Saturday 31 January 2009

31/01/2009

This week RaW Folk explored the folk rock connections to the day the music died, fifty years ago on February 3rd. Had Buddy Holly lived it is tempting to wonder whether he would have contributed to the Sixties folk revival, having moved to Greenwich Village shortly before the plane crash that killed him at the age of 22, alongside Ritchie Valens (aged 17), JP Richardson (The Big Bopper, aged 28) and the pilot Roger Peterson.

The show also paid tribute to the late John Martyn, a terrific folk (and jazz) singer-songwriter and folk guitar virtuoso, who died on Thursday.

In addition the almost regular features Folk On or Folk Off, Train Track and Young Folkies graced the airwaves with customary gauche inelegance and I decided that Mykonos by Fleet Foxes is the most affecting track I've heard since Josh Pyke's Middle of the Hill.

Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)


Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)
Buddy Holly - Well... All Right (Very Best of)
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Sun Giant EP)
John Martyn - Glory Box (The Church With One Bell)

Train Track
Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Highway 61 Revisited)

John Martyn - Solid Air (Solid Air)
Cara Dillon - Spencer the Rover (Hill of Thieves)

Folk On or Folk Off
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution (One Man Revolution)

Young Folkies
Ryan Young - Catharsis, Humours of Tulla, Mittens Breakdown (BBC Folk Awards 2007)

Steeleye Span - Rave On (Spanning the Years)
Don McLean - American Pie (American Pie)

Wednesday 28 January 2009

24/01/2009

Gifted an extra thirty minutes just a couple of hours before the show, I thought the time ripe for a look back at nine months of RaW Folk's contentious but convivial continuing item, Folk On or Folk Off. The hastily assembled result highlighted previously considered tracks from The Beautiful South, Tilly & the Wall, k.d. Lang, The Band, Martha Wainwright and Slow Club, as well as behind the scenes secrets and listener recollections.

Normal service resumed at 19:00, with last week's new feature "Train Spot" transformed to "Train Track" at a listener's suggestion, in a desperate effort to sound less geeky. Sir Bob's classic Theme Time Radio Minute on the big topic of mountains was given a second airing and among the musical peaks were tracks from RaW Folk debutants Dervish, Neil Young (solo) and Kathleen Edwards.

Music Played

Time Artist - Song (Album)

Dervish - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves (Travelling Show)
Neil Young - Lookin' For a Leader (Living With War)
Old Crow Medicine Show - Union Maid (Big Iron World)

Train Track
Tom Waits - Downtown Train (Rain Dogs)

Emilie Autumn - O Mistress Mine
Byrds - All I Really Want to Do (Mr. Tambourine Man)


Theme Time Radio Minute (Classic) - Mountains
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Fly Away Home (Men from Earth)

Folk On or Folk Off
KT Tunstall - Black Horse & the Cherry Tree (Eye to the Telescope)

Mawkin: Causley - Ye Mariners All (Cold Ruin EP)
Eliza Carthy - Worcester City (Anglicana)

Legend of Stuff
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Death of Queen Jane (Straws in the Wind)

Whitley - Shot to the Stars (The Submarine)
Kathleen Edwards - Run (Asking for Flowers)

Saturday 24 January 2009

Early Start!

This week's show will kick off half an hour early with a Folk On / Folk Off special. Please tune in from 18:30 for more of your RaW Folk.

Sunday 18 January 2009

17/01/2009

Not one but two brand new features on Saturday's programme, for the first time since the first show when Folk On or Folk Off and the forgotten (not forgiven) Theme Time Radio Minute debuted to no great acclaim. Obviously such high standards cannot be maintained, so this time round we make do with the elaborately simple Train Spot and Young Folkies.

Music Played

Time Artist - Song (Album)

Bat For Lashes - Horse & I (Fur and Gold)
Ailie Robertson - The Exploding Bow (First Things First)

Train Spot
Josh Turner - Long Black Train (Long Black Train)

Ashley Hutchings - Black Joke (Grandson of Morris On)
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Blue's Gaen Oot O'the Fashion (The Bairns)
Christy Moore - Ride On (Ride On)

Folk On or Folk Off
Slow Club - Me and You (single)

Eddi Reader - Wild Mountainside (Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns)

Young Folkies
Last Orders - O'Keefe's, Unknown, Campdown Races (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards)

The Queensberry Rules - New Colombus (Black Dog)
Laura Marling - Old Stone (Alas I Cannot Swim)
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (Veneer)

Sunday 11 January 2009

10/01/2009

Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)

Shooglenifty - Missed the Bypass / The Reid St Sofa / Fit're Ye Dain, Up Ma Vennel! (The Arms Dealer's Daughter)
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Sun Giant EP)
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar (Rockers)
Tom Russell - Rider on an Orphan Train (The Man from God Knows Where)
Jim Moray - Leaving Australia (Low Culture)
Emily Smith - Winter Song (Too Long Away)
Mawkin: Causley - Come My Lads (Cold Ruin EP)
Davy Graham - Angi (Folk, Blues and Beyond)

Folk On or Folk Off
Lonnie Donnegan - Rock Island Line (Singles Anthology)

Phil Ochs - Another Country (Broadside Tapes)

The Legend of Stuff
Mawkin: Causley - Botany Bay (Cold Ruin EP)

Peggy Sue - The Sea The Sea (First Aid EP)

Thursday 8 January 2009

New Term, New Time

Fleeter than, er, foxes, RaW Folk makes another dart around the schedule to find its third home in three months. With the Sunday experiment abandoned, tune into RaW at 19:00 every Saturday for an hour of your RaW Folk.

Oh go on, it might be quite good.