30/11/2008

November 30th heralded the RaW Folk November 30th Special, an event celebrated by much rejoicing and a few seasonal tunes, some of which were a touch woeful and the remainder downright depressing. Bah!

The show also featured extensive plugging of RaW's annual Single of the Year poll (broadcast on Wednesday with Kings of Leon declared triumphant for the excitable Sex on Fire). Thanks to all those who backed RaW Folk's campaign and voted for White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes - they made it to a very creditable 14th place.


Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

19:02 Richard Thompson - Friday on My Mind (1000 Years of Popular Music)
19:05 Chumbawamba - Add Me (The Boy Bands Have Won)
19:11 Karine Polwart - Dowie Dens of Yarrow (The Fairest Floo'er)
19:17 Steeleye Span - Gaudete (Below the Salt)
19:20 Yoriyos - Endoscopies (Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee)
19:27 Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time (Songs for Christmas)
19:33 Louis Killen - Up the Raw (The Iron Muse [Various Artists])
19:34 Joni Mitchell - River (Blue)
19:40 Malcolm Middleton - Cold Winter (5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine)
19:46 Ry Cooder - Footprints in the Snow (My Name is Buddy)
19:49 Richard Hawley - Wading Through the Waters of My Time (Coles Corner)
19:55 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)
19:59 KT Tunstall - Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii) (A Very KT Christmas EP)
20:02 Eliza Carthy - Oranges and Seasalt (Dreams of Breathing Underwater)
20:07 Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Unhalfbricking)
20:13 Kate Rusby - Little Jack Frost (The Girl Who Couldn't Fly)
20:18 Scott Matthews - Passing Stanger (Passing Stranger)
20:24 Al Stewart - Lord Grenville (Year of the Cat)
20:29 Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (If I Should Fall from Grace with God)
20:34 Thea Gilmore - When I Get Back to Shore (Liejacker)
20:37 Dubliners - All for Me Grog (The Dubliners)

The Legend of Stuff
20:41 Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band - The Carnal and the Crane (An Evening of Carols & Capers)

20:45 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
20:49 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)
20:53 Dick Gaughan - The Snows they Melt the Soonest (Handful of Earth)
20:58 Low - Just Like Christmas (Christmas EP)

Vote 'White Winter Hymnal' Single of the Year

Welcome to the campaign to install White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes as RaW's Single of the Year 2008.

Taken from their eponymous debut album (released on the Bella Union label in the UK) and embracing folk, gospel and baroque pop among other influences, White Winter Hymnal is two and a half minutes of ethereal yet tangible beauty.

For full instructions and to cast your vote visit radio.warwick.ac.uk/soty.



The Top 40 will be announced on Wednesday's special edition of Compact Disco with the RaW music team from 17:00. Strike a blow for folk and vote Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Single of the Year 2008!

23/11/2008

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

19:03 Capercaillie - Puirt a Beul / Snug in a Blanket (Jigs) (Crosswinds)
19:11 Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Talk to me of Mendocino (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
19:16 Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies - A Call for the North Country (Bede Weeps)
19:19 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin)
19:25 Nic Jones - Canadee-I-O (Penguin Eggs)
19:33 Chris Wood - Come Down Jehovah (Trespasser)
19:40 Bob Fox & Stu Luckley - Two Magicians (Box of Gold)

Folk On / Folk Off
19:47 Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind (Every Picture Tells a Story)
19:52 Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (Year of the Cat)

20:01 Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town
20:03 Tim Hardin - Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin 1)
20:06 Eliza Carthy - Oranges and Seasalt (Dreams of Breathing Underwater)
20:11 Megson - Smoke of Home (Follow It On EP)
20:16 Julie Fowlis - Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single)
20:19 Blowzabella - Oliver's and Two Beers (Octomento)
20:25 Silly Wizard - Monymusk Lads (Caledonia's Hardy Sons)
20:28 Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (single)
20:34 Martha Tilston - Red (Bimbling)
20:38 Whitley - More than Life (The Submarine)

The Legend of Stuff
20:44 Pentangle - Bruton Town (The Pentangle)

20:51 Mr Plow - Mary Margaret (Four Murder Ballads EP)
20:55 Spiers & Boden - The Rain it Rains (Vagabond)
20:59 The Beatles - Dear Prudence (The Beatles [White Album])

2009 BBC Folk Awards Nominees Announced

Last night heralded the announcement of nominations for the tenth annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Around 170 industry insiders had a say in selecting the nominees and will vote again to decide the winners ahead of the awards ceremony on February 2nd 2009.

