sad irish and scottish ballads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTh_kUgi3Q

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

Omg Ronan... That still of sting is just like your Andy Carroll twitter ava o_O

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

And it's not the Burns version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnSzg7o7gjQ

^^^ Gemma Hasson, "Dan Malone"

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.

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

i mentioned the sting version but tbh it's an abomination next to a decent version

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

craigie hill was lovely

It's a tearjerker and a half

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9wTmHgcuE

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

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

I love this version of "Auld Triangle" — better than the version on Red Roses for Me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RousyTQB6iY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBRznHQPe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RHP4IAmW8

Beautiful radio session.

http://youtu.be/UW1X_qO_9RY?t=1m32s

Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Clyde Water

https://youtu.be/Ad8RVexRUoQ

Archie Fisher, "The Broom o' The Cowdenknowes"

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

https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88

Oops,

https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88

wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88

... 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.

I.bumped the hiberno thread only this week. Must be the weather

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

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

https://g.co/kgs/Y77dkB
Mellow Candle to thread

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.

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.

"The Broom A' The Cowdenknowes" is great. I've heard it (possibly in other versions) but did not know its title.

Oh, this is good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paq4pLs9L4M

This song reminds me of my childhood *sniff*

(Not trad. arr. but written by Roy Williamson, what a talent)

So many of these posts have disappeared, YouTube has no heart! I assume I originally posted this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AaizmzAE4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ7oYCx6tBw

https://youtu.be/i-u7yPTDOQ4

stupendous to me

Christ, that damn near broke me.

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=GgrkEIldnV4
Jean Ritchie had a splendid near a-cappella version too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrM5iXZQb5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlMpIkApc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9Y3ChP1go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMC4lqh1aI

"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

You can't beat the old favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482C-WQsk4o