Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?

Subject: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 06:54 PM

In another thread, somebody requested a German Version of Eric Bogle's "No Man's Land" (The Green Fields of France). Turns out the German version, "Es Ist an der Zeit," was written by Hannes Wader, who has recorded German versions of many English-language songs.
I see there are a number of Wader albums available for download at emusic.com. Can someone tell us a bit about Wader, and recommend some albums I should download?
Thanks.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 04:15 AM

Joe, pop his name into Myspace and search that. There are what looks like many videos posted.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 04:20 AM

Also YOUTUBE.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 04:23 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Wader

If you buy every one of his released records/CDs, you'll end up broke.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: scouse
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 11:57 AM

Hannes lived in Struckem in a Windmill and he built a recording studio there. During the time there he put out two now legendary Lp's called "Folk Friends." Vol.1and 2. besides Hannes singing there are tracks by.. Alex Campbell,Dolores Keene, Finbar an Eddie Fury, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Derroll Adams,Wizz Jones, John Faulkner,Bert Jansch,Andy Irvine, Dick Gaughan and Guy and Candy Carawan. Hope I haven't missed anyone out!! Oops also Wenner Lammerhirt. Finbar's version of "Derroll in the Rain." always makes me cry!!

As Aye,

Phil.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 10:39 PM

Guest, 999 - but it's worth it! The two double 'Folk Friends' albums Phil recommends are certainly worth having, if not so much for Hannes' own music. My 94-year-old friend and I had great fun on Christmas day, listening to and singing along with The Internationale and Hannes' and Guy Carawan's 'macaronic' version of 'Brüder seht die rote Fahne / Hold the Fort'. They were the only Christmas songs we did.

Hannes Wader has been a force in German political songwriting for over 40 years now. He is still turning out strongly left-wing material, but I for one think that his more recent albums are as good as the earlier ones concerning both the music, the lyrics and the voice. It isn't all propaganda (never was, not his self-penned songs at any rate).

I don't copy albums still available commercially, but if you have specific interests I might be able to help you with, PM me.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 11:56 PM

Thanks for all the information, everyone. I found a lot of Hannes Wader I can buy as MP3 downloads or on online radio. There are 16 Hannes Wader albums available for download purchase at emusic.com. Unfortunately, the Folk Friends 1 and Folk Friends 2 CDs are not available in the US. They were reissued in May, 2009. Perhaps they will be available in the US soon. I take it the CDs don't have as many cuts as the LP records had.

I did buy three albums:

• Auftritt
• Blick zurück: das Beste aus den 80er Jahren
• Neue Bekannte: 20 lieder neu arrangiert und aufgenommen

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: GUEST,Reinhard
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 03:00 AM

One of my first LPs was Hannes Wader's "7 Lieder" which I must have bought about the same time as Steeleye Span's "Below the Salt"; and I still own both. "Heute hier, morgen dort" was one of Wader's best known songs, and the cynic Der Tankerkönig was what my first impression of talking blues.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 07:27 PM

Great, Joe! Enjoy them! I'll look out for the 'Folk Friends' CDs and check the tracks against the vinyl.

Subject: RE: Hannes Wader - bio and recommendations?
From: Reinhard
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 02:13 AM

Susanne, the tracklist of my Folk Friends CDs is below. These are the old Wundertüte CDs from 1990 and 1992. I saw in an advertisement in Folker 06.09 that Conträr has reissued them recently. According to their website the tracklist hasn't changed though.

Folk Friends

1. Six Days on the Road
2. Night Visiting Song / Dat du min Leefste büst
3. Planxty Irwin
4. I'm Sad and I'm Lonely
5. Lonely One
6. The Trail of Tears
7. Willst Du Dein Herz mir schenken
8. Night Ferry
9. I Remember Loving You
10. Derroll in the Rain
11. Who Will Sing for Me
12. Walking Down the Line
13. Old Molly Hare
14. Brüder seht die rote Fahne / Hold the Fort
15. One Day We'll See Them
16. Black Jack Davey
17. New National Seven
18. Aragon Mill
19. Pay Day at Coal Creek
20. John of Dreams
21. Alex's Dream / Ned Walsh's Jig
22. When The Fiddler Has Played His Last Tune for the Night

Folk Friends 2

1. Two Hundred Miles Away
2. The World Turned Upside Down
3. Seamen Three
4. Columbus Georgia
5. Born to Live With the Blues
6. The Father's Song
7. Yesterday's People
8. Take the Children and Run
9. Thousands Are Sailing to Amerikay
10. Es ist ein Schnee gefallen
11. Don't Think Twice It's All Right
12. Voices from the Mountains
13. Bloody Sunday
14. Siege of a Nation
15. Lassie Lie Near Me
16. Me And Bobby McGee
17. The John McLean March
18. Jamie Foyers
19. Green Grows the Laurel
20. The Waterford Waltz
21. Planet Without Plan