Originally Aired 30/03/2023

Alrighty as we did last week we will continue to explore an immersive, calming and reflective world of music that creates an atmosphere which settles oneself as well as touching something deep or mysterious within us. Our vehicle for this exploration is a collection of soothing, environmental and at times melancholy folk frequencies and melodies from the British Isles and the vast landscapes of the United States. Lovely to have you along for this journey.

Track Names:
-(Intro Song) Do Your Thing by The Clean
- Walkin by Patti Whipp
- And I a Fairytale Lady by Carla Sciaky
- Bleecker Street by Simon and Garfunkel
- Until Then by Tresa Leigh
- Bridget O’Malley by June Tabor
- Book Song by Fairport Convention
- The Time Has Come by Sandy Denny
- Banks Of The Nile by Fotheringay
- Calvary Hill by Shirley Collins
- Love Is A Funny Thing by Spirogyra
- Wishing Well by Anne Briggs
- Francesa by Roy Harper
- Summer’s Over by Dennis Harte

Image: St Radigunds by Spirogyra - Album Cover (1971).

Patti Whipp: https://numerogroup.com/blogs/stories/patti-whipp-walkin-out-of-the-box
Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From the Canyon Comp Bandcamp: https://wayfaringstrangers.bandcamp.com/album/wayfaring-strangers-ladies-from-the-canyon
Efficient Space Bandcamp (For Tresa Leigh 7” & Ghost Riders Comp): https://efficientspace.bandcamp.com
June Tabor: https://www.propermusic.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=june+tabor
Fairport Convention: https://www.fairportconvention.com
Sandy Denny Bandcamp: https://sandydenny.bandcamp.com/album/early-home-recordings
Shirley Collins Bandcamp: https://shirleycollins.bandcamp.com/music
Ballad Of Shirley Collins Documentary & Album: 
- https://www.firerecords.com/films/the-ballad-of-shirley-collins/
- https://vimeo.com/ondemand/shirleycollinsmovie
Spirogyra: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/spirogyra-the-future-wont-be-long-the-albums-1971-1973-3cd-box-set/
Anne Briggs: https://www.propermusic.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=anne+briggs
Roy Harper: https://www.royharper.co.uk/shop.html

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Show 152 - Soothing Folk Frequencies & Melodies - Do Your Thing 3MDR 97.1FM or 3mdr.com 30/03/2023

Originally Aired 25/05/2023

Alrighty, it’s all about the folk tonight, folks, where we will journey around the British Isles and the vast landscapes of USA, immersing ourselves in the golden period of the 60s and 70s folk revival - a musical world that we hold dearly here at Do Your Thing. Some stops will also include tracks with some psyche, garagey and American Primitive guitar flavourings. Should be a nice journey. Nice to have you along to share the experience.

Track Names:
-(Intro Song) Do Your Thing by The Clean
- Sail Away To The Sea by Sandy Denny & The Strawbs
- I Remember by Tresa Leigh
- Nothing More Than Strangers by Catherine Howe
- Place to Be by Nick Drake
- I Like To Be With You In The Sun (Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall) by Bridget St. John
- Davey by Roy Harper
- Love Is A Funny Thing by Spirogyra
- Wondrous Love by Shirley Collins
- Reynardine by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
- Go Your Own Way My Love by Sandy Denny
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Live) by Bob Dylan
- Just Like Anything by Jackson C. Frank
- Rocky Mountain Raga by Robbie Basho
- Here, There, And Everywhere by The Common People

Photo: Spirogyra (1970s).

Sandy Denny & The Strawbs: https://numerogroup.com/products/sandy-denny-the-strawbs-all-our-own-work
Efficient Space Bandcamp (For Tresa Leigh 7” & Ghost Riders Comp): https://efficientspace.bandcamp.com
Catherine Howe Bandcamp: https://catherinehowe.bandcamp.com/album/what-a-beautiful-place
Roy Harper: https://www.royharper.co.uk/shop.html
Shirley Collins Bandcamp: https://shirleycollins.bandcamp.com/music
Ballad Of Shirley Collins Documentary & Album: 
- https://www.firerecords.com/films/the-ballad-of-shirley-collins/
- https://vimeo.com/ondemand/shirleycollinsmovie
Sandy Denny Bandcamp: https://sandydenny.bandcamp.com/album/early-home-recordings
Jackson C. Frank Bandcamp: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-recordings-of-jackson-c-frank
Robbie Basho Bandcamp: https://gnomelife.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-the-country

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Show 158 - Folk Flavourings From The 60s & 70s - Do Your Thing 3MDR 97.1FM or 3mdr.com 25/05/2023

Suits Me Well Sandy Denny  Autoharp Cover

Fotheringay by Sandy Denny (Cover)

Programa especial dedicado a Nick Drake por el 75 aniversario de su nacimiento.
Un repaso por la trayectoria de un genio que murió muy joven y pensando que había fracasado. Con parada en sus tres largos, que acompañamos de otros grandes discos de influencias, relacionados e influidos. Todo suena en vinilo.

