Wagonload Of Monkeys

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 337: 13 June 2021 - our monthly look at the British folk music album chart

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 13 June 2021 - including our monthly look at the British folk music album chart.

I Like To Be With You In The Sun - Bridget St John
From the album: Ask Me No Questions
Detectorists Theme - Johnny Flynn
From the album: Detectorists - Original Soundtrack from the TV Series
Slippy Sausages - King Courgette
From the album: King Courgette
Bats In the Attic - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
From the album: Diamond Mine
Celebrating Martin Carthy's 80th
False Knight on the Road - Steeleye Span
From the album: Please to See the King
Four Nights Drunk - Steeleye Span
From the album: Ten Man Mop, Or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again

Our monthly look at the latest Top Forty British Folk Music Album Chart
39 Beneath the Willow - Jim Ghedi
From the album: In the Furrows of Common Place
36 Bread and Roses - The Unthanks
From the album: Diversions, Vol. 5: Live & Unaccompanied
21 Enchanted Mesa - Bobby Lee
From the album: Origin Myths
15 Stay Awake to Dream - Lauren Housley
From the album: Girl from the North
4 Bonedigger - Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
From the album: Lost in the Cedar Wood

Recent Releases
Sleep - Katy Rose Bennett
From the album: Alone On A Hill
Two Seagulls - Niamh Regan
From the album: Hemet
Kingfisher Blue - Penny Afifi
From the album: Kingfisher Blue

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Cregg's Pipes/Uist Ree/John Doherty's by Lúnasa. From the album: The Story So Far

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 336: 6 June 2021 - including songs about trains

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 6 June 2021 - including songs about trains and railways.

First Day Of Summer - King Courgette
From the album: King Courgette
Celebrating Martin Carthy's 80th
Scarborough Fair - Martin Carthy
From the album: Martin Carthy
The Wind That Shakes The Barley Fair - Martin Carthy
From the album: Martin Carthy
Weather Forecast for 1 Jun 2021- Lisa Knapp
YouTube
Blacksmith [Youth Remix] - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Wild and Undaunted
The Wagonload says: “Lisa Knapp - remarkable and unique.”
Lisa Knapp sings the weather forecast

Songs about trains
This Train - Sandy Denny
From the album: Sandy Denny (Complete Edition)
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Billy Bragg And Joe Henry
From the album: Shine A Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
Travelling by Steam - Fairport Convention
From the album: Jewel In The Crown
Railway Children - Joe Tilston
From the album: Embers
Poor Paddy On the Railway - The Dubliners
From the album: Original Dubliners 1966-1969
I Miss You Like A Train - David Rotheray
From the album: The Woodworm Project

Recent Releases
Indigo - Katherine Priddy
From the album: The Eternal Rocks Beneath
Roll Alabama – Bellowhead
From the album: Reassembled

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Black Hills Waltz/The Red Steer by Mozaik. From the album: The Long And The Short Of It

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 335: 30 May 2021 - including songs about ferries

 

The legendary Bellowhead have a new album out - Reassembled. Here's one of the songs on the album. We'll hear more on the show next week.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 30 May 2021 - including songs about ferries.

The Lady and the Soldier -The Dovetail Trio
From the album: Wing of Evening
All Along The Watchtower (Live At Chateau Neuf, 1975) - Fairport Convention
From the album: Many Ears To Please
One of These Things First - Nick Drake
From the album: Bryter Layter
Hazey Jane 1 - Nick Drake
From the album: Bryter Layter

Songs about ferries
Waiting For The Ferry - The Young'Uns
From the album: Another Man's Ground
East Ferry - Jimmy Crowley
From the album: The Coast of Malabar
The Water of Tyne (feat. Hannah Rickard) - Kathryn Tickell
From the album: Water of Tyne
Voyage - Christy Moore
From the album: Voyage
True Lovers' Ferr - The Willows
From the album: Through The Wild

Recent Releases
John Riley - Jon Wilks
From the album: Up The Cut
Wolfsong – Carys
From the album: Wolfsong
Idle Hands - Black Tar Roses
From the album: Rebels, Rogues and Outlaws

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Waters of Tyne/My Bonny Lad/Radcliffe's Fancy by Martin Simpson. From the album: Cool & Unusual

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 334: 123 May 2021 - including British and Irish covers of Bob Dylan songs

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 23 May 2021 - celebrating Bob Dylan's 80th birthday with British and Irish covers of Bob Dylan songs.

