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From: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Subject: Re: Help a novice folkie!
Reply-To: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Organization: Citicorp+TTI
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:05:04 GMT

Don't discount the idea of the fiddle automatically.  You can get a
fiddle outfit for under US$100 (if you can't find such a deal where you
are, there's always mail order).  The fiddle you get for that price
won't be the best fiddle the world has ever seen, but there are Chinese
and Korean ones in that range that have good enough quality to let you
get started.  I started on one like that, and frankly, I wish I'd kept
it--there's something to be said for having a cheapie you can throw in
the car and take to the beach without worrying about it getting ruined.

Around here, I think all the music stores will let you "trade up."  My
first teacher ran such a store, and his policy was that he'd credit your
FULL purchase price toward any higher-priced instrument he later sold
you if you traded-in your old one.  The result was that you could get
started for not very much money, and if you discovered that you hated
it...no big loss.  But if you decided that you liked it, and you needed
a better instrument, you weren't stuck with the beginner's model.  Hard
to come out a loser, no matter what happened--and I think he'd have let
you do that even if you were switching to a different instrument (e.g.,
if I'd decided that I didn't like the fiddle, but I wanted to try the
banjo, he'd probably have let me trade my beginner fiddle in on a
beginner banjo).

If you know somebody who can already play, run around and visit garage
sales and check out want ads!  Never know when you'll find a real gem
that way (and that applies to any instrument, not just fiddles, of course).

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facts of the case.

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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: aschwart@acs.ucalgary.ca (Arthur Schwartz)
Subject: "Talking Atom Blues"
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 16:03:04 GMT
Distribution: w
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

The booklet of lyrics, clippings and comments included with the
original recording of Pete Seeger's <Gazette: Vol.1 No.1, 1958>
(Folkways Records FN 2501) attributes the words to "Talking Atom"
to Vern Partlow.

First line: "I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom".
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:01:57 EDT
From: Mel DeYoung <EUA@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Where/When is Pete Seeger performing?

      Does anyone know when and where Pete Seeger is performing in
the near future?  A few of us here in Central PA would like to see
him.

Mel
EUA at PSUVM
From: putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: songs about evolution
Keywords: math physics evolution Sam Hinton Digital Tradition song database
Date: 13 Sep 92 08:30:30 GMT
Reply-To: putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz)
Organization: Xerox PARC

In article <lb4khbINNnef@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>,
landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) writes:
> Is Sam Hinton still around?  Still teaching at UCSD?  Another one of
> his songs almost fits this thread of "funny <science> songs" --
> "Amphioxus".    The only song I know about evolution.


I remember Sam Hinton (and the Amphioxus song) from years ago at UCSD. 

The Digital Tradition folk song database I mentioned in an earlier
posting contains four songs marked with the keyword "evolution":

	IT'S A LONG WAY FROM AMPHIOXUS (Mark Graham)
		@animal @humor @evolution

	The Darwinian Theory (John Young)
		From the Scottish Students Songbook (1929 edition)
		@evolution @animal

	That's All (recorded by Merle Travis)
		@religion @evolution

	UNICORNS (Shel Silverstein; recorded by Irish Rovers)
		@myth @evolution @animal @religion @kids

(Although UNICORNS isn't really about evolution.) 
The keywords "math" and "science" also turned up the following:

	ELEMENTS (Tom Lehrer)
		@science @college

	NEW MATH (Tom Lehrer)
		@school @kids @math

	ELEVEN THIRDS
		from singing of Nick Krukovsky
		@love @MATH

	IN VINO VERITAS (Dr. H. J. Taylor)
		Note: a winner in a contest held by New Scientist
		tune: Vicar of Bray
		@parody @drink @science	
	
Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California
From: jerry@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: 12 Sep 92 17:26:10 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

In article <1992Sep12.122226.360@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu>, I wrote:
> 
> If memory serves me well (and it doesn't always), before
> Carly Simon there was the Simon Sisters.

Perhaps I should have written:
 . . . before "Carly Simon" there was "The Simon Sisters".
From: tbd@neuro.duke.edu (Tristan Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: AMERICAN folk singers
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:21:48 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep13.143325.1@pearl.tufts.edu> mweinste@pearl.tufts.edu writes:
-->As someone who has listened to folk music since I was an infant, I am
-->shocked that I do not recognize any of the names in this entire newsgroup.
-->What ever happened to the great American folksingers like Woody Guthrie,
-->Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, Lee Hays, etc?

