November 30th heralded the RaW Folk November 30th Special, an event celebrated by much rejoicing and a few seasonal tunes, some of which were a touch woeful and the remainder downright depressing.Bah!
The show also featured extensive plugging of RaW's annual Single of the Year poll (broadcast on Wednesday with Kings of Leon declared triumphant for the excitable Sex on Fire). Thanks to all those who backed RaW Folk's campaign and voted for White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes - they made it to a very creditable 14th place.
Music Played Time Artist - Song (Album)
19:02 Richard Thompson - Friday on My Mind (1000 Years of Popular Music) 19:05 Chumbawamba - Add Me (The Boy Bands Have Won) 19:11 Karine Polwart - Dowie Dens of Yarrow (The Fairest Floo'er) 19:17 Steeleye Span - Gaudete (Below the Salt) 19:20 Yoriyos - Endoscopies (Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee) 19:27 Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time (Songs for Christmas) 19:33 Louis Killen - Up the Raw (The Iron Muse [Various Artists]) 19:34 Joni Mitchell - River (Blue) 19:40 Malcolm Middleton - Cold Winter (5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine) 19:46 Ry Cooder - Footprints in the Snow (My Name is Buddy) 19:49 Richard Hawley - Wading Through the Waters of My Time (Coles Corner) 19:55 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes) 19:59 KT Tunstall - Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii) (A Very KT Christmas EP) 20:02 Eliza Carthy - Oranges and Seasalt (Dreams of Breathing Underwater) 20:07 Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Unhalfbricking) 20:13 Kate Rusby - Little Jack Frost (The Girl Who Couldn't Fly) 20:18 Scott Matthews - Passing Stanger (Passing Stranger) 20:24 Al Stewart - Lord Grenville (Year of the Cat) 20:29 Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (If I Should Fall from Grace with God) 20:34 Thea Gilmore - When I Get Back to Shore (Liejacker) 20:37 Dubliners - All for Me Grog (The Dubliners)
The Legend of Stuff 20:41 Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band - The Carnal and the Crane (An Evening of Carols & Capers)
20:45 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon) 20:49 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes) 20:53 Dick Gaughan - The Snows they Melt the Soonest (Handful of Earth) 20:58 Low - Just Like Christmas (Christmas EP)
Welcome to the campaign to install White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes as RaW's Single of the Year 2008.
Taken from their eponymous debut album (released on the Bella Union label in the UK) and embracing folk, gospel and baroque pop among other influences, White Winter Hymnal is two and a half minutes of ethereal yet tangible beauty.
The Top 40 will be announced on Wednesday's special edition of Compact Disco with the RaW music team from 17:00. Strike a blow for folk and vote Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Single of the Year 2008!
19:03 Capercaillie - Puirt a Beul / Snug in a Blanket (Jigs) (Crosswinds) 19:11 Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Talk to me of Mendocino (Kate & Anna McGarrigle) 19:16 Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies - A Call for the North Country (Bede Weeps) 19:19 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin) 19:25 Nic Jones - Canadee-I-O (Penguin Eggs) 19:33 Chris Wood - Come Down Jehovah (Trespasser) 19:40 Bob Fox & Stu Luckley - Two Magicians (Box of Gold)
Folk On / Folk Off 19:47 Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind (Every Picture Tells a Story) 19:52 Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (Year of the Cat)
20:01 Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town 20:03 Tim Hardin - Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin 1) 20:06 Eliza Carthy - Oranges and Seasalt (Dreams of Breathing Underwater) 20:11 Megson - Smoke of Home (Follow It On EP) 20:16 Julie Fowlis - Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single) 20:19 Blowzabella - Oliver's and Two Beers (Octomento) 20:25 Silly Wizard - Monymusk Lads (Caledonia's Hardy Sons) 20:28 Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (single) 20:34 Martha Tilston - Red (Bimbling) 20:38 Whitley - More than Life (The Submarine)
The Legend of Stuff 20:44 Pentangle - Bruton Town (The Pentangle)
20:51 Mr Plow - Mary Margaret (Four Murder Ballads EP) 20:55 Spiers & Boden - The Rain it Rains (Vagabond) 20:59 The Beatles - Dear Prudence (The Beatles [White Album])
Last night heralded the announcement of nominations for the tenth annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Around 170 industry insiders had a say in selecting the nominees and will vote again to decide the winners ahead of the awards ceremony on February 2nd 2009.
