RaW Folk 15/05/2010

Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)

Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II (Bryter Later)
Caitlin Cary - The Battle (Feat. Ryan Adams)
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
Lau - The Burrian (Arc Light)
Louis Killen - The Blackleg Miner (The Iron Muse)
Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road (Fisherman's Woman)
The Malingerers - House of Mine (The Early Tapes)

Folk On or Folk Off
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road

Chris Wood - The Cottager's Reply (Trespasser)
Antony & the Johnsons - Knocking on Heaven's Door (I'm Not There [soundtrack])


Remember, there's no show next week due to exam hellishness - but if you would like to request a song for a future programme, just post a comment here or after any of the recent entries and I'll do my best to play the track on air.

RaW Folk 08/05/2010

As promised on the show, here are a couple of links that might be of interest:
First, the testimony of mine hurrier Patience Kirshaw, which inspired the Frank Higgins song, can be found here, along with several other workers' accounts of life in the Victorian mines.

Secondly, the Folk Against Fascism website: http://www.folkagainstfascism.com/.

Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)

Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke (I Speak Because I Can)
The Shee - Tom Paine's Bones (A Different Season)
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr - Port 'N' Brandy (On Reflection)

Train Track
Tarheel Slim - Number Nine Train

John Kirkpatrick - The Dance of the Demon Daffodils
Unthanks - Testimony of Patience Kershaw (Here's the Tender Coming)

Folk On or Folk Off
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee

Show of Hands ft Jackie Oates - The Keys of Canterbury (Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed)
Chumbawamba - Dance, Idiot, Dance (ABCDEFG)

The Legend of Stuff
Steeleye Span - Gamble Gold (All Around My Hat)

Tunng - Hustle [single]
Billy Bragg & the Blokes - All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg)

May Day 2010

Music Played
Artist - Song (Album)

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (Bookends)

Eva Cassidy - Kathy's Song (Time after Time)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River (Green River)

Train Track
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones (Workingman's Dead)

Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On to a Dream? (Tim Hardin 1)
Emmylou Harris - Too Far Gone (Pieces of the Sky)
Jethro Tull - Jack in the Green (Songs from the Wood)

Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind (Blood on the Tracks)

Folk On or Folk Off
Regina Spektor - Another Town (Begin to Hope [Bonus Issue])

Bad Shepherds - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera!)
Mary Humphreys & Anahata - May Day Carol (Song Links 2)