Wagonload Of Monkeys

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 304: 25 October 2020 - including songs about Liverpool

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 25 October 2020 - including songs about Liverpool

October Song - Martin Simpson
From the album: Home Recordings
Hollow Point - Chris Wood
From the album: Lark Descending
The Herring Girl - Bella Hardy
From the album: Songs Lost and Stolen

Songs about Liverpool
Liverpool Lullaby - Rosie Hodgson
From the album: Somewhere North
Liverpool Lullaby - Ian Campbell Folk Group
From the album: The Times They Are a-Changin'
Liverpool Lou - Dominic Behan
From the album: A Better Class of Folk
Liverpool Blues - The Vipers
From the album: The Early Days
Leaving of Liverpool - Shane MacGowan
From the album: Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
Whiskey on a Sunday - The Dubliners
From the album: The Best Of ...
Does This Train Stop On Merseyside? - Christy Moore
From the album: Listen

Recent releases
Canon - The Magpie Arc
From the EP: EP1
Budg & Snudg (featuring John Kirkpatrick) - Stick in the Wheel
From the album: Hold Fast
(I'm Not Your) Superman - Skinner and T'witch
Single

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music The Digital Watch by Tiger Moth. From the album: Mothballs Plus

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 303: 18 October 2020 - including songs about English towns

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 18 October 2020 - including songs about English towns

Autumn Leaves - The Magpie Arc
From the EP: EP1
Arrogance, Ignorance And Greed - Show Of Hands
From the album: Arrogance, Ignorance And Greed
Daisy - Karine Polwart
From the album: Daisy
One Cup of Tea Is Never Enough (But 2 Is 1 Too Many!) - John Shuttleworth
From the album: The A1111 ... And Other Ones!

Songs about English Towns
Yarmouth Town – Bellowhead
From the album: Hedonism
Scarborough Fair - The Imagined Village
From the album: Empire & Love
Worcester City - Eliza Carthy
From the album: Anglicana
The Rose of York - The Dovetail Trio
From the album: Wing of Evening
Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl
From the album: Black and White - The Definitive Collection

Recent releases
The Plants - Jenny Sturgeon
From the album: The Living Mountain
Where Does It Hurt? - Katy Rose Bennett
From the album: Where Does It Hurt?

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Clan Ranald/J.B.'s Reel/Paddy Mac's Reel/Kitty Sheain's by Altan. From the album: Runaway Sunday

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 302: 11 October 2020 - including covers of Leonard Cohen songs

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 11 October 2020 - including covers of Leonard Cohen songs.

The Birds Are Leaving - Boo Hewerdine
From the album: Thanksgiving
Fiddler's Green - John Conolly & Pete Sumner
From the album: Trawlertown - The Singing of the Fishing
One in a Million – Chris Wood
From the album: The Lark Descending

British and Irish more-or-less folkish covers of Leonard Cohen songs
Bird On A Wire - Fairport Convention
From the album: Heyday
First We Take Manhattan - Show Of Hands
From the album: Battlefield Dance Floor
Who By Fire - Barb Jungr
From the album: Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen)
Tonight Will Be Fine - Teddy Thompson
From the album: Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Sisters of Mercy - Beth Orton
From the album: Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Recent releases
Working On the Frontline - Jessie & The Leonards (featuring Hannah Grace Deller)
From the album: Song Club
The Yellow of the Flowers - The Rheingans Sisters
From the album: Receiver

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Echo by Talisk. From From the album: Abyss

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 301: 4 October 2020 - another chance to hear the show on which we celebrated the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan.

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 4 October 2020 - in place of the advertsied show (which we'll hear next week) another chance to hear the show on which we celebrated the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan.

Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Billy Bragg
From the album: Chimes of Freedom
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Nick Drake
From the album: Family Tree
Ballad In Plain D - Michael Chapman
From the album: Originals
Hattie Carroll - Christy Moore
From the album: Burning Times

Si Tu Dois Partir - Fairport Convention
From the album: What We Did on Our Holidays
I'll Keep It With Mine - Fairport Convention
From the album: Meet On the Ledge - The Classic Years (1967-1975)
Bob Dylan's Blues - Ewan McLennan
From the album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: A Folk Tribute
Blowin' In The Wind - Seth Lakeman
From the album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: A Folk Tribute
I Want You - Barb Jungr
From the album: Every Grain Of Sand
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
From the album: I'm Not There (Music From The Motion Picture)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Steeleye Span
From the album: Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor Retrospective, Volume One

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

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 300: 27 September 2020 - marking three hundred editions of the show

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 27 September 2020 - marking three hundred editions of the show.

The Teetotaler/St. Anne's - De Danann
From the album: Star Spangled Molly
First Girl I Loved - Incredible String Band
From the album: The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion
Tam Lin - Fairport Convention
From the album: Liege And Lief
Pleasant Month of May - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Till April is Dead
Ordinary Man - Christy Moore
From the album: Christy Moore
People Run To The Edge - Ivor Cutler
From the album: Privilege

Richmond Cotillion - Martin Simpson
From the album: Murmurs
The Creggan White Hare - Daoirí Farrell
From the album: The First Turn
Arthur O'Bradley - The Full English
From the album: The Full English
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
From the album: Must I Paint You A Picture?
Wild Hog in the Woods - The Furrow Collective
From the album: Wild Hog in the Woods
Roots - Show Of Hands
From the album: Witness

Closing music Echo by Talisk. From the album: Abyss

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 299: 20 September 2020 - featuring songs about fruits

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 20 September 2020 - featuring songs about fruits.

Harvest Moon – Runrig
From the album: Alba: The Best of Runrig
The Angels Took My Racehorse Away - Richard Thompson
From the album: Henry the Human Fly
Peach Picking Time in Georgia - Hot Vultures
From the album: Vulturama!