RaW Folk favourites Bellowhead, Jim Moray and Eliza Carthy each picked up three nominations, whilst Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seth Lakeman, John McCusker, Martin Simpson, Lau, Spiers & Boden and Show of Hands' multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer also made the shortlist having graced RaW's airwaves. Chris Wood swept up with five nominations and there'll be a track from him on this week's show.
For the full list of categories and nominations, click here. I will post my predictions nearer to the event!
All new RaW Folk... now the sexy sound of Sunday nights, bringing you Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac and Status Quo. Gosh. Folk police on my back!
Music Played Time Artist - Song (Album)
19:05 Noah & the Whale - Shape of My Heart (Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down) 19:09 Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King (Super Taranta!) 19:12 Jamie Woon - Robots (The Living Room) 19:18 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin) 19:23 Shooglenifty - McConnell's Rant (Troots) 19:28 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk (The Bairns) 19:38 Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Think for Yourself (Rubber Folk) 19:41 Julie Fowlis - Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single) 19:44 Polly Paulusma - Dark Side (Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites) 19:48 Ian McMillan Orchestra - Border Ballad (Sharp Stories)
Folk On / Folk Off 19:53 Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe (Every Picture Tells a Story) 19:59 Rod Stewart - Dirty Old Town (An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down)
20:05 Eliza Carthy - Mr Magnifico (Dreams of Breathing Underwater) 20:13 Brendan Campbell - Burgers and Murders (Burgers and Murders) 20:17 Glen Campbell - Walls (Meet Glen Campbell) 20:22 Martin Simpson - Pretty Crowing Chicken (Prodigal Son) 20:26 3 Daft Monkeys - Paranoid Big Brother (Social Vertigo) 20:30 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) (Raising Sand) 20:34 Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Beachcombing (All the Roadrunning) 20:38 Fleetwood Mac - Songbird (Rumours)
The Legend of Stuff 20:42 Status Quo feat. Maddy Prior - All Around My Hat (Don't Stop)
20:46 Christy Moore - Mystic Lipstick (Voyage) 20:50 Joan Baez - Simple Twist of Fate (Diamonds & Rust) 20:56 k.d. lang - After the Goldrush (Hymns of the 49th Parallel) 21:00 Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink (A Larum)
Many thanks to all those who listened to the final Saturday show after what can only be described as quite a few months of Saturday shows, with a few months' break in the middle. A momentous occasion, then.
Don't forget to catch RaW Folk at the new time of 19:00 next Sunday.
