Monday, October 27, 2014
Mostly Folk Playlist, October 26, 2014
People who will be performing in the area
Bling-Blang | Arlo Guthrie | Putumayo Kids Presents Sing Along with Putumayo
Raigmore | Battlefield Band |Line Up
North Country Waltz | John Kirk and Trish Miller| Quicksteppin’
Shenandoah| John Kirk and Trish Miller| Quicksteppin’
Legacy | Pierce Pettis | While the Serpent Lies Sleeping
These Hands | Brother Sun | Some Part of the Truth
March On | Jamcrackers | Jamcrackers
The Good in Living | Jamcrackers | Jamcrackers
Halloween, Samhain, ghosts, and spooky stuff
The Ballad of Jack O' the Lantern | The Muses | Passing Time
The Highwayman | Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen | What’s That I Hear – The Songs of Phil Ochs
Many Moons Ago | Empyrium | Stand and Deliver
The Bird Rock | Bok, Muir, and Trickett | And So Will We Yet
Lebanese Melody / The Unquiet Grave | Elizabeth Nicholson and Stringed Migration | Fly Not Yet
Tarantula | Sarah Lee Guthrie | Sarah Lee Guthrie
Don’t Go Down to the Quarry | Peter, Paul, and Mary | Such is Love
Monsters & Giants | Greg Brown | Bathtub Blues
Giants' Dance | Smithfield Fair | 20 for 20
The Wizard | Bill Frisell | Disfarmer
All Soul's Night | Loreena McKennitt | The Visit
Samain Night | Loreena McKennitt | Parallel Dreams
A Samhain Wish | Four Shillings Short | Pass It On: Live in Boulder Colorado
This Fire | John McCutcheon | This Fire: Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles
The Clock Ticks On | Blackmore’s Night | Stand and Deliver
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Joe Crookston concert
"I think I'm the youngest person here, except for the performers," I observed.
"I'm 24," my friend said. But he's not 24. He's older than I am.
"Jackson is here," he said. "Or he was. I saw him before."
"Who's Jackson?"
"He's about 24. He goes to Hudson Valley."
"Oh, is he the guy behind the stairs with the laptop?"
My friend took a stroll behind the stairs to check it out, and then reported yes, that's Jackson.
And yes, I was the youngest person there other than the performers and Jackson.
The concert was Joe Crookston, accompanied by Peter Glanville. I have been a fan of Joe Crookston for about 10 years, but this was the first time I saw him live. He does a good job.
He opened the show with "I Sing," It was perfect as an opening. The words were a little different from the words in his recorded version. Something he repeated often in the live version that he doesn't say in the album version is that he sings about his family so as to remember where he's from, and he sings for his daughter. In the recorded version of the song, he says
Why all the loneliness, why all the fear?
If it's up to me, there'll be none of that here.
Why all the anger and why all the grief?
Lay it down. We have everything we need.
When he did it as the opening for his concert, he added in various places the word "tonight," and it made the song about this concert. He was establishing the concert as a refuge from all the bad things in the world, a place where we can just sit and enjoy the music, be present in the moment, and have everything we need.
The finale was "Fall Down As the Rain." He brought us full circle by starting the finale by singing a bit of "I Sing," and then he transitioned into Fall Down As the Rain. He had us singing along. Then as the song was pretty much over, the guitars kept playing as he called out thanks to the various people involved in putting on the concert and asked us to applaud them. Then he finished it off with another round of the chorus.
We called him back for an encore of course. I was thinking I would do "Poor Me / May There Always Be Sunshine" for the encore, but he didn't. But I realized, that's why I have a radio show. Because I have a vision of what song to play when, and my radio show gives me an outlet for that.
For the encore, he did "Satisfied Mind." I had never heard him do that song before, but I love it when Tao Seeger does it. It worked well.
I am grateful that I have a radio show, both because I enjoy the creativity of constructing playlists, and because I get expose people to wonderful music of people like Joe Crookston.
I'm a part of enabling people like Joe Crookston to earn a living at folk music. If people hear him on the radio, maybe they will buy his albums, and maybe they will go to his concerts.
I was the youngest person there other than the performers and Jackson. Right now it's the baby boomers who keep folk music alive. It's up to us younger people to keep it going in the future.
"I'm 24," my friend said. But he's not 24. He's older than I am.
"Jackson is here," he said. "Or he was. I saw him before."
"Who's Jackson?"
"He's about 24. He goes to Hudson Valley."
"Oh, is he the guy behind the stairs with the laptop?"
My friend took a stroll behind the stairs to check it out, and then reported yes, that's Jackson.
And yes, I was the youngest person there other than the performers and Jackson.
The concert was Joe Crookston, accompanied by Peter Glanville. I have been a fan of Joe Crookston for about 10 years, but this was the first time I saw him live. He does a good job.
He opened the show with "I Sing," It was perfect as an opening. The words were a little different from the words in his recorded version. Something he repeated often in the live version that he doesn't say in the album version is that he sings about his family so as to remember where he's from, and he sings for his daughter. In the recorded version of the song, he says
Why all the loneliness, why all the fear?
If it's up to me, there'll be none of that here.
Why all the anger and why all the grief?
Lay it down. We have everything we need.
When he did it as the opening for his concert, he added in various places the word "tonight," and it made the song about this concert. He was establishing the concert as a refuge from all the bad things in the world, a place where we can just sit and enjoy the music, be present in the moment, and have everything we need.
The finale was "Fall Down As the Rain." He brought us full circle by starting the finale by singing a bit of "I Sing," and then he transitioned into Fall Down As the Rain. He had us singing along. Then as the song was pretty much over, the guitars kept playing as he called out thanks to the various people involved in putting on the concert and asked us to applaud them. Then he finished it off with another round of the chorus.
We called him back for an encore of course. I was thinking I would do "Poor Me / May There Always Be Sunshine" for the encore, but he didn't. But I realized, that's why I have a radio show. Because I have a vision of what song to play when, and my radio show gives me an outlet for that.
For the encore, he did "Satisfied Mind." I had never heard him do that song before, but I love it when Tao Seeger does it. It worked well.
I am grateful that I have a radio show, both because I enjoy the creativity of constructing playlists, and because I get expose people to wonderful music of people like Joe Crookston.
I'm a part of enabling people like Joe Crookston to earn a living at folk music. If people hear him on the radio, maybe they will buy his albums, and maybe they will go to his concerts.
I was the youngest person there other than the performers and Jackson. Right now it's the baby boomers who keep folk music alive. It's up to us younger people to keep it going in the future.
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