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Andy Roberts Podcast #39 Shownotes

Show Notes for Podcast 39

1. The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts music and lyrics
2. Time for The Music – Andy Roberts music and lyrics
3. Hold On Below – Andy Roberts music and lyrics
4. Work is Done – Andy Roberts music and lyrics
5. Waiting – Andy Roberts music and lyrics

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28 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 28.mp3

Episode 28 Shownotes

1. One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views)
2. Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute
3. Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again
4. The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club
5. I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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Episode 27 is the first Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2011. Happy New Year!

Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk

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Shownotes for podcast #27

1. The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts
2. The Nutmeg Tree – Andy Roberts
3. Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
4. Cajun Cooking – Andy Roberts
5. Back in The Field – Andy Roberts

Episode 26 is the last Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2010. So since the podcasts began back in in July 2010, half a year has passed and just over one quarter of the expected 99 episodes have been published with around 125 songs performed making almost thirteen hours of acoustic guitar music and songs available here on the andyroberts.me website. This time next year, the project should have begun the final quarter.

Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk

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Shownotes for podcast #26

There are four self compositions in this week’s podcast, all of which are taken from the older collection called “The Andy Roberts Tapes” plus a Roy Harper favourite, and a brand new cover of a lovely Ralph McTell song.

1. The War is Over – Andy Roberts
2. Living Here – Andy Roberts
3. Highway Blues – Roy Harper
4. Narrowboats (Instrumental) – Andy Roberts
5. Barges – Ralph McTell
6. Puddles – Andy Roberts

Songs from Podcast 26 on YouTube Video

Highway Blues

The War is Over

Narrowboats

Starting off with the oldest Andy Roberts song in my repertoire, Hold On Below dates back to early songwriting attempts while I was still a young teenager coming straight home from school and learning to play guitar for several hours non stop every night – I was in hurry. There are two tunes on the Chinese lute, then a song which is intended to introduce you to another songwriter, Ruairidh Anderson who is in the midst of a 52 week project called Songs From The Howling Sea, and finally a song about a field.

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14 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 14.mp3

Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 14 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 14 broadcast on October 5th 2010, published on October 6th 2010.

1) Hold On Below

I found the original handwritten document for Hold On Below and it is in fact dated October 1973, which is a little bit later than thought but still the earliest one that has survived the years really, apart from one called “Living in Time Warp” which is dated 1937. According to my Andy Roberts Music blog, where there’s a record of songs performed, I played Hold On Below at Havering Folk Club on January 15, 2009 and for my first Ustream broadcast on August 4th 2009, but it’s not the best performance, so I’ll wait until this current one surfaces to embed the video.

Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the album The Andy Roberts Tapes

2) Yangtse Gorges

Instrumental by Andy Roberts, from the album “Album 1”

3) The Truro Agricultural Show

A traditional song which was originally written to help advertise the Royal Cornwall Show on the date when it merged with the Bath and West to form a super show, and was held for the only time, near the city of Truro. Accompanied here by the Chinese Lute.

Attribution: Traditional, arrangement by Andy Roberts

4) Geneva’s Call

I’d like to do more of this kind of thing, playing songs by ordinary musicians, friends and podcasters. It then gives me the opportunity to use this website to link out to the wider online music community, and point out other podcasts that may be of interest to anybody who has taken the time to listen to some of my own stuff.

Geneva’s Call is a song by Ruairidh Anderson and is part of the Songs From The Howling Sea project, to record 52 songs in 52 weeks about the Old East End of London.

Hear the original here: 18b. Free Song – Geneva’s Call with further explanations at 18a. Infanticide And Slappy Bonita – A History Of Gin

Lyrics and Music by Ruairidh Anderson, interpretation by Andy Roberts

5) Back In The Field

Back in The Field was the first song I recorded on Garageband, with muti tracked vocals and two guitars. I should do some more of that from time to time, as well as keeping the podcast going.  You can download the Garageband version from Reverbnation or Last.fm or get the Sampler CD on which it features. This is also a repeat performance as far as the official podcast episodes are concerned, since Back In The Field opened the show for the first podcast Episode #1

Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the albums Album 1 and Sampler CD

So one date that was remarkable was the date when the Australian duo Cloudstreet came to the Golden Lion to do a long awaited guest spot for Havering Folk Club. Wednesday 15th September. They didn’t disappoint, it was one of the most enjoyable evenings we’ve had there over the years, and I even managed to track down their own blog afterwards so I can keep up with where they are touring, ready for next time they are in the local area.

cloudstreet

As one of only a small number of floor spot artists I had the chance to play two songs, and these were:

Joan of Arc

Sometimes this happens, and my voice hadn’t warmed up in time for the first song, so I’ve trashed the video and instead here is the song as performed for podcast episode 10. I think I’ll leave this one for a while now.

Followed by The Cajun Cooking Cajun Music song.

There’s a nice bright image on that video, thanks to Linda innovating with the video settings on her relatively new stills camera.

So this week’s podcast was recorded a day early, on the Monday instead of Tuesday, not that that will make much difference to podcast subscribers, who mostly seem to like to download the show about one week after it’s been published, but for those of you who might on occasion turn up for the live show at 7.00pm, I won’t be there at all some Tuesdays, and this was one of them.

Knowing that I was effectively playing to an absent live audience had a curious effect on the performance, which I would describe as slightly more random in a creative sort of way, but Linda described as “less in the flow”. I was worried that it wouldn’t be good enough for me to want to put out at all, so I carried on after the half hour but in the end that just made it a bit more difficult to edit down to size, something I’d prefer not to do really.

