Hi Christy, Everybody I know are telling me to send this song to you
.I know your probably inundated with songs but here goes anyways. https://youtu.be/XG-yaUsk-AE
Christy's reply
Thanks for sharing BT……in 24 hours I’ve heard your song and another by Sean Mathews from Drogheda….its fascinating how songwriting has blossomed in my lifetime….growing up in the 1950s the only contemporary Irish songs i heard were “Red Sails in The Sunset” and “O to be in Doonaree”….
what your songs describe was taking place all around us but twas behind high walls in dark dark places….Joni MItchell was the first songwriter I heard sing about such cruelties in her song “Magdalen Launderies”
Conversation with the wife over dinner this evening, while listening to Patsy Cline on Sonos:
Why don’t you see if you can play Christy Moore’s new album, you know we heard about it on the radio this morning?
Aah, that wouldn’t be available yet.
Well you could try.
But I’m not really a big Christy Moore fan anyway.
Well everyone thinks you are.
Yeah, but I’m not really. I like him and his music, but I’m not really a huge fan.
Oh. how come you had all those tapes back in the 70’s?
Well I liked those, still do. And Planxty.
But how come we went see him in The Point and In Vicar St. And the Old Sheiling I think?
Well He was good.
But you’re not a huge Fan?
Well. Anyway I saw him in the Ash Tree at the top of Chatham Hill in the late 60’s I think. He was good then. Well he still is. of course.
I’ll actually pay for his new album when it’s available
I aso saw Eddie and Finbar Furey, The Chieftains and Fairport Convention there. And lot’s of others that I can’t remember. Great place.
Next time I’m back in Gillingham, I’m definitely going for a pint there, if it’s still open.
Christy's reply
sounds like your dinner got cold….I rem The Ash Tree on Chatham Hill…I heard Ramblin Jack Elliot, Champion Jack Dupree and Seasick Steve there one night and they were just the floor singers…. Johnny Silvo was the guest that night …Margaret Barry was in the back bar with Michael Gorman
If I may Rebecca – like me, you might’ve been put off Dylan by what we heard on the radio. Only in late 70’s, when I got hold of John Wesly Harding and Nashville Skyline, did I hear the man’s voice and music. You might know he credits his Grennwich Village colleagues the Clancy Bros. as a major influence. He wrote of intentionally releasing bad records in late 60’s and early 70’s in order to satisfy record cos. and get free of celebrity. Blood on the Tracks and Desire were cut when he was ready to work again. I especially enjoy the former. For covers, Willie Nelson’s take on What Was it You Wanted? is tops. Some guy named Moore might’ve tried his hand, but I dunno.
Christy's reply
Hey Brendan….theres a lot of listenin to be done getting the ears around Bob’s output….he has no equal in a number of departments
Hi Christy, don’t want to chirp in here with Rebecca’s question, but Dylan was my first big influence, I was still at school! I personally would work your way through from the early stuff, Song to Woody, Masters of war etc., then you get the essence of Dylan, he got more sophisticated, I envy your journey might get my bootheels to go wandering too, that’s today’s music sorted. Pam
Hello, Christy,
I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t know, very much about Bob Dylan. I’m trying to work out how this, can have, happened. I guess I spent my youth learning how to hit percussion instruments with beautiful precision, then I had years in the wilderness.
So I’ve just ordered Rough and Rowdy ways, because I don’t know where else to start.
What else should I be looking at please. I have no idea where to start.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
First step….Jettison all sense of embarrassment….then just do your own thing….Bob will always be there…hes in the ether…..lurking in dark corners…rustling round the highways & by-ways….we never know where he’s gonna show up….
