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Autumnal trad(ish) folk
#spotify playlist#folk music#Joan Shelley#David francey#lal waterson#Jean Ritchie#doc watson#Neil morris#Tim eriksen#Alfred g. karnes#8tracks#Spotify
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Chapter 8: The Scarecrow
#good omens#good omens fandom#good omens fanfiction#aziraphale#crowley#dark#good omens fic#h/c#spotify#angst
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@lesbianbrad have you ever heard this album? I just remembered it and couldn’t find it anywhere else, it’s beautiful
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From November 4th to November 7th 2024
04-11-2024
JEAN MICHEL JARRE “Oxygene”; JAMES BROWN “It's A Man's Man's Man's World”; BILL WHELAN “Riverdance”; MILES DAVIS “At Plugged Nickel, Chicago, Volume 1”; THE ZOMBIES “Odessey & Oracle”; AVENGED SEVENFOLD “City Of Evil”; THE BEACH BOYS “Friends”; NIRVANA “In Utero”; WHITNEY HOUSON “Whitney Houston”; OSIBISA “Woyaya”; SQUAREPUSHER “Hello Everything”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “Gimme A Break (70s Breakbeats & Future Samples)”
05-11-2024
KAREN DALTON “1966”; GREEN DAY “American Idiot”; ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION “Every Time You Say Goodbye”; XTC “Drums & Wires”; MICHAEL KIWANUKA “Kiwanuka”; DILLINGER “CB 200”; MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK “No Songs”; ALVVAYS “Alvvays”; BILLY BRAGG & WILCO “Mermaid Avenue”; THE CHIEFTAINS “Santiago”
06-11-2024
THE CLASH “London Calling”; KRISTIN HERSH “Sunny Border Blue”; THE SHINS “Chutes Too Narrow”; BUTTHOLE SURFERS “Electriclarryland”; FRED AGAIN.. “Actual Life (April 14 – December 17, 2020)”; COLDCUT “What's That Noise?”; PATRICK STREET “Irish Times”; STEEL PULSE “Handsworth Revolution”; FUGAZI “In On The Kill Taker”; THE CLEAN “Unknown Country”
07-11-2024
ERYKAH BADU “Baduizm”; RADIOHEAD “In Rainbows”; BILLIE EILISH “Don't Smile At Me”; LAL & MIKE WATERSON “Bright Phoebus”; RANCID “Let's Go!”; BADLY DRAWN BOY “The Hour Of Bewilderbeast”; LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS “Northern Stomp”; SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES “Make It Happen”; DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “You Can Play These Songs With Chords”; ARCADE FIRE “Funeral”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti”; THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “Live at The Music Hall Of Williamsburg, 29-11-2015”; IVOR CUTLER “Jammy Smears”
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Songs I sing to myself: Red Wine & Promises by Lal Waterson.
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Meals July 29, 2023
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Looks like Tumblr has finally forced me to switch to their new post editor which as far as i can tell is better in every way except that my embedded player from mixcloud doesn't work anymore. So you'll have to follow the link from now on, boooooooo
Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Los Microwaves - Is There Life After Breakfast?
DJ speaks over Cezary Skuvuszewsi - Picnic at Hanging Rock Suite
TMA - What's for Dinner Al Bowlly - Dinner for One Please James (feat. Ray Noble and His Orchestra) Pylon - Dub Union - Come to My House for Lunch
DJ speaks over The Klezmorim - Baym Rebns Sude
Kirsty MacColl - Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things (feat. The Pogues) The Shapes - Wot's for Lunch Mum? (Not B***s Again!) Dry Cleaning - Sit Down Meal IAN - Molitveni doručak Mass Murderers - Cider Breakfast
DJ speaks over Young Marble Giants - The Man Shares His Meal with His Beast
The Kinks - Afternoon Tea Tin Tin - Toast and Marmalade for Tea Pete Seeger - Beans, Bacon and Gravy Rakketax - What's for Dinner Nina Simone - Theme from "Middle of the Night"
DJ speaks over Jerry Garcia - Late for Supper
Unknown Artist - Carnation Instant Breakfast impLOG - Breakfast The Litter - Breakfast At Gardenson's Hurricane Harry - The Last Meal The Dance - Dance for Your Dinner Wall of Voodoo - Two Minutes to Lunch The Chantells - Natty Supper
DJ speaks over Slint - For Dinner…
Paranoid Visions - The Feast Mimi Piner - Perfect Lunch The Fifth Estate - Kisses For Breakfast Lal Waterson - Midnight Feast Debris' - New Smooth Lunch
DJ speaks over The Chieftains - Boil the Breakfast Early
Orange Juice - Breakfast Time Sofa Head - Invitation to Dinner Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Supper Time Belching Penguin - Box Lunch Handbag - Breakfast in Berlin
DJ speaks over Vitamin String Quartet - The Lovecats
Laura Lee - Crumbs Off the Table
#radio#community radio#punk#music#playlist#post punk#wprb#power pop#jazz#anarcho punk#bubblegum pop#meals
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#386 - Bright Phoebus - Lal and Mike Waterson
M A S T E R P I E C E If Fairport Convention made its own version of Sgt Pepper, it would be this. Haunting and gorgeous.
