Thank You Mudcat Members! (Ragamuffin Radio)

Subject: Thank You Mudcat Members!
From: Ragamuffin
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 03:29 PM

About 4 weeks back we asked for assistance regarding researching songs which reflected the decline of The South Wales Deep Mining Industry, for a future musical radio program, and many of you contributed: thank you all so very much!!

The results of all your, and our efforts and research follow:-

Please Enjoy!!

Thank You One & ALL!

"Sunday In The Shires": The latest Program in the current series.

Ragamuffin's Brian and Mike have been championing music below the radar
before the pod was cast . . .

The Dutch daffodils are fading and the woods are filled with English
primrose and the buds of hazelnuts.
It's into Spring in the shires with more music and tales than you can wag a
stick at with Ragamuffin's Brian and Mike.

Listen to Latest Sunday in the Shires show
http://www.ragamuffin.biz/sundayshires/shires240408.wma

HTML. Play List For This Program:
http://www.ragamuffin.biz/sundayshires.html

The Sunday in the Shires Archive
http://www.ragamuffin.biz/shiresarchive.html

Time to put some wood in the stove, the coffee pot on the boil, butter the
toast and play some music. We're here where time comes and goes like the
postman . . .

The playlist:

No One Will Ever Know - Billy and Harry
from Back to Basics - Billy and Harry


THE BLUES TWO - RAG MAMA RAG
Lazy Good For Nothin' Dude (Ashley Dow) Rag Mama Rag
from their album LIVE
Cigarette Blues (Bo Carter of the Mississippi Sheiks) Rag Mama Rag
another cracking song from Ashley and Deborah Dow's album LIVE who Mike
caught up with at Ringwood Folk Club courtesy of Martin Kennard's wheels


THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES - BESSIE SMITH
An interview with Henrietta Yurencho and Eli Smith on the life and music of
Bessie Smith featuring St. Louis Blues with Louis Armstrong and
Black Mountain Blues Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Bessie Smith
Down Home Radio
Bessie Smith inducted into Rock Hall of Fame
The Blues Highway



THE MUSIC OF MARJORIE THOMSON - PART TWO
Watch The North Wind Rise (Jorma Kaukonen) Marjorie Thomson
Don't Look Back Marjorie Thomson
more music from Majorie Thomson's album Right By Me and interview with Mike
at Platform Tavern, 23rd March, 2008



UNDER MILK WOOD / DYLAN AND CAITLIN
Extract Under Milk Wood Suite Donald Houston / Stan Tracey Quartet
Mike was at the Wigmore Hall in 1976 when Donald Houston read Under Milk
Wood with the Stan Tracey Quartet playing the Under Milk Wood Suite.
Cracking night.
Dylan and Caitlin Huw Pudner and Chris Hastings
This song has been in my head for a couple of weeks and it stands perfectly
alongside the Donald Houston reading. The link here is to the Pontardawe
Folk Club where I believe Huw and Chris and other Welsh poets and songmen
have performed an evening of music entitled Songs of the Earth



LAST DEEP MINE IN THE VALLEYS - TYRONE O'SULLIVAN
We tip our hats to the music, history and mining men of the South Wales
coalfields featuring interviews with miner's leader Tyrone O'Sullivan.
Land Of Our Fathers - Caerphilly Male Voice Choir
from the album The Music Of Wales.
Skewan Main - 1925 Huw Pudner and Chris Hastings
Huw Pudner lives about two doors from the entrance to the old Skewan Main
colliery and he and Chris Hastings have preserved its history with this
song. Put me down for a front row seat to listen to an evening of Songs of
the Earth performed at Pontardawe Folk Club, link to the club here.
You'll Never Walk Alone - Morriston Orpheous Choir
from the album Great Voices Of Wales / Choral Festival


Closing music:
No One Will Ever Know - Billy and Harry
from Back to Basics - Billy and Harry from Bellbuckle, Tennessee.
A Ragamuffin Media Production


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ENJOY!!

Ragamuffins Mike & Brian.

Subject: RE: Thank You Mudcat Members!
From: Azizi
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 05:14 PM

Ragamuffin's Brian and Mike have been championing music below the radar before the pod was cast

That was well put!

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Thank you, Brian & Mike for helping to raise awareness and foster appreciation for this music!

Here's the hyperlinks from your post:

Listen to Latest Sunday in the Shires show
http://www.ragamuffin.biz/sundayshires/shires240408.wma

The Sunday in the Shires Archive

http://www.ragamuffin.biz/shiresarchive.html

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Btw, I love the name "ragamuffin".

Best wishes,

Azizi