Music Played Time Artist - Song (Album)
18:06 Bellowhead – Fire Marengo (Burlesque) 18:10 John McCusker – Stella's Welcome to Kamloops / The Kings of Innishboffin / Sean Maguire's (Goodnight Ginger) 18:15 Julie Fowlis – Lon Dubh / Blackbird (single) 18:18 The Beatles – Blackbird (The Beatles [White Album]) 18:21 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset – Blackbird (The Bairns) 18:24 The Waifs – Sun Dirt Water (Sun Dirt Water) 18:28 Nick Drake – Pink Moon (Pink Moon) 18:30 Mary Gauthier – Our Lady of the Shooting Stars (Drag Queens in Limousines) 18:35 Annie Palovcik – Illinois Boy (A Barack Obama Song) (Changes EP) 18:39 James Yorkston – Summer Song (Year of the Leopard) 18:44 Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes In (The Times They Are A'Changing) 18:49 Fairport Convention – Meet on the Ledge (What We Did on Our Holidays)
Folk On / Folk Off 18:53 Eliza Carthy – Follow the Dollar (Dreams of Breathing Underwater) 18:58 Teddy Thompson – The Things I Do (A Piece of What You Need)
19:03 Elvis Costello – Indoor Fireworks (King of America) 19:07 Bruce Springsteen – Old Dan Tucker (We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions) 19:10 Brendan Campbell – Burgers and Murders (Burgers and Murders) 19:15 Laura Marling – Tap at My Window (Alas I Cannot Swim) 19:18 The Waterboys – Fisherman's Blues (Fisherman's Blues) 19:23 Cara Dillon – False, False (That's Proper Folk [various artists])
The Legend of Stuff 19:29 Shirley Collins & the Albion Country Band – Poor Murdered Woman (No Roses)
19:35 Martin Simpson – Never Any Good (Prodigal Son) 19:43 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset – Sea Song (The Bairns) 19:50 Heidi Talbot – Cathedrals (In Love and Light) 19:54 Woodpigeon – That Was Good But You Can Do Better (Songbook) 19:59 Kate Rusby – Fare Thee Well (The Girl Who Couldn't Fly)
18:06 Mr. Plow - Mary Margaret (Four Murder Ballads EP) 18:11 Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Sunshine Superman) 18:16 Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk (Album III) 18:19 Nic Jones - Billy Don't You Weep for Me (Folk Awards 2007 [Various Artists])
Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture 18:26 Jim Moray - Three Black Feathers 18:30 Jim Moray - Leaving Australia
18:35 Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Rum, Sodomy & the Lash) 18:43 Tilly & the Wall - Cacophony (o) 18:47 Bellowhead - Fakenham Fair (Matachin) 18:52 Elliot Smith - Whatever (Folk Song in C) (New Moon)
Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture 18:57 Jim Moray - Lucy Wan 19:02 Jim Moray - Across the Western Ocean
Folk On or Folk Off 19:07 The Clash - Straight to Hell (Combat Rock) 19:13 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding (Punch the Clock)
19:18 Martha Wainwright - These Flowers (Martha Wainwright) 19:23 Lau - Stewarts [live] (Live) 19:33 Annie Palovcik - Illinois Boy (A Barack Obama Song) (Changes EP) 19:37 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Illinoise)
The Legend of Stuff 19:42 Steeleye Span - Alison Gross (Parcel of Rogues) Featured Album: Jim Moray - Low Culture 19:47 Jim Moray - I'll Go List for a Sailor 19:50 Jim Moray - All You Pretty Girls
19:55 Bob Dylan - Man of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan) 19:58 The Devil's Interval - Silver Dagger (Blood & Honey)
The following is the text of the sincere and heartfelt apology broadcast before this evening's programme.
Good evening children.
The edition of RaW Folk broadcast on Saturday 18th October included a song that alluded to acts of a sexual, romantic, loving or otherwise objectionable nature.
Following the broadcast, RaW received two complaints. However, following an article in last week's Warwick Mail (just between the topless models and a sex scandal shame exclusive), RaW received a further 34498 complaints, meaning everyone on campus has complained about twice.
Vice Chancellor Sir Nigel Thrift pulled out of a crucial summit about whatever it is he does to tell everyone that he thought it was a bit wrong. This was clearly inappropriate and unacceptable, as he has more important things to do.
As a result, last week's edition of the programme (broadcast on October 25th) should have been suspended without pay but we were a bit late to notice and no-one gets paid (and there's a credit crunch on anyway). We would like to apologise to anyone who might have been offended and to all those pursuing an agenda.
