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Today's Irish/Scottish/English folk playlist

Cosmic said:
One question from someone genuinely curious:

How come the Chieftans haven't been mentioned?

While I like music from the isles, I have yet to enjoy most of the acts mentioned here, so please take it from that perspective.

Are the C's too commercial? Or just taken for granted as being great? I could see that many could think of them as fulfilling the clichees on many tunes (drinking, carousing...) but...well, you tell me..:scratch2:

For your approval, a singer (Scottish-born, later living in Aus.): Eric Bogle.

He wrote "The Green Fields of France", also "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
To this day I cannot get through 'Fields of France' without crying, much the same with 'Matilda'.
C.
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Well,that's kind of how it is with the Chieftans. They are the older generation, and they are 'folky' rather than folk. Think of serious young college boys in 1964, wearing matching sweaters and singing folk songs that they learned off Folkways LPs. Well, not that bad, but you get the idea. At least they are skilled instrumentalists

As for Bogle, there is a fabulous version of "Waltzing Matilda" sung by June Tabor on 'Airs and Graces'. She also does 'No Man's Land' and 'Flowers of the Forest' on 'Ashes and Diamonds'. They are both great albums, maybe you should try them. Nic Jones plays fiddle on some tracks on both LPs.
 
Mystic said:
Shelagh McDonald - Shelagh McDonald Album, 1970
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Hi Mystic,

I found a copy of a Lossless shelag recording at demonoid. The notes on the upload is pasted below.. it says that the singer vanished sometime in 1971.. never to appear again. Her music was re-released but her royalties remain uncollected."

Foo

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"SHELAGH McDONALD -
Never said she was coming back - Live London Feb 1971

INTRODUCTION:
"This womans voice is to die for.
Think Nick Drake mixed with Sandy Denny and you are getting close to the
evocative delivery and melancholic tinge to Shelagh McDonalds voice."

"Simply, she is THE great English voice of the period - if she'd fronted a "name" band
like Fairport or Steeleye Span, her music would be available today on a variety of reissued collections."

McDonald came to London from Edinburgh in the 1960s and was feted by Melody Maker, NME and ZigZag.
She was a composer with promise, a voice blending the melancholy of Sandy Denny and the
birdsong of Joan Baez, and a beauty who didn't capitalise on her looks. Signed to
Sandy Roberton's B&C Records, she didn't move many units with her first outing, but a second album
was to prove a dramatic leap forward. However, within months of the release of Stargazer, a
mini-masterpiece from 1971, she was nowhere to be found, and her phone had been disconnected.
On the cusp of fame and fortune, talented and critically acclaimed
songwriter Shelagh McDonald disappeared.
Now her music is back in print, but the royalties remain uncollected,
and her whereabouts are a mystery.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1296236/20452758/
 
Cantabury Guy said:
Hark! The Village Wait- Steeleye Span (UK RCA)

Dual female leads Gay Wood /Maddy Prior .
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Notes from Demonoid about the album.

"Steeleye Span's debut album, 1970's HARK! THE VILLAGE WAIT--a "wait" being a medieval village band--is a landmark of British folk-rock, a folk supergroup equivalent to the legendary Masked Marauders. Ashley Hutchings formed Steeleye Span after he left Fairport Convention, following disagreements with Sandy Denny over the latter band's direction, Martin Carthy naming it in homage to an obscure folk tune called "Horkstow Grange." This lineup also includes singers Tim Hart and Maddy Prior--who would become the band's core--along with Fairport drummer Dave Mattacks and the highly regarded husband and wife team of Gay and Terry Woods.
Whether newly written, as with the Morris-style "A Calling-On Song," or familiar ballads, the songs are uniformly excellent, as are the performances. This lineup actually disbanded immediately upon completing the album and never performed live, but HARK! THE VILLAGE WAIT is regardless one of the finest British folk-rock albums ever."(cduniverse)

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1300031/3408793/
 
JSD Band -Traveling Days

Just finished S/T and it was pretty good . Probably haven't played it since 1973. Sort of like early Horslips/Angel Delight era Fairport
 
Just finished Traveling Days and also good. I guess I haven't played since 1973 also. Too good a band to totally forget. The info I posted last night was off my head and upon checking was correct. It appears that the guys individually played on Ziggy era Bowie recordings. Can't verify as the only Bowie I own is Bowi by Nick Lowe.
 
I remember at least one of the Shelagh McDonald releases but they passed me by. Glad to hear the positives and will order a copy off the Bay. Thanks guys for the info.
 
while moving around the lossless forums, I found the following post on Shelagh. It seems that Shelag surfaced briefly in 1995.

MORE SHELAGH NEWS:
I found this message on Keith Christmas messageboard:
"Posted on 2005-11-14 at 07:57:38 by Keith Christmas
For anyone interested, Shelagh MacDonald walked into the office of the Scottish office of the Daily Mail last week after a lady called Grace McAskill did a piece on her for the Magazine section.
I spoke to Shelagh for a few minutes but I was in the middle of teaching Year 11 ICT and couldn't say much.
She has since disappeared again."

Why don´t you check out Keith´s pages: http://www.kcblues.co.uk/
A lot of information and fantastic music. And a chance to leave a message and buy some nice CD´s...

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=68567
 
Here's another marginal one:

June Tabor and the Oyster Band - Freedom and Rain

They rock hard in trad tunes - fantastic bass on the vinyl version. A bit revsionist, but one I really like.
 
Tickell: Hareshaw Burn
Kathryn Tickell
Taken from the album Instrumental
Park Records PRKCD 92

Trad: Bold Doherty
Mary Ann Carolan
Taken from the album Voice of the People Vol. 13
Topic TSCD 663

Graham: Angi
Davy Graham, guitar
Taken from the compilation The Folk Collection
Topic TSCD 707/8
 
Trad arr. Stout: Auld Swaara
Chris Stout
Taken from the album Devil's Advocate
Greentrax CDTRAX305


Wood: Walk This World
Chris Wood
Taken from the album The Lark Descending
Ruf Records RUFCD10
 
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