The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[Lat-Literal]

I wouldn't concerned whenever we're they arbiters of Good taste. I've probably got the rest of the albums on their list - actually probably not as many of them are probably from the last 30 years.

A song worth a mention on the list is 'Grey Funnel Line' a folk classic written by Cyril Tawney. There are a number of recordings but I really like the June Tabor version from the Ashore album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8owouBo7CQ

or live

https://mainlynorfolk.info/cyril.taw...unnelline.html

That really is one of my favourites of this century, cloughie. Thanks so much. Love Cyril Tawney and his legacy - a giant though few will say so - and June Tabor, another giant, has achieved her best in the 21st Century, "Verdi Cries", "King of Rome" and umpteen others notwithstanding. Cyril's "The Oggie Man" is on that wonderful "Ashore" CD too. June to my mind is World Music so I won't dwell unduly in respect of the WM board but "Finisterre" is the one on that CD that is the measure of "Grey Funnel Line". Have never got tired of it:

June Tabor - Finisterre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFpx0i1M-c

(I suppose the inference here is that while Radcliffe does a good job re folk on R2 its true place in my opinion is on R3 because it is of a very "high" standing - it aligns with WM)

[cloughie]

That really is one of my favourites of this century, cloughie. Thanks so much. Love Cyril Tawney and his legacy - a giant though few will say so - and June Tabor, another giant, has achieved her best in the 21st Century, "Verdi Cries", "King of Rome" and umpteen others notwithstanding. Cyril's "The Oggie Man" is on that wonderful "Ashore" CD too. June to my mind is World Music so I won't dwell unduly in respect of the WM board but "Finisterre" is the one on that CD that is the measure of "Grey Funnel Line". Have never got tired of it:

June Tabor - Finisterre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFpx0i1M-c

(I suppose the inference here is that while Radcliffe does a good job re folk on R2 its true place in my opinion is on R3 because it is of a very "high" standing - it aligns with WM)

Ashore has some wonderful piano accompaniment by Huw Warren.

[Lat-Literal]

Probably, but I think it's a question of what people can manage. <empathy emoticon>

Yes. I often find it reassuring to be among those who call a chimney a chimley etc. It's roots but R3 and R4 aren't roots. Well, they are but they often house odd political types.

Ashore has some wonderful piano accompaniment by Huw Warren.

Know the name - it feels very familiar but I need to learn more about his work. He is brilliant on "Ashore" as are all the musicians.

thought it was time for a Nick Lowe song.
A master craftsman.
this is from " Pinker and prouder than Previous", which Rolling Stone apparently had in a list of worst albums ever. Clots.
In fact it is a real gem of an album, full of good songs, and very well worth seeking out.

Very much a figure to be respected. I think he convinces in every way including in a retrospective style.

This 'Lowe' works as a compliment to Hawley and, better still, it's a Tom T Hall cover. You can't not segue it with Hawley.

Was Hawley listening to Hall? Possibly. Whatever, he is someone who is very adept at consistently producing the magical.

Nick Lowe - Shame On the Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCU84uE1EY
Richard Hawley - Just Like The Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9YsRSsAtY8

[gurnemanz]

June Tabor, a one-off voice. Worth mentioning, in a WW1 memorial context is her rendition of Roses in Picardy which starts of her lovely rosa mundi album from 2001. Great to hear her live. We've seen her twice in a small local venue.

[Lat-Literal]

June Tabor, a one-off voice. Worth mentioning, in a WW1 memorial context is her rendition of Roses in Picardy which starts of her lovely rosa mundi album from 2001. Great to hear her live. We've seen her twice in a small local venue.

Oh yes, thank you very much. How wonderful.

There is a question of assessment here. If we take the Waterson-Carthys as a group and distinctive from what Tabor does, is there any individual in the "genre" - immediately it seems like too narrow a term - who has delivered more in a period of goodness knows how long? No. Slipping in "King of Rome" as surely it can be an oblique WW1 song too??

June Tabor - Rose of Picardy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wu6eiiw6Q
June Tabor - King of Rome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQEZBHEOj18

[Beef Oven!]

[teamsaint]

that really was a great warm up for "Houses in Motion".

[Lat-Literal]

Yes - that is apt because in all of the "middle-of-the-road plus" there has been a CBGBs strand what with Television and the B52s having been mentioned. There is an odd game that can be played. You type your own name in Google Search - eg Beef Oven! - and discover all the frightful things that might be said about you on the net. When I type in mine, I just have a long list of references to Talking Heads. Which is fabulous. I'm not going to say why those references appear but there is a reason. This is my favourite as they combine their extraordinary idiosyncrasy with musical as well as lyrical sentiment, not without irony. "And they call that wobbly", accompanied by a Postlethwaite expression of disbelief!

