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Today's Irish/Scottish/English folk playlist

Strangeband said:
Nightnoise --- A Different Shore

I think this one qualifies for this thread.
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I was looking for some spelling help, and read this... neither of which I knew.

Johnny Cunningham died on December 15, 2003, from a heart attack. He was 46 years old. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill died from a fall in July 2006 at his home in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 54.
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pmsummer said:
Matty Groves and Tam Lin... I rest my case.
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Unfortunately, I find Matty Groves annoying.

Tam Lin, however, is great. Have you ever heard some of the original versions of field recordings? It is amazing what they did with that song.

I have a version collected in 1956 by scholars at the University of Edinburgh. It is sung by Jeanne Johnston, a Scottish traveller woman. They had to wait until she got out of gaol to record it, too.

Her singing is probably pretty similar to what you might have heard in the 17th or 18th century.
 
Dr. Strangely Strange-Halcyon Days

Does this belong here? Where do these guys belong..not named stangely strange for nothing. Not the great unreleased third album or even a quirky live BBC effort but some odd pieces left in the can from their "heyday". Has three new songs done in the Kip At The Serenes style. For completists only which is the group I fit , so I listen.
 
vinyl1 said:
Reissue, Mystic?

Or one of those 150 GBP specials from eBay?
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Actually I was listening to the original UK issue vinyl LP (CBS 64612) version on a CD I made, content ripped from the LP. Definitely loses a lot of the holographic quality of the vinyl, but on the plus side I'm not worried about scratching a $200-300 record.
 
Some fun stuff from the Battlefield Band on Temple, a side each from Home Ground and On the Rise.

On the Rise has their fabulous version of 'Bad Moon Rising', while the live album has 'Land of 1000 Dances', the, er, Scottish version.

One of the dances is 'Donald, Where's Your Trousers' - I don't know if this refers to the wearing of the kilt, or the drinking customs in Aberdeen.
 
Hows about Steve McDonald-
Sons of Somerled &
Highland Farwell....:yes:
 
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