What did you listen to last night?

Subject: What did you listen to last night?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:12 AM

Hi all been reading a few threads after a break from the Cat.
And seems a bit contentious in places.
So maybe there is one subject that we could all par take in without errr disagreeing.
What did you listen to last night?
I listened to my Mrs playing her low d and other whistles as we practiced a tune we have come up with.
I enjoyed that very much.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:19 AM

Good idea for a thread. I listened to "The Lighthouse" (R. Hinson & G. West) and "Precious Lord Take My Hand"(Thomas A. Dorsey) in preparation for singing them with friends in church. I awoke with "Take My Hand" running in my head. Hmmm. That'd be nice on my low D, too!

maeve

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Santa
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:23 AM

Brass Monkey. Then I had a discussion with my wife about ideas raised by the superb Raglan Road thread.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: TheSnail
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:30 AM

Wasps in the Woodshed at the Lewes Arms Folk Club. Very exciting band.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: redsnapper
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:49 AM

The album Singing Sands by Tony McManus and Alain Genty.

RS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: the button
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:53 AM

Songs & Rummy Conjurin' Tricks -- Peter Bellamy

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Michael
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:32 AM

'Jackdaw Grooves' by Gordon Tyrrall

Mike

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Dave Tyler
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:46 AM

Brian Wilson 'Love And Mercy'

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:47 AM

Various hits by Meatloaf, Buddy Holly, Dylan, Flanders and Swann, Thin Lizzy, Kirsty McColl, Marc Cohn, Rod Shearman, Jake Thackray, Manfred Mann, Alison Kraus, Cream, Whitesnake and the Silly Sisters - I love driving with my iPod in the car!

I rarely sit and listen to a whole album by a single artist at once - I find they mostly get a bit 'samey' and I get bored. I have eclectic tastes and my iPod/MP3 selection certainly illustrates this. It's only recently I took the Brahms and Mozart selection off. There's some Handel to go on it next.

LTS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Rog Peek
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:56 AM

Irish dance music by Johnny O'Leary, Matt Cunningham, Shaskeen etc. Danced The Connemara Set, The Sliabh Luachra Set, The Kilfenora Set, The Plain Reel Set and the Ballyvourney Jig Set.

Set Dancing every Sunday Night at St. Bonaventures Club in Bristol.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,avrosimones
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:59 AM

"The album Singing Sands by Tony McManus and Alain Genty.

RS"

How is that album? I've heard mixed reviews so haven't bought it yet - although I do love the other Tony McManus albums (especially Ceol More).

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Murphy
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:15 AM

I listened to ME. Lucky enough to be doin' a gig.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:27 AM

Kingston Trio CD in the car

RtS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Rasener
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:49 AM

Pete Coe live at Grimsby Folk Club.

Pete was in cracking form and both sets were excellent.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 09:50 AM

Friday night, not last night - but here's a cut-and-paste of my post to flatpick-l from Saturday morning:

Saw George Jones and band at the Vermont State Fair (Rutland) last night. Pam Tillis opened. Big crowd. A significant fraction of Rutland County, and people from as far away as Montreal.

In brief, George is beginning to slow down, and letting his band members do more of the hard work. But he's still got the essentials. He still has all the note bends that nobody could get away with and get back where he should be by the end of the line...does with melody what Clarence did with time.

He has a fiddler, a telecaster player, and a chick singer, any of which would have been worth going to see in their own right, and his band is VERY tight. They all seemed to be actually enjoying themselves. I suspect, if this crowd was typical, knowing the ticket prices, they were doing a lot better for themselves than they could as soloists, even given their abilities, and they know it.

I didn't get into Pam Tillis's set very well. The volume was set too loud in general, and the instrument volumes overpowered the vocals. I guess that's the way the "hot new country" fans like it. But I like to hear the songs, not just a wall of noise. Normally, I'd be aware that what old f....old folks like has no economic significance; but this crowd had a majority of old folks. So you'd think she would have adapted. Oh, well. The good news was that _her_ tele player was incredible. I just ignored her and listened to him. I didn't get his name, but she introduced him as a grandson of Hank Snow. That made sense.

After nearly 50 years of playing acoustic guitar and sneering at electrics, I want a telecaster. Have since I saw Bill Kirchen a year or two ago. But I'm probably too old to learn to do anything with it, and I'd need a band. Ah, well, none of us can have it all, and I've had more than most.

