Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant

Subject: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Mick Tems
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:02 AM

I'm going to see the wonderful Dana and Susan Robinson tonight at Llantrisant Folk Club, the Windsor Hotel, Pontyclun (Wednesday the 25th.) As the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers said: I just LOVE that shitkicking music!

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: cobra
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:39 AM

I hope you enjoy.

In my humble opinion, Dana has not done anything decent since All Kinds Of Everything.

And I would never have accused her of making "shitkicking" music. She is a legend.

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: cobra
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:39 AM

P.S. Who is Susan Robinson? Is she wonderful too?

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: LesB
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:42 AM

You can see Dana & Sue in the NW, when they make a welcome return to Bothy Folk Club in Southport, on Sunday 5th November.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Mick Tems
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:06 AM

Dana and Sue are a husband and wife duo from Asheville, North Carolina with great songwriting imagination. He plays impressive fiddle, and Sue's harmony lines are something to die for. They paint a picture of traditional rural America - in fact, Dana has been compared to Woody Guthrie. They appeared at the folk club, and we couldn't wait to see them again. They are something else!

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: cobra
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:23 AM

Thanks for that, folks. They sound like they are worth catching. Clearly not on a par with the lovely (real) Dana, but worth catching nonetheless.

Now, does anyone know whether Jeanette Krankie still does the odd turn?

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:29 AM

She always did do an odd turn, the whole act was weird.

A kick for the cobra

G

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 07:50 AM

They'll be at the Topic in Bradford on November 9th (which is still part of the Topic's 50th anniversary season)... they first went there 18 months ago and I heard they went down very well. So I went to see them at the Nova Scotia (itself 40+ years old, all in the same venue) in Bristol on Monday.

They were really good, mixing up fiddle, guitar, subtle banjo (clawhammer style, I gather), harmony singing and an a capella number; and drawing on old-time Kentucky material, a couple of tunes pinched, they said, from England, contemporary songwriters and Dana's own observational stuff. Having seen a few British floor singers with cod-American accents recently it was good to see the real deal. Thoroughly recommended even if (as with me) rural Americana isn't really your thing. They obviously like touring in the UK as they - Dana especially - have come several times, and they really get into what they're doing.

I hadn't been to the Nova Scotia before, but it's a great location for a folk club, down by the water - Cabot would have sailed past in 1497 on his first journey to North America. Though the function/club room is largely characterless the bar is yellowed with smoke deposits and the walls covered in old maps and pictures of shipbuilding, and it generally gives the (probably erroneous) impression no-one has redecorated since before the Great War.

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Mick Tems
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 11:12 AM

I don't know about the Irish Dana, but the lovely Sue takes some beating!

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 12:37 PM

I remember Susan from her years in Northern California, as a member of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers. She's a fine musician and a fine person. Hope she and Dana make it out West for a tour soon.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: asirovedout
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:28 PM

Also see them at the Ryburn 3step folk club,
The Alma Inn, Cottonstones, West Yorkshire HX6 4NS,
on 31st October starting 8pm prompt.

//www.ryburn3step.org.uk

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Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 06:40 AM

Crikey, they were good!

Subject: RE: Dana and Susan Robinson at Llantrisant
From: Mick Tems
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:37 AM

I'll second that! I'd forgotten how stunning Dana's fiddle and guitar could be, and the consummate musicianship and harmonies of Sue on banjo and guitar. I'll stick my neck out and say that Dana has superceded Woody Guthrie in his incisive songwriting, poetic words and hypnotic melodies that cut as sharp as a knife. If Llantrisant Folk Club suddenly announced that Dana and Sue would be back next week, I'd welcome it and I'd revel in their fabulous music. Too right I would!