So the original full length video file saved over on Ustream is not worth keeping really, due to the failing daylight at this time of year on a cloudy September evening, and me not having bothered to find the lamp. I kind of like lurking in the dark though

Andy Roberts is being kept in the dark

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10 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 11.mp3

Podcast Episode 11 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 11 broadcast on September 13th, published on September 14th 2010.

1) Century

A Millenium song written by Andy Roberts around 1980

“Century is my song for the Millennium, written in the early eighties looking forward to the year 2000. It’s called “Century” because the term Millennium wasn’t so much in use then, nobody much had started thinking about it yet, and I was still writing COBOL computer programs with 2 digit years”

2) I Am The Way

Song by Loudon Wainwright after Woodie Guthrie’s “Standing Down in New York Town”. Just noticed I played this not long ago, in podcast 7 oh well.

3) You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Bob Dylan Song from Greatest Hits Vol 2

4) Mondura Dam – Andy Roberts song

I may have played this recently, not sure now, but anyway here it is again but this time on the 12 string guitar. Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts.

5) Norwegian Wood – Beatles

I kind of love/hate this song, so I’m trying to reinterpret it. The video below will be from a live performance at Havering Folk Club

6) Me and my Friend the Cat

One of the early songs by Loudon Wainwright – performed on his birthday. Happy birthday Loudon. Next time I’ll remember the lyrics, OK.

There’s a bit of an improvised introduction tune followed by four more original Andy Roberts music songs and a final Bob Dylan song in this weeks podcast, all played on the 12 string guitar. Two of the songs are  revivals from the Andy Roberts Tapes which was recorded in 1980, the other two are a bit newer, well Shifting Sands dates back to spring 2003 as far as I can remember and the Cajun cooking song was written on that Spain trip which immediately followed, so yes, two from the tapes and two from The Gernika album.

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10 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 10.mp3

There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time

Video Podcast Episode No 10

Podcast Episode 10 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 10 broadcast on September 7th, published on September 7th 2010.

Improvised Intro

Ephemeral work with lyrics and music by And Roberts

Joan of Arc

Named after a specific Hotel in the Marais, Paris, Andy Roberts’ song Joan of Arc tends to get wheeled out every autumn due to the seasonal references. From The Andy Roberts Tapes

Shifting Sands

I may have played this recently, not sure now, but anyway here it is again. Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts.

Suitcase

Another one from the tapes, and a kind of sequel to the above really. I’m not really completely comfortable with being the person who wrote this song, all that time ago, but the tune is catchy and the guitar runs were developed for the 12 string guitar, yes the same guitar.

Cajun Music Cajun Food

One of the Spanish songs, and still crying out for a fiddle and accordion but I do my best with the solo guitar.  From the album Gernika

I Shall Be Released

Music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, arrangement Andy Roberts

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07 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 7.mp3

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Video Podcast Episode No 7

Podcast Episode 7 Show Notes

Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 7 broadcast on August 17th, published on August 18th 2010.

All songs performed with the 12 string vintage Guild acoustic guitar except 06 on the Ibanez 6 string

Postcards from Scarborough – Michael Chapman

Postcards is probably Mike Chapman’s most frequently covered songs, and I enjoy playing it on the 12 string guitar, flat picking style.

The video below is from Havering Folk Club, January 2009 or possibly August 2008.

Shifting Sands – Andy Roberts

Here’s an old demo video of Shifting Sands which was the first song in a sequence which I now refer to as “the Spanish songs” or the album Gernika

Wild World – Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam

This is an old busking song which has some nice runs on the 12 string guitar.

The placeholder video is a six string version, which I’ll replace later.

The Last Nail – Andy Roberts

The Last Nail – info

I am The Way – Loudon Wainwright

From Attempted Moustache

The Loudon Wainwright Special was episode 4

Winter in Andalucia – Andy Roberts

Winter in Andalucia ( or Andalusia ) is one of the songs on my Sampler CD

I wonder if it might be good to have a simple index of which songs on each podcast somewhere, without the notes and videos etc. just for reference.

The first was to align with the previous night’s podcast episode 6 which was loosely themed around the fingerpicking blues style and I’ve been having the tune of Hesitation Blues going through my head ever since so that’s what I played.

Secondly, I’d been corresponding about The Wreckers Prayer so that got another airing. Linda wasn’t there to shoot any video so I’ll include some alternatives takes from the Andy Roberts Music youtube account in due course.

After the break or rather just before the break, I got called up again and decided on the spur of the moment to do two Beatles songs. I Feel Fine and Norwegian Wood

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Podcast Prototype 3.mp3

The full video file of the show is available over at Ustream.tv where the live podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time

Podcast Prototype No 3 Video

Podcast Prototype 3 Show Notes

Show notes and information for prototype 3 broadcast and recorded on June 22nd 2010.

There were five songs performed during this show, one using the archtop acoustic guitar and the others on a standard 6 string.

Memphis Tennessee

Title: “Memphis, Tennessee”
Music and Lyrics by Chuck Berry, interpretation Andy Roberts

The Dream is Over

Title: “The Dream is Over”
Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes

Here’s the same song performed next day at Havering Folk Club

Standing By

Title: “Standing By”
Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts

Don’t You Grieve

Title: “Don’t You Grievel”
Music and Lyrics by Roy Harper, interpretation Andy Roberts

The War is Over

Title: “The War Is Over”

Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes

Here’s the same song performed next day at Havering Folk Club

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