Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Beer
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 08:13 PM

Rick Fielding comes to the top of the list but someone who knew him well should fill in all the blanks.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 08:44 PM

...and Little John Cameron, John in Brisbane, Sandy Paton, Barry Finn, Dale Rose, Rowan Webb. How about Hedy West, Mike Seeger, Aunt Molly Jackson, Lonnie Donegan, Kirsty MacColl?

If you'd like to post a tribute message to any of these or others, feel free. I'll delete or edit these suggestion messages once tributes are posted.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 09:05 PM

Tom Rowe, Tommy Makem, The Clancy Brothers....

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:53 AM

A L Lloyd, Ewan MacColl...

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: janemick
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 03:57 AM

Lal Waterson, Mike Waterson

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 04:16 AM

Bert Jansch, John Martyn

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 04:25 AM

And Malcolm Douglas, of course

Perhaps we should drop or change the subheading after "Honor Roll" to "In Memoriam" or something, because not everyone on here was a musician (in the strict sense of the word, i.e. performing artist); and of the famous, not everyone was a Mudcatter. I'd like to see both included and keep the categorisation wide, but it also has to be accurate. The "Memoriam" tag would show that they are no longer with us, but without classifying them. What a good idea this thread is.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 04:30 AM

I would like to post a little tribute to Kirsty MacColl. It is a shame that her talent is only acknowledged at Christmas.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 04:33 AM

I second, third, fourth and fifth that!

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Fossil
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 04:54 AM

John Makin (Mr John), well known Brussels folkie, singer/songwriter, all-round good chap, died last week. He will be missed, esp by the regulars at St Andrew's Church folk nights, which he loyally supported, despite attaining superstar status with his hit "Potverdekke! - It's Great to be a Belgian". Sympathies to Anne and all his family.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Silas
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 05:11 AM

I would like very much to nominate a much missed personality from the UK folk world, Vic Baker (Dudley Vic as we used to call him) AKA Professor Wingnut and half of the double act 'Dr Sunshines Pavement Show'. Vic was one of the nicest guys I have ever met and he was an absoloute genius at entertaining both children and adults. Dr Sunshines music hall nights at the meny festivals they did were the highlight of the weekends for many of us.

Sadly Vic died in 1999 and I have always thought that the organising comittee of Bromyard Folk Festival should have an annual memorial concert or music hall night in him memory as he did so much for the festival in its early years. His partner Dave Hunt who sometimes posts here has written this lovley tribute to him - sorry I can't do the blue clicky thing.

http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/vbaker.htm

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 05:15 AM

Davy Graham - to name but 10...

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:37 AM

Craig Johnson, John Jackson. The list is too long. Carpe diem! Sing & play whilst you can!

Saul

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:56 AM

OP did say mudcatters and other musicians.

Barry Finn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitT45oZuT8

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 11:22 AM

And here's a link to Barry Finn's obituary thread: Click here for Barry!

Barry Finn was best known for his research and rendering of traditional sea songs. He died October 16th of 2009. His CD Fathom This! is a remaining testament to how well Barry did the work he loved.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: bradfordian
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 11:28 AM

I did write in the liner notes for the Mudcat WATER CD that "I personally would like to dedicate the new Mudcat CDs to all our dear departed Mudcatters who have over these past 15 years given us a great deal of pleasure through their music and contributions to the threads" , hence I endorse a thread dedicated to these lovely folk. I also like Bonnie's idea of extending it to other people who have made significant contributions to our kind of music, whatever that may be. Whilst there are differences between the two strains, it seems a little churlish to have two seperate threads, so I go for the greater range and celebrate all under one banner.

A couple of names to add from me; (one in each "strain")Teresa Tooley and Eva Casidy

bradfordian

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:04 PM

I was just about to write "Teresa Tooley." Also, Mudcatters Cranky Yankee, Giac, and Metchosin.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:07 PM

Murray Adelman

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: GUEST,Mary Katherine
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:26 PM

Richard Farina
Bill Monroe
Stan Rogers
Carter Stanley
Mary Travers
Muddy Waters

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:39 PM

Joe,

How far back are we going?

Personally, I'd like to see one specifically for Mudcatters. Some of the names posted above are so well-known throughout the folk world, it seems to me Mudcatters, whom most of us knew personally to some extent, may get lost in the shuffle.

I'm looking for that thread for you. In the meanwhile, eerily, some who've gone on, posted to THIs THREAD I started years ago. Reading through it reminded me of another to add:

L.R. Mole

kat

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 12:44 PM

Joe, found it, I think:

Click Here. Another bit of eeriness...started due to a remark by Rowan, sadly lost to us, now.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 01:08 PM

I don't think any of these Mudcatters have been mentioned:

Billy the Bus (NZ)

Barrie Roberts (UK)

Dave Bryant (UK)

I always enjoyed their posts.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 01:55 PM

Merritt Herring

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: GUEST,Tim Hague
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 03:20 PM

Matt Armour, greatly missed in the North Bucks area and at festivals, great songwriter and a man who encouraged everyone to perform. Ran one of the longest continuous sessions in the Vaults Bar Stony Stratford, over 30 years...
RIP Big Man

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:10 PM

Considering the huge number of musicians no longer with us, I. to would like to see a permathread of Mudcat musicians (I include singers) who have gone on before. A bit more exclusive, and we could call it a family plot.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:16 PM

Love that, Dick. A Family Plot is perfect.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: scouse
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:17 PM

Two Glaswegian a Scouse, and a quiet Portland Man.

