[GondwanaSound Broadcast News] 17th September, trance, spiritual music,

------------17TH SEPTEMBER, TRANCE, SPIRITUAL MUSIC, ------------

Hello,  I hope all is well in your world and welcome to the latest broadcast
news.

I'll start off with someone else's news, Jane Cornwell wrote an interesting
article in the Guardian, we posted a link on the website.  On the eve of the
London African Festival, she asks what the British African diaspora are
listening to...its something that has always struck me.  The difference between
community events and those billed under the heading "world music" is quite
noticeable, take the Africa Oye festival in Liverpool which attracts a wide
diverse crowd, yet just down the road at the Liverpool Philharmonic the
demographic for an African Soul rebels gig, billed under the banner of World
Music is predominantly European and middle aged...
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Who know's what the answer is, perhaps WOM@tt and their Best of British have
some answers. You can catch Nsimba Foggis and Taxi Patta Patta at their latest
promotion on 25th September.  GondwanaSound listeners have been promised a
discount.
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1233 ]

In Sheffield we had our very own answer to diversity with the first outing of
Mim Suleiman's band playing some deep grooves...the way in which Pole Pole has
evolved is staggering, a broody arabo tantalising percussive journey in which
no-one was stood still.  Guests throughout the evening included Kadialy Kouyate,
Last Three days, The Subtropics and Mulembas dance class.  We were also privvy
to some of the first glimpses of the film by Sandra Thomas shot on location with
Mim as she played a homecoming concert at this year's Sauti Za Bausara.  
If like us at GondwanaTowers you've had some memorable festival experiences
this year, do go and register to vote at the UK Festival awards site.  There's a
category for best overseas festival, so no prizes for guessing where our vote is
going.
[ http://uk.festivalawards.com/ ]

....and on the subject of festivals, there's no business like the festival
business particularly when artists pull out. Angelique Kidjo apologises to
Musicport for cancelling, read the news of her repleacement and an interest late
confirmation.
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1236 ]

Occasionally,  we like to be amongst the first with the news.  The Roma Queens
and Kings are abdicating to pave the way for a Roma republic and the first
Battle of the Brass Bands.  This will be the new "Gypsy" May tour. Dates for
Europe and the first bands to battle it out are all here.
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1234 ]

Featured new releases in this weeks broadcast come from Natacha Atlas and the
posthumous release from Lobi Traore.
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1237 ]
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1239 ]

and with the Barbican's Transcender weekend coming up we play a few spiritual
and trancey numbers including something from Faiz Ali Faiz & Titi Robin who I
look forward to seeing enormously.
[ http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk/node/1220 ]

Also appearing during the Transcender weekend is Afghan musician Homayun Sakhi
we played his track last week from the Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan. This week its our album of the week and I got on the phone to its compiler Simon
Broughton to find out more...you can hear extracts of our conversation along
with selected tracks on this week's broadcast.

That's about it for now
Hope you can join me Friday 9am for an hour of global roots and grooves on
Sheffield Live 93.2FM and [ http://www.sheffieldlive.org ]

Jill



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EIGHT ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR SEPTEMBER

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vic Smith <tinvic@globalnet.co.uk>
Date: 8 September 2010 22:15
Subject: EIGHT ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR SEPTEMBER
To: "Folk (Virtual Brighton)" <folk@brighton.co.uk>


EIGHT  ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR SEPTEMBER


1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk.

Our new season got off to the best possible start last Thursday with a storming performance by SPIDER JOHN KOERNER & CHIP SMITH playing to a full clubroom. Our programme for the next three months is as follows:-

Sept 9th * £6.00 * TAFFY THOMAS & AIMEE THOMAS
Britain's first Laureate for Storytelling and an MBE for services to storytelling and charity shares the evening with his daughter's lovely singing voice.

Sept 16th * £6.00 * JOHN CONOLLY
The internationally-respected songwriter with his universally known "Fiddlers' Green" and many other fine songs

Sept 23rd  * free admission * OPEN NIGHT
In response to many requests, we are putting in some extra Open Nights into our programme to give more opportunity for our many floor singers to have more of a chance to perform

Sept 30th * £6.00 * THE CLAQUE
Tom Addison, Barry Lister, Dave Lowry and Sean O'Shea. Distilled from the legendary groups of old, four voices of depth and maturity blended to bring warmth and harmony to the English Tradition.