RaW Folk favourites Bellowhead, Jim Moray and Eliza Carthy each picked up three nominations, whilst Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seth Lakeman, John McCusker, Martin Simpson, Lau, Spiers & Boden and Show of Hands' multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer also made the shortlist having graced RaW's airwaves. Chris Wood swept up with five nominations and there'll be a track from him on this week's show.

For the full list of categories and nominations, click here. I will post my predictions nearer to the event!

16/11/2008

All new RaW Folk... now the sexy sound of Sunday nights, bringing you Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac and Status Quo. Gosh. Folk police on my back!

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

19:05 Noah & the Whale - Shape of My Heart (Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down)
19:09 Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King (Super Taranta!)
19:12 Jamie Woon - Robots (The Living Room)
19:18 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin)
19:23 Shooglenifty - McConnell's Rant (Troots)
19:28 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk (The Bairns)
19:38 Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Think for Yourself (Rubber Folk)
19:41 Julie Fowlis - Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single)
19:44 Polly Paulusma - Dark Side (Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites)
19:48 Ian McMillan Orchestra - Border Ballad (Sharp Stories)

Folk On / Folk Off
19:53 Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe (Every Picture Tells a Story)
19:59 Rod Stewart - Dirty Old Town (An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down)

20:05 Eliza Carthy - Mr Magnifico (Dreams of Breathing Underwater)
20:13 Brendan Campbell - Burgers and Murders (Burgers and Murders)
20:17 Glen Campbell - Walls (Meet Glen Campbell)
20:22 Martin Simpson - Pretty Crowing Chicken (Prodigal Son)
20:26 3 Daft Monkeys - Paranoid Big Brother (Social Vertigo)
20:30 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) (Raising Sand)
20:34 Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Beachcombing (All the Roadrunning)
20:38 Fleetwood Mac - Songbird (Rumours)

The Legend of Stuff
20:42 Status Quo feat. Maddy Prior - All Around My Hat (Don't Stop)

20:46 Christy Moore - Mystic Lipstick (Voyage)
20:50 Joan Baez - Simple Twist of Fate (Diamonds & Rust)
20:56 k.d. lang - After the Goldrush (Hymns of the 49th Parallel)
21:00 Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink (A Larum)

08/11/2008

Many thanks to all those who listened to the final Saturday show after what can only be described as quite a few months of Saturday shows, with a few months' break in the middle. A momentous occasion, then.

Don't forget to catch RaW Folk at the new time of 19:00 next Sunday.

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:06 Bellowhead – Fire Marengo (Burlesque)
18:10 John McCusker – Stella's Welcome to Kamloops / The Kings of Innishboffin / Sean Maguire's (Goodnight Ginger)
18:15 Julie Fowlis – Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single)
18:18 The Beatles – Blackbird (The Beatles [White Album])
18:21 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset – Blackbird (The Bairns)
18:24 The Waifs – Sun Dirt Water (Sun Dirt Water)
18:28 Nick Drake – Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
18:30 Mary Gauthier – Our Lady of the Shooting Stars (Drag Queens in Limousines)
18:35 Annie Palovcik – Illinois Boy (A Barack Obama Song) (Changes EP)
18:39 James Yorkston – Summer Song (Year of the Leopard)
18:44 Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes In (The Times They Are A'Changing)
18:49 Fairport Convention – Meet on the Ledge (What We Did on Our Holidays)

Folk On / Folk Off
18:53 Eliza Carthy – Follow the Dollar (Dreams of Breathing Underwater)
18:58 Teddy Thompson – The Things I Do (A Piece of What You Need)

19:03 Elvis Costello – Indoor Fireworks (King of America)
19:07 Bruce Springsteen – Old Dan Tucker (We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions)
19:10 Brendan Campbell – Burgers and Murders (Burgers and Murders)
19:15 Laura Marling – Tap at My Window (Alas I Cannot Swim)
19:18 The Waterboys – Fisherman's Blues (Fisherman's Blues)
19:23 Cara Dillon – False, False (That's Proper Folk [various artists])

The Legend of Stuff
19:29 Shirley Collins & the Albion Country Band – Poor Murdered Woman (No Roses)