91/100
#Bright Phoebus#Lal Waterson#Mike Waterson#Fairport Convention#Folk#Sgt Pepper#91/100#M A S T E R P I E C E#1972
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I’d never seen this snapshot of the Watersons before today, when I made a screen shot from a video. l-r: John Harrison, Mike, Lal and Norma Waterson https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/biography/index.html
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Magical Man - Lal & Mike Waterson (1972)
Moving on from, but not forgetting their folk roots, the album is a post psychedelic collection of songs recorded in a ‘loose & anarchic’ fashion in Cecil Sharpe House with a folk-rock super group numbering Richard Thompson, Norma Waterson, Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy & Ashley Hutchings.
A true record for loonies, but it also has some amazingly delicate folkish ballads as well. A fantastic record all over, and newly reissued. Check it out, folks.
#Bright Phoebus#Lal Waterson#Mike Waterson#1972#Richard Thompson#Maddy Prior#Martin Carthy#Ashley Hutchings
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IMOJP : A Celebration of Norma Waterson
IMOJP : A Celebration of Norma Waterson
A special show to celebrate the life, music and influence of Norma Waterson (1939-2022) https://radiopublic.com/in-memory-of-john-peel-show-6nVPd6/s1!4d23b >> the best new music, independent of the industry system – back this show on patreon Paypal to [email protected] heard in over 90 countries via independent stations (RSS)Pod-Subscribe for free here or Embed/listen at podomatic – itunes Apple,…
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#Anne Briggs#Blue Murder @elizacarthy#Cinder Well @cinder_well#Cooking Vinyl @cookingvinyl#Coope Boyes & Simpson#Dick Gaughan#Eliza Carthy @elizacarthy#Fflach#Fire Archive @firerecordings#Free Dirt Records @freedirtrecords#Glen Peters#Helstroffer’s band#Jim Ghedi @JGhedi#john peel#June Tabor#Katie Spencer @KRSpencerMusic#Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight#Maddy Prior#Maria Gilhooley @MarryWaterson#Martin Carthy#Norma Waterson#Outhere @OuthereRec#Rabble Rouser Music#Rosemary Standley Rosemary Standley / Helstroffer’s @Rosemarystandle#Silly Sisters#The Bright Phoebus-revisited band#The Bushel Bag Carollers#The Eliza Carthy Band @elizacarthy#The Gift Band#The Unthanks
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Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - Memories From the album Bed of Roses (1999)
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"The Scarecrow"
Original by Lal and Mike Waterson
Covered by Dick Gaughan
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Mike and Lal Waterson - Bright Phoebus
Mike and Lal Waterson - Bright Phoebus Style: British Folk, Country-Influenced Vibe: Contemplative, Earthy, Introspective, Melancholy, Rootsy, Rural, Storytelling Musical Attributes: Acoustic, Vocal Harmonies, Lyrical, Melodic, Simple, Sparse
Originally released in 1972 on Trailer Records
Domino reissue (2017)
Format: LPx2 (with the demos on LP2)
Style: British Folk, Country-Influenced
Vibe: Contemplative, Earthy, Introspective, Melancholy, Rootsy, Rural, Storytelling
Musical Attributes: Acoustic, Vocal Harmonies, Lyrical, Melodic, Simple, Sparse
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#1970s#1972#Acoustic#Acoustic Guitar#British Folk#Contemplative#Country Rock#Country-Influenced#Domino#earthy#Folk#folk rock#introspective#Lyrical#Melancholy#Melodic#Mike and Lal Waterson#Pagan#Rootsy#rural#Simple#Slide Guitar#Sparse#Storytelling#Vinyl#Vocal Harmonies
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And if you’d like any more (no pressure) maybe young-Philippa folk playlist?
