You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)

Subject: You must have this album!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 02:43 PM

Howie Bunsen's album "Cider in the Kitchen" is just so good.
See link below, and I bet even hearing only 30secs per track will convince lots of listeners to invest in this masterpiece.

Howie's album link

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: Tunesmith
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 02:48 PM

If you are short of time, just listen to "Handsome Molly" and "Joshua Gone Barbados"

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 03:36 PM

Is he any relation to Howie Bursen ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: Tunesmith
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 03:47 PM

You can't believe the amount of typos I've made recently!
Should I be concerned?

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 04:03 PM

Tunesmith just thinks he's really cooking with gas.

The mp3s are all marked as not for sale outside the USA. I can't hear any of them.

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 07:11 PM

Cider in the Kitchen is one of two Howie Bursen recordings available from Sandy and Caroline Paton's Folk-Legacy records. The recordings are available on Spotify and most of the usual MP3 outlets.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: You must have this album!
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Aug 16 - 09:45 PM

Why is the universe sliced into tiny pieces?

Why do UK bridges become the toll roads for collection of fees?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

The slime trais of napster and lime-wire gave way to torrents of bit-stream...but an apple is still the chosen fruit for those of the layZ, layMe persuasions

Subject: RE: You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Aug 16 - 12:15 AM

Cider in the Kitchen...???

I couldn't find any song title about cider.. what a miserable disappointment...

However, a 20 litre bag in a box of Thatchers fairly strong Cheddar Valley or Big Apple
would come to just over 45 quid including delivery....
that's roughly 35 pints...

We need a bigger fridge... 😜

Subject: RE: You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)
From: Tunesmith
Date: 06 Aug 16 - 07:14 AM

A checked, and the cd version of the album is available both on Amazon UK and Amazon USA.

Below is a link to Youtube where posters can hear Howie singing "Joshua Gone Bardados" , and though Howie is known as an ace banjo player, his guitar playing is outstanding.

Howie's Gone Barbados

Subject: RE: You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 06 Aug 16 - 09:50 AM

I may have the lp, must look, from circa 1972 when Howie was a ph.d. student at Cornell and Ithaca was a hive of folk music activity. I haven't sung Joshua Gone Barbados in years, thanks for the reminder. I learned that and Handsome Molly from Howie. And Locks and Bolts, which tune has been in my head recently, and the Year of the Jubilo (an abolitionist song, though there is a Mudcat thread criticising its political correctness). I think I got Bald Headed End of a Broom from Howie also. How do Howie's more recent recordings compare with "Cider in the Kitchen"?

Subject: RE: You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)
From: GUEST,Sally rogers
Date: 17 Aug 16 - 09:35 AM

"Cider in the Kitchen" was the road to my heart. This album made me fall in love with and marry Howie. The album was recorded around 1979-80. His more recent albums are also wonderful, especially Banjo Mannikin, filled with amazing banjo wizardry and the assistance of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. The title reference to cider in the lichen comes from a line in Year of Jubilo.

Subject: RE: You must have this album! (Howie Bursen)
From: clueless don
Date: 18 Aug 16 - 08:52 AM

I have it on vinyl. I used to hear Mr. Bursen perform live back when I was a student at Cornell.

Don