DOCSLIB.ORG

Lee Dunkley Editor OUR AWARDS Follow Us

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Hi-res magic DAB minitest Bargain network player Four great portable radios with high-end sonics with Bluetooth streaming PASSION FOR SOUND Issue No. 393 January 2015 Music master Why this Primare pairing is all the amp you’ll ever need WIN CHORD COMPANY cables worth £1,890 Record revival HowHow to keepkeep youryour valuablevaluable collectionll i sounding di great BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM Stunning vinyl setup puts you in the groove PRODUCTS30 ON TEST: B&W, Denon, Grado, NAD, Pure & Usher PRINTED IN THE UK US$10.99 US$10.99 PRINTED IN THE UK £4.50 2015 JANUARY Art of noise GROUP TEST Compact USB DAC pack floorstander – EssentialEsssseseeential convertors forfor hi-res hi res big on sound musici at homeh andd on theh go INTRODUCTION PASSION FOR SOUND Welcome www.hifichoice.co.uk Issue No. 393 January 2015 It’s that time of year again... When we get bombarded with low-cost 59 features and TV programmes Grado SR225e recapping the highs and lows in a greatest ‘who’s hot and what’s not’ rundown of the last 12 months. Amongst the season’s inevitable ‘100 best of...’ moments of 2014 comes the timely and very welcome news that vinyl sales have reached an 18-year high with more than one million records sold so far this year. It doesn’t sound much I know, but when you consider that the last time vinyl achieved this level of sales was back in 1996 you’ll understand it marks a significant change in our music buying habits. The news that vinyl’s popularity is on the rise is unlikely to come as much of a surprise to regular Hi-Fi Choice readers who, like us, have valiantly supported the 107 B&W T7 format and its sonic virtues throughout its mass market decline. But if the media storm that followed is anything to go by, the news seems to have come as a surprise to the rest of the music-buying public, with many unaware 99 that the format still even existed! While the increase is undoubtedly good news for the record industry with plans by The Official Record Chart Company to launch a weekly vinyl chart, it’s good news for the hi-fi industry too. Christmas is likely to see a further increase in sales and the knock-on effect will mean more record releases and inevitably more new vinyl-related products. 2015 looks to be shaping up Pink Floyd The Endless River nicely for both music and hi-fi fans. BADGES EXPLAINED Lee Dunkley Editor OUR AWARDS Follow us: EDITOR’S RECOMMENDED: GROUP TEST twitter.com@HiFiChoiceMag facebook.com/hifichoice.co.uk CHOICE: Products that WINNER: Awarded to those we feel meet a Comparative tests products that are high standard of can only have one judged to deliver performance winner, and this outstanding badge says it all! ENTERPRISE HOUSE, ENTERPRISE WAY, performance EDENBRIDGE, KENT TN8 6HF JANUARY 2015 3 Contentshifichoice.co.uk Issue No. 393 January 2015 WIN NEWS & OPINION GROUP TEST Chord 6 Audiofile Company The latest news on the hottest products cable looms! from the world of hi-fi coming your way p120 12 Webwatch Essential websites to direct your browser towards for all your hi-fi requirements 69 Letters Put your points of view and queries on audio matters to our team of experts 77 Opinion The Hi-Fi Choice team say it as they see it as they discuss the issues of the day 99 Music Reviews The month’s essential new CD, vinyl and hi-res releases given a work out READER SERVICES 122 Reader Classifieds Sell your unwanted hi-fi for FREE here 130 Next Issue The sonic treats to look out for next month FEATURES 14 The Hi-Fi Show 2014 Didn’t go to the hottest audiophile show of the year? Fear not, here’s what you missed Portable and stay-at- 26 home DACs battle it out to find out which is 62 the top-dog USB offering 62 Topic Records The oldest independent record label in the world celebrates 75 successful years 86 Thud, Crackle, Pop Take a look at artist Pete McKee’s installation – a pop-up record shop with a diff erence 90 Beautiful System Pro-Ject and Acoustic Energy come together to create a stunning vinyl setup 94 Labelled With Love Few record labels define the word eclectic quite as well as Transatlantic Records 116 Guide To... 6 86 Looking after your record collection and ensuring it stays in tip-top condition Audiofile: Roksan’s new K3 Series Feature: Thud, Crackle Pop record shop 4 JANUARY 2015 CONTENTS JANUARY 2015 “To continually get the best from your vinyl, each record needs to 110 NAD PP 4 phono/USB premp be kept clean and stored properly” TESTED THIS MONTH Guide to... Looking after your record collection p116 