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A Folk Song a Day was a project by the English folk singer and musician and Bellowhead member[1] Jon Boden where he recorded and released a folk song each day for one year.[2] The project ended on 24 June 2011.
A Folk Song A Day | |
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Presentation | |
Genre | Folk music, Music podcast |
Language | English |
Updates | Daily |
Production | |
No. of episodes | 67 |
Publication | |
Original release | 24 June 2010 24 June 2011 | –
Related | |
Website | https://www.afolksongaday.com/ |
About
editThe project started on 24 June 2010.[3] It has resulted in 12 digital albums (one for each month).[4] Boden hopes that it will promote social singing and be a resource for those looking for inspiration.[5]
The songs can be bought in the form of digital download from Amazon or from iTunes.[6] The project reached number one in the iTunes music podcast in its first week.[7]
The songs
edit- A Folk Song A Day 1: July 2010
- Tyne Of Harrow 05:18
- The Hunt Is Up 03:06
- I Wish That The Wars Were All Over 02:45
- Blackwaterside 02:03
- Barbara Allen 05:18
- Cruel Mother 05:49
- Chickens In The Garden 02:20
- Across The Line 02:54
- Pretty Cock / As I Stood Under My Love's Window 02:27
- Banks Of Green Willow 04:24
- Danny Dever 04:41
- Mercedes Benz 01:56
- Rambling Sailor 02:42
- Yellow Roses 03:20
- Big Steamers 02:24
- Lucy Wan 03:30
- Come Write Me Down 02:52
- The Bloody Gardener 03:42
- Go And Leave Me 03:26
- Rain It Rains 03:26
- Stonecutter Boy 01:49
- Sally Free And Easy 03:19
- Young Edward In The Lowlands 03:54
- Old Tom Moor 05:00
- Tha' Lowks A Proper Swell 05:18
- Banks Of Red Roses 02:20
- A Blacksmith Courted Me 03:22
- Maid Of Australia 04:27
- Child Morris 07:04
- The Old Songs 04:23
- Tom Padget 03:49
- A Folk Song A Day 2: August 2010
- (Now) Westlin Winds 03:43
- Two Young Brethren 02:09
- The Land 06:14
- Greenland Whale Fishery 03:22
- Brown Adam 04:24
- Shepherd of the Downs 04:09
- Derry Gaol 03:04
- Frankie's Trade 04:26
- Ca the Ewes 02:51
- Two Pretty Boys 02:26
- Cruel Knife 02:42
- Nostradamus 05:32
- Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy 03:28
- Bold Sir Rylas 03:07
- Dream of Napoleon 03:34
- Live Not Where I Love 03:45
- Polly Vaughan 02:35
- Saucy Sailor 02:53
- Abroad for Pleasure 01:43
- Oggy Man 02:21
- Golden Glove 03:51
- Country Life 01:45
- Rolling Down to Old Maui 03:41
- Jordan Is a Hard Road 02:59
- Leave Her Johnny 02:40
- Doleful Dance of Death 02:58
- Randal 03:38
- Bonny House of Airlie 03:20
- Yorkshire Couple 02:26
- William Taylor 03:09
- Yarmouth Town 02:32
- A Folk Song A Day 3: September 2010
- The Prentice Boy 02:49
- Light Dragoon 02:57
- London Waterman 02:14
- Noah's Ark Shanty 02:11
- King of Rome 02:56
- On a Monday Morning 02:29
- Fakenham Fair 03:30
- Rambling Robin 01:45
- In the Shade of the Old Harris Mill 02:34
- Sleep On Beloved 03:08
- Hey John Barleycorn 03:05
- Fathom the Bowl 03:07
- Water Is Wide 02:47
- The Rigs of the Time 02:53
- On Board 98 04:20
- Oats and Beans and Barley Grows 00:49
- The Irish Ballad (Rickety Tickety Tin) 02:20
- The Bush Girl 04:10
