https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4V7aoAguEs
Shelagh McDonald - Dowie Dens of Yarrow
― Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Monday, 22 November 2010 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuafmLvoJow
cheating a bit, as the words are 'modern' but a trad tune....
― sonofstan, Monday, 22 November 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHx8xsp8EMI&feature=relatedRichard Thompson, "Banish Misfortune"
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
jeeves, black books is undoubtedly the standout track here.
― chachuuung, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"oh jim, oh they'll blister your face with th'pity." :D
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― chachuuung, Monday, November 22, 2010 4:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ha, yep. "I am a simple cow, living a simple life/but sometimes, I feel ex-ploit-ed..."
― jeevves, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone posted a version of this upthread, I like this take on it a lot as well (love the Yeats poem too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CS5vbp2eWU
― jeevves, Friday, 26 November 2010 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
This song reminds me of my childhood *sniff*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AaizmzAE4E
(Not trad. arr. but written by Roy Williamson, what a talent)
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Man, that caledonia upthread kicked my arse from under me ;_;
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, saw him doing it live a couple of times back around 1990 - the whole theatre was in floods.
― everything, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hndHlh9xxJ4
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Just for the sake of pendantically responding to the thread title, here's one by the Corries (Scotland) with Paddie Bell (Ireland).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBUYtAyD1E
― everything, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCl1VBM-0A0
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2wDyypszM
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A
― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
sorry for sting
― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTh_kUgi3Q
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g61xLfDYn3I
tbh if i'd to land sting on the thread, his chieftains collab aint bad on 'mo ghile mear' (tho the version is a bit bombastic)
i'm looking for a good wailing sean-nos 'black is the colour' to lock thread with but no joy, it's something i've only heard live at readoiri and such but it's a spine-shiverer
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Omg Ronan... That still of sting is just like your Andy Carroll twitter ava o_O
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
I'd still forever indebted to anyone who can identify the version of this song I heard by a female vocalists (probably recorded in the 70s or 80s, I would guess):
http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/K124.html
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
And it's not the Burns version.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnSzg7o7gjQ
― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:29 (ten years ago) link
^^^ Gemma Hasson, "Dan Malone"
― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
Xxpost. Quite a few of the artists on this thread have done Ca' the Ewes but they are all men. Don't know any by a female. Peggy Server did a lot of sheep songs though.
― everything, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
Shirley Collins did it on "Anthems in Eden" but I can't find it on YouTube. There's also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdeHCmqejg4
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:09 (ten years ago) link
i mentioned the sting version but tbh it's an abomination next to a decent version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDlCM_Mwtys
― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:23 (ten years ago) link
craigie hill was lovely
― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 June 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
It's a tearjerker and a half
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
That whole Dick Gaughan album is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHZUxqPK6Q
One of my all time favorites:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EcU7qq3NM
― Austin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9wTmHgcuE
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
My mum was big on her trad Scottish folk bobbins when I was growing up....Any bearded chap warbling on about the Highland Clearances/Jacobite uprisings/declining industry etc etc. She was all over that shit.
More than any other band though, The McCalmans soundtracked my childhood and I've got a weird extensive knowledge of their back catalogue through osmosis. Always far preferred them to The Corries.
Certain McCalmans songs are guaranteed to make me come over all dusty eyed (though that's usually more to do with my memories of em, tbh). This one frinstance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZqubVmyf_8
― Humphrey Plugg, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
Oh bloody hell, here's another one that transports me back to being about 7 years old.
Warning: The video's pretty harrowing but it's the only version I could find by The Corries..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHt43DDars
― Humphrey Plugg, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
I love this version of "Auld Triangle" — better than the version on Red Roses for Me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RousyTQB6iY
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBRznHQPe0
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RHP4IAmW8
― anvil, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
Beautiful radio session.
http://youtu.be/UW1X_qO_9RY?t=1m32s
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Clyde Water
― finn_the_scot, Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Ad8RVexRUoQ
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 December 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
Archie Fisher, "The Broom o' The Cowdenknowes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_of_the_Cowdenknowes
https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Oops,
https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
... anyway, you get the general idea.
... very much part of that subgenre identified by Billy Connolly of songs about being far away from Scotland being sung by people who are still in Scotland.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
I.bumped the hiberno thread only this week. Must be the weather
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
This is the song I was looking for, but it's not remotely the performance I am looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjAB1bUMV4I
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
was it the shirley collins version? it's on anthems in eden, which is perfection from start to finish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGabYHdNvnM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
https://g.co/kgs/Y77dkBMellow Candle to thread
― calstars, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
The performance I've been trying to locate all these years has a distinct bitter-sweet tone to it, which I find lacking here.
x-post No, not that one. That's a different song I think.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
The one I'm looking for is beautiful, absurd, mysterious, and sad. Maybe some day I will rip it from cassette and post it online somewhere. I'm pretty inept at that sort of thing.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
"The Broom A' The Cowdenknowes" is great. I've heard it (possibly in other versions) but did not know its title.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
Oh, this is good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paq4pLs9L4M
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
So many of these posts have disappeared, YouTube has no heart! I assume I originally posted this:
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/i-u7yPTDOQ4
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:21 (five years ago) link
stupendous to me
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link
Christ, that damn near broke me.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 June 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
That setting is exactly what I imagine for the song. It's just a little too intricate, I prefer more straightforward versions, my favorite is still The Clancy Brothers, slightly ahead Dubliners and Pogues. I just realized Ed Sheeran has sung a version... I'll let others listen to it.
A favorite of mine has been the recent version of O Love is Teasing by Rhiannon Giddens. It speaks deeply to me (as a man).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrkEIldnV4Jean Ritchie had a splendid near a-cappella version too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrM5iXZQb5A
― Nabozo, Sunday, 10 June 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlMpIkApc4
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9Y3ChP1go
― mick signals, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMC4lqh1aI
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
"Now fare-ye-weel, my ain John,This warld's cares are vain, John,We'll meet, and we'll be fain,In the land o' the leal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0QoeGvSTQ
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 December 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
You can't beat the old favourites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482C-WQsk4o
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2023 18:17 (six months ago) link