The Weekend Planet

Tonight revolves around two keenly observant songsters. Catherine MacLellan is from Canada’s Prince Edward Island. In part the fruit of a short marriage, her Church Bell Blues is highly personal, but not self-indulgent. Little Grey Sheep is the fruit of Danny Schmidt’s fertile, wry mind. Danny loves Austin but is not so keen on the rest of Texas. His amusing and his very dark songs prove equally rewarding. Devon Sproule is among his very handy musical accomplices. Unlike far too many singer-songwriters, Catherine and Danny really can sing and write.

Catherine MacLellan site: www.catherinemaclellan.com

Danny Schmidt site: www.dannyschmidt.com

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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

’ THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SAT 5.4 08

2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’ Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’ Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )

CD CUT 1, ’ JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’ SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’ s kora, Danny Thompson’ s beautiful double bass and Ketama’ s flamenco guitars )

2207
CD CUT 6, ’ ADIOS TO TEJASITO’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
4: 06
(Splendidly wry song. It praises Austin.. and mocks the rest of Texas. Its Austin-resident author sings and plays ac guitar. Prominent among the other players is Jeff Romano on harmonica.

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www.dannyschmidt.com/index2.html )

SEGUE

2211
CD CUT 1,’ DREAMS DISSOLVE’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
3: 22
( Dark, but not unremittingly so. The Canadian author is the fine female singer and ac guitarist, with James Phillips’ effectively-distorted elec. slide.
’ This is where the dreams dissolve, this is where illusions shatter
It’ s been a long year of tyring to stay afloat.’

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

SEGUE

2314
CD CUT 2 - ’ I WILL RISE UP/AIN’ T NO MORE CANE’
LYLE LOVETT
UNIVERSAL-POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING INC./LYLESONGS, ADMIN BY UNIVERSAL-POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING INC (ASCAP)
LOST HIGHWAY 80009734-00
( in Australia through Universal
worldwide: www.losthighwayrecords.com )
LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND - ’ IT’ S NOT BIG IT’ S LARGE’
7:17
(Slowly building, epic piece for Lyle’ s big band, with male gospel voices wailing, brass, big piano. Combines a Texas State Prison song {one famously revived by The Band on ’ The Basement Tapes’ } and Lovett’ s own stirring hymn to triumph over adversity )

2224
CD CUT 12, ’ LONG TIME’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
3: 52
(The song’ s Canadian author, alone, singing and playing ac guitar on a very haunting song. Its persona is her pregnant, soon-to-be-wed self, addressing the spirit of her late father, Gene MacLellan.

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

SEGUE

2228
CD CUT 10, ’ SONG FOR JUDY AND BRIDGET’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
5: 01
( tenderly wry, loving song of friendship, fellow-feeling. Both writing and performance are beautifully judged. Danny’ s lead voice and ac guitar with accordion, female harmony vocals, banjo, percussion, ac bass. He wrote this for {and did sing it at} the wedding of the friends for whom it’ s named.

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SEGUE

2233
CD CUT 9, ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
5: 13
( a young woman’ s wedding-eve blues - wryly full of what it says there’ s no time for in the circumstance: doubt. Clear-eyed, concise - the author’ s slurring vocal and ac guitar, with James Phillips’ nicely-dirtier elec. guitar soon joining. The marriage in question - her own - did not endure long.

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

2240
CD CUT 1, ’ LEAVES ARE BURNING’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
4: 29
(Dark, quasi-apocalyptic-nightmare song, with its Texan author’ s voice and deft ac guitar to fore. Written when he ’ was in the throws {sic} of madness, about four weeks into an episode of quitting smoking. It is amazing to me how fragile our stability is.’

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2245
CD CUT 9, ’ BREATH OF THE TYNE/ STELLA’
LINSEY POLLAK AND TUNJI BEIER
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
SELF-ISSUED. NO CATALOG NUMBER
( DVA website is here: www.tunji.org/dva )
DVA: (LINSEY POLLAK & TUNJI BEIER) - ’ SIX FOUR FIVE EIGHT...’
13: 40 ( excerpt )
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Shifts as it develops, with African, Indian and Armenian elements , with effective use of {’ live’ } looping {digital delays}. Has highly rhythmic-jubilant and very haunting parts. Tunji’ s Indian jawharp {morsing} and Indian-style mouth-percussion and gangan {’ talking’ drum of Nigeria’ s Yoruba people} with Linsey’ s various self-made clarinet and bass clarinet variants and harmonic flute. Ends with a rousing, ’ Balkans-meets-Africa’ dance )

