Hello Christy,
Video number 3 from Monday night. I started recording this long before the song started, so we get all the talking too. I’ve no idea why I started recording, but I’m very glad I did. This is the first time I’ve heard this jewel live. https://youtu.be/chjPzi4vhXo
Travelling over for tonight’s gig, looking forward to the Juke Box, hopefully shout out to Glasgow East Enders. Great if Sonny’s Dream could get an airing. Will be happy to get our Christy fix. Charles, John, Walter and Gerry.
Travelling over for tonight’s gig, looking forward to the Juke Box, hopefully shout out to Glasgow East Enders. Great if Sonny’s Dream could get an airing. Will be happy to get our Christy fix. Charles, John, Walter and Gerry.
My 80 years old stepmother is going to see you in Dublin tonight..she is beyond excited…its her FIRST LIVE CONCERT and she loves your music…in case you see this, her name is Ann Fitzgibbon..Sunday 15th Jan x
Apologies Christy! Long rambling post alert! With many questions!
Was just listening to The Iron Behind The Velvet, and John O’Dreams, in particular, got me thinking. (Now I’m open to correction on all of this). It wasn’t on the original vinyl release but was added to the CD when that was released and as far as I’m aware it was a stand alone recording in its own right and first released on The High Kings of Tara? When that album was released it was a real treat. It was like an unofficial extra Planxty and Friend’s album. It probably came about because there was too much material to put on the original vinyl version of “After the Break”? One of the tunes that really grabbed me was “The Long Note” Paddy Glackin and Jolyon Jackson. I went straight out and bought their album “Hidden Ground” A forgotten classic as was never re-released, same as High Kings of Tara. Paddy Glackin still talks very fondly about the making of that album and how experimental it was and how the purists weren’t too impressed. With this in mind I would regularly listen to it and think of Jolyon Jackson and what he might have accomplished if his life hadn’t have been cut so short. Which brings us back to that recording of John O’Dreams as he played Cello and synth on it?
Christy's reply
“Hidden Ground” is a gem of an album that has never been fully appreciated. Jolyon Jackson I well remember as a gentle and very talented man ….
Re John O’Dreams, Bill Caddick’s beautiful song…I clearly recall first hearing it in Bill’s Folk Club ( I think it was in Wolverhampton)….
That said,I dont have clear recall of recording it but I suspect it may have been a B side to a Planxty release (Timedance perhaps ?) that found its way onto “The High Kings Of Tara”…that being a label compilation I had no involvement in it (that I can recall)….
With regard to your final question….I’ll need to hear that recording of J.O’D to ascertain who played on it….
Hello Christy,
Video number two from Monday night. https://youtu.be/dU7Q6-bCbuk
I love the dark key you put this in. It really works for me.
The video is cut short when I got told off by Vicar Street staff.
I was sitting next to a teenage lad at this gig. I listened to him singing and he knew the songs so well. I turned to smile at him and we sang through Beeswing together. I don’t know who he, was, but I had a great time with him.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
Thank You..
lovely to hear our special listener joining in….those lovely sounds of participation are heart warming when I hear them….shame that you were prevented from recording the song thru… first time I’ve heard this solo rendition of Joni’s song..
Id just like to share my own quick story.
My godson has recently turned 18th he was into a range of different of different music, mainly American hip hop, so when my sister told me she heard him singing Beeswing in the shower, that was all I needed!! His reaction at his Christmas present of tickets to Vicar street surprised me, and the fact he was straight onto his mates who were jealous. This was my 2nd experience of this recently, as I had noticed my son had started to listen to Christy over then few past months. So I brought him along to his first gig last November!!
My own father was always a fan, I myself started to hear the music around the house and his collection of Cds slowly became my collection 😊!! So that’s my father who recently turned 70, myself whos in my forties, my son in his 20s and now my nephew in his teens!!! And many on here would have witnessed a lot younger people singing along knowing every word!! It never ceases to amaze me how one artist can command the interest of such a wide and varied age group. Suppose it’s the magic of the songs that they can appeal to so many and can still sound so fresh and the messages within some of these songs are as important in todays society as when they were released.
