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From: colas@ecrc.de (Klaus H. Ahlers)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: June Tabor and the Oyster Band "Freedom and Rain"
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:25:59 GMT
Reply-To: colas@ecrc.de (Klaus H. Ahlers)
Organization: ecrc

I enjoy "Freedom and Rain" very much and would like to read the lyrics
for Si Kahn's "Mississippi" and Ian Teller's "Finisterre". With regard
to "Finisterre", what is the historical or geographical context for the song?

Can anybody give me a pointer to a printed source or simply post the lyrics
here?

Merci,
-colas

Klaus H. Ahlers                                         e-mail: colas@ecrc.de
European Computer-Industry Research Centre            Tel.  +49 (89) 92699129
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From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: midlife crisis
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:35:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Apr12.183502.24059
Organization: Western Washington University


My wife wants to make a tape of midlife crisis songs for a friend.
Obviously Midlife Crisis can be interpreted many different ways,
but here are a few of the songs that come to mind.

	Greg Brown - Who would a thunk it?
	Eric Bogle - Just Not Coping
	Tom Paxton - Now That I've Taken My Life
	Bob Franke - Helicopter Simulator
	Whamadiddle Dingbats - Metal Detector

Any other suggestions?  You can send them to me directly if you want, 
and I'll post a list.

Rob Lopresti
lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
Subject: Re: Plastic Jesus:  the missing verses
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:02:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.012620.16392@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9040513@henson.cc.wwu.edu (aldridge andrea) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.194729.928@gacvx2.gac.edu> goose@dumaine.gac.edu (Peter James Gausmann) writes:

 I may be able to find them - this song was popular I believe around the
 same time "Drop Kick Me Jesus" was

 Drop Kick me Jesus
 Throught the goal posts of life
 End over end
 Neither left nor right....



-- 
________________       __        ________________   "They that can give up
\_________      \     /_ \      /      _________/  essential liberty to 
 \_________      \_____/  \____/      _________/  obtain temporary safety
  \___________________      __________________/  deserve neither liberty 
                     /______\                   nor safety."  
ALL disclaimers apply ....                           --Benjamin Franklin
From: goose@dumaine.gac.edu (Peter James Gausmann)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Plastic Jesus:  the missing verses
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:47:28 GMT

Does anyone know any verses to a little ditty called "Plastic Jesus"?  
To pick your brains and get the juices flowing, the first verse goes like  
this:

Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as I have my plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.
Through all trials and tribulations
we will travel every nation.
Me and plastic Jesus will go far.


I found the song in "The Coffeehouse Songbook" (1960s) and in a footnote  
"unprintable" verses were alluded to.  Anyone know any unprintables to  
this song?  Thanks.


gausmann@gac.gacvax1.edu
From: horne@cs.utexas.edu (Patrick J. Horne)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: bluegrass around the world
Date: 13 Apr 1992 10:12:31 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: bluegrass ireland etc


While planning a bicycle trip through Ireland this summer I found mention
of a Bluegrass festival to be held in July.  I thought "Gee, this would
be great to see".  Then I started thinking, Is this the same "Bluegrass"
that we have here in the states, or is it something different that goes 
by the same name?

What are your thoughts about bluegrass around the world?  is it the  same,
similar or totally different from country to counry?

Pat

-- 
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(512)471-9517   Univ of Texas, Austin TX 78712   UUCP:cs.utexas.edu!horne
Xref: sparky rec.music.folk:3288 rec.music.bluenote:3418
From: dalton@gafs.Geop.UBC.CA (David Dalton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.bluenote
Subject: UBC Grad Centre concerts
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:18:19 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.folk
Distribution: bc
Organization: Dept. of Geophysics & Astronomy, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Here is a list of upcoming free concerts at the UBC grad centre, which
is located across from the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver:

THURSDAY, Apr. 16,  7:00-11:00    Marc Coulombe will headline, and
                    in between sets there will be an open stage. Marc
                    does a mix of original folk tunes and covers of
                    songs from the 60's,70's,80's and 90's.  We will
                    probably end the night with a blues/jazz jam, from 10:30.

Friday,  Apr, 24,   8:00-11:00    The Water Poets, a local folk/rock
                    trio, will perform original music on mandolin,
                    guitar and bass, with strong lyrics and vocal 
                    harmonies.

E-mail me if you have any questions or if you wish to perform.

