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FolkCast

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FolkCast episodes

  • FolkCast Interview Special - The Lindisfarne Story
    Phil chats with Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw of 70s giants Lindisfarne as they embark on a major UK tour with their show “The Lindisfarne Story”. We feature clips from the show, live songs and album tracks.
    MUSIC FEATURED
    The Road To Kingdom Come by Billy & Ray, live
    Fog On The Tyne by Lindisfarne, from the album Fog On The Tyne
    Walking Blues by Billy & Ray, live
    Winter Song by Billy & Ray, live
    This Guitar Never Lies by Lindisfarne, from the album Promenade
    Lady Eleanor by Billy & Ray, live
    Run For Home by Lindisfarne, from the album Back And Fourth
    For full details, see the ShowNotes for this podcast at www.folkcast.co.uk
    32 min
  • FolkCast099-Aug14
    The UK’s original independent podcast serving up folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music.
    In this month’s show:
    We pay mind to the Rule Of Three this month, with 3 Bright Lights, 3 ladies, 3 men, 3 bands, 3 trad songs.
    But there’s only one Babba and the Story Behind The American Civil War Folk Song (part 2…)
    All this and more in this month’s edition of … FolkCast!
    Music featured:
    I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard Thompson
    from the album “Acoustic Classics”
    I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Red Herring
    from the album “The Mountain Valley Sessions”
    I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Bellowhead
    from the album “Revival”
    Andrew by Polly Barrett
    from the album “Probably Me”
    Peace In Silence by Lucy Evans
    Released online
    Lights by Louise Petit
    from the album “Louder Than Your Drum”
    The Wolf by David Hirst
    Released online
    The Night Is Far Gone by Justin Dean Thomas
    Released online
    Amsterdam by Gregory Alan Isakov
    from the album “The Weatherman”
    Salt Breeze by Merrymouth
    from the album “Wenlock Hill”
    The Rut by Skerryvore
    from the album “Chasing The Sun”
    Doves by Mishaped Pearls
    from the album “Thamesis”
    Shady Grove by Said The Maiden
    from the album, “A Curious Tale”
    Sweet Carnlough Bay by Alison Frosdick and Jack Burnaby
    from the album “Half Hands Round”
    Roll Alabama Roll by Sharp As Razors
    from the album, “Cut The Throat”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song
    Part two of the tale of Britain’s shadowy involvement in the American Civil War, secretly working with the Confederate States.
    A ship and a song share the name: Shenandoah
    featuring: Pete Seegar / Acker Bilk / Nunez, Nelson and McClung / Kimber’s Men / The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
    Shenandoah by Bright Season
    from the album “Bright Season”
    Head Home by Blackmailed and Bereft
    Online release
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 098 - July 2014
    In this month's show:
    A feast of storytelling in song - two true tales of sporting endeavour that end in disaster and death; a biographical story of a young woman finding her identity while hitchhiking to Ireland; we visit the circus, and go to the beach, and we've a couple of songs by men with no name - or rather, men with two names. And we've another Story Behind The Song, with FolkCast's own badger-bothering, island dwelling history hobo, Babba. And after that, we'll hear about a pasta-based god and the Queen of Hearts, with not a jam tart in sight.
    Geordieland by The Ree-Vahs!
    from the album "Geordieland"
    The Saucy Bold Robber by James Delarre and Saul Rose
    from the album "Cabln Fever"
    The Cockfight by Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
    from the album "The Call"
    The Daring Lassie by Ange Hardy
    from the album "The Lament Of The Black Sheep"
    Sold To The Circus by Buffo's Wake
    from the album "Carniphobia"
    The Mansion Song by Orphan Jane
    from the album "A Poke In The Eye"
    Merry Tom by Lew Bear
    from the album “Ripples”
    Reason To Believe by Claire Boswell
    from the album “Claire Boswell”
    Waves In The Sea by Daniel Pearson
    Single release
    One Day At A Time by Blue Rose Code
    from the album “The Ballads Of Peckham Rye”
    Rain Down by Fifteen Days
    from the EP “The Oldest Lie”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song of…
    Roll Alabama, by Bellowhead
    Flying Spaghetti Monster by KARA
    from the album “Waters So Deep”
    The Queen Of Hearts by Martin and Eliza Carthy
    from the album “The Moral Of The Elephant”
    Ghost Of A Sailor by Pete Morton
    from the album “Frappin’ And Rambling”
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast's Preview of Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2014
    FolkCast’s preview of Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2014: the fabulous music festival in the heart of England
    presented by the founding fathers of British folk-rock Fairport Convention.
    The festival runs from August 7-9 in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England.
