What did you listen to last night?

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Luckett Lad
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:40 PM

Dragonsfly - very popular down in the south west (UK) area and regulars at the most excellent Priddy Festival

http://www.dragonsfly.org/

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:36 PM

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Since having the pleasure of being entertained by Washboard Breezy and the good Rev. at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival in August, there hasn't been a day or night that's gone by that I haven't listened to their CD, Big Damn Nation.

I don't think I have been that obsessive about a group since I was a kid. Described as Robert Johnson on crack, perhaps this makes me a crack addict. Not a duff cut on the whole CD. I just love them!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM

My dear friends singing the old familiar songs to send off one among us on her next big adventure- a year in Europe with her 18-year old daughter.
So we sang, "Drive dull care away", "Rolling Home (to old New England)" and many others.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: MairSea
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:47 AM

Colvin/Quarmby at Shep Wooley and friends in the Thorngate HAlls, Gosport - brilliant night and in 4 weeks time it is Cloudstreet and Harvey Andrews we'll be listening to. Lucky us eh? Shep and friends is on on the 2nd Sunday of every month.

Love and Peace

Ann XOXOX

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:21 AM

Lévon Minassian And Friends-'The Doudouk Beyond Borders.'

Not to be played in car.
It can induce a Lite Stupor!

David

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: The PA
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:19 AM

A collection of Pavaroti, which we keep in the car. So, we were sort of the three tenors towing the horses back home. I should imagine it was a bit of a racket as none of us can sing, or speak a word of italian we just make it up, but we enjoyed it !

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:18 AM

The John Dipper Band at the Bothy Folk Club in Southport - an hour's drive, but worth every minute.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:14 AM

Eric Bibb and Jackson Browne -yup steeped in the folk tradition me!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:08 AM

Robert Crumb and Cheap Suit Serenaders (Japanese/Korean reissue of their first Blue Goose album) - lovely stuff!

Kris Drever 'Black Water' Excellent young Scots performer.

M.Ward 'Transfiguration of Vincent' - Weird but fascinating.

Donnie Munro 'Heart of America: across the great divide'. Impressive.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:24 AM

Jim Moray - "Sweet England".

Sheer genius.

I am well pleased at the way the "Scene" is evolving, with the likes of Eliza C and her musician mates ; Bellowhead, and Mr Moray, making music which raises the hair on the back of my neck, and sets the blood racing.

I am minded of the mid to late 1960s, when the three chord wonders in denim caps, with their own 'songs', songs written on sh*tpaper in the interval, started infesting the folk clubs.

I damn near went back to playing rock 'n' roll. You couldn't breathe for pseudo-American accents and then the Watersons and Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick came to show us (me) the way.

Some might not like the way the "Scene" is evolving, but it is, I think, ineluctable. Perhaps we are now beginning to recover from the damage inflicted on the Revival by the likes of Mr McColl.

Then my beloved and I listened to a compilation disc by Maddy Prior - 'Hind Horn' ; 'Sheath and Knife' ; - sheer genius.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:50 AM

Friday night, not last night - but here's a cut-and-paste of my post to flatpick-l from Saturday morning:

Saw George Jones and band at the Vermont State Fair (Rutland) last night. Pam Tillis opened. Big crowd. A significant fraction of Rutland County, and people from as far away as Montreal.

In brief, George is beginning to slow down, and letting his band members do more of the hard work. But he's still got the essentials. He still has all the note bends that nobody could get away with and get back where he should be by the end of the line...does with melody what Clarence did with time.

He has a fiddler, a telecaster player, and a chick singer, any of which would have been worth going to see in their own right, and his band is VERY tight. They all seemed to be actually enjoying themselves. I suspect, if this crowd was typical, knowing the ticket prices, they were doing a lot better for themselves than they could as soloists, even given their abilities, and they know it.

I didn't get into Pam Tillis's set very well. The volume was set too loud in general, and the instrument volumes overpowered the vocals. I guess that's the way the "hot new country" fans like it. But I like to hear the songs, not just a wall of noise. Normally, I'd be aware that what old f....old folks like has no economic significance; but this crowd had a majority of old folks. So you'd think she would have adapted. Oh, well. The good news was that _her_ tele player was incredible. I just ignored her and listened to him. I didn't get his name, but she introduced him as a grandson of Hank Snow. That made sense.

After nearly 50 years of playing acoustic guitar and sneering at electrics, I want a telecaster. Have since I saw Bill Kirchen a year or two ago. But I'm probably too old to learn to do anything with it, and I'd need a band. Ah, well, none of us can have it all, and I've had more than most.

Peter.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Rasener
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:49 AM

Pete Coe live at Grimsby Folk Club.

Pete was in cracking form and both sets were excellent.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:27 AM

Kingston Trio CD in the car

RtS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Murphy
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:15 AM

I listened to ME. Lucky enough to be doin' a gig.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,avrosimones
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:59 AM

"The album Singing Sands by Tony McManus and Alain Genty.

RS"

How is that album? I've heard mixed reviews so haven't bought it yet - although I do love the other Tony McManus albums (especially Ceol More).

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Rog Peek
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:56 AM

Irish dance music by Johnny O'Leary, Matt Cunningham, Shaskeen etc. Danced The Connemara Set, The Sliabh Luachra Set, The Kilfenora Set, The Plain Reel Set and the Ballyvourney Jig Set.

Set Dancing every Sunday Night at St. Bonaventures Club in Bristol.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:47 AM

Various hits by Meatloaf, Buddy Holly, Dylan, Flanders and Swann, Thin Lizzy, Kirsty McColl, Marc Cohn, Rod Shearman, Jake Thackray, Manfred Mann, Alison Kraus, Cream, Whitesnake and the Silly Sisters - I love driving with my iPod in the car!

I rarely sit and listen to a whole album by a single artist at once - I find they mostly get a bit 'samey' and I get bored. I have eclectic tastes and my iPod/MP3 selection certainly illustrates this. It's only recently I took the Brahms and Mozart selection off. There's some Handel to go on it next.

LTS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Dave Tyler
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:46 AM

Brian Wilson 'Love And Mercy'

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Michael
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:32 AM

'Jackdaw Grooves' by Gordon Tyrrall

Mike

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: the button
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:53 AM

Songs & Rummy Conjurin' Tricks -- Peter Bellamy

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: redsnapper
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:49 AM

The album Singing Sands by Tony McManus and Alain Genty.

RS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: TheSnail
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:30 AM

Wasps in the Woodshed at the Lewes Arms Folk Club. Very exciting band.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Santa
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:23 AM

Brass Monkey. Then I had a discussion with my wife about ideas raised by the superb Raglan Road thread.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:19 AM

Good idea for a thread. I listened to "The Lighthouse" (R. Hinson & G. West) and "Precious Lord Take My Hand"(Thomas A. Dorsey) in preparation for singing them with friends in church. I awoke with "Take My Hand" running in my head. Hmmm. That'd be nice on my low D, too!

maeve

Subject: What did you listen to last night?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:12 AM

Hi all been reading a few threads after a break from the Cat.
And seems a bit contentious in places.
So maybe there is one subject that we could all par take in without errr disagreeing.
What did you listen to last night?
I listened to my Mrs playing her low d and other whistles as we practiced a tune we have come up with.
I enjoyed that very much.