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Music For Late Night Radio

by Tom Jawbone

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1.
Meeting at the Great Divide 06:43
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2.
The Times They Were a Changing 06:10
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3.
Wild Hog in the Woods 05:10
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4.
Thanks to Robin Williamson and Our Good Friends, The Merrills 05:53
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5.
My Mother’s Waltz / My Father’s Glory 07:41
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6.
The Sophomore’s Song 05:13
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7.
Working Man’s Waltz 04:03
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8.
Stealing the Wind 04:26
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9.
Theme for a Child’s Christmas in Wales 04:14
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10.
Voodoo Economics 05:10
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11.
Bedlam Boys 04:12
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12.
Hangman, Hangman / Hangman’s Reel 05:25
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13.
Gato Y Raton 03:19
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14.
Grief and Sorrow 06:18
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15.
The Prodigal’s Dilemma 08:23
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16.
Snow on Monterey 02:10
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17.
One Last Song 05:31
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about

This album is dedicated to the great bard, Robin Williamson. I first heard Robin’s music “way back in the 1960s”. He was playing in, and writing songs for, The Incredible Stringband. Because of the playfulness and joyfulness of their performances, it was easy enough for the undiscerning to deride the band as hippy-dippy, jokey-folky, or even airy-fairy... a gang of less-than-serious flower children. However, those who listened carefully were rewarded with songs of real substance, intelligence and even grit. This was especially true for Robin’s contributions. His lyrics were truly literary. They were full of unexpected phrases – daring but always spot-on. The masterful lyricist
seemed to have a different take on every subject he approached. Also, at a time when strumming poets dominated the folk scene with unimaginative, rehashed tunes for their songs, Robin’s melodies were distinct, catchy and unique.

But the Scottish singer’s best work was yet to come, both as a musician and a songwriter. When most 60s folkies gravitated to electric folk-rock in the 70s, he stayed acoustic and delved deeply into traditional Celtic folk and storytelling. Having mastered the guitar, fiddle and pennywhistle, he took up the Celtic Harp, an instrument well fit for the bardic tradition he embraced. He remained a composer, never abandoning the pen for the ease of repurposing antique material. He recorded a lot of good traditional ballads and fiddle tunes over the years; more importantly, though, he allowed the older music to inform his own, and so arrived at a traditionally imbued, but wholly original, body of work. He continues to compose in this vein to the present day, never compromising, always delivering music that will be treasured forever.

As others allured by Celtica have lost themselves and their music in the mystical and non-contemporariness of the phenomenon, Robin keeps his relevant to, and revealing of, our times, with all its passions, yearnings and sufferings. As well, he has remained positive and hopeful. He digs deep to find golden words and golden music, not settling for silver variants, like those many songwriters, even great ones, find acceptable. If I have a favorite songwriter, it’s Robin Williamson. And so, I dedicate this album to him. Thanks for inspiring us, Robin, with grand music that’s ever so different and ever so wonderful!

Wild Hog in the Woods, Bedlam Boys, and the melody for Grief and Sorrow are traditional, although a lot of the words for Grief and Sorrow are my own.
All the other songs and tunes on this album are © and ℗ Tom Weldon, 2022
Album art, JAWHARPING FOR JOSEPH, by Charles Merrill. Thanks, Chuck! Beautiful painting!

credits

released August 19, 2023

THANKS, THANKS, THANKS to Ted Porter for all of his contributions, musical and soul-wise.
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS, THANKS, THANKS, and THANKS AGAIN to Doug Kent, the unexpected angel of this project. As I ran out of money, and planned to shelve the album for eternity, Doug came through with a huge check (well, a huge PayPal remittance) to allow its completion. Generosity beyond the beyond!

Musicians:
Tom Jawbone – vocals, banjos, mandola, parlor pipes, Flemish bagpipes, pennywhistles, flute, harmonicas, gaita, Scottish smallpipes, jawharps, bones, percussion
Nattie Carroll – accordion, washboard
Ted Porter – sackpipa, mandolin, madcap vocals
Doug Kent – cello
Andrew Cunningham – cello
Chuck Merrill – fiddle, mandolin
Ruth Merrill – accordion
Pete Simoneaux – fiddle, drum
Linda Simoneaux – accordion, Sousaphone
Ralph Dubayah – hurdy-gurdy
Tim Whittemore – didgeridu, percussion, sound effects
Ben Rogers – dumbek, drums, percussion, xylophone, vocals
Adam Rothberg – acoustic guitar, vocals, drums, percussion
Erik Walker – acoustic guitar, lap guitar
Marek Bennett – Fiddle, bass banjo harp, banjo, piano
Morgan Rael – steel drum

A note on the arrangements of the tunes: I suggested a few harmonies and counter-melodies to some of the musicians here, but mostly they created their own parts - and did they ever do a fine job of it!

Engineer, sound-editor, and master of the mastering process:
Ben Rogers
Recorded, edited and mastered at Loud Sun Studio, Jaffrey, NH
Produced for Wedgie Records by Tom Weldon and Ben Rogers

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