Songs about fruits
The Plum Tree and The Rose - Sarah McQuaid
From the album: The Plum Tree and The Rose
I Wish My Love Was A Cherry - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Vision & Revision - The First 80 Years Of Topic Records
The Nutting Girl - The English Country Blues Band
From the album: Unruly
Do You Love an Apple - The Bothy Band
From the album: 1975
Moonlit Apples - Johnny Coppin
30 Songs

Recent releases
The Fortress - Richard Thompson
From the album: Bloody Noses
Old World Rules And Empire Takes - Malcolm MacWatt
From the album: Skail
Where The Ships Go To Die - Colin Clyne
Single

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Intrepid Espresso by Moore Moss Rutter. From the album: III

More details of Richard Thompson's live streamed concert

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 298: 13 September 2020 - featuring covers of Bod Dylan songs

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 13 September 2020 - featuring covers of Bob Dylan songs.

Fair Drawin’ In – Clype
From the album: Clype
Never Any Good - Martin Simpson
From the album: Prodigal Son
All You Pretty Girls - Jim Moray
From the album: Low Culture
Babysitter - Patrik Fitzgerald
From the album: The Very Best Of Patrik Fitzgerald

Covers of Bob Dylan songs
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Nick Drake
From the album: Family Tree
Bob Dylan's Blues - Ewan McLennan
From the album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: A Folk Tribute
I Want You - Barb Jungr
From the album: Every Grain Of Sand
Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live From The Coliseum, Buenos Aires/2011) - Marianne Faithfull
From the album: Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
From the album: I'm Not There
Dear Landlord - Fairport Convention
From the album: Unhalfbricking

Recent releases
Paddy From Portlaw/The Old Flail/When the Cat's Away - Caroline Keane
From the album: Shine
The Dalesman's Litany - Johnny Campbell
From the album: From Hull and Halifax and Hell...
Paniolo - BJ Cole
From the album: Daydream Smile

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music The Hillsbrook Reels by Michael McGoldrick. From the album: Wired

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 297: 6 September 2020 - featuring songs about the harvest

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 6 September 2020 - featuring songs about the harvest

Autumn (The Thislesdown's Flying) - Gordon Tyrrall
From the album: A Distance From The Town
Nancy Spain - Christy Moore
From the album: On the Road
County Down – Danú
From the album: The Road Less Traveled
The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill - Karine Polwart
From the album: Faultlines

Songs about the harvest
Harvest Song - Jim Causley
From the album: Fruits of the Earth
Gather It In – Ninebarrow
From the album: The Waters and the Wild
John Barleycorn - The Imagined Village
From the album: The Imagined Village
Hopping Down In Kent - The Albion Dance Band
From the album: The Prospect Before Us
We Gets Up In the Morn - The Watersons
From the album: Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs

Recent release
Wrackline – Fay Hield
Album sampler

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Harvest Home/The Gas Almost Works by The Albion Country Dance Band. From the album: Summer Folk

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 296: 30 August 2020 - featuring artists performing at the Folk on Foot Festival

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 30 August 2020 - featuring artists performing at the Folk on Foot Festival

Last Day Of Summer - Kirsty MacColl
From the album: Titanic Days
Hard times come again no more - Edison Male Quartet
From the album: Edison Gold Moulded Record 9120
Hard Times Come Again No More - The Chieftains & Paolo Nutini
From the album: Voice of Ages
Remembering Judy Dyble
If (Stomp) - Fairport Convention
From the album: Fairport Convention
Earth Is Sleeping - Judy Dyble
From the album: Earth Is Sleeping

Artists performing at the Folk on Foot Festival
Dark Swift and Bright Swallow - Simpson, Cutting And Kerr
From the album: Murmurs
'Twas On One April's Morning - Show Of Hands
From the album: The Long Way Home
Do Chalum (To Calum) - Julie Fowlis
From the album: Gach Sgeul (Every Story)
Poor Man's Son - Kris Drever
From the album: Black Water
Friendship - Eliza Carthy
From the album: Restitute
The Moon Shines Bright - Sam Lee
From the album: Old Wow

Check out the Folk On Foot Festival

Recent releases
Call the Storm - Fay Hield
From the album: Wrackline
Le Fay - Joshua Burnell
From the album: Flowers Where The Horses Sleep

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Richmond Cotillion by Martin Simpson. From the album: Murmurs

Wagonload of Monkeys Playlist 295: 23 August 2020 - featuring songs from bands named for birds

This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice for WJFF, for 23 August 2020 - featuring songs from bands named for birds

Song Composed In August - Battlefield Band
From the album: Line Up
Who Will Sing Me Lullabies - Kate Rusby
From the album: Little Lights
No Telling - Linda Thompson
From the album: Fashionably Late

Songs from bands named for birds
Blackbird - Blackbird & Crow
From the album: Ailm
Maelstrom – Kittiwakes
From the album: Moonshine Murder Mountains & Mudflats - Songs And Tunes From Leigh Folk Festival 2008
CD For Sale - The Razorbills
From the album: Like Everybody Else
Build - The Housemartins
From the album: Soup - The Best Of The Beautiful South & The Housemartins
Wishing Tree - Little Sparrow
From the album: Wishing Tree
Turpin Hero - The Owl Service
From the album: Moonshine Murder Mountains & Mudflats - Songs And Tunes From Leigh Folk Festival 2008

Recent releases
Arising: Part 4 - Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes
From the album: Stone Soup
A Girl At Dusk - Basia Bartz
Single

Theme music The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel by De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Erin)
Closing music Not For Joe by The Old Swan Band. From the album: Fortyssimo