Peter.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:24 AM

Jim Moray - "Sweet England".

Sheer genius.

I am well pleased at the way the "Scene" is evolving, with the likes of Eliza C and her musician mates ; Bellowhead, and Mr Moray, making music which raises the hair on the back of my neck, and sets the blood racing.

I am minded of the mid to late 1960s, when the three chord wonders in denim caps, with their own 'songs', songs written on sh*tpaper in the interval, started infesting the folk clubs.

I damn near went back to playing rock 'n' roll. You couldn't breathe for pseudo-American accents and then the Watersons and Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick came to show us (me) the way.

Some might not like the way the "Scene" is evolving, but it is, I think, ineluctable. Perhaps we are now beginning to recover from the damage inflicted on the Revival by the likes of Mr McColl.

Then my beloved and I listened to a compilation disc by Maddy Prior - 'Hind Horn' ; 'Sheath and Knife' ; - sheer genius.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:08 AM

Robert Crumb and Cheap Suit Serenaders (Japanese/Korean reissue of their first Blue Goose album) - lovely stuff!

Kris Drever 'Black Water' Excellent young Scots performer.

M.Ward 'Transfiguration of Vincent' - Weird but fascinating.

Donnie Munro 'Heart of America: across the great divide'. Impressive.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:14 AM

Eric Bibb and Jackson Browne -yup steeped in the folk tradition me!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:18 AM

The John Dipper Band at the Bothy Folk Club in Southport - an hour's drive, but worth every minute.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: The PA
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:19 AM

A collection of Pavaroti, which we keep in the car. So, we were sort of the three tenors towing the horses back home. I should imagine it was a bit of a racket as none of us can sing, or speak a word of italian we just make it up, but we enjoyed it !

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:21 AM

Lévon Minassian And Friends-'The Doudouk Beyond Borders.'

Not to be played in car.
It can induce a Lite Stupor!

David

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: MairSea
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:47 AM

Colvin/Quarmby at Shep Wooley and friends in the Thorngate HAlls, Gosport - brilliant night and in 4 weeks time it is Cloudstreet and Harvey Andrews we'll be listening to. Lucky us eh? Shep and friends is on on the 2nd Sunday of every month.

Love and Peace

Ann XOXOX

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM

My dear friends singing the old familiar songs to send off one among us on her next big adventure- a year in Europe with her 18-year old daughter.
So we sang, "Drive dull care away", "Rolling Home (to old New England)" and many others.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:36 PM

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Since having the pleasure of being entertained by Washboard Breezy and the good Rev. at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival in August, there hasn't been a day or night that's gone by that I haven't listened to their CD, Big Damn Nation.

I don't think I have been that obsessive about a group since I was a kid. Described as Robert Johnson on crack, perhaps this makes me a crack addict. Not a duff cut on the whole CD. I just love them!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,Luckett Lad
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:40 PM

Dragonsfly - very popular down in the south west (UK) area and regulars at the most excellent Priddy Festival

http://www.dragonsfly.org/

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Banjiman
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 01:11 PM

Brother Crow: "One For Sorrow"- Great CD by excellent contemporary folk duo from from Weirdale, County Durham, UK growing reputation on the Northeast Folk Scene....I like 'em, good lads too! http://www.myspace.com/brothercrowfolk Suggest you start with Let The Dance Go On.

obviously "Now Then" by Wendy Arrowsmith...I've posted the link to her MySpace site too many times already!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Cats
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 01:30 PM

Holler and Shout by Ramskyte. John has kindly agreed that we can use the song as part of our 'Crying the Neck' ceremony this weekend and I have to learn it by then so I can sing it as they cut the last sheaf in the field.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Ernest
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 01:56 PM

Martin Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop playing a concert in the afternoon, M. W-R and the No Man`s Band "Beneath a southern Sky" (bought at the concert of course) in the evening after returning home...

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,albert
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 02:33 PM

I was listening to Lowlands by Jean Redpath and Abby Newton and fine it is too!

