Peggy Seeger on Jools Holland

[Serial_Apologist]

Hey you guys, just wanted to draw your detention to tonight's programme. Here's the entire RT blurb:

Fri 26 Feb - BBC2
10pm - Later... with Jools Holland
2/6
Jazz drummer, producer and broadcaster Moses Boyd, whose debut solo album Dark Matter was shortlisted for the 2020 Mercury Prize, chats to Jools about his musical journey. Blues-rock singer Rag'n'Bone Man performs his new single All You Ever Wanted, and American folk great Peggy Seeger sings All in the Mind from her album Farewell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000slqf

Best wishes!

[Serial_Apologist]

Did anyone else bother with this? Peggy looks good for her 85 years, but I wasn't sure what to expect.

[johncorrigan]

Did anyone else bother with this? Peggy looks good for her 85 years, but I wasn't sure what to expect.

I fast-forwarded to her on the i-player, S_A. Still got that spark about her, that's for sure. She was reminding me a wee bit of the McGarrigles on that song, and it's often good to hear family members singing together. I've heard Moses Boyd on the radio before and he seems a personable character. I just have that problem with Jools that tends to make me avoid his programmes, and that makes it difficult for me to settle into any of his shows and invest the three-quarters of an hour required for the whole experience.

[cloughie]

I fast-forwarded to her on the i-player, S_A. Still got that spark about her, that's for sure. She was reminding me a wee bit of the McGarrigles on that song, and it's often good to hear family members singing together. I've heard Moses Boyd on the radio before and he seems a personable character. I just have that problem with Jools that tends to make me avoid his programmes, and that makes it difficult for me to settle into any of his shows and invest the three-quarters of an hour required for the whole experience.

I have it recorded for later - Peggy, of course was the subject of Ewan MacColl’s ‘The first time ever I saw your face’. Delayed listening also has the advantage of being able to skip some of the items that adversely assault my ears and senses! Seems we have similar views jc!

[johncorrigan]

I have it recorded for later - Peggy, of course was the subject of Ewan MacColl’s ‘The first time ever I saw your face’. Delayed listening also has the advantage of being able to skip some of the items that adversely assault my ears and senses! Seems we have similar views jc!

Here's the two of them together in 1984, cloughie - I like hearing her talk about the way she sings a folk song and great to hear her playing the dulcimer, and Ewan talking about his song collecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwS9u-y7kkU

[cloughie]

Here's the two of them together in 1984, cloughie - I like hearing her talk about the way she sings a folk song and great to hear her playing the dulcimer, and Ewan talking about his song collecting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwS9u-y7kkU

Some power in her voice there.

Are you familiar with the Radio Ballads - I particularly like the Ballad of John Axon - I remember it first being broadcast - my Dad recorded it on reel to reel recorder he built from a Wearite deck.

https://youtu.be/4qpQoLE21Js

[Jazzrook]

I have it recorded for later - Peggy, of course was the subject of Ewan MacColl’s ‘The first time ever I saw your face’. Delayed listening also has the advantage of being able to skip some of the items that adversely assault my ears and senses! Seems we have similar views jc!

Don't know many jazz versions of Ewan MacColl's 'The first time ever I saw your face' but Dexter Gordon recorded a fine one in 1973 with Thad Jones, Hank Jones, Stanley Clarke & Louis Hayes:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=HeHHWy9Ycbc

JR

[johncorrigan]

I enjoyed this new one from Peggy that's from her forthcoming record - 'The Invisible Woman', accompanied by her sons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5IUAWP3jQ

[johncorrigan]

For International Women's Day, Radio Scotland had a guest editor for the afternoon show, the lovely Jackie Kay, Scot's Makar, who played a few records and chatted in a cultural fashion with Janice Forsyth. She said that she had loved Peggy Seeger for many years, that her Mum and Dad (she was adopted at a very young age) had often played her songs when she was growing up. Recently she was sat next to Peggy at an event in Salford University, where Jackie is writer in residence. Peggy told her she was going to be playing at a concert in Glasgow and Jackie said, 'Oh my parents would love to see you in Glasgow.' Peggy said, 'Well I'll get them tickets and meet them.' Jackie told her that her parents were house bound and wouldn't be able to go and she said, 'Well I'll go and visit them at their house.'...and Jackie said that Peggy showed up at the house in Bishopbriggs, and they had tea and scones and they sang peace songs together, and her Mum said she was just the loveliest person.

[Serial_Apologist]

For International Women's Day, Radio Scotland had a guest editor for the afternoon show, the lovely Jackie Kay, Scot's Makar, who played a few records and chatted in a cultural fashion with Janice Forsyth. She said that she had loved Peggy Seeger for many years, that her Mum and Dad (she was adopted at a very young age) had often played her songs when she was growing up. Recently she was sat next to Peggy at an event in Salford University, where Jackie is writer in residence. Peggy told her she was going to be playing at a concert in Glasgow and Jackie said, 'Oh my parents would love to see you in Glasgow.' Peggy said, 'Well I'll get them tickets and meet them.' Jackie told her that her parents were house bound and wouldn't be able to go and she said, 'Well I'll go and visit them at their house.'...and Jackie said that Peggy showed up at the house in Bishopbriggs, and they had tea and scones and they sang peace songs together, and her Mum said she was just the loveliest person.

Peggy would probably have broken lockdown rules then, but what a lovely gesture and story.

[johncorrigan]

I think it was a couple of years back, S_A, as far as I could work out - sorry, I didn't make it clear enough - in the days when there were still concerts.