REVIEWS Kit testing 20 Primare PRE32/A34.2 preamp/power amplifier 44 B.M.C. PureAmp integrated amplifier (Exotica) 48 Usher Audio N-6311 floorstanding loudspeaker 52 Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6 V2 20 network music player/DAC Primare PRE32/A34.2 preamp/power amp 54 Edwards Audio SP2 floorstanding loudspeaker 59 Grado SR225e headphones 88 Musical Fidelity A1 integrated amplifier (retro) GROUP TEST USB DACs £165-£900 29 Denon DA-300USB 48 31 ADL X1 Usher Audio N-6311 44 33 Hegel HD12 DSD B.M.C. PureAmp integrated amplifier 35 Henry Audio USB DAC 128 mkII MINI TEST 37 iFi Nano iDSD Bluetooth DAB radios 39 LH Labs Geek Out M £180-£200 102 Ruark R1 Mk III 103 Pure Evoke D4 Mio Bluetooth 103 Revo SuperSignal 104 Philips Original Radio 52 CHOICE EXTRAS Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6 V2 107 Bowers & Wilkins T7 Bluetooth loudspeaker 109 Kate Koeppel Record dividers 109 ISOkinetik Silver Melody 1.1 interconnect cables 110 NAD PP 4 phono USB preamp 113 Black Rhodium Samba VS-1 loudspeaker cable 115 Miyajima 90 54 Kotetu Mono MC cartridge Beautiful System Edwards Audio SP2 Never miss an issue – turn to p60 for our latest subs offer JANUARY 2015 5 THE LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS… Special K Roksan rolls out its new K3 series with integrated amp and CD player PRICE: £1,250 EACH AVAILABLE: NOW CONTACT: 01235 511166 WEB: HENLEYDESIGNS.CO.UK FOLLOWING THE DESERVED move towards high-end hi-fi , and are Bluetooth connectivity to enable acclaim for its Kandy K2 series of designed to challenge performance streamers to listen to tunes wirelessly. components alongside a clutch of expectations at the price. Inside the elegant new chassis of awards – including winning the Best The K3 Integrated Amplifi er offers the K3 Integrated Amplifi er, its new Stereo Integrated Amplifi er category connections for every eventuality to symmetrical layout offers improved for the K2 BT amp in our very own ensure it will remain a vital hub to all audio circuitry with new op-amps AVTech Media Awards 2014/15, your stereo audio sources for years to and Roksan claims it delivers a hefty Roksan has announced the come. As well as fi ve line-level inputs 140W into 8ohms. introduction of its K3 series. The there’s a built-in moving magnet Proving that CD players really aren’t London-based company has managed phono stage to appeal to new or a thing of the past, the new K3 deck to establish a very strong reputation reemerging vinyl fans, and aptX is based on the original K2 design. It over recent years with its entry-level Kandy K2 series, and the highly anticipated K3 series offers the next logical step up. Said to be inspired by the company’s more upmarket M2 range of components, distributor Henley Designs tells us that although the new series shares the Kandy name, the K3 products offer a signifi cant 6 JANUARY 2015 COMMENT SPOTIFY VS TAYLOR SWIFT Spotify has had it’s detractors over the years, but few can have caused the streaming service quite as much of a headache as pop sensation Taylor Swift. Though unlikely to be spinning on any HFC readers’ turntables, Swift is currently the biggest artist anywhere right now, with her latest album, 1989, selling an astonishing 1.287 million copies in its first adds new circuitry and high-grade Available in three brand new week. To put that into perspective, no other components to improve on fi nishes including charcoal, opium artist has had sales as significant as that performance, alongside a PCM1798 and anthracite, both components also since Eminem’s The Eminem Show in 2002. 24-bit/192kHz DAC. Digital outputs come supplied with a newly designed All of which made Swift’s decision to include AES/EBU XLR, coaxial RCA system remote to provide complete withdraw her entire back catalogue from and optical Toslink. Additionally control of all the commands on each Spotify the week before the release of there’s a variety of rarely found but of the components. the record-breaking album all the more useful features including Shuffl e Play, Both models are available to buy frustrating for the streaming service. Repeat Play (One and All) and Intro from your Roksan dealer now. Read The reasons given for the decision vary Play that are likely to further enhance our reviews on the new K3 series in depending on which particular quotes you the K3’s usability and appeal. these pages over the coming months. believe. Swift has been vocal about her dislike of piracy in the past and implications seem to be that she feels her ‘art’ is devalued by it being given away for free.
Recommended publications
  • Download (2399Kb)