Also Christy its the constant stream of good gigs that you continue to put on that allows different generations to experience these songs live!! Something we are all grateful for!! Keep it up !!!!
Christy's reply
well Ban go Léir as Cill Dara..
4 generations listening to the songs….beats any gold disc upon the wall…coming from the Short Grass brings an added dimension to the plaudits shared….it was on the Liffey Banks that I began to hear these songs…we’d gather down “The Strand” after dark ( below Ryston)..share a few flagons and sing Rosin The Bow,Jug of Punch, Brennan on the Moor like there was no tomorrow….like The River itself, we’d be in “Full Flood “
A cold night, warmed by music… BBC4 – Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham…such a brilliant hour and promises of more gems in the series.
Via academics and musicians (many familiar to companeros here), trad songs and tunes are traced and performed in intimate settings. Brilliant to be informed and entertained at the same time…cleverly linking Scotland, Northern Ireland and America.
I hope it’s possible to access the show, it deserves to be seen far and wide… Black Jack David meets the raggle taggle gypsies…and Rhiannon Giddens sets the bar very high, singing Poor Wayfaring Stranger…wow, she s good…
Howya Christy,
I do believe that Ride On is one of the greatest songs ever written. So simple yet so huge (J.B.) .The mystery of it is that
no one really knows what’s it about. Only Jimmy knows for sure and Jimmy ain’t telling. (Is ceart agus is coir sin) Take what you need from it and leave the rest. There was a night in Leisureland, and the choir were in fine voice. Jaysus it was a sound to behold. No disrespect to Phil Coulter but could it replace Ireland’s call for the upcoming six nations. Just saying like.
Bourkey
I was saddened to read that the artist previously known as Prince Harry said he’s been abandoned with only £100 million in the bank
Maybe we could have a whip around & help him out?
Leonard Cohen: “There is a war between the rich & poor…”
On a brighter note – Christy, it amazes me that when I read posts following your gigs, there’s such a passionate positive vibe from all comers – you must be be in the zone personally professionally spiritually & publicly – long may you be carried away when you’re Flying into Mystery: you have good company.
Close your eyes and she’s there- open them again & she’s there with friends
Plunder with wonder,
I’ve started working my way through the videos I gleaned from Monday night at Vicar Street.
Here is the first one https://youtu.be/KKbS7km8Ajs
I’ve no idea how this will put itself across on YouTube but it was electric in the room. The crowd went fxxking nuts!
Hello Christy,
I’ve just read Danny’s post and your reply and I had to respond.
Such love, such love.
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
Keep me safe, lie with me stay beside me don’t go.
I want to apologize for my distraction on Jan 11 show but i was overcome by grief when you did Motherland. It’s 20 years since 9/11 and i still bawl like a baby when i hear this great song by Natalie Merchant, who my brother recently saw at Levon Helms venue in NY. Twice in my life i feel victimized by hate in this world, as an 11 year old home from school sick watching the tv and Walter Chronkite announcing John Kennedy shot. On 9/11 we were all traumatized by the hate that consumed these vile people. When Mary Johnnies mother saw me finally in the days after the sadness consumed me, but the events after work evolved the tragedy into something more.I had to stop in the pub, needing a drink. PJ O’Rourke and John McLain were sitting there and i told them the story about Mary and Johnnie, PJ told me his grandson was in the towers, John or Diamond as he was as known was a Nassau County Detective assigned to the morgue, having to go to the pile. I want to thank you so much for a wonderful show but i also want to thank all the Song Writers that special gift that they have of conveying events that happen into song. we’re in Belfast now going to see Drop Kick Murphy on my birthday. We need more Phil Ochs and Christy’s in this world bringing attention to the plight of this very fragile human race. God Bless and be Well- Danny
Christy's reply
Good man Danny..no sweat…hope you have a good visit to Belfast, a Happy Birthday and a good blast of The Drop Kicks….
