This episode looks at the ballad Sailor Boy aka All Around My Hat aka London City aka the Brisk Young Sailor aka the Brisk Young Farmer aka the Brisk Young Miner aka A Bold Fisherman Courted Me aka the Student boy aka the Maid’s Tragedy aka Maid’s Complaint aka the Distressed Maid aka the Unfortunate Swain aka There is an Alehouse  aka I Know My Love aka Apron Strings aka the Irish Boy aka Lullaby aka Knutsford Town aka in Woodstock Town aka the Effects of Love 

Tracklist

Joseph Taylor – Go Dig My Grave
Jasper Smith – Died for Love
A.L. Lloyd – Died for Love
Rachel Unthanks and the Winterset - I Wish I wish
Isla Cameron – Died for Love
Elizabeth Cronin – The Alehouse
Pops Johnny Connors – There is an Alehouse
The Dubliners – I Know my Love
Sarah Makem – The Butcher Boy
Almeda Riddle – The Butcher Boy
Elvis Costello – The Butcher Boy
Dillard Chandler – I Wish my Baby was Born
Love Has Brought Me to Despair – Berzilla Wallin 
Jean Ritchie – Go Dig my Grave
Susanna – Go Dig my Grave

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Go Dig My Grave / Died For Love / The Butcher Boy

Episode XLVII features a lot of new music from the likes of Holy Locust, Ora Cogan, Gabriel McArdle, Diarmuid Ó Meachair, Sourdurent, Mike Oberst and Padang Food Tigers, as well as some classics from the wider world of Irish traditional music and song.

Holy Locust – Sorrowhead
Ora Cogan – Katie Cruel
Tommy Reck – Port an Bhráthair / Port Shean tSeáin
Gabriel McArdle – Johnny and Molly
Diarmuid Ó Meachair – John J. Kimmel Medley
Sourdurent - La Dumenchada
Mike Oberst – School Days Over
Frank Harte – Charladies Ball
Padang Food Tigers – O, Worshipful Company Of Sleepers
Holy Locust – Beneath the Wheel

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLVII

This episode looks at the ballad Santiano aka Santiana aka Santy Anno aka Santy Anna aka The Plains of Mexico.

Tracklist

Henry Lundy and David "Pappie" Pryor – Bay of Mexico
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Santy Anno
The Watersons – The Plains of Mexico
Pusser's Rum ft. Stan Hugill – Santiano
Meredydd Evans – Santiana
The Weavers – The Bay of Mexico
Odetta – Santy Anno
The Kingston Trio - Santy Anno
Dave Van Ronk – Santy Anno
The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale – Santy Anna
A.H. Rasmussen – Chantey interview
Hugues Aufray – Santiano
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Aim Spirente
Sea Shanty Metal – Santiana

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Santiano

This episode looks at the song Paddy Works on the Railway aka Paddy on the Railway aka Poor Paddy aka Fillimiooriay aka Paddy Works on the Erie aka Pat Do This, Pat Do That.

Tracklist

That Clancy Children – Paddy on the Railway
The Pogues – Poor Paddy
Salty Dick – The Shaver
Mark Page – Paddy Works on the Railway
Ewan MacColl – Paddy Works on the Railway
Dominic Behan – Paddy Works on the Railway
Louisa Jo Killen – Paddy Works on the Railway
Keith Kendrick - Paddy Works on the Railway
The Wolfe Tones – Paddy Works on the Railway
Michael Cassius Dean – To Work Upon the Railroad
The American Ballad Singers – Pat Works on the Railway
Pete Seeger – Paddy Works on the Railroad
The Highwaymen – Pat Works On The Railway
Cisco Houston – Pat Works On The Railroad
Stuart M. Frank – Paddy on the Railway
Barbara Moncure – The Bluestone Quarries
Sam Amidon – Pat Do This, Pat Do That
Ben Miller Band – Paddy on the Railway

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Paddy Works on the Railway

This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man.

