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The Whispering Pines

By Paul Rootsical
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The Whispering Pines     Listen to The Whispering Pines by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at A relaxing selection of ballads, laments and jigs that again highlights shared musical traditions in American and British folk music with magnificent updates of some very old songs. Tributes to the great Bert Jansch from Show Of Hands , Robert Plant and Alison Krauss run side by side with Jansch originals from the 70s & 80s, including 2 great collaborations with Rod Clements from 1988. Clements also features on the song Beachcomber with the classic Geordie folk rock band Jack The Lad . Several Bob Dylan salutes including cuts by Norah Jones , Mumford & Sons , Steve Earle and the late, great Kris Kristofferson . Dylan himself chips in with 2 takes on the American folk songbook recorded in the 80s & 90s. Rocking roots music from Levon Helm and also 2 live interpretations of Band classics together with Rick Danko from 1983. These songs resonate especially now ...
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Spare Strings For A Winding Road

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One for the road... Musical collage featuring artists from across from the British Isles & North America with several collabs between musicians from both regions and a spotlight on Aly Bain's amazing Transatlantic Sessions from 1995 wich starred such luminaries as Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Dick Gaughan and John Martyn. Mix partly inspired by Rainbow Tribe vibes and golden memories of the national Rainbow Gathering in Montana 2000. Organic creative acoustic music.   Continuous mix 3hrs Download through the internet archives stream above  
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We Will Not Go Down (Song for Gaza) Michael Heart

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  Michael Heart  We Will Not Go Down (Gaza Tonight) A song of defiance Save Palestine Now
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Gaza is Calling by Mustafa

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  Mustafa  Gaza is Calling We have mere weeks left to halt the destruction of a people Take action now!
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Steady Keel Off A Leeward Shore - A Seafarer's Life

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  A Seafarer's Life: Music and Song A Collection of folk tunes & songs about the sea and the lives of everyday people during the eras of exploration & colonialism. From the humble life of Jack Tar aboardship on the high seas and on foreign shores to the loved ones that he left behind back at home, from slaveships & privateers to haulers, whalers, traders, frigates & gunboats and then, finally, the long-awaited return to a friendly shore & home port...   Popular historic, traditional seaman's songs, jigs, reels & melodies sail astern with more contemporary compositions. Show Of Hands feature on 4 tracks, painting a story of epic proportions with Tall Ships . Fiddler/singer Barry Dransfield is a specialist in the field and features heavily with several classics as do Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick . Regular June Tabor co-collaborators Mark Emerson , Andy Cutting & Tim Harries carry the swing with great interpretations of Jamaica & Enlist...
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For Stoners Chillum Mix

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Music For Stoners Taking a trip back in time with some classic psychedelic rock - space rock - progressive - and original stoner rock. So dig out that stash and get tokin'..... Its still very much 4:20 here in Thailand while the herbs is still legit, at least for now. Happy daze!   Listen to For Stoners - Pink Floyd Hawkwind Grateful Dead... by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Tracklist Quintessence - Infinitum  Bob Weir - Playing In The Band The Doors - Riders On The Storm Pink Floyd - Breathe In The Air Neil Young - Cortez The Killer Emerson Lake & Palmer - Take A Pebble Hawkwind - Space Is Deep Here & Now - Seventies Youth Man - Kerosene Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here John Mayall - Vacation/Medicine Man Caravan - Nine Feet Underground Steppenwolf - The Pusher Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River Grateful Dead - Catfish John King Crimson - Epitaph Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948/The Demented King Pink Floyd - The Gret Gig In The Sky CSNY -...
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Rosemary Moore And The Poor Ploughboy

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  Rosemary Moore & The Poor Ploughboy Folk songs and storytelling... June Tabor, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy and the great Joan Baez lead this collection of laments and ballads   Listen to Rosemary Moore & The Poor Ploughboy by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Continuous mix 2hrs33 Thanks for visiting the roving revellers Download via the hearthis link above
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Chris Cornell Soundgarden Audioslave & Co

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Tribute to the late great Chris Cornell Solo works alongside killer tunes with Audioslave & Soundgarden as well as rocking music by close contemporaries from the grunge scene & beyond...  Listen to Soundgarden Audioslave Chris Cornell & Co by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   Soundgarden have been a firm favorite since 1st hearing Badmotorfinger in 1992. I'd picked up a Sri Lankan bootleg tape copy & was blown away by it on my walkman as I chilled having a few smokes in my hotel room. Stunning stereo effects! Chris Cornell's deep & often disturbing lyrics - with their images of a distressed, tortured world/soul - have a notable air of authenticity & honesty which is reinforced by his outstanding voice & vocal delivery & backed up by Kim Tayil's excellently minimalistic guitar style, the perfect vehicle for these songs. Supergroup Audioslave helped lift him to another level again. The man's music will stand the test of time...
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A Restless Hungry Feeling

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One for & from the road Blues, country and folk selections. North American music predominates here though the British Isles are well represented also. Nothing beats the sensation of embarking on an open-ended road trip, that good ole' RESTLESS HUNGRY FEELING   Listen to A Restless Hungry Feeling - Country & Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Track list pic from Mt. Chelan, the head of the Buttermilk Trail West Fork. I had the pleasure of doing wilderness trail maintenance and camp living along this lonesome & awesome valley trail June-September 2000. Cover pic highway through Bitterroot Nation Forest, Montana. Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the above streaming link THANKS FOR PASSIN' THROUGH...  
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Time To Ring Some Changes

