The Medusa Fora

' was listening to Robert Elms show on BBC London on Friday and there was a special focus on the music from New Orleans. One of the tracks came on and a very familiar accordion riff belted out of the car stereo, after about 30 seconds i realised where i'd heard it before - 'Paddy Rolling Stone' from Shane & Popes 'Crock of gold' album. It's loosely the same arrangement but the accordion is almost identical . For those who want to check it out it's called 'Promised land' and it's by Johnnie Allan.
For the next couple of days (until it changes)you can hear the track on Robert Elms archive here (bottom right of page under 'Listen again'):

Go to 'Fri' (friday) show & when you get to the player forward 35 mins and after approx 37 mins the track is played.
I've checked the booklet of 'Crock of gold' and there are various credits but this ain't one of them. Anyone else heard this track or know of it just to confirm that i'm not going bonkers? In the meantime i'm gonna order a copy from his 'Best of...' on Amazon as it sounds like shit-kicking cajun music of the highest order.....

right , think this should be the link (altough i think it may only be good until Friday 15th Sept when they may replace it with this weeks show):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.sht ... rtelms_fri

Use the 'forward' buttons to 36 mins in .

Once it was discussed at PRS forum...

<b>Paul McCluskey</b> (13.09.2004 - 15:23 - 9831):<blockquote>Reading some of the posts about Cajun Music reminded me of something.
There's a version of the Chuck Berry song "Promised Land" by Johnny Allan. The instrumental bit between the verses is EXACTLY the same as that used in "Paddy Rolling Stone". I actually put a few songs that Shane had "borrowed" from on a CD for him last year. God Bless him he really loved it.</blockquote>

<b>Danny Pope Heatley</b> (13.09.2004 - 15:58 - 9834):<blockquote>When we were about to record "Paddy Rolling Stone" Kieron was a wee bit stuck for a top line melody, I "sang" him the melody from Promised Land...he heard me sing it once, and played it first time totally perfectly, every inflection and and trill n triplet! He had never heard it before and recorded it note perfect in one take. The man is a superb box player, but it was my idea to "nick" that line and put it in the song.</blockquote>
<b>Danny Pope Heatley</b> (13.09.2004 - 17:22 - 9839):<blockquote>...We did Paddy Rolling Stone and Rock n Roll Paddy, and I remember Mark Radcliffe commenting on the similarities between the two songs and Promised Land and Just Like Eddie. He made no haste in pulling Shane up about it, to which Mac replied..."Its NOT a rip off, its a tribute to the originals!!!" Talk about slick! That man has an answer for everything! </blockquote>

ah! Cheers for that . Funny as when i heard the Johnny Allan track on the radio i thought it was Chuck Berry n the thread above mentions that too. Great tracks one and all .

BTW maybe it will interest you... There is a thread dedicated to "borrowed" music