After the social media posts by a Glaswegian post man, there’s now a world wide buzz about shantys/chantys – Rightly, The Clancy Brothers are widely mentioned and the first item on the Blog section here is excellent – Anne Margaret Daniel strikes again… http://www.annemargaretdaniel.com
I’d gladly settle for the Stena to Dublin…
All the best to all
Dave
Christy's reply
Kildare being a land locked region we had no access to the Seven Seas or their mighty Shanties…arriving into Dublin in 1963 the first shanty I heard was Trevor Crozier singing “Chicken on a Raft”
Hi Christy,
I know we were, by chance, both listening to Ger Wolfe this week and wondered if you had managed to lay your hands on the lovely album SomeRiseSomeFall ( some climb) ,put together for Refugee rights and Mental Health awareness by Martin Leahy and Mick Fitzgerald.
Ger is on it and amongst others he does a stunning version of Rev Gary Davis’ song
“Death don’t have no mercy”.
It is well worth hunting out, and funds go to fine, deserving ,causes that need supporting.
Have a good day.
Rory
Christy's reply
the hunt will commence when the current hunt is over…..
Hello Christy,
I’m really interested in the Goilin club. Is it ok to go along and listen?
Steve’s drones arrived yesterday. I’m looking forward to hearing them. The Uilleann pipes are a beautiful thing. Did you notice a similarity between the oboe and the chanter? I thought of the pipes when you talked about the oboe.
Thankyou for humouring my last post. It made sense when I wrote it. We have a tradition of eccentrics round here. My granddad’s best friend was called Wilfred. He was mayor of Calderdale and always handed round sweets (spice in Yorkshire speak) at council meetings. He donated his body to science. He was a lovely man.
I met a group of solicitors yesterday. I had to train them on how to use Microsoft teams. It’s like the business version of zoom. I haven’t been trained on how to use it yet, so it was bravado that got me through. I’d not worked with solicitors before. They were all brilliant at listening and then asked lots of intelligent questions.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
the good people of Góilín Singers Club always welcome newcomers..
once the drones are tuned anything can happen
Many thanks for info about An Goilin – what a brilliant club – great heritage too.
I have Lal Waterson in mind for today’s bunker sounds ,but also have info about a US label marking 50 years of protest music – much needed now,for sure. I’d never heard of ‘ Paredon Records’, now being championed by Smithsonian Folkways, but the online exhibition looks excellent via http://www.folkways.si.edu
Hello Christy,
Begod, that’s a lovely word. I’m straight out running with Mcilhatton.
The problem I have with favourite verses and words is that I could easily start on a second set right now.
Rebecca
Christy good day,
The PatRb Productions Board of Directors have met by zoooooom and decided not to invoke the censorship terms of section 31 for the video gig montage.
Rory
ps I found an excellent 1996 radio documentary on RTE radio website…Moore’s Melodies…by Aodan O Dubhghaill about causes you sang about…by gad sir you get about.
An icy morning ,but being warmed by the psych/prog/folk of ‘Mellow Candle’ – found on youtube after reading about them in Leagues’ masterful Planxty book…
Can’t beat some psych prog to roll back the years…reminds me of Pentangle/Renaissance . Amazing that key members of MC were so young and went on to other interesting projects.
Gotta love the links that emerge – mind wandering back to the Free Trade Hall and Pentangle in full cry – great acoustic sound via an ‘Orange’ PA – not far off Planxty quality!
Enjoy the day
Dave
Christy's reply
In early Planxty times Andy & Donal ran “The Mug’s Gig” every Monday night in Slattery’s of Capel Street in Dublin…it was there that I first heard “Mellow Candle”. Alison from that Band is a regular at the Góilín Singers Club which we attend regularly….in this locked down era the Góilín Still runs on Zoom every Friday Night. I think you’d enjoy it if you dropped in.You can find it on f/b
Just down the road from me is Bearna, Co. Galway – but something tells me “Home Be Bearna” isn’t written about Galway? I feel if it were I’d have been brought up on it like a sort of national anthem.
How is the new year treating you?
Looking forward to the livestream in May.
