cindy & Anne's CD right NOW!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:03 AM

Just before I went to work, it was Sinatra, right now, nothing. My Significant Bother is sound asleep, if I had the guts, I'd pop in a Eugene O'Donal cd. I'd love to hear "The downfall of Paris" but the "little woman" isn't so little when she's angry. Frank in the shh! swamps.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 10:48 AM

Well, it's definitely not the Bulls that's playing right now. Congratulations to Salt Lake City on a great game last eve. Time'll tell...

Art

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 05:56 PM

The title in my book is "Poor Lil' Brack Sheep"...copywrite 1900 by E.O. Excell... Book is 'Make His Praise Glorious'....says it was written by Ethel Maude Colson and Lucy Rider Meyer

"Poor lil' brack sheep that stray'd away
Done los' in de win' and rain
An'de shepherd he say:"oh, hirlin'
Go and find my sheep again."
An de hirlin' froun, "Oh, Shepherd,
"Dat sheep am brack and bad.."
But de Shepherd, he smile like de brack sheep
Wuz de onliest lamb he had"

(gonna send this...then add other verses...have RTI!)

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:18 PM

I think Ill go on and copy what I have to a new thread, so it will be all there in one place...

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From:
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 08:44 PM

Women of the World Celtic II. Putumayo,PUTU 134-2. (This, BTW, comes in one of those cardboard CD containers which heretofore had only been used by jazz musicians, and I am delighted that the concept is catching on. I must break two or three plastic CD cases a week.)

Prior to that, a tape, "Cape Breton Fiddlers on Early LP's", Breton Books and Music, no ID #.

Prior to that, a homemade tape (thanks, Nigel) of Chris Foster's "All Things In Common", a deleted Topic LP.

Prior to that, Steeleye Span "Ten Man Mop", Crest CD009.

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Cuilionn
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 08:45 PM

I'm wairkin' thro' a hantle o' assigned list'nin' richt noo, frae a friend o' mine in Maine. We'll be jynin' up i' August for a month-lang ceilidh, an' I've been chargit wi' th' task o' lairnin' "high pairts" for ev'ry song on th' Watersons' tapes she sent, as weel as some richt fine bits frae a recordin' o' Janet Russell an' Christine Kidd. (Dinnae ken th' name o' that last ane, my friend didnae hae th' grace tae wricht oot th' titles o' ev'rythin' she sent.) The "Silly Sisters" albums frae Maddy Prior & June Tabor are anither pairt o' my assigned listenin' (can't complain). Any Mudcatters gang tae be aroond Pownal, Maine, in August? It micht be a strange ceilidh, but it'll be a guid ane!

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Nora
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 09:47 PM

Yes Grubby

I have heard James Keelaghan live several times and will go put the CD on in a minute, just as soon as Richard Thompson You Me Us is over.

I heard his record on the radio in Northern Minnesota, and then saw him live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival a few years back. I was really looking forward to his mainstage performance -- sort of the grand ending to a glorious festival -- following his set, he was to lead the assembled crowd in a bunch of tunes, including my favorite, Mary Ellen Carter. However, the nasty weather that had been threatening finally broke and he cut his set short and sent us all scurrying back to our campsites. Thunderstorms and tornadoes in Manitoba are not to be trifled with. One of the sound towers was knocked over.

I saw him most recently in North Carolina at a Holiday Inn (!) on stage with a bar on the far side of the stage with NASCAR racing playing audibly throughout. He was a good sport about it.

Nora

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Roger Himler
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 10:32 PM

I haven't cranked up the old CD player since getting home, but I checked out what I was listening to most recently. There is Chuck Brodsky's "A Fingerpainter's Mural." He's a current singer/songwriter with a sense of humor and also an affection for baseball. I plan to learn his song "Blow 'Em Away," a song about roadrage that is politically incorrect. "I rolled down the window, took out my pistol, and I blew 'em away."

I listen to many current singer/songwriter's, the troubadours of today who create the folksongs of tomorrow.

Next to that on the carousel is Robert Johnson's "The Complete Recordings." Maybe I'll learn something by aural osmosis. I am too embarassed by my guitar playing to try to take on any of these classics.

"Wake Up Dead Man," a collection of 'Black convict work songs from Texas Prisons." Again, a renewed interest of mine. Perhaps I will learn one of these as well.

And finally, my 21 year-old son has left a copy of Everclear's self-named CD. I know I wasn't listening to that.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: What's playing now?
From: Jon W.
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 10:55 AM