Before the pod was out of the cast Ragamuffin Radio have been highlighting music under the radar from their home in the shires

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

Time to put some wood in the stove, the coffee pot on the boil, butter the toast and play some music. This week we're off to Wales by way of the blues . . .

The playlist:

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

THE BLUES TWO - RAG MAMA RAG

Lazy Good For Nothin' Dude (Ashley Dow) Rag Mama Rag
from their album LIVE
Cigarette Blues (Bo Carter of the Mississippi Sheiks) Rag Mama Rag
another cracking song from Ashley and Deborah Dow's album LIVE who Mike caught up with at Ringwood Folk Club courtesy of Martin Kennard's wheels

THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES - BESSIE SMITH

Black Mountain Blues Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Bessie Smith
Down Home Radio
Bessie Smith inducted into Rock Hall of Fame
The Blues Highway

THE MUSIC OF MARJORIE THOMSON - PART TWO

Watch The North Wind Rise (Jorma Kaukonen) Marjorie Thomson
Don't Look Back Marjorie Thomson
more music from Majorie Thomson's album Right By Me and interview with Mike at Platform Tavern, 23rd March, 2008

UNDER MILK WOOD / DYLAN AND CAITLIN

Extract Under Milk Wood Suite Donald Houston / Stan Tracey Quartet
Mike was at the Wigmore Hall in 1976 when Donald Houston read Under Milk Wood with the Stan Tracey Quartet playing the Under Milk Wood Suite. Cracking night.
Dylan and Caitlin Huw Pudner and Chris Hastings
This song has been in my head for a couple of weeks and it stands perfectly alongside the Donald Houston reading. The link here is to the Pontardawe Folk Club where I believe Huw and Chris and other Welsh poets and songmen have performed an evening of music entitled Songs of the Earth

LAST DEEP MINE IN THE VALLEYS - TYRONE O'SULLIVAN

We tip our hats to the music, history and mining men of the South Wales coalfields featuring interviews with miner's leader Tyrone O'Sullivan.

Land Of Our Fathers Caerphilly Male Voice Choir
from the album The Music Of Wales.
Skewan Main - 1925 Huw Pudner and Chris Hastings
Huw Pudner lives about two doors from the entrance to the old Skewan Main colliery and he and Chris Hastings have preserved its history with this song. Put me down for a front row seat to listen to an evening of Songs of the Earth performed at Pontardawe Folk Club, link to the club here.
You'll Never Walk Alone Morriston Orpheous Choir
from the album Great Voices Of Wales / Choral Festival

Closing music:

No One Will Ever Know - Billy and Harry
from Back to Basics - Billy and Harry from Bellbuckle, Tennessee.

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