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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #38 comes out a day late, sorry about that. Here’s the download and play link etc:  podcast 38 [30:00] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 40.00 Mb in size, playtime 30 minutes 0 seconds :- 38 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 38.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #38 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 38 The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts Winter in Andalusia – Andy Roberts (abridged version) Now that I’m Living Here – Andy Roberts Cajun Cooking Song – Andy Roberts Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan Song via andyroberts.me

The Live Session from Lizzy B’s acoustic night at the Essex Arms Brentwood takes up most of podcast #35 with one new song written for the Songwriters Circle challenge appended. There wasn’t a live podcast on livestream this week, so it was handy that I had these tracks almost ready to go. Here’s the player, link and download :

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Download MP3 to save – 28.8 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 54 seconds :- 35 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 35.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #35 Shownotes The first 4 songs were recorded at Lizzy B’s Acoustic Sessions in Brentwood, Essex I also mentioned the Andy Roberts interview for The Lost Folk Tapes The last song, was a contribution to the Songwriters Circle WK 2 Challenge

Mazet – Andy Roberts Migration – Andy Roberts The Last Subway Home – Andy Roberts Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts

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The Live Session from Lizzy B’s acoustic night at the Essex Arms Brentwood takes up most of podcast #35 with one new song written for the Songwriters Circle challenge appended. There wasn’t a live podcast on livestream this week, so it was handy that I had these tracks almost ready to go. Here’s the player, link and download :  Podcast 35 [23:02] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.8 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 54 seconds :- 35 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 35.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #35 Shownotes The first 4 songs were recorded at Lizzy B’s Acoustic Sessions in Brentwood, Essex I also mentioned the Andy Roberts interview for The Lost Folk Tapes The last song, was a contribution to the Songwriters Circle WK 2 Challenge Mazet – Andy Roberts Migration – Andy Roberts The Last Subway Home – Andy Roberts Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts The Streets of Paris The Streets of Paris by andyroberts via andyroberts.me via andyroberts.tumblr.com

Here’s another version of podcast episode 31 re-recorded on Wednesday morning with most of of the same songs roughly, as the one which went out live on Tuesday evening. So if you were there, online watching the show and chatting with Linda in one of the realtime boxes then you should notice this isn’t exactly the same performance. The instrumental guitar pieces for example, as improvisations will be will be very different. I’m sure one or two sings are missing too, and one or two added. That’s all part of the process. And the new strings will be over twelve hours old now as well, instead of being only 12 minutes since restringing. I had even thought of doing the restring live on the podcast itself, as a piece of performance a-r-t but Linda said it wouldn’t make a very good audio podcast and I came around to that point of view eventually. Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 31:

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You can also download the MP3 from this link 31 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 31.mp3 Podcast Episode 31 Show Notes Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcast Episode 31: Episode 31 broadcast on February 1st, published on February 2nd 2011. 1) Mozambique Words and Music by Bob Dylan

2) Shifting Sands

Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2) Reason To Believe

Words and Music by Tim Hardin 2)Last Subway Home

Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2)The Wreckers Prayer

Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2)Nobody Knows You ( When you’re down and out)

Words and Music by Jimmy Cox

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Here’s another version of podcast episode 31 re-recorded on Wednesday morning with most of of the same songs roughly, as the one which went out live on Tuesday evening. So if you were there, online watching the show and chatting with Linda in one of the realtime boxes then you should notice this isn’t exactly the same performance. The instrumental guitar pieces for example, as improvisations will be will be very different. I’m sure one or two sings are missing too, and one or two added. That’s all part of the process. And the new strings will be over twelve hours old now as well, instead of being only 12 minutes since restringing. I had even thought of doing the restring live on the podcast itself, as a piece of performance a-r-t but Linda said it wouldn’t make a very good audio podcast and I came around to that point of view eventually. Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 31:  Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 31 [00:29:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 from this link 31 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 31.mp3 Podcast Episode 31 Show Notes Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcast Episode 31: Episode 31 broadcast on February 1st, published on February 2nd 2011. 1) Mozambique Words and Music by Bob Dylan 2) Shifting Sands Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2) Reason To Believe Words and Music by Tim Hardin 2)Last Subway Home Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2)The Wreckers Prayer Words and Music by Andy Roberts 2)Nobody Knows You ( When you’re down and out) Words and Music by Jimmy Cox via andyroberts.me

