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filkferengi ([personal profile] filkferengi) wrote2006-02-05 12:00 am

Journeys--Out There

With the 20th anniversary of Challenger having been so recently, these songs seem especially apt. It's never been more important to remember why we need to go.


Leslie Fish--Folk Songs For Solar Sailors 07 Hope Eyrie
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q43TFA1XNI133H4H93LG9M2GN

http://www.random-factors.com/

This song is frequently referred to as the anthem of filk.


Urban Tapestry--Myths and Urban Legends 07 Starsoul
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KHPM5ADYBNUN25PDLYP6L5T4V

Urban Tapestry is a group of Canadian ladies who make the most exquisite harmonies. These two songs just seem to go together. Their webpage is http://www.electricpenguin.com/urbantapestry/ , but their cds are also available at cdbaby, as well as most filk dealers.

"Decadent" Dave Clement's excellent cover of the Stan Rogers song about struggle, its price and its worth:
Dave Clement--Music After Midnight 11 Northwest Passage
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2J8LHVXF7IGZM0WBDKI1IQLMWQ

And here are different words to the same tune, that take the metaphor and extend it.

Fencon 2004 1-09 Wm Mark Simmons--The Goddard Passage
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M0708SYR4NLA366KDOT51KJWE

He doesn't have any albums out yet, but his books are available here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/002-4772592-9055216?search-alias=aps&keywords=wm%20mark%20simmons