Anglo-American Folk Songs (Special Podcast)
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English - November 17, 2015 10:00 - 56 minutes - ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsMusic Arts Performing Arts Technology wnyc john schaefer melody radio new sounds jazz classic operatic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hear Anglo-American Folk Songs for this New Sounds, including music from Scotland’s Furrow Collective, San Francisco-based Meg Baird, and the Boise, Idaho-based string-band trio, Hillfolk Noir. Hear some American folk from NY-based Last Forever, featuring the late Sonya Cohen (of the Seeger family.) Then there’s a chamber music arrangement of “Young Emily’ by Bryce Dessner for the Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird, from their new record, “Filament.”
Listen to an all-star quartet out of Scotland, the Furrow Collective, whose four distinctive singers and instrumentalists - singer-songwriter Emily Portman, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton, and singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts - all provide lead vocals on mostly bleak narrative ballads of hanging, murder and bewitchment, such as “Demon Lover.” Then, the Vermont-based trio Low Lily’s influences range from bluegrass to Irish, English, New England and Old Time Appalachian sounds. Hear their version of “Demon Lover,” although they give it the less charmed title of “House Carpenter.”
There’s music from the San Francisco-based folksinger Meg Baird, formerly of Philly-based psych-folk band Espers. On her latest release, a solo record called “Don’t Weigh Down the Light,” understated electric and acoustic guitars gently frame Meg’s delicate voice. Plus, hear a blend of string-band, punk, folk, and country blues music from the Boise, Idaho-based jug band, Hillfolk Noir. And more.
PROGRAM #3781 Anglo-American Folk Songs (First Aired 10-01-2015)
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Hillfolk Noir
Pop Songs For Elk
'Round I Sing, excerpt [1:30]
Low Lily
Low Lily
House Carpenter [3:35]
The Furrow Collective (Rachel Newton, Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts)
At Our Next Meeting
Demon Lover [4:59]
eighth blackbird
Filament
Bryce Dessner: Young Emily [3:51]
Cedille Records CDR 90000 157
cedillerecords.org
Last Forever
Acres of Diamonds: new and old songs out of the American tradition
Boll Weevil Blues [13:20]
Story Sound Records
Due out Oct. 30, 2015
elevenspot.11spot.com
Hillfolk Noir
Pop Songs For Elk
'Round I Sing / Mile On Up [4:50]
The Furrow Collective (Rachel Newton, Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts)
At Our Next Meeting
King Henry [6:29]
Meg Baird
Don’t Weigh Down the Light
Counterfeiters [3:29]
Drag City 632
dragcity.com
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts
This Uneven Thing [4:18]
Drag City DC613
dragcity.com
Hear Anglo-American Folk Songs for this New Sounds, including music from Scotland’s Furrow Collective, San Francisco-based Meg Baird, and the Boise, Idaho-based string-band trio, Hillfolk Noir. Hear some American folk from NY-based Last Forever, featuring the late Sonya Cohen (of the Seeger family.) Then there’s a chamber music arrangement of “Young Emily’ by Bryce Dessner for the Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird, from their new record, “Filament.”