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I'm afraid that many of the resource links to music and scans on this blog are now D E A D due it seems to changes at the file hoster.

When time permits I will be either re-freshing them or providing links to a new resource in response to POLITE requests, I do NOT intend to refresh them ALL, I do not now have the time to go back over the entire 4 years of postings.

UPDATE  APRIL 2013

I've just returned from a holiday in Australia to find 14

file requests outstanding, please bear with me until I get

round to re-upping or password sending as needed.

Thanks for your comments, your interest, it is nice to know

someone still collects this music :-))

   

 Dick Gaughan CELTIC CONCERT

previously presented on here, new links added.

HERE 

**QR** Thrust into the 21st Century **QR**

QR Codes.

Fascinating technology

 Invented 18 years ago by a far eastern motor manufacturer as a "better than bar code" method to identify car components and parts used in the manufacture.

This code has recently risen in use, you will find it on many products now, usually to provide a link (URL) to a company web site, or for more information about a product.

Scanners are available for most smart phones using IOS or Android, a simple way of accurately recording a complex URL or in fact any textural information.

The programs use the built in camera in tablets and phones to recognise the square outline, orientate it correctly and scan the data components represented, if this data is a recognisable URL this is presented with an option to click and go, some programs can actually allow you to go directly without any further action personally I feel this is open to miss-use as you could be directed to a fraudulent site to compromise your phone.

That is a brief outline of QR codes, the decoding programs are capable of reading badly formed, creased or partially damaged codes, due to the designed in error checking which uses a series of optical masks to apply correction to a QR picture.

Try this code !!

 

 

This should bounce you back to this blog

  

   

BOUNCING BACK TO BUD (Bud Freeman) LP 1955

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Some more Bud Freeman

I have at last located a copy of this LP with Bud Freeman and 

Ruby Braff, only ever had a scratchy low bitrate MP3 version cleaning work is proceeding and it is sounding good so far.

This LP is the LONDON version of the original BETHLEHEM 

release from 1955.  Some fairly standard well known tunes and a few BUD originals including the obfuscated "DINAH" Hanid.

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There are full resolution scans in the archive along with the MONO recordings as 192k MP3's

Download LINK
Password is gonzoBFRB

ALTERNATE LINK    http://rapidshare.com/files/2856276160/BFQt%20w%20RB.rar

While I'm working on new LP's

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Here are a couple of links to an Andy Irvine resource

 

Andy Irvine is an artist I have followed since early days in folk music, I've not posted any of his work on here because he, like a lot of other folk musicians, produces his own records simply to have control of his performances and to realise maximum return from them without all the associated record company baggage and long complex contracts that have plagued so many UK folk musicians in the last few decades, contracts that have seen the withholding of rare recordings that should by now have been reissued on digital media and haven't been, I am sure we all know where I am going on this!

So here is Andy performing two of his best known Guthrie style songs... Taken from a concert held in London.

Tom Jode

Never Tire of the Road

 

 

" The English Canals " 1974 a history reference

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An interesting album containing history, anecdotes and music

On the subject of the English Canal network, its begining's it's demise as a freight network and it's re-birth as a leisure industry.

Artists

Jon Raven, John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris 

 

  References

 

Another album from George's collection, he kindly has allowed me to share with you all. I am sure you won't forget him in any comments you might make. 

The content is actually three parts, the second part extends from side one of the LP over to side two however I have presented it as just two LP sides the continuity seems to be OK with a natural pause, you can of course re-split it if you need to.

Music and scans HERE 

Password gonzoCAN 

ALTERNATIVE LINK  http://rapidshare.com/files/743339163/Canals.rar

 

108 downloads and  8 comments... 

Getting better?

 

One I prepared earlier BRENDA WOOTTON "Crowdy Crawn"

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While I prepare the Brian Dewhurst

Here is an interesting album of Cornish prose and songs from the original Cornish Lady Brenda Wootton accompanied here by 

Richard Gendall

 

Crowdy Crawn

(a useful general purpose container for bits and pieces)

 

 

There are words to the music written in Cornwall dialect with English translations for prose.

" A jewel I had, the fairest jewel in the World, great its worth, I swear"

"And it hidden with me in my hand, so beautiful a crystal"

"But so beautiful it was, so wondrously beautiful that I could not help"

"holding it over the boat's side, between my thumb and forefinger"

"that I might see through it the lights like green fires in it from off"

"the face of the waves, brightly, brightly glittering;      O God how" 

"precious a thing it was, but I was careless and let it fall" 

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Watch this space for the music, scans & text

Download

Password for the .rar file is gonzoBWCC

ALTERNATE LINK  http://rapidshare.com/files/810199838/BWCrowdy_Crawn.rar

 

NOT DEAD Y E T (I hope by a long way)

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Just to keep you up to date

 

I am actively watching the blog scene, the comings and sadly the going's of some, the ever changing situation in the file depository world and I am pleased to say that while there is still material that CAN be posted, I will be actively looking for it.

I am still getting offers from blog watchers, some you have seen input from before, others new on the scene, so the future looks secure for a while.

 

Don't vanish for TOO Long

you could just miss something.

Like...

More Brian Dewhurst

I've been offered a Brian Dewhurst compilation album, quite a lot of the tracks are on albums originally posted here, but there are NEW tracks, and some from the King Cotton album that is seriously in need of an update to the quality,  I have now completed the restoration and added the improved tracks also to the 

King Cotton album

(Thanks George)

SCANS also in the download

 

Tracks:

01 - Blood Red Roses.mp3
  02 - Mock Begger Hall.mp3
  03 - Geordie Black.mp3
  04 - Farewell She.mp3
  05 - Matty Groves.mp3
  06 - Grimshaw's Factory Fire.mp3
  07 - Thomas of Winesbury.mp3
  08 - King Cotton.mp3
  09 - Apprentice's Song.mp3
  10 - Spencer the Rover.mp3
  11 - Oxford & Hampton Railway.mp3
  12 - Bury New Loom.mp3
  13 - Bogies Bonny Belle.mp3
  14 - The Smokeless Chimneys.mp3

Download  LINK

Password gonzoBDBIT

ALTERNATE LINK  http://rapidshare.com/files/4213218168/BD-Bits.rar