From: Sue Cavendish [suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 10 December 2008 00:45
Subject: NetRhythms, The Barcican & Folk America
Hello Everyone, welcome back to NetRhythms
 
Visit our Front Page for the Christmassy stuff:
http://www.netrhythms.com
 
Mike Davies reviews Kate Rusby's new album of South Yorkshire carols, released next Monday.
Click on the link to hear Diana Jones sing "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" on MySpace.
Read the early bird Best-Ofs and then email us yours:
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/albums_p2008.html
 
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Next, we're jumping right into 2009 with news of
Contemporary Music at the BARBICAN, produced in association with BBC Four
Wednesday 21 Jan 7.30pm
FOLK AMERICA: Hollerers, Stompers & Old-Time Ramblers
The Wiyos, CW Stoneking, Cedric Watson And Bijoux Creole, Diana Jones and others tbc - hosted by Seasick Steve
Seasick Steve recently sold out the Albert Hall with his authentic and personal take on Mississippi blues. The Wiyos are purveyors of Vaudevillian Ragtime Blues, Hillbilly Swing and Old- Time Country. Australias CW Stoneking His brand of  hokum blues and jungle jazz powerfully evokes the 1920 and '30s. Cedric Watson, fiddler, vocalist, accordionist and songwriter is one of the most noted young talents to emerge in Cajun or Creole music in the past few years.  And Diana Jones? You'll have already heard her gem of an album "My Remembrance of You" 
 
Thursday 22 Jan 7.30pm
FOLK AMERICA: Greenwich Village Revisited
Judy Collins, Eric Andersen and others tbc
This concert recalls the heady days of the '60s folk revival, centring upon the extraordinary singer-songwriter talents to emerge from the clubs of New York's Greenwich Village and beyond. A line-up of originals and those they inspired delve into the extraordinary songbook that has proved a rich legacy of the times.
Concerts at the Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Box Office: 0845 120 7550   
http://www.barbican.org.uk 
 
And BBC's FOLK AMERICA on BBC Four TV?
The documentary series will be broadcast on Friday 23rd January, Friday 30th January and Friday 6th February.  The Old-Time concert will be broadcast on Friday 23rd January and the Greenwich Village concert will be broadcast in early February.   These will be accompanied by archive documentaries and sessions.  See Press Release at foot of this Newsletter
 
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The Latest Reviews - December 2008
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviews.html
 
Enya - And Winter Came (Warner)
Paula Wolfe - Lemon (SIB)
Jefferson Starship - Jefferson's Tree of Liberty (Evangeline)
Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys - Whistling In The Dark (Sincere Sounds)
Jesse Malin - Mercury Retrograde: Live In New York City (One Little Indian)
Nathan Hamilton - Receive (Irondust Music)
Malcolm Holcombe - Gamblin' House (Echo Mountain)
The John Henrys - Sweet As The Grain (9LB/True North)
Patty Loveless - Sleepless Nights (Saguaro)
Michael Morpurgo with Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes - On Angel Wings (NoMasters Cooperative)
Griselda Sanderson - Harpaphonics (Waulk Music)
Peter Cooper - Cautionary Tales (Corazong)
Eric Hisaw - Nature of the Blues (Saustex Media)
The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band (feat Rick Vito) - Blue Again! (Hypertension)
Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse (One Little Indian)
Various Artists - The Fine Art Of Music (CoraZong)
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen/ Love Bites/ A Different Kind Of Tension (EMI)
The Bosshoss - Stallion Battalion (Island Records)
The Get-Rites - Tin Rood Sky (Magnolia Recording Company)
Ted Russell Kamp - Poor Man's Paradise (Own Label)
Robin Dransfield - A Lighter Touch (Hux Records)
French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - Invisible Means (Fledg'ling)
Brendan Hendry, Brendan Mulholland & Paul McSherry - Tuned Up (Copperplate)
Anna Shannon - When We Were Young (Own Label)
Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies - Northern Echoes: Live On The Tyne (Tantobie)
Climax Ceilidh Band - Five Play (Beautiful Jo Records)
Bodega - Under The Counter (Greentrax)
Ry Cooder - The Ufo Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology (Rhino)
Steve Gifford - Boy On A Beach (Own Label)
Ron Geesin - Biting The Hand (Hux Records)
Guitar Maestros: John Etheridge DVD (Sound Techniques)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Memories DVD (Wienerworld)
Book Review: Pete Wood - The Elliotts Of Birtley (David Herron Publishing)
Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven - Evergreen (Compass)
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas (Zoë/Rounder)
Albion Christmas Band - Snow On Snow (Talking Elephant)
Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells (Pure)
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviews.html
 
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Take care - and keep listening
 
Love, Sue
 
Sue Cavendish, Editor
www.NetRhythms.com
 
NB: BBC Four - The Story Of The American Folk Revival
A three-part series that tells one of the key stories of 20th century America.
The opening film features the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt and other blues and hillbilly singers who were discovered by record companies and folklorists in the Twenties and Thirties.
The second film enters the "dream life of the American left" with "hobo" Woody Guthrie and "jailbird" Leadbelly.
In the final film, the earlier singers are rediscovered and celebrated by a new generation of Americans, who tell their own stories about how they used the idea of a purer, simpler past to create something quite new - the exciting sounds of Sixties folk.
Featuring a stunning soundtrack, the series also includes rare archive and contributions from Joan Baez, Judy Collins, The Band, The Byrds, Odetta, Harry Belafonte, The Kingston Trio and The Weavers, as well as survivors and their families from the first wave of recorded folk.
To accompany the films there will be a screening of a concert from London's Barbican celebrating music from the series.