‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #159

This show was first broadcast on Monday 3rd December 2012.  Christmas is coming, and it’s starting to creep into even our playlist – although not too much.  Still, there is a wintry feel to the show with the Handsome family’s Snow Ball and Rakph Stanley’s Matty Groves both getting an airing.   Why, we even have some Snow – Hank Snow.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Kitty Wells – Santa’s On His Way

Bob Wills – Ida Red

Hank Williams – Honky Tonkin’

Ben Reel – Heart Just Won’t Heal

Gillian Welsh – One Morning

Handsome Family – Snow Ball

Buddy and Bob – Down The Line

Hank Snow – Would You Mind

The Byrds – Drugstore Truck Driving Man

Gram Parsons – Brass Buttons

Dolly Parton – Making Believe

Memphis Minnie – Bad Luck Woman

Merle Kilgore – Pinball Machine

Jean Shepard – I Didnt Know The Gun Was Loaded

Joan Baez – Banks Of The Ohio

John Spillane – Johnny Don’t Go To Ballincollig

Pete Seeger – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Ralph Stanley – Matty Groves

 

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #158

This show was first broadcast on Monday 26th November 2012.   Some great old country tunes to see you through the dark November nights.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Old 97s – Mama Tried

Billy Bragg – The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

Gram Parsons – November Nights

The Lost Brothers – Until The Morning

Scott. H Biram – Rolling Stone From Texas

Koko Taylor – Wang Dang Doodle

John Lee Hooker- Goin’ Mad Blues

Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys – Heavy Traffic Ahead

Reno and Smiley- I’m Using My Bible For A Roadmap

Hank Williams – Jambalya

Merle Travis – Nine Pound Hammer

Porter Wagoner- I Love No-one But You

Leon Payne – I Love You Because

Gene Autry – Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine

The Louvin Brothers – Hoping That Your Hoping

Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones and Ginny Hawker – Love Me Or Leave Me Alone

Patsy Cline- Poor Man’s Roses

The Carter Family – Gospel Ship

Johnny Cash- Ain’t No Grave

 

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #157

This show was first broadcast on Monday 19th November 2012.   It has a decidedly more Irish flavour than our normal shows with tracks from The Henry Girls, Ben Reel and Robert Mizzell – even the Rose Cousins track was recorded in Dublin.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Cabin Home In Caroline – The Armstrong Twins

Liza Pull Down The Shades – Bob Wills

Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms – Bill and Charlie Monroe

Birds Of Belfast – Rose Cousins

The Big Light – Elvis Costello

The Ol’ Cook Pot – The Henry Girls

Who You Are – Ben Reel

Mona – Bo Diddley

She’s Every Woman – Robert Mizzell

Skip A Rope – Henson Cargill

Ingrid Bergman – Billy Bragg and Wilko

On A Night Like This – Bob Dylan

Whitehouse Blues – Bill Monroe

Billie’s Blues – Billie Holiday

Where We’ll Never Grow Old – Alfred G.Karnes

We Are Climbing – Chuck Wagon Gang

Between The Lines – Jimmy Wakeley

Rockin Blues – Jimmie Davis

Lullaby Yodel – Jimmie Rodgers

 

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #156

This show was first broadcast on Monday 12th November 2012.   Three years on the radio tonight.  Who would ever have thunk it?   We decided to celebrate by putting together a show from all the wonderful artists who have come to visit us and record a song or two here at the foot of Sliabh Breac.  Some of the them, like Richmond Fontaine, chased after and long cherished, others, like Mike Ferrio, dropping fortuitously into our lap and all the more enjoyable for it.   So for one week only we have no postbag section, no slow dance and no hymn of the hour just some of the fantastic live versions we’ve captured in the studio here.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Scars – Danny Britt

She Only Drinks Whiskey – Danny Britt

Diamonds And Gold – Wookalilly

The Janitor – Richmond Fontaine

Welhorn Yards – Richmond Fontaine

Westward Ho – Richmond Fontaine

Bad Blood – Ana Egge

There Won’t Be Anymore – Ana Egge

Coast Of Donegal – Hat Fitz And Cara

Hell Or High Water – David Hope

In Your Mercy – Malcolm Holcombe

Heaven In The Haze – Mike Ferrio

Sea Change – Turin Brakes

Malcolm Holcombe, who whipped by to record a couple of tracks earlier this year

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #153

This show was first broadcast on Monday 22nd October 2012.   It covers a lot of the same ground as the show previously broadcast on 2FM but with a few additional tracks.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Jukebox Blues – June Carter

Take Me Back To Tulsa – Bob Wills

Drink The Barrel Dry – Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers

In Your Mercy (Live) – Malcolm Holcombe

Trail Of Money (Live) – Malcolm Holcombe

Lonesome Truck Driver Blues – Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

Country Blues – Doc Watson

Black Lung – Hazel Dickens

Go Back Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Devil Ain’t Lazy – Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three

Dim Lights, Thick Smoke – Flatt & Scruggs

Easy To Love – Billie Holiday

I’ve Been Down That Road Before – Hank Williams

New Campton Races – Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & The Kentuckians

Goin’ On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way – Sister Cally Fancy

Time Goes By – Marty Robbins

Safe & Well – The Making

How Mountain Girls Can Love – The Stanley Brothers

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn on 2FM – Sunday 14th October 2012

