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VUE (Gazette e Global radionetwork EDMONTON e editorial . Some things need saying in no uncertain Canada's Folk, Roots and World Music Magazine terms. So let it be said: Sing Out! needs he Issue No. 56 Winter, 2012 and it needs it now. The venerable America Issn: 73060205 folk magazine has struggled financially for 10942 - 80 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G ORI some time, a point made abundantly clear Tel: (780) 433-8287 when the Autumn edition arrived in the pos Fax: (780) 437-4603 Reduced to half its normal size, it now offe Www.penguineggs.ab.ca | its extensive record review section online f e-mail: [email protected] subscribers to save on printing costs. The n Editor: Roddy Campbell Managing Editor: Annemarie Hamilton and obituaries can be found there, too. Production: Doug Swanson Undoubtedly, the current fitful state of bo Circulation: Deborah Thrall the magazine and music industry contribute Penguin Eggs welcomes news, features to this misfortune. Its detractors also point : and photos, but cannot accept responsibility dated lay-out that fails to engage younger r for any unsolicited material. Please check ers. I know I’ve disagreed publicly in the p: with the editor prior to submitting any about its policy of only printing positive re articles or artwork. We publish four times a MARY JANI year: Summer (June), Autumn (September), reviews. But it's not the remit of this editor LAMOND Winter (December) and Spring (March). to criticise. This is not about magazine riva WEND MACISAAC All text and photographs are copyrighted This plea is about the future welfare of the and may not be reproduced without prior - community as a whole. permission. Reviews can be duplicated for Think about how many Canadian folk publicity purposes without consent. While musicians and singers have benefited from we take care to ensure that all content is truthful, we cannot be held liable if found review policy? Too many to count. How m otherwise. have appeared in its extensive features sect This magazine takes its name from Nic over the past 60-odd years? Beats me, but I Jones's wonderful album Penguin Eggs — a wager its also significant. collection of mainly traditional British folk And these articles are written by insightfu songs revitalized with extraordinary flair and ingenuity. Released in Britain in 1980, writers who actually know a thing or two it has grown into a source of inspiration for about folk music — its history, its traditions, many young, gifted performers. . political significance, its cultural consequer Nic, sadly, suffered horrific injuries in … These writers spend a lifetime acquiring a car crash in 1982 and has never fully knowledge and polishing their craft. And it recovered. He now seldom performs. His care and respect shown for the tradition shows. The Internet may have a million and and prudence to recognize the merits of constructive uses but nurturing high-quality, innovation makes Penguin Eggs such an tuitive music journalism ain't one of them. A outrageously fine recording. This magazine who archives on the open Internet anyway? strives to reiterate that spirit. Nic Jones’s Since the 1940s, Sing Out! has amassed | Penguin Eggs is available through Topic an irreplaceable collection of folk music Records. Penguin Eggs magazine is published documents, books, periodicals, recordings a and printed in Canada and acknowledges photographs — copies of which are availabl the generous financial support from the to researchers and its readers. The first print Alberta Foundation for the Arts. We also copy of Bob Dylan’s Blowing In The Wind acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada appeared initially on the pages of Sing Out! Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing popularity spread from there. And we all kn activities. . what happened next. For the folk world to | such an archival resource would surely amo to art aficionados barred from the Louvre. So what’s to be done? The simplest thing, Canada Council Conseil des Arts obviously, is to subscribe. But what about al WE SPECIALIZE IN BREAKING CD for the Arts du Canada you musicians out there that have benefitted CANADIAN MUSIC INTO Canadä from the career-boosting acknowledgements received from such a credible magazine? AMERICAN MARKETS! Surely, its payback time? A benefit or two GA would certainly go a long way to balancing Alberta : the one-way compassion that has existed up Foundation www.HEARTHMUSIC.com now. Sing out, why don’t you! | for the Arts — By Roddy Camp 4 penguin eggs: winter 2012 18... .Old Man Luedecke went to lashville to record his new album s The Night with celebrated mand iddle player Tim O'Brien. It has a lot t: ive up to considering his last two e a von a Juno. 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Wow!’ Shirley Collins I see regularly. e’s like my grandma. But she knows as well I do, I don't listen to her music. It's not my asic, it’s not my style,” — Sam Lee penguin egg s: winter 2 Caracol Shiver (Independent) CUSTOM The Dardenelles The Dardenelles (Independent) BUILDS Bob Dylan Desire (Columbia) FINELY Ron Hynes CRAFTED Get Back Change (Borealis) ————— MÀ sy HAND Daniel Lanois Acadie (Warner Bros) LARGEST Le Vent du Nord Ue Neko Case Dans Les Airs (Borealis) Blacklisted (mint) SELECTION Nick Lowe 2. Steve Earle or CUSTOM The Convincer (Yep Roc Records) Sidetracks (E-squared) BRONZE The Pogues 3. Solomon Burke IF IS hould Fall From Grace (warner Bros) HARDWARE Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum) Richard & Linda Thompson 4. Orchestra Baobab HEIRLOOM | Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight aslana) Specialists In All Styles (Nonesuch) QUALITY Al Tuck 5. Zubot And Dawson The New High Road of Song (Outs) Chicken Scratch (True North) Amelia Curran's latest recording is Spectators, released by Six Shooter 6. Blind Boys of Alabama MADE IN BC IN THE Records. Our feature on Amelia runs on page 45. Higher Ground (Ew) RJBC.AoO NMJEOR ? | LHITOTLRE STEOWFN LOYF T: Tom Waits Alice (EMT) 8. Linda Thompson Fashionably Late (Rounder) 9. Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylon (Est. Music) Ryan Adams Jason Romer Ro Demolition (Lost Highway) * 2002 in Northern California. Jason a 2007, and eventually moved Pharis' hometown of Horsefly Compiled from all album sales on the Charts page in Penguin E: custom banjos a year, creati ) issue No. 16 published in the Winter of 2002. banjo out there = bar ukuleles. gourd, cell resonat+ or,l iannedo fgw uoitoadr -bboadnijoesd. Rree: wfmfms top 1 i When not building banjos, Pharis & Jason are out playing the vintage country and old-time music they y love dearly. - 1. Head And The Heart Head And The Heart (Independent) 2. Blackie And The Rodeo Kings Kings And Queens Deluxe Edition (eu. M.) 3. Amelia Curran Spectators (six Shooter) 4. Jenn Grant The Beautiful Wild (six shooter) 5. Black Country Communion Afterglow (Mascot) 1. Amelia Curran 6. A.C. Newman Spectators (Six Shooter) Shut Down the Streets (Matador Records) 2. Tenors 7. Mumford & Sons Lead with Your Heart (Universal) Babel (Glassnote) 3: City On The Coas 8. Mumford & Sons City On The Coas (Independent) Rumour & Sigh (Glassnote) 4. Mumford & Sons 9. Danny Michel Babel (Glassnote) Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me (six Shooter) 5. Andrew O'Brien 10. Whitehorse Songs For Searchers (independent) The Fate Of the World Depends On This Kiss (six Shooter e FBraesdesd Reonc oradlsb,u m 19s8a leDsu cfkowr oArutghu stS,t reSete,p tSet.m bJeorhn ’asn,d NLO,c tAo1bCer 1aGt5 Winnipeg FolBka sMeuds ico n Faelstbiuvma lss alMeuss ifco r SAtuogrues,t ,2 0S3e-pBtanenmabteyrn ea nAdv eO.,c tWoibnenri paetg ,t heM B. R: 6 penguin eggs: winter 2012 U N iV E R S |i iY Liti RA RY ETETE T T 2m 2 om = - ckua top 20 4 Rodriguez 1. Corb Lund Searching For Sugar Man (Light in the Attic) Cabin Fever (New West) k Bob Dylan 2. Danny Michel Tempest (Columbia) Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me (six Shooter) ki Fatoumata Diawara 3. Whitehorse | Fatou (World Gircuit) The Fate Of the World Depends On This Kiss (six Shooter) A Calexico Algiers (Anti) sillions top 10 4. Mark Knopfler Privateering (Mercury) $ Lee Fields 9: Maria Dunn Faithful Man (Truth & Soul) Piece By Piece (Independent) 4 Ondatropica de Bernard Adamus 6. Jenn Grant Ondatropica (Soundway) No 2 (Distribution Select) The Beautiful Wild (Six Shooter) : Staff Benda Bilili 2. Lisa Leblanc 7 John Wort Hannam Bouger le Monde (Crammed) Lisa Leblanc (Distribution Select) Brambles and Thorns (Borealis) à Soul Jazz Orchestra 3. Mumford & Sons 8. David Byrne/St. Vincent Solidarity (Strut) Babel (Giassnote) Love This Giant (4 AD) 3 Jim Byrnes 4. Catherine Durand 9. Various Artists | Hear the Wind In the Wires (Black Hen) Les murs blanc du Nord (Distribution Select) Calgary Folk Music Festival Sampler 2012 (independent) 0. Patrick Watson 9: Various Artists 10. Tift Merritt Adventures In Your Own Backyard (secret City) Douze Hommes Rapaillés (Les Editions Ad Litteram Inc) Traveling Alone (vep Roc) Based on album sales for August, September and October at 6. Richard Desjardins 11. Chilly Gonzales Highlife Records, 1317 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5L 3X5 Lexistoire (Distribution Select) Solo Piano Il (Arts & Crafts) da Fred Pellerin 12. Various Artists C'est un monde (Disques Tempéte) First Came Memphis Minnie (Stony Plain) permanent 8. The Toure-Raichel Collective 13. Brandi Carlile The Tel Aviv Session (Cumbancha) Bear Creek (Columbia) records top 10 9 Fred Pellerin 14. Mumford & Sons Silence (Disques Tempéte) Babel (Glassnote) 5. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal 15. Calexico Murdoch & Sparrow Chamber Music (Six Degrees) Algiers (Anti) Dominion Day (Murdoch & Sparrow) Based on album sales for August, September and October at 16. Carolyn Mark f Whitehorse Silior 15, 1149 Avenue Cartier, Quebec, QC, G1R 2S9. The Queen Of Victoria Island (mint) The Fate Of the World Depends On This Kiss (six Shooter) 17. Van Morrison John Fullbright Born To Sing: No Plan B (Exile) From The Ground Up (Biue Dirt) soundscapes 18. Jason Collett Jimmy Cliff Reckon (Arts & Crafts) Rebirth (Sun Power) top 10 19. Bonnie Raitt Carolyn Mark Slipstream (Redwing) The Queen Of Victoria Island (mint) 20. Ry Cooder 1. Cold Specks Mark Knopfler | Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Arts & Crafts) Election Special (Nonesuch) Privateering (Mercury) 2 Michael Kiwanuka Based on the most-played folk, roots and world music dics on CKUA John Hiatt radio - www.ckua.org - throughout August, September and October. Home Again (Polydor) Mystic Pinball (New West) 3. Alabama Shakes | Corb Lund Boys & Girls (ATO) Cabin Fever (New West) 4. Great Lake Swimmers | Jenn Grant New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk) | The Beautiful Wild (six Shooter) D! Patrick Watson L The Flatlanders Adventures In Your Own Backyard (Secret City) | The Odessa Tapes (New West) | 6. Jack White ) Based on album sales for August, September and October at || Permanent Records, 8126 Gateway Blvd. Edmonton, AB, T6E 4B1 Blunderbuss (Third Man) Té Andre Williams & The Sadies Night & Day (Outside/Yep Roc)) 8. Zeus Busting Visions (Arts & Crafts) 9. Kathleen Edwards Voyageur (MapleMusic) Bahamas Barchords (Brushfire) Sesa E n MS Based on album sales for August, September and October at Vhitehorse Soundscapes, 572 College Street, Toronto, On, M6G 1B3 TAASu u penguin eggs: winter 2012 7 Dave Gunning’s new album No More coins to the mint. Gold, Redbud Tree, Go, Love and Seattle. Pennies got more media attention this fall Fans began to bring their pennies to his "She is on the very top level of singers than he ever expected. Not because of the shows by the pocketful to donate. and songwriters out there and I can't take great music inside but for the images on “We'd thought we'd have some fun with her off my jukebox," said Knopfler. the CD artwork—of the soon-disappearing this. And pay it forward to the IWK Hospi- Other folk musicians in Knopfler's tour- Canadian penny, writes Sandy MacDonald. tal, the Halifax children's hospital." ing band include former Battlefield Band Turns out the Royal Canadian Mint took The story quickly caught fire and was fiddler John McCusker and Capercaillie exception to the unlicensed depiction of soon in every major newspaper, TV and ra- whistle, flute and uilleann