19:35 Martin Simpson – Never Any Good (Prodigal Son)
19:43 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset – Sea Song (The Bairns)
19:50 Heidi Talbot – Cathedrals (In Love and Light)
19:54 Woodpigeon – That Was Good But You Can Do Better (Songbook)
19:59 Kate Rusby – Fare Thee Well (The Girl Who Couldn't Fly)

01/11/2008

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:06 Mr. Plow - Mary Margaret (Four Murder Ballads EP)
18:11 Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Sunshine Superman)
18:16 Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk (Album III)
18:19 Nic Jones - Billy Don't You Weep for Me (Folk Awards 2007 [Various Artists])

Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture
18:26 Jim Moray - Three Black Feathers
18:30 Jim Moray - Leaving Australia

18:35 Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
18:43 Tilly & the Wall - Cacophony (o)
18:47 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin)
18:52 Elliot Smith - Whatever (Folk Song in C) (New Moon)

Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture
18:57 Jim Moray - Lucy Wan
19:02 Jim Moray - Across the Western Ocean

Folk On or Folk Off
19:07 The Clash - Straight to Hell (Combat Rock)
19:13 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding (Punch the Clock)

19:18 Martha Wainwright - These Flowers (Martha Wainwright)
19:23 Lau - Stewarts [live] (Live)
19:33 Annie Palovcik - Illinois Boy (A Barack Obama Song) (Changes EP)
19:37 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Illinoise)

The Legend of Stuff
19:42 Steeleye Span - Alison Gross (Parcel of Rogues)

Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture
19:47 Jim Moray - I'll Go List for a Sailor
19:50 Jim Moray - All You Pretty Girls

19:55 Bob Dylan - Man of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan)
19:58 The Devil's Interval - Silver Dagger (Blood & Honey)

Apology

The following is the text of the sincere and heartfelt apology broadcast before this evening's programme.

Good evening children.

The edition of RaW Folk broadcast on Saturday 18th October included a song that alluded to acts of a sexual, romantic, loving or otherwise objectionable nature.

Following the broadcast, RaW received two complaints. However, following an article in last week's Warwick Mail (just between the topless models and a sex scandal shame exclusive), RaW received a further 34498 complaints, meaning everyone on campus has complained about twice.

Vice Chancellor Sir Nigel Thrift pulled out of a crucial summit about whatever it is he does to tell everyone that he thought it was a bit wrong. This was clearly inappropriate and unacceptable, as he has more important things to do.

As a result, last week's edition of the programme (broadcast on October 25th) should have been suspended without pay but we were a bit late to notice and no-one gets paid (and there's a credit crunch on anyway). We would like to apologise to anyone who might have been offended and to all those pursuing an agenda.

Everyone must now be serious for twelve weeks.

25/10/2008

Music Played

18:03 Loose Acoustic Trio - Pinball Wizard (Sorrow Be Gone)
18:07 Eliza Carthy - Herring Song (Rice)
18:14 Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Sun Giant EP)

Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice
18:20 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Bring Us In Good Ale
18:24 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Of all the Birds

18:25 Devendra Banhart - Seahorse (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)
18:34 Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren (The Dream Belongs to Me)
18:38 Magic Numbers - Sing a Song for You (Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley)

Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice
18:43 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Fly Up My Cock
18:45 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - The Ploughboy and the Cockney

18:48 Laura Marling - Ghosts (Alas I Cannot Swim)
18:53 Pete Molinari - Adelaine (A Virtual Landslide)
18:56 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

Folk On or Folk Off
19:04 Rufus Wainwright - You're Nearer (Rufus Does Judy Live at Carnegie Hall)
19:07 Martha Wainwright - See Emily Play (I Know You're Married but I've got Feelings Too)

19:11 The Band - The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band)
19:15 Bob Dylan - All I Really Want to Do (Another Side of Bob Dylan)
19:20 Karine Polwart - Firethief (This Earthly Spell)
19:23 Seth Lakeman - Solomon Browne (Poor Man's Heaven)
19:28 Tom Waits - 9th & Hennepin (Rain Dogs)
19:30 Tom Waits - Downtown Train (Rain Dogs)

Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice
19:34 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Three Drunken Maidens
19:39 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - False Knight on the Road

The Legend of Stuff
19:44 Steeleye Span - False Knight on the Road (Please to See the King)

19:47 John Martyn - Bless the Weather (Bless the Weather)
19:50 Joan Baez - The Lower Road (Day After Tomorrow)
19:55 Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon - Galway Girl [single]
19:58 Kirsty MacColl - Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (Kite)

18/10/2008

This week the show was dominated by the folk rock of Richard Thompson, ably supported by an array of rock, punk and (somewhere in the mix) folk stars. If you have any opinions about any of tonight's tracks or would like to make a request for next week's show, then please comment below.