For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so  I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction. Links, play, download

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One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views) Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so  I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction. Links, play, download  Podcast 28 [00:29:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.0 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 06 seconds :- 28 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 28.mp3 Episode 28 Shownotes One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views) Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song YouTube - andyrobertsmusic Channel Watch the original YouTube Tracks Here: via andyroberts.me

For this week’s podcast because there couldn’t be a live show, so  I’ve done something a bit different. Instead of recording the show and then maybe ending up with some songs for youTube, I’m making the podcast out of videos that I have already on there. It’s the best of my youTube channel from 2010, my pick of five from the most popular songs on there, strung together with a little bit of introduction. Links, play, download

Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.0 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 06 seconds :- 28 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 28.mp3 Episode 28 Shownotes

One More Cup Of Coffee – Bob Dylan Song live from Havering Folk Club( >25,500 views) Big Eyed Bean From Venus – Captain Beefheart tribute Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart again The Wreckers Prayer – Andy Roberts Song Live at Walthamstow Folk Club I Hate the White Man – Roy Harper‘s song

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Podcast Episode 27 Episode 27 is the first Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2011. Happy New Year! Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk Back to Episode 27 and the shownotes: Links, play, download

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The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts The Nutmeg Tree – Andy Roberts Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell Cajun Cooking – Andy Roberts Back in The Field – Andy Roberts

Podcast Episode 26 Episode 26 is the last Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2010. So since the podcasts began back in in July 2010, half a year has passed and just over one quarter of the expected 99 episodes have been published with around 125 songs performed making almost thirteen hours of acoustic guitar music and songs available here on the andyroberts.me website. This time next year, the project should have begun the final quarter. Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk Back to Episode 26 and the shownotes: Links, play, download

Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.6 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 47 seconds :- 26 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 26.mp3 Shownotes for podcast #26 There are four self compositions in this week’s podcast, all of which are taken from the older collection called “The Andy Roberts Tapes” plus a Roy Harper favourite, and a brand new cover of a lovely Ralph McTell song.

The War is Over – Andy Roberts Living Here – Andy Roberts Highway Blues – Roy Harper Narrowboats (Instrumental) – Andy Roberts Barges – Ralph McTell Puddles – Andy Roberts

Songs from Podcast 26 on YouTube Video Highway Blues

The War is Over

Narrowboats

Canal Boat Isabella on the Kennet And Avon Canal Canal Boating Holidays Canals and bridges Canal for Narrowboats Kennet And Avon Canal Canal Bridge 135 Canal Boat Narrowboats Barges

For #14 Andy Roberts plays 12 string guitar and the Chinese Lute or Ruan. Starting off with the oldest Andy Roberts song in my repertoire, Hold On Below dates back to early songwriting attempts while I was still a young teenager coming straight home from school and learning to play guitar for several hours non stop every night – I was in hurry. There are two tunes on the Chinese lute, then a song which is intended to introduce you to another songwriter, Ruairidh Anderson who is in the midst of a 52 week project called Songs From The Howling Sea, and finally a song about a field. Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 14:

Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 28.3Mb in size and 29 minutes 25 seconds in duration from this link 14 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 14.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 14 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 14 broadcast on October 5th 2010, published on October 6th 2010. 1) Hold On Below I found the original handwritten document for Hold On Below and it is in fact dated October 1973, which is a little bit later than thought but still the earliest one that has survived the years really, apart from one called “Living in Time Warp” which is dated 1937. According to my Andy Roberts Music blog, where there’s a record of songs performed, I played Hold On Below at Havering Folk Club on January 15, 2009 and for my first Ustream broadcast on August 4th 2009, but it’s not the best performance, so I’ll wait until this current one surfaces to embed the video. Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the album The Andy Roberts Tapes 2) Yangtse Gorges Instrumental by Andy Roberts, from the album “Album 1” 3) The Truro Agricultural Show A traditional song which was originally written to help advertise the Royal Cornwall Show on the date when it merged with the Bath and West to form a super show, and was held for the only time, near the city of Truro. Accompanied here by the Chinese Lute. Attribution: Traditional, arrangement by Andy Roberts 4) Geneva’s Call I’d like to do more of this kind of thing, playing songs by ordinary musicians, friends and podcasters. It then gives me the opportunity to use this website to link out to the wider online music community, and point out other podcasts that may be of interest to anybody who has taken the time to listen to some of my own stuff. Geneva’s Call is a song by Ruairidh Anderson and is part of the Songs From The Howling Sea project, to record 52 songs in 52 weeks about the Old East End of London.