                                     David <Dalton@Geop.UBC.CA>
From: jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Billy Edd Wheeler
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:58:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr15.235806.1550
Reply-To: jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert) says:

>He wrote a song I like even better than COal Tattoo, called The COming
>of the Roads... About the effects mining and modernization has on
>the mountains and those who live there.  It's in RISE UP SINGING, just

Priscilla Herdman does a very nice version of this on her 1987
album _Darkness Into Light_... I agree about the song...
-- 

           Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad
            -- CWRU Biomedical Engineering - jrd5@po.cwru.edu --
From: mha1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL H. ALAIMO)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Plastic Jesus:  the missing verses
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:15:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Apr14.194729.928@gacvx2.gac.edu>, goose@dumaine.gac.edu (Peter J
ames Gausmann) writes:
>Does anyone know any verses to a little ditty called "Plastic Jesus"?
>To pick your brains and get the juices flowing, the first verse goes like
>this:
>
>Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
>long as I have my plastic Jesus
>riding on the dashboard of my car.
>Through all trials and tribulations
>we will travel every nation.
>Me and plastic Jesus will go far.

The only other line I can remember is
  "I can drive a hundred miles an hour
   long as I got that almighty power"
>
>
>I found the song in "The Coffeehouse Songbook" (1960s) and in a footnote
>"unprintable" verses were alluded to.  Anyone know any unprintables to
>this song?  Thanks.
From: gp0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Glenn Platt)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: David Wilcox
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:22:14 GMT
Organization: Doctoral student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I just picked up David Wilcox's "How did you find me here?" and I love
it. Simple pop-end-of-folk late night bar tunes. Honest and simple. Is
his other stuff as good?
BTW I got it blindly on recomendation from HEAR music catalog - a GREAT
catalog of hard to find and selectively great folk/blues/jazz. The
catalog asks musicians for their favorite albums and then sells them.
They ask people like Ricki Lee Jones, The indigo girls, lyle lovett,
John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Robbie Robertson, etc. Check it out. I can
send their address, if you want it - drop me a line.

Glenn

*****************************************************************************
"She said she preferred handsome men, but for me she would make an exception"
-Leonard Cohen
*****************************************************************************

Glenn J. Platt, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
e-mail to: gp0o@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Subject: Re: Looking For NEFFA Schedule
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:08:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.182456.7933@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) writes:

   I've heard that the NEFFA festival will be held in MA gain this month
   (4/24-4/26).  Has anyone seen a schedule of what's happening when?  Anyone want
   to *post* it, or portions of it?

Sure, but what I have is not very detailed.  This is an amazing festival 
with lots going on, so full information would be far beyond what I'd
be willing to type, even if I had it.  Last year's program listed 13 pages
of performers, with about 15 per page.  (And that's not counting the
individual members of groups!)  

Site:  Natick High School, Natick, MA (Pond St, accessible from Rt 27 or
Rt 135.

Includes: Contra, Square & Folk Dancing (live music and callers)
          Folk Music & Song (concerts, workshops, jam sessions, sing-alongs)
          Storytelling
          International Foods
          Folk Bazaar (records, clothing, books, etc for sale)
          Dance Performances (costumed ethnic groups & ritual English dance)
          Family Activities (songs, stories, dancing)
          Crafts (artisans at work, products for sale)
          Exhibits (works of art on display)

Friday April 24 (opens at 6pm) 7pm - 11:30pm
Saturday April 25 day session (opens at 9:30)  10am - 6pm
Saturday April 25 evening session 5pm - 11:30pm
Sunday April 26 (opens at 9:30) 10am - 5:30pm
(Dance performances Sat. & Sun. only)
(Family Activities during daytime sessions only)

Admission:         one session    all sessions
Adults (18-59) 
              members    $6             $20
          non-members    $7             $23
Juniors (13-17)          $3             $10
Seniors (60-up)          $3             $10
Children (6-12)          $1             $ 3
Children under 6        free           free

Info: 617-354-1340
Info on accommodations and transportation: 617-646-3673





--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: garry@ithaca.com (Garry Wiegand)
Subject: Re: Help with Hard Times
Organization: Ithaca Software
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 21:11:59 GMT

In a recent article GC.SUL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sullivan) wrote:
>Here is the words to Hard Times as related to me by my brother.
>Please correct phrases that he derived from a muddy recording.
>Please add a verse if there is another.
>
>Hard Times
>Stephen Foster
>
>while we seek mirth and beauty
>and music bright and gay
>there are frail forms praying at the door
    	    	       fainting!
>tho their voices are silent
>their pleading looks will say
    	    	      (still)
>Hard Times  come again no more
>
>chorus:
>there's a song, a sigh of the weary
 'Tis a song
>hard time hard times  come again no more
>many days you have lingered around my cabin door
>hard times come again no more
 (O hard times)
>
>let us pause in life's pleasures
>and count it's many tears
>while we all sup sorrow with the poor
>there is a song that will linger forever in our ears
>oh hard times come again no more
>
>chorus:

You did excellently to figure out things like 'sup sorrow' from a
'muddy recoding'! More verses:

There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er
Tho' her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day
O hard times ...