They get mentioned every now and then; you just need to be
patient.  But this group tends to focus on the new American
folk singers, like Christine Lavin, John Gorka, David Massengill,
Patty Larkin, and (my personal favorite) Cheryl Wheeler.

There was some discussion of the "new" Woody Guthrie thing a few
days ago, and someone was also wondering where and when Pete
Seeger (another of my favorites) is playing.  But the banner of
traditional and folk musics has been raised by a new generation too,
which makes me happy because it keeps the music alive.

And all that sort of stuff.

Tristan

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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Joan Baez Ballad Book on CD?
Date: 5 Sep 92 01:36:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA

Anyone know if the Ballad Book 2-LP set is out on CD yet?
If so, where can I get it?  Thanks.

Bill
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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (David West)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway  (Ann Arbor).
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:11:38 GMT

In article <TERRYK.92Sep9195717@fenix.encore.com> terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher) writes:
>It is something of a joke, pun, whatever.  The Acres of Clams version
>was written for performance at a meeting, or protest gathering, of the
>Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear power group.  Acres of Clans was a
>serious Scottish folk song.

The original "Clams" verses substantially predate the Clamshell Alliance, 
although doubtless parodies have been written for the Alliance - it's too
good an opportunity to miss. "Acres of CLANS" as a _serious_ Scottish
song I just don't believe; if it exists at all, it must be a parody.

-David
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,soc.culture.australia
From: jimu@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (James Uther)
Subject: Re: Australian Folk?
Reply-To: jimu@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (James Uther)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:19:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.110506.23682@st-andrews.ac.uk>, rm4@st-andrews.ac.uk (Rosa Michaelson) writes:
|> Of course my favourite Australian band is 'Midnight Oil' - good rock music with
|> a message and as popularist as they come.

Just to help a small band along. There is an austrailan rock/god know what band
that has been around for a while called 'not drowning waving'. Recently all 
the members who played acoustic instruments started a new band on the side
called 'my friend the chocolate cake' (don't ask why), and what they play
is in my opinion where european-australian folk lies at the moment.
Check them out if you see the CD around..
	you won't be disapointed....

	james
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Folk music in Toronto?
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:21:33 GMT
Reply-To: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

A friend of mine will be in Toronto next week. Are there any folk music
performances or jams up there? Is Fiddler's Green still alive? (It's been
over seven years since I was last there.) How about contra dance, IFD, or
even maybe a Morris ale?

Thanks for any info. email (tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu) preferred.

terry friedman.
From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: John Gorka: Temporary Road
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:57:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

To follow up on my own previous posting:

In article <pl0349c@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>, coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep9.124500.470@trintex.uucp>, neverisk@trintex.uucp (Mike Neverisky) writes:
|> |> In article <1992Sep8.234741.14099@mips2.ma30.bull.com> ddean@granite.ma30.bull.com (Douglas J. DeAngelis) writes:
|> |> >
|> |> >John Gorka really needs to learn how to play the guitar.
|> |> >
|> |> >But to think of some of
|> |> >the truly well rounded performers that people pass over just so they
|> |> >can go hog wild over John Gorka is stunning.  Try Brooks Williams, Patti 
|> |> >Larkin, David Massengil, Richard Shindell, blah, blah, blah.  
|> 
|> Minor nit - unless he's grossly improved in the past eight years, I 
|> wouldn't put David Massengil in the same territory - I found him a
|> very pedestrian and ordinary guitarist. His dulcimer playing, on
|> the other hand, was strikingly original. Maybe on his Shanachie
|> release, which I've not been able to find anywhere here in the
|> Bay area...?
|> 
|> Don Coolidge
|> coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com

Of course, as I headed out the door to lunch, I realized that David's
on Flying Fish, not Shanachie. And, no, that doesn't explain why I
can't find it here...:^)

Don Coolidge
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From: tbd@neuro.duke.edu (Tristan Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.country.western
Subject: Merle Watson Festival: seeking information
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:37:52 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.folk
Distribution: na
Originator: tbd@neuro.neuro.duke.edu

Considering the Merle Watson Festival is held in April, this might
be a bit premature, but I was wondering if anyone out there
knew the dates for the Festival and/or a phone number I could
call for more info.  I seem to recall that advance ticket sales
start sometime in the winter, and I don't want to miss out!

Thanks in advance!

