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This show emerges from a kind of obsession with Shirley Collin’s beautifully simple traditional folk song “The Irish Girl,” in which she professes her undying love for a young Irish woman walking by the riverside. As I started digging, the sapphic resonances in anglophone folk music emerged everywhere. This month’s Rubbing Salt compiles these findings, and combines them with lesbian (or lesbian-oriented) music and poetry. It is an exploration of folk music, in a wide sense: an authoress tale, a repetition, a communal memory, an oral carrier-bag, a transmission, a translation. A revolutionary chant.

Man Carson, based in Brussels, presents a monthly show on WAV with mostly archive finds, freak folk, 80s minimal wave, ambient, experimental, spoken word & poetry, with an emphasis on queer and militant frequencies.

TRACKLIST
  1. Shirley Collins — The Irish Girl [Rare First Recordings (Remastered), 2012]
  2. Elizabeth Cotten — I don’t love nobody [Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, 1989]
  3. William Eaton — Untitled 1A [Music by William Eaton, 2020]
  4. Linda Montano — Portrait of Sappho [Lesbian American Composers, 1998]
  5. Kathleen McPeake — Eileen Aaron [Eileen Aaron c120, 1963]
  6. Eileen Myles — Sorry [Aloha/ Irish Trees, 2020]
  7. Steve Vai — Ballerina 12/24 [Passion And Warfare, 1990]
  8. Silly Sisters — Cakes and Ale [No More to the Dance, 2006]
  9. Cheryl Dune (dir.) —The Watermelon Woman [CLIT Archives scene, 1996]
  10. Elizabeth Cotten — Ain’t Got No Honey Baby Now [Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, 1989]
  11. Tia Blake — I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow [Folksongs & Ballads, 1972]
  12. Ruth Anderson — Conversations [Tête-à-tête, 2023]
  13. Anne Briggs — She Moves Through the Fair [A Collection, 2006]
  14. Laurie Spiegel — Appalachian Grove I [Women In Electronic Music — 1977, 2006]
  15. Interview with Jeannie Robertson about seeing a spirit [1953]
  16. Linda Perhaps — Parallelograms [Parallelograms, 1970]
  17. Loren Connors — O’Carolan’s Air [As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002, 2007]
  18. Chantal Akerman — Interview about Jeanne Dielman [Criterion Collection, 1975]
  19. Cat Power — Sea Of Love [The Covers Record, 2000]
  20. Norma Tanega — You’re Dead [Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog, 1998]
  21. Skara Brae — Táim Breoite Go Leor [Skara Brae, 1971]
  22. claire rousay – discrete (the market) [a softer focus, 2021]
  23. Alison Knowles — Sounds from the Book of Bean [Sounds from the Book of Bean, 2021]
  24. Lizzie Higgins — Lovely Molly [Princess Of The Thistle, 1969]
  25. Wendy Carlos — Winter (out-take) [Sonic Seasonings +, 1998]
  26. Laurie Anderson — Time To Go [Women In Electronic Music — 1977, 2006]
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