- The Lord Will Provide 02:19
- NaCl 01:56
- Down Where the Drunkards Roll 03:25
- The Trees They Do Grow High 02:25
- Blood Red Roses 02:13
- A-Begging I Will Go 02:51
- 10,000 Miles Away 02:13
- Sparrow 01:42
- Three Ravens 03:04
- Waltzing Matilda 03:21
- Brisk Young Widow 01:57
- All of a Row 02:14
- Barbaree (Bonus Song) 03:32
- A Folk Song A Day 4: October 2010
- Prickle-Eye Bush 03:06
- The Huntsman 05:10
- Deep Blue Sea 03:38
- New York Girls 03:12
- Jersey Girl 04:07
- The Poor Man's Labours 01:46
- Bay of Biscay 02:46
- Gallant Hussar 03:18
- The Constant Lovers 05:17
- Hunting the Hare 01:12
- Courting Too Slow 03:51
- The Dawn of the Day 02:40
- The Sheepstealer 02:30
- Marrowbones 02:47
- Old Joe Clark 01:49
- Bill Brown 04:19
- Johnny's Gone to Hilo 03:23
- Sea Coal 03:49
- Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth 03:06
- Close the Coalhouse Door 02:38
- All for Me Grog 02:24
- Santa Fe Trail 04:51
- Jock Stewart 02:07
- The Death of Queen Jane 03:27
- Good Old Way 02:52
- Doffing Mistress 01:30
- Blackleg Miner 01:55
- Goodnight Irene 02:31
- Mad Family 01:35
- Dig My Grave 01:05
- Tam Lin 09:59
- A Folk Song A Day 5: November 2010
- Spectre Review 05:10
- His Name Is Andrew 05:05
- London Town 02:49
- Spencer the Rover 03:15
- Cob a Coalin 01:59
- South Australia 01:53
- Love At the Five and Dime 04:46
- Boston Harbour 02:05
- Mary Ann 02:48
- A Chat With Your Mother 04:03
- If You Want to See the General 03:09
- Bruton Town 03:36
- Rose of Tralee 03:04
- I'll Go With Him Wherever He Goes 02:41
- See See the Cape's In View 02:39
- Hard Times 02:52
- Unfortunate Lass 03:41
- Cholera Camp 06:09
- I Once Was a Fisherman 02:37
- My Johnny Was a Shoemaker 01:29
- Jacob's Well 03:38
- Poor Fellows 05:04
- Warlike Lads of Russia 03:31
- Fire Marengo 02:44
- Grey Goose and Gander 03:37
- The Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid 02:43
- Sweep Chimney Sweep 02:08
- Farewell to Old Bedford 01:58
- Cold Blows the Wind 03:26
- Brown Girl 03:15
- A Folk Song A Day 6: December 2010
- Babes In The Wood 02:46
- Hark Hark 01:53
- Snow Falls 01:52
- While Shepherds Watched (Pentonville) 03:06
- While Shepherds Watched (Sweet Chiming Bells) 02:50
- Come All You Weary Travellers 02:43
- Mistletoe Bough 04:08
- Cells 04:14
- Boar's Head Carol 01:45
- A Roving On A Winter's Night 03:07
- Spout Cottage 02:10
- Poor Little Jesus 02:36
- All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name (Diadem) 02:53
- The Holly & The Ivy 02:23
- Remember O Thou Man 03:30
- Jingle Bells 03:53
- Mount Moriah 02:14
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas 01:51
- Awake Arise Good Christians 02:37
- While Shepherds Watched (Lyngham) 02:38
- Stannington 02:12
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 02:09
- The First Noel 02:58
- Shepherds Arise 03:31
- On Christmas Day 01:38
- The King 01:31
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem 02:21
- Little Pot Stove 04:47
- I'd Like To Tell To You 01:45
- Rocking Me Babies 02:16
- Cornish Wassail Song 05:05
- A Folk Song A Day 7: January 2011
- January Man 03:19
- Daddy Fox 02:54
- Old Brown's Daughter 03:36
- Peggy Bann 03:44
