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Saturday January 6, 2007: Retrospective
Folk Plus is hosted and planned by Angela Page and airs Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF, at 90.5 fm in Jeffersonville, N.Y. and 94.5 in Monticello N.Y. We are Hydro-Powered Public Radio, run mostly by volunteers and funded by members. We stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG Welcome new web listeners, especially those with MCS who are housebound. THANKS SO MUCH to the station management fo accommodating my health issues which allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings and bring you the music that 'moves and sustains me. '
Reflection is inherant in the New Year. Budgets, Relationships, Jobs - we tend to reassess. We tend to amass statistics and create "best" lists. I shy away from bests, preferring the quote about how every bird in the woods is needed to hear a great overall sound. So today Im going to auditorily peek at some of the releases I reviewed the year I began writing cd reviews for Sing Out Magazine. Commentary involved where they have or have not gone since then, and highlights of the cds.
Volume 44 No. 2 was the Winter 2000 issue.
Peter Paul and Mary on the cover.
NightSun - One Moment of Grace
One Moment of Grace 142
Darryl Purpose- RIng on My Hand
Travellers code - Tangible Music 146
Darryl Purpose- Mr. Schwinn
Travellers code - Tangible Music 146
James Gordon - Too Canadian These Days
Pipe Street Dreams - Wind River 148
Cockburn - Last Night of the World
Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu - Ryko 144
Weigle - Do YOu Go 150
The Truth Is - self
"Weigle is really good at placing bridges between the struggles of
gays and straights. Beautifully moving lyrics flow with clarity and
passion.
He often visits the theme of the freedom to be and show who you are.
Weigle
is an excellent writer with an emotoinel delivery. ...his music is a
way
for us to place all love and loss in focus."
Katherine Wheatley 151
Habits and Heroes - Hoot
We spoke about Katherine back on September 4,1999 when Folk Plus was
co aired with CKCU in Ottawa with:
Chopper McKinnon, host of Canadian Spaces on CKCU FM in Ottawa,
Gene Swimmer, Director of the Ottawa Folk Festival,
Chris White, Artistic Director of the Ottawa Folk Festival,
Dean Verger, owner and operator of the Rasputin's Folk
Café
in Ottawa
Evidently Katherine was some sort of science major.
Trout Fishing in America - Keep it on the Postitive Side
Closer to the Truth - Trout Music 146
Irene Kelley - It Wasnt' Me 152
Simple Path - Irk
Little person with a big sound.
Irene Kelley - Dancin' Shoes 152
Simple Path - Irk
Little person with a big sound.
Catie Curtis - What's The Matter
Crash Course in Roses - Rykodisc pg 141
Volume 44 - 3
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Sons of South Africa on the cover.
Lavin - bitch - 135
"Getting In Touch With My Inner Bitch" is singer/songwriter/guitarist Christine Lavin's eleventh solo album. She has won four ASCAP composer awards, the Kate Wolf Memorial Award, and her songs have been performed by such diverse artists as the Dartmouth Decibelles, the Washington D.C. Gay Men's Chorus, and international chanteuse Andrea Marcovicci. Along with her affecting wit and musical talent, Christine is widely recognized for her tireless efforts to promote other songwriters and musicians.
Christine's song "Sensitive New Age Guys" was part of the Off-Broadway production of "A... My Name Will Always Be Alice." She is also currently developing a theatrical project of her own.
Christine's concert career continues to take her all over the U.S., Canada, and points beyond. She now performs wireless, enabling her, as she says, "to turn any size concert hall into a living room." When not performing or recording, Christine writes freelance ("The Washington Post"; "The Performing Songwriter" magazine) and is the occasional guest host for the popular "Sunday Breakfast" radio program on WFUV in New York City.
Ellis Paul - Take Me Down
Live - Philo 140
Johnsmith - What Is
To The Four Directions - Blue Pine Prod. 141
Vance - Intro/Icarus by Night pg 142
Somerville live - Dississmye
Wiggins Sisters - Parking Lot 143
Minnesota - wigginssisters.com
Tufts - Marylou in Burgendy
2 NIghts Solo - 144
Ferguson - Working on a Miracle 144
Inside Talking - NOrth Track
David Olney - Omars Blues 138
Forgot to bering to the station, but played it many weeks ago on
artists
not themselves.
Sing Out! Magazine 50th Anniversary Issue - Vol. 44 #4
50th Year of sharing Songs.
Julie Gold - Southbound Train
Love - 145
Try Love" (the follow-up to her 1998 release "Dream Loud") is a 14-cut
collection of studio recordings that Gold has created en route to
placing
her songs with some of the country's best pop singers. The album
includes
her original studio versions of "Southbound Train" (recorded by Nanci
Griffith)
and "The Journey" (recently recorded and released by Kathie Lee
Gifford)
and complete lyrics and notes about each song.
Best known as the writer of "From A Distance" (winning the Grammy for Song Of The Year in 1990), Gold has been writing and performing since the '70s, often winning accolades for her heartfelt performances of her deeply personal songs. She has won legions of fans among the country's best singers, leading to covers of her songs by Bette Midler, Nanci Griffith, Judy Collins, Kathy Mattea, Andrea Marcovicci, Patti Lupone, and many others.
Rebel Voices - Billions of Brain Cells
A Piece of the Wall - Reveille Music 146
Paul Kamm Eleanore McDonald - Calling on Love
Calling on Love 146
On this, their 5th CD, Eleanore MacDonald and Paul Kamm’s
‘Calling
on Love’ the title cut is a prayer to the future and it sets this
quality
right at the start. In the song they call on love to rescue us all from
fear, violence and suspicion. The sentiment of peace through love, for
the sake of the children of our world, is beautiful and their delivery
does it justice. Throughout the song, as well as the rest of the CD,
their
harmonies are exact and their very breath is in unison.
Lui Collins - Leaving Fort Knox
Leaving Fort Knox - 146
Sirens - Heed the Warning
146
No tentative vocals here. The feel of this CD is somewhere between
lure and attack. These women have strong vocals that are always on
pitch.
Sometimes they sing solo, sometimes two back up a lead voice, and
sometimes
they choose a full trio sound.
Noxon - Devil's Breath
Watch as you Walk 147
Jennifer Noxon is not just another woman cranking out “I” focused love songs. There is a pleasing variety to her topics as if thumbing through your morning newspaper. Take the story behind Noxon’s song “Water,” for example, which began one day, when she was staying in St. Lucia, as she watched the women balancing a day’s water supply on their heads. The rhythm and steel drum accompaniment holds the comfort of a kid’s jumping rope rhyme, but also the adult quality of environmental and humanitarian concern.
Freddy B - Love in the Same Old Sin
Night of the Falling Angels `147
Berman - Let Him KNow YOur Heart
Lives 147
Fireweed 148
No longer a group, I no longer have the cd.
Folk Plus is a SING OUT! magazine Radio
Partner (www.singout.org)
Thanks to all well wishers with my curret battle with neurotoxic poisoning and chemical sensitivities (http://pagewebberink.com/~angie/)
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