Wagonload Of Monkeys

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 429: 26 March 2023 - including songs about hard times

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 26 March 2023 - including songs about hard times.

So Early In the Spring - John Renbourn
From the album: So Early In the Spring
Headliners at this year's Rounds Festival
Lord Franklin - Jim Moray
From the album: Upcetera
Doctor James - Gilmore & Roberts
From the album: The Innocent Left
Sunshine Child - Lucy Ward
From the album: Pretty Warnings
The Road When I Was Young - Steve Tilston
From the album: Distant Days

Songs about hard times
Singing Through The Hard Times - Kirsty Bromley
From the EP: Sweet Nightingale
Ordinary Man - Christy Moore
From the album: Ordinary Man
The Hard Times Of Old England - Roy Bailey
From the album: Voice & Vision Vol. 1
Hard Times Come Again No More - The Chieftains & Paolo Nutini
From the album: Voice of Ages
In These Hard Times - Roy Bailey
From the album: Past Masters
Good Times Will Come Again – Megson
From the album: Good Times Will Come Again

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Small Coals by Kathryn Tickell. From the album: Northumbrian Voices.
Closing music The Unemployment Line/O'Keefe's Plough/Anderson's/The Fermoy Lasses by Kips Bay. From the album: Into the Light.

For information about the Raunds Festival, click here.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 428: 19 March 2023 - an hour of recent English and Scottish releases

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 19 March 2023 - an hour of recent English and Scottish releases.

Oh The Days When I Was Young/Young Collins Rant – Leveret
From the album: Forms
Jack Merritt's Boots - The Young'uns
From the album: Tiny Notes
A Year And A Day - Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
From the album: Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
We Are Only Sound - Lucy Farrell
From the album: We Are Only Sound
Chasen Senem/Filthy Lucre/The Latvians March – The Firelight Trio
From the album: The Firelight Trio
The Healths - Emily Portman & Rob Harbron
From the album: Time Was Away

The New Normal – Assynt
From the album: Where From Here
Hert - Catriona Price
From the album: Hert
Wonderful - Kinnaris Quintet
From the album: This Too
Seven Tears - Unthank:Smith
From the album: Nowhere and Everywhere
The Dipper – Salthouse
From the album: Riverwoods
And Finally – Megson
From the album: What Are We Trying To Say?

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music This Too by Kinnaris Quintet. From the album: This Too.
Closing music Gylfinir by Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay. From the album: Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 427: 12 March 2023 - an hour of recent Irish releases

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 12 March 2023 - an hour of recent Irish releases.

Sullivan's John - Daoirí Farrell
From the album: The Wedding Above In Glencree
The Raven - Niamh Dunne
From the album: Tides
Raven's Cry - John Blek
From the album: Until the Rivers Run Dry
The Fields Around Ferbane - Brownie Guinan
From the album: Peat Sounds
Lisa O'Neill - Old Note - Lisa O'Neill
From the album: All Of This Is Chance
Nelson's Neon Jukebox - Owen Moore
From the album: Nelson's Neon Jukebox

Storm in My Heart - John Faulkner
From the album: Storm In My Heart
Lisa O'Neill - Silver Seed
From the album: All Of This Is Chance
Siúil a Rún - Seo Linn
From the album: Anuas
The Keach In the Creel - Robin James Hurt
From the album: And We For One Another
Go Dig My Grave – Lankum
From the album: False Lankum
Sonny's Dream - Daoirí Farrell
From the album: The Wedding Above In Glencree

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Castle Kelly by Martin Hayes. A mailing list subscribers’ special
Closing music Martin Wynne's/The Longford Tinker by The Bothy Band. From the album: 1975.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 426: 5 March 2023 - spring songs all the way in our spring special.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 5 March 2023 - spring songs all the way in our spring special.

