This week’s show is an extra long one featuring some geat music from the past including Bert Jansch, Chuck and Mary Perrin, Davy Graham, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Martin Carthy, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, John Martyn and more.
Plus new releases from Eamon O’Leary (reviewed here), Gwen Raymond, Mari Kalkun, The Knights Project (featured earlier this week), Glenn Jones (more here) and a double helping from Folkatron – Oxford-based label Upcycled Sounds has recently released an EP, “Mais c’est quoi maman?”, the product of the 2017 Folkatron project. The Folkatron project features 10 musicians who gathered together for 6 days to create genre-bending arrangements of traditional folk songs and experimental field recordings. Order it via Bandcamp here.
Playlist
Sam Lee And Friends – Willie O (Amazon)
Eliza Carthy – Rolling Sea (Amazon)
Steeleye Span – Blackleg Miner (Amazon)
Bert Jansch – The Waggoner’s Lad (Amazon)
Sam Amidon – Walkin’ Boss (Amazon)
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago (Demo) (Bandcamp)
Chuck and Mary Perrin – Commencement (Amazon)
Davy Graham – Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall (Amazon)
Folkatron – Hares on the Mountain / Squealer (Bandcamp)
Gwenifer Raymond – Idumea (Amazon)
Mick Softley – On The Road Again
Eamon O’Leary – Bywater (Amazon)
Jennifer Castle – Texas (Amazon)
Susan Christie – Paint A Lady (Amazon)
Pentangle – Bruton Town (Take 5) (Amazon)
Pink Floyd – Grantchester Meadows (Amazon)
Ravi Shankar – Vandanaa Trayee (Amazon)
Glenn Jones – The Sunken Amusement Park
GluePot – Back from the Mountain (Bandcamp)
John Martyn – London Conversation (Amazon)
Martin Carthy – Prince Heathen (Amazon)
The Holy Modal Rounders – Long John (Amazon)
Wizz Jones – Railroad Boy (Amazon)
Sir Richard Bishop – Elysium Number Five (Amazon)
Folkatron – Martin Wynne’s No. 2 / Teampall An Ghleanntáin (Bandcamp)
Dando Shaft – Railway (Amazon)
Jarle Skavhellen – Matylda (Amazon)
Mari Kalkun – Süda Tuksub (Amazon)
The Knights Project – Mollusc (Bandcamp)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset – Lull I: Newcastle Lullaby (Amazon)
Photo by Manuel Meurisse