Hamish Imlach,
Iain McIntosh,
Pete McGovern,
Derrol Adams

As Aye,

Phil

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: GUEST,I don't know
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:24 PM

Fred Jorden
Sylvia Kelly
Alex Atterson
Colin Kemp

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:28 PM

Burl Ives
Ivar Hoagland
Carl Sandburg

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 07:51 PM

Well, this thread is totally out of control, and I love it. Kat started a similar thread in 2009. It, too, got out of control.

Well, let's just let this one go where it goes, and establish a more permanent PermaThread when this one gets enough information to give us a start.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 07:58 PM

Joe-

We could also start a thread for those of us who are going to die.

Of course some of us still think we are immortal.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:33 PM

Well, Charlie, I'm NOT going to die! Jeez, people have told me so much about where I'm going to end up I don't think I'll make the trip.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 09:53 AM

Cliff Aungier, and Mudcatter Julie B., who had a voice even Rapparee would die for...(and don't worry about ending up there - I doubt you'll be the only 'Catter!).

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Duke
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 10:07 AM

David Rea,Monte Dunn and Al Cromwell. Old friends who are greatly missed.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 11:12 AM

My dad, "Sparky" Hudson known to some for having performed, via telephone, on Mudcat radio and also making a CD of "Cow Songs" as well as being the reason I found Mudcat, looking for lyrics for him one day.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: bradfordian
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 11:23 AM

I guess it's going to be a case of lots of names of (principally) North Americans many of whom we on the other side of the pond have not heard, and of course vise versa. And I think that's OK.
Just wondering how far we want to go with "musicians of note"
Hopefully the nominations would have had an impact on a fair spectrum of our community (not just mudcatters)

bradfordian

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 11:43 AM

A folk scholar who could barely sing 2 notes in tune, but who knew more about the history of songs than most of us.... Bruce Olson.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 11:57 AM

What was her name... (strokebrain).... didn't we lose walking eagle (Julie???) a few years ago?

Oh yes: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=74708

~Susan

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: scouse
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 06:53 AM

Oh, my dear, we've forgotten one of the true greats, whom some might say started the folk revival in England.The one and only ALEX CAMPBELL.

As Aye,

Phil.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 07:16 AM

Mary Lamarca. I still miss her a lot.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 07:23 AM

Grant Rule of Pig's Ear (has his own thread at the moment).

Jacqui Walker, my late wife, nee Turner. Dave Bryant (see above) did her obit thread here. When Transatlantic wanted to sign a folk act in the revival, I am told they were tossing up between her band (the Chapmen) and the Young Tradition. The rest is history. Her picture is in one of the books about the history of Sidmouth Folk Festival. I am also told that Bert Lloyd spent a lot of time trying to get into her pants without success.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 10:48 AM

Two peope who had an enormous influence as singers and who both died recently - Mike Waterson and Ray (Rae) Fisher - she and brother Archie were my first real contact with folk singers in 1961 - at Festival Late in Edinburgh - where I was working at the time - (it ran every night of the week during the 3 weeks of the Edinburgh Festival) Other performers there included Enoch Kent, Gordie MacCulloch and Bobby Campbell - (later the Exiles) Hamich Imlach - a slim young man in those days, and a regular, Domenic Behan- (usually my job to get him a cab when he was incapable of walking!)The whole thing was a great introduction to traditional song!

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 08:02 PM

Great idea! Could we have both a thread for Mudcatters and one for musicians? If not the Mudcatters might indeed get lost among the great number of musicians we've lost in recent years. Mudcatters who were also musicians could easily be mentioned on both threads, I think.

I'll come up with something on Iain MacKintosh before Christmas, I hope. He died five years ago but due to my life going astray in all directions this year I didn't get round to reviving his obit thread.

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 08:10 PM

Can there be at least a small place for Mike Kahan, the Manchester Klezmer fiddler, who died so young and so tragically in 2008?

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: Bert
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:51 PM

Kat, I remember Sparky singing on Mudcat Radio. He sang "Ace Down in a Hole" He was great!

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:29 PM

Talking of the Young Tradition, can we really not have herad it yet for Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood? As to the 'how far backe do we go?' q

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:34 PM

[sorry ~ not sure how that happened] - start again:

Talking of the Young Tradition, can we really not have heard it yet for Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood? As to the 'how far back do we go?' question ~~~ perhaps anyone that any of us can personally remember: in which case Ron & Bob Copper.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:43 PM

Alan Lomax

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:43 PM

Ralph Rinzler

Subject: RE: Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 12:01 AM

Thanks, Bert! I think he was, too! But my favs were the old cow songs he knew so well.