    Download (2399Kb)

    A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick Permanent WRAP URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/ 84893 Copyright and reuse: This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: [email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications Culture is a Weapon: Popular Music, Protest and Opposition to Apartheid in Britain David Toulson A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History University of Warwick Department of History January 2016 Table of Contents Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………...iv Declaration………………………………………………………………………….v Abstract…………………………………………………………………………….vi Introduction………………………………………………………………………..1 ‘A rock concert with a cause’……………………………………………………….1 Come Together……………………………………………………………………...7 Methodology………………………………………………………………………13 Research Questions and Structure…………………………………………………22 1)“Culture is a weapon that we can use against the apartheid regime”……...25 The Cultural Boycott and the Anti-Apartheid Movement…………………………25 ‘The Times They Are A Changing’………………………………………………..34 ‘Culture is a weapon of struggle’………………………………………………….47 Rock Against Racism……………………………………………………………...54 ‘We need less airy fairy freedom music and more action.’………………………..72 2) ‘The Myth
  • Download PDF Booklet

    Download PDF Booklet

    “I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace well worth singing about.” E Y Harburg Purpose + Grace started as a list of songs and a list of possible guests. It is a wide mixture of material, from a traditional song I first heard 50 years ago, other songs that have been with me for decades, waiting to be arranged, to new original songs. You stand in a long line when you perform songs like this, you honour the ancestors, but hopefully the songs become, if only briefly your own, or a part of you. To call on my friends and peers to make this recording has been a great pleasure. Turning the two lists into a coherent whole was joyous. On previous recordings I’ve invited guest musicians to play their instruments, here, I asked singers for their unique contributions to these songs. Accompanying song has always been my favourite occupation, so it made perfect sense to have vocal and instrumental collaborations. In 1976 I had just released my first album and had been picked up by a heavy, old school music business manager whose avowed intent was to make me a star. I was not averse to the concept, and went straight from small folk clubs to opening shows for Steeleye Span at the biggest halls in the country. Early the next year June Tabor asked me if I would accompany her on tour. I was ecstatic and duly reported to my manager, who told me I was a star and didn’t play for other people.
  • Fingerstyle Guitar Solos

    Fingerstyle Guitar Solos

    Fingerstyle Guitar Solos from the playing of DaveyGraham, Blind Blake, Stefan Grossman Bert Janschand John Renbourn using standardtuning transcribed by Peter Billam and some pieces by Peter Billam ©Peter J Billam, 2017 This score is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence; see creativecommons.org This edition 7 September 2021. www.pjb.com.au Finger-style Folk-guitar Instrumentals These scores are something I always wished I had when I was fingerpicking steel-strung guitars in the the folk clubs of London in the late 1960s. Included are instrumentals for solo guitar,all in standard tuning, including a couple of my own, but mostly from the early albums of Davey Graham, Stefan Grossman, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. Everyone trying to play the folk guitar must own those albums ! not to mention those by Al Stewart, John Martyn, RoyHarper,Dando Shaft, the Incredible String Band . it was a moment of great creative flowering. Theyplayed often with a Capo on second or third fret, and mostly in triplet-rhythm, which I have notated in 12/16 and 9/16 to makethe beats clearer by grouping them under the same beam. An ascii-tab tablature edition of these pieces is also available. Davey Graham was playing jazz standards - tune, chords and bass - just as a piano trio could. And not so much by brute virtuosity,asbyintelligence: by letting the arrangement growout from the guitar.Just consult Cry Me a River on youtube to see hownaturally the playing lies on Davey’s six strings. Blind Blake, star of Piedmont blues, recorded more than 100 sides in Chicago in 1927-1932, and was one of the great influences on Gary Davis.
  • Issue 148.Pmd

