I hope you have stopped reeling from the X-rated Bitter Withy.
In a similar vein, but with a U rating, here is the splendid Barry Coope singing the Holy Well, where Jesus was a little more saintly in his reaction to the nasty gentry.
The Holy Well | Muziboo
Am struggling to relate The Scream to Christmas/Jesus.
ReplyDeleteI like the Holy Well though.....
It's related to my first sentence...
ReplyDeleteLOVE that - more Barry Coope, please!! Going youtubing, but if you've any particular recommendations...
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He is usually accompanied by a Boyes and a Simpson. They have recorded many a fine CD, including two Christmas ones. This is not Christmassy, but one of my favourites of theirs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoJn8Ebb7I. No I haven't read how to do a link. I was in a choir for a performance with them once and BC insisted that we all sang "proper" vowels - ie short a - rather than soft southern ones.
DeleteThat's the one I played butterfly last night.....
DeleteI will put on my Christmas tape for her in the car now, en route to the storage place :-)
I am enjoying "JESUS" being the first thing I encounter on entering the salon at the moment. And as His Holy name is followed by the words "Folk Music Alert" one could easily start to imagine that the Man from Nazareth had taken to the road with a banjo, a harmonica - and yes, a red stetson. (Jesus has always been an alt-folk/alt-country mash-up man...big fan of Skeeter, in all her incarnations)
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of less alarming folk music (although I will just reassert my status as "one who did in no way recoil from Mike Waterson's Bitter Withy", Maddy Prior and Andy Watts were on Midweek (and I know our Salonista-in-chief does not like La Purves)and they were performing some carols from their new "Best of the Carnival Band" CD and one of them was a lovely new (well probably very old) version of While Shepherds went about their business in the dark. It made me want to buy the album and play it constantly - and this is the slightly Christmas resistant household who haven't even got their Yule Branch upright in a bucket yet...but then we have been somewhat proccupied with the arrival of three chickens (they were expected, it's not like the shpeherds and the Magi...we aren't harbouring Jesus)...and whilst I'm on a roll, we moved offices at work yesterday...which involved 5 hours (5 hours!!!) of carrying cardboard boxes across the road. We aren't moving far, but my goodness it felt far by four o'clock!! (almost a tongue twister). I will now depart the salon. Adieu mes chères salonistas ( a phrase in fluent europanto)
Just listened to all the clips of Maddy and co. on iTunes (refusing in no uncertain terms their proffered update; I've not yet finished sorting out the chaos their last - unauthorised, as far as I recall - changes created in my library)... and yes, it all sounds marvellous! But it's just going to have to wait until it's in a Christmas sale somewhen I fear...
ReplyDeleteJust like to say I didn't so much "recoil" from the Withy - my thought was: "oh, there's that folk noise again"!
Alison xx
I full accept and appreciate that refinement of your response to the Withy. I generally do recoil, so I quite surprised myself by not...one day I may subject my recoil to some examination because I think with me and "traditional folk" it is less to do with sound and more to do with content and duration. Some while ago, I started to call it - not very accurately I don't think - "Music to milk cows by" and that has become the shorthand in this house. The other Lady of the House quite likes music to milk cows by, though beyond a certain number of cows even her courage fails her.
ReplyDeleteHmm...where did that "y" at the end of "fully" disappear to? The revenge of the cows perhaps...which, incidentally, sounds lovely in French and isn't a phrase I've ever had cause to construct before today: La revanche des vaches.
ReplyDeleteI thought you were employing some vernacular, a la "I am full sore". La Revanche des Vaches is a must-have name for a folk group.
DeleteWell, I'm not averse to a bit of vernacular. Oh yes, La Revanche des Vaches - a radical feminist punk-folk ensemble perhaps?
ReplyDeleteOr, it could be us when we perform The Plains of December!!
DeleteYes yes yes! What is French for gingham?
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