Review: New Boat Band Fan

Subject: New Boat Band Fan
From: InOBU
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 05:28 PM

Just recieved a couple of CDs from a fellow MCat in Cumbria... the Boat Band! Fenbleedingnominal! Made me want to drop everything, rent a narrowboat and take to the life of a bargie! Wonderfully authentic English country music, the kind one worries will sucumb to pub music licences and the viral infection of corporate commodity music. Gives ya hope for the future!
(Thanks again mate)
Cheers - Larry

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: ChanteyMatt
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 07:06 PM

So, share! Is there a website we can go to? How can we get ahold of CDs?

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: InOBU
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 07:51 PM

I'm hoping that the catter responcible will put ordering info on the post, cause it really is fine stuff, and Mudcats would do well to fund his band's pint fund for a long long time... the second CD is the Boat Band doing Cajun, and Blues... my wife is very fond of Cajun music, can't wait for her to get home to hear it... Let's see, it is... about 2am in England... so maybe by tommorrow we will hear from the MCAT pal, Cheers, Larry

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 07:04 AM

Many thanks for those kind words, Mr InOBU. Funny names some of the inhabitants round here have. And I've told you about "I before E except after C" before. If anyone wants to know about the Boat Band, try harbourtownrecords.com (sorrycan't do blue clickies). Harbourtown Records are not run by us by the way, in spite of their boaty name. Gordon Jones is your main man there, who will be remembered by those on both sides of the pond for his Silly Wizard days. Harbourtown have done five of our albums, and the sixth( A Trip to the Lakes, all Cumbrian traditional tunes) is not actually officially out yet, but will be at the end of the month. ( Cumbrian Roots Day, Kendal Brewery, March 30 plug plug). I sent InOBU one of a limited pre-release souvenir edition we did for an anti footnmouth Cumbrian festival last backend. Had to send him one because he made me listen to a Sorch Dorcha CD, which demanded retaliation. ChanteyMatt: I'll send you a PM with mre details

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 07:14 AM

Greg: You remind me, the Silly Wizard concetion, of an old aquaintence of mine, who died much to young in a car accedent with Johnney Cunningham's brother, who's first name escapes me this early morning, Pat?) but, anyway, it was Tich of the Boys of the Lough. He came up to the house a few times with Cathal to "play with the boats", (I build HUGE modle schooners, brigs etc...) But, wasn't Tich from your part of the world? He was a great loss to music and those who met him, lovely fellow...Cheers, Larry
PS It's Phill,... Phill Cunningham, the brain is waking up!

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 07:35 AM

Tich Richardson was a Geordie (Newcastle on tyne,northumberland) as far as i remember .North east, rather than north west(where Cumbria is)..but we border each other.

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 07:40 AM

That's the man, a lovely gentle fellow. Take a moment to hold him in the light, he was gone much to soon. Cheers, Larry

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 08:23 AM

Tich was from Wallsend-on-Tyne. We were at university together in Sheffield and Aix-en-Provence, and shared a house one year (just down the road from where Pauline Cato the Northumbrian piper lives now); riotous times. His wake was the second most drunk I've been in my life, I think, but I was almost sober compared to Cathal!

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: MikeofNorthumbria
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 10:04 AM

Yeah, Tich is still much missed around here - both as a good bloke, and as a fine guitarist. He played with the Boys of the Lough for some time, though I can't recall which of their records he appeared on.

Back to the Boat Band. I've heard them live on numerous occasions over the past decade or so, and jammed with them a few times. Excellent musicians and very nice people to know. They concentrate mostly on Cajun/Zydeco material now (often in collaboration with the Louisiana singer and rub-board player J C Gallow), but they also play most kinds of American, British and Irish roots music with sympathy and zest. Truly a band for all sessions. Check out their records, or catch them live if they're down your way.

Wassail!

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 06:33 AM

I add my cudos to Inobu for the Boat Band. Fine, fine music!

Jerry

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 07:11 AM

I beleive the Boat Band are playing Tinto(near Biggar) towards the end of the month . At least I hope they are as I'm going to see them.

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 09:41 AM

And I believe Greg et al is traveling to the states in a couple of weeks, to the Staunton, Virginia, area among others vistas.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 11:41 AM

Tell us more--list content, maybe a few lyrics. Sounds interesting but specifics are always desirable.

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 12:24 PM

EBarnacle: there is a thread called (I think) "Mudcatters' CDs Part 2" which has track-listings of a lot of our stuff. Our record company also has a website harbourtownrecords.com. Our most barnacle-encrusted album "Take me over the Tide"is currently unavailable but is going to be re-issued on CD soon.

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: GUEST,Adiscerning music lover
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 10:50 AM

Wow, this Mudcat site is amazing. There are people here who like my favourite band. Cool!

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:00 AM

I think so too, greg! *G*

~S~

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: C-flat
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:55 PM

Hi greg!

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 02:29 PM

And here is the blue clicky toharbourtown records - and here is the Boat Band - no sound files that I could find. (But I've got the CDs, and they are well worth having.)

Subject: RE: Review: New Boat Band Fan
From: BanjoRay
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 12:11 PM

I just won the Boat Band's new CD "A Trip To The Lakes" on Greg Stephen's recent Mudcat quiz, and am extemely impressed with it. It's a collection of traditional Cumberland tunes - reels, jigs, hornpipes, airs and songs performed very tastefully. It was apparently recorded in association with a post Foot and Mouth cheering-up folk festival held in the Newfield Arms at Seathwaite in Dunnerdale, Cumbria (one of the world's fine pubs for beer, food and hospitality). If a band that specializes in Cajun/Zydeco can do this good a job of Cumberland tunes, I would really like to hear their Louisiana stuff!

Cheers
Ray