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:02 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
18:05 Lindisfarne - Meet Me on the Corner (Fog on the Tyne)
18:08 Dave Swarbrick - Merry Boys of Greenland (The Ceilidh Album)
18:12 Chumbawamba - I Wish that They'd Sack Me (The Boy Bands Have Won)
18:16 Drever | McCusker | Woomble - Before the Ruin (Before the Ruin)
18:21 Josh Pyke - Middle of the Hill (Memories and Dust)

Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
18:24 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

18:28 Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun (Pink Moon)
18:32 Athena - Let Me In (Breathe With Me)
18:36 Jim Moray - All You Pretty Girls (Low Culture)

Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
18:40 Richard & Linda Thompson - The Little Beggar Girl

The Legend of Stuff
18:45 Planxty - The Jolly Beggar (Planxty)

18:50 Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Redemption Song (Streetcore)
18:54 Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears (Talking with the Taxman about Poetry)
18:58 Christy Moore - Only Our Rivers Run Free (The Time Has Come)
19:01 Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River)

19:07 Bob Dylan - Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Folk On or Folk Off
19:10 The Band - I Shall Be Released (Music from Big Pink)
19:14 Tom Robinson Band - I Shall Be Released (Power in the Darkness (Bonus Tracks Edition))

19:18 Jawbone - Get Rhythm (Chug a Lug [single])
19:21 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) (Raising Sand)
19:25 Whitley - Shot to the Stars (The Submarine)
19:28 Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven (Poor Man's Heaven)

Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
19:33 Richard & Linda Thompson - Down Where the Drunkards Roll
19:36 Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get to the Border

19:41 Thea Gilmore - When I Get Back to Shore (Liejacker)
19:43 Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (The Essential Johnny Cash)
19:48 Richard Thompson - Oops! I Did it Again (1000 Years of Popular Music)
19:51 Richard Thompson - Friday on My Mind (1000 Years of Popular Music)
19:56 Josh Pyke - Middle of the Hill (Memories and Dust)

11/10/2008

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:02 Davy Graham - Angi (Folk, Blues and Beyond)
18:05 Dubliners - Whiskey in the Jar (Spirit of the Irish: the Ultimate Collection)
18:09 Frank Turner - Photosynthesis (Love Ire & Song)

Featured Album: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
18:15 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

18:19 Karine Polwart - Firethief (This Earthly Spell)
18:23 Bellowhead - Across the Line (Burlesque)
18:28 Levellers - What a Beautiful Day (Mouth to Mouth)
18:33 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Blackbird (The Bairns)
18:36 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Alas I Cannot Swim)
18:39 Hayseed Dixie - Corn Liquor (Let There Be Rockgrass)
18:43 Ian McMillan Orchestra - Song of the Quarrymen (Sharp Stories)
18:47 Laura Cantrell - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Trains and Boats and Planes)
18:54 Lead Belly - John Hardy (Best of)

Folk On or Folk Off:
18:59 Seasick Steve - Cut My Wings (Dog House Music)
19:03 Jawbone - All Want Jesus Name (Haulling)

Featured Album: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
19:07 Fleet Foxes - Sun It Rises
19:11 Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why

19:15 Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir (Unhalfbricking)
19:18 Bob Dylan - The Boxer (Self Portrait)
19:22 Tunng - Woodcat (Comments of the Inner Chorus)
19:26 Heidi Talbot - Cathedrals (In Love and Light)
19:29 Lau - Waiting for the Results (Lightweights and Gentlemen)

Featured Album: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
19:34 Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

19:39 Chumbawamba - Lord Bateman's Motorbike (The Boy Bands Have Won)

The Legend of Stuff
19:44 Martin Carthy - James Hatley (Waiting for Angels)

19:51 Pogues & the Dubliners - The Irish Rover (Spirit of the Irish: the Ultimate Collection)
19:55 Eliza Carthy - 10,000 Miles (Red)
19:58 Spiers & Boden - Run for Your Life (Rubber Folk)

Series 2 Big Up!