Oct 7th * £10.00 (£8.00 in adv.) * JOHN KIRKPATRICK
One of the most talented and popular attractions on the folk scene. John plays for the opening night of the Lewes Folk Festival. (http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/)

Oct 14th * £6.00 * DUCK SOUP (Album Launch Evening)
Adam Bushell, Ian Kearey & Dan Quinn bring us their unique approach to traditional music & song and launch their new album "Open On Sundays".

Oct 21st * £6.00 * JIM CAUSLEY
We are delighted to welcome back the most outstanding of the new generation of singers of traditional songs.

Oct 28th * £6.00 * LAURA HOCKENHULL, TAB HUNTER & BEN PALEY.
The brand new local supergroup make their first advertised appearance with super fiddle and guitar and Laura's lovely voice

Nov 4th * Free Admission * OPEN NIGHT
In response to many requests we are slipping in a few more Open Nights than just our usual one in July and another in December.

Nov 11th * £6.00 * MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA
Sparkling playing of some rare dance tunes on melodeon, concertina, banjo and cello plus Mary's engaging singing.

Nov 18th * £6.00 * RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE
One the country's leading bands play and sing songs and music from both sides of the Atlantic; Dave Arthur, Dan Stewart and birthday boy that day, Pete Cooper.

Nov 25th * £6.00 * SYLVIA BARNES, ALAN & CAROLE PRIOR
Three of the most highly-rated Scottish voices will perform their excellent joint and solo repertoires


Our Future Guests will include:-
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON * JIM BAINBRIDGE * MARTIN CARTHY, NORMA WATERSON & CHRIS PARKINSON * JEZ LOWE *

Our websites are at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/
and
http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include all of the above.
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2 ] LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 7 -10th OCTOBER 2010.
The two Lewes folk clubs are combining their efforts to promote this festival, largely based in their own clubrooms and other venues in the town. It will include folk club evenings, dance displays, presentations, workshops, singarounds and tune sessions. Watch this circular and elsewhere for updates on the guests/programme etc. If you would like to receive an email of the programme for the festival (as it stands at the moment) please email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk  and the .doc file of the programme will be sent to you or you can read the details on-line at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFprogramme.php
The website is at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFindex.php
An outline of events is given at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFprogramme.php
Tickets from the paying events are now on sale by cheque or by Paypal and these are:-

JOHN KIRKPATRICK Thurs 7th October 8pm £8
SHIRLEY COLLINS presents "AMERICA OVER THE WATER" Fri 8th October 8pm £8
NIGEL BAGGE & EDDIE ARMER Fri 8th October 8pm £6
STEP DANCE WORKSHOPS 9th October 10.45am £4
GORDON HALL presentation Sat 9th October 12 noon £4
West Gallery Singing Workshop Sat 9th October 2pm £4
FESTIVAL DANCE 9th October 8pm £8
SUSSEX SINGERS CONCERTS 9th October 8pm £8
PEPPERS' GHOST MAGIC LANTERN SUSSEX SHOW 9th October 8pm £8
HENRY HILLS OF LODSWORTH presentation Sun 10th October 11am £4
An hour with PETE COE Sun 10th October 12.15pm £4

These are the advanced tickets prices. It will be £2 more for each evfent if you pay on the door – so book your tickets at - http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFtickets.php
We are delighted that Shirley Collins has agreed to become the festival's patron.
Advance tickets are now ob sale and are starting to sell well!!!
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3] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to provide sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies of coming guests. It is at http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:-

 John Conolly - "Fiddler's Green" - (September 16th)
The Claque - "The Devil's Questions" - (September 30th)
John Kirkpatrick - "Welcome To Hell" - (October 7th)
Duck Soup - "Little Brown Jug/Untitled/Bonne Bouche" - (October 14th)
Jim Causley - "Yonder's Hill"- (October 21st)
Ben Paley & Tab Hunter [with Laura Hockenhull] - "Old Hag You Have Killed Me" - (October 28th)
Mary Humphreys & Anahata - "Rosemary Lane" - (November 11th)
Rattle On The Stovepipe - "Eight More Miles To Louisville" - (November 18th)
Sylvia Barnes [with Carole & Alan Prior] - "Lonely Waterloo" - (November 25th)


