Song Recommendations for a CD???

Subject: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Pogo
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 06:09 PM

Well here's the thing. This possum is a mere humble acolyte in the world of folk music but well...I do love and appreciate it if nothing else :)

A friend gave me a gift card to use to download songs and I am currently putting together a CD for myself of folk music. So I'm asking the mudcatters for recommendations for some songs to add to the CD and well hey...it can be a big list I might decide to fill up more than one CD. It's vaguely Scottish/Irish in flavor and I have some all-too standard songs but I'm looking for old favorites as well as ones you don't normally see popping up in " Proud To Be Irish " type compilations. I'm all for broadening my exposure to folk music ^_^ Well-done contemporary interpretations are as welcome as traditional.

Songs I have so far

Whiskey In The Jar
Old Maid In The Garrett
Beggars To God
The Rocky Road To Dublin
There Were Roses
Finnegan's Wake
Siuil, a Ruin
The Bonny Swans
The Legend of Tam-Lin
The Skye-Boat Song
She's Like The Swallow

thenk you...

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 06:22 PM

"I wandered today in the hills, Maggie . . .".

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 11:06 PM

I'm a Little Tea Pot
Little Red Caboose
This is the church and this the steeple

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

The simpilest of songs, performed WITHOUT error is superior to complicated trad edited with errors.

Who the H----??? wants more mediocre whiskey in a jar??? Unless, it triple distilled?

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Amos
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 11:14 PM

Kelly, the Boy from Killairne
The Jackets Green
The Mountains of Mourne
Star of the County Down
Roddy McCorley
The Irish Rover
Kevin Barry (I know, it's sentimental...but its grade material!)
The Rising of the Moon
The Rocks of Bawn

a dozen or two others in like vein....


A

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 11:24 PM

Amos - be careful - you are testing this childs' (and some MC professionals) limits.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Amos
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 12:40 AM

As far as I know, Garg, you have none, at least on the southward side.


A

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 06:08 AM

The Bantry Girl's Lament is an under performed song .

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Amos
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 10:36 AM

On the other hand, Garg, I may have misunderstood what you said, and if so I do apologize for being cranky.


A

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 08:08 PM

Try to find Stan Rogers singing 'Northwest Passage' or 'Mary Ellen Carter', and Brian McNeill 'Ewen and the Gold' or 'Muir and the Master Builder'. And how about Jean Redpath's 'Riddles Wisely Expounded'? Happy hunting!

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Briagha
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 09:53 PM

Davey Steele's "The Beaches of St. Valery" or "The Last Trip Home"
Robin Laing's "Summer of '46"
The Tannahill Weavers... well, just about anything of theirs.
The Corries' "Flower of Scotland"
Gaberlunzie's "Schiehallion"
Jimmy Crowley's "The Holy Ground"
Paddy Reilly's "Fields of Athenry"
The Foundry Bar Band's "Rolling Home"

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:18 PM

Dear Amos - apology accepted and placed on a plague above the hearth.

Child's are legit.

More than a few of the current suggestion run afowl of the law.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Would that I were a "hungry" barrister searching through the threads.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM

Now...just supposing (given Dicken's style) I were an "empty belly solicitor) seeking for a fee.

Would the poster of recommeded "contraband" (if they could be traced) or....the MC (protected by "freedom of speech") or would the internet provider (a mere conduit of information) or the accessor and hence producer - all, none, or one....be subject...given current 2005 law....be subject to fine, forfeiture, imprisonment....and in which country?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:27 PM

POGO

POGO

POGO

POGO

POGO

NO GO   POGO

smell a rat - you do not see a rat.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Briagha
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:35 PM

Given that a "gift card" is involved, I'm assuming that the downloading in question involves appropriate compensation and would therefore run neither afowl nor afoul of the law. If not, then I withdraw all suggestions!

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Pogo
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 01:30 PM

Yes ma'am yes sir it is legit so no fear :0) I am paying for it. Pogo never plays pirate unless it's Halloween or a story.

