TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

So i had a stroll down to the cd tent amd wasnt too bothered by what was on offer i had a look a Troy, Mattacks and Brown - "Live At Captain Carlo's" put it down at walked away.

 But the damned thing nagged away at me for a while and i realised that if i didnt get it there and then i would probably be condemned to spend eternity trawling the tinterweb for a copy .
 So i went back and bought it
Then i went back and bought the 2 feast of fiddles cds.

what did you shell out for , gentle reader?

Mary Hampton - My Mother's Children
Mawkin:Causley - The Awkward Recruit
Lau - Live
Benji Kirkpatrick - Boomerang
A free Proper compliation
A compilation called Strange Folk for £2.

Didn't have an awful lot to spend on CDs this year as I spent half of my spending money on a rather nice and very warm jumper/coat thing. Would have liked to have got FoF's latest, a ColvinQuarmby CD and maybe a Churchfitters CD as well.

Red Shoes - Ring Around The Land.  Listening now.

Jude's Talking With Strangers
Feast Of Fiddles - Still Live
Yes - Going For The One
Two RT live albums previously missing from my collection, The Chrono Show & More Guitar
The RT box set, Walking On A Wire.

The last of these was the strangest purchase as I already have everything on it! But it looked so lovely glinting in the sunshine that it called to me. I was finally persuaded by a chance meeting with a friend on the site who told me he had already lost the same debate with himself and said it had an excellent book with it! I haven't taken the sellophane off yet and am wondering whether to give it to somebody as a birthday present. I really spent money on CDs that I couldn't afoord this year. Not to mention T shirts, Nepalese cotton shirts and overpriced pizza!

Would have liked a Colvin Quarmby CD but I didn't know which one to go for. Any recommendations?

Get all of them, thats what I did when I saw them a couple of months ago . Got the DVD this time.

Yes get them all ;D seriously A Short Walk to the Red Lion is a good one to start with.

I got a Bad Shepherds CD

I've only ever heard her sing one song on a floor spot in a club, but her performance was mesmerising. I must get that CD  :)

Talking with Strangers - Ms Dyble - signed !

very good indeed.

I would've bought more but Proper was packed and I could hardly move.

Bad Shepherds was a MUST - and a non-queuer like me actually queued to get sigs on it and compliment Maart on yet another MAGIC collaboration!
Ade Edmondson also very nice and looks better in person than on the telly.

One of the best 5 albums of last year IMO - when I saw it on sale for £6 I wanted to stand by the stall ranting at people until they were all sold (but I didn't).

I bought;
Tickled Pink eponymous
The 'new' Buzzcocks album (released - 2006)
A £6 album that I can't remember the name of
Bad Shepherds


And the 'Last Shop Standing' book, which is not only brilliant, but features my two favouriye CD shops, including pictures (Muse Music and Wall of Sound).

Well, I couldn't get to Cropredy, :(, but I bought a double live CD - "The Collector's King Crimson vol 1" - 2 shows from 1974, including the full, unedited versions of the tracks from the "USA" album. Excellent!  ;D

5 in total:

Judy Dyble's Talking With Strangers - got it signed too.  I suggested, to Katy's Mum with Janet in brackets.  Judy signed it, to Janet with Katy's Mum in brackets - good one Jude and thanks.  It's lovely - Harpsong my immediate favourite.

Angel Brothers

Dreadzone - Live At Sunrise

4Square - 20:20 Manchester

The Bad Shepherds - Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera

Churchfitters and 4 Square. Two copies - ones a gift.

Jude's "Talking with Strangers" (absolutely brilliant!)
Ralph McTell's "Not Til Tomorrow" (to replace my worn out vinyl copy)
Doors "Greatest Hits" (from the car boot sale)

Digance - "The New Richard Digance CD"
Churchfitters - "This Fine Night".

Haven't managed to listen to either of them yet, as the CD player in the car doesn't work and just haven't managed to get Radio 4 off the home stereo since we got back.  As I'm on the 'puter I'll stick them onto the phone for listening to on the way home from work.

Went a bid mad on Saturday in the Proper tent, having already had a plunge at the Talking Elephant stall in the village:
Got RT's "Live Warrior" for my 9 y.o. (whose musical tastes I'm trying to refine, in competition with Disney's "High School Musical" and other tat, damn their eyes!) and got it signed, much to her delight.  Ditto Nik Kershaw's latest effort for the wife (she's just at that awkward age).  

And for me, some Gregson & Collister, Boo Hewerdine, Otway's ludicrous "Ot-Air", Dave Cousins, Pete Bardens, Traffic, Neil Young, Lau, Steve Gibbons, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jaco Pastorius.  Also filled a couple of curious holes in my collection with "Full House" and "The Northstar Grassman..." PLUS the free CD with "R2".

So....home penniless but with plenty to listen to!

Spend money in at Talking Elephant & the CD tent.

A Hutchings - A Word In Your Ear
C Leslie - The Flow  (I have been looking since ages for this one)
S Lakeman - Freedom Fields & Kitty Jay
Tickled Pink - Terpsichore
Steeleye Span - bloody men
M Prior - Woman In The Wing

Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay
Dreadzone      - Once upon a time

Bad Shepherds

Yusef's new one... Roadsinger

Seth's old one... The Punch Bowl

Lau and Mawkin Causley

Already had Jude's gorgeous new album.

Bad Shepherds and I'm going to get a Dreadzone one but I don't know which one yet.

I would deffo suggest first light!

I can only find one called Second Light? But it's only £3.99 so I'm going for it!

whoops slip of the brain and keyboard!  :-[yes second light! ;D

It's ordered anyway! Play.com so I'll get it before Friday (they're very good).

Didn't buy any CDs at Cropredy.  Mind you, I did already have Roadsinger by Yusuf....

And i have since bought Second Light by Dreadzone... and very good it is too.... !

(Actually I am listening to it now, but strictly speaking this is the wrong thread to tell you that!)

There were many CDs I wanted to but, but I spent too much money on my Ukulele. So I only ended up buying 'Fame and Glory' which I listened to in the car on the way to Devon, and I loved it.

Or Reg Hughes as my neighbour thought they were called  ;D

My diction is awful ;)

That might just stick ;D

I bought the Red Shoes CD. Very good