Fire Draw Near

Episode XXVI features Irish traditional dance tunes, Sean Nós, English Gypsies, 1970s Reggae, uilleann pipes, fiddle, a man with no balls and poor old England. Pictured is my Granda Thomas Lynch Snr. on the accordion.

Tracklist

Ceoltóirí Chulann – An Tonn Reatha (The Rolling Wave)

Jackie Roche – The Blackbird (Set Dance)

Peter Ingram – Mandi went to Poove the Gri – Untitled Stepdance - Can you Rokker Romany

Jasper Smith – Father Had a Knife

Harold Covill – The Happy Family

Sandy Archibald – My Faither's Gied's a Horse

Teri York and Kids – That’s the Way You Spell New york

Dillinger – Cocaine in My Brain

Chicken in the Car - Ralph Flanagan

Harry Cox – What Will Become of England

Sarah Ghriallais – Amhrán and Phúca

Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Cook in the Kitchen / The Wandering Minstrel

Seán ‘ac Dhonncha – Our Famous Cathal Brugha

Seán ‘ac Dhonncha – Green Brooms

Thomas McCarthy – No Balls at All

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This episode looks at the ballad Edward aka What Put the Blood? aka My Son David aka Son Come Tell It Unto Me aka Sven I Rosengård aka The Blood of the Old Red Rooster.

Tracklist

Mary Delaney – What Put the Blood?

Pops Johnny Connors – What Put the Blood?

John Reilly – What Put the Blood?

Weenie (Selphinus) Brazil – Son Come Tell it Unto Me

Angela Brazil – Son Come Tell it Unto Me

Mr. Webb – Son Come Tell it Unto Me

Jeannie Robertson – My Son David

Lena Willemark – Sven I Rosengård

Garmarna – Sven I Rosengård

Carl Loewe – Edward

Almeda Riddle – The Blood of the Old Red Rooster

Amps for Christ - Edward

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Episode XXV of Fire Draw Near features Paddy Moloney, Stick in the Wheel, Máire Ní Ghráda, the Friel Sisters, Louise Mulcahy, Jelly Roll Morton, Mike Oldfield, the return of Lomax Does Ireland and more!!!

Tracklist

The Chieftains – An Phis Fhliuch (the Wet Quim)

Paddy Moloney – Bumper Squire Jones

Paddy Moloney and Mike Oldfield and band – Planxty Fanny Power and more

Stick in the Wheel – The Cuckoo

Stick in the Wheel – Wierds Broke It

Dennis Donahue – My Uncle Dan McCann

Mick Moloney – My Uncle Dan McCann

Máire Ní Ghráda – Queen of the Rushes

Louise, Michelle and Mick Mulcahy – Charlie Mulvihill’s, Farewell to Ireland

The Friel Sisters – The Humours of Ballyloughlin, Rakes of Clonmel, the Kilkenny Jig

Mickey Doherty – Story of St. Columcille and the Curse of Only Putting on One Shoe

Mickey Doherty – Haste to the Wedding, My Match is Made

Mickey Doherty – Story of the Fiddler with Only One Tune

Mickey Doherty – The Fairy’s Reel

Jelly Roll Morton – The Dirty Dozen

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This is the second episode looking at the ballad Lord Randall aka Henry My son aka Amhrán na hEascainne aka Großmutter Schlangenköchin.

Tracklist

La Piva dal Carnér - Il Testamento dell'avvelenato

Elster Silberflug - Großmutter Schlangenköchin

Carl Orff, Gunhild Keetman & Kölner Kinderchor - Großmutter Schlangenköchin

Abner Jay – Lord Randall

Josh White – Lord Randall

Sara Cleveland – My Bonny Bon Boy

Jean Ritchie – Lord Randall

Peggy Seeger – Billy Boy

Fred Katz with Paul Horn and the Chico Hamilton Quartet – Lord Randall

The Mickey Finns – Lord Randall

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Episode XXIV features new songs from Marlais and Jrpjej as well as tracks by Sarah and Rita Keane, Hassan Wargui, Michael O'Shea, Seán McKeon and Liam O'Connor, Anna and Elizabeth and the Caretaker.

