Fire Draw Near Podcast
1) FDN LXIX
69, LXIX or تسعة وستون is a number symbolising completion, harmony and the beginning of new cycles. It is also the sequential number of the FDN episode that I have just uploaded. This one features mor...Show More
2) FDN LXIII
FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history an...Show More
3) FDN LXII
I just got my vinyl and CD collections back from where they had been stored for 6 months, an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something about pipe...Show More
4) FDN LXI
Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - f...Show More
5) Blackwater Side
This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. ...Show More
6) FDN LX
FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing. Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhao...Show More
7) Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window
This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka...Show More
8) FDN LIX
Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity ...Show More
9) The Boston Burglar
This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England Tracklist Paul Clayton – Botany...Show More
10) FDN LVIII
Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA, based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focusing on the relief work that he is currently carrying out th...Show More