After a seventeen-week summer sojourn, RaW Folk returns for a second series with a super-sized special this Saturday. Tune in for two hours from 18:00 to hear a showcase of the best contemporary and traditional folk, roots and acoustic music.

radio.warwick.ac.uk/listen

Show 8 14/06/2008

I must have a deep-seated need to embarrass myself through the broadcasting of dodgy impressions. Having just about survived a live edition of Theme Time Radio Minute last week, on Saturday morning I stumbled upon the backing music used by the late Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, famous for saying "not 'arf" a lot on his Radio 1 (and later Radio 2) show Pick of the Pops, which he presented for an incredible 143 years.

Intending to demonstrate RaW Folk's broad coverage of folk music in its 399 minutes of airtime before Saturday's final show - and contemplating the prospect of a couple of hours editing together a montage to accompany an a-z rundown - I decided much time and effort could be saved by borrowing Fluff's Pick of the Pops chart countdown music. And having come so far, how could I not throw a quick "not 'arf" into the mix?

So Raw Folk's A to Z, co-presented by a mediocre Alan Freeman impression and a very mediocre Chris Jones, can be downloaded here [link expired].

Alright?

Right!


Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:07 Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho (Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
18:13 Karine Polwart - Daisy (Scribbled in Chalk)
18:17 Billy Bragg - A New England (Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy)
18:20 Oysterband - Love Will Tear Us Apart (ft. June Tabor) [live] (The Big Session Volume 1)

Folk On / Folk Off
18:26 k.d. lang - Constant Craving (Ingénue)

18:30 Luka Bloom - Monsoon [live] (Amsterdam)
18:34 June Tabor - A Place Called England (A Quiet Eye)
18:38 Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [single]
18:44 Judy Collins - Both Sides Now (Wildflowers)
18:48 Peter von Poehl - The Story of the Impossible (Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are)
18:52 Fionn Regan - Be Good or Be Gone (The End of History)
18:56 Chris Bathgate - Serpentine (A Cork Tale Wake)

Show 7 07/06/2008

Fantastic music this week, although apparently it was tough going again for Internet listeners ...buffering...

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Anna Massie - Trip to Windsor (Glad Company)
18:06 Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon - Galway Girl [single]

Featured Album: Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
18:12 Kate Rusby - Game of All Fours
18:15 Kate Rusby - Elfin Knight

18:20 Bob Dylan - Oxford Town (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
Theme Time Radio Minute Live (Dust Bowls)
18:23 Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Blues

18:26 Jaymay - Corduroy (Autumn Fallin' (Bonus Disc))
18:30 Bon Iver - Skinny Love (For Emma, Forever Ago)

Folk On / Folk Off
18:35 Beach Boys - Sloop John B (Pet Sounds)

18:39 Bruce Springsteen - Old Dan Tucker (We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions)

Featured Album: Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
18:43 Kate Rusby - No Names
18:47 Kate Rusby - Fare Thee Well

18:51 Luka Bloom - Monsoon [live] (Amsterdam)
18:54 Malinky - The Bonnie Lass o'Fyvie (Last Leaves)

Show 6 31/05/2008

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Bellowhead - Hopkinson's Favourite (Burlesque)
18:07 Steeleye Span - Hard Times of Old England (All Around My Hat)
18:13 Chumbawamba - Bankrobber (A Singsong and A Scrap)

Album of the Week: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
18:15 Nick Drake - Northern Sky
18:20 Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock

18:25 Martha Tilston - Artificial (Of Milkmaids and Architects)

18:30 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (Nashville Skyline)
Theme Time Radio Minute (Mountains)
18:35 Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Fly Away Home (Men from Earth)

Album of the Week: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
18:39 Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II

Folk On / Folk Off
18:45 XTC - All You Pretty Girls (The Big Express)

18:50 Eliza Carthy - Rolling Sea (Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys)

Album of the Week: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
18:54 Nick Drake - Poor Boy

Show 5 24/05/2008

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Lull II: My Lad's a Canny Lad (The Bairns)
18:04 Jock Tamson's Bairns - Donal Don / Piper's Cave (May You Never Lack a Scone)
18:11 Jim Moray - Barbara Allen (Jim Moray)

