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Thread #107722   Message #2237033
Posted By: peregrina
15-Jan-08 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: Organic food/Organic Folk
Subject: RE: Organic food/Organic Folk
Nigel, when I think about it, just 'own label' wouldn't be enough of a feature to ensure more diverse coverage of the sort that I would like to hear in folk shows. (If you don't listen to Mike Harding by the way, you can always check his playlist online).(Of course a few folk radio programmes have had, or now do have, such diversity--the lamented North Yorkshire Folk and Seffield Live's TGIF.)

But to give an example (or three) of the sort of stuff I'm thinking of--these are not random, but also not just promoting my favourites:

(1) Stanley Robertson (a few tracks on itunes, a few tracks on Fife traditional singing weekend CDs, no CD as far as I know of him singing ballads, though there is one of children's rhymes)--so recordings are hard to find, but he is an amazing singer.

(2)Lizzie Higgins (on musical traditions 'In Memory of Lizzie Higgins')--I guess anyone who appreciates Lisa Knapp's 'A Beggar a Beggar' would listen to Lizzie Higgins' singing of that with great pleasure? (a track from that Lizzie Higgins CD did get played on late junction).

(3) Mick Sheehan's Whiskey Refugees. (I couldn't suggest nothing but unaccompanied traditional singers...)