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New Folk Routes
Names like “freak folk” and “folktronica” have been used to try to describe yet another generation of musicians falling under the sway of the British tradition of murder ballads, broadsides, and the like. We’ll hear old favorites like Vashti Bunyan and Fairport Convention, as well as newcomers like Tunng and Espers on this New Sounds.
PROGRAM #2679, Nu-folk (First aired on Thursday, 5/17/07)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Vashti Bunyan |
Folk Off! - compiled by Rob da Bank (digital edition) |
Here Before [2:00] |
Sunday Best / Vital:PIAS Digital Download at Emusic.com |
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Espers |
The Weed Tree |
Rosemary Lane [4:30] |
locust 73 |
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Fairport Convention |
Liege & Lief |
Reynardine [4:40] |
Tzadik #7194**
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Fern Knight |
Music for Witches & Alchemists |
Song for Ireland [4:00] |
VHF #101 www.vhfrecords.com |
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Tunng |
This is... Tunng: Mothers Daughter and other Tales |
Fair Doreen [1:30] |
Static Caravan VAN 88 www.staticcaravan.org www.tunng.co.uk |
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Traffic |
John Barleycorn Must Die |
John Barleycorn [6:30] |
Island #548541 Available at Amazon.com* |
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Tunng |
Comments of the Inner Chorus |
Sweet William [3:30] |
Full Time Hobby #019 www.tunng.co.uk |
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Lewis & Clarke |
Blasts of Holy Birth |
Comfort Inn [7:00] |
La Societe Expeditionnaire #006 www.la-soc.com |
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Espers |
The Weed Tree |
Blue Mountain [5:00] |
See above. |
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The Knitters |
The Modern Sounds of the Knitters |
Little Margaret [3:00] |
Zoe #1057 www.rounder.com |
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Robin Williamson |
The Iron Stone |
The Iron Stone, excerpt [2:00] |
ECM #1969 www.ecmrecords.com |
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