After each gig the songs will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest.
In addition there are videos by each of the following coming guest artists:-

TAFFY THOMAS September 9th
JOHN CONOLLY September 16th
THE CLAQUE September 30th
JOHN KIRKPATRICK October 7th
SYLVIA BARNES November 25th
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4] SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE - UPDATED
For all the listings of folk music, song club, dances, festivals in and around Sussex, have a look at http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk This site all always kept updated with the latest events and those currently listed cover all the dates up until the end of September 2010 .
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5] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 245 covers the months of October & November. They are packed with adverts for various folk festivals, folk music record companies, specialist shops, instrument makers and other services as well as details of all the folk song and dance events in our area. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below.
It is also the address to send album review copies to.  Potential advertisers are also asked to contact Vic for a statement of our advertising rates.
The copy date for the December/January issue is October 30th. However, it should be mentioned for future issues that once the available space has been filled, no more adverts can be accepted even if they are received BEFORE the copy date. With this in mind, it is worth contacting the editors before the copy date to state your intentions and reserve advertising space even if you have not got final details or you copy prepared.
Please contact
JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars@globalnet.co.uk
Or
VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
The current issue is number 243 covers the months of June and July and is now available.
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6] THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE
THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm You will need Adobe ACROBAT
READER to read the pages. The size of each page is given by each page
link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issues are now
on-line and are listed here with the content of each page:-
ISSUE No. 244 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2010
Page 1(794kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Kentucky to Kent UK, Hove Folk Club (Fris), White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons).
Page 2 (504kb) Seaford Live Folk Music.
Page 3 (847kb) Lewes Saturday folk club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs), Copy dates and contact details.
Page 4 (2281kb) Tenterdan Folk Festival, Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues).
Page 5 (601kb) Lewes Folk Festival, Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons) Stag Song & Chat Brighton (Suns), Horsham folk Club (Suns (Weds),
Page 6 (341kb) Barry Murphy banjoes, Cigar Box guitars, Vinces's fiddles, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Elsies (Sats), Brighton Folk and Bles (Fris).
Page 7 (1596kb) Folk Industry & The Association of Festival Organisers Conference.
Page 8 (1365kb) Mid Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), Lamb Folk Club Eatbourne (Weds), Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds)Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Fee Calls Ceilidhs.
Page 9 (1717kb) Sussex Folk Association, Hat Music Films, Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris), Pete Cartlidge Obituary, Brighton Singers Club (Weds), Amberley Folk Club (Tues).
Page 10 (2498kb) Folk Camps Society Ltd. CD reviews.
Page 11 (2184kb) Hobgoblin Music, Pokey La Farge at Blue Coconut Pulborough, Blackwood Pulborough (Thurs). Chiddingly Festival.
Page 12 (1209kb) Dave Swarbrick album "Raison D'Etre".

ISSUE No. 245 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010
Page 1(1178kb) Brighton fest noz,Stag Brighton song & chat (Suns),Headwater at Blue Coconut Pulborough, Hobgoblin music, Folk at the Hawth Crawley.
Page 2 (1785kb) Seaford folk club (Fris), Mark Ringwood tours, Meldown Ceilidhs, Button badges, Amberley folk club (Tues).
Page 3 (909kb) Lewes Saturday folk club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs), Copy dates and contact details.
Page 4 (240kb) Lewes Folk Festival.
Page 5 (1359kb) Lamb Eastbourne folk club (Weds), Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Thurs), From The Field To The Foundry, Croydon folk club (Mons), Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues).
Page 6 (1623kb) Electric Voices Guildford.
Page 7 (396kb) Sussex Folk Association, Hat Music Films, Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris), Brighton Singers Club (Weds), The Rude Machanicals (Weds), Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Hove Folk Club (Fris).
Page 8 (2704kb) Barry Murphy banjos, Folkmaster events, Vine's fiddles, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Cigar Box guitars, Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris), Duck Soup new album.
Page 9 (1402kb) Bals a Samedi, Emily & The Hares events, Roots Around The World.
Page 10 (1616kb) Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), Banjos for sale, Horsham folk club (Suns), Acoustic Sussex events.
Page 11 (1129kb) Ropetackle Arts Cente Shoreham.
Page 12 (1121kb) Tenterden Folk Festival, CD Reviews.
Page 13 (1094kb) Zaza music events Brighton CD reviews.
Page 14 (8689kb) White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), CD reviews.
Page 15 (953kb) Willows Arundel (Weds), Blue Coconut Pulborough (Thurs), Mole Valley Arts Alive.
Page 16 (277kb) Spyboy events
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7] LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening. The programme for 2010 will be:-