Christy's reply
the opening line holds the answer…”In Scartaglen there lived a lass”….Barna is situated in Slíabh Ruadh in the Polka region of the Kerry…..Tom Munnelly collected this song and shared it with me in 1972…somewhere along the journey the spelling of Barna became Bearna which causes confusion…
Hello Christy,
Evelyn Rothwell. What do you remember? If you don’t mind me asking please
You’re not the only person to dreamt of palominos when they were young.
I’ve been watching the things about Tuam and the song by Vicky Keating and the other lady. I’ve shed more than a tear.
The RollonRory virtual gig is gathering pace!
Love to all,
Rebecca
Christy's reply
I was 16….Father Henry Flanagan of the Dominican College in my home town used to hold a Music Club every Tue Evening…I loved that 45 minutes every week… he would play a choice piece and encourage us to ponder….it was an Mozart Oboe Concerto that caught me ear…60 years on it still resounds,,one of the very few pieces of Classical Music I can clearly recall
There are some brilliant coincidences that emerge from a comment… the oboe player who impressed you as a teenager went on to be a world class musician – and married Sir John Barbirolli – the legendary conductor of The Halle Orchestra in Manchester. Lady B/ Miss Rothwell lived well into her 80s and had a really interesting life – well documented in a Wikipedia entry.
The virtual gig will be great and tide us all over until the time is right for you to take to the NCH stage.
Hi Christy, Everybody I know are telling me to send this song to you
.I know your probably inundated with songs but here goes anyways.
https://youtu.be/XG-yaUsk-AE
Thanks for sharing BT……in 24 hours I’ve heard your song and another by Sean Mathews from Drogheda….its fascinating how songwriting has blossomed in my lifetime….growing up in the 1950s the only contemporary Irish songs i heard were “Red Sails in The Sunset” and “O to be in Doonaree”….
what your songs describe was taking place all around us but twas behind high walls in dark dark places….Joni MItchell was the first songwriter I heard sing about such cruelties in her song “Magdalen Launderies”
Not until I saw Dylan in late 90’s did I see the humor in some of his songs. He’s not Christy Moore funny, but pretty good laughs here and there.
ah jasus steady on there Brendan…..the bar is high enough as it is
Conversation with the wife over dinner this evening, while listening to Patsy Cline on Sonos:
Why don’t you see if you can play Christy Moore’s new album, you know we heard about it on the radio this morning?
Aah, that wouldn’t be available yet.
Well you could try.
But I’m not really a big Christy Moore fan anyway.
Well everyone thinks you are.
Yeah, but I’m not really. I like him and his music, but I’m not really a huge fan.
Oh. how come you had all those tapes back in the 70’s?
Well I liked those, still do. And Planxty.
But how come we went see him in The Point and In Vicar St. And the Old Sheiling I think?
Well He was good.
But you’re not a huge Fan?
Well. Anyway I saw him in the Ash Tree at the top of Chatham Hill in the late 60’s I think. He was good then. Well he still is. of course.
I’ll actually pay for his new album when it’s available
I aso saw Eddie and Finbar Furey, The Chieftains and Fairport Convention there. And lot’s of others that I can’t remember. Great place.
Next time I’m back in Gillingham, I’m definitely going for a pint there, if it’s still open.
sounds like your dinner got cold….I rem The Ash Tree on Chatham Hill…I heard Ramblin Jack Elliot, Champion Jack Dupree and Seasick Steve there one night and they were just the floor singers…. Johnny Silvo was the guest that night …Margaret Barry was in the back bar with Michael Gorman
If I may Rebecca – like me, you might’ve been put off Dylan by what we heard on the radio. Only in late 70’s, when I got hold of John Wesly Harding and Nashville Skyline, did I hear the man’s voice and music. You might know he credits his Grennwich Village colleagues the Clancy Bros. as a major influence. He wrote of intentionally releasing bad records in late 60’s and early 70’s in order to satisfy record cos. and get free of celebrity. Blood on the Tracks and Desire were cut when he was ready to work again. I especially enjoy the former. For covers, Willie Nelson’s take on What Was it You Wanted? is tops. Some guy named Moore might’ve tried his hand, but I dunno.