- Apple Tree Wassail Song 02:39
- Pilgrim On the Pennine Way 03:49
- Captain Ward 03:21
- Otago 03:39
- Peggy Gordon 02:59
- In the Month of January 02:58
- The Snow It Melts the Soonest 02:25
- Off to Epsom Races 01:45
- Ruins By the Shore 02:54
- Days Gone By 03:00
- Smugglers Song 03:29
- Lowlands 03:17
- Five Hundred Miles 02:20
- Maria's Gone 02:45
- Ballina Whalers 05:03
- The Last Leviathan 02:48
- The Cuckoo 02:47
- John Ball 03:46
- I Drew My Ship 02:24
- Two Magicians 04:07
- Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away 02:15
- Bungay Roger 02:15
- My Son John 01:28
- Banks of the Nile 03:05
- Anachie Gordon 06:57
- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen 03:23
- Dark As a Dungeon 02:43
- A Folk Song A Day 8: February 2011
- Sheffield Apprentice 04:47
- Won't You Go My Way 01:19
- Clyde Water 04:41
- German Musicianer 03:18
- Cold Blow and the Rainy Night 02:45
- When First I Came to Caledonia 03:35
- King Henry Was King James' Son 01:24
- Queenie 01:35
- Simon John 04:30
- Rolling Down to Rio 01:53
- Hanging Johnny 01:14
- Butter and Cheese and All 03:16
- Don't Go Out Tonight Dear Father 03:36
- Cupid's Garden 03:23
- Young Banker 02:31
- Donkey Riding 01:32
- I Sowed the Seeds of Love 03:14
- Over the Hills and Far Away 03:03
- Bird In the Bush 02:55
- Shoals of Herring 02:59
- Grey Funnel Line 03:06
- A Pilgrims Way 04:21
- Widow's Curse 05:08
- Maid and the Palmer 03:18
- Sir Patrick Spens 04:39
- Fiddlers Green 04:52
- Captain Wedderburn 05:26
- Oor Hamlet 04:21
- A Folk Song A Day 9: March 2011
- Lakes of Pontchartrain 03:33
- Four Angels 03:32
- Willie's Lady 05:46
- Worcester City 02:58
- Swansea Barracks 04:36
- Wife of the Soldier 01:36
- Bold Fisherman 04:11
- Sweet Mossom 02:28
- Corduroy 03:03
- Weaver's Daughter 02:22
- Plains of Mexico 02:05
- Farewell Sweet Lovely Nancy 01:40
- Take This Hammer 03:18
- Dalesman's Litany 03:50
- Billy Don't You Weep for Me 03:42
- Springfield Mountain 02:03
- The Green Fields of America 04:09
- Jack Orion 04:08
- Turkey Rhubarb 00:34
- Horn Fair 01:55
- Lovely On the Water 03:03
- Hail a Brighter Day 05:18
- Adam and Eve 00:39
- Scarborough Fair 02:35
- Turtle Dove 02:08
- Tommy 04:01
- Ye Mariners All 01:36
- Whiskey Is the Life of Man 03:33
- Maid On the Shore 04:15
- Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary 04:22
- Lemady 02:31
- A Folk Song A Day 10: April 2011
- On One April Morning 02:56
- Rose In April 03:58
- There Once Was a Lover and He Loved a Lass 01:43
- Brave Wolfe 04:00
- The Banks of the Tees 02:29
- Gaol Song 03:04
- The Roman Centurion's Song 04:01
- Amsterdam 04:17
- Palaces of Gold 03:47
- Lord Bateman 03:08
- Payday 02:28
- John Blunt 01:57
- John Barleycorn 03:35
- Gentleman Soldier 02:54
- Copshawholme Fair 04:27
- Seven Yellow Gypsies 05:23
- A Week Before Easter 03:19
- Sister Josephine 03:51
- Bellman 03:44
- Maid In Bedlam 03:55
- Dust to Dust 03:46
- Recruited Collier 02:40
- I Am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble 02:57
- Pace Egging 04:49
- Sheepshearing 02:04
- I Know My Love By His Way of Talking 02:39
- Geordie 03:34
- New York Mining Disaster 03:19
- Auld Triangle 04:17
- Reynardine 04:12