Tristan
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e-mail: tbd@neuro.duke.edu
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center

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From: bearce@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Phil Bearce)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:26:39 GMT
Subject: REVEIW: Eel River Music Camp
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk


I had the good forturne this Labor Day weekend to attend the Eel River Music
Camp in Alderpoint, California, the home of Kicking Mule Records.  I had a
wonderful time camping and playing folk music all three days.  We camped in
Ed and Mary Alice's orchard just up the path from the house.  Their mail-order
catalog business is in an old red barn where they catalog hundreds of folk
and acoustic music and instructional materials.  Some of their recording
artists showed up to do workshops and there were plenty of informal little
jam sessions.  

The first night, after the workshops, they had a concert by all of the 
artists on staff on their little plywood stage/ampitheatre.  We heard some
texas blues, some celtic music, a demonstration of overhand guitar and just
some good old music.  Sunday there were more workshops on music and folk
arts like paper making, beading, sign language and oragami.  Then on Sunday
night there was a "Hoot" night where all could sign a sheet and get a chance
on stage.  (The start of your 15 minutes of fame?).  On Monday, more workshops
and the "Closing Circle" where everyone says their goodbyes.  

The camp was a very posititve and nurturing experience for me and I will be
going again next year.  The people were friendly and helpful and there were
no attitudes or egos to contend with.  I learned a lot of new songs too.


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From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.misc
Subject: Lightfoot - Gord's Gold 2 (a warning)
Summary: redpme tracks from 1988 sessions
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:00:14 GMT
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: Deep Space Nine

I posted this a year ago when I first got this album, but I listened
to it over the weekend and I don't like it any more than I did then:

A warning about "Gord's Gold 2": most of the tracks were from 1988
sessions (probably a tour rehearsal) and Gord's voice is much thinner
and more nasal than in the original studio cuts; they were probably
too cheap to remaster the original takes for CD or something.  The
difference is quite stark when you hear the four 80-82 originals at
the end of the album ... deep, resonating Gordie. )-;


Also, for Lightfoot fans:

GORDON LIGHTFOOT: "60 MINUTES WITH ..." (Capitol Canada)

Part of a domestic compilation series featuring current or previous
Canadian artists, sometimes just milking their backcatalogue but this
one is a gem ... the original United Artists masters whose Canadian
rights are held by Capitol Canada.  Lightfoot had to redo some of
those numbers for the first "Gord's Gold" issued by Warner.

gld
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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
Subject: Good Ol' Persons
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  8 SEP 92 07:34:24    


I just had my first exposure to the Good Ol' Persons this past weekend and was
quite impressed.  I know they have a lot of albums dating back to the early
eighties, where is a good place to start?

Also they had a substitute bassist this tour, a woman from Vancouver, B.C. who
had previously worked with Laurie Lewis and Grant St.  She sang a couple of
tunes including one that she wrote.   I thought she was great...especially
since she had to borrow a bass at each gig of the tour!  Anyone know who she
is?


					Brian Rost @rgb.enet.dec.com

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From: Antoine@osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Looking for Morgan (banjo)
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:33:46 GMT
Reply-To: Antoine@osd.ulaval.ca    (Antoine Gautier)
Organization: Universite Laval

Last year when i was driving coast to coast, i heard on the radio a guy named  
Morgan who plays the banjo... so do his son and grandson, sometimes they play  
together. it was great. couldn't fin any record by any of the three generations of  
Morgans, can anyone help?

Thks
Email reply to:
Dr. Antoine Gautier
Departement O.S.D.
Facult des sciences de l'administration
Universite Laval
Ste Foy, Quebec.
G1K 7P4. CANADA
(418) 656 7066

Internet: Antoine@OSD.Ulaval.CA
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,alt.guitar.tab
From: bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Barry Schlesinger)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:17:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.002328.14469@parc.xerox.com>, putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes...
				...
> 
>However there are several songs for which I do not know or am not sure
>of the author.  I'd like to credit them correctly.  Several are probably
>"traditional".  I have included first lines and in some cases an artist
>who performs it.
> 
>Please email me (or post if that's easier) if you know who wrote any of
>the following songs:
> 
>Battle of New Orleans
>	(In 1814 we took a little trip...)
Jimmie Driftwood put words to a traditional tune, the 8th of January

>Lemon Tree
>	(...very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet...) [Peter, Paul & Mary]
Adapted from a Brazilian song, Meu Lim\~{a}o, Meu Limeiro

>Maria
>	(Way out west the have a name for rain and wind and fire...)
From the musical "Paint Your Wagon"

>Portland Town
>	(I was born in Portland Town...) [Joan Baez]
Dar(r)yl Adams
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: watson@hg.uleth.ca (The terror that flaps in the night)
Subject: Re: funny math and physics songs
Reply-To: watson@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:07:57 GMT

