The Double Chorus

20/05/2024

Hello! I've just reissued my fourth album LONDON IS SINKING to streaming services. It's almost 21 years old and apart from some iffy singing here and there (thanks, young me) on the whole I think it stands up.

If you've never listened, or not since the early 2000s, maybe give it a go? And if you enjoy it, please share with friends?

I'll put a Sp*tify link below, but it's now available wherever you stream or download music. THANKYOU!

05/05/2022

NEWS

After a lovely two years on air, Folkhampton is taking a sabbatical from Radio Reverb. It's a brilliant community station and we've had a ball, got great support from the wonderful team. Thanks so much Kelly, Josh, Melita, Geoffrey and everyone. Sadly, without a sponsor and with community radio's strict advertising rules, I can't justify paying the carriage fees.

Over on Slack City we are rebranding and getting a new time-slot, which I'm very excited about — but I'll tell you about that tomorrow.

25/03/2022

Thank you for listening this week, especially enjoyed this one, the music seemed to work perfectly for a beautiful spring afternoon. Here's what I played...

Midlake — Feast Of Carion
Rupert Wates — Thirty Thousand Guineas (A Smuggler’s Tale)
Heather Ferrier — She Became Fire
Bert Jansch — It Don’t Bother Me
Mi Mye — Party
Lady Nade & Boo Hewerdine — Echo
Hurray For The Riff Raff — Nightqueen (feat Ocean Vuong)
Heron — Lord And Master
Andrew Bird — Atomized
Karen Dalton — One Night Of Love - live at the Beat Club
Odetta — Take Me To The Pilot
Salt House — Headwater
Iona Lane — Mary Anning
Ezra Furman — Point Me Toward The Rea

17/03/2022

Thank you for listening. Here's what I played on this week's show...

Julie Felix — Masters Of War
Richie Havens — Handsome Johnny
David Rovics — Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Buffy Sainte-Marie — Moratorium
Bright Eyes — When The President Talks To God
Mary Black — My Youngest Son Came Home Today
Christy Moore — How Long
Martyn Joseph — The Good In Me Is Dead
Nina Simone — Backlash Blues
The Young’uns — Ghafoor’s Bus
DakhaBrakha — Dostochka
Bird In The Belly — Famine Fever Frost
Bill Callahan — One Fine Morning

17/03/2022

On the radio now over on Radio Reverb, through to 6pm, with an hour of folk, psych and songwriting. Stream link below. Less taking than usual this week, lots of antiwar songs.

Listen to Radio Reverb live. The best UK radio stations. Free radio online at radio-uk.co.uk.

03/03/2022

Thank you for listening! Here's what I played on this week's show...

Josephine Foster — Hum Menina
Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi — I Am A Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble
Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi —Pulling Bracken
Joan Baez — East Virginia
Niamh Regan — Winter In Eden (feat Ciaran Lavery)

Suthering — Kingfisher
Margaret Glaspy — Love Is Real
Carthy & Swarbrick — Byker Hill/Early Morning Rain
(feat Julie Felix)
Andy Shauf — Satan
Bruce Springsteen — New York City Serenade
Knight & Spiers — Yellow Haired Laddy

24/02/2022

Thank you so much for listening this week, here's what I played on the show...

Big Thief — Spud Infinity
Bird In The Belly — Tragic Hearts Of Towns
Rhiannon Giddens — Nenna Nenna (with Francesco Turrisi)
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage — A Winter’s Night
Keeley Forsyth — I Stand Alone
AK Patterson — My Body Is A Spacesuit
Knight & Spiers — Scarborough Fair
Mark Lanegan — Field Song
Screaming Trees — Dollar Bill
Heal & Harrow — Isobel
Smog — Cold Blooded Old Times
Will Pound — Jautrais Krodzis / Maasland Jig
Darya Dadvar — Sarzamine Man

23/02/2022

I'm on air now with the Folkhampton weekly radio show over on Slack City. Join me for an hour of folk, psych and songwriters? Live stream here:

Welcome to Slack City, a place for eclectic music selectors, maverick storytellers and bone collectors - live sessions, free ranging conversation, happenings, podcasts, a cool dog & damn fine coffee - brewed inside the legendary Presuming Eds - Brighton, England. Get in touch?

11/02/2022

ON SALE NOW!

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11/02/2022

Thanks for listening this week, the show is now online totallyradio to stream whenever you like (click the link below).
Here's the playlist:

The Delines — Surfers In Twilight
Jon Wilks — The Fowler
Silly Sisters — My Husband’s Got No Courage In Him
Tom Williams — One Day Eventually
Kathryn Joseph — what is keeping you alive makes me want to kill them for
Sam Sweeney — Cuckoo’s Nest / Old Oxford
Dave Holodiloff Band — Krivo Sadovsko Horo
Esma Redzepova — Opa Nina Nina Naj
Josienne Clarke — Where The Light Comes In
Steeleye Span — King Henry
Bity Booker — Dreaming In The Morning
Plastic Jeezus — Hold Music
Taraf de Haïdouks — Carolina

A Roma-heavy episode of Folkhampton, as C J Thorpe-Tracey plays folk, psych and songwriting, including new tracks from Kathryn Joseph, Sam Sweeney, The Delines and Jon Wilks, plus vintage Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters and some glorious Taraf de Haïdouks and Esma Redzepova.

04/02/2022

Here's what I played on this week's Folkhampton show.

Thank you so much for listening. If you missed the radio broadcasts, you stream the show whenever you like (along with more than 60 hours of archived Folkhampton) over on totallyradio — just click the link below.

Here's the setlist...

Waterson Carthy — The Bay Of Biscay
Anais Mitchell — Little Big Girl
Ida Wenøe & Samantha Whates — Lyla
Rokurokubi — Death And The Maiden
Maya De Vitry — Watches Out Of Diamonds
Martha Tilston — Sadness Of The Sea
Lisa Akuah — Fluid Suits
Tim Hardin — If I Were A Carpenter
Kim Edgar & Dan Bettridge — The Rolling Sea
Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy — Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Norma Waterson — Black Muddy River
Norma Waterson — There Is A Fountain Of Christ’s Blood
The Watersons — The Bonny Ship The Diamond
Yusuf / Cat Stevens — Peace Train

C.J. Thorpe-Tracey plays folk, psych and songwriters. Several tracks featuring the voice of Norma Waterson, following her passing this week. Also new music from Anais Mitchell, Kim Edgar, Lisa Akuah and Ida Venoe & Samantha Whates, plus classics from Tim Hardin and Yussuf (Cat Stevens).

27/01/2022

Thank you for listening! This week's radio show playlist...

The Pentangle — Hunting Song
Aoife O’Donovan — Passengers (feat. Madison Cunningham)
Penny & Sparrow — Innkeepers
Bobbie Gentry — Fancy
Bity Booker — Sad Song
Isla Ratcliff — Lament For Owen Christy
Link Wray — Fire & Brimstone
Vashti Bunyan — Same But Different
Suthering — Black Bull Of Norroway
The Watersons — The Thirty Foot Trailer
Waterson Carthy — The Old Churchyard
Janis Ian — Better Times Will Come