This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor
Tracklist
Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor
Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor
Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor
The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor
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26 May 2026, 10:33 am
1 hour 10 minutes
FDN LXV
Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes.
Tracklist
Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill
Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig
Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig
Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl
Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw
Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well
Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí
Jimmy Crowley – Johnny Jump Up
Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further Into The Fire / Juliann Johnson
Patrick Boyle – Clasped To The Pig
Topette – Bal Limousines - A Bastien / Les Maries
Nimf – Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies
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27 March 2026, 1:02 pm
1 hour 18 minutes
FDN LXIV
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
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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
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20 December 2025, 2:29 pm
1 hour 14 minutes
FDN LXIII
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
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15 September 2025, 1:20 pm
1 hour 30 minutes
FDN LXII
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
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9 September 2025, 2:01 pm
1 hour 23 minutes
FDN LXI
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
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25 June 2025, 11:21 am
52 minutes 14 seconds
Blackwater Side
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
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20 June 2025, 10:08 am
1 hour 3 minutes
FDN LX
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
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18 March 2025, 12:00 am
1 hour 6 minutes
Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window
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
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Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!
10 March 2025, 11:52 am
1 hour 19 minutes
FDN LIX
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
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10 February 2025, 12:00 am
51 minutes 23 seconds
The Boston Burglar
This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England
Tracklist
Paul Clayton – Botany Bay
The Watersons – The Whitby Lad
Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar
Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar
New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar
George Pegram – The Boston Burglar
Cat Mother – Boston Burglar
Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler
Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler
Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar
The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar
The Pubcrawlers – Boston Burglar
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