The folk thread

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A beautiful thing.

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Yes, me too, I have the original LP…

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The Essay Martin Hayes Turns the Tune available on BBC Sounds has five episodes in which Olivia O’Leary interviews Martin Hayes about fiddle playing. There is some wonderful music played as illustration.

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Martin Hayes Turns the Tune (BBC Sounds) I mentioned above introduced me to Tommie Potts who drew on Jazz and classical music in highly individualistic playing of Irish traditional tunes. He appears to have only recorded one album in his lifetime. He appears as ‘Tommy’ Potts The Liffey Banks (Claddagh Records, 1972)

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Half way through series … it’s a gem

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@Camphuw It certainly is! I’m glad that currently Radio 3 has scheduled folk, ‘world music’, experimental, contemporary classical and talk besides classical music.

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Not just ‘recently’ either. The excellent Late Junction, now a very cut-down version of its former self, was a treasure trove of fascinating and unusual music in the early 2000s. I particularly enjoyed Fiona Talkington’s contributions.

Roger

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@PeakMan I agree, Fiona had a particular interest in Scandinavian music.

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Interesting read … new to me, worth a listen too.

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Lovely :+1:

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For Fairport fans …

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Thanks.

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Beverley Martyn RIP

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Nick Drake, The Making Of Five Leaves Left: 4CD Boxset
2025. Saw this in HMV, so bought it and now playing the first disk. Out-takes and alternative versions with some unaccompanied demos and a 60 page book written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack.

This is packaged in a slip case which contains the resemblance of LP covers. Engineered by John Wood and sounds great.

CD1 - 1st Sound Techniques Session aka The Beverley Martyn demo & Alt Takes from February 1968 to April 1969

  1. Mayfair - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  2. Time Has Told Me - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  3. Man In A Shed- 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  4. Fruit Tree - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  5. Saturday Sun - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  6. Strange Face - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  7. Strange Face – Rough Mix with Guide Vocal – September 1968
  8. Day Is Done – Take 5 – April 1968
  9. Day Is Done – Take 2 – November 1968
  10. Day Is Done – Take 7 – April 1969
  11. Man In A Shed – Take 1 – May 1968
  12. My Love Left With The Rain – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968

An early birthday present to me!

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