###Spoiler### Tracklist:

1 - Nick Drake - Place To Be (Pink Moon)
2 - Bert Jansch - Angie (Bert Jansch)
3 - Nick Drake - Cello Song (Five Leaves Left)
4 - Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game (Jackson C. Frank)
5 - Nick Drake - Riverman (Five Leaves Left)
6 - Fairport convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Unhalfbricking)
7 - Nick Drake - One Of These Things First (Bryter Layter)
8 - Bob Carpenter – Silent Passage (Silent Passage)
9 - Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II (Bryter Layter) 
10 - Elliot Smith  - Between The Bars (Either / Or)
11 - Nick Drake - Northern Sky (Bryter Layter)
12 - Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
13 - Chris Brain – Chance to See (Bound To Rise)
14 - Nick Drake - Which Will (Pink Moon)
15 - John Martyn - Solid Air (Solid Air)
16 - Nick Drake - Parasite (Pink Moon)
17 - Sufjan Stevens - Death And Dignity (Carrie & Lowell)
18 - Nick Drake - Saturday Sun (Five Leaves Left)

Wickend 58 - Nick Drake (21-6-23)

Vocals & Artwork: Juni Morning  soundcloud.com/junimorning

Music & Mixing: James Toburen

Fotheringay

Fotheringay (w/ Juni Morning) (Fairport Convention cover)

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" is a song written by the English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny.
The song is a reflection in three verses on observed events ("Across the evening sky all the birds are leaving"). Denny writes that she does not count time ("Before the winter's fire, I will still be dreamin'; I have no thought of time" and in the last line of the short chorus asks rhetorically, "Who knows where the time goes?". The last verse includes the lines "I am not alone while my love is near me, I know it will be so until it's time to go.”         Wikipedia

Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Fairport Convention

An extraordinary song that sounds like an ancient Child folk ballad but was actually written in 1969 by Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick for the ultimate Fairport Convention album 'Liege and Lief ("voted the most important folk album of all time") on which Sandy Denny sings all the lead vocals. And, by virtue of that, probably the ultimate Sandy album, certainly performance-wise. 

We're both rather keen on Sandy.

Within the fire and out upon the sea
Crazy Man Michael was walking
He met with a raven with eyes black as coals
And shortly they fell a-talking
Your future, your future I will tell to you
Your future you often have asked me
Your true love will die by your own right hand
And crazy man Michael will cursèd be.

Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
And beat the four winds with his fists-o
He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
For his mad mind had trapped him with a curse-o.
You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate
You speak for the devil that haunts me
For is she not the fairest in all the broad land
Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me.

He took out his dagger of fire and of steel
And struck down the raven through the heart-o
The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin
And the cold earth did wonder and start-o
O where is the raven that I struck down dead
That here did lie on the ground-o
I see that my true love with a wound so red
And her lover's heart it did pound-o.

Crazy Man Michael he wanders off course
And talks to the night and the day-o
But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain
And he longs to be far away-o.
O Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes*
And asks the wild woods their pardon
For his true love is flown into every flower grown
And he must be keeper of the garden.
credits
from PEACOCK'S TALES (our Sapphire Wedding Album), released December 1, 2024
A song Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick wrote for Sandy Denny to sing.
The video is also on YouTube - youtu.be/Gx1TKkwLnGU.
(I left my West country home town of Frome nearly 60 years ago and yet as you will hear I still sing Choons thinking I'm singing Tunes)

Crazy Man Michael

Part celebration of traditional English/British folk music and festival, part heart-singing pagan hymn (Oh Come All Ye Folkful?) but above all having some fun (mostly at our own expense) this is our BRAND NEW ONE, rehearsed and gigged and lived since the run up to Christmas and OUT TODAY. We've adapted two of the lyric verses to fit the instruments we have in our repertoire including on this occasion leader of the JD BIG BAND John Davies on sexy sax and his bonnie lassie Kathleen on guest drum roll on the drum verse. (They also have a little married duet of sax and drum roll in the play out.) It was an absolute treat to play live with them at Burns Night and to have their jelly roll jazz ( it's probably swing but you know where I and it's coming from) as part of our folk minstrel one. You can watch a film of us playing this track live with the JD Big Band and the Ecclefechan Tarts Orchestra and Choir last week at our annual Burns Night supper on YouTube film The Full Rabbie which premieres tonight at 7.30 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioIP6Qt5hw

Come all ye rolling minstrels
And together, we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Those that dance, will start to dance
And those who don't will stay
In time to list our merry tune
That we play for you today

So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Our tooter, he just loves to toot
Upon his common flute
Recorder by another name
Much better with a mute.