    Issue 148.Pmd

    email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 148 November Oxford’s Music Magazine 2007 Little Fish Fins are going swimmingly for Oxford’s brightest new rock sprats - interview inside NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] AS HAS BEEN WIDELY Oxford, with sold-out shows by the REPORTED, RADIOHEAD likes of Witches, Half Rabbits and a released their new album, `In special Selectasound show at the Rainbows’ as a download-only Bullingdon featuring Jaberwok and album last month with fans able to Mr Shaodow. The Castle show, pay what they wanted for the entitled ‘The Small World Party’, abum. With virtually no advance organised by local Oxjam co- press or interviews to promote the ordinator Kevin Jenkins, starts at album, `In Rainbows’ was reported midday with a set from Sol Samba to have sold over 1,500,000 copies as well as buskers and street CSS return to Oxford on Tuesday 11th December with a show at the in its first week. performers. In the afternoon there is Oxford Academy, as part of a short UK tour. The Brazilian elctro-pop Nightshift readers might remember a fashion show and auction featuring stars are joined by the wonderful Metronomy (recent support to Foals) that in March this year local act clothes from Oxfam shops, with the and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong. Tickets are on sale now, priced The Sad Song Co. - the prog-rock main concert at 7pm featuring sets £15, from 0844 477 2000 or online from wegottickets.com solo project of Dive Dive drummer from Cyberscribes, Mr Shaodow, Nigel Powell - offered a similar deal Brickwork Lizards and more.
  • Armandito Y Su Trovason High Energy Cuban Six Piece Latin Band

    Armandito Y Su Trovason High Energy Cuban Six Piece Latin Band

    Dates For Your Diary Folk News Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc Dance News Issue 412 CD Reviews November 2009 $3.00 Armandito Y Su Trovason High energy Cuban six piece Latin band ♫ folk music ♫ dance ♫ festivals ♫ reviews ♫ profiles ♫ diary dates ♫ sessions ♫ teachers ♫ opportunities The Folk Federation ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette NOVEMBER 2009 1 AdVErTISINg Rates Size mm Members Non-mem NOVEMBEr 2009 Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc Full page 180x250 $80 $120 In this issue Post Office Box A182 1/2 page 180x125 $40 $70 Dates for your diary p4 Sydney South NSW 1235 ISSN 0818 7339 ABN9411575922 1/4 page 90x60 $25 $50 Festivals, workshops, schools p6 jam.org.au 1/8 page 45 x 30 $15 $35 Folk news p8 The Folk Federation of NSW Inc, formed in Back cover 180x250 $100 $150 Dance news p9 1970, is a Statewide body which aims to present, Folk contacts p10 support, encourage and collect folk m usic, folk 2 + issues per mth $90 $130 dance, folklore and folk activities as they exist Advertising artwork required by 5th of each month. CD Review p14 Advertisements can be produced by Cornstalk if re- in Australia in all their forms. It provides a link quired. Please contact the editor for enquiries about Deadline for December/January Issue for people interested in the folk arts through its advertising Tel: 6493 6758 ADVERTS 5th November affiliations with folk clubs throughout NSW and its Inserts for Cornstalk COPY 10th November counterparts in other States. It bridges all styles [email protected] NOTE: There will be no January issue.
  • The Midlands Essential Entertainment Guide

