Thirteen each (plus one)

(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Last week's Dragon Folk Club session was great despite there being only three singers. We were joined by Ray, a second-timer at the club, who didn't appear to be phased at all by being asked to sing thirteen times. We would have perfectly understood if he'd run out of steam. One of the great things about the Dragon Folk Club is that you get to air lots of your songs, and being a friendly and small (though not usually this small) group it's absolutely fine to bring things out that still need some perfecting - it's good practice.

We knew we would be short when several of our regulars said they would be elsewhere, but at least some of them should be back this Friday (16th January) when it will once again be a theme-less session in preparation for next week's (23rd January) Burns' Night theme. As always our themes are optional, but if you can bring something appropriate it will be much appreciated.

Back to last week, having been first to arrive, Simon was asked to get the ball rolling and he did so with John Conolly's Punch and Judy man. Colin, back in the MC's chair, sang Tom Lewis' Radio times. Ray completed the first rotation with Dominic Behan's Liverpool Lou.

Only one song from the evening wasn't found in YouTube and therefore doesn't appear in the playlist linked from "a selection" below:

• Colin - Epitaph (# Colin Owen)

The evening added an impressive eight songs to the Dragon database:

• Ray - Angie (* Keith Richards, Mick Jagger)
• Colin - Goodbye my lover, goodbye (* roud 15381)
• Ray - The flower and the young man (* Dave Cousins)
• Colin - Shapes of things (* Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith)
• Ray - And a bang on the ear (* Mike Scott)
• Ray - Catch the wind (* Donovan Leitch)
• Ray - Hurt (* Trent Reznor)
• Ray - Lady Midnight (* Leonard Cohen)

Simon finished the session with The smuggler's song (Rudyard Kipling).

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 3 of whom 3 performed)

In the above report songs new to the Dragon database (though no always new to the club) are marked with an asterisk (*) and any songs not included in the "a selection" playlist are marked with a hash (#).