- A Folk Song A Day 11: May 2011
- Hail, Hail the First of May 02:50
- Hal and Tow 02:45
- The Outlandish Knight 05:21
- The Verdant Braes of Skreen 03:00
- Bonny Bunch of Roses 04:44
- Broomfield Hill 04:04
- Death and the Lady 03:12
- Gathering Rushes 05:22
- Down the Moor 05:01
- As I Roved Out 03:41
- Searching for Lambs 03:56
- My Husband's Got No Courage In Him 01:54
- Sweet Nightingale 03:36
- The Gardener 03:07
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning 03:16
- Charming Molly 01:52
- P Stands for Paddy 03:31
- Gypsy Rover 04:23
- Lillibulero 03:17
- Big Rock Candy Mountain 03:08
- Roseville Fair 03:25
- House Carpenter 05:37
- Farewell to the Gold 03:48
- Little Sally Racket 02:02
- Rout of the Blues 02:11
- Banks of the Ohio 04:14
- Birds Upon the Trees 02:33
- Banks of Fordie 06:54
- Icarus 05:29
- Little Musgrave 10:15
- Claudy Banks 03:49
- A Folk Song A Day 12: June 2011
- Just As The Tide Was Flowing 04:13
- Beggar Laddie 04:29
- Garden Hymn 02:29
- Streams Of Lovely Nancy 02:31
- Let Union Be In All Our Hearts 03:41
- After The Ball 00:43
- Innocent When You Dream 04:04
- Poverty Knock 04:04
- Abe Carman 03:33
- Lock Keeper 03:25
- Ghost Song 04:03
- Exile Song 01:07
- Wild Mountain Thyme 03:25
- Rag Fair 01:58
- Rose of Allendale 04:04
- Farmer's Boy 03:55
- Grand Conversation On Napoleon 04:44
- Plains Of Waterloo 03:29
- Roll Alabama 03:52
- Bold Archer 02:55
- Road Through The Woods 02:20
- Banks Of Sweet Primroses 03:05
- Fortune Turns The Wheel 04:12
- The Larks They Sang Melodious 04:16
- Farners Toast 03:58
- Young Roger Esquire 01:53
- One Night As I Lay 02:16
- Earl Richard 04:01
- White Cockade 03:15
- Rose In June 07:14
In popular culture
editJon Boden's A Folk Song A Day has inspired other spinoffs, most notably the Australian Folk Song A Day project featuring 367 folk renditions on a daily basis between 26 January 2011 and 26 January 2012 by John Thompson.[8]
Other similar projects include Fifty-Two Folk Songs,[9] Oli Steadman's 365 Days Of Folk,[10] and a A Liverpool Folk Song a Week.[11]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ "StackPath". www.folkradio.co.uk. 31 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ "Jon Boden announces "A Folk Song A Day"". The Line of Best Fit. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ "Jon Boden's A Folk Song a Day – review". The Guardian. June 27, 2011. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
- ^ "A Song A Day website - About section". Archived from the original on June 13, 2011.
- ^ "A Folk Song A Day on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. 23 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ "Alan Bearman Music". Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "An Australian Folk Song A Day". www.ozfolksongaday.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ "Fifty-Two Folk Songs". Fifty-Two Folk Songs. Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ "365 Days Of Folk". 365 Days Of Folk. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ "A Liverpool Folk Song a Week". aliverpoolfolksongaweek.blogspot.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2022-05-17.