There's a new generation of musicians coming from classical or rock finding inspiration in olde English folksongs, love songs and murder ballads. It's another round of mining the old for the new, which hearkens back to the 1960's, when English outfits like Pentagle and Fairport convention looked back to traditional folk songs. For this New Sounds, listen to arrangements of folk tunes by Jim Moray, Emily Portman, and the Juice Vocal Ensemble, to name a few.
PROGRAM #3210, English Folk Songs Reworked (First aired on 5/26/11)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Emily Portman |
Rough Guide to English Folk Song |
Tongue-Tied [4:22] |
World Music Network |
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Various Artists: Billy Bragg and The Young Coppers with Eliza Carthy and Simon Emmerson |
Imagined Village |
Hard Times of England Retold [5:38] |
Real World Records 884108-0142 |
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Various Artists: Jim Moray |
Looking for a New England |
Rufford Park Poachers [4:59] |
fRoots ACE 1 L4ANE/5 |
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Imagined Village |
Rough Guide to English Folk Song |
My Son John [6:10] |
See above. |
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Juice Vocal Ensemble |
Songspin |
Sarah Dacey: Cruel Mother [4:00] |
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The Unthanks |
Here's The Tender Coming |
Ann Briggs: Living by the water [6:08] |
Rough Trade RTRADCD548 www.roughtraderecords.com |
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John Wesley Harding |
Soundcheck live, 2011-02-11 |
Little Musgrave [6:32] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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Chris Wood |
Rough Guide to English Folk |
Lord Bateman [7:58] |
See above. |
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