Fire Draw Near

This episode looks at the ballad the Keach i the Creel aka The Cunning Clerk aka The Wife and the Creel aka The Wee Toon Clerk aka The Rock in the Same Auld Creel aka The Little Scotch Girl aka Coochie Coochie Coo Go Way.

Tracklist

Jimmy McBeath – The Keach in the creel

Gordeanna McCullough – The Wee Toun Clerk

Michael Gallagher – The Keach in the Creel

Packie Manus Byrne – The Creel

Larry Mulligan – The Creel

Jamesie McCarthy - Coochie Coochie Coo Go Way

The Bothy Band – Pretty Peg / Cregg’s Pipes

Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbick – The Ride in the Creel

Peggy Seeger – The Little Scotch Girl

Subway to Sally – The Keach in the Creel

The Dubliners – The Sick Note

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Episode XLV was recorded by a very groggy me in a hotel room in Paris. It features some duuurty Cajun tunes, (yet another) Marlais song, an unlikely song sung by Shane McGowan, an unlikely Polish folk / Reggae crossover, some tunes from the new women's piping CD by Na Píobairí Uilleann as well as lots more gems from the outer reaches of the traditional folk multiverse. Illo is of the Beast of Gévaudan because I'm in Paris and it was May Day yesterday.

Tracklist

Beau Cheval – Beau Cheval

John Lyons – The Maid on the Shore

Ross Daly and Djamshid Chemirani – Pervane

Shane MacGowan - She Moved Through The Fair

Trebunie Tutki and the Twinkle Brothers - Mój Dom/The Day I Build My House

Claire Fennell - Slán Le Máigh

Mary MacGrath – As I Went Walking

Marais and Miranda – John Riley

Pamela Schweblin – The Maids of Ballinacliffy, John Nestor in Action

Marlais - Bird in the Bush

Beau Cheval – Mort Dans Le Fossé

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This episode looks at the ballad Willie O’Winsbury aka Lord Thomas of Winsbury aka Johnnie Barbour aka the Rich Shipowner’s Daughter aka Tom the Barber aka John Barlow from the Isle of Man aka O Will You Marry My Daughter Janet aka Fair Mary aka What Aileth Thee

Tracklist:

Sweeney’s Men – Willie O’Winsbury

Joe McCafferty – John Barbour

Robert Cinnamond – There was a Lady Lived in the West

Fran MacPhail – John Barber

Mary McGrath – Johnny Barden

Sally Connors – Johnny Barnes

Anita Best and Pamela Morgan – John Barbour

Peggy Seeger – John Barbour

Betsy and Bryce Whyte – Willie O’Winsbury

Pentangle – Willie O’Winsbury

Paul Giovanni and Magnet – Procession

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Episode XLIV takes a look at versions of the traditional songs that made their way onto Lankum's fourth album False Lankum, as well as a cello version of A Stór Mo Chroí, a song by Genoese Anarchist Fabrizio De André and a recent anti-racist ballad from New Zealand!

Tracklist

Finn – A Stór Mo Chroí

Fabrizio De André – Un Blasfemo (Dietro Ogni Blasfemo C'è Un Giardino Incantato)

Jean Ritchie – Go Dig My Grave

Died For Love – Jasper Smith

Gordon Bok – Clear Away in the Morning

Cormac Begley – Master Crowley's / The Roscommon

Francie and Mickey Byrne – Master Crowley's (Miss Patterson's)

The Deadlians – Newcastle

Luke Cheevers – The Waterford Sea Captain

Frank Feeney – Lord O’Bore

Beanie Entwistle and Joe Yorke – Monday Morning

Sammy from New Zealand – The Battle of Wellington

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This episode looks at the ballad Prince Robert aka Lord Abore and Mary Flynn aka Harry Saunders.

Tracklist:

Frank Feeney – Lord O’Bore and Mary Flynn

Jim Kelly – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn

Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn

Ewan MacLennan – Prince Robert

Peggy Seeger – Harry Saunders

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Artwork by Anthony Van Dyck c.1630

Episode XLIII features songs of war, songs of love, songs of death, songs of the siren and songs of the Devil.