Tracklist

The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting
Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man
Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke
Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young
Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man
Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man
Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away
Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting
Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man

This episode looks at the ballad the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost.

Tracklist

Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief
Packie Manus Byrne – The Holland Handkerchief
Austin Flanagan – The Holland Handkerchief
Michael McGonigle – The Holland Handkerchief
John Goodluck – The Suffolk Miracle
Chris Foster – The Holland Handkerchief
Rósa Ingólfsdóttir – Djákninn á Myrká
John W. Green – The Suffolk Miracle
Mrs. G. A. Griffin – The Suffolk Miracle
Dol Small – The Suffolk Miracle
Peggy Seeger – The Suffolk Miracle
Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle
Doctor Evazan – The Suffolk Miracle
Quadriga Consort – The Suffolk Miracle

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The Suffolk Miracle

This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair

Tracklist


Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William
Martin Howley – Knight William
AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William
The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret
Justus Begley – Lady Margaret
Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William
Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret
Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret
Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret

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“Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909

Fair Margaret And Sweet William

Episode LII is dedicated to the memory of Shane McGowan. It features some of my favourite Pogues songs as well as tracks by John Francis Flynn, Andy the Doorbum, Dulcidrone, Of the Clay and more. 

Tracklist

The Pogues – Boys from County Hell
The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
Mick Moloney and Frank Harte – Conversation, June 1982
Pandy Corporation – Polly Vaughan feat. Sive
Sestri Koushlevi – Da Znaesh, Maicho, Da Znaesh 
Andy the Doorbum – Little Deaths: the dirge of renewal
Dulcidrone – Winter Bracken
John Francis Flynn – Kitty
Of the Clay – Geordie
The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes

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FDN LII

This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England

Tracklist

Paul Clayton – Botany Bay
The Watersons – The Whitby Lad
Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar
Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar
New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar
George Pegram – The Boston Burglar
Cat Mother – Boston Burglar
Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler
Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler
Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar
The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar
The Pubcrawlers – Boston Burglar

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The Boston Burglar

FDN LIII has been a long time coming...Included therein are songs of resistance, songs of magic and songs of being human. Life, Death, Love, Rage, Joy and Suffering. You know the drill. Sit by the Fire Draw Near. Free Palestine. Artwork designed by Palestinian artist Abdal Latif Muhanna and published by the Foreign Information Department of the PLO in 1982. X

Tracklist

Zeinab Shaath – The Urgent Call Of Palestine
Marcel Khalife Oumeima El Khalil – My Teacher
Palestinian Student Karmel Group – Al Intifada Was Jabal Al Thawra
Robert Sarazin Blake – Don’t Use Our Death and Pain
Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko – Oh you Foolish little Zionists
Rola Azar – Ya Teir Elsnono
Áit Ait – Henry Martin
Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap
Wailing Sídhe – Corrag
Derrick Morgan – Three Drunken Night
Mark Lanegan – The Cherry Tree Carol
Richard Bégin – Lavrador
Jack Sheehan & Isa Gordon – My Heart Biological (Loch Erne’s Shore)
Doyle & Andersson – Baffled Knight
Leonard Barry – Tom Busby's / The Humours of Ballingary
Ian Lynch - The Rocks of Palestine

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FDN LIII

This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries.

Tracklist

Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side
Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside
Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside
Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside
Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside
Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside
Harry Upton – In Wayward Town
Wash Nelson – Last May Morn
Spriguns – Blackwaterside
Landless – Blackwaterside

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Blackwater Side

This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over

Tracklist

Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain
Harry List – Knife on the Window
AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly
Harry Cox – Knife in the Window
Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window
The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More
Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping
Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder
Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over
Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over
Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain
Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior)
Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain

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Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!

Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window

Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode. 

Tracklist

Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum
Róis – Caoine
Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav
Isa Gordon – What a Voice
Seamas Hyland – Navan Road
Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill
The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo
Dawn Ray'd – Requital
Córas – George White’s
Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van
Greet – John Barleycorn

FDN LVI

Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknown.