piper Michael the little copper, which it says contravened dio station in the Maritimes. Gunning says McGoldrick. copyright rules. The album’s cover photo he wasn't looking for the publicity and was shows Gunning, coffee mug in hand, with feeling uncomfortable with the angle of the Ottawa Valley fiddler April Verch's new a smattering of change on the counter. story— poor struggling musician taking on recording will feature two legendary blue- There’s also creative use of the penny the powerful Royal Canadian Mint. grass guests. Vocalist Mac Wiseman and image on the back cover and inside. "Getting lost in that story was how hard banjo player Sammy Shelor will appear "I contacted the mint right away,” says we'd worked to put out this record." on her ninth as-yet-unamed disc, set for Gunning, who had never heard of royalty Gunning finally fired off a letter to the release in, of course, April. Wiseman, who issues around the coin. *But was terrified mint, copied it to the Prime Minister and performed with the likes of Bill Monroe's because I had already manufactured 2,000 others asking for a resolution and suggested Bluegrass Boys and enjoyed such hit copies of the album." The loss of the run they turn this into a good news story for singles as The Ballad of Davy Crockett and would cost the independent musician thou- everyone. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy, sings on Verch's sands of dollars and the inconvenience of The Mint finally responded, agreed to The Only One, and the Charlie Moore clas- having no product at his shows. waive the fees for the life of the project and sic My Home in the Sky. Shelor, who fronts But the mint relented and agreed Gunning allowed Gunning to move ahead. He still the Lonesome River Band and has won could sell his original run of CDs. But he'd has the big bucket of pennies in his truck, the International Bluegrass Association's still owe $1,200 in copyright royalties for heading for the hospital. Best Banjo Player award on five occasions, use of the penny image. With frustration contributes two bluegrass tunes, That Was setting in, Gunning came up with a novel Wailin' Jenny's vocalist Ruth Moody Before I Met You and The Only One, as well idea. appears on the new Mark Knopfler double as an old-time instrumental medley, Big “I decided I'd pay the fee in pennies.” album Privateering. She also joined the Eared Mule/Davey Davey/Folding Down the Gunning went on a Halifax radio station former Dire Straits guitarist as he opened Sheets. Verch's last disc was Thats How We and mentioned he'd pay the royalties in for Bob Dylan on several dates of his Run released in 2011. actual pennie— 3s0 0 kilograms of metal recent North American tour. Moody largely coins—and his uncle would deliver the sang harmony on such songs as Kingdom of Changes in personnel are afoot for the Dave Gunning 8 penguin eggs: winter 2012 mighty Oysterband /see P.E. No. 52]. Cel- beer garden, more sponsorship and some “We thought that some singers who lo, mandolin, bass and harmonium player astute booking appears to have turned are worth hearing are not being heard Ray Chopper is set to leave the band at the Vancouver's fortunes around since Tanaka properly in some club environments—their end of their current U.K. tour with June took over as AD in 2008. Founded in 1978, performances are interrupted by wait staff Tabor. Chopper, who lives in Sweden, estimates suggest the annual event’s debt delivering food and drink or discussing the intends to pursue a solo career. He released once peeked as high as $500,000. Tanaka amount on the tab.... We won't be having his debut album, Love War & Death By has steadily erased the crippling red ink that, Kent wrote Penguin Eggs. Hanging, in 2010. Oysterband's collabora- and in 2012 she was finally able to increase The format of the Wee Folk Club will tion with June Tabor on the album Ragged the artistic budget for the festival’s 35th include two performers per night. Each will Kingdom earned them four BBC Radio anniversary event. perform a 25-minute solo spot in the first 2 Folk Awards plus album of the year “T think it showed up at the box office