    THE PODCAST PROGRAMME
    FolkCast Theme Music: Fisherman’s Priest by Ken Nicol
    Podcast presented and produced by Phil Widdows
    In interview: Mr Dave “Peggy” Pegg, of Fairport Convention, a festival organiser
    featuring excerpts from the following music:
    Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble recorded live in rehearsal
    Jura Wedding Reels by Capercaillie
    Deja Vu by Steve Hackett
    Fisherman’s Blues by The Waterboys
    Leanabh an Oir by The Mischa Macpherson Trio
    Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Deborah Rose
    Eyes Of A Stranger by Edwina Hayes
    Fire by Benjamin Folke Thomas
    Hammer It Flat by The Churchfitters
    The Horizon, Me And You by The Travelling Band
    Circle Square by The Wonder Stuff
    The Sideboard Song by Chas & Dave
    Astronomy Domine by The Australian Pink Floyd Show
    Devil In The Kitchen by Blackbeard’s Tea Party
    My Name Is London Town by Reg Meuross
    Houses Are Burning by Tree Top Fliers
    As I Roved Out by Cara Dillon
    Under The Sun by Marillion
    On The Border by Al Stewart
    Meet On The Ledge by Fairport Convention
    1 hr 6 min
  • FolkCast 097 - June 2014
    Come with us on a journey studded with audio illusions:
    Americana that’s not from America…
    A strange hunting accident in which the victim’s ghost appears as a witness for the defence…
    Romans from Croatia in the Lake District…
    Three songs with no words…
    Blood in the kitchen, blood in the hall…
    And we march from the Highlands in the company of Bonnie Prince Charlie to hear a song that’s all about him, but not in favour of him…
    All this and more in a mind-expanding edition of … FolkCast!
    Music featured:
    The Devil’s Backbone by The Knights Of Mentis
    from the album “New Pound Coin”
    Take Me For A Ride by Wood, Wire and Words
    from the album “Riding The Rails”
    Jimmy by Mishaped Pearls
    from the album “Thamesis”
    Vankarin Polska / Shotgun by Bright Season
    from the album “Bright Season”
    Come What May by Clutching At Straws
    from the album “Come What May”
    The Sea by Ninebarrow
    from the album “When The Blackthorn Burns”
    First Europeans by Rainbow Chasers
    from the album “Chimes At Midnight”
    Rolling Down This Roman Road by Steve Tilston
    from the album “Such & Such”
    Bulgarian Red by Stooshie
    from the album “Stydd”
    Wranglin’ by 3 Boxes
    from the album “Strings Attached”
    Fear of Askaval by Damian Helliwell’s Metta
    from the album “Metta”
    Grim And Grimy Folk:
    Long Lankin by Blackbeard’s Tea Party
    from the album “Whip Jamboree”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song:
    Charlie Is My Darling by Eddi Reader
    from the album “Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns”
    3am by Jon Budworth
    from the EP “Trees Turn To Fire”
    How High The Mountain by George Boomsma
    single release
    On Perryglis Sands by The Rough Island Band
    from the album “On All Sides”
    Will Ye No Come Back Again? by Haddo
    from the album “Borderlands”
    For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast Summer Sizzler 2014
    The Summer Sizzler 2014 from FolkCast
    The Soundtrack of the Season!
    Pull up a beach chair, help yourself to barbecue and beer, and enjoy 80 minutes of sizzling summer sounds from FolkCast,
    home of the best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music!
    Presented and produced by Phil Widdows with interjections from Babba
    Contents
    Sing A Song Of Summer by John Martyn from the album “The Tumbler”
    Springtime Promises by Pentangle, from the album “Basket Of Light”
    “Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.” - Darell Hammond
    Meet You In The Summer by Chris Hardy, from the album “Health To Your Hands”
    “In the Bible when it rained for 40 days and 40 nights they called it a disaster. In England, we call it summer…” - Anon
    Right As Rain by Peter Lacey, from the album “Last Leaf”
    “At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun.” - Sandy Gingras.
    Sun Golden Sun by The Tansads, from the album “Rough And Ready: The Early Years”
    Atoms by Runrig, from the album “Everything You See”
    Summer by Broadfoot, from the album “Straight Between Us”
    “It’s summer, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to find out what my friends with swimming pools have been up to since last summer…” - Anon
    The Swimming Song by Fairport Convention, from the album “Old, New, Borrowed, Blue”
    “I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It’s either that or buy a new golf ball!” - Gene Perret
    I Have Lately Learned To Swim by 3 Boxes, from the album “Strings Attached”
    In The Summertime by The Peddlers, from the album “Three For All”
    “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen
    Inverary Summer Nights by The Clydesiders, from the album “Scottish Folk Songs Of The West”
    Stars Over Cloughanover by The Saw Doctors, single release.
    Skylark by Moonrakers, from the album Beneath The Snow
    - with To A Skylark (excerpt) by John Clare, read by Michael Sheen