Tracklist

John Carpenter – Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships
Richard Dawson – Ghost of a Tree
Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Young Tom Ennis / The Maid at the Well
John Goodluck – The Lover’s Ghost
Pentangle – The Cruel Sister
Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson – The Geese in the Bog / The Jig of the Dead
Roky Erickson – I Walked with a Zombie
Dimlaia – Goodnight Sweet Ghost
Eddie Butcher – Saturday Night is Halloween Night
Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted
The Kipper Family – All on the Shore
Blood Axis & In Gowan Ring – Dead Men’s Slip-Jig
Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad
Jeannie Robertson – The Dublin Murder Ballad

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FDN LVII

Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA, based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focusing on the relief work that he is currently carrying out there. If you would like to support him in his efforts you can do so here - https://campsite.bio/andythedoorbum The episode also features an unreleased track from Andy, namely Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low

Tracklist

Andy the Doorbum - Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low
Maggie Hammons - When this World Comes to an End
Michael and Carrie Cline - Bangum and the Wild Boar
Margaret Winter - Cockle Shells and Silver Bells Riddle Song
Harold and Margaret Winter - Loving Henry
Hazel Dickens - Black Lung
Sarah Ogan Gunning - Dreadful Memories
John Snipes - Going Where I've Never Been Before
Cherokee Singers - One Drop of Blood (Trail of Tears Song #2)
Frank Proffitt - Tom Dooley
Frank Proffitt - I'm Going Back to North Carolina

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FDN LVIII

Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century.

Tracklist

Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy
Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh
Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night
Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha
Powtes – Green Brooms
Grey Stag – Blessington Maid
Cruel Mother – Down the Greenwood Side
Espers – Rosemary Lane
Isa Desmet – The Prickle Holly Bush
Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music
The Kipper Family – The Losing Of The Whale
Paul Denman & Jennifer Reid – Life's Spinning Song
Green Ribbons – The Well Below The Valley
Tom Lehrer – I Got It From Agnes
Scafell Pike – The New York Trader
Dubz Ft Ronnie Drew – The Last Leviathan

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FDN LIX

FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing.

Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann
Jim Ghedi – The Seasons
Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord
Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament
Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830)
Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó
Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats
Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity
Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!]
Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured
Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel
Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld
Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home
 
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FDN LX

Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Tracklist

Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant
Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean
David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois
Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl
Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa
Gout – Newcastle
Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh
Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother
Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death
The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers
Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt
Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band
Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain
Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf
Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows

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FDN LXI

I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X

Tracklist;

Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet
Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver
Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s 
Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans
Liam Weldon – James Connolly
Seán McKeon – James Connolly
Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur / Skarzhour Chiminalieu
Luke Cheevers –  Abe Carman
Daoirí Farrell – Valentine O' Hara
John Faulkner and Dolores Keane – Allan Tyne Of Harrow
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Sovay
The Kipper Family – The Male Female Highwayman
A.L. Lloyd –  Jim Jones at Botany Bay
Jerry O'Reilly –  The Carmagnoles
Ruth Hazleton – Tri-Coloured House
Beau James Wilding – The Lowlands of Holland
RL O'Mealy – Donegal Reel
Jason Rouse – The Maid at Mourneshore

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FDN LXII

FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition. 

Tracklist

NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone

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FDN LXIII

69, LXIX or تسعة وستون is a number symbolising completion, harmony and the beginning of new cycles. It is also the sequential number of the FDN episode that I have just uploaded. This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X 

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Tracklist


Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway
Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom
Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song
Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung
Folk Och Rackare – Bältet
Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle
Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory
The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades
Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats
Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers
Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief
Clod – Scrumping and Rumping
Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band
The Trojans – Gaelic Ska
Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On
Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise
Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row
Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road

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FDN LXIX

Episode I looks at the folk motif that connects an Irish Traveller song, an obscure uilleann piping tune and a song by London Oi merchants Cock Sparrer.