Hear the original here: 18b. Free Song – Geneva’s Call with further explanations at 18a. Infanticide And Slappy Bonita – A History Of Gin Lyrics and Music by Ruairidh Anderson, interpretation by Andy Roberts 5) Back In The Field Back in The Field was the first song I recorded on Garageband, with muti tracked vocals and two guitars. I should do some more of that from time to time, as well as keeping the podcast going.  You can download the Garageband version from Reverbnation or Last.fm or get the Sampler CD on which it features. Words and Music by Andy Roberts, from the albums Album 1 and Sampler CD

Mostly I’ve been documenting which songs I’ve played at Havering Folk Club on which dates over on the Andy Roberts Music blog on blogspot but I decided a short while ago that I’d start putting those posts here instead, I just haven’t stuck to it very well! The idea was that by tagging posts with song titles, I’d be able to look up very easily and keep track of which songs I’m playing mor often than others, and help me seek out those elusive numbers that I’ve forgotten about for long enough that they suddenly seem fresh and new all over again.  But the tagging system never works out quite as tidily as you might imagine, and the dates become a bit blurry as the habit of reporting promptly wears off. So one date that was remarkable was the date when the Australian duo Cloudstreet came to the Golden Lion to do a long awaited guest spot for Havering Folk Club. Wednesday 15th September. They didn’t disappoint, it was one of the most enjoyable evenings we’ve had there over the years, and I even managed to track down their own blog afterwards so I can keep up with where they are touring, ready for next time they are in the local area. As one of only a small number of floor spot artists I had the chance to play two songs, and these were: Joan of Arc Sometimes this happens, and my voice hadn’t warmed up in time for the first song, so I’ve trashed the video and instead here the song as performed for podcast episode 10. I think I’ll leave this one for a while now.

Followed by The Cajun Cooking Cajun Music song.

There’s a nice bright image on that video, thanks to Linda innovating with the video settings on her relatively new stills camera.

Podcasting a day early with the Andy Roberts music podcast Episode 11 So this week’s podcast was recorded a day early, on the Monday instead of Tuesday, not that that will make much difference to podcast subscribers, who mostly seem to like to download the show about one week after it’s been published, but for those of you who might on occasion turn up for the live show at 7.00pm, I won’t be there at all some Tuesdays, and this was one of them. Knowing that I was effectively playing to an absent live audience had a curious effect on the performance, which I would describe as slightly more random in a creative sort of way, but Linda described as “less in the flow”. I was worried that it wouldn’t be good enough for me to want to put out at all, so I carried on after the half hour but in the end that just made it a bit more difficult to edit down to size, something I’d prefer not to do really. So the original full length video file saved over on Ustream is not worth keeping really, due to the failing daylight at this time of year on a cloudy September evening, and me not having bothered to find the lamp. I kind of like lurking in the dark though
Andy Roberts is being kept in the dark is the tracklist of links and show notes for Podcast Episode 11:

Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 28.8Mb in size and 29 minutes 57 seconds in duration from this link 10 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 11.mp3 Podcast Episode 11 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 11 broadcast on September 13th, published on September 14th 2010. 1) Century A Millenium song written by Andy Roberts around 1980

“Century is my song for the Millennium, written in the early eighties looking forward to the year 2000. It’s called “Century” because the term Millennium wasn’t so much in use then, nobody much had started thinking about it yet, and I was still writing COBOL computer programs with 2 digit years” 2) I Am The Way Song by Loudon Wainwright after Woodie Guthrie’s “Standing Down in New York Town”. Just noticed I played this not long ago, in podcast 7 oh well. 3) You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere Bob Dylan Song from Greatest Hits Vol 2 4) Mondura Dam – Andy Roberts song I may have played this recently, not sure now, but anyway here it is again but this time on the 12 string guitar. Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts.