re Mon night; absolutely no need for apologies…Thank you for you initial request and for your feedback
on my last album I covered Gary Moore’s “Johnny Boy”…….while introducing “Motherland” ( and mentioning John of Rescue 1 ) I heard a voice calling “Johnny Boy” and wrongly assumed it to be a badly timed request for Gary’s beautiful song…..it caught me unawares momentarily but I soon got back to the task at hand…
Singing “Motherland” on the back of you telling me about John’s heroic efforts on 9/11 gave me a very different take on Natalie’s great song…different images crossed my mind as I sang her lines…the song had slipped from my set for the past few years but Monday’s experience puts it right back into the current repertoire.. I’ll remember John of Rescue 1 every time I sing the song
“One Starry Night”, that Sean Tyrell version is brilliant, evocative and powerful.
I dont know Dr Strangely Strange at all. ‘Folk rock’.
So R you crossed the waves and in daylight. We sang a song, ‘Trasna na dTonta’, as gaeilge in national school. The fourteen forty five ferry – it sounds poetic. Sounds like a great trip.
I was just reading the lyrics, Christy, to your “”underground “fleadh-ceol -messers” hit””, it went into the air of “Starry Night” for me, I think Liam Weldon collected it and Sean Tyrell did a great version on Davy Spillanes Album A Place Among The Stones, a lot of similarities?
Never heard this before Gipp…what a beautiful song…Sean Tyrell singing beautifully and Davy Spillane getting such sweet sound from his chanter…thanks for sharing this classic track
That’s fascinating Christy that Andy Irvine confirmed t’was himself on The Black Velvet Band, I was always sure his earliest recordings were Sweeneys Men, a wee bit of hidden treasure found!
And with d’oul tinterweb being a divil for dragging you down rabbit holes I came across this from 1970 that I was never aware of, Andy and Gary Moore with Dr. Strangely Strange! What a great combo. You can really hear his mando style developing on this. Did you ever bump into them?
Great post and link Gipp…..heard Strangely once in Doncaster way back in the late 1960s…still see the Doctors occasionally at the annual Masters of Tradition Festival in Bantry….great to hear this track featuring both Andy & Gary
Hi Christy,
i only learned today that my favourite author Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrote his book ‘devil on the cross’ on toilet paper during a year in maximum security prison in Kenya.
I think that similarly written important and inspiring historical gems came to you in a similar way from a location about 90 miles from dublin?
Cheers
Rory
Christy's reply
a fellow once wrote a song on an airline sick bag and performed it in concert upon landing…
something about taking a scissors to the Starry Plough and removing the Union Jack…
Hi Christy
Great to see that DK has posted here, a man of some talent…as i have been banging on about ad nauseam.
Down in Kilkenny with the cats indeed, from a marble city to a granite one ,i was in Aberdeen on Monday. Jings it can be a braw but raw place, the beach was deserted and i had forgotten my dookers so could not dip in the North Sea.
I hope that you and DK might collaborate one day ( maybe singing ‘ the northern lights of old aberdeen’).
Back to old clothes and porridge down here anyway.
Our plans in Hawick for our music festival 4-6 August including a buskers event on the streets, workshops and of course gigs are coming along well.
Looks like we may have landed a lad from Belfast to start us off, it was a lad from the Mournes last year , and i earnestly hope a lad from Dundalk/Kilkenny next year if not before. ALL WELCOME
cheers
Rory
Christy's reply
over 50 years ago I sang to 4 listeners in a Folk Club in Aberdeen..we had a great night…
Hello Christy,
Heading back across the water today, 14.45 ferry if all goes well.
Lots of songs last night that I don’t think I’ve heard live before. I’m loving the new songs and hearing familiar ones for the first time. Lemon 7s is a beauty. You’re doing a fabulous job.
