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Today's Irish/Scottish/English folk playlist

COB-Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (1972)

Anyone ever hear this one. COB stands for Clive's Original Band. Clive being Clive Palmer, an original ISB member. Melancholy in the Richard Thompson vein. Title was a turn off but the music is well worth it.
 
Cantabury Guy said:
COB-Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (1972)

Anyone ever hear this one. COB stands for Clive's Original Band. Clive being Clive Palmer, an original ISB member. Melancholy in the Richard Thompson vein. Title was a turn off but the music is well worth it.
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I have NEVER heard of that recording, but I'd LOVE to hear it (or parts of it).
 
Jamie McMenemy, Road to Kerrigouarch. Dutch Stoof MU 7482.

Jamie was in the Battlefield Band for a few years, then split for the continent. This LP was recorded at the Farmsound Studio in Hollland - sounds like a good place for folk. Brian McNeil came over from Scotland to produce and play on a couple of tracks.

Recommended if you can find a copy.
 
J>S>D Band- Country Of The Blind (1971 maroon Regal Zonophone)

The first of their three albums and more acoustic. A nice blend of Trad. arr, originals, Dylan and Mike Heron. I bought this in the early eighties as my twelve year sojourn in British folk was waning. As it was not a land mark recording it was probably played once or twice and filed away. It is back and quite enjoyable. I don't think it ever came out on Cd.
 
lordfoo said:
would Rebecca Pidgeon's music belong in this thread?
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I have been wanting to hear some of her work in spite of the Hollywood & Mamet connection. Her musical offerings are in the Celtic vein, I believe?

Anyway, here's something that does belong in this thread and I have fellow AKer Cantarbury Guy to thank for it:


Jan Dukes De Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft, 1971 [lots more proggy than expected...a good thing IMO :thmbsp:]
 
I was quite taken by Rebecca's Chesky label cover of Ben e. King's "spanish harlem" included in her Raven Album. This song was included in the Chesky Ultimate Demonstration Disk.

However, the album that seems most interesting for this thread is Four Marys (Chesky Records JD165) .
Unfortunately, I haven't listened to this album yet.

http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/reviews/rpidgeon.htm

"Four Marys is a significant development from Rebecca Pidgeon's first album with a change in musical direction for the tracks included. Focused entirely on traditional Celtic music, the album includes fourteen tracks deeply rooted in Scottish tradition in their storytelling approach. Like some of Chesky's other albums, the recording was done St Peters Church and the ambiance has been perfectly captured with Chesky's 96-khz/24-bit technology and minimal miking techniques.

Although first and foremost a vocal album, some of Celtic music's finest musicians were recruited to provide backing instrumentals. Johnnie Cunningham plays fiddle and mandolin while Jerry O'Sullivan plays Uillean pipes. The vocals are as much Rebecca Pidgeon as they are on The Raven however the songs are sung in a mix of Gaelic and English and the instrumentals are by and large mixed further back in almost all of the tracks. The tracks are—by design—exclusively Celtic folk oriented with flute, strings and pipes establishing the overall ambiance of the album."
 
Richard and Linda Thompson - First Light.

I hadn't listened to this for a while, and the songs sound strangely unfamiliar, except for 'Pavanne'. I frequently listen to the June Tabor version of that on CD - in my car, of course.
 
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