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Intro: Fairport Convention - Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish
Paddy/Fox Hunter's Jig/Toss The Feathers - Liege & Lief
- A&M Records
Damien O'Kane - The Close Of An Irish Day - Areas Of High Traffic - Pure
Records www.damienokane.co.uk/
Jim Malcolm - Blindness Of My Youth - Live In Perth - Beltane Records www.jimmalcolm.com/
Union Jill - Grandfather's Ghost - Respectable Rebellion - www.union jill.org/
Jon Brooks - Gun Dealer - The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside -
borealis records www.jonbrooks.ca/
Tim O'Brien - Pompadour - Pompadour - Howdy Skies Records www.timobrien.net/
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - Way Back In The Day - So Familiar -
Rounder www.stevemartin.com/ www.ediebrickell.com/
Damien O'Kane - Erin's Lovely Home - Areas Of High Traffic - Pure Records www.damienokane.co.uk/
Jim Malcolm - Corrievrechan - Live In Perth -
Beltane Records www.jimmalcolm.com/
Union Jill - Dunwich Bells - Respectable
Rebellion - www.union jill.org/
Jon Brooks - Queensville - The Smiling &
Beautiful Countryside - borealis records www.jonbrooks.ca/
Tim O'Brien - The Water Is Wise - Pompadour - Howdy Skies Records www.timobrien.net/
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - Won't Go Back - So Familiar - Rounder www.stevemartin.com/ www.ediebrickell.com/
Samuel Sim et al - Theme to PBS Home Fires - unreleased theme music - www.samuelsim.com/
Damien O’Kane: "is a musician of many talents. He’s a
singer. A very good one, too, with a relaxed, assured vocal style that
exudes a natural warmth and empathy with the colourful
characters who occupy his songs.He’s also a
brilliant banjo player. And a fine guitarist. And an ingenious arranger.
Not to mention an accomplished tunemaker,
researcher, bandleader and accompanist of rich imagination and fearless
vision. Steeped in music, Damien grew up in Coleraine, Northern Ireland,
with a deep respect and understanding of the folk tradition, yet which also
forged a healthy appetite to explore its broadest borders and test its
boundaries. All of which has culminated in his brilliant 2015 solo album
‘Areas Of High Traffic’ which, apart from proving he scrubs up well for a cover photo, takes some
of the greatest songs in the folk canon – ‘The
Blacksmith’, ‘The Banks Of The Bann’, ‘I Am A
Youth’ and ‘The Green Fields Of America’ included –
and reinvents them in refreshingly original ways. “They are
songs,” he says, “that take me back home. Great songs which I
love, but I’ve always avoided doing them because they are so iconic.
I decided it was time to overcome this and do the songs my way.” And,
with a mesmerizing array of ebullient percussion (courtesy of Cormac
Byrne), dazzling jazz infusions (from keyboardist Anthony Davis) and
beautifully understated electric guitar (Steven Iveson),
Damien’s ways are very different to other people." - artist's website
Jim Malcolm: "is the ultimate Scots troubadour. Travelling the world
with his guitar, harmonicas, and engaging wit, he sings the traditional
songs of Scotland and his own masterfully crafted songs in a style which is
modern and accessible, yet utterly authentic. He is highly regarded as an
interpreter of the songs of Robert Burns, and has been described as
“one of the finest singers in Scotland in any style”. Though he
now works solo, Jim was lead singer with the world-renowned and
multi-award-winning Old Blind Dogs for eight years, a fantastic experience
with some of Scotland’s finest musicians, taking him to the most
prestigious festivals in North America and around Europe." - artist's website
Union Jill: Helen Turner and Sharon Winfield produce spellbinding effects
with their rich harmonies. Playing their own material, they’ve
established an appealing stage presence and gathered an ever-growing fan
base across the UK. Taking their inspiration from a wide range of styles,
Union Jill bring their own energy and passion to
the acoustic music scene. They mix traditional folk instrumentation with an
edgy contemporary feel and powerful vocal delivery. Sharon and
Helen’s ability to tell a story through lyrics draws in audiences of
all types. Their material embraces historical themes and contemporary
issues; personal experiences and protest songs. They have an on-stage
banter that you only get from two women sharing a stage. Union Jill have worked closely with Clive Gregson (Any Trouble,
Richard Thompson, Nanci Griffith) and John Wood
(Nick Drake, Squeeze, John Martyn) to produce their new album. Sharon and Helen
have also collaborated with a number of other excellent musicians,
including Andy Seward (Kate Rusby, Martin
Simpson), Mark Boyce (The Durbervilles), Kate St.
