Taum Dry Credo Dick
Crim One Ham
Choc Be All Gdb Drmld
MCWB Lass Pike
Taumarunui
on the Main Trunk Line - P Cape By the Dry Cardrona -
Phil G
Credo Dicky Barrett<=
make webpage Criminals
One Tree - Brenda Liddiard Hamilton, Hamilton- Chris Thompson
Chocolate - Marcus Turner
Be All & End All
Goodbye Dreamland - Grenell Middle-Class White Boy's Blues - Andrew
London
Lassie of the Morn - John Sutherland
Pike River Blues - David Calder
Phil Garland & Mike Harding singing 2016
NZ Dic Joh Fin Hills Tu Dig
Bla Wind Alex Boys Sp
Sh Pub Swa McK Dying
Here
Choc
Not New
Deer Session
Zoot Think Please Boys
Otako Ngala
Spider
The Best Way Up Is
Chocolate<=
make webpage
You're Not On Your Own
The New Sprog tune Deer Culler - Joe Charles<= make
webpage
The Session
Beaut New Jute Zoot Suit
You Think Again
Please Don't Sing That Song Again
The Boys Are On Parade
Otaku
Ngala Spider in the Bath
Where Wand J Chel Riv
Ham And
Road Ed Tel One Roo
We Ali Tide When
Where
is my Wild Rose<=
improve webpage
Wandering Angus
Judy Collins' version
Chelsea Style (London Blues)
River Song Hamilton
+ Big Muffins <=
improve webpage
And of This
Road to Raglan
Ed Dean
Tell Me Pretty Baby
One Way Out of Town
Room with a View We Need Oil<=
improve webpage
All the Rain
The Tide Goes In
Three New Zealand folk songs 2016
Sev F(PM) F(PG) F(NJ)
F(F&K) P(L)(G)(H) D(F)
SH(C)(T) D(G) D(H) D(C) D(T)
Down
Bill Sevesi Farewell to the Gold
(Paul Metsers) Farewell to the Gold (Phil Garland)
Farewell to the Gold (Nic Jones) DRAGGED OUT, too slow!
Farewell to the Gold (James Fagan & Nancy Kerrigan) also
too slow!
Thank
goodness David omitted Bob Dylan's mangled attempt at
this song
"Shart
river rover, the gold i'is wai'ing..."
Packing My Things to Go Home (William Clauston)
Packing My Things to Go Home (Phil Garland) Packing
My Things to Go Hme (Mike Harding)<=
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Davy Lowston (Frank Fife)
Sam Hall (Johnny Cash)
Sam Hall (Richard Thompson)
Davy Lowston (Phil Garland) ouch, too slow! Davy Lowston (Mike
Harding)<=
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Davy Lowston (Martin Carthy) too slow but nice accompaniment
Davy Lowston (June Tabor) also far too slow!
The best version of
Davy Lowston is by Martin Curtis and Chris Penman.
Origins and development of Maori chant and song 2017
(MENZA)
Music clips and discussion
NZ women songwriters 2019
See Dress Rain Unt
Rmr Un Ch
Shr Som Ban Minnie Clear
Small
Bic Hol BB
See the Wagon o'Fools - Val Murphy
Dressmaker - Jean Reid
Raining with her tears - Brenda Liddiard
Untold - Helen Dorothy
Rainmaker - Helen Farr
Untied Shoelaces - Jess Bailey
Children of Romania - Maisy Rika
Shrink - Kath Tait
Some Old Road - Caroline Sutherland
Banjo Mac - Donna Dean Minnie Dean-
Helen Henderson
(Clear diction, vivid word pictures, rousing chorus
for audience
participation,bridge
before final verse, repetition with variation,
writes from her own experience)
Clear Break - Marina Harding
Small Bones of Courage - Aldus
Harding
Bic Runga
Tiny Ruins - Holly Fulbrick
BB Barness
Most
of these are unobtrusive slow-strum guitar coffee
bar pieces.
