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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FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing.

Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann

Jim Ghedi – The Seasons

Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord

Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament

Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830)

Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó

Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats

Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity

Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!]

Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured

Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel

Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld

Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home

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This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over

Tracklist

Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain

Harry List – Knife on the Window

AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly

Harry Cox – Knife in the Window

Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window

The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More

Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping

Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder

Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over

Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over

Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes

Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain

Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior)

Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain

Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain

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Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!

Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century.

Tracklist

Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy

Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh

Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night

Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha

Powtes – Green Brooms

Grey Stag – Blessington Maid

Cruel Mother – Down the Greenwood Side

Espers – Rosemary Lane

Isa Desmet – The Prickle Holly Bush

Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music

The Kipper Family – The Losing Of The Whale

Paul Denman & Jennifer Reid – Life's Spinning Song

Green Ribbons – The Well Below The Valley

Tom Lehrer – I Got It From Agnes

Scafell Pike – The New York Trader

Dubz Ft Ronnie Drew – The Last Leviathan

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This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England

Tracklist

Paul Clayton – Botany Bay

The Watersons – The Whitby Lad

Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar

Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar

New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar

George Pegram – The Boston Burglar

Cat Mother – Boston Burglar

Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler

Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler

Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar

The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar

The Pubcrawlers – Boston Burglar

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Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA, based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focusing on the relief work that he is currently carrying out there. If you would like to support him in his efforts you can do so here - https://campsite.bio/andythedoorbum The episode also features an unreleased track from Andy, namely Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low

Tracklist

Andy the Doorbum - Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low

Maggie Hammons - When this World Comes to an End

Michael and Carrie Cline - Bangum and the Wild Boar

Margaret Winter - Cockle Shells and Silver Bells Riddle Song

Harold and Margaret Winter - Loving Henry

Hazel Dickens - Black Lung

Sarah Ogan Gunning - Dreadful Memories

John Snipes - Going Where I've Never Been Before

Cherokee Singers - One Drop of Blood (Trail of Tears Song #2)

Frank Proffitt - Tom Dooley

Frank Proffitt - I'm Going Back to North Carolina

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Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknown.

Tracklist

John Carpenter – Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships

Richard Dawson – Ghost of a Tree

Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Young Tom Ennis / The Maid at the Well

John Goodluck – The Lover’s Ghost

Pentangle – The Cruel Sister

Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson – The Geese in the Bog / The Jig of the Dead

Roky Erickson – I Walked with a Zombie

Dimlaia – Goodnight Sweet Ghost

Eddie Butcher – Saturday Night is Halloween Night

Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted

The Kipper Family – All on the Shore

Blood Axis & In Gowan Ring – Dead Men’s Slip-Jig

Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad

Jeannie Robertson – The Dublin Murder Ballad

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This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair

Tracklist

Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William

Martin Howley – Knight William

AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William

The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret

Justus Begley – Lady Margaret

Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William

Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret

Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret

Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret

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“Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909

Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode.

Tracklist

Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum

Róis – Caoine

Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav

Isa Gordon – What a Voice

Seamas Hyland – Navan Road

Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill

The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo

Dawn Ray'd – Requital

Córas – George White’s

Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van

Greet – John Barleycorn