Hello Everyone, welcome back to
NetRhythms
Mike Davies reviews Kate Rusby's new album of South
Yorkshire carols, released next Monday.
Click on the link to hear Diana
Jones sing "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" on MySpace.
Read the early bird
Best-Ofs and then email us yours:
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/albums_p2008.html
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Next, we're
jumping right into 2009 with news of
Contemporary Music at the BARBICAN,
produced in association with BBC Four
Wednesday 21 Jan 7.30pm
FOLK
AMERICA: Hollerers, Stompers & Old-Time Ramblers
The Wiyos, CW Stoneking,
Cedric Watson And Bijoux Creole, Diana Jones and others tbc - hosted by Seasick
Steve
Seasick Steve recently sold out the Albert Hall with his authentic and
personal take on Mississippi blues. The Wiyos are purveyors of Vaudevillian
Ragtime Blues, Hillbilly Swing and Old- Time Country. Australias CW Stoneking
His brand of hokum blues and jungle jazz powerfully evokes the 1920 and
'30s. Cedric Watson, fiddler, vocalist, accordionist and songwriter is one of
the most noted young talents to emerge in Cajun or Creole music in the past few
years. And Diana Jones? You'll have already heard her gem of an album "My
Remembrance of You"
Thursday 22 Jan 7.30pm
FOLK AMERICA: Greenwich
Village Revisited
Judy Collins, Eric Andersen and others tbc
This concert
recalls the heady days of the '60s folk revival, centring upon the extraordinary
singer-songwriter talents to emerge from the clubs of New York's Greenwich
Village and beyond. A line-up of originals and those they inspired delve into
the extraordinary songbook that has proved a rich legacy of the times.
Concerts at the Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Box Office: 0845 120 7550
http://www.barbican.org.uk
And BBC's FOLK AMERICA on BBC Four TV?
The
documentary series will be broadcast on Friday 23rd January, Friday 30th January
and Friday 6th February. The Old-Time concert will be broadcast on Friday
23rd January and the Greenwich Village concert will be broadcast in early
February. These will be accompanied by archive documentaries and
sessions. See Press Release at foot of this Newsletter
Enya - And Winter Came (Warner)
Paula Wolfe -
Lemon (SIB)
Jefferson Starship - Jefferson's Tree of Liberty
(Evangeline)
Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys - Whistling In The Dark
(Sincere Sounds)
Jesse Malin - Mercury Retrograde: Live In New York City (One
Little Indian)
Nathan Hamilton - Receive (Irondust Music)
Malcolm Holcombe
- Gamblin' House (Echo Mountain)
The John Henrys - Sweet As The Grain
(9LB/True North)
Patty Loveless - Sleepless Nights (Saguaro)
Michael
Morpurgo with Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes
- On Angel Wings (NoMasters Cooperative)
Griselda Sanderson - Harpaphonics
(Waulk Music)
Peter Cooper - Cautionary Tales (Corazong)
Eric Hisaw -
Nature of the Blues (Saustex Media)
The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band (feat Rick
Vito) - Blue Again! (Hypertension)
Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse (One Little
Indian)
Various Artists - The Fine Art Of Music (CoraZong)
Buzzcocks -
Another Music In A Different Kitchen/ Love Bites/ A Different Kind Of Tension
(EMI)
The Bosshoss - Stallion Battalion (Island Records)
The Get-Rites -
Tin Rood Sky (Magnolia Recording Company)
Ted Russell Kamp - Poor Man's
Paradise (Own Label)
Robin Dransfield - A Lighter Touch (Hux
Records)
French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - Invisible Means
(Fledg'ling)
Brendan Hendry, Brendan Mulholland & Paul McSherry - Tuned
Up (Copperplate)
Anna Shannon - When We Were Young (Own Label)
Jez Lowe
& The Bad Pennies - Northern Echoes: Live On The Tyne (Tantobie)
Climax
Ceilidh Band - Five Play (Beautiful Jo Records)
Bodega - Under The Counter
(Greentrax)
Ry Cooder - The Ufo Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology
(Rhino)
Steve Gifford - Boy On A Beach (Own Label)
Ron Geesin - Biting The
Hand (Hux Records)
Guitar Maestros: John Etheridge DVD (Sound
Techniques)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Memories DVD
(Wienerworld)
Book Review: Pete Wood - The Elliotts Of Birtley (David Herron
Publishing)
Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven - Evergreen
(Compass)
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of
Christmas (Zoë/Rounder)
Albion Christmas Band - Snow On Snow (Talking
Elephant)
Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells (Pure)
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Take care - and keep
listening
Love, Sue
NB: BBC Four - The Story Of The American Folk Revival
A three-part
series that tells one of the key stories of 20th century America.
The opening
film features the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt and other blues and hillbilly singers who were
discovered by record companies and folklorists in the Twenties and
Thirties.
The second film enters the "dream life of the American left" with
"hobo" Woody Guthrie and "jailbird" Leadbelly.
In the final film, the earlier
singers are rediscovered and celebrated by a new generation of Americans, who
tell their own stories about how they used the idea of a purer, simpler past to
create something quite new - the exciting sounds of Sixties folk.
Featuring a
stunning soundtrack, the series also includes rare archive and contributions
from Joan Baez, Judy Collins, The Band, The Byrds, Odetta, Harry Belafonte, The
Kingston Trio and The Weavers, as well as survivors and their families from the
first wave of recorded folk.
To accompany the films there will be a screening
of a concert from London's Barbican celebrating music from the series.