    The Midlands Essential Entertainment Guide

    Staffordshire Cover - July.qxp_Mids Cover - August 23/06/2014 16:43 Page 1 STAFFORDSHIRE WHAT’S ON WHAT’S STAFFORDSHIRE THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE STAFFORDSHIRE ISSUE 343 JULY 2014 JULY ’ Whatwww.whatsonlive.co.uk sOnISSUE 343 JULY 2014 ROBBIE WILLIAMS SWINGS INTO BRUM RHYS DARBY return of the Kiwi comedian PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART THE GRUFFALO journey through the deep dark wood in Stafford... FUSE FESTIVAL showcasing the region’s @WHATSONSTAFFS WWW.WHATSONLIVE.CO.UK @WHATSONSTAFFS talent at Beacon Park Antiques For Everyone (FP-July).qxp_Layout 1 23/06/2014 14:00 Page 1 Contents- Region two - July.qxp_Layout 1 23/06/2014 12:42 Page 1 June 2014 Editor: Davina Evans INSIDE: [email protected] 01743 281708 Editorial Assistants: Ellie Goulding Brian O’Faolain [email protected] joins line-up for 01743 281701 Wireless Festival p45 Lauren Foster [email protected] 01743 281707 Adrian Parker [email protected] 01743 281714 Sales & Marketing: Jon Cartwright [email protected] 01743 281703 Chris Horton [email protected] 01743 281704 Subscriptions: Adrian Parker [email protected] 01743 281714 Scooby-Doo Managing Director: spooky things a-happening Paul Oliver [email protected] in Wolverhampton p27 01743 281711 Publisher and CEO: Martin Monahan [email protected] 01743 281710 Graphic Designers: Lisa Wassell Chris Atherton Accounts Administrator Julia Perry Wicked - the award-winning musical
  • 14302 76969 1 1>

    14302 76969 1 1>

    11> 0514302 76969 establishment,” he hastened to clarify. “I wish it were called the Legion of Honour, but it’s not.” Still in all, he thinks it’s good for govern- M artin C arthy ments to give cultural awards and is suitably honored by this one, which has previously gone to such outstanding folk performers as Jeannie Robertson. To decline under such circum- stances, he said, would have been “snotty.” Don’t More importantly, he conceives of his MBE as recognition he shares with the whole Call Me folk scene. “I’ve been put at the front of a very, very long queue of people who work hard to make a folk revival and a folk scene,” he said. Sir! “All those people who organized clubs for nothing and paid you out of their own pocket, and fed you and put you on the train the next morning, and put you to bed when you were drunk! What [the government is] doing, is taking notice of the fact that something’s going on for the last more than 40 years. It’s called the folk revival. They’ve ignored it for that long. And someone has suddenly taken notice, and that’s okay. A bit of profile isn’t gonna hurt us — and I say us, the plural, for the folk scene — isn’t gonna hurt us at all.” In the same year as Carthy’s moment of recognition, something happened that did hurt the folk scene. Lal Waterson, Carthy’s sister-in- law, bandmate, near neighbor and close friend, died of cancer.
  • Kiff Aarau We Keep You in the Loop