by half and in the second they'll swap songs. honours from fRoots magazine. And due to doing that,” she says. The likes of Lucinda "Ihe emphasis here is on songs with stories their busy schedule and personnel shuffle, Williams, Ani DiFranco and Dan Mangan in them. You know—folk songs.” the band will plan their next Big Session headlined last summer's hooley. Aengus Finnan and Eve Goldberg per- Festival for 2014. Last year it featured the formed in front of a full house on opening likes of Eddi Reader, Martin Simpson Country-folk duo The Civil Wars can- night, Sept. 6. Others scheduled to perform and Chumbawamba. celled their November concert series in the include: Dec. 6, Kevin & Samantha Kenne- U.K. mid-tour owing to “internal discord dy and Enoch Kent; Dec. 20, Eve Goldberg Bellowhead fans can hear the U.K. band’s and irreconcilable differences of ambition”. and Greg Quill; Jan. 3, Allison Lupton, Ian entire new album, their fourth, Broadside, The duo posted a message on Facebook Bell, and Geoff Somers. Jan. 24, (a unique streamed exclusively on The Guardian that said they are “unable to continue as alternate date), John Wort Hannam and newspaper's website at http://www.guard- a touring entity at this time’, though their Alex Sinclair. For more information, go to: ian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/oct/09/ statement expressed a desire to release new http://theweefolkclub.wordpress.com/ bellowhead-broadside-album-stream. music in 2013. While released in the U.K. Oct. 15. through Barton Hollow, the debut album by And talking of Alex Sinclair, he has their own label Navigator, Nashville-based Joy Williams and John Paul White, was just been elected president of the On- Compass Records released it in the U.S. released in the U.S. last year to critical tario Council of Folk Festivals. He takes and Canada Oct. 30. Broadside has already acclaim. It reached No. 10 in the Billboard over from Scott Merrifield. And Sinclair's made fRoots magazine’s Top 10 albums of chart and won Grammy awards for best beautiful song Magdalene MacGillvary was the year list. The actual Album of the Year country duo/group performance and best recorded by Laura Smith for her new disc, will be announced on BBC Radio 3 ina folk album. It has also been nominated for Safe Home Sweet Light, set for release in special broadcast Dec. 7. two Country Music Association awards. April. It marks Smith’s first recording of AA new material in almost 15 years and will Good news for fans of the Vancouver Folk A new 60-seat folk venue opened in feature both traditional as well as original Music Festival. For the first time in many Toronto in early September under the guid- songs in a traditional vein. Recorded and years, the festival is now almost free of debt. ance of songwriters Enoch Kent and Alex produced by Paul Mills, it features the likes While it still owes a small amount of SO- Sinclair. The Wee Folk Club will run on of Tony McManus, Emily Stam and David CAN fees, those should be clear by the time the first and third Thursday of every month Woodhead. the event rolls around at the city's panoram- in the back room of The Imperial Pub, 54 & & & ic Jericho Beach next summer, says artistic Dundas Street East, Toronto. Each concert Executive director Peter MacDonald has director Linda Tanaka. The inclusion of a will start at 7:30 p.m. and the cover is $10. left the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Alex Sinclair Linda Tanaka penguin eggs: winter 2012 9 to take up a position with an Ottawa-based the Tommy Banks Performing Arts Fund. events. Winterfolk will also host a three- arts organization in the new year. MacDon- “The foundations highest priority” wrote hour showcase at the North American Folk ald has held the position since 2008. Banks in a press release, “Is to support the Alliance annual conference, Feb 20-24, “I love the folk community and look creation of safe, affordable housing in Ed- at the same venue. For more information, forward to enjoying the fruits of the labours monton for a vibrant community of creative please visit www.winterfolk.com of our festivals, organizations and