LOVED making this, in fact I kind of made two playlists again, whoops, one for when you just want about an hour of folky bops, one for when you have more like 100 minutes to spare...
Every Cell Charged with Stark Common Sense
A playlist for growing up wild in Northumbria and being ready to absolutely wreck any mercenary rock stars who show up to threaten your parents
Steeleye Span - False Knight on the Road
Ivor Cutler Trio - Good Morning! How Are You? Shut Up!
Kathryn Tickell - Ronell's Reel/Bob Thompson's
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill
Jean-François Dutertre - Le tueur de femmes
Steeleye Span - Twa Corbies
Lal & Norma Waterson - The Pretty Drummer Boy
Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
Anne Briggs - Living by the Water
Kathryn Tickell - Da Slickit Light
Vin Garbutt - The Legend of Roseberry
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Sovay
Nic Jones - Billy Don't You Weep for Me
Steeleye Span - The Blackleg Miner
Spriguns of Tolgus - The Lambton Worm
Kate Bush - Violin
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding
Kathryn Tickell - Johnny Cope/Tipsy Sailor
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
FCs are Ellie Kendrick and Lucy Farrell. Title is from DK, helpfully sourced by @erinaceina <3
I’m afraid you may gain the impression through my commentary that I don’t think common sense is quite the only guiding principle of small Somervilles...
The principles of a Pippa playlist: 1) she is a Weird Little Girl 2) she is a feral country child raised by folkies. Inevitably this means she is a fan of certain grim folk songs, but she's not really into murder ballads per se, though she objects to the latter aspect (ballad) more than the former (murder). If these silly maidens weren't so interested in falling in love with men they wouldn't get murdered, would they?!
So: 1) False Knight on the Road It may be a boy in the song, but I can well imagine Pippa playing at telling the Devil to go stuff himself by means of riddling answers and a mean fiddle riff. 2) Ivor Cutler One of her parents' records that small Pippa gloms onto, to their slight bemusement. An eccentric Scotsman singing eccentric songs and telling eccentric stories while playing harmonium - Pippa has a brief obsession with the harmonium because of it and insists on being told the story of 'Mary's Drawer' at bedtime (see Pippa's extended EP, below) 3) Lots of Kathryn Tickell on this!! The album is early '80s but it's A Sign that she released anything that early and can therefore be on the Pippa playlist - she's an accomplished fiddle player and Northumbrian pipes player and definitely an icon for Philippa. 4) Byker Hill Also loads of these boys on the playlist as a duo and with Steeleye Span/Fairport. Dave Swarbrick was one of the best and most well-known folk fiddlers of the revival and Marty Carty is folk royalty. This being a local song, of course Pippa loves it. 5) Le tueur de femmes She picks this up from one of the records Gideon brings back from his travels (technically this album seems to be from the '90s but I'm using Folk License for this, plus the LP might have been released earlier in France. The arrangement will certainly have been used by French musicians in the '70s). She doesn't understand the lyrics for a long time but knows there's a strange sinister quality to it, and probably at some point clicks that it's the same song as The Outlandish Knight on her parents' Nic Jones record. So it's the Bluebeard story where the 'final girl' drowns the serial killer and goes home to tell her pet parrot not to snitch on her for running off with, almost being killed by, and then herself killing a strange foreign knight. A Pippa vibe. 6) Twa Corbies More morbid folk! Ravens discussing the dead body of the knight they're about to feast on. With added Dave Swarbrick on the fiddle. 7) Lal & Norma Waterson More folk royalty! A happily G-rated take on the young girl sneaking off to join the armed forces - she doesn't end up having to marry anyone at the end, or being discovered because she gets pregnant by her captain. It's just that a lady falls in love with her and then she gets outed and sent home. But she did have fun playing the drum and travelling before that! 8) Fairport Convention - Come All Ye There are probably times in Contrary Teenage Philippa's life when she claims to be 'over' folk rock and to have 'outgrown' it. But put this track on and she won't be able to resist singing along. 