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Haul Away Boys
Episode #25-02 airing 01-08-25

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 8, 2025 by Betty DruckenmillerJan 26, 2025

There has been a resurgence of interest in maritime songs and shanties since a TikTok video took the world by storm a while back. This week on the Magazine we begin a two-part feature focusing on maritime songs and shanties. … Continue reading →

Posted in The Sing Out! Radio Magazine | Tagged A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Hauler, Jimmy Rankin, John Doyle, Lou Killen, Peggy Seeger, SORM Playlists, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Fisherman's Friends, The Sing Out! Radio Magazine, Tom Druckenmiller, Tommy Makem | Leave a reply

Haul Away, Pt.1
Episode #24-10| airing 03-06-24

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 6, 2024 by Betty DruckenmillerMar 5, 2024

There has been a resurgence of interest in maritime songs and shanties since social media videos have spread them out into the world. In a nod to popular taste, this week we begin a two-part feature focusing on maritime songs … Continue reading →

Posted in The Sing Out! Radio Magazine | Tagged A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Hauler, Jimmy Rankin, Lou Killen, Peggy Seeger, SORM Playlists, Stan Rogers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Fisherman's Friends, The Sing Out! Radio Magazine, Tom Druckenmiller

Respect Your Elders, Part One
Episode #18-44 | airing 10-31-18

Sing Out! Posted on Oct 31, 2018 by Tom DruckenmillerOct 30, 2018

No folk musician developed his style in a vacuum. They were always influenced by a past master. Whether they learned the master’s style by listening to recording, watching film or by sitting knee to knee until the information was passed … Continue reading →

Posted in The Sing Out! Radio Magazine | Tagged Alice Gerrard, Elders, Ewan MacColl, Guy Davis, Hazel Dickens, Jean Ritchie, Laurie Lewis, Louis Killen, Taj Mahal, Tom Druckenmiller

Finding A Voice

Sing Out! Posted on Jun 30, 2016 by Ron OleskoJun 30, 2016

& WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for June 26, 2016 Justin Timberlake, who earned dubious street cred in the folk community for his role as a folksinger in the Coen Brothers film Inside Llweyn Davis, found himself in deeper hot water last … Continue reading →

Posted in Folk Music Notebook, Radio, Ron Olesko, Traditions Playlists, WFDU Traditions | Tagged Anais Mitchell, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Ewan MacColl, jefferson hamer, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Justin Timberlake, Peggy Seeger, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Ron Olesko, Spuyten Duyvil, WFDU-FM

The Cruel Ship’s Captain / The Captain’s Apprentice

Sing Out! Posted on Feb 29, 2016 by Patrick BlackmanFeb 29, 2016

Introduction – “The Cruel Ship’s Captain” Today’s ballad is notable both for its brevity and for the depravity it depicts.  The brevity is mostly a product of the Anglophone seamen and laborers who worked the song over time to a fine edge like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged A.L. Lloyd, Captain James, Dave Van Ronk, Ewan MacColl, Harry Cox, The Captain's Apprentice, The Cruel Ship's Captain, Vaughn Williams

Faur distant: Burns, MacColl & the Spanish Civil War.

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 25, 2016 by Tom BrittonJan 25, 2016

The power and influence of a poet A kind of madness breaks out in unexpected places across the world on the 25th of January. People gather in Edinburgh, London, Moscow, and Washington D.C., among other places, to eat, drink, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Dick Gaughan, Ewan MacColl, Jamie Foyers, Robert Burns, Scotland, The Stewart Family

Ewan MacColl Centenary CD Tribute

Sing Out! Posted on Sep 14, 2015 by Ron OleskoSep 30, 2015

Preview of a new 2-CD set honoring Ewan MacColl and WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for September 13, 2015   This week’s show featured a spotlight on a new CD collection that celebrates one of the folk revival’s most influential artists in … Continue reading →

Posted in Folk Music Notebook, Radio, Ron Olesko, Ron's Reviews, Traditions Playlists, WFDU Traditions | Tagged Ewan MacColl, JOY OF LIVING, Peggy Seeger, Ron Olesko, Steve Earle, WFDU-FM

ROOTS OF THE REVIVAL: American and
    British Folk Music in the 1950s

Sing Out! Posted on Dec 2, 2014 by Gary von TerschDec 2, 2014

        Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Robinson Roots of the Revival: American and     British Folk Music in the 1950s University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-08012-8 www.press.uillinois.edu   From chain-gang work songs and the skiffle music of Lonnie … Continue reading →

Posted in 3. Books, Reviews | Tagged AL Lloyd, Big Bill Broonzy, Ewan MacColl, Folk Music, Francis James Child, Pete Seeger

Two Sisters Redux – Part 1

Sing Out! Posted on Jun 18, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJan 5, 2015

detail from Twa Sisters – quilt by Dan Willig Six months ago, my first post for this blog dealt with the ancient murder ballad “Two Sisters“, also known as “Wind and Rain” as well as several other names.  I’m happy with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Charlotte Greig, Child Ballad, Dave Swarbrick, Eliza Carthy, Ewan MacColl, Jock Duncan, Johan Asherton, Loreena McKennitt, Lucy Stewart, Martin Carthy, Pentangle, Two Sisters

Who’s really guilty here? Or, if it’s not Scottish…

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 6, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

Here we have Ewan MacColl’s version of Child #73, from his Classic Scots Ballads.  Thanks, Pat, for mentioning it.  The song is sung in Scots, and there are a few passages which I have yet to understand clearly, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Child Ballad, Child Ballad #73, Ewan MacColl, Lord Thomas and Fair Annie, Peggy Seeger, Scottish

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