    Summer Fires by Ninebarrow, from the album “While The Blackthorn Burns”
    Dunstable Downs by Life And Times, from the album “Charivari”
    - with Summer Solstice Song, written by Sophie Watson, performed by Frejya’s Fire
    Noon Of The Solstice by Damh The Bard, from the album “Spirit Of Albion”
    Lush Green Leaves by Paul McGladdery, from the album “Northwing Sessions 2013”
    “Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jewelled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” - Ada Louise Huxtable
    Down By The Greenwood by Golden Bough, from the album “Contemporary Songs: The Night Wind”
    The Way Through The Woods by David Gibb & Elly Lucas, from the album “Up Through The Woods”
    Summer Outing to Heaton Park, by Ewan MacColl
    This Time by Merry Hell, from the album “BLINK … And You’ll Miss It”
    “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” - Henry James
    Postcard From Summer (instrumental) by Sebastian Owen, download release
    “Now let’s find our own thrill…” - 1946 newsreel
    Wonderland by House Of Hats, from the album “This Love”
    Dog Days by Locomotive Ghost, from the EP “Summer”
    The Summer Lady by Steeleye Span, from the album “Wintersmith”
    Keep focused on FolkCast for the best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music … all year round!
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 096 - May 2014
    From the sunny streets of an idealised England to doomed romances both modern and ancient… From a trip to the bathroom to a journey to the Far East… From murderous gangs of lovers to deep-voiced deadly goblins…From a wooden man to a wee man…From the battle of Agincourt to a fight defused by tea and biscuits…It’s all in this month’s edition of FolkCast!
    The best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music from the UK and around the world.
    Music featured:
    Sunshine Street
    by The Men With Strong Arms
    from the album “Sunshine Street”
    Closer Than You Thought
    by Crafting For Foes
    from the EP “Love Is Scorned”
    In The Garden
    by Avital Raz
    from the album “The Believer”
    Letting Go
    by Daria Kulesh
    from the album “Eternal Child”
    Blackwaterside
    by Crossharbour
    from the album “Crossharbour”
    Daisy In The Sun/Trip To The Bathroom
    by Fifteen String Trio
    Unreleased track
    Shoe Strings
    by The Rambling Roots
    from the EP “The Rambling Roots”
    “Grim And Grimy Folk”
    The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
    by Tammerlin
    from the album “Wind Horses”
    What’s your nomination for the Grimmest, Grimiest folk song there ever was?
    Let us know by email and we could feature it in a future edition of FolkCast!
    In The Hall Of The Mountain King
    by Gavin Pennycook
    from the album “Octave Fiddle”
    Fantasia On The Yorkshire Anthem
    by Simon Mayor
    from the album “The Art Of The Mandolin”
    Bet Beesley & Her Wooden Man
    by Megson
    from the album “In A Box”
    Diminutive Man
    by Bridie Jackson & The Arbour
    from the album “New Skin”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song
    A tale of blood, mud and diarrhoea, being the battle of
    ‘Agincourt’
    as celebrated in song by
    Mather & Robinson
    on their 2014 album “In Time”
    Lovely Cup Of Tea
    by The Young ‘Uns
    from the album “Never Forget”
    For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 095 - April 2014
    Politics leads to tickling, which leads to happiness. The break of day leads to a terrible mining disaster. We go to sea, meet three ghosts, are taken as slaves by moorish pirates and finally go cuckoo. It’s all in this episode of FolkCast - the show that breaks the rules!
    Music featured:
    The Journeyman by Pete Morton
    from the album “The Ramblin’ And Frappin’ Pete Morton”
    Socialism in Our Time by Sydney Carter
    from the album “Anthems In Eden”
    Joanne by House Of Hats
    from the album “This Love”
    Ribbons by The Jones Boys
    from the album “Like the Sun a-Glittering”
    I’m So Happy by Billy Brown
    from the EP “Up Against It”
    Sunrise Ride by Peter Lacey
    from the album “Last Leaf”
    The Coming Of The Day by Adrian Nation
    from the album “Live at Crossroads”
    “Grim And Grimy Folk”:
    Trimdon Grange by Martin Carthy
    from the album “Sweet Wivelsfield”
    Szanta Oliwska by Brasy
    from the album “BrasyLive”
    Soldiers Joy/Floating Candle/The Dutchess by Will Pound
    from the album “A Cut Above”
    The Aerial And Taeping by Hughie Jones
    from the album “Maritime Miscellany”
    The Lover’s Ghost by Russell Cottier
    from the EP “Byways”
    Ghost At The Crossroads by Howlin’ Luke Jackson
    from the album “Fumes And Faith”
    Miss Willmott’s Ghost by Phillip Henry And Hannah Martin
    from the album “Mynd”
    Babba presents The Story Behind The Song:
    Lily Of Barbary by Little Johnny England
    from the album “Tournament Of Shadows”
    The Cuckoo by DeMalebysse
    from the album “Gazing Through Trees of Sorrow”
    For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min
  • March Into May! Spring 2014