Cuckoo Song – Recorded by Nick Penny
From the album: Sixteen Songbirds
Cuckoo - The Rheingans Sisters
From the album: Already Home
Too Much Of Nothing – Fotheringay
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
The Bantry Girl’s Lament - Dolore Keane & the Reel Union
From the album: There Was A Maid

British and Irish Covers of Bob Dylan Songs
Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Billy Bragg
From the album: Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Nick Drake
From the album: Family Tree
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
From the album: I'm Not There (Music From The Motion Picture)
Every Grain Of Sand - Barb Jungr
From the album: Every Grain Of Sand
Ballad In Plain D - Michael Chapman
From the album: Originals

Recent Releases
Spirit Of Love - Clive's Original Band
From the album: Spirit of Love
Time To Love - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: The St Buryan Sessions
Half Wild - Kitty Macfarlane
Single

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Ring Them Bells by Joanna MacGregor & Andy Sheppard. From the album: Deep River

Incidental music:
It Ain't Me Babe by Bob Dylan. From the album: The Very Best of Bob Dylan
Sweeping The Floor – Bob Dylan. From the soundtrack to the film: My Own Love Song.

 

It Ain't Me You're Looking For: Bob Dylan at 80 presented by Sean Latham, Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa. A five part series made for the BBC back in the UK and available to stream now here.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 333: 16 May 2021 - including songs from Galway's Keane family

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 16 May 2021 - including songs from Galway's Keane family.

Written In Green - Bella Hardy
From the album: Songs Lost and Stolen
Open The Door Richard - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Broken Pledge/Paddy Lynn's Delight - Joe Burke, Andy McGann & Felix Dolan
From the album: A Tribute to Michael Coleman

The Keane family from Co. Galway
The Banks Of The Moorlough Shore - Sarah Keane & Rita Keane
From the album: Once I Loved
Galway Bay - Dolores Keane & John Faulkner
From the album: Sail Óg Rua
You Take Me There - Seán Keane
From the album: Gratitude
Somebody Special - Matt Keane
Single
Never Be The Sun - Dolores Keane
From the album: Solid Ground

Recent releases
The Whitby Rose - The Ciderhouse Rebellion
Single
Tinker's Rhapsody - Richard Thompson
From the album: Serpent's Tears
My Son David - Atlantic Arc
Single
Sweetness and Pain - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: The St Buryan Sessions

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Midnight And Morning by Hickman & Quinn. From the album: Times

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 332: 9 May 2021 - our monthly look at the British folk music album chart

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 9 May 2021 - our monthly look at the British folk music album chart.

Why Does The Nightingale Sing - Boo Hewerdine
From the album: Selected Works
Country Pie - Fairport Convention
From the album: Moat on the Ledge (Live at Broughton Castle)
The Light In My Mother's Eye - Chris While And Julie Matthews
From the album: Stages
Mother's Little Helper - Mary Coughlan
From the album: Uncertain Pleasures

Our monthly look at the latest Top Forty British Folk Music Album Chart
31 Villon Song - Stick in the Wheel
From the album: Hold Fast
23 Locked in Ice - Shirley Collins
From the album: Heart's Ease
20 Circles - Ray Cooper
From the album: Land of Heroes
5 The Invisible Woman - Peggy Seeger
From the album: First Farewell
2 Arrivals - Declan O'Rourke
From the album: Arrivals

Recent releases
Rabbit Hills - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: The St Buryan Sessions
The Wagonload says: "Sarah McQuaid is one of the hardest working and most consistently creative of our singer-songwriters".
Jenta i Chicago (The Girl in Chicago) - Lillebjørn Nilsen & Andy Irvine
Single
I Never Will Marry - The Magpies
Single

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Petrichor by Paul Hutchinson. From the album: Petrichor

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 331: 2 May 2021 - an hour's catch up of recent releases

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 2 May 2021 - an hour's catch up of recent releases.

