My last public recording is literally 3 views away from 100 plays on YouTube. I'd be honored if you could give it a listen and bump it up over the century mark. It doesn't mean anything to anybody but me. Maybe say something nice if you liked it, even.
Time for another auld tune. Jack Lattin was once popular all across these islands. Composed in Ireland sometime in the early 1700s it quickly spread across the Irish Sea and appears in many music collections of the 18th century.
This recording is going along swimmingly! Just back from a break to walk the dog. I'm getting the hang of the basics of Reaper on Linux.
Once I get going, the workflow is soooo much nicer than audacity or ,dare I say, my trusty old 4-track. Certainly wouldn't have the flexibility to double mic everything and balance condenser with dynamic everywhere!
Time to start paying attention to all those free VST posts in my timeline I guess!
Always like stopping at Hamish Henderson's childhood home in Glenshee, which backs right onto the kirkyard.
Henderson was a major organiser of the Scottish Folk Revival in the 1950s-70s. Some of his interest in folk culture came from his upbringing here and around
Blairgowrie, where he heard his mother
and their neighbours singing traditional songs.
There are many popular Gillian Welch songs to choose from, but I love this one from the "Lost Songs"---so quiet and winsome, closer to classic American country music than mainstream folk. #countrymusic#folkmusic#musicwomenwednesday
I had a choice of two originals. One is an instrumental literally called "Lullaby in E". The other (included below) is a protest song, which I was surprised to find works very well as a lullaby:
"I'll Be Right Here, Too"
(performance and work CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Jennifer Vena Wood)
For all the queer kids out there, may you be safe and loved.
@barnetboy This singer is pronouncing "hair it hung" very, very carefully. I gather he's familiar with the well-known Mondegreen and is trying to avoid it.
@simonvarwell Haven’t found any information on the origin of the title. Often tunes from this era are connected to songs but didn’t see any mention of that here. It must have been pretty popular as it appears in loads of manuscripts and publications through the 1700s and 1800s
@Wen One thing that becomes really clear after spending years delving into this stuff is that we have so much shared repertoire with Ireland, North of England etc. I think the styles have become more distinct over the centuries but I suspect they were once closer than we imagine.
@bagpie@Wen have either of you been to the biannual bagpipe festival in the Czech Republic? I went with Sallyport Sword Dancers in 1996 and it was brilliant. Never realised just how many sorts of bagpipes there are.
The pipers who I found most impressive was a band from Galicia which not only played Galician music, but also Scottish Highland pipe tunes just like a very very good Highland pipe band.
And now the last of my 40 settings from the manuscript. I enjoyed creating pipe friendly settings, I can't say I enjoyed recording them. I don't think recording tunes that I am unfamiliar with does the tunes or my piping justice.
A quick play through of my setting of Unfortunate Jock from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.
Anyone on here listen to folk music? Sometime pre-2020, my spouse and I heard a song played live (at Falconridge Folk Festival, if that's helpful), the chorus of which went:
"Every day, every day, I choose you."
Except that the final iteration was, "Every day, every day, you choose me."
This song came up again tonight. Would love to find the song again, if anyone knows it. #folkmusic#music#folk
When you grow up singing unattributed folk songs, you grow up singing "The ants are my friends, they're blowin in the wind, the ants they are blowin in the wind."
Wow.. Shared by an accordionist friend. Putting aside the exoticising tone of the newsreel, this is a fascinating glimpse of Roma life in New York at the end of the 1930s. The accordionist is recognizable as Mishka Ziganoff, a Christian Roma klezmer musician & recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Too bad the audio quality is so bad. #accordion#Roma#MusicHistory#OldNewYork#NYhistory#FolkMusic https://youtu.be/jpZRQvDVBY8?si=kvNTSw3bu7fn4NnM
Right, after a week at carnival in Portugal and a week recovering it's time to get back to the auld tunes. This is another from the manuscript that was already in my repertoire although I've always played it as a standard reel without those semi-quaver runs.
A Ranting Highland Man from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.
For my new pals on Mastodon, as part of my semi-regular reminder that my main deal is I'm a singer/songwriter, here's probably my most-heard song, the wonderful Be Good Tanyas' recording of my "Light Enough to Travel". This is the song that launched me into full-time making-a-living musician. Thanks again, ladies. #folkmusic#music#singersongwriter#CovidIsNotOver#WearAMaskhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkFySJmEJY
