Full Transcript for (Re-Release) Ep. 243 Grateful Roots

00:04:55.519 I finally gets a bit uh bit tedious to be honest with a lot of these old Christmas songs. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.560 Anyway, enough said, let's move on to the second song now. 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.920 It's Stephen Hagen here in Dublin. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.319 The contact details, by the way, are great for Roots Music. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:05.920 That's for X, that's for the Gmail, and that is for the website. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.160 This is Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:09:26.000 It's only money What's only money it will go away It's all with changing pockets I gotta get back to mine song Put it's only money it will go away I'm not talking about you baby Tell me about your life in way I'm not talking about you, baby, I'm talking about your life in way I don't care about the money It's out of your in it way Put all the money on the money go away It's always changing pockets It'll get back tomorrow time It will go away If you don't wanna be with me then Better find yourself a better hand If you don't wanna be with me baby Find yourself a better hand And when you spend all our money He could just spend everything that he can break On the money On the money will go away Go away Stop with changing pockets back to my top Everything's gonna be it comes Light for you can fly next up you could it come Line is fun as you can fly I don't care about your money If you ain't gonna ticket you're gonna go by a lot of money it will go away It's always changing pocket It'll get back to mind It will go anyway Anyway It's on the money It will go away Anyway Ah it's only money It's only money uh young Willie Nelson there only aged 82 back then And uh that singing with Meryl Haggard from an album Django and Jimmy um as I said these are great tracks of 2015 we're playing um there's no particular order I'm not doing a countdown on them but I have left my personal favourite one that I announced as my personal favourite back in that time I was doing a radio programme back in 2015 on a station and uh I I did um mentioned the last one as my personal favourite of 2015. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.679 So we'll stick to that in case anyone has a recording out somewhere, you never know. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:38.320 And Meryl Haggard sadly was to pass away just a few months later in April, 6th of April to pretty precise, age 79. 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.639 Meryl Haggard was born on the 6th of April and died on the 6th of April. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.399 Died on his birthday and such. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:50.879 The next artist, well, this guy just came out of well, I think he came out of nowhere because he was a huge producer and so forth. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:57.279 Um but this album was a really a huge award-winning album in back in 2015. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.000 Um it's Chris Stapleton, the Traveler. 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:37.919 She comes and then she's gonna look in I'm just a travel on this behind the

pocket of my show. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.639 I just keep rolling around Because I'm a travel. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:47.360 Oh, I'm a travel. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:11:06.720 I couldn't tell you how I'm going, but I got to go try to do the sound, oh, and I'm a travel. 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:36.000 Oh, I'm a traveler My heartbeat rhythm, lost sound, just like the rubber turning on Ground Always lost, no way back just a treadmill. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:59.759 Show my half the hands show I just keep rolling to go some trouble, oh I'm treble I don't know. 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:56.480 What I got to go on track on the trailer, you know. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:39.840 Oh, I'm traveling Yes, uh Traveler award-winning album, and uh that's just a great title track from it. 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:56.799 Uh Chris Stapleton songwriter, record producer uh and uh you know he's 47 now, but when he came on the scene there well he had a huge amount of under his belt and he just kind of was catapulted into the uh American uh charge, if you like it. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.279 I was watching a network yellow stone television series. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:21.600 I didn't know he watched reason for anyone there was a guy in it. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.000 I kinda had an inkling of who he was. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.480 I I don't even know why I had an inkling who it was. 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:30.399 I maybe just heard it somewhere along the way and it just kind of occurred to me. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:32.639 Anyway, this is it is who he is. 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:37.200 He's the next singer, and his name is Ryan Bingham. 00:14:41.039 --> 00:15:04.159 Nobody knows my troubles I've been carrying my trouble this pack strapped to my shoulder. 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:10.320 Ever since I was a baby, I've been running from everything I know. 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:12.639 Don't tell me about my trouble. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.360 Nobody knows about my trouble. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.639 Nobody knows about my trouble, except for my baby and me. 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:29.600 I was born a cowboy, way out west of New Mexico. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.480 Times are tough, we had to let it go. 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.000 We moved the town, but they couldn't move it out of me. 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.320 It was way down in my blood. 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.279 They couldn't want on the stool. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.240 Nobody thought that I ever would get away with the trouble in me. 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:55.440 And I've been carrying my trouble, mess packed, strapped to my shoulder. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:01.759 Ever since I was a baby, I've been running from everything I know. 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.000 Don't you tell me about my trouble? 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:06.799 Cause nobody knows about my trouble. 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:12.159 Nobody knows about my trouble, except for my baby and me. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:27.519 Well, it didn't take too long for the pills in the bottom of a bottle to dig a deep grave with the shovel, and bury everything that a young boy needs. 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:32.559 But I found me a guitar, one on the nine in a border town. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.600 I paint and started to write it down. 