March - Niamh Cusack
From the album: Summer's End: The Poems of Margaret Buckle with Music by Edward Watson
Goodbye to the Snow - Steve Tilston
From the album:
England's Spring - Skinner And T'witch
From the album: The Fool's Journey
Spring Season - Amazing Blondel
From the album: Evensong
The Dance Of The Demon Daffodils - John Kirkpatrick
From the album: The Dance Of The Demon Daffodils
Written In Green - Bella Hardy
From the album: Songs Lost and Stolen
First Light of Spring - Luka Bloom
From the album: Innocence

Gloomy Winter - Dougie Maclean
From the album: Whitewash
First Day of Spring – CarterDolby
From the album: Rhythm & Time
Staines Morris - Maddy Prior, Benji Kirkpatrick & Giles Lewin
From the album: Seven For Old England
Blackthorn Winter - Sproatly Smith
From the album: The Minstrel's Grave
Light Of The Day - PicaPica
From the album: Spring & Shade
She'll Go Out Walking In The Rain - Ben Calvert
From the album: She'll Go Out Walking In The Rain
The Lullaby of Spring – Donovan
From the album: A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Spring Fling by The Jeremiahs. From the album: The Femme Fatale Of Maine
Closing music March by Christina Alden & Alex Patterson. From the album: Hunter.

Wikipedia on The First Day of Spring
Conor Farrell on The First Day of Spring in The Irish Journal.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 425: 26 February 2023 - including a special look at folk-rock superstars The Magpie Arc

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 26 February 2023 - including a special look at folk-rock superstars The Magpie Arc.

Follow The Heron - Karine Polwart
From the album: Scribbled In Chalk
Cover story
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
From the album: The Undertones
Teenage Kicks - The Bad Shepherds
From the album: Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera!
The Magpie Arc and the members of the band
People Come/People Go - Adam Holmes & The Embers
From the album: Brighter Still
Wake a Little Wiser - The Albion Band
From the album: The Vice of the People

The Magpie Arc and the members of the band - continued
Whenever I'm Alone - The Magpie Arc
From the EP: EP1
Never Any Good - Martin Simpson
From the album: Prodigal Son
Glasgow - Findlay Napier
From the album: Glasgow
Dark Honey - Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting And Nancy Kerr
From the album: Murmurs
All I Planted - The Magpie Arc
From the album: Glamour In The Grey

Recent releases
Early One Spring - Kirsty Hannah
From the album: On The Humber Banks
The Crossing – RURA
From the album: Dusk Moon
Easy - Brigid O'Neill
From the album: The Truth & Other Stories
Clasped To The Pig - Daoirí Farrell
From the album: The Wedding Above In Glencree

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music March by Christina Alden & Alex Patterson. From the album: Hunter.
Closing music The Green Gowned Lass by Dervish. From the album: The Thrush in the Storm.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 424: 19 February 2023 - including Ian A. Anderson, and The Wild Rover

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 19 February 2023 - including Ian A. Anderson, and The Wild Rover.

Winter King - Ninebarrow
From the album: While the Blackthorn Burns
The River - Alex Seel
From the album: Spell on a Tin Drum
Fall for the Breeze - Alex Seel
From the album: Shifting Sands
Ian A. Anderson
Time Is Ripe - Ian Anderson
From the album: Ghosts from the Basement
The Preacher's Blues - Hot Vultures
From the album: Vulturama!
The English Country Blues - The English Country Blues Band
From the album: Unruly

The Wild Rover
The Wild Rover - Sam Larner
From the album: Now Is the Time for Fishing
The Wild Rover - The Dubliners
From the album: 60 Greatest Ever Irish Pub Songs
Wild Rover - The Haar
From the album: Where Old Ghosts Meet
The Wild Rover – Lankum
From the album: The Livelong Day

Recent releases
Speedy (Speed The Plough/The Hesleyside Reel) - Will Pound & Jenn Butterworth
From the album: Volume 1
Dusk Moon – RURA
From the album: Dusk Moon
Sixteen Years Old - Cruel Folk
From the album: Far To Fall

Talisk gigs in New York State.

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Dystopia by Talisk. From the album: Dystopia
Incidental music Darling Charms by The Magpie Arc. From the EP: EP 2
Closing music 3 Brampton Morris Tunes - The Albion Band. From the album: Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor Retrospective, Volume One

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 423: 12 February 2023 - including the 2022 Folk Music Album Chart

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 5 February 2023 - including the 2022 Folk Music Album Chart.

