Wagonload Of Monkeys

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

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 327: 4 April 2021 - including birdsong and songs about birds

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, 4 April 2021 - including birdsong and songs about birds.

The Cry of the Mistle Thrush - Nick Penny
From the album: Calling up the Dawn
Down In The Flood (Live At Fairfield Halls, 1973) - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Wayfaring Stranger - Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra
Single

Bird song and songs about birds
Song of the skylark (Field recording)
The Lark In The Morning - Jackie Oates
From the album: The Violet Hour
Song of blackbirds (Field recording)
If I Were A Blackbird - Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys
From the album: Pretty Peggy
Song of the wren (Field recording)
Wren Polka No 1/Wren Polka No 2/The Wren Chase/The Wren's Escape - Boys Of The Lough
From the album: Midwinter Night's Dream
Song of the nightingale (Field recording)
The Nightingale/For Kate - Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
From the album: Gift
Song of the cuckoo (Field recording)
The Cuckoo - The Devil's Interval
From the album: Song Links
Calling of rooks (Field recording)
Crows, Ravens & Rooks - David Rotheray
From the album: The Life of Birds

Recent releases
American TV - Boo Hewerdine
From the album: Selected Works
Clifftown - M G Boulter
From the album: Clifftown
Going out West - Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra
From the album: Migrants

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Robin in the Greenwood by Nick Penny.From the album: Calling up the Dawn

Nick Penny’s field recordings of birdsong, and his harp music, are available on bandcamp.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 326: 28 March 2021 - including favourite Irish folk songs (part two)

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 28 March 2021 - including favourite Irish folk songs (part two).

The Week Before Easter - Martin Simpson
From the album: Cool & Unusual
Days Of 49 (Live At Fairfield Halls, 1973) - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots - Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Sweet Nightingale - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Songs of England
More about Songs of England

Favourite Irish Folk Songs
The Foggy Dew - The Chieftains
From the album: The Essential Chieftains
Green Fields Of France - Davy Holt
From the album: Beinn Alba
The Parting Glass - Daoiri Farrell
From the album: The Lockdown
Rocky Road - Christy Moore
From the album: Traveller
On Raglan Road - Luke Kelly
From the album: The Best of Luke Kelly

Recent releases
You - Epilogues
Single
Going out West - Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra
From the album: Migrants

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Jack Seward's/Boys Of The Puddle by John McCusker. From the album: Under One Sky.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 325: 21 March 2021 - including favourite Irish folk songs (part one)

 

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 21 March 2021 - including favourite Irish folk songs (part one).

The Birds In the Spring - The Copper Family
From the album: Come Write Me Down: Early Recordings of the Copper Family of Rottingdean
I Don't Believe You - Fairport Convention
From the album: Rareport Convention
Throwing Pennies – Lau
From the album: Race The Loser
Peat Bog Soldiers - Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
From the album: Songs of England
More about Songs of England

Favourite Irish Folk Songs (Part One)
A Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues
From the album: Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Only A Woman's Heart - Eleanor McEvoy & Mary Black
From the album: A Woman's Heart
Óró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile - Celtic Woman
From the album: Destiny
Danny Boy - De Dannan
From the album: Hibernian Rhapsody
The Town I Loved So Well - Luke Kelly
From the album: The Collection

Recent Releases
Into The Garden - Jon Boden
From the album: Last Mile Home
In Sight - Benedict Morris
Single
Zunshine In The Winter – Ninebarrow
From the album: A Pocket Full Of Acorns

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Martin Wynne's/Austin Tierney's by Alec Finn & Frankie Gavin. From the album: Masters of Irish Music

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 324: 14 March 2021 - including songs about mothers for (British & Irish) Mothers' Day.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 14 March 2021 - including songs about mothers for (British & Irish) Mothers' Day.

Follow The Heron - Karine Polwart
From the album: Scribbled In Chalk
George Jackson (Live At The Howff) - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Navigator - Kris Drever
From the album: Black Water

Songs about mothers
Take This Letter to My Mother - Jackie Oates
From the album: The Spyglass & The Herringbone
Two Mothers - O'Hooley & Tidow
From the album: The Hum
My Mother's Garden - Phoebe Rees
From the album: Roe Deer
True Are The Mothers (featuring Nancy Kerr and Kathryn Roberts) - Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater
From the album: Findings
Down by the Greenwoodside - The Furrow Collective
From the album: Fathoms

Recent releases
Darling Charms - Magpie Arc
From the EP: EP2
Old Hemp - Ben Morgan Brown
From the album: Moment
Beginning of the End - Aoibheann Carey-Philpott
Single
Old Straight Track - Jon Boden
From the album: Last Mile Home

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Cabin Creek Stone Mill Dam by The Down County Boys.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 323: 7 March 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 7 March 2021 - including this month's look at the folk album top forty.

