Gone Folkin’
(A Mixtape for the Meanwhile)
We’re off for our annual pilgrimage to Falcon Ridge Folk Festival from now until August 4: ten precious days camping, volunteering, and frolicking with friends and family in our mutual home away from home, the best, most comfortable arts-and-music-driven intentional community we’ve ever found.
As we noted in our earlier feature on this year’s Fest, the artists roster this year is excellent, with Aoife O’Donovan, The Duhks, Roosevelt Dime, Brother Sun, The Grand Slambovians, and more on our don’t miss list; since then, the artist-run Lounge Stage – a pre-fest stage hosted by the boys from Pesky J. Nixon on July 31 from 5-11 – has announced a number of great acts we’re excited to see up close, from Spuyten Duyvil, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler and Darlingside to RJ Cowdrey and Caitlin Canty, while Budgiedome has added Cover Lay Down fave Kristin Andreassen and Connor Garvey to their latenight post-stage schedule for Friday. Maybe we’ll see you there.
Our absence also means yet another slight hiatus here at the blog, of course. Campsite rules enforce a no-phones policy for good reason. After 17 consecutive festivals, our time in the fields each year is not just a sybaritic pleasure, it’s also a necessary trial. Being fully present there (and fully absent here) clears the head for another school year, and it sends us back bubbling with life and rejuvenated joy at the state of folk music.
But we’d not leave you emptyhanded. Instead, today, a leavetaking in coverfolk: a slow, lazy mix tape of goings and goodbyes, from sorrowful lament to the hopeful promise of return. As always, if you like what you hear, click on the links beside each track to follow the artists you love to the fields and the forests of your minds and hearts.
Goodbye, Farewell: A Coverfolk Mixtape [zip!]
- Maya and the Ruins: I’m Going Away (orig. Elizabeth Cotten) [2012]
- Clem Snide: Everytime You Go Away (orig. Hall & Oates) [2013]
- The Last Names: So Far Away From Me (orig. Dire Straits) [2012]
- Corin Raymond & The Sundowners: Time To Leave (orig. David Ross MacDonald) [2013]
- Ryan Tanner: Goodbye (orig. Steve Earle) [2011]
- Laura Veirs: Jamaica Farewell (orig. Harry Belafonte) [2011]
- Ruth Notman: Farewell, Farewell (orig. Richard Thompson) [2007]
- Marissa Nadler: Farewell Angelina (orig. Bob Dylan) [2011]
- Michael Kiwanuka: Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (orig. Leonard Cohen) [2012]
- Shawn Colvin: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (orig. Bob Dylan) [1994]
- Rachel Sermanni: I Want You Back (orig. Jackson 5) [2013]
- Jenni Muldaur: Come Back Baby (orig. Kate & Anna McGarrigle) [2013]
- Travel By Sea: Return To Me (orig. Sparklehorse) [2007]
- Ani DiFranco: When I’m Gone (orig. Phil Ochs) [2000]
- David Wilcox: Missing You (orig. John Waite) [1994]
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Category: Mixtapes 2 comments »
July 23rd, 2014 at 10:22 pm
Looking forward to a slew of reports about this year’s Falcon Ridge performers!
(Also, the download of David Wilcox’s Waite song claims it’s a Richard Marx cover…)
[Oops – apologies for the mislabeled origin. Waite’s the correct originator – boyhowdy]
July 27th, 2014 at 10:29 am
Love this, top to bottom … and I think the Clem Snide tune is actually a Paul Young cover. Maybe.
As always, good show. Bravo.