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Intro: Fairport Convention - Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish
Paddy/Fox Hunter's Jig/Toss The Feathers - Liege & Lief
- A&M Records
Sam Lee & Friends - Lord Gregory - The Fade In Time - Nest
Collective thenestcollective.co.uk/1994/08/sam-lee/
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Pretty Polly
- Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Rounder
Records
www.belafleck.com/
Bella Hardy - Good Man's Wife - Battle Plan - Noe
Records www.bellahardy.com/
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Flow - Returning To The Sea
- Uilleand Music www.facebook.com/timoconnor.hull/
Colin Hay - Next Year People - Next Year People - Compass Records
www.colinhay.com/
Kate Campbell - Montgomery To Mobile - 1000 Pound Machine - Large River
Music
www.katecampbell.com/
Sam Lee & Friends - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses - The Fade In Time -
Nest Collective thenestcollective.co.uk/1994/08/sam-lee/
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Ride To You -
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Rounder Records www.belafleck.com/
Bella Hardy - Sleeping Beauty - Battle Plan - Noe
Records www.bellahardy.com/
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Original Mystery - Returning
To The Sea - Uilleand Music www.facebook.com/timoconnor.hull/
Colin Hay - Waiting In The Rain - Next Year People - Compass Records
www.colinhay.com/Kate Campbell - Alabama Department Of Corrections
Meditation Blues - 1000 Pound
Machine - Large River Music
www.katecampbell.com/
Sam Lee - "London Folk artist Sam Lee returns with ‘The Fade
In Time’, a follow up to 2012’s Ground Of Its Own – which
was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Sam takes a 21st Century view on
Folk traditions from the UK and around the world – re-imagining the
British folk tradition through the eyes of the wider world. The music takes
a path from Gypsy Traveller songs, through
Japanese court music to wedding marches from Tajikistan – a truly
global journey, with English folk song at its heart. Sam’s 5 piece
band recorded the album with Arthur Jeffes (of
Penguin Cafe Orchestra and son of PCO founder Simon Jeffes)
and Jamie Orchard-Lisle." - Proper Music Distribution website
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - "This
is not Dueling Banjos: The Married Couple Edition. You won't find the
careening energy of the mano-a-mano from the Deliverance soundtrack, or of the Flatt
and Scruggs classic "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Outbreaks of dazzling,
speed-demon technique are few. Instead, the first duo recording from Bela
Fleck and Abigail Washburn — husband-and-wife banjo
adventurers with divergent areas of specialty — is notable for
its understated, welcoming calm. Across 11 short, carefully arranged
slivers of Americana, Fleck and Washburn explore roots music using the
tones and coloration options that arise when two banjos join in
conversation. Sometimes the focus is on basic timekeeping, via the
intricate arpeggios and latticework rhythm patterns associated with scores
of banjo classics. Sometimes the two seek out moodier realms, among them
the unique, entrancing drones common in rural blues." - www.NPR.org
Bella Hardy - "Leaving aside her recent acclaimed ‘side
projects’ on the folkloric balladry of her beloved Peak District and
the yuletide compendium Bright Morning Star, Bella’s fourth release
displays an artist confident with her Muse widening the range of
soundscapes used to present her carefully crafted song material. Resident
mainly in Edinburgh now, her band selection of excellent Scottish
accompanists, The Midnight Watch, are Anna Massie (guitar/banjo), Angus
Lyon (keyboards/accordion), James Lindsay (bass) and producer Mattie Foulds (drums). Their collective arrangements cleverly
befit and chart the dynamic and moods of the several song pieces. The
combination of new songs with adaptations of traditional material reflects
Bella’s academic approach to the songbook sources. She often
abstracts from several variant versions and story strands to produce her
own more modern, often complex, amalgam. Usually some part of her life
experience and empathetic sense of the perspective of the female
protagonists is sewn into this new contemporary take on both the lyrics and
tunes. This is a highly successful method refreshingly re-presenting, say,
classic gypsy ballads (Good Man’s Wife), the downfall of the
‘unfortunate’ syphilitic lass (True Hearted Girl), the serial
murderer ‘outlandish’ knight’s comeuppance being bedded
alone in the ‘deep briny blue’ (The Seventh Girl) and the
paling and fading decay resulting from ‘flash company’ (Yellow
Handkerchief). Dramatisation is provided by
sophisticated musical scenery that, although recognisably
and primarily folk, touches on rock (Three Pieces Of My Heart rather sounds
like Judie Tzuke’s recent output) with some
jazz, French café, etc. Always, however, centre-stage,
clearly sitting atop the instrumentation, is that pure voice, passionately
conveying the spectrum of emotions and moods of songs where grief,
loneliness and darkness are customarily prevalent. With her usual disarming
honesty, Bella explains that her ‘battleplan’
lists somehow ‘never go to plan’. That surely matters little
when the outcome is as winning and winsome as this latest excellent piece
of work." Kevin T. Ward Living Tradition magazine
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Hull UK- based cooperative
bringing the well-crafted and tuneful compositions of singer/songwriter Tim
O'Connor to life, comprising Tim O'Connor - Voice, Guitars & Keys, Pete
McLeod - Percussion, Simon Strauli - Bass Guitar
& Acoustic Guitar, Trish Silvester - Voice, Dicky Deagan - Uilleann Pipes, Whistle.
Colin Hay - singularly and mellifluously voiced Australian
singer-songwriter who catapulted to worldwide fame as the voice and composer
behind Men At Work... "12th studio album and his first album after
almost four years. The album features 12 songs that are an eclectic mix of
both humorous and open-hearted tones. Colin is backed by San Miguel Perez
and Yosmel Montejo, both recent Cuban
transplants, in addition to Larry Goldings on
piano, Jeff Babko on B3, and Colin’s wife,
Cecilia Noel, as a vocalist." Artist's website
Kate Campbell - the splendid musical documenter of the lives and times
down here in the sunny South... making a most welcomed return visit to
Little Rock Folk Club on Sat Feb 28th 2015
Streaming live Sat 2100h CMT/Sun 0300h GMT at http:
www.kuar.org/
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