John (Van Morrison, Kathryn Williams, Marianne Faithfull) and Ric Sanders (Fairport Convention)." - artists'
website
Jon Brooks: making his Little Rock Folk Club debut on Sat Dec 7th 2015 (tho not his Little Rock debut having played a brilliant
house concert ~14 months ago) Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist Jon
Brooks is a powerful performer with a catalog of songs from his 5 CDs
capturing the human condition in all its brilliance and squalor with
unflinching descriptors not for the faint-hearted or those who like musical
wallpaper.
"Delicate Cages takes its title from the Robert Bly poem, TAKING THE
HANDS:
Taking the hands of someone you love/You see they are like delicate
cages...
Delicate Cages aims to reveal the complicit natures of good and evil, love
and fear, and freedom and imprisonment. The DELICATE CAGES we live within
are forms of enslavement - and not all 'cages' are necessarily bad. On his
latest and most urgent and accessible collection of songs, Jon Brooks
promises freedom to all who choose love over fear. Delicate Cages was
released by Borealis Records in May 2012. The album earned Jon his third
‘Songwriter of the Year’ nomination in 5 years from The
Canadian Folk Music Awards. Like its predecessors, Delicate Cages’
songs were inter-woven by themes of love and fear; and freedom and
imprisonment. The idea was inspired by the Robert Bly poem, Taking The
Hands: ‘Taking the hands of someone you love,/you
see they are delicate cages.’ Also consistent with Jon’s
albums, the song subjects were as wide ranging as they were topical and
controversial: the Alberta tar sands (Fort McMurray); Bill 101 and
Quebec’s language laws (Hudson Girl); Palestinian suicide bombers
(Son of Hamas); Bosnian child soldier turned Canadian mixed martial arts
fighter (Cage Fighter); and so-called ‘Honour
Killing’ (The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez).
Morally and politically ambiguous, Delicate Cages, offered what Jon has
since called, “necessary and alternative understandings of
‘hope’ and ‘grief’ that are neither sanitized,
dumbed down, nor degraded by the modern lie of ‘closure.'”"
- artist's website
Tin O'Brien: "born in Wheeling, West Virginia on March 16, 1954, Tim
O’Brien grew up singing in church and in school, and started playing
folk and rock music on guitar at age 12. After seeing Doc Watson on TV, he
became a lifelong devotee of old time and bluegrass music. He started
making his living as a musician at age 19 in Chicago and in Jackson,
Wyoming eventually relocating to Boulder, Colorado in the fall of 1974.
O’Brien found work there as a fiddler with local bluegrass bands and
as a member of the Ophelia Swing, recording with them and with Pete Wernick in 1977. In those early Colorado years, he
started playing the mandolin, and studied guitar and music theory with
local jazz great Dale Bruning. In 1978, Tim
co-founded the bluegrass group Hot Rize with Pete
Wernick, Charles Sawtelle,
and Nick Forster. Hot Rize and Western Swing
alter-egos Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers eventually recorded ten albums
and toured the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia. The group was named
Entertainer of the Year 1990 by the International Bluegrass Music
Association, and their Colleen Malone was named IBMA’s Song of the
Year in 1991. He won IBMA’s Male Vocalist of the year in 1993, and
again in 2005, when he also won song of the year for Look Down That Lonesome
Road. Solo recordings started with 1982’s Hard Year Blues, and other
projects included three duet albums with his sister Mollie O’Brien.