Hey Brendan….theres a lot of listenin to be done getting the ears around Bob’s output….he has no equal in a number of departments
Hope all’s well Christy. This song as poignant as ever
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JAup72mnfPlwmAX3VeCTg
It will be played at my friends wedding next week.
Have a good day Ollie….bless the Bride & Groom
Hi Christy, don’t want to chirp in here with Rebecca’s question, but Dylan was my first big influence, I was still at school! I personally would work your way through from the early stuff, Song to Woody, Masters of war etc., then you get the essence of Dylan, he got more sophisticated, I envy your journey might get my bootheels to go wandering too, that’s today’s music sorted. Pam
We love it when you chirp Pam……
Hello, Christy,
I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t know, very much about Bob Dylan. I’m trying to work out how this, can have, happened. I guess I spent my youth learning how to hit percussion instruments with beautiful precision, then I had years in the wilderness.
So I’ve just ordered Rough and Rowdy ways, because I don’t know where else to start.
What else should I be looking at please. I have no idea where to start.
Rebecca
First step….Jettison all sense of embarrassment….then just do your own thing….Bob will always be there…hes in the ether…..lurking in dark corners…rustling round the highways & by-ways….we never know where he’s gonna show up….
Mornin’ Christy
After the social media posts by a Glaswegian post man, there’s now a world wide buzz about shantys/chantys – Rightly, The Clancy Brothers are widely mentioned and the first item on the Blog section here is excellent – Anne Margaret Daniel strikes again… http://www.annemargaretdaniel.com
I’d gladly settle for the Stena to Dublin…
All the best to all
Dave
Kildare being a land locked region we had no access to the Seven Seas or their mighty Shanties…arriving into Dublin in 1963 the first shanty I heard was Trevor Crozier singing “Chicken on a Raft”
As you would say, I have an oul song for ya. It deals with recent happenings. And the idle will of those in charge.
https://fb.watch/32Ak5etSvU/
Best,
Seán Mathews
Thanks for sharing Seán….thats a powerful song….great singing and playing
I was reading about and listening to Marianne Faithfull yesterday, Christy
Just found an unexpected treeat – her live version of ‘She Moves Through the Fair’ on youtube – wow…such superb control and depth. D
Hi Christy,
I know we were, by chance, both listening to Ger Wolfe this week and wondered if you had managed to lay your hands on the lovely album SomeRiseSomeFall ( some climb) ,put together for Refugee rights and Mental Health awareness by Martin Leahy and Mick Fitzgerald.
Ger is on it and amongst others he does a stunning version of Rev Gary Davis’ song
“Death don’t have no mercy”.
It is well worth hunting out, and funds go to fine, deserving ,causes that need supporting.
Have a good day.
Rory
the hunt will commence when the current hunt is over…..
Hello Christy,
I’m really interested in the Goilin club. Is it ok to go along and listen?
Steve’s drones arrived yesterday. I’m looking forward to hearing them. The Uilleann pipes are a beautiful thing. Did you notice a similarity between the oboe and the chanter? I thought of the pipes when you talked about the oboe.
Thankyou for humouring my last post. It made sense when I wrote it. We have a tradition of eccentrics round here. My granddad’s best friend was called Wilfred. He was mayor of Calderdale and always handed round sweets (spice in Yorkshire speak) at council meetings. He donated his body to science. He was a lovely man.
I met a group of solicitors yesterday. I had to train them on how to use Microsoft teams. It’s like the business version of zoom. I haven’t been trained on how to use it yet, so it was bravado that got me through. I’d not worked with solicitors before. They were all brilliant at listening and then asked lots of intelligent questions.
Rebecca
the good people of Góilín Singers Club always welcome newcomers..
once the drones are tuned anything can happen
Mornin’ Christy
Many thanks for info about An Goilin – what a brilliant club – great heritage too.