Shame the hayloft songs don’t get to see many other buildings. I’m too shy to sing them but I love to hear them. Maybe they work best in a more intimate setting.
On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day
With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray
In search of some game if the weather proved fair
To see could I get a shot at the bonny black hare.
Agus fagaimid siud mar ata se
One of my favourite quotes
Never trust a man who, when left alone with a tea cosy, doesn’t try it on.
The great Billy Connelly.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
Hope your return crossing was not too rough upon the high seas..it was lovely to see both your beaming faces in Vicar St… all the way from Brighouse….thanks for listening and for your feedback
PS Did you know Bob covered Lakes of Pontchartrain? Found this while looking up the song this morning..not the best quality but here t’is: https://youtu.be/Y69TdkpNU-Y
Christy's reply
far as I know he heard Paul Brady sing it…Paul heard me sing it BUT the source was the man himself MIKE WATERSON late of The Watersons..one of the finest singers I ever encountered.. with Mike’s Sisters Norma and Lal along with cousin John, The Watersons were a beautiful Band…for anyone who has not heard them, they are on spotify and youTube…I travelled manys the mile to hear them in the 60s , in cars buses vans and trains in the punisihing heat the snow and the rain….and I got to play in their iconic Folk Club in Hull in 1967 ..later that night , after a few ales, Mike sang Pontchartrain for me..first time I every heard it..I carried it home with me and recorded it with Planxty in 1973…Paul Brady took it on and (rumour has it) sang it to Dylan in Slane in Lord Mountbatten’s estate on The Boyne…Bob then carried it back to where it came from… I love the way songs travel and subsume and rekindle and reverberate..I like the way bob strummed it on that youtube clip ..gonna try that myself…I did the same with Motherland last night..put a bit of poke into it…
Hello Christy,
Video number 3 from Monday night. I started recording this long before the song started, so we get all the talking too. I’ve no idea why I started recording, but I’m very glad I did. This is the first time I’ve heard this jewel live.
https://youtu.be/chjPzi4vhXo
May you all rock the house tonight.
Rebecca
Travelling over for tonight’s gig, looking forward to the Juke Box, hopefully shout out to Glasgow East Enders. Great if Sonny’s Dream could get an airing. Will be happy to get our Christy fix. Charles, John, Walter and Gerry.
Hi Christy,
Travelling over for tonight’s gig, looking forward to the Juke Box, hopefully shout out to Glasgow East Enders. Great if Sonny’s Dream could get an airing. Will be happy to get our Christy fix. Charles, John, Walter and Gerry.
My 80 years old stepmother is going to see you in Dublin tonight..she is beyond excited…its her FIRST LIVE CONCERT and she loves your music…in case you see this, her name is Ann Fitzgibbon..Sunday 15th Jan x
Apologies Christy! Long rambling post alert! With many questions!
Was just listening to The Iron Behind The Velvet, and John O’Dreams, in particular, got me thinking. (Now I’m open to correction on all of this). It wasn’t on the original vinyl release but was added to the CD when that was released and as far as I’m aware it was a stand alone recording in its own right and first released on The High Kings of Tara? When that album was released it was a real treat. It was like an unofficial extra Planxty and Friend’s album. It probably came about because there was too much material to put on the original vinyl version of “After the Break”? One of the tunes that really grabbed me was “The Long Note” Paddy Glackin and Jolyon Jackson. I went straight out and bought their album “Hidden Ground” A forgotten classic as was never re-released, same as High Kings of Tara. Paddy Glackin still talks very fondly about the making of that album and how experimental it was and how the purists weren’t too impressed. With this in mind I would regularly listen to it and think of Jolyon Jackson and what he might have accomplished if his life hadn’t have been cut so short. Which brings us back to that recording of John O’Dreams as he played Cello and synth on it?