In article <BuLpCC.8E2@world.std.com>, jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
>Anyone who can complete those songs & get to Boston will be awarded
>booze for a night and a bed for a day, absolutely free, by
>
>	Joe
>	jcf@world.std.com

Can I complete them in my own words?  huh? huh?  :)  I'm going to Boston in
November and the booze and bed thang sounds great...   ;)

Merry Christmas all!  (it's snowing here)

- Carol

Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Subject: Re: Mutant Viola?
Reply-To: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Organization: Citicorp+TTI
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:38:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.144628.973@macc.wisc.edu>, nmrdb@vms.macc.wisc.edu
(BEVERLY SEAVEY) writes:
> Has anyone looked to see if it is a tamburitza?

What's a tamburitza, and where do they come from?

---------

A fanatic is someone who does what he knows that God would do if God knew the
facts of the case.

Some mailers apparently munge my address; you might have to use
bsmart@bsmart.tti.com -- or if that fails, fall back to
72027.3210@compuserve.com.  Ain't UNIX grand?
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Help a novice folkie!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:03:34 GMT

In article <92091011349@zone4.ocunix.on.ca> peter@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Peter Dubiel) writes:
>Here is my problem: I am an 18 year old student who has just completely fallen
>for traditional Celtic music, and wants to take up an instrument so that I
>attempt to play my favourite music on my own...
>
>I'd like to hear some recommendations on what a good instrument for a starving
>student whose only previous musical experience is three guitar lessons and
>a brief stint playing rock drums.
>
>As far as percussion goes, I was considering the bodhran (sp?), since I have
>a decent sense of rhythm and some drumming experience. As for a lead
>instrument, I've been considering the flute, but I can not afford one
>(and from what I hear, it's not the easiest instrument to master), and was
>considering whistle... A friend of mine is taking up harp (having sold his
>mandolin), another friend plays recorder, and we also have interested
>guitar and mandolin players - we were considering forming a band once we
>achieve some degree of proficiency on our instruments.

Whistles are cheap.. problem is you need a half dozen or so. But at 
six bucks apiece who's complaining? I've been "going to get a pair 
of whistles" for the longest time now.. mebbe its time to do so. 

I have a harp but that was because I didn't pay very much for it.. and
had to fix it. There are lots of people who make them and they come in
many sizes and as kits. Now all I need is a starving harp student (they
won't charge $100 a lesson!) who doesn't sneer at folk harp for a teacher..
shouldn't be too difficult to find since this town has the largest harp
department in the world..(just another thing I "am going to get around
to"...  9-)  ).


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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane)
Subject: Maura O'Connel Tour Info?
Keywords: Maura Tour
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:50:00 GMT

Does anyone know if Maura O'Connell is on tour -- particularly if she's
on a tour that will take her through Portland, Oregon anytime soon?
Please post or e-mail.

Thanks.

Jeff Frane

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From: engel@fujiyama.irisa.fr (Jean-Christophe Engel, AB 116, Tel 7343)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: REQ: John Renbourn TABS/CHORDS/LYRICS
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:29:12 GMT
Reply-To: engel@fujiyama.irisa.fr
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (France) - Tel: (33) 99 84 71 00

I'm looking for the (guitar) tabs, chords, lyrics of the following
(traditional) songs as arranged and/or played by John Renbourn:

  . White House Blues
  . Buffalo skinners
  . Kokomo Blues
  . Little Sadie
  . Willy O'Winsbury
  . The Cuckoo
  . Come on in my kitchen
  . Country Blues
  . Faro Annie
  . Back on the road again

Thanks !

	Jean-Christophe Engel
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From: jmp@moscom.UUCP (Joe Palumbos)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:22:25 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Rick Wanner (rwanner@bcarh415.bnr.ca) wrote:
: 
: The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
: 
: In 1814 we took a little trip, 
: along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
: we took a little bacon and we took a little beans
: and we met the bloody British at the town of New Orleans.
: 
: Chorus
: We fired our guns and the British kept a coming
: There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
: We fired once more and they began to running 
: on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
: 
: Ol' Hickory said we could take them by surpise
: if we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked them in the eyes
  We held our fire 'til we seen their faces well,
  Then we opened up our squirrels and the Brittish gave a yell.
: 
: Chorus
: 
: We fired our cannon 'till the barrel melted down
: then we took an alligator and we shot another round.
: We filled his mouth with cannonballs and powdered his behind
: when we touched the powder off 'gator lost his mind. Well...
: Chorus
: 
-- 
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