18 Sept MOOR MUSIC Dartmoor music (any instrument)
9 Oct JOHN ADAMS Village Music Project (any instrument) (Lewes Festival Event)
10 Oct CHRIS COE Ballad forum (Lewes Festival Event)
31 Oct MARTIN CARTHY Guitar
13 Nov FRANKIE ARMSTRONG Singing & vocal techniques
20 Nov TIM LAYCOCK Concertina (all systems)
The website for more details is
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/workshps.html or contact Valmai
Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear@aol.com
The Lewes Saturday Folk Club has a new domain name - http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/. This will work in parallel with the old name http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ for the time being but they hope to phase it out so please change your bookmarks.

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8] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, and they are posted at
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact
him on Bryancreer@aol.com
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 ...And  if you are ever looking for a good barn dance band, look no further than THE SUSSEX PISTOLS - though you should get in quickly - available dates for 2010 are being snapped up quickly. They will be playing once again for the largest and most prestigious dance in our area, the BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH at the Corn Exchange in Brighton on December 20th. As usual, the 500 plus tickets will sell out very quickly.
Contact Tina on 01273 478124 or email her at tinasmith226@yahoo.co.uk  to
book the band. The band's website is at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm and they have a MYSPACE profile as well at http://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols
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VIC & TINA SMITH
26 Ferrers Road
LEWES
East Sussex
BN7 1PZ
England

Tel & Fax:- 01273 478124
Email:-
tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
folk@brighton.co.uk

ROYAL OAK WEBSITES:-
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic
http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE:-
http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk

LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL WEBSITE:-
http://lewesfolkfest.org/

SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE BAND WEBSITE:-
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm

COMPOUND SOUNDS WEBSITE
http://www.compoundsounds.com
http://www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh
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Rory McLeod's TOUR DATES OCTOBER 2010.