indi- professionals who work, or have worked, AK viduals from a new vantage point,” said in the performing arts... And to help it As our regular readers would have MacDonald. maintain and strengthen its traditional noticed in the Reviews section of the last The OCFF is the largest folk and roots health by providing financial assistance that issue, The Bills have just released Yes music organization in Canada and is ac- will encourage artists to continue living and Please, their first album in eight years. tively seeking MacDonald’s replacement. creating art in the greater Edmonton area.” “The Bills [have] wit, bounce and fire to The ideal candidate will receive a salary in The next Banks fundraiser is the Dec. 6 spare,” wrote our reviewer Scott Lingley. the $45,000 to $51,000 range plus benefits. Christmas Big Band Ball at Fort Edmonton, The Victoria-based band have rarely played Those interested can find an application AB. (Tickets at www.ticketweb.ca.) live over the past four years as they all form and job requirements at www.ocff.ca pursued individual projects. eo CBC and CKUA radio host and Stony Frye released a solo album, Marc Atkin- The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Plain Records owner Holger Petersen will son formed a jazz trio and Adrian Dolan world music band Sultans of String are provide the keynote speach at Torontos and Richard Moody hired themselves out developing a live concert show to encourage Blues Summit Six held at the city’ Delta as session musicians to a variety of acts that young people to enjoy and play music. The Chelsea Hotel, Jan. 18-21, 2013. The bi-an- ranged from The Chieftains to Ridley Bent. week-long series of concerts, set for April nual conference brings together national “When 2012 rolled around we realized 22-26, 2013, at Torontos Roy Thomson and international blues industry delegates. we'd better start playing and recording Hall, will feature a classical repertoire influ- And it will coincide with the 16th annual again or we might never make it happen.” enced by folk and world music traditions, Maple Blues Awards, to be held Jan. 21, at The Bills hired local producer Joby as well as original Sultans of String songs the nearby Koerner Hall. The Maple Blues Baker to make Yes Please and the process from their upcoming symphony album. Awards promote blues music across Cana- reinvigorated the band to the extent they’ve That as-yet-unamed disc includes ukulele da, and recognize outstanding achievement now planned a tour of Ontario in May. For soloist James Hill and uileann piper Paddy in the field. This annual celebration of more information, go to www.thebills.ca Maloney of The Chieftains. The Sultans' homegrown blues talent will be hosted by AA latest CD, MOVE, was recently nominated actor Raoul Bhaneja, who also fronts the The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and for four Canadian Folk Music Awards, young Canadian blues band Raoul and The Albert King are among the nominees for including one for Producer of the Year for Big Time. For tickets and more informa- the 2013 induction into the Rock And Roll band founder Chris McKhool. tion, go to www.torontobluessociety.com Hall of Fame. The bluesmen are among a eg LAE. list of 14 eclectic nominees that include Retired Canadian senator, musician and Back at the Delta Chelsea Hotel: it will Randy Newman, Deep Purple and composer Tommy Banks has formed a host the 11th Winterfolk, Roots and Blues N.W.A. Paul Butterfield Blues Band turned charity to fund affordable housing for the Festival, Feb 14-17. Alongside performanc- a generation of white kids onto the likes of likes of musicians, actors, comedians and es from the likes of Ken and Chris White- Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Ace other live performers in the Edmonton, AB, ley, David Essig, Tony Quarrington blues guitarist, King, inspired the likes of area. Banks, who retired last December at and Wendell Ferguson, the festival will Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton the mandatory age of 75, has since created include several workshops and song circle LEE The Bills 10 penguin eggs: winter 2012