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.039 But it wouldn't stay away from me. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:49.759 And I've been carrying my trouble, Miss Pack strapped to my shoulder. 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:56.000 Ever since I was a baby, I've been running from everything I know. 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.000 Don't you tell me about my trouble? 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.799 So nobody knows about my trouble. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.679 Nobody knows about my trouble. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.319 Except for my baby and me. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.640 So I got the hell out of there. 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.440 I made my way up to the big crown. 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.319 Check myself into the lost and found. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:19.759 What do you know? 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.759 My baby come for me. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.079 Now I'm living a good life. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:26.880 Away from all of the bad advice. 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.000 I take every day like it's a paradise. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.200 So people stay away from me. 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:46.880 I've been carrying my trouble Miss Bag strapped to my shoulders ever since I was a baby. 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.480 I've been running from everything I know. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.400 Tell me about my trouble. 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.200 Nobody knows about my trouble. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.000 Nobody knows about my trouble. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.720 Except for my baby and me. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.480 And uh, you know, when the work is over, sometimes he's playing the guitar and so forth. 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:06.720 It's not all happy families running like that. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.240 There's quite a bit of violence in it. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.480 It's an unusual type of program. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:16.640 I'm going to concentrate on the music and not as I tried to do it. 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:22.960 Ryan first came to my attention because he wrote the weary kind of thing. 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.839 Let's go now today, rolling the machine. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:02.000 Here and now she's going to obsolete. 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.119 The weekend, this is it, the song from it. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:10.880 I hit the weekend just like a freak. 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.480 I got there early. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:17.440 I couldn't wait. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:24.079 I made a friend or two along the way. 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:31.039 You want the details, but what can I say? 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:45.599 There's the ballarina, the foreign cartel, the opera singer, the southern bag. 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:52.400 They've all got something strange and news. 00:20:53.920 -->

00:20:59.599 They've all got something, but not like you. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.000 Runaway horse. 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:52.480 She was the best friend a man ever had. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:59.680 Now I'm going down the road feeling better. 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:17.519 Friday is forever Saturday. 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:27.599 Sunday start coming. 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:33.359 Good ones never left. 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:40.720 Good ones never left. 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:50.240 What became of the red rooster after the tragedy? 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.319 What became of you girl? 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:56.799 And what became of me? 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:04.799 And she said I had good fortune, silver, silk and wool. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:11.920 I gave long away, and now my heart is full. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:29.839 I got very Dave Rolling Machines there. 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:35.920 Is the Al is the artist and uh track is the weekend. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:40.559 Nashville obviously is the album and uh Dave Rollings. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:48.640 As we know, it's gonna sell you and well together and uh the Dave Rollings machine which I'll try to get loaded. 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:50.880 And quite a number of other ones as well. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.839 Take a listen, take a look at Grateful Roots music to come. 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:10.880 This is how you make yourself vanish into nothing, and this is how you make yourself worthy of the love that she gave to you back when you didn't own a beautiful thing. 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:22.960 And this is how you make yourself call your mother, and this is how you make yourself closer to your brother. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:28.720 Remember him back when he was small enough to help you see. 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.440 You thought God was an architect. 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:42.400 Now you know it's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow in everything you built. 00:28:42.640 --> 00:31:11.279 So for show goes up in place in twenty-four frames This is how you see yourself floating on the ceiling This is how you help a win and hard stop feeling what happened to the party You noticed every change This is how you talk around when no one else is listening This is how you help her when you don't miss the vanish So she can go drown in a dream You stop God Now you know Stop the buttons big bow Don't stop me 24 24 frames Jason Isbo from the album Something More Than Free uh that was the follow-up album to really really successful in Southeastern 2013. 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:13.599 It really was a breakthrough album for him. 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.240 So I'm here in Dublin sometime around that time. 00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:23.759 He was here with Amanda Shares, who was then his wife, she was she's a violinist and a great artist in her own right. 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:30.799 And funny thing, I can still remember her playing the violin on that night, so she must have done a very impressive job.