“Hidden Ground” is a gem of an album that has never been fully appreciated. Jolyon Jackson I well remember as a gentle and very talented man ….
Re John O’Dreams, Bill Caddick’s beautiful song…I clearly recall first hearing it in Bill’s Folk Club ( I think it was in Wolverhampton)….
That said,I dont have clear recall of recording it but I suspect it may have been a B side to a Planxty release (Timedance perhaps ?) that found its way onto “The High Kings Of Tara”…that being a label compilation I had no involvement in it (that I can recall)….
With regard to your final question….I’ll need to hear that recording of J.O’D to ascertain who played on it….
Hello Christy,
Video number two from Monday night.
https://youtu.be/dU7Q6-bCbuk
I love the dark key you put this in. It really works for me.
The video is cut short when I got told off by Vicar Street staff.
I was sitting next to a teenage lad at this gig. I listened to him singing and he knew the songs so well. I turned to smile at him and we sang through Beeswing together. I don’t know who he, was, but I had a great time with him.
Rebecca
Thank You..
lovely to hear our special listener joining in….those lovely sounds of participation are heart warming when I hear them….shame that you were prevented from recording the song thru… first time I’ve heard this solo rendition of Joni’s song..
Id just like to share my own quick story.
My godson has recently turned 18th he was into a range of different of different music, mainly American hip hop, so when my sister told me she heard him singing Beeswing in the shower, that was all I needed!! His reaction at his Christmas present of tickets to Vicar street surprised me, and the fact he was straight onto his mates who were jealous. This was my 2nd experience of this recently, as I had noticed my son had started to listen to Christy over then few past months. So I brought him along to his first gig last November!!
My own father was always a fan, I myself started to hear the music around the house and his collection of Cds slowly became my collection 😊!! So that’s my father who recently turned 70, myself whos in my forties, my son in his 20s and now my nephew in his teens!!! And many on here would have witnessed a lot younger people singing along knowing every word!! It never ceases to amaze me how one artist can command the interest of such a wide and varied age group. Suppose it’s the magic of the songs that they can appeal to so many and can still sound so fresh and the messages within some of these songs are as important in todays society as when they were released.
Also Christy its the constant stream of good gigs that you continue to put on that allows different generations to experience these songs live!! Something we are all grateful for!! Keep it up !!!!
well Ban go Léir as Cill Dara..
4 generations listening to the songs….beats any gold disc upon the wall…coming from the Short Grass brings an added dimension to the plaudits shared….it was on the Liffey Banks that I began to hear these songs…we’d gather down “The Strand” after dark ( below Ryston)..share a few flagons and sing Rosin The Bow,Jug of Punch, Brennan on the Moor like there was no tomorrow….like The River itself, we’d be in “Full Flood “
Hi Christy/all
A cold night, warmed by music… BBC4 – Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham…such a brilliant hour and promises of more gems in the series.
Via academics and musicians (many familiar to companeros here), trad songs and tunes are traced and performed in intimate settings. Brilliant to be informed and entertained at the same time…cleverly linking Scotland, Northern Ireland and America.
I hope it’s possible to access the show, it deserves to be seen far and wide… Black Jack David meets the raggle taggle gypsies…and Rhiannon Giddens sets the bar very high, singing Poor Wayfaring Stranger…wow, she s good…
Music keeping spirits high…
Dave
Howya Christy,
I do believe that Ride On is one of the greatest songs ever written. So simple yet so huge (J.B.) .The mystery of it is that
no one really knows what’s it about. Only Jimmy knows for sure and Jimmy ain’t telling. (Is ceart agus is coir sin) Take what you need from it and leave the rest. There was a night in Leisureland, and the choir were in fine voice. Jaysus it was a sound to behold. No disrespect to Phil Coulter but could it replace Ireland’s call for the upcoming six nations. Just saying like.
Bourkey
I was saddened to read that the artist previously known as Prince Harry said he’s been abandoned with only £100 million in the bank
Maybe we could have a whip around & help him out?
