What's playing 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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?
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Date: 18 Jul 98 - 07:36 PM

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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: 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: GUEST,ghost
Date: 06 Jul 00 - 08:00 PM

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