'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
O hard times ...


The 'while we seek mirth and beauty' verse is traditionally last
rather than first, although I agree it's about the best verse. Also,
the 'troubled wave' verse is often omitted...

A friend and I did a good blues version of this song (in Nelson, New
Zealand!) a couple weeks ago... it's a great song. For me, it walks
a delightful line between serious and hilarious. 

The song is reputed to have been Mr. Foster's personal favorite.

Garry Wiegand --- garry@ithaca.com --- Ithaca Software, Alameda, California
From: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Plastic Jesus:  the missing verses
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:45:59 GMT
Reply-To: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

A refrain we used to have was:
	Mary, Mother, full of grace
	help me find a parking place
	Strapped to the dashboard of my car
From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Beggars to God: Bob Franke
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:20:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Apr14.192009.5480
Organization: Western Washington University


Scott Midler asks about "Beggars to God."  It is by Bob Franke, and I
am 90 percent certian it is on his album FOR REAL.  The lyrics and
chords are also in "the blue book" RISE UP SINGING, put out by
Sing Out! magazine, and a must for every folkie, IMHO.  

Bob Franke is an amazing, amazing singer/songwriter.  His best known
song is probably "Thanksgiving Eve," which Fred Holstein performed on
Tribute to Steve Goodman.  He also wrote "The Great Storm is Over,"
"Hard Love," and "For Real," all brilliant.  Oh, I forgot, "A Still
Small Voice."  Many of these are in RISE...  Many have been recorded
by others.

I was lucky enough to attend a songwriting workshop he gave in Bellingham,
WA early this year, which was terrific.  He's supposed to be working on
a book of his songs too.  

Rob
lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
From: mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu (James McCloskey)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Bothy Band & Green Linnet CD Sale
Summary: Bothy Band recommendations
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:58:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz



I've never been able to decide if the first Bothy Band recording
(1975) or the third (Out of the Wind into the Sun) was the best.

`Out of the Wind into the Sun' has great songs and it has that
great set which consists of a jig (The Leitrim Fancy) followed
by five reels. The third track on side one, if I remember. Very
intricate and very wild; great stuff.

The first recording though, from 1975, was made while they still
had Tommy Peoples as fiddle-player (after Paddy Glackin left).
There's nothing like his playing; Kevin Burke has his merits, but
he's just not in the same league as Peoples. And they used a real
harpsichord rather than the electronic clavinet which you hear
on the other recordings. It still has all the freshness and  
excitement of a new departure. 

The other two available recordings (the middle one and the Live
in Paris one) have great moments but neither, in my view, matches
the first recording or `Out of the Wind ...'

Jim McCloskey
From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: albion band info ?
Date: 7 Apr 92 08:33:40 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

What albums by the Albion Band or Ashley Hutching (?sp?) are
available in the US? in the UK? What did he do before the various
incarnations of the Albions? I just heard their "1990" disk once
and was quite taken by it. What are the relative merits, in your
opinion, of the various recordings of theirs? I know that the
band has changed personnel many times -- what were particularly
good configurations of players? Thanks for any information.

                                         eliot 
Internet: eliot.gelwan@channel1.com
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From: cg132sbb@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Darrell Reich)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Alison Krauss & Union Station Concert Semantics...
Keywords: Bluegrass Honey-Lamb banjo players and their jokes...
Date: 6 Apr 92 02:02:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.31369


	Hi,

	  I went to _both_ shows of Alison Krauss & Union Station
	last Sunday night here in San Diego. It was the last day
	of Spring Break and I am a banjo player so what can I say?!?

	  Anyway during both sets she introduces Flying South to
	Dixie by saying that in the second verse she uses the word
	"Honey-Lamb" but since she doesn't know what it means she
	slurrs the word.

	  She told the audience to shout out if they hear the word.
	We did. Ok all us banjo player/groupies were in the front
	row. Anyway, does anyone out there know the rest of the song,
	the context, or what exactly is a "Honey-Lamb."

	  Our best guess is "a term of endearment" from cooking a
	lamb in honey...[And yes I gave their banjo player a copy
	of my Canonical list of Banjokes--he laughed.]