So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Possessor of our sax appeal (see picture)
And no old folkie he
Folk is just some wayward notes
Jazz a wayward key.

So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Sound of beating on the drum
Song behind you'll hear
And to the rhythm of guitar
We hope you'll lend an ear

So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Well, the man who plays the bass does make
Those low notes that you hear
And the high notes come from you and me
For we will sing so clear

So, come all ye rolling minstrels
And together we will try
To rouse the spirit of the earth
And move the rolling sky

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Sandy Denny / Ashley Stephen Hutchings / Dp
Come All Ye lyrics © Warlock Music Ltd
Comic adaptations to lyrics of verses 2 and 3 to fit our instruments (and in my case level of virtuosity) by Peacock's Tale.

Come All Ye (A Folk Song)

@PeacocksTaleFolkIndieDuo  for all our videos - watch this one here - https://youtu.be/fauwwmY1UTs
 new recording of this Sandy Denny classic for our new album "Peacock's Tales" 

When Sandy Denny wasn't writing about travellers she was writing about the sea and in this cheery piece she does both at once. A jaunty open road song that seems to have been written on sea-spray and in the open air, as suggested in our arrangement and the film. I borrowed the harp for the psychedelic bridge from a fellow traveller.

The young man rose his pretty face,
All for to feel the salty spray.
When storms are mustering, they say
I'll come and take you all away.

I am a traveller by trade,
I only have what I have made.
A fortune teller too they say,
And I can take you all away.

Bridge
...

Listen Listen to him do.
He is the one who is for you.
Listen, they say
He'll come and take us all away.

I am a traveller by trade,
I only have what I have made.
A fortune teller too they say,
And I can take you all away.

from PEACOCK'S TALES (The Sapphire Wedding Album) 
Words and music by Sandy Denny arr. Peacock's Tale https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/peacocks-tales-the-sapphire-wedding-album

Listen, Listen

We've been rehearsing this fireside friendship/love song about the passing and changes of time all winter  ("who knows where my voice goes?) and watching the birds circling in the evening over the woods across the way. In North Norfolk you're never far from heath, holt and wild water so there are a lot of birds, including the winter geese audibly referenced at the end of the song. We both love this song. 

Across the evening sky
All the birds are leaving
Ah how can they know
It's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire
I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore
Your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know
It's time for them to go
But I will still be here
I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone
While my love is near me
I know it will be so
Until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter
And then the birds in spring again
I have no fear of time
For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?

Words and Music by Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? lyrics © Fairwood Music (uk) Ltd., Winckler Musikforlag

Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

This song is as old as us! Dusty Springfield's sprightly country folk version with the Springfields was the first British single to reach the top 20 in the American Billboard chart in 1962 (over a year before the 1964 British invasion). youtu.be/uz6HB9HYQz4 Written by Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds, it was first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956 and covered by Linda Ronstadt in a kick-ass country rock version in the 1970s. youtu.be/pmQpYSBkwag
Not to mention Dolly Parton's happy honky tonk take on it youtu.be/VO4SYPRa3pI
Ours is nearer the much slower, much sadder version by Sandy Denny on her 'Rendezvous' album. If the lyric really does have an arch reference to the recreational drug use of the rich ('silver threads' 'golden needles' 'dare not drown my sorrows in the warm glow of your '"wine"') it rejects it (along with all the other consolations of money) as actually solving anything. Only 'the love you promised' can do that.
lyrics
I don't want your lonely mansion
With a tear in every room.
All I want's the love you promised
Beneath the haloed moon.
But you think I should be happy
With your money and your name
And hide myself in sorrow
While you play your cheating game.
Silver threads and golden needles
Cannot mend this heart of mine.
And I dare not drown my sorrow
In the warm glow of your wine.
You can't buy my love with money
Cause I never was that kind.
Silver threads and golden needles
Cannot mend this heart of mine.
...
Silver threads and golden needles
Cannot mend this heart of mine.
And I dare not drown my sorrow
In the warm glow of your wine.
You can't buy my love with money
Cause I never was that kind.
Silver threads and golden needles
Cannot mend this heart of mine.
Silver threads and golden needles
Cannot mend this heart of mine.
credits
from Untied States of Americana (LP), released September 8, 2022
https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/untied-states-of-americana-lp
Songwriters: Jack Rhodes / Dick Reynolds
Silver Threads and Golden Needles lyrics © Campbell Connelly And Co. Ltd., Campbell Connelly And Co.ltd.

