Not strictly folk, despite the title of the album and its etymology, but I can’t bring myself to call it jazz either (no doubt this indicates a gap in my education / appreciation of music).
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@Camphuw I’m listening at the moment - it’s excellent but only seems to be scheduled to repeated twice at the moment. Harry Cox and Margaret Barry had some liquid refreshment. Seize the day! 16.00 and midnight today.
Update now on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03trp25
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Saw The Unthanks last night in our local town hall. I have liked several of their albums but cannot say I was a fan.
Anyway they were quite magical, beautiful singing and playing (the violin and drone added greatly), conjuring a fabulous atmosphere. Really enjoyable. The Tour has only just started so you might catch them nearer you.
Bruce
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@Camphuw I saw Cyril at the Grey C0ck Birmingham perform ‘Chicken on a Raft’ slapping the back of his acoustic guitar rhythmically. A memorable evening! He went to sea from age 16 and served in submarines. In the 70s he took an English and History degree and did postgrad work on folklore while still singing. I would have seen him in 1978.
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Appropriate for the day: The Eighteenth Day of May (2000)
An influential psych-folk album which has just been re-released and reviewed on The Quietus. The band broke up subsequently and the re-release contains extra tracks from an intended second album. Allison Brice, Richard Olson and Ben Phillipson with Alison Cotton, Mark Nicholas, Karl Sabino and Andy Dragazis. The bells, glockenspiel and autoharp echo the 1960s.
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Call it whatever you like. Whatever you call it, it’s a fantastic album.
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Terrific album, thanks for the heads up on the vinyl reissue missed it first time around! I saw them live a few times, once in The Three Kings pub Clerkenwell where they were opening for Robyn Hitchcock, Joe Boyd was standing next to me, he seemed to enjoy them but I got the feeling he’d seen it all before.
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Yesterday, on BBC r4’s great lives. A bit of a curate’s egg of a programme.
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Vikki Clayton seems to be back in the U.K., I think she’s moved back rather than just touring, she has a tour of mainly folk clubs at the moment. I’m going to see her play in a café in North London.
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I heard her live with Fairport before she went to New Zealand. She was good. She’s sung at Cropredy.
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Just listening to this album based on your recommendation. Wow! I’m having such a good time it must be illegal. Thanks @Camphuw for the excellent recommendation
Claude
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Archie Churchill-Moss PH(R)ASE (2022) solo melodion played by a virtuoso. He’s a folk player of a folk instrument. I’d say this was contemporary classical. The CD comes with musical notation. Pleasing on a hot day. [You Tube]
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I see he also played on the Bryn Terfel sea songs album.
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@Camphuw Yes, he plays regularly on folk albums and live in various groupings as folk players tend to do now.
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Waiting for my CD copy, but seems to be delayed. Grr.
@Rigsby21 I’ll order one as the CD has some bonus tracks and my original copy has scratches from car play long ago.
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Ralph McTell has announced a tour of Ireland which will be his final tour there. I suspect there won’t be many more tours in the UK. I can’t make the last dates in his current tour, but will definitely book for his next for another chance to see one of the UK’s great songwriters.
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Ye Vagabonds, ‘Danny’ from All Tied Together with interpretive dance. (Rough Trade, 2026). Melodious singing set off by a contemporary urban subject. I’ll get myself the CD and listen to the album.
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