The Everchanging Minstrel Sets Sail...

Tonight was the maiden voyage of the everchanging minstrel (ii), and my first radio show ever. I didn't tape it, but here's the playlist from the evening:

1.Come All Ye- Fairport Convention, Liege and Lief
2. First Girl I Loved- Incredible String Band
3. Tonight- Sibylle Baier, The Colour Green
4. Songs from the Wood- Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood
5. Madeleine Mary- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- I See A Darkness
6. Willy O' Winsbury- Anne Briggs, A Collection
7. Lewisdale Blues- John Fahey, The Voice of the Turtle
8. Talking to You Mama- Blind Willie McTell
9. Silver Birch and Weeping Willow- Ralph McTell
10. Trawlerman's Song- Vashti Bunyan, Another Diamond Day
11. The House Carpenter- Clarence Ashley
12. Girl From the North Country- Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
13. Wild Mountain Thyme- Papa M
14. This World Is Not My Home- His Name Is Alive
15. In The Pines- (Smog), A River Ain't Too Much To Love
16. Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy- The Watersons, Frost and Fire
17. Lish Young Buy-A-Broom- Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Folk Songs of Ye Olde England
18. Atan Ajanaku- Jolly Orchestra, JuJu Roots 1930-1950s
19. Schottische Time- Dock Boggs
20. Sadie- Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender
21. Leaves That Are Green- Paul Simon
22. Dance of Years- Tir Na N'og, Tir Na N'og
23. Hard Travelin'- Ramblin' Jack Elliot
24. Pretty Boy Floyd- Felix Sonnyboy Wilson, Songs For Woody
25. Gravel Pit- Oak, EP 1 (The Bird)
26. Doves Are White- Mormos
27. Have You Seen The Stars Tonight- Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
28. White Mule- Jack Rose
29. Which Will- Nick Drake
30. One Night As I Lay On My Bed-Shirley Collins, A Fountain of Snow
31. Curl Your Toes- Bridget St. John
32. I Bid You Goodnight- Joseph Spence

This show mused a bit on the themes of minstrels, troubadours, old songs made new again (what makes folk music folk music!), and songs that refer to themselves, or the act of singing.

Next week's theme is "winter," listen in for some winter solstice songs and carols, and for a special guest and originator of the first Everchanging Minstrel, my dad!

And I bid you goodnight...