Rory McLeod -Tour Dates OCTOBER 2010  www.rorymcleod.com

Rory McLeod UK Roots -Soul-Singer-Rhythmic tapdancing-Songmaker -percussive Storyteller, multi instrumentalist. BEST LIVE ACT:  BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS 2002 TEXAS HARMONICA CHAMPION 1981.  Rory's OCTOBER 2010 UK tour. www.rorymcleod.com for all updates September 17th The Reel. Kirkwall-Orkney 8pm start. __________________________________________ OCTOBER Fri Oct 8 -Crouch End doors 8.30pm, Downstairs at the King's Head, Kalamazoo Klub  0208 340 8752 Crouch End Hill, London N8 Venue Telephone 0208 340 1028 ________________________________________ Sat Oct 9  -Woodend Folk Day rory on stage at 8.30pm. www.woodbridgefestival.org.uk Redbridge Drama Centre, Churchfields, South Woodford, London, E18 2RB Venue Tel 0208 5045451  inbox@southwoodfordgazette.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Mon Oct 11 -Brighton Komedia Studio Bar. Start 8pm 44-47 Gardner Street Brighton, BN1 1UN Tel : Fax   01273 64 101 laurencehill@komedia.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Tue Oct 12 -Winchester Doors 7.30pm on stage 9.00pm The Railway 3 St Pauls Hill, Winchester SO22 5AE 01962 867795 0844 771000 Box Office 08700 600 100 (24hrs) _________________________________________________________ Fri Oct 15  -Swanage Square & Compass. Worth Maltravers Swanage, Dorset. BH19 3LF. Tel/Fax   01929 439229 kevin@squareandcompasspub.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Sat Oct 16 -Lewes, East Sussex. Applefest, (onstage at 3 pm-for 60 minutes) Middle Farm, Firle Lewes, East Sussex. BN8 6LJ Tel : Fax +44 (0)1323 811411 theapplefest@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Oct 17th -Bristol. Doors 7.30pm The Lansdown, Clifton Road Bristol BS8 1AF 01179 355474 dan@ashkeysmusic.com ___________________________________________________ Tue Oct 19 -Portsmouth. (Onstage-9pm) The Cellars. 56 Cromwell Road Southsea, Hampshire PO4 9PN Tel : Fax   07966 763 635 02392 826249 _________________________________________________________ Thu Oct 21 - Newcastle Upon Tyne 8pm Blackhall Mill Community Centre River view Blackhall Mill, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE17 7TQ 079907 32620 storyboxuk@mac.com   Tour dates Spring 2011 to be confirmed and announced. www.rorymcleod.com for all updates Also Rory's New Album now released. See www.rorymcleod.com __________________________________________ 'SWINGS and ROUNDABOUTS' TALK004 On Talkative Music 1 I Just Want To Be Loved.        2 When You Were Born.      3 Imperfect World.      4 Applause.        5 Your Mummy and I.            6 Working Honeymoon.           7 I Shouldn't Be Here Without You.        8 If You Take the Words of Others.        9 I'm married.         10 Moment of Weakness.    11 Old Flame.           12 My Better Half.     13 I Play. 14 Forever 'Till Monday. 15 Lassoing the Bees.         16 Mel, Don't Go.        17 I'm Not Ready to Die.        18 Will You Cross My Path Tomorrow? Musicians on the album include: Richard Sadler: Double bass. BJ Cole: Pedal Steel, Dobro. Diego Laverde Rojas: Columbian Harp. Chris Musto: Drums, percussion. Caroline Hall: Vibes, Trombone. Bob Morgan: Clarinet, Keyboard, Sax. Tanera Dawkins: Cello. Elliet Mackrell: Fiddle, Viola. Steve Grocott: Mandolin. Rory McLeod: Vocals, Guitar, Tap shoes, Harmonica, Bass Harmonica, percussion, bells spoons. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ For Tour updates, road diaries, resource links, photos, and videos go and  see www.rorymcleod.com   and if you couldn't buy a CD from  Rory at his concert then you can go and buy CDs online Rory also has a digital download music shop as well as having CDs physically shipped by mail, all of Rory McLeods Songs and Music are now also available in MP3 format to digitally download on his website www.rorymcleod.com http://www.talkativemusic.co.uk/1-2-3-music-store/process.php?pname=ShopfrontProcess-Start This is eco-logically better, no plastic, packaging, no shipping costs, so cheaper all around, also much quicker. all album titles: Angry Love Kicking The Sawdust (2XCD) Footsteps and Heartbeats Travelling Home Lullabies for Big babies Mouth To Mouth (2XCD) Brave Faces  sOngS fOR big LiTtLE pEoPle 'SwingS and rOundabOuts' (available from April 21st 2010)  Available digitally or CDs from www.rorymcleod.com   Also you can contact  us at: talkativemusic@dial.pipex.com To Book Rory in UK. contact: Glynis Manning Land line - 01388 530962 Mobile - 07737 412 697 glynis.manning@tomtommusic.co.uk info@rorymcleod.com TALKATIVE  MUSIC Barebrecks, Firth Near Finstown, Orkney KW17 2ET. 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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young | Book review | Books | The Guardian

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young | Book review | Books | The Guardian: "Electric Eden is by no means the first book to trace the modern reinvention of folk music. A farrago of essays called The Electric Muse, originally published in 1975 to accompany a triple-LP set, was the standard text in its day, but several comprehensive studies have been published since the millennium. Britta Sweers's 2005 overview, Electric Folk: The Changing Face of Traditional Music, features valuable interviews and is pitched at a reader with no prior knowledge (dutifully explaining who Bob Dylan is), but it shows its origins as a young German's university dissertation. Michael Brocken's The British Folk Revival 1944–2002, which focuses more on the mainstream and politics than Young's tome, would suit readers who wish to study the 'movement' rather than have their tastes expanded."

Taking time off

Following two bad bouts of flu I'm taking a couple of weeks off. If urgent, please call my cellphone.

New Woody Guthrie recordings discovered

Track listing   Play extracts   Purchase box set or download tracks

Rounder Compact Disc: $59.99

(CDROUN1162 / 011661116221)

UK Amazon price £35.78

Rounder have released a remarkable 4-CD boxed set of Woody Guthrie recordings, the quality of which eclipses all previous releases.