Gargoyle: do'h...I knew I'd get called out on the whiskey *sheepish grin* I said I was an acolyte.

*humbly* Er...I enjoy the Old Crow Medicine Show and Blues Traveler and...uhm...I listened to bluegrass (Mike Cross and the like) long before Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out...and I've never heard the Wild Rover in my whole life...does that count for anything? A wee bit? A smidge even?

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 11:25 PM

dougie Maclean - caledonia
christy moore - reel in the flickering light
hamish imlach - where the gaudie runs (or anything really by him -The Foggy Dew has some excellent fine fingerpicking)
ralph mctell- let me down easy (off the travelling man album - totally sublime performance!)
martin carthy - famous flower of serving men (he's never done a greatest hits album, has he?)

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Hopfolk
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 07:09 AM

Prepare to be a little disappointed with the range of tunes available for downloading.

When you can get 'round to it, invest in some of the "Voice of the people" range from Topic records. Most of the songs are croaked out by really old guys and gals, but it's excellent as a source of trad. material.

Or beg / steal / borrow / kill for a copy of Paddy Tunney's "Stone fiddle" album. (Vinyl or cassette only I think.)

CamoJohn

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 07:55 AM

Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - The Elfin Knight (best version!).
Martin Carthy - Wife of Usher's Well.
Eliza Carthy - Adieu, Adieu; Cobbler's Hornpipe; Maid on the Shore; Turpin Hero; Americans Stole My True Love Away.
Waterson: Carthy - Black Muddy River.
Young Tradition - Chicken on a Raft;
Christy Moore - Black is the Colour; Tipping it Up to Nancy; Pair of Brown Eyes; Viva la Quinta Brigada; Spancil Hill (I like the version with Shane McGowan)
Andy Irvine - Captain Colston; Never Tire of the Road
Planxty - Blacksmith; Raggle Taggle Gypsies; Follow Me Up to Carlow; Bonny Light Horseman; Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes; True Love Knows No Season.
Alain Stivell - Tri Martolod.
Kornog - Jesuitmont.
Nic Jones - Canadee-I-O; Warlike lads of Russia; Outlandish Knight; Sir patrick Spens; barrack Street.
Dubliners - Rocky Road to Dublin.
Spiers and Boden (or Bellowhead) - Ramblin' Sailor; Prickle-Eye Bush; Boston Harbour; Sweet Lovely Nancy.
4 Yn Y Bar - Dacw 'Nghariad i Lawr yn y Berllan.
The Iron Horse - Demon Lover.
Pentangle - Cruel Sister.
Dick Gaughan - Erin Go Bragh;
Anything by 5 Hand Reel.
Silly Wizard - Queen of Argyll; Donald McGillavry.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 08:05 AM

Sweeney's Men - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie; Exile's Jig; Tom Dooley; Dance to Your Daddy; House Carpenter.
Pogues - Dirty Old Town; Turkish Song of the Damned.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 01:51 AM

that would be pogo, from the Latin... I jump up and down on a stick? First declension. I knew my education would come in at some point.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 08:54 AM

Paul Brady - Arthur McBride; Lakes of Ponchartrain;

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: van lingle
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 11:14 AM

More Paul Brady- Heather on the Moor, Mary and the Soldier,I am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble
Andy Irvine- Plains of Kildare, West Coast of Clare (w/Planxty), Craggan White Hare, My Heart's Tonight in Ireland
Niamh Parsons- Rigs of Rye (also a great version by Dick Gaughan)
Dick Gaughan- Thatchers o' Glen Rae (sp?), Now Westlin' Winds, Glenlogie, World Turned Upside Down, Fair Flower of Northumberland (tons more)
Kate Rusby- The Blind Harper (also by Nic Jones), The Drowned Lovers
Solas- Newry Highwayman
Danu- Pretty Maid Milking a Cow, County Down
Martin Carthy- Bonnie Lass of Angelsey
Pogues- Sally MacLenanne, South Austrailia
Just a few of my favorites.

Subject: RE: Song Recommendations for a CD???
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 11:31 AM

Anything by Denez Prigent.