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  It's time to ring some changes or else hit the road...   Stomping folk rock selection from across the years that strays into progressive territory here & there with Curved Air & The Deviants. Jeff Mangum's Neutral Milk Hotel push the boundaries with their reverb-heavy take on traditional sounds. Showcasing some good old Geordie music with Kathryn Tickell, Lindisfarne & Jack The Lad. Features some amazing death ballads  later on. Listen to Time To Ring Some Changes by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the streaming link thanks for passing through    
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Both Sides Now

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  Classic laid back country & folk music from the leftside. Special spotlight on John Prine & the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. A couple of oldies from my hometown area - Tyneside - by the great Isla Cameron. The northeast of England has always enjoyed a rich musical tradition. Listen to Both Sides Now - Country & Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at     Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download through the above streaming link Thanks for dropping by      
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A Transatlantic Records Folk Sampler

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A Transatlantic Records sampler. Traditional & experimental folk, folk rock & blues from Ireland, Scotland, England and the US from the 1960's & 70's.   Listen to Transatlantic Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   All-star lineup of groups like Pentangle, The Johnstons, Gryphon & Mr Fox together with well-known solo artists such as Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell and John Renbourn. Transatlantic records were an indispensible outlet for less commercially-minded, more traditional sounding folk musicians throughout the period, leaving an enormous back catalogue to document, and as a great testement to, that time...   Continuous mix 3hrs Download through the above streaming link Thanks for visiting
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Kathryn Tickell & Rory McLeod - Song For Busking Ronnie The Remember Me Hornpipe

By Paul Rootsical
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    Exceptional Northumbrian smallpipes-harmonica combination from two of the great champions of traditional music forms; Kathryn Tickell and Rory McLeod. Taken from the 1987 Compilation LP Square Roots on the Folk Roots label. Traditional arranged by Kathryn Tickell with lyrics by Rory McLeod. I fell in love with this tune on the very first listen! Such fine harmony in this unusual pairing of two instruments from generally disparate traditions. Warm, melodic & atmospheric vocal from Rory.    
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High Up There In Gilded Boardrooms

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  When protest is now longer allowed, what then?   Selection of protest music 1950s-present. The current crackdown on certain modes of dissident action in the West, particularly environmental protest, signals a new era of totalitarianism & suppression of expression. A whole series of legislation, beginning in the 80s, have eroded & removed many of the rights that were formerly taken for granted while the cursed tranfer of power known as privatisation has leeched society and bled regular people dry. That heads of governments are seen to overtly collude with commercial titans & media moguls only reinforces the prevailing mood of helpess futility & inevitability, a feeling reinforced by economic neccessity and, crucially, the law. Criminal injustice at every level & on all fronts.   Listen to High Up There In Gilded Boardrooms by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Traditions of musical resistance that have roots stretching back into antiquity...
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Songs From The Woods

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  Ripping, roaring folk-rock selection from the golden age 60s-70s folk revival & beyond... Listen to Songs From The Woods by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   Tyne Valley, Nothumberland Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the streaming link above Thanks for visiting  
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On To The Traveller's Fair

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On to the traveller's fayre... Traditional ballads, airs, reels, jigs & tavern songs with more modern folk compositions. Special nod to the travelling people and all who have fought for the freedom to roam. The lonely road calls us back to Appleby Horse Fair, over to the Currach of Kildare... Listen to The Traveller's Fair by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   Continuous mix 2hrs33 download via the above streaming link thanks for dropping by 
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Seasons Of Love And Angst

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  Four Seasons of Love and Angst Charting the joys & travails of common people over the four seasons through song & music. Folk rock style. Inspiration and illustrations from the expressionist Edvard Munch's Workers series.   Listen to Seasons Of Love & Angst by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   The Poachers (by Gustave Courbet)   Lovers In the Waves   Continuous mix 2hrs35 Download via the above streaming link Thank you for visiting
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Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief

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 Everyday lives of regular people reflected in their songs and melodies Listen to Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at     Continuous mix 2hrs36  Download from the above hearthis stream Thanks for listening
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Hawkwind - Evacuate Planet Dystopia Immediately

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        Listen to Hawkwind - Evacuate Planet Dystopia Immediately by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Technicians of Spaceship Hawkwind this is your captain speaking YOUR CAPTAIN IS DEAD! --- You don't look so happy here in Utopia though no one has ever complained...YET --- Evacuate IMMEDIATELY but remember, DO NOT PANIC..... Another intersellar mind trip with the Hawks. Tracks run 1977-1990, live & studio, from Stonehenge '77, through Henge '84 & Chronicles of the Black Sword, right up to their US tour 1989/90 - all the greatest highlights from the 80s. Also Features related bands The Hawklords, Church Of Hawkwind & Inner City Unit Continuous mix 3hrs Download via the streaming link above Thanks for tuning in      
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Hawkwind - Veterans Of A Thousand Psychic Wars

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  Listen to Hawkwind Veterans of a Thousand Psychic Wars by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   A futuristic astral hippy space rock oddysey... 3 hours of - Hawkwind - Hawklords - Bob Calvert Some of the best monents in time 1970-79, live & otherwise. Includes, among others, performances at Stonehenge '77, Brixton '72, Chicago '74. Not a chronology: the vibes ebb and flow between older & newer - live & studio tracks in an amazing phychedelic sci-fi trip right to the very edge of time and back. So fasten your seatbelts and remember, DO NOT PANIC! Big thanks to Hawkwind for the many tours & free festivals plus all the epic mind-warping all-nighters they inspired in field & living room. Soundtrack to a lifestyle 100% The state of humanity & the world now, the constant stream of terrifying prophecies of impending near future doom and the major ecological & human setbacks implicit in recent election results & political decisions, t...
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