In honour of today's hilarious events, here's the wonderful Rhiannon Giddens performing Elizabeth Cotten's classic "Shake Sugaree".
Both Cotten and Giddens deserve huge places of prominence in the history of American music imo, especially in the rural and Black canon. So if you're not familiar, this is a great chance to acquaint with both.
And I suppose it's not off topic to share her performance of Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" that she did with the Resistance Revival Chorus.
"There's people of every nation, marching side by side.
They're marchin' cross a field,
where a million fascists died.
You're bound to lose.
You fascists bound to lose."
Given that on top of everything else his party has done over the last 14 years Sunak has called the election for a day when I won’t be able to poll clerk and thereby done me out of a day’s extra earning, I’ve resumed my previous attempt at learning this tune of @squeezyjohn ’s - I think I’ve more or less got it: #FuckTheTories
A beautiful May morning dawns, and we are up to see it, along with about a hundred other Cambridge folk. Serenading the sunrise is a magical moment. Now, on with summer.
Elizabeth Cotten estuvo activa musicalmente casi hasta el final de su vida: su último concierto fue en la primavera de 1987 aquella primavera con Odetta, otra cantante básica para entender el folk.
Murió en junio de aquel año, con 94 años, habiendo vivido una vida increíble.
Here’s a cracking Jean Blanchard tune I can’t believe I don’t remember before hearing it on Mel’s #MelodeonMonday yesterday so I have to share for #TuneswapTuesday - Boite a Frissons
I can't help but still love In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel but I totally understand if a normal person listened to that album on your recommendation and their first impulse is to either beat you up and get a restraining order. #indierock#90s#folk
@leodurruti mi si è aperto un video di YouTube con una pubblicità che parlava del benessere intestinale del proprio cane, usando come tema la prima Gymnopédie di Satie.
Ho chiuso :-)
Ruth Theodore Signs To Righteous Babe Records, Shares "Hold On Me"
British alt-folk artist Ruth Theodore today announces her signing to Righteous Babe Records and shares the bittersweet new single “Hold On Me”. Alongside this single, Theodore also announces her upcoming album I Am I Am, which will be released on May 3rd. Preorder now available here. #folk#ruththeodore#righteousbabe#anidifranco#pop
I heard this and thought “Gallopede” but apparently this called “Knife’s Edge” except that if you search for that you find another tune instead… so I don’t know what I’m sharing this #TuneswapTuesday except that it is early #Blowzabella.
Sad news for Scottish folk music, to hear Ian Green has died.
So much of Scottish folk from the past four decades (and before) is on Greentrax, from Shooglenifty to Dick Gaughan to archives from the School of Scottish Studies - Ian's label surely is the 'undisputed leader in its field'.
Another fine folk tune to share today. This one by Sean McKenna of the Mary Wallopers, called The Idler. Reminds me of the old Bum on the Rods poem you hear in a lot of wobbly circles.
"Don't blame the idler who sits on the corner,
Sits on a corner, a cup in their hand.
But blame the idler who owns the apartments,
Built by his cronies on nicked public lands."
Al Bilali Soudan are griots from the Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region of Mali. This is a family orchestra of fathers and sons, uncles and cousins, led by Abellow Yattara, a master of the tehardent – the Tamasheq word for the three-stringed n’goni.
Yattara has been a prominent figure for over 40 years. He played on Ali Farka Touré‘s first cassette recordings and with Orchestre de Tombouctou in the 70s.
Led by Abellaw Yattara, the group on this recording includes his uncle Aboubacrine Yattara and their sons Mohamed Ag Abellaw and Tchiale Ag Aboubacrine and Hamadoun Guindo sitting in on the Tombouctou album tracks.
This is traditional music played on traditional instruments, tehardent / ngoni / guitar and percussion / calabash. In performance, the sound of the stringed instruments is compressed to create an electric, dynamic sound. Their repertoire is based on traditional themes within which they improvise and adapt.
The Yattaras can be heard on many recordings from Mali. Family members are featured on some of the earliest recorded examples of music from Timbuktu. Today, Al Bilali Soudan can be heard frequently at celebrations and festivals in Timbuktu.
greetings from the train depot nearest to where elizabeth cotten wrote "freight train," carrboro, NC, now a thai place. and libba's corner nearby, train tracks visible on a small rise. her not-that-long street ends at the current location of the cat's cradle. #folk
Fest Noz is breton for "night festival". I can no longer find a trace of one of my early Fest Noz experiences watching the mega group Ar Re Yaouank at Rufford Park in Nottinghamshire around 2001 #folk#bzh#MoisduBreton#MizvezhArBrezhoneg
@MevsMatze A deceptively bucolic rural setting offset by more modern or urban protagonists (who are often troubled by their "modern" problems). The horror is rooted in an expression of ancient tradition. Classic examples would be Wicker Man and Midsommar.
“La Roulante” by Jean Blanchard - with my usual pedantry that it is a simple and easy basic courtesy to call tunes by the name their composer gave them at least while they’re still alive.
It must be #TuneswapTuesday
A jeśli ktoś lubi bardziej współczesne brzmienia, które potwierdzą, że język litewski jest najlepszym językiem do śpiewania pieśni, niech wrzuci na słuchawki Silvester Belt - Luktelk
