Name: Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 253 2022 12 01 by Ivan Emke
Duration: 1 h

Have you ever noticed that in many thrift stores the shelves of CDs are almost entirely inaccessible?  They may be behind a table that is filled with extremely fragile glassware of no apparent function whatsoever.  Or else they are on a bottom shelf in a corner where you'll need a flashlight and a magnifying glass to see the titles!  If you think of the demographics of people who buy used CDs - old folks like me - they should display them at eye level near a bright light source! 

Nevertheless, today on "Routes & Branches & Beyond" I have another crop of used CDs from this Autumn's harvests.  There's Irish slippery sliding, Scottish fishwives, Newfoundland bakery shanteys, southern sad songs, Italian everlasting accordions, Sami yoik dancing, Cuban Convent jazz, wise old market women, cheesy chord organ swing, perilous gravel roads and cowboy songs of the Wild East.  With bands like Matt Cranitch & Jackie Daly, Malinky, Dave Penny, Alison Kraus & Union Station, Filippo Gambetta, Moenje, Bomba!, Teresa Doyle, Arrandale, Steve Palmer, Horse Radio, Steve Dawson, Tom Leighton and Trio Dhoore.  Don't look at the price, just join us.

Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 253 2022 12 01

The Eyelash's debut single. Bringing you big vocals and dreamy guitars from New York City. Perfect for screaming in the car or a 3am walk.

Dark Shadow

ALL THAT HURTS YOU

April 14th

Georgian Bay Roots #391 April 14 2024 (with Kelly)

Staring at my face again
12 o'clock, waking up from bed
Nowhere to go or run away
On the floor, I'm glued, in this house I'll stay
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I'm just a no good, low life, POS
Such wasted years of my life being mad
When you're the problem of your problems had
You're just a no good, low life, POS
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Where you gonna run when things go bad?
I lock myself away, pretend I'm dead
Expecting "You okay?" in texts from friends
All alone
And I drink the day gone to cure the mood
The spirits in the bottles company
And swear the next day I'll sober up
But it flees
I've gotta hold on to better thoughts
Cause' the bad ones are taking off
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I'm just a no good, low life, POS
Such wasted years of my life being mad
When you're the problem of your problems had
You're just a no good, low life, POS
--------------------------------------------------
I'm just a no good, low life, POS
Such wasted years of my life being mad
When you're the problem of your problems had
You're just a no good, low life, POS
I'm just a no good, low life, POS
Such wasted years of my life being mad
When you're the problem of your problems had
You're just a no good, low life, POS

The Well Song Live @ Old Ironsides 11/18/2023

nice

it is our duty to disobey unjust laws

practice

and i think he is gone

You may not be aware, but there is a keen competition underway at this time of the spring that your usual media outlets have likely ignored.  Of course, I'm referring to the annual Fool's Gambit - the race to plant a garden!  This is the struggle to be the first in your township to get your garden in, no matter what the experts say (because you know better, right?).  You watch the sky like a sailor, looking for clues to next week's weather.  You create shelters from pop bottles and plastic and 1x2s to protect the tender seedlings from the elements.  You coax the seeds from the soil, spending hours hunched over recently-planted rows, pleading with the goddesses of unreasonably-early fertility.  You are engaging in ritual dances to assuage the frost spirits.  And of course, you end up replanting whole sections three weeks later...!  Oh, and it can be called a Fool's Gambit, because by the end of June all of the plants in all the gardens are at about the same state of maturation, no matter when they were planted.  Though that doesn't keep me from engaging in the race every year!

For a respite from this stress, this week we have the last of the series on Celtic Spring here on Routes & Branches & Beyond.  We have songs and tunes about wing commanders, peculiar ferrets, green bushes, shoals, skylarks, merry sisters, hash (not the expensive kind), false young men, good beer, speedy ploughs and a mess of feathers.  From bands such as Nomos, Nightingale, Siobhan Miller, Ceolbeg, Kenneth & Angus MacKenzie, Mackeel, Dallahan, Malinky, Lúnasa, Allison Lupton, Donal Lunny, Matt Molloy & Paul Brady & Tommy Peoples, and Aiden Coffey et al.  Put down that packet of seeds and join me.

Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 253 2022 12 01

Ivan Emke

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