minorkey
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Post by minorkey on Jan 31, 2024 11:50:12 GMT
I'm not normally one for songs, I prefer to hear the instrument sing but this is a good un.
I've not heard of it before but I recognised the tune from a current TV ad...
The Martin Dread in this sounds delicious, Im taking its in dropped D...
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Post by ocarolan on Jan 31, 2024 14:07:05 GMT
It's a great song - the folk club I attended and sang at in the mid 1960s -early 1970s always ended every session with the singing of this song. Happy memories.
Keith
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Post by newdave on Jan 31, 2024 18:28:05 GMT
The guitar does sound nice but I'd guess at it being an OO 15M. It looks a bit small for a dread.
I like this version too. Obviously it's very polished but the chord progression gives it something extra. Makes it poignant somehow.
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Post by borborygmus on Jan 31, 2024 18:42:15 GMT
I've not heard of it before but I recognised the tune from a current TV ad... Quite possibly the most well-known Scottish (Celtic?) folk song of all time. Interesting to see the Wikipedia entry for the list of recordings. How many YouTube videos of recordings from that list can we get on here?  I agree with Keith, every wannabe folkie has sung it... even me. Peter |
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minorkey
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Post by minorkey on Feb 3, 2024 12:32:07 GMT
Crikey that's a lot names covering that song. How come I'd ne'er heard a it?
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Post by colins on Feb 4, 2024 13:57:32 GMT
Of course we all know that the Sandy Denny version on her 'I Always Kept a Unicorn' album is the best version. Well maybe my rendition was more 'memorable'. I think the first version I had was by the Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem) back in the early sixties, it is called 'Will Ye Go Lassie Go' on the album. I have 8 different versions on my player and probably more still on vinyl. ocarolan , we always ended with Whip Jamboree, probably more suited to our inebriated state. Though Wild Mountain Thyme was always in the mix. Colin |
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Post by minorkey on Feb 4, 2024 14:11:25 GMT
Sandy Denny? Is that the singer in Steeleye Span? I love their version of Gaudete.
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Post by Onechordtrick on Feb 4, 2024 14:32:07 GMT
Sandy Denny? Is that the singer in Steeleye Span? I love their version of Gaudete. Close but no cigar she was in Fairport Convention Just seen that Steeleye Span are touring this winter; definitely worth seeing if you can. |
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Post by colins on Feb 4, 2024 14:33:21 GMT
NO,that was/is Maddy Prior!
Sandy Denny is the greatest performer to ever come out of these islands, she was part of the greatest 'group' ever to cut a disc, the original Fairport Convention with Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick etc. They made probably the finest album of all time 'Liege and Lief'. She the went on to have a stellar solo career, sadly dying too young.
This song of hers was voted the best Folk Song of all time.
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Post by brianr2 on Feb 4, 2024 15:22:03 GMT
And another version, under another name, for ocarolan and I: |
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Post by minorkey on Feb 4, 2024 15:33:25 GMT
I've heard of Fairport Convention but never heard them. Folk was never my thing in the past
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