Episodes

  • FDN LXIX

    FDN LXIX
    Dec 20 2025
    69, LXIX or تسعة وستون is a number symbolising completion, harmony and the beginning of new cycles. It is also the sequential number of the FDN episode that I have just uploaded. This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X Tracklist Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung Folk Och Rackare – Bältet Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief Clod – Scrumping and Rumping Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band The Trojans – Gaelic Ska Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • FDN LXIII

    FDN LXIII
    Sep 15 2025
    FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition. Tracklist NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad Wootten Family – Ortonville Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea) Northampton Harmony – Despair Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die? Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace Landless – Doomsday NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • FDN LXII

    FDN LXII
    Sep 9 2025
    I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X Tracklist; Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans Liam Weldon – James Connolly Seán McKeon – James Connolly Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur / Skarzhour Chiminalieu Luke Cheevers – Abe Carman Daoirí Farrell – Valentine O' Hara John Faulkner and Dolores Keane – Allan Tyne Of Harrow Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Sovay The Kipper Family – The Male Female Highwayman A.L. Lloyd – Jim Jones at Botany Bay Jerry O'Reilly – The Carmagnoles Ruth Hazleton – Tri-Coloured House Beau James Wilding – The Lowlands of Holland RL O'Mealy – Donegal Reel Jason Rouse – The Maid at Mourneshore https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • FDN LXI

    FDN LXI
    Jun 25 2025
    Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge. Tracklist Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa Gout – Newcastle Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Blackwater Side

    Blackwater Side
    Jun 20 2025
    This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries. Tracklist Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside Harry Upton – In Wayward Town Wash Nelson – Last May Morn Spriguns – Blackwaterside Landless – Blackwaterside https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    52 mins
  • FDN LX

    FDN LX
    Mar 18 2025
    FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing. Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann Jim Ghedi – The Seasons Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830) Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!] Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window

    Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window
    Mar 10 2025
    This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over Tracklist Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain Harry List – Knife on the Window AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly Harry Cox – Knife in the Window Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior) Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • FDN LIX

    FDN LIX
    Feb 10 2025
    Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century. Tracklist Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha Powtes – Green Brooms Grey Stag – Blessington Maid Cruel Mother – Down the Greenwood Side Espers – Rosemary Lane Isa Desmet – The Prickle Holly Bush Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music The Kipper Family – The Losing Of The Whale Paul Denman & Jennifer Reid – Life's Spinning Song Green Ribbons – The Well Below The Valley Tom Lehrer – I Got It From Agnes Scafell Pike – The New York Trader Dubz Ft Ronnie Drew – The Last Leviathan https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 20 mins