Every once in a while we get invited over to do a guest slot on the main station 2FM and this is one of these rare occasions.   The show was first broadcast on Sunday 14th October 2012 at 11.00p.m.   Always a strange affair for us as we don’t normally have to contend with ad breaks but you’ll have to excuse us for being a little less gregarious than usual.   The music’s still as good though and we have a couple of stunning live tracks from when Malcolm Holcombe popped in last time he was passing.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Jukebox Blues – June Carter

Take Me Back To Tulsa – Bob Wills

Drink The Barrel Dry – Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers

In Your Mercy (Live) – Malcolm Holcombe

Trail Of Money (Live) – Malcolm Holcombe

Lonesome Truck Driver Blues – Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

Country Blues – Doc Watson

Black Lung – Hazel Dickens

Go Back Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Devil Ain’t Lazy – Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three

Dim Lights, Thick Smoke – Flatt & Scruggs

Easy To Love – Billie Holiday

I’ve Been Down That Road Before – Hank Williams

New Campton Races – Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & The Kentuckians

Goin’ On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way – Sister Cally Fancy

How Mountain Girls Can Love – The Stanley Brothers

 

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #151

This week’s show, first broadcast 8th October 2012, brings together some of the best old bluegrass tunes we know and teams them up with a fine array of blistering, and smouldering, female vocal performances.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

The Ransom – Madison Violet

The Rifle – Alela Diane

Dim Lights, Thick Smoke – Flatt & Scruggs

Dreaming Of Arthur McBride – The 1861 Project featuring Thomm Jutz and Jefferson Ross

Turkish Revelry – Loudon Wainwright III

Black Lung – Hazel Dickens

Anyone – Joan As A Policewoman

Jake Walk Blues – The Allen Brothers

Uncle Pen – Bill Monroe

Honey Moon On A Rocket Ship – Hank Snow

I Am A Pilgrim – Aaron Neville

Right Or Wrong – Bob Wills

Drink The Barrel Dry – Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers

Sleep Time In Caroline – Eddie Dean

How I Got Over – Mahalia Jackson

Ship Of Glory – Price Family Sacred Singers

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #150

This week’s show, first broadcast 1st October 2012, features a track from Malcolm Holcombe in anticipation of his studio session here later in the week and a track from Danny Britt who’ll also be dropping in to record a couple of live tracks to be broadcast in the near future.  Of course there’s still the usual healthy diet of old time greats to balance them out.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Me And Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson

Down In The Woods – Malcolm Holcombe

Atlantic Eyes – Ben Glover

Company Town – Show Of Hands

Happy Man – Seasick Steve

You Gotta Move – Danny Britt

Way Down South In Dixie – Doc Roberts

The Bow Legged Irishman – Ted Gossett

Little Birdie – The Stanley Brothers

You’ll Never Go To Heaven With Your Powder And Paint – Ira & Eugene Yates

Honky Tonk Merry Go Round – Patsy Cline

Cheatin’ On Your Baby – Red Foley

Ten Years – Johnny Bond & His Red River Boys

Ocean Of Tears – Tennessee Ernie Ford

Don’t Think Twice – Waylon Jennings

‘Twill All Be Glory Over There – The Deal Family

When I Safely Reach The Other Shore – Tommy Magnuss

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #149

This week’s show, first broadcast 24th September 2012, features lots of great old bluegrass with tracks from the late great Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and Reno & Smiley and the mix is leavened with a few more contemporary tracks from acts like Songs: Ohia, Drew Nelson and Miss Quincy.

The songs played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Buddy Stay Off That Wine – Betty Hall Jones

Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms – Bill & Charlie Monroe

Single Girl, Married Girl – The Carter Family

Worried Man Blues – Charlie Louvin with Kurt Wagner

St. Jude – Drew Nelson

Sitting On Top Of The World – Doc Watson

Tennessee Saturday Night – Red Foley

Window Shopping – Hank Williams

Scarlet Tide – Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris

Bird In A Cage – Minton Sparks

California Stars – Billy Bragg & Wilco

Baby Let Me Follow You Down – Bob Dylan

I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl – Miss Quincy

Maybe You Will Change Your Mind – Reno And Smiley

Lord, I Just Can’t Keep From Crying – Blind Willie Johnson

‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered – Flatt & Scruggs

Two Blue Lights – Songs:Ohia

‘C’ Word With Miss Paula Flynn #148

This week’s show first broadcast on Monday 17th September, covers the whole spectrum from country to blue and from bluegrass to Western Swing with a few classic rock n’ rollers thrown in for good measure.

The tracks played were:

Take Apart An Engine – Miss Paula Flynn

Sugar Tree Stomp – Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

Bluegrass Stomp – Bill Monroe

49 Highway Blues – Big Joe Williams

Letter In My Mailbox – M.C. Hansen

Drink That Barrel Dry – Bill Boyd And His Cowboy Ramblers

Please Release Me – Dolly Parton

Got A Lot Of Livin’ To Do – Elvis Presley

The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes – Elvis Costello

I Fought The Law – The Crickets

16 Tonnes – George Davis

Baby Blue Eyes – Flatt & Scruggs

Caleb Mayer – Gillian Welch

Easy On The Eyes – Eddy Arnold

In My Hour Of Darkness -Gram Parsons

Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart –  Hank Thompson

Peace In The Valley- Johnny Cash

On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain – Hank Williams

Show Me The Place – Leonard Cohen