Only Minnie Dean is a communal folk song. Another
collection could
well include memorable songs like The Professional by Lynn
Clark,
Civil Emergency by Lindsey Shields, The Coming of Age by
Julie Collier <=
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When I Grow Up by Mahinarangi Tocker,
Te Harinui by Willow Macky
and Get Out Alive
by Mel Parsons.
NZ Folk Come-all-ye 2020
Tih To Drive Some Ca
Giv Blu
Sp In BMat We
Sa Bl Fas
Rise Gab Mc We
Tihore
Mai Te Rangi - tune by Dr Hirini Melborne
To Be Found By Love
Drive a Mile
Something in the way - Albi
Caffeine - Martha Louise
Give Away Love - Brenda Liddiard Blue Smoke
Speed - Catgut & Steel
In the Breezy Air - Helen Dorothy Black Matai -
Graham Wilson
We Be Soldiers Three - Nigel Parry
Salty - Gentle Annie
Blues - Ian Mitchel
Faster - Reb Fountain
Rise Out of your Bed - Neil and Barbie
Colquhoun DUET!<=
make webpage
Gabriel Reed - Roger Lusby McKenzie
(Kath Tait) We Don't Know How Lucky We
Are -John Clarke
NZ Music Month May 2022
Va
Dust Tim You
Ita Sara
I Tell
Fact Dry
Sun Hine Look
Lo I After
Vaccination - Andrew London
Dustcart - Roger McVeigh
Time Waits for No Man (nice
harmonies)
You're Hot Itaska
(Amelia Earhart) by Bob McNeil -
great lyrics distorted by fuzzy diction & too much
background noise
Sara - Everglades
Underground - Beggermen
I Tell It All - Graham Wardrop
Factory Maid - Bev Young & Pat Bowley (a
capella harmonies)
Dry Cardrona - (Smithsonian
collection) Ed Trickett
- lyrics dragged here - not as good as original 1956
recording
Demons at Bay -
Gary Bolster - Lovely
voice, tune and accompaniment
Hine Moana - Hirini Moana
Looking For Alaska - Albie & The Woves
Love is Free - The Rumour
I Have to Get Away - Graeme Alwright (in French)
Afternoon Delight - Wellington Ukulele Orchestra.
Hard Times 2021
H F1 A W F2 AA
S H C
I B Ta
My Man's
On The Swag
Hard Times - Stephen Foster
Field recording collected by Lomax
All the Hard Times of Old England - Steeleye Span
Woody Guthrie - Hard Times, & Hard Traveling
Field recording 2 -Aunt Mollie
African-American blues
Sitting on Top of the World
Hard Times in the Mill - Pete Seeger
Camptown Man
I was Born
Boll Weevil - Woody
Talking Dustbowl Blues - Woody
More Southern US hard times songs
My Man's Gone Now -Ouch!
Sung too slow, no feeling of loss, background
is too pretty .
This simpler original version is much better.
Talking Swag
Dave Jordan 2015
Se Bub Rail
State Co
Seasons - very slow
Bubonic Moan - David Calder on guitar
Railroads a Long Long Time
State House song - Massey Capping Revue, also Down Trou
Conversation - past Catholic love
Gutboard Blues
North Island folkies 2023
Em But
Walk
Ham Break Time
With Roll
Some Day Ba Stable
Blood Dug
Emily Bay - Norfolk
Island penal colony
- good Andrew London song A
but vocals blurred by too-loud accompaniment D
Butterflies - pretty, but
difficult to understand words D
Walk on By My Window - soured
relationship therapeutic
relationship song B
Hamiltongreatest
little town in NZ original Chris T version A
Breakup Song Andy London
funny B+
Time to Pay - repetitive
therapeutic
relationship song - drum too loud D
Without You - Jan Elliott - therapeutic
relationship song - very clear recording A
Roll On The Day - Nigel
Parry Not an NZ folk song. Nice Uilleann pipes,
vocal/backing balance A It's Raining -
depression -therapeutic
song C+ The Day the Pub Burnt Down
A+
Baron's Heir
Stable Lad - Shona Laing's v e r
y slowwww version C +
Blood Red Roses
Tambourlane - NZ folk - performance A Dugout in the
TrueBill
Taylor - trad NZ folk - performance A vocal/backing
balance A
