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Subject: RE: Obit: Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 03 Jun 06 - 06:09 AM The Double CD "The Songs of Chris Kempster" was released at Easter at the National Folk Festival. Bob Bolton reviewed it in June Mulga Wire & when he reads this thread might post his review here (please??) Chris Kempster project - listen to tracks here Cost $AUD25 + postage & it'd available from 3 sites Stairway to Kevin Trad and Now Folk Trax - review & track descriptions here |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Joe Offer Date: 03 Jun 06 - 02:57 PM Please see the 2004 obituary thread for more information about Chris Kempster. Here's a track listing for the CD:
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:36 AM Joe - I'm sure Trad'n'Now and Fast Trax send overseas. If Dick wants to get some copies for Camsco, I could probably arrange it sandra ps. did ya know Mudcatter Dug is Doug Jenner? |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Bob Bolton Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:29 PM G'day Sandra & Joe, Here is the text of my review, from the Mulga Wire section of the Bush Music Club's Mulga Wire, June 2006. The Songs Of Chris Kempster NSW Folk Federation /The CK Project Committee CKP041 Ever since Chris Kempster's untimely death, his friends and admirers have worked hard to bring out a recording that does justice to the breadth and variety of Chris's music settings of Henry Lawson poems. Because the resulting songs were taken up by such a variety of singers around Australia – and overseas – a great part of this project was finding well-loved versions from singers over the years … and finding current singers to present their favourites. The result is a selection of 30 tracks on a double CD set – with some two dozen different singers, solo or in combination and this great variety of voices and styles produces a virtual concert with something for everyone. The great Lawson songs – from Chris's setting of Reedy River … almost the anthem of the first Australian 'Folk Revival' of the 1950s (but sung very well by USA's Priscilla Herdman) … through the songs of Lawson's social concern (Faces in the Street … and Freedom on the Wallaby 0… marvellously rendered by Declan Affley, observations of the pioneering life of his youth – such as The Roaring Days… given a lively modern treatment by James Fagan … to later songs of racial struggle in post-war Australia like Dorothy Hewitt's Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod… very forcefully presented by England's Roy Bailey – to Chris's 1993 tune. There are several of those songs written by Henry Lawson and others with a sensitivity to the women of pioneering Australia: Chris singing his own setting of The Drover's Sweetheart…, Priscilla Herdman presenting Chris's tunes for that enigmatic verse The Water Lily… and Louis Esson's Bush Lullaby… … through to Chris's version of Dorothy Hewitt's words for her husband Merv Lilley The Sailor Home from the Sea…. Henry Lawson's troubled life combines with Chris's talent in tune-writing to produce masterpieces like Bertha… (addressed to Henry's daughter) stunningly sung here by Margaret Fagan … the brilliant refutation of lesser rhymers' carping Do You Think I do not Know? … - Chris's tune as it was first interpreted by Declan Affley … that piercing observation of Darlinghurst Gaol (Keep Step) One Hundred and Three… sung by Len Neary … and that song of acceptance and resignation to fate that Henry wrote only months before his death: On The Night Train… – brilliantly sung by Chloë Roweth. Chris demonstrates his appreciation of others' work on the Lawson vein with a fine rendition of Henry's The Outside Track … to a tune by English singer Gerry Hallom and a nicely balanced performance is rounded out with a short instrumental treatment of Chris's tune to The Drover's Sweetheart …. The 2-CD set was selling for (Aust) $25 at the Australian) National Folk Festival launch (Easter 2006) … and wonderful value! Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Bob Bolton Date: 05 Jun 06 - 11:32 PM G'day again, The above review is now also posted at the NSW Folk Federation's JAM site ... along with some good photos (OK ... some a re mine ... but there are also some from the '50s of the original Bushwhackers Band ...) The Songs of Chris Kempster and a review of the CD Launch Concert: Chris Kempster CD Launch Concert Regards, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 06 Jun 06 - 09:06 AM thanks, Bob, there are some good pics there. I really must find & scan the rest of my pics of Chris, I have a lovely one of Chris & Alex Hood at the national in 2000 & pics of the Rambleers at Jamberoo sandra |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Tony Rees Date: 23 Feb 20 - 04:03 AM 14 years on... some of Sandra's pix mentioned above now uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, link here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Sandy-1410&ilshowall=1 Also in use on Wikipedia (pages for the Bushwhackers, and Alex Hood at this time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bushwhackers_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hood Thanks Sandra! |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 23 Feb 20 - 08:29 PM excellent articles, Tony! Aticles about Alex articles about the Bushwhackers (1952-1957) on Bush Music Club blog |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 23 Feb 20 - 08:31 PM The Bushwhackers were the founders of the Bush Music Club in 1954 |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Tony Rees Date: 26 Feb 20 - 01:39 AM And congrats to Sandra for utilizing Wimedia Commons as a repository for these pictures so that they become available as a resource for all, now and future... as I have discussed in a separate mudcat thread: A repository for your music pictures... If other folk can be persuaded to liberate more such from their albums and shoe boxes, what a resource we will have! |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 26 Feb 20 - 04:01 AM Tony, that link gave me a 404. |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Tony Rees Date: 26 Feb 20 - 04:40 AM Me too... something wrong somewhere. Here is the correct link: A repository for your music pictures... Cheers - Tony |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: GUEST Date: 28 Feb 21 - 12:29 AM Hello, Can I buy this CD? If so, where? Please. Or how can I hear the tracks 2 and 16, The Drover's Sweetheart ? |
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Subject: RE: Commemorative CD: The Songs of Chris Kempster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Feb 21 - 05:14 AM Guest, the CD is long out of print, but the track came from a Restless Music LP recorded in 1984 - Workers on the Field, Vol.1 Restless Music have re-released tracks from some of their back catalogue tho I can't see Chris's song on the compilation, but they might be able to help you. do you know anyone with a collection of LPs that might include have this one? sandra |
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