Leonard Cohen: “There is a war between the rich & poor…”
On a brighter note – Christy, it amazes me that when I read posts following your gigs, there’s such a passionate positive vibe from all comers – you must be be in the zone personally professionally spiritually & publicly – long may you be carried away when you’re Flying into Mystery: you have good company.
Close your eyes and she’s there- open them again & she’s there with friends
Plunder with wonder,
Danny Harris
C/o Prince Harry Benevolent Fund
I’ve started working my way through the videos I gleaned from Monday night at Vicar Street.
Here is the first one
https://youtu.be/KKbS7km8Ajs
I’ve no idea how this will put itself across on YouTube but it was electric in the room. The crowd went fxxking nuts!
Hello Christy,
I’ve just read Danny’s post and your reply and I had to respond.
Such love, such love.
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
Keep me safe, lie with me stay beside me don’t go.
Such love.
Rebecca
I want to apologize for my distraction on Jan 11 show but i was overcome by grief when you did Motherland. It’s 20 years since 9/11 and i still bawl like a baby when i hear this great song by Natalie Merchant, who my brother recently saw at Levon Helms venue in NY. Twice in my life i feel victimized by hate in this world, as an 11 year old home from school sick watching the tv and Walter Chronkite announcing John Kennedy shot. On 9/11 we were all traumatized by the hate that consumed these vile people. When Mary Johnnies mother saw me finally in the days after the sadness consumed me, but the events after work evolved the tragedy into something more.I had to stop in the pub, needing a drink. PJ O’Rourke and John McLain were sitting there and i told them the story about Mary and Johnnie, PJ told me his grandson was in the towers, John or Diamond as he was as known was a Nassau County Detective assigned to the morgue, having to go to the pile. I want to thank you so much for a wonderful show but i also want to thank all the Song Writers that special gift that they have of conveying events that happen into song. we’re in Belfast now going to see Drop Kick Murphy on my birthday. We need more Phil Ochs and Christy’s in this world bringing attention to the plight of this very fragile human race. God Bless and be Well- Danny
Good man Danny..no sweat…hope you have a good visit to Belfast, a Happy Birthday and a good blast of The Drop Kicks….
re Mon night; absolutely no need for apologies…Thank you for you initial request and for your feedback
on my last album I covered Gary Moore’s “Johnny Boy”…….while introducing “Motherland” ( and mentioning John of Rescue 1 ) I heard a voice calling “Johnny Boy” and wrongly assumed it to be a badly timed request for Gary’s beautiful song…..it caught me unawares momentarily but I soon got back to the task at hand…
Singing “Motherland” on the back of you telling me about John’s heroic efforts on 9/11 gave me a very different take on Natalie’s great song…different images crossed my mind as I sang her lines…the song had slipped from my set for the past few years but Monday’s experience puts it right back into the current repertoire.. I’ll remember John of Rescue 1 every time I sing the song
“One Starry Night”, that Sean Tyrell version is brilliant, evocative and powerful.
I dont know Dr Strangely Strange at all. ‘Folk rock’.
So R you crossed the waves and in daylight. We sang a song, ‘Trasna na dTonta’, as gaeilge in national school. The fourteen forty five ferry – it sounds poetic. Sounds like a great trip.
gonna listen to Sean again
I was just reading the lyrics, Christy, to your “”underground “fleadh-ceol -messers” hit””, it went into the air of “Starry Night” for me, I think Liam Weldon collected it and Sean Tyrell did a great version on Davy Spillanes Album A Place Among The Stones, a lot of similarities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0DoVdE8UM
Never heard this before Gipp…what a beautiful song…Sean Tyrell singing beautifully and Davy Spillane getting such sweet sound from his chanter…thanks for sharing this classic track
That’s fascinating Christy that Andy Irvine confirmed t’was himself on The Black Velvet Band, I was always sure his earliest recordings were Sweeneys Men, a wee bit of hidden treasure found!