I have Lal Waterson in mind for today’s bunker sounds ,but also have info about a US label marking 50 years of protest music – much needed now,for sure. I’d never heard of ‘ Paredon Records’, now being championed by Smithsonian Folkways, but the online exhibition looks excellent via http://www.folkways.si.edu
Enjoy the day and good wishes to all companeros
Dave
‘
Lal…always remembered….
Hi Christy
Ironic in these troubled times for fishing, but (not for the first time)a Mike Waterson song has made me laugh…’Three Day Millionaire’ on youtube.
Fantastic stuff and any song that can name check ‘Brylcreem’ and ‘brothel creepers’ is surely worth a listen – what great company he must have been.
Dave
he were a good kid was Mike…
The Watersons are never far from my turntable….
gonna give them a spin now Dave
Hello Christy,
Begod, that’s a lovely word. I’m straight out running with Mcilhatton.
The problem I have with favourite verses and words is that I could easily start on a second set right now.
Rebecca
O Sweet Divine Mother a Jasus
Christy good day,
The PatRb Productions Board of Directors have met by zoooooom and decided not to invoke the censorship terms of section 31 for the video gig montage.
Rory
ps I found an excellent 1996 radio documentary on RTE radio website…Moore’s Melodies…by Aodan O Dubhghaill about causes you sang about…by gad sir you get about.
gotta keep one step ahead of the sheriff
Mornin’ Christy
An icy morning ,but being warmed by the psych/prog/folk of ‘Mellow Candle’ – found on youtube after reading about them in Leagues’ masterful Planxty book…
Can’t beat some psych prog to roll back the years…reminds me of Pentangle/Renaissance . Amazing that key members of MC were so young and went on to other interesting projects.
Gotta love the links that emerge – mind wandering back to the Free Trade Hall and Pentangle in full cry – great acoustic sound via an ‘Orange’ PA – not far off Planxty quality!
Enjoy the day
Dave
In early Planxty times Andy & Donal ran “The Mug’s Gig” every Monday night in Slattery’s of Capel Street in Dublin…it was there that I first heard “Mellow Candle”. Alison from that Band is a regular at the Góilín Singers Club which we attend regularly….in this locked down era the Góilín Still runs on Zoom every Friday Night. I think you’d enjoy it if you dropped in.You can find it on f/b
Hi Christy,
Been loving the box set.
Just down the road from me is Bearna, Co. Galway – but something tells me “Home Be Bearna” isn’t written about Galway? I feel if it were I’d have been brought up on it like a sort of national anthem.
How is the new year treating you?
Looking forward to the livestream in May.
the opening line holds the answer…”In Scartaglen there lived a lass”….Barna is situated in Slíabh Ruadh in the Polka region of the Kerry…..Tom Munnelly collected this song and shared it with me in 1972…somewhere along the journey the spelling of Barna became Bearna which causes confusion…
Hello Christy,
Evelyn Rothwell. What do you remember? If you don’t mind me asking please
You’re not the only person to dreamt of palominos when they were young.
I’ve been watching the things about Tuam and the song by Vicky Keating and the other lady. I’ve shed more than a tear.
The RollonRory virtual gig is gathering pace!
Love to all,
Rebecca
I was 16….Father Henry Flanagan of the Dominican College in my home town used to hold a Music Club every Tue Evening…I loved that 45 minutes every week… he would play a choice piece and encourage us to ponder….it was an Mozart Oboe Concerto that caught me ear…60 years on it still resounds,,one of the very few pieces of Classical Music I can clearly recall
Hi Christy
There are some brilliant coincidences that emerge from a comment… the oboe player who impressed you as a teenager went on to be a world class musician – and married Sir John Barbirolli – the legendary conductor of The Halle Orchestra in Manchester. Lady B/ Miss Rothwell lived well into her 80s and had a really interesting life – well documented in a Wikipedia entry.
The virtual gig will be great and tide us all over until the time is right for you to take to the NCH stage.
Dave
another goal for Suffragette City