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2305
CD CUT 3, ’ RAIN’
COLIN HOPKINS
COPYRIGHT CONTROL
RUFUS RECORDS RF066
( in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au )
COLIN HOPKINS - ’ STILL’
2: 27
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: lyrical-meditative-hypnotic: piano, solo )

2308
CD CUT 2, ’ EMILY’ S SONG’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
4: 49
( joy-after-sorrow song, set on a rainy day - beautifully delivered by the author’ s female Canadian voice and ac guitar with James Phillips’ mandolin.

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

SEGUE

2314
CD CUT 2, ’ DRAWING BOARD’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
3: 30
( The Texan author’ s male voice with nice female harmony voices (Devon Sproule and Joia Wood, I think), sweet finger-picked ac guitar, fat-toned ac bass, hand-drums. A delicately-poised song about ’ a relationship in transition.’

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SEGUE

2318
CD CUT 10, ’ HEARTBEAT’
COLIN HOPKINS
COPYRIGHT CONTROL
RUFUS RECORDS RF066
( in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au )
COLIN HOPKINS - ’ STILL’
6: 30
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: lyrical-meditative-hypnotic: piano, solo )

SEGUE

2324
CD CUT 11, ’ BRAVE LOVE’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
4: 37
( finger-picked elec. guitar alone and pensive, then becomes a bitter-sweetly-affirming rocker for its female Canadian author’ s voice with elec. lead and rhythm guitars, elec. bass, drums and harmony voices.

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

2330
CD CUT 9, ’ CALIFORNIA’ S ON FIRE’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
4: 29
( A song written when chemotherapy made its Texan songster too weak to dance at his sister’ s wedding, in California - where forest fires were raging in the hills-surrounding. Torrential rain and mudslides soon followed.

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SEGUE

2334
CD CUT 8, ’ SNOW’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
4: 14
( languid song for a snow-bound Canadian day. Spare and unhurried: Catherine’ s voice and ac guitar, James Phillips’ elec guitar

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

SEGUE

2338
CD CUT 4, ’ SNOW’
ANTONIO FORCIONE
BUCKS MUSIC
NAIM CD098
( in Australia, through Didgeridoo: www.didgerecords.com
worldwide: http://www.thenaimlabel.co.uk )
CHARLIE HADEN AND ANTONIO FORCIONE - ’ HEARTPLAY’
5: 57
(Antonio’ s acoustic guitar and Charlie’ s plucked double bass: very spare, quietly intense. This CD is a true-duo, throughout )

2346
CD CUT 12, ’ TROUBLE COMES CALLING’
DANNY SCHMIDT
PUB NOT SPEC
WATERBUG WBG79
( no Australian distributor, at least yet
Worldwide: www.waterbug.com )
DANNY SCHMIDT - ’ LITTLE GREY SHEEP’
4: 45
( Sardonic song, with exuberant vocal and ripe electric guitar. A celebration of NOT waiting until trouble finds you!

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SEGUE

2351
CD CUT 7, ’ STRONGER’
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
PUB NOT SPEC
TRUE NORTH TND 502
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.truenorthrecords.com )
CATHERINE MACLELLAN - ’ CHURCH BELL BLUES’
4: 49
( Song of being at the end of her tether and - thereby, just maybe, at last - ready to make some necessary changes in her approach to life. V well-performed by its Canadian author, who’ s her own deft-but-not-flashy ac guitarist.

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This CD’ s song lyrics are all here:
www.catherinemaclellan.com/CMacLellanLyrics_CBB.pdf )

2356
CD CUT 2, ’ ALAN AND CATHERINE’ S WEDDIING JIG’
KATHRYN TICKELL
PUB NOT SPEC
PARK RECORDS PRKCD92
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.parkrecords.com )
KATHRYN TICKELL BAND - ’ INSTRUMENTAL’
2: 40 (excerpt)
( A sweetly unusual, unrushed jig/wedding present.. Kathryn’ s Northumbrian pipes and glockenspiel, with a very nicely deployed bass clarinet {played by Dov Goldberg}, foot percussion, ac guitar, bass, some discreet loopery )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer