The last song you sang (in a folk club)

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: the fence
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:12 PM

dont believe you villan, I watched you singing along last nite with george(the song you requested)

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:16 PM

Didn't think you were listening fence :-)

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Tootler
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:33 PM

Tonight I played Niel Gow's Lament on the death of his second wife on the flute and sang Rosin the Beau unaccompanied - except by other club members on the choruses.

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: jiva
Date: 06 May 07 - 07:46 AM

Cramlington Folk Club - 1st May, supporting Anthony John Clarke.

First half (Val playing 12-string guitar, Jimmy playing 6-string):
'Different Dreams" - self-penned
'Some Way Home' - self-penned
'Passin Thru' - Randy Scruggs and Johnny Cash (we'd recently heard a version with Don Henley [Eagles] singing lead and it led to us doing a gentler jiva-esque version)

Second half (both playing 6-string guitars):
'Maginot Waltz' - Ralph McTell
'Love At The Five And Dime' - Nanci Griffith

Fairly typical of our mix. Some self-penned and some contemporary songs that we particularly like.

Jimmy & Val
www.jiva.co.uk

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Flash Company
Date: 06 May 07 - 10:06 AM

A long time ago a guy called John Mitchell (aka Agraman) re launched the folk club at The Malt Shovels in Altrincham, prior to moving on to bigger things running Comedy Clubs (The Buzz at Chorlton cum Hardy)
I went along to all the Altrincham nights, although by this time I was not singing much due to lack of half a lung!
I did volunteer 'The Day the Piddletrenthide Jug Band hit the Charts' one night, which went down quite well despite my running out of breath a time or two.
Since then I have done my singing in the bath!
Oh, and if anyone out there sees Agraman, he's still got my bloody umbrella!

Brian Q

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Nick
Date: 06 May 07 - 02:17 PM

Rosemary's Sister by Huw and Tony Williams
Nat Schapiro's Time by Pete Ryder

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Seaking
Date: 06 May 07 - 02:26 PM

'Standing at the door' by Allan Taylor

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 06 May 07 - 07:35 PM

"Tomorrow's Sun" by Barry Wake

About 2 hours ago in Southampton

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 May 07 - 03:39 PM

For most of the past year, my set-closer (and this the last song I sang) has been "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans." Not traditional-folk by any means ~ I think it was written for a movie musical ~ but it has very emotional associations in the particular time and place in which I find myself, and thus is becoming kind of "traditional" in its own way.

If you had asked a month or two ago, after one of my previous appaearances at the local cofffeehouse, my answer would have been Dave Van Ronk's "Last Call," which I use as a closing number only when the mood (and my voice) is absolutely right.

This is a much more traditional sounding number, sung unaccompanied with a more-or-less sean nos approach, but it's a modern compsition. Well, the words, at least, were written fairly recently (1980s?); the melody may have been appropriated from a truly traditional source. (If DVR's music as well as his lyrics were truly original, he did a very impressive job of writing a melody that sounds absolutely ancient.)

Subject: RE: The last song you sang (in a folk club)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 07 May 07 - 10:56 PM

I'm still doing Happy! Songs of the Week - I've got 3 or 4 per week that I know.

The club I go to is Tuesdays - small but pleasant. Round-robin, text-based and mostly trad or folk blues. Happily broken up by whatever strikes people as interesting - modern stuff, c&w, classic rock, gospel, blue grass.

I usually sing 3 or 4 songs - heavy on ballads. Acapulco style, of course. I happened not to feel much like singing so I talked some of folk history around Mr Tom Dula (hanged May 1, 1868) and read some diary entries from wagon train travelers (1st one left Independence Missouri May 1, 1841) but I didn't sing Sweet Betsy from Pike. Reading things or telling shaggy dog stories is rare there but no one minds.

I did sing The Bonnie Bunch Of Roses (a #1 hit everywhere else in the world but pretty unknown here) on accounta Napoleon's dropping dead May 5, 1821.

Then I was gonna just sit back but there was a sudden round of gospel songs. I said, say, I know a gospel song and with obvious
trepidation several jammers said, Oh? And I sang "The Dockyard Church." If you don't know it (and very few do) it concerns church services in the sort of church you might find described in a fairly raunchy chantey.

I was wondering if I could mansge to get myself thrown out, but no, they wouldn't.

Grace was there - a bright lass that often does bluegrass & some gospel and someone said something about Amazing Grace. I said (with sooth) that in the decade I lived in Scotland I only heard the song a single way:
        Amazing Grrace,
        She had three tits...

They still wouldn't throw me out so I left & went home to bed. It was 11 o'clock by then and I'm getting old.