Tracklist

Seán Ó Riada - Speech

Sarah and Rita Keane – Moll Dubh a Ghleanna

Hassan Wargui - Isawl Omarg (Music Speaks)

Marlais – Died For Love

Michael O’Shea – Kerry

Nameless Grave – Monaghan

Gay McKeon – The Monaghan Jig / Francis Aucoin

Seán McKeon and Liam O’Connor – Ancient Irish War March

Jrpjej - Zazu Daha

The Johnstons – Tunnel Tigers

The Young Tradition – Byker Hill

O.J. Abbot – By the Hush, Me Boys

Anna and Elizabeth – Mama’s in the Graveyard

Jimmy MacBeath – John Anderson, My Jo

The Caretaker – A Losing Battle is Raging

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This episode looks at the ballad Lord Randall aka Henry My Son aka Amhrán na hEascainne aka Großmutter Schlangenköchin.

Tracklist

Mary Delaney – Buried in Kilkenny

Frank Quinn – Lord Randal

Joe Heaney – Amhrán na hEascainne

Anne Mulqueen – Cá Rabhais ar Feadh an Lae Uaim

Kathleen Behan – My Bonny Brown Boy

Unidentified Traveller – Billy Boy

Frank Harte – Henry my Son

Wounded John Scott Cree – Green and Yeller

Steeleye Span – Lord Randal

Martin Carthy – Lord Randal

Jeannie Robertson – Lord Randal

Isla Cameron – Croodlin Doo

Betsy Miller and Ewan MacColl – Lord Randal

Alan Elsdon Band – Lord Randal

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Episode XXIII features new songs from Cathal Caufield and Conor O’Kane as well as recordings of non-lexical vocable singing from the Jewish, Inuit, Indian, Sami, French, Irish, Scottish and American traditions.

Tracklist:

Audrey Saint Coeur – Diddlage

Cathal Caulfield – The Morning Thrush

Annie Johnson – Bird Imitations

Michael and Paddy Rafferty – The Queen of the Rushes

Christy Moore – The Knock Song

Paddy Tunney – Scots Bagpipe Lilts

Eilidh MacKenzie – Puirt a Béil

Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Raga Nattakurinji

Sami Joik Songs

Soria Eyituk, Lusi Kuni – Katajjaq

Blackfire – AIM song

Jimmie Riddle – Yakety Eeeph

Angelo Dornan – Chin Music

Unknown – Bratslav Nigun

Conor O’Kane – Harvest of Clovers

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This episode looks at the ballad The Cruel Mother aka All Around the Loney-O aka Weile Weile Waile aka Carslisle Wall aka Greenwood Sidey.

Tracklist

Mickey Connors – Down by the Green Roadside-um

Thomas Moran – The Cruel Mother

Landless – All Around the Loney-O

Winnie Stokes – Weile Weile Waile

Andrew Stewart – Weilo Weilo Wailo

Lizzie Higgins - The Cruel Mother

Silly Wizard – Carlisle Wall

Anonymous – Greenwood Side

Cecilia Costello – The Cruel Mother

A.L. Lloyd – The Cruel Mother

Mrs. G.A. Griffin – The Cruel Mother

Anna and Elizabeth – Greenwood Sidey

Andy the Doorbum – The Cruel Mother

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Episode XXII looks at some bits and bobs from the unsettled frontiers of traditional music including homemade bagpipes, out-there arrangements of well-known tunes, a new track from John Francis Flynn, straight up honest-to-God bodhrán playing, Robin Roberts as a performer / collector, the whole question of Led Zeppelin and the influence of *that* famous blind Irish harper as well as what is perhaps one of the filthiest songs in the wider folk / blues canon (NSFWAF).

Seán Keane – The Gold Ring / Strop the Razor

Fred Costello - At Trinity Church I Met My Doom

Donald WG Lindsay and Richard Youngs – International Bagpipe Day

Paddy Glackin and Jolyon Jackson – Green Fields of America (Jig and Reel)

John Francis Flynn – My Son Tim

Seán Ryan – Tatter Jack Walsh / Connie O’Connell’s

Christy Moore – The Hackler From Grouse Hall

Robin Roberts – Through Dublin City

Robin Roberts – Eggs and Marrowbones

Patrick Ball – Carolan’s Dream

Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven

Spirit – Taurus

Lucille Bogan – Shave ‘Em Dry II

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This episode looks at the ballad Long Lankin aka Lamkin aka False Lankum.

Tracklist

John Reilly Jr. – False Lankum

Helen Diamond – Long Lankin

Seán Corcoran – The Lambkin

Ben Butcher – Long Lankin

George Fradley - Lankin

A.L. Lloyd – Long Lankin

Hare and Moon – Long Lankin

Steeleye Span – Long Lankin

Robin Williamson and Lawson Dondo – Long Lankin

Alexander Robb – Lamkin

Hedy West – Beaulampkin

Frank Profitt - Bo Lamkin

Mrs Lena Barre – Bolakins

The Wainwright Sisters – Long Lankin

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