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Ragamuffin's Brian and Mike have been championing music below the radar before the pod was cast . . .

WEATHER REPORT

Glug...Glug....Glug

Ragamuffin Brian

buys sub aqua gear to get to work!

Noah, busy building floating pontoon. Mike buys job-lot of fisherman's waders. Off to Folk Club tonight in canoes!

Wet, and high winds . . .but the music is hot!

It's a new year in the shires with more music and tales than you can wag a stick at with Ragamuffin's Brian and Mike.

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The Sunday in the Shires Archive

Time to put some wood in the stove, the coffee pot on the boil, butter the toast and play some music for a Sunday morning.

The playlist:

• No One Will Ever Know - Billy and Harry
  from Back to Basics - Billy and Harry

• Penny In A Goldmine: Palmino Redlands Company: From their E.P. She Is Yours - Palmino Redlands Company
• Breakfast In Hell - Slaid Cleaves, from his second album: Broke Down. Slaid Cleaves.
• Gypsy Rider - Gene Clark - from So Rebellious A Lover - Gene Clark
• Tylersville Road - Peter Keane - from his album Just Walking - Peter Keane.
• Carollan's Welcome - Waterboys: released on a Box Set 'Fisherman's Blues Session' - Waterboys.
• Fisherman's Blues - Waterboys - Waterboys.
• Am I A Storyteller - Tom Taylor - Tom Taylor
• This Moment Is Mine - Jack Williams: From his album: Eternity & Main: a runaway Slave tale in song from - Jack Williams
• Circles - Eric Bib - Eric continues the storytelling theme, from his album: Circles. - Eric Bib.
• Connamara Evening - Mike Plumbley - from Mike's musical rambling around Galway in 2006 - Irish Mist In The Porridge.
• The Loving Time - wonderful song from Mary Black - a studio version of one of her songs covered in the Transatlantic sessions. - Mary Black
• Last Train To Clifden - Another poetic gem from Mike's musical journey through Galway - Irish Mist In The Porridge.
• Rose Of Allandale - Mary Black with another gem song from her huge repertoire of beautiful songs - Mary Black.
• Rosemary's Sister - a totally unique version of this beautiful song by Huw Williams: sung unaccompanied by Clair Coxwell at the Nonesuch Folk Club - 2006 - Claire Coxwell.
• Morays Skull - More storytelling; this time by Ashley Hutchins, the founder of Fairport Convention, The Albion Band, and the founder father of Folk Rock - prepared to be spooked! - Ashley Hutchins
   
• Plays out with No One Will Ever Know - Billy and Harry
  from Back to Basics - Billy and Harry from Bellbuckle, Tennessee.

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