Keen to blow away any lingering Folk Awards-related radio hangover from the Saturday show (Wednesday was just a completely different vibe!), yesterday's programme featured the rousing tones of Show of Hands and the Demon Barbers, complemented by a couple of Chris Wood tunes to nourish and soothe. RaW Folk listeners continued to support the hypothesis of Big Bill Broonzy / Louis Armstrong that 'all music is folk music', with Amy MacDonald's This is the Life becoming the latest track to be declared a Folk On hit, albeit by the narrowest of margins.
In other news, Chumbawamba's Charlie, played in honour of Darwin's 200th birthday, became the 400th song on RaW Folk (including repeats, excluding bedding music and all those nominee excerpts from last week). Thoroughly meaningless, though rather neat.
Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution (One Man Revolution)
The Shee - Chilly Winds (A Different Season)
Vin Garbutt - Punjabi Girl (Persona... Grata)
Train Track
Speedy West - Railroadin' (Radio & Recording Rarities volume 6 [various])
Chumbawamba - Charlie (The Boy Bands Have Won)
Chris Wood - Come Down Jehovah (Trespasser)
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (Wichita Lineman)
Folk On or Folk Off
Amy MacDonald - This is the Life (This is the Life)
Show of Hands - Country Life (Country Life)
Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta (Sea Lion)
Bob Dylan - Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) (Self Portrait)
Chris Wood - The Cottager's Reply (Trespasser)
Demon Barbers - The Good Old Days (+24db)
Magic, Murder, Sex & Shipwrecks.
1 comment:
Hi Chris,
Great show!
Definitely memorable. :-) [Posted in March] I especially enjoyed Chumbawamba.
link to the Darwin folk tribute thingy here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2009/01/07/darwin_folk_project_feature.shtml
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