Maz - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Gaz - bass, bass drum, hi hat, tambo, tom, floor tom, bells, backing vocal.

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Two of Sandy's signature subjects and one of her many combinations of a sea faring song and an open air road traveller song. Breezy and refreshing and fun.

I travel over the sea and ride the rolling sky
For that's the way it is, that is my fortune
There are many ears to please, many people's love to try
And every day's begun rising for the moon

There's a heart in every place, there's a tear for each farewell
For that's the way it is, that is my fortune
I'll lure you as the lace that the wayward gypsies sell
With the sinking of the sun, rising of the moon

Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark
But the star of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark
The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark
Whose every day does start rising for the moon

We travel over the sea and ride the rolling sky
For that's the way it is, that is our fortune
There are many ears to please, many people's love to try
And every day's begun rising for the moon

Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark
But the star of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark
The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark
Whose every day does start rising for the moon
credits
from our Poachers on the Common (LP), track released February 27, 2022 https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/poachers-on-the-common-lp
Composed by Sandy Denny
Moonshot by Bhas Allan

Rising For The Moon

youtu.be/jy0D_WzbVX8 for the film on You Tube and further notes.

Especially for all soldiers fighting in a war on the wrong side in the wrong country and which they shouldn't be fighting (like the Russian invasion of Ukraine). This is a different mix than the one on the video, especially the final verse. If only because recording drums along with voices and guitar on any kind of condenser mic is like recording a bull in a china shop...

“Oh hark! the drums do beat, my love, no longer can we stay.
The bugle-horns are sounding clear, and we must march away.
We're ordered down to Portsmouth, and it's many is the weary mile
To join the British Army on the banks of the Nile.”

“Oh Willie, dearest Willie, don't leave me here to mourn,
Don't make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born.
For the parting of our love would be like parting with my life.
So stay at home, my dearest love, and I will be your wife.”

“Oh my Nancy, dearest Nancy, sure that will never do.
The government has ordered, and we are bound to go.
The government has ordered, and the Queen she gives command.
And I am bound on oath, my love, to serve in a foreign land.”

“Oh, but I'll cut off my yellow hair, and I'll go along with you.
I'll dress myself in uniform, and I'll see Egypt too.
I'll march beneath your banner while fortune it do smile,
And we'll comfort one another on the banks of the Nile.”

“But your waist it is too slender, and your fingers they are too small.
In the sultry suns of Egypt your rosy cheeks would spoil.
Where the cannons they do rattle, when the bullets they do fly,
And the silver trumpets sound so loud to hide the dismal cries.”

“Oh, cursed be those cruel wars, that ever they began,
For they have robbed our country of manys the handsome men.
They've robbed us of our sweethearts while their bodies they feed the lions,
On the dry and sandy deserts which are the banks of the Nile.”

from Poachers on the Common (LP), track released August 13, 2022
https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/track/the-banks-of-the-nile

The Banks of the NIle

One of my favourite Sandy Denny songs given a bit of a psych treatment

By the Time It Gets Dark

spooky folk song about the loss of a loved one

The Wind Blows The Grass

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Presentan: Julián Encinas y Tomás González Lezana (El Rubicón).

A marriage (and we are actually married, 45 years so far) of melody and rhythm. We do folk, indie, Americana, Norfolk noir, beat poems &  ghazals. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats. Music videos  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8wV0-DNiFs1R5G2VSytBQ
Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz vocals, voice, bass, drums & percussion, harmonium, recorders, lyre harp, field recordings.

Hi! Welcome to my Soundcloud page! I’ve been writing songs since the 1970s, but here is a selection of tracks mainly from 2000 on… Hope you find something to enjoy and even relate to here… all tracks are free to download. All the best, Al

“What makes a song is the singer, while what makes a singer is their dedication to music and their inner feelings.”   Dimash Qudaibergen

I have enjoyed music for as long as I can remember and cannot remember a day of not either singing or listening to music. I am self-taught when it comes to playing guitar but what I most enjoy is singing which I have been doing since around age 18. Now retired singing and playing the guitar is now just a hobby and something I do to help pass the time. Have always  loved the sound of a Martin guitar. Currently been playing a Road Series DR S2 for about 6 years. Thanks for listening. I also enjoy discovering the sounds of other talented musicians and singers here on SoundCloud.

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