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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: June Tabor query
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:26:13 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- References: <1992Dec18.210359.540@hnrc.tufts.edu> <BzIoKG.I87@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <BzIoKG.I87@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us> morel@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Mike Smerza) writes:
- |In article <1992Dec18.210359.540@hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
- |>Would someone familiar with June Tabor's discography tell me if I'm likely
- |>to enjoy her 1980 Topic recording with Martin Simpson? (It's been rereleased
- |>on CD). I liked Airs and Graces, was lukewarm about Ashes and Diamonds and
- |>didn't care at all for Abyssinians or Aqaba.
- |>
- |Yes! While I'd say my feelings about Ashes and Diamonds are stronger than
- |lukewarm, I seem to match your tase in June Tabor material farily closely,
- |and her album with Martin Simpson is probably my favorite of them all. I'd
- |highly recommend it. Another favorite of mine, which may be impossible to
- |find these days is a 12" EP (45rmp) with 4 songs by June done live on the
- |air for the John Peel Show on Raido One. On it are Lord Bateman, The Banks
- |of the Sweet Dundee (and are my favorite two on the disk), Joni Mitchell's
- |The Fiddle and the Drum, and Donal Og. All 4 are done a capella. (Oh, and
- |for you who insist on full information, it's on Strange Fruit records
- |SFPS015.)
-
- The 4-song BBC recording is indeed a gem. I was able
- to find it here about a year ago at Down Home Records.
-
- Pretty sure it was 33 rpm, one side though.
-
- I think I posted a couple days ago that I wasn't too
- impressed with the Simpson/Tabor recording... since then I
- gave it another listen, and there is some really excellent
- material on it.
-
- (And some that's considerably less than excellent....
- I guess that's why CD players are programmable!)
-
- Steve
-