Telling stories belongs to folk music. In this episode we will play 11 musical biographies of known and less known persons who really have a story or an importance that goes beyond ‘who are you’.
The life of the common people with the life cycle and all that is keeping her busy: love, war, harvest, wishes, traveling, killings, cursing, parties etc. But also stories that go deeper than that. Stories about important events, allegorically planned, as warning, mitigating circumstances etc. And stories about people: public figures in society, heroes and just antiheroes.
In this episode we will play 11 musical biographies of known and less known persons who really have a story or an importance that goes beyond ‘who are you’. Steve Biko stands next to two British petty thieves, a Swedish diplomat next to a Mexican freedom fighter. An Italian American anarchistic duo goes hand in hand with a late medieval socialist… Stories to be heard and listened to.
Woody Guthrie – Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti – Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40060.
01. Two Good Men (Guthrie) 3.45.
Al O’Donnell – Al O’Donnel – Leader Trailer LER 2073.
02. James Connelly (trad) 4.52.
Andy Irvine – Rude Awakening – Green Linnet GLCD 1114.
03. Viva Zapata (Irvine) 4.25.
Christy Moore – The Box set 1964-2004 – Sony Columbia514816 2.
04. 90 Miles to Dublin (trad, Moore) 5.40.
Malicorne – live Dranouter festival 1988.
05. Biko (Peter Gabriel) 6.53.
June Tabor – Aleyn – Topic TSCD490.
06. Bentley And Craig (Ralph McTell) 6.13.
Andy Ivine – Rude Awakening – Green Linnet GLCD 1114.
07. Raoul Wallenberg (Irvine) 5.15.
Harvey Andrews – Someday – Transatlantic Records TRA 329.
08. He played for England (Andrews, Cooper) 3.04.
Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey – Guess What They’re Selling At The Happiness Counter – Fuse records CFCD003.
09. Abiezer Coppe (Rosselson) 5.25.
Plainsong – In search of Amelia Earhart – Perfect Pitch PP009.
10. True Story Of Amelia Earhart (Matthews) 4.31.
Luka Bloom – Dreams in America – V2 VVNL21362
Lord Franklin (trad) 4.12.