00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:39.839 Staying with artists that I've seen in concert in Dublin. 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.960 This is uh an artist I saw around that time as well, around 2015 or so. 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:49.119 It's Patty Griffin, and shine a different way. 00:31:55.119 --> 00:32:00.720 I'm gonna let it be the field, the one that rain forgot. 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:03.599 I'm gonna let it be the summer. 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:11.920 I'm gonna let it be your face, the one that ran away. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.279 I'm gonna let it be forever. 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:27.359 I'm gonna let it rain and hail, gonna let the rusty nail no longer hold this world together. 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:38.000 I'm gonna let it be the sun in more ways than one, shine a different way tomorrow. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.519 Shine a different way tomorrow. 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.039 I'm gonna let it be the moon. 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:14.960 Let it play the tune, the one that keeps you feeling. 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.759 I'm gonna let it be you. 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.680 Let it have you thrill. 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.480 That's what you need in. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:32.000 I'm gonna let it start again. 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:37.759 Gonna let it chase the wind, with my arms stretch out the home. 00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:49.920 Let it look at me sleeping in the dark And let me like a baby. 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.800 Dancing at the back door. 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.920 I'm gonna let it hear the prayer. 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:32.000 No matter who is there, no matter who is listening. 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:40.800 Gonna let the dream tell me what it is always known. 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:51.039 Patty Griffin, servant of love, is the album Shine a different way. 00:36:51.360 --> 00:37:04.559 Patty Griffin, singer, songwriter, written songs for all kinds of artists, including Mary Shapin Carter, Carter Carpenter, Nielsen Chapman, Linda Ronstadt, and others. 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.599 Great artists. 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:11.519 And uh just here back in around 2015 the Olympia in Windows. 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:13.519 It was a very good night indeed. 00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:17.599 Rodney control was in Emily Harris's Heartband. 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:30.320 But um any other good friends, Emily and Rodney, and he brought out an album in 2015 called The Traveling Kind. 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:32.559 And this is the title track. 00:37:49.039 --> 00:38:14.000 From the ravages of time, but the first and last to leave a mark, someday become the treble kind in the wind are names of poised friends. 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:26.159 Some were friends of yours and mine, and to those uns we live deadless. 00:38:26.639 --> 00:39:20.800 May the songs become the treatment kind of we were born to breathe this till with our hearts laid on midway cross for a red turbul, the song becomes the track. 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:28.159 There are mountains worth waiting. 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:46.800 Come each both and claim them for the tree. 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:41.199 Empress the one the treadmill. 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.920 Traveling kind is not covers. 00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:22.000 Just realizing that we're playing fifteen songs today, in fact, we've got through eight so far. 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:23.039 So seven to go. 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:27.519 I should have I shouldn't title this. 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:39.760 Now we'll have a great one coming up from John Henry. 00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:43.199 Very soon something from Judy Collins, not far away either. 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.519 And we'll be closing with a great one. 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.000 My favorite from 2015. 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:51.360 The only thing we will give you is it's a female artist. 00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:52.719 That's all I'm going to say. 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:54.400 And this is Laura Merling. 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:11.280 I don't know how to play. 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:18.559 Are you really not anybody until somebody knows your name? 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:24.639 I'm not sure where that's going. 00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:32.719 Somebody used to show me they don't feel like showing. 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:39.920 Please don't let me bring you down. 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.679 Do I look like I'm fucking around? 00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:57.599 Love seems to be some kind of trickery. 00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:06.400 Some great thing to which I'm a mystery. 