Talking Heads - Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HldHtBxNK6k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB

[johncorrigan]

Scots love their homeland all the more when they're somewhere else. This is one such song. I love it for a number of reasons. The Angus poet Violet Jacobs wrote the words almost a hundred years ago and the late Jim Reid, a weel kenn't singer o' these parts set it to the tune 'Magheracloone'. Jacobs lost a son at the Somme and I often think the song has that air of one who will no longer return home. I also love it because the wild geese are one of the great sights and sounds of the Angus straths. There's some fine versions around but I thought I'd post the Jim Reid version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNslxy6xFKI

[Lat-Literal]

Scots love their homeland all the more when they're somewhere else. This is one such song. I love it for a number of reasons. The Angus poet Violet Jacobs wrote the words almost a hundred years ago and the late Jim Reid, a weel kenn't singer o' these parts set it to the tune 'Magheracloone'. Jacobs lost a son at the Somme and I often think the song has that air of one who will no longer return home. I also love it because the wild geese are one of the great sights and sounds of the Angus straths. There's some fine versions around but I thought I'd post the Jim Reid version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNslxy6xFKI

That is very, very good John. Like it very much. Research suggests the beautiful tune is from Scotland - John McCusker of the Battlefield Band - but the title of it rather than the words Jim Reid put to it is Irish which is intriguing? Before I discovered it was McCusker, I went to the place name first, then the harpist Patrick Byrne who came from there, O'Carolan and all sorts. There appears to be another tune by McCusker called "Miss Kate Rusby" - unless I have completely misinterpreted - so maybe he likes interesting titles! Still, it sounds very traditional to me and I am still confused about it. I see it was posted on YT by an Ian Anderson and I wondered about that too. Maybe the music speaks best!

[Lat-Literal]

Apropos nothing whatsoever preceding this post:

Alabama Shakes - Gimme All Your Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNNTpORtDQ

....because she has huge amounts of character.

And it is the rock performance of this year!

However, contrast with this one:

The Floaters - Float On (from Summer 1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZklwTGZutc

"Aquarius and my name is Ralph.......!"

[Lat-Literal]

Right.

ee cummings and the temptation is to add Stan Tracey and "Under Milk Wood" but the latter isn't a song so any suggestions for "songs linked with poets" would be most welcome.

Mathilde Santing - It May Not Always Be So - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZyuoL-99s

It's a remarkable album this one - "View Under The Bridge" - with extraordinary arrangements.

I bought it in the era of Vega and Tikaram from a cool second hand record shop in Redhill. A gamble. The middle aged guy behind the counter, camp, said it was one of his albums and it had always made him cry. He then became emotional. He didn't want to sell it. Slightly awkward moment, eased when he said he was pleased it was going to a good home.

Subsequently, I always felt that I shouldn't have bought it although it was on sale!

Mathilde Santing - I'm Not Mending Broken Hearts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slLpMd1_iM

As for the aforementioned Suzanne Vega, was appreciative of seeing her at, of all places, Womad in Reading. The best 1970s' style singer-songwriter who happened to "arrive" in the mid 1980s. Have most of her albums. The sensitive "end" of America. First heard her on the same BBC Radio London programme that introduced me to Hedges and Ackerman.

It may have even been my introduction to Philip Glass.

Suzanne Vega - Cracking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B942IwY6_vs
Suzanne Vega - Freeze Tag - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU7CKaNhziM

[johncorrigan]

Apologies if this is already posted but I find it incredible that John Prine was about 23 when he wrote 'Hello in There', and he'll get to 70 next year. It's a song to keep me keepin' on and stayin' in touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY

[Lat-Literal]

Apologies if this is already posted but I find it incredible that John Prine was about 23 when he wrote 'Hello in There', and he'll get to 70 next year. It's a song to keep me keepin' on and stayin' in touch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY

Haven't seen that posted before. Prine is a great and it is nice to think that someone writing a song like that one at 23/24 in 1969-1970 is still only 69! As you know, I think of Prine and then I think of Griffith as many of us have done since the late 1980s/1990s. While it would probably be more credible to say that a "real" country artist was my favourite country artist, in truth it has to be Nanci. I have posted this one before - probably umpteen times - but I never tire of it. It's about the elderly too, bittersweet, but mainly positive:

Nanci Griffith - Love at the Five and Dime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ

Also a reminder Loretta Lynn, always the rebel, and now 83 decided to move from pure country to "indie/country/rock" in 2004 and at the age of 72 left many "gobsmacked"! -

Loretta Lynn and Jack White of The White Stripes - Portland, Oregon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuC_l3ymXhM

[johncorrigan]

Happy 70th Neil!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4MgAzcZyn8