Album of the Week: Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
18:16 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
18:19 Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

18:22 Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink (A Larum)
18:27 Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
18:31 Bob Dylan - Country Pie (Nashville Skyline)
18:33 Julie Fowlis - Biodh An Deoch Seo `N Laimh Mo Ruin (Mar A Tha Mo Cridhe)

Album of the Week: Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
18:38 Joni Mitchell - Morning Morgantown
18:42 Joni Mitchell - Rainy Night House

Folk On / Folk Off
18:47 Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Made in the Dark)

18:50 Pogues - Dirty Old Town (Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
18:55 Bon Iver - Skinny Love (For Emma, Forever Ago)
18:57 Show of Hands - If I Needed Someone (Witness)

Show 4 17/05/2008

RaW Folk's fourth show spanned a classic spectrum, from the sublime (music) to the ridiculous (speech)... unfortunately the latter is preserved in the download version [link expired] - music, as I've mentioned, must be restricted to ten second clips. Still worth a listen to jog your memory!

If you caught the show on Saturday, I'd be very interested to read any opinions you have regarding the new Eliza Carthy track, Mr Magnifico. I've listened a few times now and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it - taking storytelling through song a step too far, perhaps? Or do you think it's innovative and engaging - and I just don't get it?

Plus don't forget to vote in this week's Folk On / Folk Off poll (top left of this blog's homepage). The track in question is Homesick by Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience and the poll closes at midday this Saturday (24th May). Results to be announced on the next show!

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

Album of the Week: Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
18:03 Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair / Canticle

18:07 Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay (Kitty Jay)

Album of the Week: Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
18:13 Simon & Garfunkel - A Simple Desultory Philippic (or how I was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
Theme Time Radio Minute (Crying)
18:17 Bruce Springsteen - O Mary Don't You Weep (We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions)

18:23 Waterboys - Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Room to Roam)

Album of the Week: Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
18:27 Simon & Garfunkel - Cloudy
18:29 Simon & Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall

18:32 Karine Polwart - Daisy (Scribbled in Chalk)

Folk On / Folk Off
18:36 Kings of Convenience - Homesick (Riot on an Empty Street)

18:40 Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl - Grey Goes (Two)
18:44 Salsa Celtica - Grey Gallito (The Grey Cockerel) (El Camino)
18:51 Eliza Carthy - Mr Magnifico (Dreams of Breathing Underwater)

Album of the Week: Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
18:56 Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem on the Underground Wall
18:58 Simon & Garfunkel - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

Show 3 10/05/2008

The broadcast passed smoothly enough this week but technical difficulties hampered the recording, meaning the download is short and sweet. Clicketh here [link expired].
Sir Bob chose "Kite" as his theme - playing Eddi Reader - and Angus & Julia Stone were voted a Folk On hit. Tracklisting below.

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Pogues - Fiesta (If I Should Fall from Grace with God)
18:08 Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [single]

Album of the Week: Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields
18:13 Seth Lakeman - The White Hare
18:17 Seth Lakeman - Final Lot

18:20 Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' (The Times They Are A-Changin')
Theme Time Radio Minute (Kite)
18:24 Eddi Reader - Kiteflyer's Hill (Angels & Electricity)

Album of the Week: Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields
18:30 Seth Lakeman - Lady of the Sea
18:34 Seth Lakeman - The Charmer

Folk On / Folk Off
18:38 Angus & Julia Stone - Private Lawns (Chocolates and Cigarettes EP)

18:42 Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick - Oh Dear Oh! (Life and Limb)

Album of the Week: Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields
18:45 Seth Lakeman - Take No Rogues
18:49 Seth Lakeman - The Setting of the Sun

18:53 Prelude - After the Goldrush (After the Goldrush)
18:57 City Waites - Two Magicians (The English Tradition)

M'aidez!

If you would like to recommend an artist you think I should be playing, or request a specific track, then please do so by commenting below. I can't promise anything but all suggestions are gratefully received - thanks for helping out.

Enjoy the May bank holiday festivities, should you be partaking. I will be celebrating later by seeing Kate Rusby live. Until then - can anyone see a maypole?

Show 2 03/05/2008

Interesting show this week, characterised by brass, politics, shameless advertising of this blog and downright bungling to finish. Tracklisting below - download the abridgement here [link expired].