00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:11.840 I'm not sure I can do it. 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:17.679 You had it on me once before. 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:19.519 I only just got through it. 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:26.880 Please don't let me bring you down. 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.239 Did you think I was fucking around? 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:42.000 I'm a woman now. 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:59.840 You do it. 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:13.679 Oh my god! I don't do it. 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.199 You have it only once before, and it just got through it. 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.639 Why did you let me bring you down? 00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:36.079 Did you think how I was fucking around? 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:01.519 There nearly caught me out, but it didn't catch me out. 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:07.599 Laura Marling, and I won't say what she was doing around, but anyway, the title of the track is Don't Let Me Bring You Down. 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:15.840 And I thought it was very good, and uh short movie directors called Is already an album. 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:22.000 Now Don Henley up next, and he released an album in 2015 called Cass County. 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:23.760 It was his first album in fifteen years. 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:26.079 Yeah, fifteen years coming up where we are today's show. 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:27.280 Quite amazing, quite amazing. 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:29.360 Amazing things you find amazing too. 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.559 Well possibly, possibly. 00:45:30.880 -->

00:45:34.320 But anyway, um I had a few other artists on the album as well as it happened. 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:40.000 But let's let's just play this particular one from it called Words Can Break Your Heart by Don Henley. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.599 Might be all we need right now. 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:24.800 Don't know if we've had too much, but not enough to drink. 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:32.400 We've got to get over this somehow. 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:43.360 It only takes a breath or two to tear your world apart. 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.440 Sticks and stones may break your bones. 00:46:50.239 --> 00:47:17.199 Words can break your heart, cutting words from keyless lips, softly spoken, or you can do damage, never scream a shout. 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.920 Emotions get the best of us. 00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:46.480 Say things we don't mean, and it's too late to take them back once they're at only takes a breath or two to tear your heart. 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:13.039 Can we just come as dumb as done? 00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:34.239 We got to take some break the march to tear your room sticks and stones may break your bones. 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:49.360 Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can break your heart. 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:17.039 Certainly. 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.559 He said one time talking about the music business. 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:27.360 It can't really be the catchy tune, and I know he's absolutely 100% correct. 00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:32.000 I mean the music business would probably be nowhere without a catchy tune. 00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:42.400 I remember George Michael. 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:59.360 I can write the album on the opening track. 00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:01.519 Randall Rolls on the opening track. 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:04.079 Also Hagard on the album. 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:14.079 And I bet you're all saying we listen to this problem. 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.679 Well, this is another album from a lady who was only seventy-six at the time. 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.320 Judy Collins brought out an album called Strangers Again with a variety of artists on it. 00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:30.639 I'll tell you who those strangers were. 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:36.639 But um this is one that uh has uh an Irish artist on it. 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:41.760 It's uh Judy Collins and Glenn Hansard, and it's called Races. 00:51:51.280 --> 00:52:08.239 Well, if I win some races, I don't mean I'm the fastest, and I don't mean I'm better than everyone. 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:23.039 Can I ride some horses with great speed over courses? 00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:31.679 It's just cause you're here for me at the life. 00:52:43.360 --> 00:53:35.119 For you I could trust myself, for you I could throw will abandon all glories and fade away 'cause I never left you, and you never let me be and if I have the glory, I give it up gladly. 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:43.920 Are we sucked in the limelight and left best friends behind?