18:03 Loose Acoustic Trio - Pinball Wizard (Sorrow Be Gone) 18:07 Eliza Carthy - Herring Song (Rice) 18:14 Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Sun Giant EP)
Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice 18:20 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Bring Us In Good Ale 18:24 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Of all the Birds
18:25 Devendra Banhart - Seahorse (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon) 18:34 Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren (The Dream Belongs to Me) 18:38 Magic Numbers - Sing a Song for You (Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley)
Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice 18:43 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Fly Up My Cock 18:45 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - The Ploughboy and the Cockney
18:48 Laura Marling - Ghosts (Alas I Cannot Swim) 18:53 Pete Molinari - Adelaine (A Virtual Landslide) 18:56 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Folk On or Folk Off 19:04 Rufus Wainwright - You're Nearer (Rufus Does Judy Live at Carnegie Hall) 19:07 Martha Wainwright - See Emily Play (I Know You're Married but I've got Feelings Too)
19:11 The Band - The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) 19:15 Bob Dylan - All I Really Want to Do (Another Side of Bob Dylan) 19:20 Karine Polwart - Firethief (This Earthly Spell) 19:23 Seth Lakeman - Solomon Browne (Poor Man's Heaven) 19:28 Tom Waits - 9th & Hennepin (Rain Dogs) 19:30 Tom Waits - Downtown Train (Rain Dogs)
Featured Album: Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Summer Solstice 19:34 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Three Drunken Maidens 19:39 Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - False Knight on the Road
The Legend of Stuff 19:44 Steeleye Span - False Knight on the Road (Please to See the King)
19:47 John Martyn - Bless the Weather (Bless the Weather) 19:50 Joan Baez - The Lower Road (Day After Tomorrow) 19:55 Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon - Galway Girl [single] 19:58 Kirsty MacColl - Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (Kite)
This week the show was dominated by the folk rock of Richard Thompson, ably supported by an array of rock, punk and (somewhere in the mix) folk stars. If you have any opinions about any of tonight's tracks or would like to make a request for next week's show, then please comment below.
Music Played Time Artist - Song (Album)
18:02 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield) 18:05 Lindisfarne - Meet Me on the Corner (Fog on the Tyne) 18:08 Dave Swarbrick - Merry Boys of Greenland (The Ceilidh Album) 18:12 Chumbawamba - I Wish that They'd Sack Me (The Boy Bands Have Won) 18:16 Drever | McCusker | Woomble - Before the Ruin (Before the Ruin) 18:21 Josh Pyke - Middle of the Hill (Memories and Dust)
Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 18:24 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
18:28 Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun (Pink Moon) 18:32 Athena - Let Me In (Breathe With Me) 18:36 Jim Moray - All You Pretty Girls (Low Culture)
Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 18:40 Richard & Linda Thompson - The Little Beggar Girl
The Legend of Stuff 18:45 Planxty - The Jolly Beggar (Planxty)
18:50 Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Redemption Song (Streetcore) 18:54 Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears (Talking with the Taxman about Poetry) 18:58 Christy Moore - Only Our Rivers Run Free (The Time Has Come) 19:01 Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River)
19:07 Bob Dylan - Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
Folk On or Folk Off 19:10 The Band - I Shall Be Released (Music from Big Pink) 19:14 Tom Robinson Band - I Shall Be Released (Power in the Darkness (Bonus Tracks Edition))
19:18 Jawbone - Get Rhythm (Chug a Lug [single]) 19:21 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) (Raising Sand) 19:25 Whitley - Shot to the Stars (The Submarine) 19:28 Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven (Poor Man's Heaven) Featured Album: Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 19:33 Richard & Linda Thompson - Down Where the Drunkards Roll 19:36 Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get to the Border
19:41 Thea Gilmore - When I Get Back to Shore (Liejacker) 19:43 Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (The Essential Johnny Cash) 19:48 Richard Thompson - Oops! I Did it Again (1000 Years of Popular Music) 19:51 Richard Thompson - Friday on My Mind (1000 Years of Popular Music) 19:56 Josh Pyke - Middle of the Hill (Memories and Dust)
