Filkcast

[cellio]

ericcoleman hosts a weekly filk podcast, FilkCast. He wrote me recently to ask if it was ok to include On the Mark's music. Twist my arm, I said. :-)

Today's episode includes our recording of "Flowers for Algernon", written by Kathy Mar. It also includes one of my favorite Bill Sutton songs, "The Pilot's Eyes", and a bunch of other songs both classic and modern. I'm glad that this music is getting heard beyond filk circles at SF cons, and glad that I got to be a small part of it.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Oh what a delight!

[cellio]

Wow, one of the fastest times to a comment I've seen. :-) I hope you get a chance to listen to the whole thing -- lots of good stuff there!

[madfilkentist]

It will be great to hear some of your old recordings. What label were they released under?

[cellio]

They were all self-published, so unfortunately, no label.

Thank you!

[ericcoleman]

I always try to ask with older tapes. Other than the owner of a certain label, everyone has said yes so far.

And I didn't know that was a Kathy song, the notes have been updated!

Re: Thank you!

[cellio]

Thank you for including us! I enjoyed listening to the mix you assembled -- a nice blend of fond memories and songs I'd never heard before.

If you have the physical media from those tapes/CDs, the credits should be on the liner notes. Feel free to ask me about anything you don't have attribution for and I can look it up if I don't remember.

Re: Thank you!

[ericcoleman]

The only one that I have in physical media is Between The Lines. I try to keep about 10 shows between plays of artists, so it might be a couple months until I play the band again. I do break that rule more often as time goes along.

I try to play a good mix of classic and current Filk whenever possible, with the occasional excursion into Wizard Wrock and Nerdcore.

[hlinspjalda]

Yay! I treasure my copy of Among Friends. Thanks for alerting me to this podcast.

[thnidu]

OMG yes, I have the link to FilkCast on my phone's home screen. And I was listening to "Flowers for Algernon" and singing it, because I want to learn it. And I've put the link and lyrics in their own purple document on the ColorNote app on my phone: purple because the app lets you choose any of 8 colors along with white for each note, and tag each color with its own label or title, and purple is the color I use for song lyrics and poems.