However,I want to defend "Mr McColl from the base charge by Bryn Pugh that he damaged the folk revival.What absurd tosh!
Ewan McColl was a towering figure in the folk world as a writer,collector and singer of traditional material.He also encouraged young and talented singers and musicians around him.The Radio Ballads were landmark recordings and many of his own songs have passed into the tradition.I am thinking of such songs as Dirty Old Town ,the Manchester Rambler and The Terror Time.
albert

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 02:36 PM

about 6 videos on YouTube of The Beers Family on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" series from 40 years ago!

Such wonderful music & memories.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 02:45 PM

Good grief, not many of you actually go anywhere, do you?
(Well done to Nigel for driving out to the John Dipper Band at Southport).
I saw Karen Tweed (who did a Dipper tune) with Roger Wilson and they were fab.
They began with John Kirkpatrick's Seven Up and because it's such a good tune, did it as an encore.
A fine old custom worth reviving.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: countrylife
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 02:51 PM

Other People's Lives: Ray Davies

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: GUEST,CannieShieldsLaddie
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 03:33 PM

Tom Napper and Tom Bliss at South Shields Folk Club.

Absolutely superb night. Could have done with another hour.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 03:39 PM

I'd like to have Diane's job that means she can go out on a Sunday night.

LTS

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 03:43 PM

Listened to myself playing the harmonica, just got a new set of Suzuki's and was trying them out. Afterward, I went for a drive and put on a new CD that I jsut purchased and new nothing about, but it sounded interesting. "Mr Peters", an accordian player/singer from Belize. WOW!!. There's no point in trying to describe it, but if you like traditional Caribbean music, this guy is a must for your collection.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Irene M
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 03:54 PM

Been re-visiting old LPs of late. Magna Carta, Janet Russell, Allan Taylor, Dave Walters.....anyone know what happened to him (and Bill Hill the one from Edinburgh)?

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: LesB
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 06:21 PM

The John Dipper Band at the Bothy Folk Club Southport.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 06:45 PM

Diane Easby, what do you mean by "not many of you actually go anywhere?" I drove 1,000 miles to see the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Rowan
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:25 PM

Warren Fahey and his Larrikins (on this occasion Marcus Holden and Garry Steel) doing their "Old bush songs, yarns, poems & humour" at The Armidale Club.

And they were in fine form.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Beer
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:34 PM

David Massengill.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:13 PM

Brahms 2nd symphony
Handel Water Music, both suites
Collection of pieces from old recording by Neville Marriner/ St Martin--Eine Kleine
   Nachtmusik, Faure Pavane, etc.
Gunsmoke--from about 1956 --from old time radio program. The pictures are fantastic.
Bach, Beethoven, Joplin, 19th century parlor songs, Linden Lea --from my practicing

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:14 PM

"Eine kleine..."

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:18 PM

Jill Rogoff, Patsy Cline and k d lang.....

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: pattyClink
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:38 PM

Paddy Keenan, new cd signed by himself that afternoon, what an experience to hear and see him play.

Top that!

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Gudrun Miller
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:47 PM

Last night...Tracy Grammer "Flower of Avalon" (no, that was this morning) ... Last night was: "Maidens of the Celtic Harp", "The Irish In America: Long Journey Home" and varius music off my iPod--Bach, Grieg, Anne Hills, Judy Collins, Tom Paxton, Golden Bough..........

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Janie
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:02 PM

Barry and Neil's "Fathom This", which I am just about to wear out and I haven't had it but two weeks.

Regina Hexaphone's new CD, "Into Your Sleeping Heart"

Assorted cuts from assorted Little Feat albums

Meself, singing on the front porch after midnight.

Janie

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: astro
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 12:43 AM

I had a nice quiet time listening to Kurt Elling then Waltz Time by Larry Unger and Ginny Snow. I listened to the new double CD by Chip Taylor which is great. I was driving over from Tucson, where I live, to
Los Angeles where I work, a bit of a commute.

Astro

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 05:48 AM

LOL Sorry Dianne,
Another night in playing a few songs and a new tune with Jen.
I am afraid we are not doing much to keep live music going in the local area just now.
Hi Les
Is it a come and play night at Grimsby FC this coming sunday?
Keep listening.

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 06:14 AM

I went out - Keeping Music Alive by playing at a Ceilidh for the New students at the Royal School Of Music ! A sort of 'This is NOT the right way to do it' evening I fear ! LOL

Subject: RE: What did you listen to last night?
From: Colin Randall
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 06:30 AM

Talitha MacKenzie's Indian Summer. Some excellent moments.