Folks in Nashville started noticing Tim’s songs, and he had top ten
country hits in 1989 and 1990 with Kathy Mattea’s
versions of Hot Rize songs Walk The Way The Wind
Blows and Untold Stories. Other notable covers by New Grass Revival, Nickel
Creek, Garth Brooks, and the Dixie Chicks followed. Hot Rize
went dormant in the spring of 1990, after which O’Brien performed and
recorded on his own, eventually releasing fourteen solo recordings, as well
as collaborations with Dirk Powell (Songs From The Mountain) and with
Darrell Scott (Real Time). Landmarks solo releases include a Grammy
nominated set of bluegrass Dylan covers – Red On Blonde, the
Celtic/Appalachian fusion of The Crossing, and 2005’s Grammy winning
Fiddler’s Green. Tim toured and recorded with Steve Earle’s
Bluegrass Dukes in the early 2000’s, and
with Mark Knopfler in 2009 and 2010. Other recent
collaborations include another CD with Darrell Scott (Memories and
Moments), a track with Steve Martin (Daddy Played The Banjo), a family band
set of Roger Miller songs (Reincarnation), and the reunited Hot Rize’s When I’m Free. A
collaboration with Jerry Douglas, Sean Camp and others -The Earls Of
Leicester - won both a Grammy as well as IBMA’s Record of the Year in
2015." - artist's website
Edie Brickell: "American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut
album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the
Billboard 200 chart. n 1985, Brickell was invited
to sing one night with friends from her high school in a local folk rock
group, New Bohemians. She would join the band as lead singer. After the
band was signed to a recording contract, the label changed the group's name
to Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Their 1988 debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, became a critical and
commercial success, including the single "What I Am". The band's
follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), was a deliberate effort to
highlight the band's eclectic personality and move away from the pop
sensibility of their first record.[citation needed] Brickell had a role as
a folk singer in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July. Her version of
Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna
Fall" is featured on the film's soundtrack. She also sang a cover
version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" in the 1990 film
Flashback. Her "Good Times" video was included as part of the
multimedia samples alongside Weezer on the
Windows 95 installation CD.[4]
As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and
Volcano (2003). In 1992, she worked with producer Bob Wiseman in New York
and Toronto on a collection of songs, utilizing a wind ensemble, unusual
keyboards and Ron Sexsmith. The songs were
rejected by the record company and remained unreleased. In 2006, she made
another album with all of the original members of New Bohemians called
Stranger Things.[5] In 2010, Brickell became a founding member of new band
The Gaddabouts, consisting of Steve Gadd on
drums, Edie Brickell as lead vocalist and guitar, Andy Fairweather
Low on electric and acoustic guitars and background vocals, Pino Palladino on bass and
guitar, and featuring Dan Block, Ronnie Cuber,
Joey DeFrancesco, Gil Goldstein and Marcus Rojas.[6] In 2011, Brickell
wrote the title track "The Meaning of Life" for Tamar Halpern's
film Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. Love Has Come For You was
released on April 23, 2013. The album is a collaboration with Steve Martin.[7] Both appeared on talk shows, such as The View and
Late Show with David Letterman, to promote and perform the song in April
2013.[8][9][10][11] Starting in May 2013, she toured with Steve Martin and
the Steep Canyon Rangers throughout the United States and North
America" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edie_Brickell
Steve Martin: "is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and
musician. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight
Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines
before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched
away from stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, as well as
an author, playwright, pianist and banjo player, eventually earning him an
Emmy, Grammy and American Comedy awards, among other honors. In 2004,
Comedy Central[1] ranked Martin at sixth place in
a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. He was awarded an Honorary
Academy Award at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards in
2013.[2] While he has played banjo since an early age, and included music
in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career, he
has increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less
and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording, and
touring with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs, with whom he
won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 2002. He released
his first solo music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, in
2009, for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album." -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Martin
Samuel Sim: "is widely considered to be one of the most exceptional
musical talents of his generation. Early in his career, Samuel quickly
stood out from the crowd with his award winning score for the BBC’s
Dunkirk. A whirlwind success followed which soon saw him composing for the
Hollywood feature film Awake for the Weinstein Company. He went on to write
the score for the Emmy and BAFTA Award winning House of Saddam, employing a
unique blend of styles and instrumentation. Rare middle-eastern voices and
instruments and dark, intense electronica were masterfully mixed with a
full classical string orchestra. Described by one critic as:
“superbly pitched somewhere between Stravinsky and The Chemical
Brothers…” Samuel showed his strong command of classical
disciplines with his beautiful orchestral score for the lavish BBC
adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, earning him a RTS Award nomination
for best musical score. In stark contrast, the dark haunting music for
Tiger Aspects submarine thriller: The Deep, starring Minnie Driver and
James Nesbitt, was also nominated for an RTS Award last year. Other career
highlights include, Left Bank’s flagship series Mad Dogs for Sky 1,
the ITV drama series: The Reckoning, David Attenborough’s Climate
Chaos series and additional music for feature films: Bobby (Starring Anthony
Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Laurence Fishburne & Shia LaBeouf), Doogal, for the Weinstein Company, The Damned United
(Michael Sheen & Timothy Spall) and ABC’s primetime drama, Combat
Hospital. Most recently, Samuel has completed work on three feature films
including: Of Two Minds starring Kristin Davis & Tammy Blanchard, and
the critically acclaimed We Are Poets slated for release summer 2012."
- artist's website
This is an exquisite earworm - you have been warned! :-)
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