Tracklist:

Willie Clancy – The Connaught Heifers / Corney is Coming
Jimmy Crowley – The Pool Song
Neillidh Boyle – The Moving Clouds talk and tune
Séamus Ennis – I’ll mend your pots and kettles O!
John Reilly Jr. – The Jolly Tinker
Cock Sparrer – I Fit Central Heating
Pat McNamara – I Left My Hand
The Castle of Dromore – Leo Rowsome
Bob Dawson - Don’t Take Me Drugs Away
Pat Usher – Wild Rover
Louth Mouths – Wild Rover
John and Paddy Killourhey – Sporting Paddy / Jimmy Mulqueaney’s 
Kayne – The Lucky Elopement
Tommy Reck – Top it Off
Tom Lenihan – Truth in Songs / The Christmas Letter
Nora Cleary – Maggie in the Wood


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Fire Draw Near Episode I

Episode II looks at a musical motif that started off life in Scotland, made its way over to Ireland as a piping tune then travelled to America before ending up being recorded by anarcho punk band the Subhumans.

Tracklist:

Planxty Fanny Power
Rosie Stewart – Bunch of Damned Whores
Elizabeth Crotty – Touch me if you Dare / Morning Star
Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief
Paddy in the Smoke - The Chorus Reel
Will Powrie – The Drunken Piper / Highland Whiskey / High Road to Linton
Paul and Jimmie McGregor - Brochan Lom, Tana Lom / Bodachan A' Mhirein
Willie Clancy – Kitty Got a Clinking
PJ Conlon – Phil the Fluter’s Ball
Subhumans – Work Rest Play Die
Brendan Behan – The Captains and The Kings
Tommy Lynch – Arada
Nonie Lynch – My Good Looking Man
Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along the Road


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Fire Draw Near Episode II

Episode III is a Valentine's Day special that wades through the filthiest songs in the Irish Traditional repertoire.

Tracklist:

Fergus Russell – 50 Shades of Grey
Brian O’Rourke – Carnations
Planxty – Junior Crehan’s Favourite / Corney is Coming
Florrie Forde – Hold Your Hand Out Naughty Boy
Nora Cleary – The Little Ball of Yarn
Walter Pardon - The Little Ball of Yarn
Derek Bell – Hungarian Folk Dances
Luke Cheevers – The Cuckoo’s Nest
Jeannie Robertson – She is a Rum one
Willie Clancy – An Phis Fhliuch
Martin Howley – Blow the Candle Out
Len Graham – Tumbling Through the Hay
Sharon Shannon - The Cat's Miaow, Tickle Her Leg, Drag Her Around The Road, Saltón D'uvéu (the Reel Of Oviedo)
Anne Briggs – The Stonecutter Boy
Pops Johnny Connors – Old Ballymoe
 Tommy McGuigan - The Old Kettle Drum
Julia Clifford – The Star Above the Garter

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Fire Draw Near Episode III

Episode V looks at a shared musical link between Ireland and the Caribbean.

Tracklist:

Mary Fuller – Oh What a Life
Seán Potts and Paddy Moloney – Did You Wash Your Father’s Shirt / The Mountain Top
Barry Gleeson – My Darling Old Bit of a Stick
Bernard Delaney – The Beauty Spot
Elizabeth Cronin – Little Pack of Tailors / What Would You Do?
Séamus Ennis – Kitty Lie Over
Brian O’Rourke – Drumsnot
The Flanagan Brothers – The Half A Crown Song
Bill Rogers – West Indian Weed Woman
The Meditations – Woman Piabba
Tom Crean – Half a Crown
Andy Cash – The Half Crown
Jimmy Crowley – Boozing
Cath and Phil Tyler – Our Captain Cried All Hands

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Fire Draw Near Episode V

Episode X looks at the Child ballads in Ireland.

