Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!

Subject: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 11:13 PM

I am very pleased to announce some very special guests will be joing me this Sunday on my WFDU-FM program, Traditions.   

Lorcan Otway (InOBU to Mudcatters!)will be joining me during the 3pm hour to share some of his songs. Larry is a brillant songwriter whose songs focus on the human condition. These are not naval gazing songs, but songs that remind us of where we fit in on this planet and the work that needs to be done. I am anxious to talk with him and to present his music live on the radio.

During the 5pm hour I will be featuring an interview that I taped with The Kossoy Sisters. Perhaps you weren't around in 1957 when their first recording with Erik Darling was released. (I was born that year!) You might remember a few years ago when a song from the LP, I'll Fly Away, was featured in the soundtrack of the film "Oh Brother Where Art Thou". Since then, the Irene and Ellen have released a new CD and they are collecting songs for another!   I had such a wonderful time chatting with them as they reminisced about the folk revival and brought us up to date on their involvement with music since then. Their voices sound as beautiful as ever!!

WFDU-FM can be heard at 89.1FM in the NYC area. You can also listen online through our website - www.wfdu.fm . TRADITIONS can be heard every Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6pm hosted by myself and my co-host, Bill Hahn!!

I also have a few other surprises in store, I hope you can join us!!

Ron Olesko
Producer/Host/Creator/Parking Lot Attendant
WFDU-FM's TRADITIONS

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 11:28 PM

Wonderful! Thanks for the heads-up!

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 02:09 AM

"These are not naval gazing songs..."

Very nice typo.

There was some evolution in the marketing of the Kossoy Sisters 1957 album.
I've never seen the original, but on a vinyl re-release maybe from the 1970s they were given equal billing with Erik Darling (and a mention of someone else, Robin Roberts or something like that [but not Robin Roberts the pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies], who sang a couple of songs). Then on a CD from the 1990s their album was combined with one of Darling's instrumental albums and as I recall the Kossoy name doesn't appear anywhere on the CD.

I like that 1957 album. It's astonishing to think that the follow-up took nearly 50 years!

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 03:33 AM

Are those times EDT Ron? (I'm not sure whether WFDU is an NY station, or can just be picked up there on the frequency you've given.) It's going to be a tricky time for me anyway, but I will set aside all else to catch Larry. Can you give some idea what his time slot is likely to be? Full marks for having him on, by the way - I bet it will be an interesting discussion!

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 06:00 AM

Oh we poor strangers abroad who cannot listen to InObu's songs at the wireless!

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 10:05 AM

Larry sent me a Sorcha Dorcha tape a few years ago, absolutely brilliant.

eric

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 10:15 AM

Too bad such a great program is in such a lousy format! Why not MP3 or real audio? Kickbacks from Microsoft??

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 10:23 AM

Yes, the time is ET. Larry will be on during the 3pm hour.

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 02:14 PM

Fantastic! I'll be there.

I learned several songs from that 1957 record when it first came out.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 12:25 PM

Just doing a trial tuning in, as I type. I've got a first -class connection, and what I'm hearing is first class too - Bill Bill Broonzy, Dylan, and much else that seldom gets airtime in the UK. WFDU has been added to my list, and I'm looking forward to hearing Larry loud and clear tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: InOBU
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 07:09 PM

No songs about looking out to see, I am making a note of that right now... Thanks for the kind words all, and see you all tommorow on the radio, and again thanks Ron.
Cheers
Lor

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: InOBU
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 08:39 AM

whoops... looking out to sea... L.O,.

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: GUEST,WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:42 PM

Navel, naval. Ouch!   I need to proofread more often!

Here is the blue clicky - www.wfdu.fm

Subject: RE: Lorcan Otway and Kossoy Sisters on WFDU!
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 08:03 PM

A big vote of thanks to Ron Olesko and the internet for bringing Lorcan/Larry/Lor/InOBU right here to my desktop for an hour or so on Sunday evening (as it was in GMT-land). Strictly speaking, I was due elsewhere after the first 20 minutes, but Larry's thoughts, lyrics and singing were so absorbing that I let my other plans slide. It must take a special kind of nerve to sing, both unacompanied and to your own guitar, and - for chrissake - play uillean pipes live to air. But Larry carried it off splendidly. Oh, and he threw in a nice tune on tin whistle.

A pity I couldn't stay on for the Kossoy Sisters, but I was in enough trouble as it was. Anyway, having discovered WFDU, I'll be back for more. As I said earlier, I heard some great acoustic blues on Saturday, while testing out the link ready for Larry's spot.