00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:58.000 Do you come walk beside me to the end of the story? 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:06.000 And I let you go gently among your own car. 00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:32.400 Oh you I could win for you I could trust myself, for you I could throw with a ban all glories of fame to the wind. 00:54:44.159 --> 00:55:03.760 And you never lend me you I could win. 00:55:05.920 --> 00:56:11.280 For you I will trust myself For you I should throw with abandon all glories and everything to the wing 'cause I never let you when you never let me never let you never let me Judy Collins Strangers Again is the album, and that's the great track, Races, as in Car Races, Horse Races, and uh we can enhancer the Irish artist. 00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:13.119 I put a lot of great artists on it. 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:14.880 Well what a mini track. 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:37.440 Fifteen tracks from the young Judy Collins then 76 years of age, Michael McDonald with the Doobie Rudders, also Willie Nelson, Jeffrey Ridges, Jackson Brown, Stephen Still, uh Jimmy Boffer, John McClane, you had various people. 00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:55.760 Now let's go to a younger man, a guy who's um Well he said rock and roll is dead a few years back, and he's a record producer. 00:56:56.000 --> 00:57:02.159 He has his own uh I think he has his own record label, not sure, but he has his own studio and he's an experimental type of guy and so forth. 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:03.199 His name is Matthew E. 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:10.480 White, and he brought out an album in 2015 called Fresh Blood, and this is Rock and Roll is Cold. 00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:37.920 You said you found the solar rocket roll. 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:41.840 You said you found the solar rocket roll. 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:46.239 Ayy with the rock and roll, they don't have no soul. 00:57:47.519 --> 01:01:20.719 Everybody knows that everyone knows everyone knows that rock and roll is gold You said you found the R-Round You Stay that you found, keep the around the Rome Everybody sneeze that everybody sneeze that I've beats free by the likes of talk, everybody likes a talk everybody likes to talk, everybody likes to talk about the joy cut, but they got the kids, pick it up, everybody likes a talk, everybody likes a talk everybody likes to talk, everybody likes to talk to the touch You stand to find the stove rock and roll You stand to find the stole the rock and roll A rock and roll it don't have no soul Everybody knows that everyone knows everyone knows that rock and roll is gold buttons Rock and roll is cold. 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:22.079 That's the track Matthew E. 01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:29.280 White, Fresh Blood is the album from fifteen of fifteen program that we are doing today. 01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:48.079 Yes, he does have a record label, it's called Space Palm, he's a studio and uh it's in Richmond in Virginia, and he's done a bit of producing, arranging, collaborating for acting, including his Golden Messenger, also Sharon Van Etten, and a few others that you could look up for yourself. 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.039 Now, three songs to go, so you'll soon be hearing it. 01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:52.000 It's very, very exciting. 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:57.599 What my top song of 2015 is, or my favorite song of 2015 is coming up fairly soon. 01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:00.239 I think I already told you it's going to be a female artist. 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:05.440 Now, next up is a man who sadly left us in 2015 in February of 2015. 01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:09.519 Age twenty uh twenty-one, oh age eighty-one. 01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:13.039 Bill Faye is his name originally from Wales, a bit of a cold artist. 01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:16.159 Released about uh five albums or so in the time. 01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:19.039 Um but um an experimental type of guy. 01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:22.079 Who's the sandwich the album in 2015? 01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:23.280 War Machine. 01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:26.559 This was actually a single from it, and this is War Machine Bill Fay. 01:02:43.199 --> 01:03:02.400 All the leaves are falling with a hedge upstinning and a beep of spine makes me feel like crying. 01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:25.599 Hear the song of warning from the black but calling the hills are alight, feels like the first day of your life. 01:03:43.519 --> 01:04:13.440 He ain't praying for forgiveness, it's his nature to kill, but man isn't but we are killing waves that he doesn't as we pay chances. 01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:31.360 Bill Fay War Machine, a single there in uh twenty fifteen. 01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:32.880 I said Bill was from Wales. 01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:37.039 In fact, he attended college in Wales, but he was originally from London. 01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:44.239 Had a didn't release any new material, well, completely new material, albumized between 1971 and 2012. 01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:50.960 Had a bit of a revival in his career uh within that kind of cult uh sector, if you know what I mean. 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:55.920 In the last uh you know twelve, thirteen years of his life as such, he had a few albums out. 01:06:56.159 --> 01:07:02.480 Um very much into introspective type stuff, big into god and philosophical things. 01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:07.440 Um not the type of guy who was ever going to appear on Top of the Pops or that type of thing. 01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:10.079 If Top of the Pops is still going, I don't even know. 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:14.880 Um probably wouldn't even have appeared on later with Jules Holland, but possibly he would have. 01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:16.880 And maybe even did for all I know. 01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:17.519 I don't know. 01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:18.880 I'm taking a chance here. 01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:20.400 But look, that's Bill Fay. 01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:26.079 Sadly, as I say, he left us in February of this year, 2025. 01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:31.519 We got two songs to go, and uh in 2015, yes, the great man himself, Bob. 01:07:31.679