	  Lastly, we've started somewhat of a debate at the local
	bluegrass music store here in town during their performance
	group workshop over proper attire of a bluegrass band.

	  Alison was wearing black stockings with the lace showing
	through underneath her jacket when she stepped up to the
	mike to take a break. Me and the other banjo players in the
	front row approve of course. 8-O...

	  Anyway, that's my perspective on the concert. A great time
	was had by the capacity crowd. She got four encores and a
	standing ovation but by then the most rowdy people beside
	us diehards in the front row were the people closer to the
	bar. Thanks.


		Darrell the banjo player with all the dumb jokes
		aka dreich@ucsd.edu
		cognitive science class of '92
		ai/human factors engineering...

	"so do you think I can be the banjo player for Apple?!?"
From: irilyth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Joshua Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Steeleye Span : Back in Line re-release?
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:15:06 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College CS Dept.
Originator: irilyth@ilium

Another Steeleye Span related question. Noteworthy Music also lists a
Steeleye Span album (for the first time, about time...): "Back In Line (w/e
bonus tracks) : CAR PRO 06". That doesn't sound like the Shanachie number,
leading me to wonder if this is a re-release of Back In Line, and if so,
what the three bonus tracks are. Any insights?
-- 
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Josh Smith '92 19081-1397 :: May not be reproduced outside of Usenet.
"Can I interest you in a well-dressed cup of coffee?"
"Right now, you couldn't interest me stark naked in a bathtub of lime jello."
From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Ballad of the Female Bandit
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:25:11 GMT
Reply-To: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Organization: Ingres Division, ASK Computer Systems.

In article <1992Apr15.000804.12586@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, n9040513@henson.cc.wwu.edu (aldridge andrea) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.183940.5098@cabezon.uucp> larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley) writes:
>
>>>you think this cold morning will do me some harm
>>>One thing I desire it's between your legs
>>>If you give me that it'll keep me warm
>>>
>>>So he jumped off his horse and she mounted it quick
>>>Looking the rider straight in the face
>>>Oh you took not my meaning you  
>>
>>    This is great!  Are there more verses, or a chorus or refrain?   Is it
>>    available recorded by anyone?
>
>Recorded, yes.  Available?  You might have to hunt a little.  Oak, Ash and 
>Thorn, a wonderful Californinan quartet, recorded it under the title of "The
>Crafty Maid's Policy", along with several other great a capella songs.  Sorry
>I can't recall the name of the album - Jon, can you help me on this?

Uhhhh, the actual name of the album escapes me at the moment.  It's their
second (of two), the one with the cover picture of the sensitive-looking
fellow in tights crouching on a tree branch.  I doubt if that helps.  I
believe they credit Frankie Armstrong as the source of that particular
piece, which sounds about right, though I can't remember offhand whether
or where she recorded it.

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From: dcb@willow.wpi.edu (David Brown)
Subject: Natick, MA, Festival ??
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:33:53 GMT

When is it this year?
One weekend real soon I would guess -- this week or next?
Thanks in advance for info.

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From: amy@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Amy McNulty)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Question about Clannad album "Anam"
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:11:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.044150.13252@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dxc4@po.CWRU.Edu  
(David Condon) writes:
> 
> I saw a tape of this album in the store the other day, had never  
heard of
> it before. It's on Tara. There was no date on the outside of the  
package.
> Anybody know whether this is a very new album or a very old one  
re-released?
> Anybody heard it?
> 

My local, usually-very-reasonably-priced folk music store
was selling the CD for $25! It looked good, but I couldn't
force myself to pay that much. Is this typical for this album?
The high price made me think it might be a foreign release....

______________________________________________________________
amy_mcnulty@vos.stratus.com  OR  amy@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Amy McNulty -- Stratus Computer, Marlboro, MA
Stratus pays me to write, but not to write this!
From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: New Folk fans, please read!
Date: 16 Apr 92 06:02:16 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

In article <51620011@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> pbertsch@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com 
(Peggy Bertsch) writes lots of nice stuff about singer/songwriter
Michael McNevin.

I was also very impressed by what I heard from him at Kerrville last
year, particularly his song about his run-in with the law in New
Jersey.  It concerns being subjected to quite a bit of abuse, a night
in jail, etc., for avoiding the $0.75 fare by jumping the turnstile in
the PATH train to New York because the train was in the station and 
there was a long line at the token window.  This is a tough topic to 
write a good song about because it's easy to get preachy or self-
pitying, but he pulls it off brilliantly.



--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
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