And with d’oul tinterweb being a divil for dragging you down rabbit holes I came across this from 1970 that I was never aware of, Andy and Gary Moore with Dr. Strangely Strange! What a great combo. You can really hear his mando style developing on this. Did you ever bump into them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDpPP54JuX0
Great post and link Gipp…..heard Strangely once in Doncaster way back in the late 1960s…still see the Doctors occasionally at the annual Masters of Tradition Festival in Bantry….great to hear this track featuring both Andy & Gary
Hi Christy,
i only learned today that my favourite author Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrote his book ‘devil on the cross’ on toilet paper during a year in maximum security prison in Kenya.
I think that similarly written important and inspiring historical gems came to you in a similar way from a location about 90 miles from dublin?
Cheers
Rory
a fellow once wrote a song on an airline sick bag and performed it in concert upon landing…
something about taking a scissors to the Starry Plough and removing the Union Jack…
Hi Christy
Great to see that DK has posted here, a man of some talent…as i have been banging on about ad nauseam.
Down in Kilkenny with the cats indeed, from a marble city to a granite one ,i was in Aberdeen on Monday. Jings it can be a braw but raw place, the beach was deserted and i had forgotten my dookers so could not dip in the North Sea.
I hope that you and DK might collaborate one day ( maybe singing ‘ the northern lights of old aberdeen’).
Back to old clothes and porridge down here anyway.
Our plans in Hawick for our music festival 4-6 August including a buskers event on the streets, workshops and of course gigs are coming along well.
Looks like we may have landed a lad from Belfast to start us off, it was a lad from the Mournes last year , and i earnestly hope a lad from Dundalk/Kilkenny next year if not before. ALL WELCOME
cheers
Rory
over 50 years ago I sang to 4 listeners in a Folk Club in Aberdeen..we had a great night…
Hello Christy,
Heading back across the water today, 14.45 ferry if all goes well.
Lots of songs last night that I don’t think I’ve heard live before. I’m loving the new songs and hearing familiar ones for the first time. Lemon 7s is a beauty. You’re doing a fabulous job.
Shame the hayloft songs don’t get to see many other buildings. I’m too shy to sing them but I love to hear them. Maybe they work best in a more intimate setting.
On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day
With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray
In search of some game if the weather proved fair
To see could I get a shot at the bonny black hare.
Agus fagaimid siud mar ata se
One of my favourite quotes
Never trust a man who, when left alone with a tea cosy, doesn’t try it on.
The great Billy Connelly.
Rebecca
Hope your return crossing was not too rough upon the high seas..it was lovely to see both your beaming faces in Vicar St… all the way from Brighouse….thanks for listening and for your feedback
PS Did you know Bob covered Lakes of Pontchartrain? Found this while looking up the song this morning..not the best quality but here t’is: https://youtu.be/Y69TdkpNU-Y
far as I know he heard Paul Brady sing it…Paul heard me sing it BUT the source was the man himself MIKE WATERSON late of The Watersons..one of the finest singers I ever encountered.. with Mike’s Sisters Norma and Lal along with cousin John, The Watersons were a beautiful Band…for anyone who has not heard them, they are on spotify and youTube…I travelled manys the mile to hear them in the 60s , in cars buses vans and trains in the punisihing heat the snow and the rain….and I got to play in their iconic Folk Club in Hull in 1967 ..later that night , after a few ales, Mike sang Pontchartrain for me..first time I every heard it..I carried it home with me and recorded it with Planxty in 1973…Paul Brady took it on and (rumour has it) sang it to Dylan in Slane in Lord Mountbatten’s estate on The Boyne…Bob then carried it back to where it came from… I love the way songs travel and subsume and rekindle and reverberate..I like the way bob strummed it on that youtube clip ..gonna try that myself…I did the same with Motherland last night..put a bit of poke into it…