New books

Subject: New books
From: GUEST,nickr90
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 06:14 AM

Just a mention of two books which may interestest you.
In Search of the Craic - published in paperback earlier this year - reviewed on www.rambles.net this week
Irish Folk Blues & Trad (maybe different order) - a secret history just published in hardcover at 25 euro

Subject: RE: New books
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 02:07 PM

Authors? ISBN number? What does 'a secret history' mean? Gossip? Thanks anyway, Nick! Sounds good.

Subject: RE: New books
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 02:21 PM

Hi, Susanne, and to whom it may concern:
In Search of the Craic - Oh the f***, link doesn't work. Go to amazon yourself and look for the title ...
Irish Folk Trad and Blues

Cheers
Wilfried

Subject: RE: New books
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 02:23 PM

Ya beat me to it, Wilfried!:-)

here's a bit more:

In Search of the Craic:One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music reveiw etc.

ISBN: 0233000046

ISBN: 1903464455 for Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: A Secret History
Greta pioneers and groundbreakers of Irish folk, trad and blues music, such as Sweeney's Men, Horslips, De Danann and Rory gallagher lived when the media and recording industry showed scamt interest. Accounts of their lives and music survived through remininiscences and good fortune. This history reveals the frustrations and triumphs of those who blazed trails. (Only found iton amazon.UK...not avail in the States, as near as I can tell.)

Subject: RE: New books
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 02:25 PM

New try with:
amazon.com
failed again, bugs everywhere.

Sorry

Subject: RE: New books
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 06:39 PM

Thanks, Kat and Wilfried. I did get through to the reviews, and the 'Pub Crawl' looks tempting. I remember Colin Irwin from back when he used to do the Folk Review radio programme with Wally Whyton. It seems Christy Moore wasn't his only love then. Wally used to tease him about his marked preference for 'the lady with the low low voice and the high high boots' (maybe I should save this for the next folk quiz to come along!) - June Tabor.

Subject: RE: New books
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 07:17 PM

I remember Colin Irwin when he use to write the folk page of the Melody Maker from 76 to 80. He probably wrote in the Melody Maker before then but that was when I was exposed to him. He was an excellent writer and a fair and perceptive critic. I wonder what he has been doing for the last 24 years- apart from writing books about Craics?[Incidentally, why is craic not spelt calley?]

Subject: RE: New books
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 08:24 PM

"Craic", though a pretentious neologistic Gaelicisation of the perfectly good English word "crack" (it had a whole thread to itself here a while back) is something we are undoubtedly stuck with now, so we may as well just make the best of it. At least it saves giving potential readers the impression that it is about sex (UK) or drugs (USA).

Colin Irwin is currently working on a new book, In Search of Albion, about English culture and tradition: I gather that it is to be published by Andre Deutsch in May 2005.

Subject: RE: New books
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 04:14 AM

Hi Kat,

the shortest time I ever beat another mudcatter, but when I have to do Susanne a favour I have to make haste.

Cheers
Wilfried