Wanting to listen to Sam Larner: where can I find out more about & buy 'A Garland for Sam', does anyone know? I found a google reference saying it was a Topic...
The Folkways album is available as a cd-r, download etc. from Folkways, also issued on CD by Topic: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=564 ...
PS - previous reply refers to Singing the Fishing which is in print, the GARLAND album seems to be out of print, but can be found at the 'usual' sources (eBay,...
Now is the Time for Fishing was issued by Folkways in 1961 and more recently as a CD by Topic. It is also available from Smithsonian/Folkways. 'A Garland for...
Does anybody know of any recordings of John Reilly Jnr that are available, apart from the beautiful False Lankum on the Pavee Point Irish Travellers CD? Mike...
... Wild Rover come from? It ain't Sam Larner, as his tune is quite different < Assuming for a moment that the versions from Louth and Fermanagh (with which ...
Brian, I agree with almost all you're saying here. In fact I hinted as much earlier re 'Wild Rover'. Actually we're not a distinguished academic forum. Most of...
and 'The Handweaver and the Factory Maid'. It seems to me that Ewan MacColl and especially Bert Lloyd were uniquely positioned to inject this material into the...
Dave, I'm sure your memorites are bigger than mine! And yes, you were robbed on Thursday! But you already knew us Ullites were a load of robbers when you...
... I wasn't being sarky, Steve - I think many of you lot are actually extremely distinguished in the field and I feel nervous even venturing out into daylight...
Steve I suspect the fact that we discuss football as well as traditional song has gone to the forum. Bang goes any academic pretence anyway!! (Not that there...
Does it matter? Not one iota..... Dave ... From: brian peters To: Tradsong@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [Tradsong] Re:...
"Of the dozens of versions of "Jolly Waggoner" there are none in the tradition like the Waterson version as far as I am aware." There's a Wikipedia article...
Brian, Does that matter? Discuss. Firstly (I hope) there is no snobbery here. We respect everyone's opinions. Secondly. To me it doesn't matter. If people just...
Jolly Wagoner/Warbling Wagoner, I think Kilgarriff credits it to Harry Linn who probably rewrote it as the popular version we know today. If he published it...
Hi, Indeed - loads of versions that people sing even. Sorry not sure if I orginally made myself clear. The Waterson version is (IMHO) a conglomeration from...
... So that's two 'No' votes out of two, so far. All I can say is that it *did* matter to me when I found that my belief that certain 'traditional' songs had...
When you put it like that, Brian I think that I would agree with you. Very strongly. Maybe, though, if folk music is just entertainment it doesn't matter ...
It's just what you have said below, that keeps most of us hunting and comparing. We want to understand what and why ordinary people sang _then_. In this...
Brian, Not naive at all, just looking in the wrong places for your social history. Some of these people had the academics fooled for centuries. Until recently...
John, I'm probably misreading what you are saying here, but to me there is a world of difference between sophisticated people like...
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Sandy Easton
sandy@...
Mar 3, 2009 12:54 am
Well, yes, it does matter, but it's a question of in what respect it matters. If your attitude to songs that you love or are fascinated by is based on...
I come to this discussion rather later than I would have liked, but unfortunately have been stuck in hospital again for the last few days without internet...
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Paul Stamler
pstamler@...
Mar 3, 2009 4:59 am
... At the risk of restating the obvious... Each of those songs (leaving aside the ones assembled by revivalists from bits and pieces) probably *was* very...
No you're not misreading. I don't think there's much difference between someone singing a song which has come to them because of an organic process, or singing...
English Dance & Song, Spring 2009, has just been published and will be hitting the doormats from today. Cover feature on Jim Moray – singer, song and source...
Well, quite a few more responses in now, and I must confess to surprise at what seems to be a prevailing opinion that (to paraphrase), "a good song is a good...
I apologise to those who have already been able to read the long screed which is below. It's the (slightly) revised text of a talk I gave in Dublin at the...
