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)