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)