The 78-rpm metal masters of these remarkable 1944 recordings made for the Stinson label were unearthed in a Brooklyn basement. Fortunately, they were in pristine condition so that the resulting 54 tracks on these 4 CDs have stunning clarity with Woody Guthrie's singing and Sonny Terry's harmonica playing coming across with immense power.

Released in coordination with the Woody Guthrie Archives, the set includes many of Woody's best-known songs, along with traditional material and collaborations with fellow guitarist Cisco Houston and harmonica player Sonny Terry. The discs are packaged in a replica of a vintage suitcase, complete with handle and latches. Inside the box are a full-colour 68-page book that includes extensive notes and many rare or previously unpublished photos, as well as illustrations and illuminated lyric sheets by Guthrie himself.

Also included are facsimiles of Woody's business card, a postcard sent from Florida to his wife, and a booking card from the 1940s.

Play extracts

Track listing My Dusty Road has 54 tracks
disc 1 1 This Land Is Your Land 02:44 2 Going Down the Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way) 02:56 3 Talking Sailor 03:06 4 Philadelphia Lawyer 02:32 5 Hard Travellin' 02:38 6 Jesus Christ 02:41 7 The Sinking of the Reuben James 03:25 8 Pretty Boy Floyd 03:06 9 Grand Coulee Dam 02:09 10 Nine Hundred Miles 02:51 11 Going Down the Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way) 2 02:57 12 My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky) 02:33 13 Bad Reputation 02:50	disc 2 1 Poor Boy 02:26 2 Worried Man Blues 02:01 3 A Picture From Life's Other Side 03:05 4 Buffalo Skinners 03:20 5 Hard Ain't It Hard 02:40 6 Stewball 03:27 7 Stackolee 03:01 8 Gypsy Davy 02:49 9 Little Darling Pal of Mine 02:54 10 What Did the Deep Sea Say? 02:59 11 Chisholm Trail 02:36 12 Put My Little Shoes Away 02:49 13 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? 02:33 14 John Henry 02:39
disc 3 1 I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union) 02:29 2 Hangnot, Slipnot 02:32 3 Gonna Roll the Union On 02:37 4 The Ludlow Massacre 03:32 5 Sally Don't You Grieve 02:23 6 Harriet Tubman's Ballad part 1 03:24 7 Harriet Tubman's Ballad part 2 03:09 8 Tear the Facists Down 02:05 9 When The Yanks Go Marching In 02:42 10 You Can Hear My Whistle Blow 02:23 11 Union Burying Ground 03:05 12 You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union 02:43	disc 4 1 Train Breakdown 02:31 2 Do You Ever Think Of Me (AKA At My Window) 03:05 3 Guitar Rag 02:19 4 Square Dance Medley 03:50 5 Guitar Breakdown 02:20 6 Raincrow Bill 02:36 7 Ain't Nobody's Business 02:42 8 Stepstone 02:52 9 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 02:42 10 Bile Them Cabbage Down 02:46 11 Danville Girl 03:42 12 Guitar Blues 02:55 13 Brown's Ferry Blues 02:45 14 More Pretty Girls Than One 02:16 15 Sonny's Flight 02:57

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US Army imprisons soldier for anti-war song

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Friday 08 January 2010

by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report

Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy.

Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the end of their signed contracts. According to the Pentagon, more than 120,000 soldiers have been affected by stop-loss since 2001, and currently 13,000 soldiers are serving under stop-loss orders.

Hall, (aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus), who is in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, was placed in Liberty County Jail for the song (click here to listen to "Stop-Loss," by Marc Watercus), in which he angrily denounces the continuing policy that has barred him from exiting the military.

Military service members do not completely give up their rights to free speech, particularly not when they are doing so artistically while off duty, as was the case with Hall. He is charged under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which covers "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline" and "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." The military is claiming that he "communicated a threat" with his song. Hall mailed a copy of the song to the Pentagon after the Army unilaterally extended his contract for a second Iraq deployment.

Hall planned to leave the military at the end of his contract on February 27, before his commander, Captain Cross at Fort Stewart, moved to have him incarcerated for the song. The military currently intends to keep Hall in pre-trial confinement until he is court-martialed, which is expected to be several months from now.

Jim Klimanski, a civilian military lawyer, member of the National Lawyers Guild and the Military Law Task Force, who is closely following Hall's case, told Truthout that he feels the military is overreacting to the case, and that it is simply a matter of free speech and that the Army's actions violate his First Amendment right to free speech.

