Category: Folk Music
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Martin Carthy – Scarborough Fair (15/11/22)
The art of the Folk Song intro. Martin is a musical treasure. During a trip to Ireland to perform at a TV awards do, Martin and Eliza Carthy performed a few songs at a private, unadvertised gathering for a friend, Dan McDonald. Here is a song – with long introduction – from Martin, from his…
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Quiet Riot “Bigger Bombs”
The only studio recording of the Coventry band Quiet Riot. “the other night”, Thursdays at the Freemasons Tavern. Many great nights. “The Bomb Song” was recorded at Woodworm Studios in 1983. Writen by Dave Cooper it features Dando Shaft members Mart Jenkins, Kev Dempsey and Ted Kay as well as Rob Armstrong, Bub’s White,…
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“Just Like Anything” Jackson C Frank
Thanks to David Trinder for images Personal Memories Dave Cooper is a founder member of 70’s Folk Jazz group Dando Shaft. and created this video. Here he sings a version of the seminal Jackson C Frank song. “I had a personal and mystical association with Jack. At the age of 17 he inspired me to write…
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Kevin Dempsey & Joe Broughton~ The Post Truth Reel
for Acoustic Sessions at Stanley Halls ~ 24th February 2018. source Kevin Dempsey made his first impression on the English music scene in Coventry in the mid 60’s as part of the progressive pop/rock band Dando Shaft, which he co-founded with Dave Cooper and Martin Jenkins (his future Whippersnapper bandmate). Following the group’s breakup in…
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“September Wine” The acoustic music of Dando Shaft
Source “Mystic Minstrels by the fire blowing their best for everyone…” “September Wine” The acoustic music of Dando Shaft. Our invocation to the autumn season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Early exploration of asymmetric time signatures. How effortlessly Jenks’ vocals flow in 7/8 one of the great singers of the folk revival.
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John Martyn – Small Hours (1978)
John Martyn at Reading University singing Small Hours from ‘One World’ 20/10/1978 “A guy walks out, sits down, and announces, “I’m the warm up band.” We started booing. Then he starts playing through Floyd’s surround sound in an open air stadium. When he’s through we were shouting for more. This guy single-handedly blew a few…
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Latcho Drom
Latcho Drom (“safe journey”) is a 1993 French film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The movie is about the Romani people‘s journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music.excellent tune from excellent movie – The use of music in the film is highly important. Although Latcho Drom is a documentary, there are…