    FolkCast's second annual celebration of the season of Spring, as told in music, rhyme and verse. Come on, let's set out now on a journey from the death of Old Man Winter to the dawning of a new summer … on the way we'll visit April and Easter as we March Into May!

    The Music and Verse (§)

    Spring Song by Charlie Chaplin

    First Song Of Spring by Paul McGladdery

    It May Be Spring But I Still Need A Coat by The Webb Sisters

    § Spring by Ian Bland (written and recorded exclusively for FolkCast)


    with Dance Of The Demon Daffodils (instrumental) by John Kirkpatrick

    I Saw The Sun Today by Becky Mills

    Come The Springtime by Blue Rose Code

    § Never Mind, March by Anon

    The Springtime Of The Year by John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers

    First Spring Day by Suburban Tribe

    Spring Has Sprung by George Breakfast

    § Excerpt from Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost


    with The Walk Before Easter (instrumental) by Martin Simpson

    § Blackrod Hawthorn written and spoken by Dogman (aka David Sands)

    One More Day by Skylark Song

    Snowdrops/Birth by Maddy Prior

    § Pace-Egging And Old Tosspot

    Pace-Egging Time by The Watersons

    § Easter by Bill Hicks

    Easter Snow by Christy Moore

    It Can't Be So by Ange Hardy

    Our Stolen Season by Ashley Hutchings (vocals, Emily Slade)

    Let's Misbehave by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders

    § Excerpt from Jeeves In The Springtime by PG Wodehouse

    Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer

    Bleed The Maple by Emmett Doyle

    Bluebells by Rosa Rebecka

    § May Day Approaching… by Ewan MacColl

    Northill May Song / Mwynen Mai by Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston

    The First Of May (instrumental) by James Bell

    Cuckoo's Nest by The Morris On Band

    § May Day In Ducklington by Cecil Sharp

    Cuckoo's Nest (instrumental and dance) by Hunter's Moon Morris

    May Morning by Triangle

    § Why Spring? by Phil Widdows

    A Clown's Heart by Oysterband

    For full details and links to artists' websites, see the Shownotes at www.folkcast.co.uk

    In 2014, spring begins with the vernal equinox on March 20 at 4:57pm GMT

    1 hr 18 min
  • FolkCast 094 - March 2014
    The best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music from the UK and around the world.
    In this show: New Scottish folk music, the return of Ken Nicol, and the launch of our hunt for the most ‘Grim and Grimy’ folk songs ever!
    Music featured:
    Flash Hard by Mather & Robinson
    from the album “In Time”
    Jock Hawk’s Adventures In Glasgow by Fiona Hunter
    from the album “Fiona Hunter”
    Rum by Ross Ainsley
    from the album “Wide Open”
    The Lads Like Beer by Blazin’ Fiddles
    from the album “Six”
    Kilmartin Glen Campsite by Marit And Rona
    from the album “Turas”
    Heel And Toe by Nobodaddy
    from the album “Longing For Flight”
    The Manchester Rambler Frap by Pete Morton
    from the album “The Frappin’ And Ramblin’ Pete Morton”
    Walking In The Footsteps Of Giants by Harp And A Monkey
    from the album “All Life Is Here”
    Houses And Vineyards by Robin Mitchell
    from the EP “Return”
    Another Grey And Grim Old Grimy Day by John Tams
    from the album “Home”
    Beedle Um Bum by The Jake Leg Jug Band
    from the album “Cotton Mouth”
    To My Old Brown Earth by Pete Seeger & The Cathedral Singers
    from the album “Pete”
    See the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
    1 hr 18 min

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