Saturday December 13, 2008: 8 More Sing Out Fall 2008, Some Grammy Nominations and some Holiday Thoughts

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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.  Folk Plus is mostly lyrically based and usually intertwines the cuts around a theme. Check  http://www.wjffradio.org/FolkPlus for lists of playlists.  We are Hydro-Powered Public Radio, run mostly by volunteers and funded by members. We have two week archives at http://www.wjffradio.org/wjff/index.php?section=38 . See our site and listen to our stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG 

THANKS SOMUCH to the station management [and the giant exhaust system fan] for accommodating my health issues which allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings for 16 years now, bringing you the music that 'moves and sustains me.' (as Maris would say)

I didn't get to all the Sing Out Reviews of releases that I own, so here are eight more:

1. Lau  (Kris Drevor, Aidan O'Rourke Martin Green) - Banks of Marble
Live (at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Dec 2007)

2. Stranglings - Wildest Sea 323
Season of the Witch - KennedysMusic.com

3. Scott Ainsle - I Should Get Over This 355
Thunder's Mouth - cattilmusic.com

4. Refugees - Fishing 419
Unbound - therefugeesmusic.com

5. Angel Band - Hold Me Angel 250
With Roots and Wings - Appleseed

6. David Bromberg - (Massengill) Farifax County 617
NYC 1982 - Appleseed

7. Catherine MacLellan - Stronger 449
Church Bell Blues - Ture North

8. Darrell Scott - Jesus Was A Capricorn
Modern Hymns - Appleseed

This year's  Selected Grammy Award Nominations consider recordings released during the Eligibility Year  October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008     http://www.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx

In the running for "Best Traditional Folk Album"

9. Rosalie Sorrels - God and the Garbage Man (For Lew Welch) 1:08
Strangers In Another Country, Red House

10. Utah Phillips on Old Buddy Goodnight
Starlight on the Rails - Daemon Records

11. Rosalie Sorrels - Old Buddy Goodnight
Songs of Bruce "Utha" Phillips - Red House

12. Tom Paxton - Home to Me (Is anywhere you are)
Comedians & Angels - Appleseed

13. Peggy Seeger - Dink's Song 249
Bring Me Home - Appleseed

14. Pete Seeger - Throw away that Shad Net, How Are we Gonna Save Tomorrow? 445
 At 89 - Appleseed

15. Pete Seeger - Pete's Extraduction
 At 89 - Appleseed 

16. Pete Seeger - We Will Love of we will perish
 At 89 - Appleseed 
heres to the canary!

[Kathy Mattea's  Coal,on Captain Potato didn't arrive on time to air with it's competition]

In the running for Best Musical Album For Children

17. Trout Fishing In America - Big Round World - Big Round World - Trout

Beethoven's Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies, Beethoven's Wig [Rounder] (didnt get in time)

In the running for "Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album "

Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow - Bobolink/Razor & Tie  [I refiled this disk from playing it last week, and forgot it today, darn!
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand - Rounder
I, Flathead, Ry Cooder [Nonesuch]
Sex & Gasoline, Rodney Crowell [Work Song/Yep Roc]
All I Intended To Be, Emmylou Harris [Nonesuch]
Besides the inclusion in the above category of best contmeporary folk/Americana album, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are up for four other Grammy nominations: record of the year (“Please Read the Letter”) and album of the year (Raising Sand) best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals (“Rich Woman”), best country collaboration with vocals (“Killing the Blues”)

18. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read the Letter
Raising Sand - Rounder

Now on to some holiday music:

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Thanks to all well wishers with my curret battle with neurotoxic poisoning and chemical sensitivities    (http://pagewebberink.com/~angie/)