Hunter - Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
From the album: Hunter
Good Crieff – Gnoss
From the album: The Light of the Moon
The Wagonload says: “a richly interwoven tapestry of musical patterns”
From Marble Arch to Leicester Square - Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
From the album: Rakes & Misfits
The Harbour - Declan O'Rourke
From the album: Arrivals
The Flower of Sweet Strabane - Polly Paulusma
From the album: Invisible Music - Folk Songs That Influenced Angela Carter
Extract from 'Reflections' (Read) - Polly Paulusma
From the album: Invisible Music - Folk Songs That Influenced Angela Carter
Loretta - The Magpie Arc
From the EP: EP 3

The Reckoning - Steve Tilston
From the album: The Reckoning

She Moved Through the Fair (Live) - Peter Knight's Gigspanner
From the album: From Poets To Wives
Bishopstown - John Spillane
From the album: 100 Snow White Horses
Linstead Market - Edward II
From the album: Dancing Tunes
My Sweet Teredo - Nancy Kerr
From the album: Tunnellers

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Oregon Trail by Paul Hutchinson. From the album: Petrichor

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 330: 25 April 2021 - including news and music from Hudson Records

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 25 April 2021 - including news and music from Hudson Records.

'Twas On One April's Morning - Show Of Hands
From the album: The Long Way Home
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Sandy Denny
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Divers & Submarines – Passenger
From the album: Divers & Submarines

Hudson Records Listening Club
The Wagonload says: “The Hudson Records Listening Club is one of the best online musical ventures to come out of the lockdown.”
Hare Spell - Fay Hield
From the album: Wrackline
Rosefinch - Inge Thomson & Jenny Sturgeon
From the album: Northern Flyway
Slow Waves - Sam Carter
From the album: Home Waters
A Pint of Plain - Daoirí Farrell
From the album: A Lifetime of Happiness
More Than Enough - Martin Simpson
From the album: Rooted

Recent releases
Bo Sloboda, Bo Sloboda (Live) – Angrusori
From the album: Live At Tou
Three Miles Out - Honey And The Bear
From the album: Journey Through The Roke
Threes - Mike Vass featuring Ali Levack
Single
Pieces Of A Star - The Lost Notes
From the album: Lowlifes and High Times

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Mosstrooper Medley by Simon Mayor. From the album: The Mandolin Album

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 329: 18 April 2021 - including this month's look at the folk album top forty

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 18 April 2021 - including this month's look at the folk album top forty.

Fare Thee Well Cold Winter - The Watersons
From the album: Introduction To The Watersons
Knocking On Heaven's Door - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Beeswing - Richard Thompson
From the album: Acoustic Classics

New entries in the latest Top Forty British & Irish Folk Music Album Chart
19 Fathom - Brian Finnegan
From the album: Hunger of the Skin
18 Hey John Barleycorn – Ninebarrow
From the album: A Pocket Full Of Acorns
16 Come Home - Laura Lamn
From the album: Come Home
10 Honeysuckle Halo - Jon Boden
From the album: Last Mile Home
8 Hold On - John Smith
From the album: The Fray
2 Each Manner Of Man - The Strawbs
From the album: Settlement

Recent releases
The Glittering Prize - Simon Scardanelli
From the album: The Glittering Prize
Elsie Marley - Anna Tam
From the album: Anchoress

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Beltane Rain by Sproatly Smith. From the album: The River Wye Suite

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 328: 11 April 2021 - an hour of Irish jigs and reels

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, 11 April 2021 - an hour of Irish jigs and reels.

It's pledge drive on WJFF/RRadio Catskill during which we ask our listeners to support the station with contributions to its running costs. And, as has become traditional on The Wgonload of Monkeys on these occasions, I bring you a whole hour of Irish jigs and reels. Please go to http://www.wjffradio.org to show your support.

Dennis Murphy's Reel/The Bag of Spuds/Macfarley's Reel - Patrick Street
From the album: All in Good Time
Béla's Reels - The Chieftains (featuring Bela Fleck)
From the album: Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
Napoleon's 2.0 – Cúig
From the album: New Landscapes

Siesta Set – Dervish
From the album: Spirit
The Cullybacky Hop – Lúnasa
From the album: Sé
The Kesh Jig/Give Us a Drink of Water/The Flower of the Flock/Famous Ballymote - The Bothy Band
From the album: 1975 (The First Album)
Merrily Kissed The Quaker – Planxty
From the album: Planxty

Mist In The Morning – Fullset
From the album: Notes After Dark
The Humours of Tulla: The Bucks of Oranmore - Stockton's Wing
From the album: Jigs, Reels & Songs
Kitty's Rambles/The Humours Of Ennistymon - L.A.P.D.
From the album: 70th Birthday Concert At Vicar St 2012 [Live]
The Green Fields Of Woodford – Fullset
From the album: Notes After Dark

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Ballivanich Reel/The Boy In The Boat/The Stone Of Destiny by Lúnasa. From the album: Sé