Fire Draw Near

Fire Draw Near LXVII shall henceforth be known as Episode 115, as I will be consolidating the regular and bonus shows from now on. This episode was an absolute pleasure to put together and showcases that there is so much great music out there in the folk and traditional worlds, from the straight up 'pure drop' to the weirder material. Please enjoy responsibly X

Tracklist

Nathan Gourley and Joey Abarta (feat. Owen Marshall) – The Gaelic Club / Banks of Newfoundland / The Lark on the Strand

Mícheál Quinn – Another Man’s Wedding

Sara Parkman – Salikons Rosor

Sara Parkman – Dickapolskan e. Einar Britt

Tim Lyons – Van Dieman's Land

Rattling Ark – Coleraine Jig

Dolores Keane & John Faulkner – Lowlands of Holland

Clive Woolf – The Emigrant

The Woolfs – The Girl From The North Country

Radie Peat – Still I Love Him

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This episode looks at the ballad The Old Man from Lee aka the Old Man from Over the Sea aka The Young Lass Contra Old Man aka The Carle He Came o'er the Croft aka The Auld Carle aka the Dottered Auld Carle aka I'll Not Have Him aka The Old Man from Over the Sea aka His Old Grey Beard Kept Waggin' aka Overshoes and Leggin's aka Old Gum Boots and Leggin's aka The Old Black Booger aka The Old Man aka The Baillie of Berwick aka Old Grey Beard.

Artwork by Stag and Serpent

Tracklist

Uncle Eck Dunford – Old Shoes & Leggins

Otis High – Old Gray Beard A-Flappin'

Betty Garland – Old Gum Boots and Leggings

Lawrence Older – Old Shoes and Leggings

Jeannie Robertson – The Dottered Auld Carle

Pipe Major Bill Hepburn - Leaving Port Askaig

Frankie Armstrong – The Old Man from over the Sea

Jane Turiff – Wi His Grey Baird Newly Shaven

Avice Clarke – Head a Nodding

Gordon Hall – Old Grey Noddle

Grace Notes – Old Man from Lee

Jon Wilks – There was an Old Man Came Over the Sea

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Episode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collision. There are songs and tunes from many parts of the world. It is a journey. Don't be scared.

Caitlin Finley and Will Woodson – The Plains of Boyle - Lawson's

Doireann Glackin & Sarah Flynn – Mrs Galvin's Hornpipe - Grace's Favourite

Barren – Sonny's Mazurka

Aoife Nic Diarmada – Liam Ó Raghallaigh

Teppana Jänis & Arja Kastinen – Vanha Valssi

Kapela Kotra – Zialony Haj - Зялёны Гай

Jim Ghedi – The Hungry Child

Sam Grassie – Return to Fingal

Macdara Yeates – De May Bush

The Standing Stones featuring Iona Zajac and Daragh Lynch – Twa Sisters

Nuovo Canzoniere Partigiano – The Partisan

Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson – Willie Taylor's March - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall

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This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor

Tracklist

Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor

Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor

Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor

Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor

The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor

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Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes.

Tracklist

Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill

Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig

Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig

Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl

Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw

Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well

Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí

Jimmy Crowley – Johnny Jump Up

Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further Into The Fire / Juliann Johnson

Patrick Boyle – Clasped To The Pig

Topette – Bal Limousines - A Bastien / Les Maries

Nimf – Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies

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This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X

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Tracklist

Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway

Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom

Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song

Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung

Folk Och Rackare – Bältet

Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle

Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory

The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades

Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats

Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers

Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief

Clod – Scrumping and Rumping

Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band

The Trojans – Gaelic Ska

Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On

Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise

Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row

Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road

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FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.

Tracklist

NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad

Wootten Family – Ortonville

Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation

Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)

Northampton Harmony – Despair

Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?

Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte

Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena

The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim

Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim

Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson

The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace

Landless – Doomsday

NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement

Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone

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I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X

Tracklist;

Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet

Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver

Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s

Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans

Liam Weldon – James Connolly

Seán McKeon – James Connolly

Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur / Skarzhour Chiminalieu

Luke Cheevers – Abe Carman

Daoirí Farrell – Valentine O' Hara

John Faulkner and Dolores Keane – Allan Tyne Of Harrow

Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Sovay

The Kipper Family – The Male Female Highwayman

A.L. Lloyd – Jim Jones at Botany Bay

Jerry O'Reilly – The Carmagnoles

Ruth Hazleton – Tri-Coloured House

Beau James Wilding – The Lowlands of Holland

RL O'Mealy – Donegal Reel

Jason Rouse – The Maid at Mourneshore

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Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Tracklist

Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant

Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean

David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois

Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl

Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa

Gout – Newcastle

Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh

Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother

Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death

The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers

Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt

Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band

Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain

Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu

Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf

Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows

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This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries.

Tracklist

Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side

Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside

Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside

Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside

Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside

Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside

Harry Upton – In Wayward Town

Wash Nelson – Last May Morn

Spriguns – Blackwaterside

Landless – Blackwaterside

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