9) This is what she claims to have outgrown folk rock for, so fair play to her - Anne Briggs is a gem of the folk revival, and probably reminds Pippa of her mum, though Kate's voice isn't as high. An early indication for Philippa that folk heroes *can* write their own songs and those can be just as good as the trad stuff! 10) More Kathryn Tickell on the pipes :) 11) Vin Garbutt A local folkie singing in local dialect! It's a bit further south than Pippa's country technically, but another miserable story turned into quite a bop. For anyone struggling with the words, it's about Oswald of Northumbria's baby son and the prophecy that he would die by drowning - his mother took him to the top of the hill Roseberry Topping in Teeside to prevent this, but baby Oswy went toddling off and tripped and drowned in a spring at the summit while she slept. She died of grief and was buried nearby, which is the folk etymology for the village name 'Osmotherly' (< Oswy's mother). 12) Pippa can't resist the fiddle part on this, though she thinks it's silly that Sovay gives the gold and watch back to her useless boyfriend, she'd have shot him and taken the ring too :P 13) Billy Don’t You Weep for Me So, I first heard this song when Jim Moray played it live and in his intro he said he remembered hearing it as a child and coming to the conclusion that he must Never Ever sit on a soldier's lap or else he'd end up dying a miserable death. I can see baby Pippa drawing similar conclusions and again getting quite into the song's savagery, but also spending hours practicing her fiddle because whatever he's *doing* with the guitar there she wants to be able to do with the fiddle. (This version is from a record released in the 2000s, but it was recorded live before Nic's accident and I'd bet there was a version on one of his early Topic albums. N.b. I want you to know that Nic Jones on Pippa playlists has an extra layer of ouch because he was badly injured in a road accident in the '80s and couldn't play afterwards, having been one of the most astonishingly brilliant folk musicians of the century. He is slowly, slowly returning to live shows now with his son playing the more complex parts while he does the chords he's able to, and he's an absolute sweetheart who's just happy to play for people again. But in the AU that's Christian's fate - Gideon isn't so lucky). 14) Blackleg MIner Speaking of savage, local songs, you don't get much more savage than this classic anti-scab song from County Durham. Pippa's certainly heard mum and dad sing this one, and in the '80s it has a new resonance. 15) The Lambton Worm An underappreciated part of the folk rock scene but certainly part of Kate and Gideon's record collection! And this is another local song, from Sunderland this time, about a dragon and a knight - I bet Gideon played this loads to baby Pippa and she adored it, but probably sympathised with the dragon despite Gideon warning her that it ate unwary children who stayed up late listening to mum and dad's jam sessions with friends when they were meant to be asleep! 16) Kate Bush - Violin ...do I need to explain this? Is it possible to explain this? The stirrings of baby Pippa's pop sensibilities. She can't be sniffy about Kate Bush because she's just so damned *weird* and earnest with it, and somehow gets to number one in the charts anyway!! 17) Shipbuilding This is one that isn't released until '82 and I think Philippa really latches onto it in the wake of Gideon's death (exact timeline still a bit up in the air). It feels like a song he'd really have appreciated, and with it she starts thinking politically about music in a new way as well. It's about working class communities and how the news of the Falklands War was bound to the promise of new work and economic revival, although at the cost of human lives, many of which would come from the same communities. Not sure Pippa ever feels strong enough to sing it or cover it herself until her work with activists in TRC-era (~1985) but it's a really important song for her. 18) Kathryn Tickell on the fiddle this time :) 19) Come on Eileen Sampling folk, adding in a three-person strings section, and releasing this unavoidable hit, Pippa can't really help but love Dexys, though she's drawn to the song very reluctantly and despairs every time it gets stuck in her head until she learns to just enjoy it.