--> 01:07:34.480 Well, he released an album about the American songbook. 01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:36.320 It's called Shadows in the Night. 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:38.719 Great title for the track for the album. 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:45.039 And uh this is one from the album, and it's called at Lucky Old Son Uncle Bob Himself. 01:08:19.359 --> 01:09:01.279 But the lucky ourselves has nothing to do but roll around in heaven all day, thus with my woman, tough on my kids, sweat and wrinkling grease while that lucky osa has nothing to do but roll around heaven all day. 01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:50.720 Catch you see a pine send down that cloud with the seal alighting, lift me departed, show me the river, take me across and wash my troubles away like that lucky us. 01:09:52.800 --> 01:11:22.000 Give me nothing to do but roll around heaven all day do I send that cloud with the silver lining lift me to paradise the river take me across and was all my troubles wag that lucky osa give me nothing to do but round head okay old son himself it's uh Uncle Bob Shadows in the Night the album and that the track at Lucky Old Son. 01:11:22.079 --> 01:11:39.119 One track to go on the fifteen from fifteen um special here um Christmas week twenty twenty-five just to give you a full picture, the Grateful Roots podcast started in twenty nineteen for your information, February of twenty nineteen. 01:11:39.279 --> 01:11:41.840 So next year it is going seven years. 01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:53.760 Uh was a weekly podcast up to around uh April or so of uh twenty-four, and then we convert it to a monthly podcast. 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:58.399 We do a lot of re-releases each week, and the podcast comes out on a Monday. 01:11:58.640 --> 01:11:59.359 On a Monday. 01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:03.439 Um release on the first Monday of each month. 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:15.920 Occasionally we will very, very occasionally, very, very rarely if there's some particular reason some artists might be performing in Dublin or something, and Steve Earl was there recently, so we might just release it a week earlier, a week later, that type of thing. 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:29.760 Just to coincide, if we're doing a special on that artist, we were under doing a special on Steve Ehrler um in October of uh 2025 this year, and then he appeared in the Helix and I was there to see it, and a very good night it was indeed too. 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.159 Um so that's the story there. 01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:39.279 And we got you know, seven years going, we've got the people in a couple podcasts available on a lot of podcasting platforms. 01:12:39.359 --> 01:13:01.279 You just gotta Google out there and off you go, and some of them you can actually download it and put it away and put it into your collection for years to come, or you know, all over the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Australia, Guatemala, Singapore, Spain, and loads and loads of countries, even more countries than what I just mentioned there. 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:05.119 And I could get into all the cities we're in, California and all kinds of places. 01:13:05.439 --> 01:13:10.640 So it's you know, it's a lot a lot of people out there listening, which I'm certainly very glad to hear. 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:22.000 The website is GratefulRoots Music.com and uh you know, for the last uh you know, since we went monthly more or less, we we tend to do a feature just on one artist or one particular theme or something like that. 01:13:22.239 --> 01:13:27.840 Um and then just uh okay, well at Chris around Christmas time we often just release an episode which we've done this time. 01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:30.000 And then it's going out uh Christmas week. 01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:36.479 This has been released on the uh twenty-second uh of December twenty twenty-five. 01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:39.439 But it'll be up there in a system to listen to for years to come. 01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:44.159 Um God knows when you might happen to be listening to it on the playback of some sort. 01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:51.359 So look, I'm just gonna say thanks very much for listening and and have a great Christmas and have a great new year. 01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:54.319 Gonna leave you with the track I said was my favourite one. 01:13:54.399 --> 01:14:00.640 Um this listing, by the way, that I played today was taken from a list that I used for a programme on on the radio back in 2015. 01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:04.720 I just had it still there and just had it uh resurrected. 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:06.319 Great to be organized, isn't it? 01:14:06.479 --> 01:14:12.479 Anyway, gonna leave you with my final track uh and uh it's uh a female artist. 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:22.399 It's Alison Moore and down to believing. 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:36.560 We found it hanging from a cloud that time we went up there. 01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:43.680 It looked like diamonds and pearls. 01:14:53.680 --> 01:15:05.199 Everyone said still a girl Farm and I need it, but we tried our best. 01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:11.920 We used it up and didn't put in it back. 01:15:14.640 --> 01:16:43.359 Now you look so surprised there ain't none left And we just empty hearted step Get it cost down to believe we don't get it caught down We all staring down at the ground all helps not There's no need in making this heart It'll last too long to wait for every day without someone Lacog scratches cut to be wet. 01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:46.239 Anybody, ever love anybody noses is pop. 01:17:58.560 --> 01:18:47.760 It's all then I guess it comes down to comes down to Living, we want where we love we are whether we love we want.