"It's a political case, and the military should know that," Klimanski explained, "I think they are overreaching and overreacting because of Maj. Hassan (who went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood on November 5), and I can understand that to some degree, but cooler heads should prevail and they should deal with stop-loss, and maybe we'll get the case thrown out. One would hope that common sense would prevail."

Hall is opposed to the occupation of Iraq, and had told his commander he would not deploy if ordered. His unit deployed to Iraq without him in mid-December, but this is not why Hall is in jail, as he was jailed before his unit was sent to Iraq.

"The military never ordered him to go [to Iraq], they put him in jail before that," Klimanski continued, "They can't charge him with missing movement, because he couldn't go because they put him in jail. He told them he wanted out, he wouldn't go, but they didn't put him in jail for not going."

In a statement on January 5, Hall said, ""My first sergeant called me into his office to discuss the song's nature. I explained to him that the hardcore rap song was a free expression of how people feel about the Army and its stop-loss policy. I explained that the song was neither a physical threat nor any threat whatsoever. I told him it was just hip-hop."

Hall added, "My first sergeant said he actually liked the song and that he did not take it as a threat. He and my commander at the time just recommended me for mental counseling and evaluation."

Truthout obtained a redacted copy of the Army's Charge Sheet against Hall, filed by Marcus Seiser, that includes five charges. On the sheet, Hall is accused of telling someone he would "go on a rampage," that "the song makes threats of acts of violence," and that Hall is accused "of planning on shooting the brigade or battalion commanders."

Jason Hurd, an Iraq war veteran who has been assisting Marc Hall, told Truthout that he believes the military is overreacting to Hall's song due to the November 5 shooting at Fort Hood.

"It really frustrates me that they [military] are reacting in such an excessive way," Hurd, a member of Iraq Veteran's Against the War, told Truthout, "When you are talking about communicating a threat, a threat has to be at something or someone. If you listen to Marc's song, he's not saying he wants to kill someone in his chain of command, he makes broad artistic expressions of anger. The military likes to keep a lid on things, and it's now very frustrating they are taking such extensive measures to save face, and they are afraid after the Ft. Hood shooting. So as a result of Ft. Hood, they have persecuted Marc, and now he's incarcerated."

Hurd also feels the case underscores an underlying hypocrisy within the military.

"From a military that has us, while we're jogging, chant in cadence about killing babies, to then come down on someone for writing an angry song, is ludicrous," Hurd added, "Marc is just expressing the anger that 13,000 soldiers are feeling right now, because there are currently that many who are stop-lossed. All he did was make his opinion heard."

According to Hurd, who has been speaking with Hall regularly via telephone, Hall told him that how the military has handled his case "really got me thinking about the whole situation, and how we acted like thugs over there [in Iraq]. In good conscious I could not go back over there and do it again."

Jeff Paterson, the founder and director of the soldier advocacy groupCourage to Resist, which is assisting Hall, told Truthout, "Marc's case is unique in that the military hasn't shown a propensity to go after these political speech cases for several years. Here, since he's an angry man who recorded a song, they are making him a target for having expressed his anger in an artistic way. We think this is an important case because it could set precedent for free speech rights for those in the military."

Klimanski, along with underscoring the importance of the case for the First Amendment, thinks the case highlights the military's ongoing use of stop-loss, which also contributes to how they have responded to Hall's song.

"It's a song, and he puts it out to the public," Klimanski told Truthout, "We're not talking about a Major Hassan who is quietly plotting violence ... this is political hyperbole. This is his rant on stop-loss. It's political speech."

Klimanski said that by nature, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end, and Hall's song expresses concern over the possibility of his never being discharged from the military.

"He's over there saying I have no control over my life. I could be in here forever. We're not talking about a war that is going to be over next year. We're talking about a war that could go on forever. So poor old Marc Hall could possibility be in the military forever. Once enlistment starts dropping, the Army maintains troop levels by keeping the ones they have. If you're not going to go to one place, you're going to another, but you're not going to get out. I see this as an issue of political speech. The military may not like what they're hearing, but that's what it is. There are people in the military saying their being in it is/was wrong, and they want out."
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Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, is the author of "The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan," (Haymarket Books, 2009), and "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq," (Haymarket Books, 2007). Jamail reported from occupied Iraq for nine months as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last five years.