Scotland's Winter - Siobhan Miller
From the album: Flight of Time
The Ballad Of Easy Rider - Fairport Convention
From the album: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Maggie Picken - Len Graham
From the album: Wind and Water

New entries in the latest British & Irish Folk Music Album Chart
39 The Stowaway - Jon Wilks
From the album: Up the Cut
35 Dolina - Westward the Light
From the album: Westward the Light
16 Such Times - Steve Tilston
From the album: Such Times
12 Join the Liberation - Luke Concannon
From the album: Ecstatic Bird in the Burning
10 Recovery - Karen Matheson
From the album: Still Time
1 Trying - The Staves
From the album: Good Woman

Recent releases
Last Mile Home - Jon Boden
From the album: Last Mile Home
Poor Paddy On The Railway - Robin James Hurt
From the album: Live From Kilmichael
Tentsmuir Sky - Roseanne Reid
From the album: Horticulture

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Clinch Mountain Backstep by Will Pound & Eddy Jay. From the album: Ignite

Jon Wilks's Old Songs podcast

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 322: 28 February 2021 - including fifty years of folk rock in five tracks

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 28 February 2021 - including fifty years of folk rock in five tracks.

Sad February - The Unthanks
From the album: Here's The Tender Coming
Percy's Song - Fairport Convention
From the album: Unhalfbricking
Alyth - Aidan O'Rourke
From the album: Sirius

Fifty years of folk rock
A Sailor's Life - Fairport Convention
From the album: Unhalfbricking
False Knight on the Road - Steeleye Span
From the album: Please to See the King
Claudy Banks - Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band
From the album: No Roses
Greensleeves - Blackmore's Night
From the album: Shadow of the Moon
Skewball - False Lights
From the album: Salvor

Recent releases
Ae Fond Kiss - The Magpie Arc
Single
A Pocket Full Of Acorns – Ninebarrow
From the album: A Pocket Full Of Acorns

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Humours of Tulla: The Bucks of Oranmore (Reels) by Stockton's Wing. From the album: Jigs, Reels & Songs

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 321: 21 February 2021 - including songs about disease and death (and nurses)

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 21 February 2021 - including songs about disease and death (and nurses).

Valentine's Day is Over- Billy Bragg
From the album: Workers’ Playtime
Million Dollar Bash - Fairport Convention
From the album: Unhalfbricking
The Living Wind (Featuring Aidan Moffat) - Martin Green
From the album: Flit
Jilted John - Jilted John
From the album: White Dopes On Punk

Songs about disease and death (and nurses)
The Trooper Cut Down In His Prime - Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp
From the album EP: The Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey
Angel in a Blue Dress - Reg Meuross
From the album: Faraway People
My Name Is Death – The Incredible String Band
From the album: The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion
Death and the Maiden Retold – Tunng
From the album: The Imagined Village
All My Friends Are Dead Now - Patrik Fitzgerald
From the album: Grubby Stories
Roses Of Eyam – Roy Bailey
From the album: Past Masters

Recent releases
The Silence Above Us - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: The St Buryan Sessions
Littlefield - Milton Hyde
From the album: Temperature’s Rising
Black Is The Colour - Harbottle and Jonas
From the album: The Beacon

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music Under the Waterbed/Under the Army Blanket (Featuring Danny Stradling, Dave Peabody, John Kirkpatrick & Nic Jones) by The English Country Blues Band. From the album: Unruly.

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 320: 14 February 2021 - a special featuring songs about the small villages of Ireland

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF/Radio Catskill, for 14 February 2021. With uncertainty about when the impeachment proceedings will conclude, I bring you a special featuring songs about the small villages of Ireland. Back to normal next week.

Johnny Don't Go To Ballincollig - John Spillane
From the album: The Wells Of The World
The Road To Dunmore - Mick Moloney & Eugene O'Donnell
From the album: Uncommon Bonds
The Maid Of Culmore - Cara Dillon
From the album: Cara Dillon
Braes Of Moneymore - Andy Irvine with Rens Van Der Zalm
From the album: Parachilna
The Strands Of Magilligan - Damien O'Kane
From the album: Summer Hill
The Girls of Ballytrapeen - Jimmy Crowley
From the album: The Coast of Malabar
Mullaghmore – Christy Moore
From the album: The Box Set 1964-2004 - Yellow
Ballydine - Christy Moore
From the album: Folk Tale

Kilkelly - Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane, and Robbie O'Connell
From the album: Bringing It All Back Home - The Influence of Irish Music
Gortnamona - Jimmy Crowley
From the album: Nora Lee And Other Ballads
Old Photograph of Rathmines - Padraig O'connor
From the album: City Lights
The Girl from Cushendun /The Love of My Life - Andy Irvine
From the album: Abocurragh
Sweet Lisbweemore - Andy Irvine
From the album: Old Dog Long Road – Vol.1 (1961-2012)

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly
Closing music The Humours of Tulla/The Bucks of Oranmore by Stockton's Wing. From the album: Jigs, Reels & Songs