    Kiff Aarau We Keep You in the Loop

    SEP.19 2 Tone EINSCHLAUFEN Betrifft: Unangefochten nach Hause tanzen Impressum Nº 07.19 Die Telefone bleiben stumm, die hastig durch Wipkingen ebenso souverän besteigen wie das DER MUSIKZEITUNG LOOP 22. JAHRGANG den Raum gebrüllten Regieanweisungen sind Nachtboot nach Kairo. Und in lockerer Fuss- verklungen, es ist niemand mehr da. Wilson- bekleidung tanzt man auch unangefochten P.S./LOOP Verlag Pickett-Zeit, Schichtende. Der Kugelschrei- nach Hause, getragen von den Ska-Klängen Hohlstrasse 216, 8004 Zürich ber wird zurück in die Hemdtasche gesteckt, aus den ganz frühen Achtzigerjahren, die uns Tel. 044 240 44 25 der Rechner heruntergefahren, der Schreib- auf den folgenden Seiten begleiten. Eine mu- www.loopzeitung.ch tisch verlassen. Stummen Schrittes durchs sikalische Energiequelle, politisch ummantelt Treppenhaus, zwei Stockwerke, danach vor- und von nachwachsenden Generationen im- bei an der stillgelegten Stempeluhr und raus mer wieder befeuert. Und womöglich erneut Verlag, Layout: Thierry Frochaux in die Sommernacht. «Guido has left the aktuell, wenn Grossbritannien Ende Oktober [email protected] building.» Ein Satz, der jede Nacht kurz in den EU-Austritt umsetzen muss. Denn spä- meinem Kopf aufflackert, gefolgt von einem testens dann wird «You’re Wondering Now» Administration, Inserate: Manfred Müller Blick hoch zum Himmel. von The Specials eine neue Facette erhalten. [email protected] Um diese Uhrzeit ist der Verkehrslärm in un- Ganz zu schweigen von «Ghost Town». serer kleinen grossen Stadt bereits angenehm Noch bleiben also knapp zwei Monate bis Redaktion: Philippe Amrein (amp), gedrosselt, allerdings nicht so stark, dass man zur grossen Abrechnung respektive dem Ab- Benedikt Sartorius (bs), Koni Löpfe sich bloss noch von atmender Stille umgeben schied von Grossbritannien, wie wir es ken- wähnen würde.
  • Topic Records 80Th Anniversary Start Time: 8Pm Running Time: 2 Hours 40 Minutes with Interval

    Topic Records 80Th Anniversary Start Time: 8Pm Running Time: 2 Hours 40 Minutes with Interval

    Topic Records 80th Anniversary Start time: 8pm Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes with interval Please note all timings are approximate and subject to change Martin Aston discusses the history behind the world’s oldest independent label ahead of this collaborative performance. When Topic Records made its debut in 1939 with Paddy Ryan’s ‘The Man That Waters The Workers’ Beer’, an accordion-backed diatribe against capitalist businessmen who underpay their employees, it’s unlikely that anyone involved was thinking of the future – certainly not to 2019, when the label celebrates its 80th birthday. In any case, the future would have seemed very precarious in 1939, given the outbreak of World War II, during which Topic ceased most activity (shellac was particularly hard to source). But post-1945, the label made good on its original brief: ‘To use popular music to educate and inform and improve the lot of the working man,’ explains David Suff, the current spearhead of the world’s oldest independent label – and the undisputed home of British folk music. Tonight at the Barbican (where Topic held their 60th birthday concerts), musical director Eliza Carthy – part of the Topic recording family since 1997, though her parents Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been members since the sixties and seventies respectively - has marshalled a line-up to reflect the passing decades, which hasn’t been without its problems. ‘We have far too much material, given it’s meant to be a two-hour show!’ she says. ‘It’s impossible to represent 80 years – you’re talking about the left-wing leg, the archival leg, the many different facets of society - not just communists but farmers and factory workers - and the folk scene in the Fifties, the Sixties, the Seventies..
  • The Watersons the Definitive Collection Mp3, Flac, Wma

