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.