The People’s Music

I’m a son of a sea cook, and a cook in a trader
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat’s standing room.

Maritime adaptation of Spanish Ladies


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Birth of a Genre (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-1.mp3]

The Genre Comes of Age (MP3)

[audio: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-2.mp3]

The Birth of an Industry (Mp3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-3.mp3]

If I Had a Song (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-4.mp3]

We Are The World (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-5.mp3]

A fantastic 5-part radio documentary on the emergence of Canadian folk music from Vancouver’s Gary Cristall.

 

Portrait of Lincoln with the Wart

Photo via fotonomous http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotonomous/

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A brilliant piece of radio documentary from Toronto writer, broadcaster, musician,  Madonna Hamel – Portrait of Lincoln With the Wart (MP3).  A little more on this doc in her piece All Roads Lead To Nashville: Americana One Year Later.

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[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/Portrait-of-Lincoln-with-the-Wart-Americana-Music.mp3]