Sunday, 1 December 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire - Special 60th Anniversary issue, Dec 2014 - Tributes to John Dengate & poem by Mike Waters

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S1 - Vale John Dengate © John Warner & Jenni Cole Warner,
Aug 2014

S2 - We Won't See His Like? © John Warner 14/09/13

S3 - Paean for John Dengate - tune Carrickfergus
© John Warner Sept 2013



S4 - Sixty Years "Bush Music Club" by Mike Waters, 2014 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 226, Dec 2014 - "The Bush" by Don Watson & Our First Folk Song

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S1 - "The Bush" by Don Watson 

S2 - review by Allen Davis

S3 - review (cont) 

S4 - Our First Folk Song by John Meredith,
extract from Singabout Feb 1980, Mulga Wire no. 17

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 223, June 2014 - BMC Competition Winners

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S1 - Winners of Tune, Song & Verse competitions 

S2 - Verse winner - Australian Dreaming by Stephen Whiteside

S3 - Song Winner - The Reedy River Still Flows by Bruce Watson 

S4 - Barcoo Dogs for Australia Chamber Orchestra 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 297, Oct 2011 - Mixed Bag Aussie Folk Observations

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S1 - CD Reviews, & songs from John Dengate & Gail Copley

S2 - Review of CDs from Perth band, Loaded Dog 

S3 - Mr Murdoch's Song by John Dengate
tune - The wearing of the green 

S4 - The Room by Gail Copley 

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Friday, 29 November 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 196, Dec 2009 - The Rambles of Lazy Harry

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga  Wire no. 146, August 2001 -  Archives and the WWW on The Road to Gundagai, plus Son of Lazy Harry, and version of Lazy Harry's collected in UK.   

S1 - The Rambles of "Lazy Harry" 
S2 - Lazy Harry as published in Old Bush Songs by
Douglas Stewart & Nancy Keesing, A&R, 1957

S3 from Songs Sung in Suffolk, vol. 3, Veteran Tapes VT103
(field recording 1985-87 by John Howson )
Sung by Fred Whiting of Kenton, Suffolk



S4  Where Have All the Flowers Gone - A Singalong Memoir 
Pete Seeger, rev.ed. 2009 + CD.  Review by Bob Bolton 


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Monday, 25 November 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 186 Feb 2008 - Two Book Reviews

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S1.  Two Book Reviews 

S2 - The Songs of Henry Lawson, with music by Chris Kempster,
2nd edition 2008

S3 - The City Bushman, verses selected by John Broomhall

S4 - One Hundred dances by Mike Waters 

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Sunday, 24 November 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 195 - October 2009 - Different paths of glory ...

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S1 - Different Paths to Glory ... or, at least ... to Remembrance:
Two sides of a Broken Down Squatter 

S2 - The Broken Down Squatter - Mr. C. Lee 

S3 - Alan Scott's notes on Mr Lee's version 

S4. Extra verse To The Broken Down Squatter, found by
Bill Scott in Charles Flower's notebooks 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 199, June 2010 - Jason & Chloe Roweth score gong at National Folk Festival

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S1 - Best Folk CD of 2009 - National Folk Recording Award

S2 - review - A Voice That Was Still -
Chloe & Jason Roweth with Jim McWinnie
 

S3 - review - Collector  - Bill Browne, Roger Hargraves,
Jason Neville, Jim McWinnie, Jason & Chloe Roweth 

S4 - Ballad of 1891 - Words - Helen palmer  Music - Doreen Bridges 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 214 - Dec 2012 - We Made the Steel, Songs of the Steel Industry in 1960s NSW (review)

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S1 - We Made the Steel, Songs of the Steel Industry in
1960s NSW (RF043CD)  Roaring Forties

S2 - Steelers' March © Robin Connaughton 

S3 - The Sankey Benson Press Shop © Robin Connaughton 

S4 - The Booze Fairy © John Warner/Robin Connaughton
tune - The Ash Grove (trad) 

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Saturday, 23 November 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 193, Jan 2009

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S1 - Jamborees - Past and Future - Waltzing Around Dagworth -  
10 CD history of Australia - and a Poetic point of view 
from John Dengate 

S2 - The Creation of Waltzing Matilda - Australia's Unofficial
National Anthem & International Icon, by Dennis O'Keeffe

S3 - CD Review - Folk Songs and Bush Verse by Warren Fahey
Vol 1 - Convict Stain to Shearer's Blades - 4 CDs
Vol 2 - Celebration of a Nation - 5 CDs

S4 - Australian Made by John Dengate 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 185 - February 2008 - Two sad farewells over the festive season

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S1 - Sad News- Death of Ron Edwards 

S2 - Passing of Ron Edwards, memories by Dale Dengate

S3 - Ron Edwards (from Oxford Companion
to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey & 
Graham Seal
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S4 - Memories of Len Norris and Gulgong by Dale Dengate 

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Thursday, 21 November 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 201 - Oct 2010 - The Songs of Reedy River ... and other things

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S1 - Reedy River + Obit of Rowan Webb, who posted under
the name Rowan on Mudcat Cafe folk website - Mudcat obit thread


S2  - By The Eumerella Shore -
lyrics Trad, music Louis Lavater (1866-1953)

S3 - By The Eumerella Shore - lyrics 

S4 - Obit for Rowan 

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