    The Watersons the Definitive Collection Mp3, Flac, Wma

    The Watersons The Definitive Collection mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Folk, World, & Country Album: The Definitive Collection Country: UK Released: 2003 Style: Folk MP3 version RAR size: 1203 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1609 mb WMA version RAR size: 1410 mb Rating: 4.5 Votes: 881 Other Formats: AHX AUD MP4 AU MP1 MMF DTS Tracklist 1 God Bless The Master 3:05 2 Dido Bendigo 2:53 3 The Welcome Sailor 3:12 4 Emmanuel 2:48 5 Idumea 1:48 6 The Still And Silent Ocean 4:25 7 Fathom The Bowl 2:52 8 Fare Thee Well Cold Winter 2:32 9 The Holmfirth Anthem 1:58 10 Stormy Winds 3:10 11 Rosebuds In June 3:15 12 Bellman 3:55 13 Sleep On Beloved 3:03 14 Swansea Town 4:18 15 The Beggar Man 3:26 16 Amazing Grace 4:38 17 The Old Churchyard 3:23 18 Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy 3:38 19 Malpas Wassail 4:11 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Topic Records Ltd. Copyright (c) – Topic Records Ltd. Licensed From – Topic Records Ltd. Published By – Concorde International Management Consultants Ltd. Published By – Gwyneth Music Ltd. Published By – Topic Records Ltd. Published By – MCS Music Limited Published By – Free Reed Music Published By – April Music Ltd. Published By – Mole Music Ltd Credits Accompanied By – Gabriel's Horns (tracks: 4) Concertina [Anglo-concertina] – Tony Engle (tracks: 15) Fiddle – Peta Webb (tracks: 15) Guitar – Martin Carthy Melodeon – Rod Stradling (tracks: 15) Performer – Anthea Bellamy (tracks: 16), Barry Coope (tracks: 18), Blue Murder (tracks: 18), Eliza Carthy (tracks: 13, 17, 18), Jim Boyes (tracks: 18), Jim
  • The Folk Club of Reston-Herndon Preserving the Traditions of Folk Music, Folk Lore, and Gentle Folk Ways Volume 28, Issue 7 July 2012

    The Folk Club of Reston-Herndon Preserving the Traditions of Folk Music, Folk Lore, and Gentle Folk Ways Volume 28, Issue 7 July 2012

    The Folk Club of Reston-Herndon Preserving the traditions of Folk Music, Folk Lore, and Gentle Folk Ways www.RestonHerndonFolkClub.com Volume 28, Issue 7 July 2012 July 10 Showcase – Scott Malyszka & Friends When I was a spiritual person in my younger days, I loved a good sermon. Now you ask various church people what makes a good sermon, and you'll have trouble getting a lot of agreement. Some people want to hear comfortable, familiar platitudes, and some like loud shouting and stomping around. Others expect the preacher to give a deep academic exposition of a text or topic. I knew one strange guy who would say, "If I don't feel guilty and ashamed after a sermon, then that preacher isn't doing his job." Whoa, yikes! I always felt that a good sermon simply meant telling a good story. When a person could stand in front of an audience and paint stories in their imaginations, well that's what I liked. And when I had the task of delivering a sermon, I tried to put together twenty minutes of good stories. I modeled my sermons on Garrison Keeler and John Steinbeck rather than Billy Graham or Jimmy Swaggart, the most popular preachers back then. After many years as a church person I came to the cynical conclusion that most people go to church to see their friends and to be entertained by the sermon and the music. I'm not a spiritual person now, but I do have a great appreciation for friends, stories, and music. I'm always finding intriguing new melodies from fiddle tunes and songs, and writing my own songs is my way of making up stories today.
  • Smallgames.Pdf

    Smallgames.Pdf

    SMALL GAMES OF CHANCE Jonathan Wesley Bell © 2018, JONATHAN WESLEY BELL, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1928 Plantation Sainte Elisabeth Annunciation Sunday March 25. 9:45 am. Geneva, Alabama Big and black the cast iron skillet slams against the wall. Bam! With that she calls out “damn Annunciation Sunday.” Her message pulses through the shanty like an orgasm. It gives no release. Solidified bacon fat layered the skillet bottom. Most of that slips to the floor in white lard cakes to skid about in pools of drippings. Glancing at the floor May thinks, “damnation, I’ll have to mop the floor again before Cousin Chinless comes.” The angry woman stands at the kitchen sink. She leans forward close to the room’s only window. Although small the window holds a large landscape for her to scrutinize--and scrutinize again--so she’s been doing this for the past several minutes. From the shanty on the rise May scans for her wandering husband. Looking for him down the long sweep of fields. May’s backdrop is kitchen gloom. Kerosene lamp stands dark on the big round table behind her. Wild flowers in a water glass on the table wilt in the murk. Gloom confines the sunshine into an oval tight around her head. Sunlight, extreme, warped by cheap glass. It shimmers down her in a water music motion. She tenses full-frontal to the window frame, letting the cosmos pass over her in its inexorable wasting. White gold on May’s throat, face and hair. May is carved moonstone. Translucent in such strong morning light.