Image: JigJam, the multi-award winning quartet from Ireland, I-Grass - Irish influenced Bluegrass (photo courtesy of the artists).
Week 27 (#1989)
The Piedmont Blues and Old Time music of Americans Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and Aunt Samantha Bumgarner were all early influences on Scottish singers and guitarists including Archie Fisher, John Martyn, and Bert Jansch. The blended sound has evolved further in “Celtgrass” and “I-grass” Irish fusion bands like JigJam and We Banjo 3.
Lass From the Low Country…by Archie Fisher from A Silent Song (Red House Records)
The Bunch of Green Rushes/Salt Creek…by We Banjo 3 from Live in Galway (www.webanjo3.com)
Star of Belle Isle…by Archie Fisher from Windward Away (Red House Records)
Nottamun Town...by Jean Ritchie from American Folklife Center Archive, Library of Congress
Nottamun Town...by Bert Jansch from Jack Orion (Transatlantic)
Highlander's Farewell to Sicily..by Hamish Henderson from American Folklife Center Archive, Library of Congress
The Times They Are a-Changin'...by Bob Dylan from The Times They Are a-Changin' (Columbia)
[ID excerpt] Red Paddy on the Ridge…by JigJam from Phoenix (www.jigjam.ie)
Sweet Roseanne…by The Unwanted from Pay Day (Whirling Discs)
Wedding Dress/Kitchen Girl…by The Unwanted from Pay Day (Whirling Discs)
Selections from a recording made of Jean Ritchie and Norman Kennedy at the Newport Folk Festival, 1966:
Hop Up My Ladies
Mrs. McLeod's Reel
Hop High Ladies/Dunsmore Lasses…by Mary Z Cox from Carolina Banjo (www.maryzcox.com)
Blue Diamond Mines…by John Doyle from Evening Comes Early (Shanachie)
Old Molly Oxford/The Three By Two-Step, Sawmill Backstep…by The Unwanted from Pay Day (Whirling Discs)