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Luka Bloom - Peace on Earth (Innocence)

Featured Album: Bellowhead - Burlesque
18:06 Bellowhead - Jordan 4:08

18:10 Mr. David Viner - Corrina, Corrina (Mr. David Viner)
18:15 Karine Polwart - Sorry (This Earthly Spell)

Featured Album: Bellowhead - Burlesque
18:19 Bellowhead - One May Morning Early
18:22 Bellowhead - Sloe Gin

18:28 Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe (Another Side of Bob Dylan)
Theme Time Radio Minute (Colour)
18:33 Billy Bragg - From Red to Blue (William Bloke)

Folk On / Folk Off
18:37 Tilly & the Wall - Rainbows in the Dark (Bottoms of Barrels)

Featured Album: Bellowhead - Burlesque
18:43 Bellowhead - Rigs of the Time
18:46 Bellowhead - London Town

18:50 Ralph McTell - Streets of London (Spiral Staircase)
18:58 Luka Bloom - City of Chicago (Innocence)

Luka Bloom at Warwick Arts Centre 27/04/2008

My nonchalance in buying a ticket for Luka Bloom's visit to Warwick Arts Centre on Sunday evening was borne out of an ignorance that appeared to have kept all other teenagers away. I had just a passing acquaintance with a couple of tracks - most familiarly 'Exploring the Blue' - but sufficient interest to judge attendance worthwhile, or at least, worth a fiver.

Born Barry Moore, ten years the junior of brother Christy, Bloom adopted his new moniker on a flight to New York in 1987. Repeated tours of the USA, Australia and Europe followed, including support slots for the Pogues and the Dixie Chicks among others. Now a dozen albums later, this intimate theatre gig was the last night of his first UK tour in ten years - and there can't have been a better one all run.

From the moment of his briskly cheery entrance, accompanied by attentive applause, to the deific closing notes of encore Sunny Sailor Boy that heralded a final swelling ovation (he played right through the interval), Bloom enraptured and enthralled the crowd. He exuded warmth, wit, sincerity and incredible skill. In truth, I cannot begin to describe the mesmeric, beautiful and engaging quality of this performance - let's just call it bloody good.

Particular highlights were instrumental Peace on Earth (see below), Radio 4 documentary-inspired Monsoon, audience sing-along Eastbound Train, rousing set-closer You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time and the indisputably logical No Matter Where You Go, There You Are - but to elevate these at the expense of all others would be most unfair. There was not a dull, duff or difficult song to be heard and if you ever have the opportunity to see him live, do not spurn it lightly (the next chance, for the geographically mobile, comes at Belgium's Labadoux Festival on Friday).

At the post-show signing I couldn't resist a cheeky shot at booking a RaW Folk session upon any future return (he is looking to make up for lost time in the UK with further gigs aplenty). He shook my hand and made my week.


Luka Bloom performing Peace on Earth from new CD/DVD release The Man Is Alive.

Show 1 26/04/2008

The first show was broadcast live from 1800-1900 on Saturday 26th April. A downloadable version can be accessed here [link expired]. Unfortunately full songs must be removed for legal reasons but Theme Time Radio Minute remains and the track listing is reproduced below for reference. Happy listening!

Music Played
Time Artist - Song (Album)

18:03 Nick Drake - Introduction (Bryter Later)
18:05 Richard Thompson - Needle & Thread (Sweet Warrior)
18:12 Eliza Carthy - Miller & the Lass (Rice)

Featured Album: Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
18:15 Chumbawamba - Words Can Save Us
18:17 Chumbawamba - Add Me

18:20 Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
Theme Time Radio Minute (Arrows)
18:26 Aberfeldy - Love Is An Arrow (Young Forever)

Featured Album: Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
18:29 Chumbawamba - El Fusilado
18:32 Chumbawamba - (Words Flew) Right Around the World
18:33 Chumbawamba - To a Little Radio

Folk On or Folk Off (Working Title)
18:37 Beautiful South - This Old Skin (Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs)

18:42 Martin Simpson - Little Musgrave (Prodigal Son)

Featured Album: Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
18:48 Chumbawamba - Word Bomber
18:51 Chumbawamba - Charlie
18:54 Chumbawamba - Fine Line

18:55 Show of Hands - Roots (Witness)

RaW Folk is on its way!

Tune in on Saturday April 26th at 18:00 to hear the first show live on RaW 1251am and at radio.warwick.ac.uk/listen.

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