Subject: FOLK PLUS 5/02/98 playlist Reply-to: folkdj@zelacom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:12:23 WJFF is hydro-powered Public Radio. Listeners range from the top of NYC to North East New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to the Hudson River towns and throughout the Delaware Valley. Some are NYC residents with a weekend home in the Catskills. Today's FOLK PLUS was heavy on stories in songs, heavy on ballads, and traditional tunes all woven round the music of ANNE HILLS and of DAVID MASSENGILL who both will be appearing at our yearly WJFF folk benefit at beautiful Harmonie Hall in the Western Hotel sitting on the railroad tracks in Callicoon New York, facing the Delaware river and Pennsylvania. Mills- 1. "Sound of the Looms" - ANNE HILLS Angle of the Light - Flying Fish 800 FYI-FISH 2. "Cotton mill Girls" - REBEL VOICES (Janet Stecher and Susan Lewis Warning Women at Work - Reveille Music 741 16th Ave E Seattke WA 98112 3. "River turns the Wheel" -BOB MARTIN River Turns the Wheel - Riversong Records POBox 2130 Salem, NH 03079 4. "Thread City" - HUGH BLUMENFELD Barehanded 1 800 PRIME CD Highlights of Annes year: September 97 Anne was honored by the Carole Robertson Centre (named for one of the girls who died in the Birmingham church bomb) November 97 Anne's children's book with Liz Paxson was available December 97 Anne was honored as outstanding female vocalist by the Kerrville Music Foundation. and Matt at WDET in Detroit awards her" all around fine human being" 6. "Iron Lady" - ANNE HILLS What's That I Hear? Songs of Phil Ochs - Sliced Bread Rec. 7. "The Great American Dream" - DAVID MASSENGILL Fast Folk Musical Magazine April '82 This song was almost an anthem in the Greenwich Village scene for a while. (This version has Tom Intondi, Nancy Baxter, Jack Hardy and myself taking verses. I love the theatre that several voices lend the song.) David tells of how an accopella group says labelled "On the Road to Fairfax County" as "traditional" both when they play and on their CD. Some mistakes are so complimentary. 8. "On the Road to Fairfax County" - THE ROCHES Keep on Doing - Warner Bros. Album onto more hanging, violence and outlaws. 9. "Grey Fox" - RANDY BARRETT Each and Every Day - 703 255 2910 "citizens of the jury planned to swing me from a rope" 10. "Tom Dooley" - KINGSTON TRIO Kingston Trio - Capital Records 21 weeks on the charts in 1958! "when the sun rises tomorrow Tom Dooley must hang" 11. "Babylon" - BROADSIDE ELECTRIC More Bad News - BroadElect@aol.com sisters meet a murderous robber that alas is their brother 12. "Street of Derry" - JULIE HENIGAN American Stranger - awaterbug@aol.com "to die upon the gallows tree" "I'll show them they cannot hang you" Can't assume listeners don't think Child ballads are children's tunes so I spoke of Frances Child 1825-1896 compiling 305 ballads in 5 quarto volumes. onto love and murder... 13. "Two sisters" - CLANNAD Dulaman - Shanachie "the elder shoved the younger in" 14. "Jack Orion" - FLYING CLOUD Traditional Music from Ireland, Scotland and England Adelphi Box 288 Silver Spring MD 20902 Love and the Supernatural 15. "The Holland Handkerchief" - CONNIE DOVER If Ever I Return - Taylor Park Music POBox 12381 N Kansas City Missouri 64116-0381 "your words are false... your true love died" 16. "The Silkie" - LUI COLLINS Made in New England - Green Linnet "a man upon the land, a silkie on the sea" 17. "Unquiet Grave" - GRYPHON Gryphon - Transatlantic Records 86 Marylebone High St London, England W1M4AY Women getting thier way against the odds- 18. "Jock o' Hazeldeen" - Priscilla Herdman Water Lily - Philo "shes on the border and away" 19. "Maid on the Shore" - STAN ROGERS Fogarty's Cove - RR#1 Hannon Ontario L0R 1P0 the greed of a man backfires 20. "Roger the Miller" - KAREN CASEY Songlines - Shanachie more greed of a man backfires 21. "Behind the Green Bushes" - HEARTSOUNDS Behind the Green Bushes - 610 388 7523 beautiful harp and flutes and vocals on traditional tunes Here the woman has one man and goes off to another 22. "The Dancing Lesson" - DENNIS SHEARIN The Diggers - 718 507 9613 she teaches him the dance done lying down 23. "Calypso" - SUZANNE VEGA Solitude Standing - A&M Records more seductive women Seduction of another kind. David, as Lucifer, lures all to hell 24. "Down Derry Down" - DAVID MASSENGILL Fast Folk Musical magazine October '82 "are you bored, with the Lord?" 25. "Unto You this Night" - ANNE HILLS, CINDY MANGSEN< PRISCILLA HERDMAN Voices of Winter - Gadfly the voice of angels to end the show **********************************************************