Tracklist:

Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
Mary Baylon – Johnny Scott
John Reilly – The Well Below the Valley
Dónal Maguire – The Grey Cock
Elizabeth Cronin – Lord Gregory
Tom Lenihan – The Holland Handkerchief
Mary Delaney – Buried in Kilkenny
Martin Howley – The Old Armchair
Frank Harte – Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship
Lisa O’Neill – The North Strand / The Croppy Boy

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Fire Draw Near Episode X

Episode XI. This episode features the first of a new segment looking at Alan Lomax's seminal 1951 Irish collecting trip. Alongside this are songs from Planxty, Marlais, Sarah Ghriallais, Frank Harte, Séamus Ennis, Elizabeth 'Bess' Cronin, as well as some of the earliest recordings of Irish music.

Tracklist:

Planxty – The Raggle Taggle Gypsies / Tabhair Dom do Lámh
Marlais – Meeting is a Pleasure
Sarah Ghriallais – Skibereen
Frank Harte – Building Up and Tearing England Down
Percy Ridge – Western Cowboy
Séamus Ennis – Through Dublin City
Séamus Ennis – Bain an Ceann Caol De
Séamus Ennis – The Woman of the House
Elizabeth Cronin – A Bhean Úd Thíos
Elizabeth Cronin – Siúl, a Ghrá
Elizabeth Cronin – Lanigan’s Ball
Dinny Delaney – The Last Glimpse of Erin
Mary Hoare – An Cáilín Deas Crúite na mBó
Planxty – The West Coast of Clare

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Fire Draw Near Episode XI

The Wild Rover Part I looks at the historical and sociological background of 17th century England; a culture which gave rise to a body of song known as the Alehouse Ballads. It was from this group of ballads that the song which was to become the Wild Rover emerged from in the year 1678. Featuring performances from Cormac Dermody, Adrian Edwards, Paul Denman, Beanie Entwistle, Joe Yorke, Radie Peat and Marshall Morris the Travelling Woodsman of the Fosseway. Do yourself a favour and check out Brian Peters' 2015 article The Well-Travelled 'Wild Rover'  Folk Music Journal Vol. 10, No. 5 (2015), pp. 609-636, which I relied on heavily while creating this podcast. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Wild Rover Part I

Fire Draw Near Episode XIV is a Shitfaced Christmas Extravaganza Bonanza! Featuring the amazing tale of the Donegal Tarantella, me doing a Felix Doran but its Iron Maiden, more bad language than usual, lots of beer reviews, tonnes of drunken slobbering, Christmas songs, Scandinavian Folk Metal tropes, as well as new songs from Ruskavellas, Stick in the Wheel, Burd Ellen, Myrkur and Yorkston Thorne and Khan. Best enjoyed while shitfaced.

Tracklist:

Ruskavellas – Grey Ranns of the Sidhe / The Little Branch
Stick in the Wheel – Drive the Cold Winter Away
Burd Ellen – The Wexford Carol
The Carol Singers – God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
The Kipper Family – Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
Annie Lennox – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Frank Harte – The Maid of Cabra West
Myrkur – Tor i Helheim
Felix Doran – The Fox Hunt
Iron Maiden – Genghis Khan
Francie ‘Dearg’ Byrne – The Cat That Kittled In Jamie’s Wig
Leonardo Riccardi, Angelo Salerno & Quirino Valvano – Tarantella per Zampogna, Ciaramella e Tamburello
Rónán Galvin – Donegal Tarantella
Yorkston Thorne and Khan – The Jealous Woman / A Bhean Ladeach
Shirley Collins – The Cherry Tree Carol
Luke Cheevers – That’s the Way
Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly – The Ballad of Jaysus Christ
The Voice Squad – The Sheepstealer
The Voice Squad – The Parting Glass

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Fire Draw Near Episode XIV

The final installment of the Wild Rover Podcast looks at the song in Ireland before the Dubliners came along as well as where Luke Kelly’s iconic version might have originated. Featuring performances from Cormac Mac Diarmada, Cat Forster and Mark O'Kane. Do yourself a favour and check out Brian Peters' article The Well-Travelled 'Wild Rover' (Folk Music Journal Vol. 10, No. 5 (2015), pp. 609-636), which I relied on heavily while creating this podcast. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Wild Rover Part III

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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