There's an extended version of the Pippa playlist, on which you'll also find:
*Pentangle - Light Flight Another band from the folk rock revival, pop this in the same category as Fairport Convention - Come All Ye, above. *Billy Williams - When Father Papered the Parlour I was going to put Flanders & Swann on here, thinking Gideon and Kate would have been fans, but their Wikipedia page ended up annoying me too much (private school boys being smarmy ho ho ho) so I turned to music hall songs I remembered hearing on a cassette of 'children's favourite's from the 1950s' that I inexplicably had when growing up. I like to think Pippa would enjoy this too, but on the shorter playlist Ivor Cutler fills that eccentric role, and it took enough self-restraint not to just add a billion of his songs anyway. *Shirley Collins - Space Girl Just because it's fun!! Maybe something Kate sings and Pippa's like 'nooooo mum you're being embarrassing!' but she likes it really. The Imagined Village do an *excellent* modern version. *Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song Also fun! Also a record Gideon has brought back from his travels. Gideon also rides a motorbike. And yes, Pippa knows all the words to Alice's Restaurant by the age of ten. *Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line (live at Folsom) Gideon did lots of charity work with prisoners and particularly had contacts in the US he worked with, so this is a favourite album in Flaw Valleys. *Planxty - Smeceno Horo The playlist needed some Planxty. Big boys of Irish folk(/rock) with really wide-ranging interests. I saw this Bulgarian tune and had to put it on the Pippa album because it's a really cheerful load of noise and I think Gideon is in the habit of travelling for his tunes a lot, so brings stuff like this back and listens to Planxty to check what they've found, too. It gives Pippa a really good basis for jamming with people at St Mary's, Adam will certainly have some similar influences. *Tom Lehrer - The Elements Another from Gideon's travels. Pippa is a bit of a swot at school, but no one else can understand how learning the lyrics to this song is easier than just learning what they're meant to learn for class. She doesn't care, she thinks it's a bop (though she's a bit suspicious of him for the whole 'poisoning pigeons' thing). *Ivor Cutler Trio - Mary's Drawer A Somerville vibe to this whole thing, really. *Ian Campbell Folk Group - Poor Old Horse A sea shanty about debt in coastal communities and the 'dead horse tradition'. *Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir File under: folk rock Pippa can't help but love. A lovely fiddle part, plus a good way to practice her schoolgirl French. *Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne THE local bop, if you will.
#character: philippa somerville#playlists: period-appropriate#character: gideon somerville#character: kate somerville#characters: somervilles#setting: flaw valleys#band au: game of kings#band au: prequel
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From January 22nd to January 26th, 2024
22-01-2024
LEADBELLY “Midnight Special: The Library Of Congress Recordings, Volume 1”; CATATONIA “Way Beyond Blue”; GRUFF RHYS “Set Fire To The Stars”; EUROS CHILDS “YnFyw/Live 2005”; THE SUNDAYS “Blind”; DJANGO REINHARDT “Django Reinhardt & Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France”; FRANK FROST “Downhome Blues”; NATACHA ATLAS “Halim”
23-01-2024
STAN ROGERS “Northwest Passage”; R.E.M. “Live At The Olympia In Dublin: 39 Songs”; STAN ROGERS “Between The Breaks... Live!”; AUTECHRE “LP5”; KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE “Love Over & Over”; JIMMY ROGERS “That's All Right”; PINK FLOYD “The Final Cut”; TIM'S RICE “Mixed Ability”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Sweet Talker”
24-01-2024
TOM WAITS “Blue Valentine”; R.E.M. “Up”; SPACE “Spiders”; BILLIE HOLIDAY “Billie's Blues”; ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION “Live – Keep Bangin' On The Walls”; GRUFF RHYS “Babelsberg”; THE PRODIGY “...Presents The Dirtchamber Sessions, Volume 1”; PRIMAL SCREAM “PRML SCRM Live In Japan”; KATE RUSBY “Make The Light”; BMX Bandits “Theme Park”
25-01-2024
GUIDED BY VOICES “Mag Earwig!”; MEMPHIS SLIM “Beer Drinkin' Woman”; MATTHEW SWEET “100% Fun”; CORNERSHOP “When I Was Born For The 7th Time”; GRUFF RHYS “Seeking New Gods”; BLACK STAR LINER “Yemen Cutta Connection”; BLAKE BABIES “Earwig”; BLAKE BABIES “Sunburn”; TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND “Psychic Karaoke”; LITTLE MILTON “Stand By Me”; LOUIS JORDAN “Caldonia”; LAL WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT “A Bed Of Roses”
26-01-2024
EELS “Beautiful Freak”; GOLDIE “Saturnz Return”; ABBA “Abba: The Album”; SPACE “Tin Planet”
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