Castaway folk (1): intro

Which 10 tracks would you take, given the chance, if cast away to some desert island, whether for the entertainment of BBC radio listeners or because your ship had sunk?

We already know what Christy Moore would choose, because he was on the programme last year. I thought I would compile my own list, but then realised that I could repeat the exercise over and again.

So here is a new feature of Salut! Live, the first of a series of playlists to help me survive in soul as well as body on my desert island. Since I propose further lists, try to imagine I am hopping from one island to another in my attempt to escape and therefore qualify for a new list each time. The body's needs, I trust, would be catered for by my luxury items: limitless supply of champagne, red wine and Guinness, to wash down as much French, Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine as I could eat.

Read on for my first list. The picture of Maddy Prior, lead singer of Steeleye Span and the band's public face, is used with the kind permission of Roger Liptrot of the Folk Images site. A clever chap at YouTube came up with this delicious slice of Steeleye.

Long Lankin........................Steeleye Span

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? ....Sandy Denny

Fareweel Regality..................Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

From Clare to Here............................Bob Fox

Ned of the Hill...................... Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts

Never Any Good................................Martin Simpson

Raglan Road..................................... Dubliners

Lady Dillon.......................... Chris Newman and Maire Ni Chathasaigh

Anachie Gordon....................Mary Black (or Sinead O'Connor)

Farewell Farewell............................... Fairport Convention (with Sandy Denny)

Comments

[David]

A good alternative version of Fareweel Regality would be by its author, Terry Conway, on Kathryn Tickell's Northumberland Collection CD.

[colin randall]

I will certainly look out for that David, It's a fabulous song and I'd love to hear the writer's version (and being on a Kathryn Tickell album is a bonus)