Winter Song – Lindisfarne
From the album: The Best of Lindisfarne
2022 British & Irish Folk Music Album Chart
3 The Old News - The Unthanks
From the album: Sorrows Away
2 For All Our Days That Tear The Heart - Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler
From the album: For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
1 Grace - Marcus Mumford
From the album: (self-titled)

Folk music magazines
Bird I Do Not Know - Lady Maisery
From the album: tender
The Peewit - Siskin Quartet
From the album: Flight Paths
Borstal Boy - Emily Portman & Rob Harbron
From the album: Time Was Away

Recent releases
The Salmon Run – Salthouse
From the album: Riverwoods
Space Girl - Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
From the album: Queen of the Whirl
Pretty Plough Boy - Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
From the album: Queen of the Whirl

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Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music The Wild Rover by The Dubliners. From the album: 60 Greatest Ever Irish Pub Songs.
Closing music Uncle Bernard's/Jenny Lind by The Albion Dance Band. From the album: The Prospect Before Us.

 

Wagonload of Monkeys: 5 February 2023 - An apology

Hello Wagonloaders,

I'm sorry to say that a serious computer problem at the Radio Catskill studios at Liberty, NY has meant that we were unable to bring you The Wagonload of Monkeys and a number of other shows this week. I'm sure that we'll be up and running for next week's show.

In the meantime, here's a video of The Magpie Arc.

 

 

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 422: 29 January 2023 - including British and Irish covers of Tom Waits songs.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 29 January 2023 - including British and Irish covers of Tom Waits songs.

Coldest Winter - Al Stewart
From the album: Uncorked
If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous

Remembering Séamus Begley
Kevin Barry - Damien Dempsey with Séamus Begley
From the album: Union
Banks of the Bann Séamus Begley & Oisín Mac Diarmada
From the album: Le Chéile/Together

British and Irish covers of Tom Waits songs
The Briar And The Rose - Fay Hield
From the album: Old Adam
Innocent When You Dream - Jon Boden
From the album: A Folk Song A Day (June)
Strange Weather - Norma Waterson (featuring The Gift Band)
From the album: Anchor
Day After Tomorrow - Linda Thompson
From the album: Versatile Heart
Downtown Train - Everything But The Girl
From the album: Acoustic Troubadours
No One Knows I'm Gone - The Unthanks
From the album: Last

Recent releases
The Ballad Of Gabriel Oak - Milton Hide
From the album: The Holloway
Darling Charms - The Magpie Arc
From the album: Live At The Silk Mill (Charity Fundraiser)
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Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Jockey to the Fair / Room for the Cukolds by Ashley Hutchings. FRom the album: Son of Morris On
Closing music Boys of Tandragree/The Eavesdropper/Finbarr Dwyer's by Séamus Begley & Oisín Mac Diarmada. From the album: Le Chéile/Together

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 421: 22 January 2023 - including songs about snow.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 22 January 2023 - including songs about snow.

In The Month Of January - Bob Fox
From the album: Dreams Never Leave You
The Hope - Ferocious Dog
From the album: The Hope
The Parting Glass - Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan
From the album: Still As Your Sleeping

Songs about snow
Extract From Snow, Christmas Eve, 1914, by Edward Thomas - The Albion Christmas Band
From the album: Magic Touch
A Memory of Snow - Sofia Talvik
Single
Rain and Snow – Pentangle
From the album: Reflection
Frost and Snow - Jenny Sturgeon
From the album: The Living Mountain
The Snows They Melt the Soonest - Dick Gaughan
From the album: Handful Of Earth

Recent releases
But For You - Lucy Farrell
Single
Cycle Of Life - James J. Turner
Single
Robin Tells Of Winter/Gracious Wings - Jackie Oates
From the album: Gracious Wings

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly.
Incidental music Jockey to the Fair / Room for the Cukolds by Ashley Hutchings. FRom the album: Son of Morris On
Closing music An Erc'h War An Enezeg (Snow On The Island)/Brenda Stubbert's/Thunderhead by Lúnasa. From the album The Story So Far