Tracklist:

Michael Gallagher – The Plains of Boyle / The Leitrim Fancy

Brìghde Chaimbeul - Carry Them With Us - Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed of Mirth)

Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajić, Dragana Tomić and Obrad Milić

- The Battle at Mackov Kamen

Maria W. Horn & Sara Parkman – Till Margaretha

Isa Gordon – Love is Teasing

Paddy Shine – Another Song To The Siren

Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian – Bayeh Bayeh Suite (Narrative to Seyed Arash Shahriari)

Nathan Salsburg – X

The Mary Wallopers – The Night the Guards Raided Oweny's

Blood on Satan’s Claw OST – Main Theme

Tommy Reck – The Kilfrush / the Trip to Durrow

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This is an audio recording of a lecture / performance I gave in the Shriver Hall Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore on the 6th of October 2022.

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLII is a moody frontline assemblage of traditional folk adjacent magic with new tracks from Jonny Dillon, A Clatter and Drone, Áit Ait, Cormorant Tree Oh and Eliza Carthy, recently discovered tracks from M(h)aol and Perinne Bourel as well as old time classics from John Griffin (the 5th Avenue Bus Man), Stefan Shkimba & Co., Cyril Biddick, the Young Tradition as well as none other than the legendary J.R. R. Tolkien.

Tracklist:

Perinne Bourel – Rigodon du Château d'Ancelle

A Clatter and Drone - The Day That Broke Winter

Jonny Dillon – Rose Gardens & Requiems

Áit Ait – Miss Brown

Mhaol – Oró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile

J. R. R. Tolkien – Sam's Rhyme of the Troll

Cyril Biddick – Old Daddy Fox

The Young Tradition – Daddy Fox

John Griffin – The Real Old Mountain Dew

Stefan Shkimba & Co. – LemkoWedding pt 11

The Kossoy Sisters – Down in a Willow Garden

Cormorant Tree Oh – All Of It

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution – Whirly Whorl

Jonny Dillon – The Corridor Of The Heart

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This episode looks at the ballad Sailor Boy aka All Around My Hat aka London City aka the Brisk Young Sailor aka the Brisk Young Farmer aka the Brisk Young Miner aka A Bold Fisherman Courted Me aka the Student boy aka the Maid’s Tragedy aka Maid’s Complaint aka the Distressed Maid aka the Unfortunate Swain aka There is an Alehouse aka I Know My Love aka Apron Strings aka the Irish Boy aka Lullaby aka Knutsford Town aka in Woodstock Town aka the Effects of Love

Tracklist

Joseph Taylor – Go Dig My Grave

Jasper Smith – Died for Love

A.L. Lloyd – Died for Love

Rachel Unthanks and the Winterset - I Wish I wish

Isla Cameron – Died for Love

Elizabeth Cronin – The Alehouse

Pops Johnny Connors – There is an Alehouse

The Dubliners – I Know my Love

Sarah Makem – The Butcher Boy

Almeda Riddle – The Butcher Boy

Elvis Costello – The Butcher Boy

Dillard Chandler – I Wish my Baby was Born

Love Has Brought Me to Despair – Berzilla Wallin

Jean Ritchie – Go Dig my Grave

Susanna – Go Dig my Grave

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This episode looks at North American versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka The Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen.

Tracklist:

Norman Candler – Barbara Allen

Almeda Riddle – Barbara Allen

Texas Gladden – Barbara Allen

Banjo Bill Comet – Barbara Allen

Jean Ritchie – Barbara Allen

Royal Dadmun – Barbara Allen

Eddie Arnold – Barbara Allen

The Everly Brothers – Barbara Allen

A Christmas Carol – Barbara Allen

Frank Luther – Barbara Allen

The Hillmen – Barbara Allen

Roscoe Holcomb – Barbara Allen Blues

Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones – Barbara Allen

The Handsome Family – Barbara Allen

Balanced Voices – Barbara Allen

UTSA Wind Ensemble – Barbara Allen

Norman Candler – Barbara Allen

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