5) Norwegian Wood – Beatles I kind of love/hate this song, so I’m trying to reinterpret it. The video below will be from a live performance at Havering Folk Club

6) Me and my Friend the Cat One of the early songs by Loudon Wainwright – performed on his birthday. Happy birthday Loudon. Next time I’ll remember the lyrics, OK.

Four Original Songs + 1 Bob Dylan in the Andy Roberts music podcast Episode 10 There’s a bit of an improvised introduction tune followed by four more original Andy Roberts music songs and a final Bob Dylan song in this weeks podcast, all played on the 12 string guitar. Two of the songs are  revivals from the Andy Roberts Tapes which was recorded in 1980, the other two are a bit newer, well Shifting Sands dates back to spring 2003 as far as I can remember and the Cajun cooking song was written on that Spain trip which immediately followed, so yes, two from the tapes and two from The Gernika album. Here are the links and shownotes for Podcast Episode 10:

Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 24.4Mb in size and 25 minutes long from this link 10 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 10.mp3 There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Video Podcast Episode No 10 Podcast Episode 10 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 10 broadcast on September 7th, published on September 7th 2010. Improvised Intro Ephemeral work with lyrics and music by And Roberts Joan of Ark Named after a specific Hotel in the Marais, Paris, Andy Roberts’ song Joan of Ark tends to get wheeled out every autumn due to the seasonal references. From The Andy Roberts Tapes Suitcase Another one from the tapes, and a kind of sequel to the above really. I’m not really completely comfortable with being the person who wrote this song, all that time ago, but the tune is catchy and the guitar runs were developed for the 12 string guitar, yes the same guitar. Shifting Sands I may have played this recently, not sure now, but anyway here it is again. Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts. Cajun Music Cajun Food One of the Spanish songs, and still crying out for a fiddle and accordion but I do my best with the solo guitar.  From the album Gernika I Shall Be Released Music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, arrangement Andy Roberts

Episode 7 of the weekly Andy Roberts music podcast series features the 12 string guitar again, with three original self written songs, and three others by Michael Chapman, Cat Stevens and Loudon Wainwright. We had some problems with the live Ustream again this week, problems with time taken to login, with the chat room stopping working and with interruptions to the listener stream but the recording happened fine so the audio podcast and indeed the saved video file are unaffected. I would like to be able to provide a better live experience though, with fewer barriers to interaction so I may well start to try out some alternatives to Ustream as soon as possible, for example Bambuser. If you have any suggestions for alternatives to Ustream, or ways to improve it then please come forth in the comments here. Here are the links for Podcast Episode 7:

Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 26.2Mb in size and 28 minutes 36 seconds in duration from this link 06 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 7.mp3 There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Video Podcast Episode No 7 Podcast Episode 7 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 7 broadcast on August 17th, published on August 18th 2010. All songs performed with the 12 string vintage Guild acoustic guitar except 06 on the Ibanez 6 string Postcards from Scarborough – Michael Chapman Postcards is probably Mike Chapman’s most frequently covered songs, and I enjoy playing it on the 12 string guitar, flat picking style. The video below is from Havering Folk Club, January 2009 or possibly August 2008.

Shifting Sands – Andy Roberts Here’s an old demo video of Shifting Sands which was the first song in a sequence which I now refer to as “the Spanish songs” or the album Gernika

Wild World – Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam This is an old busking song which has some nice runs on the 12 string guitar.
The placeholder video is a six string version, which I’ll replace later.

The Last Nail – Andy Roberts The Last Nail – info

I am The Way – Loudon Wainwright From Attempted Moustache The Loudon Wainwright Special was episode 4 Winter in Andalucia – Andy Roberts Winter in Andalucia ( or Andalusia ) is one of the songs on my Sampler CD I wonder if it might be good to have a simple index of which songs on each podcast somewhere, without the notes and videos etc. just for reference.