June Tabor

best later: Aqaba

I'm not as familiar with her later later stuff from the 90's and on. Someone else might be able to help you there.

Her stuff from the 90s on is very much of a chamber folk thing - Angel Tiger & Against The Streams are very good, i haven't kept up with her since then

That thing she does where she kind of prefigures the line she's about to sing by saying it in the character's voice is crazy (e.g. "Who's there" in I will put... and "Stand off" from The banks of the sweet primroses) - gives me the shivers.

'ragged kingdom' is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7MrS3jgyE

i should check that out, liked their first collaboration

did not know about this, checked youtube but couldn't find anything

By contrast, Tabor's sole mainstream moment was altogether more surreal. In 1978, she supplied vocals for an advert for an ill-fated margarine called Golden Vale. "The words remain tattooed in my memory: 'Morning has come to the bright golden vale.' Even now, I'm frequently tempted to drop it in at a show, possibly between two harrowing Child ballads."

i picked up the first silly sisters lp last night along w/tim hart and maddy prior's folk songs of old england vol 2. both amazing.

her 2011 album is really good too! listen to "i'll go an enlist for a sailor" from the new one. she is also super beautiful and has aged marvelously imo.

here's that full piece buzza quoted from:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/10/june-tabor-ashore-interview

lol:

Persistent woofing reverberates around the Welsh hillside farmland where June Tabor's house is situated. The closer you get to the front gate, the barking intensifies in a manner that suggests it would be idiocy to proceed any further. I telephone Tabor and she is audibly tickled by my reluctance to enter. If I wait there, she says, she'll come to collect me. The precise source of her amusement is made clear when two overweight dachshunds with three eyes between them waddle behind her, still barking. "They have very deep chests, which serves to amplify their bark," she says. "I don't blame you for approaching with trepidation."

an = and in my previous post btw

i've seen her twice, once solo (i think with a pianist and guitarist) and once with the oyster band. she initially gives off a spooky & intense vibe live but eventually you sense the humor underneath it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW30vk3RLGM

;_;

June Tabor’s margarine jingle is one of my grails. Have not been able to locate it nor confirm it exists in a physical format.

This 2006 article suggests it would be unlikely she would ever do a jingle. Or are you joking?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/no-commercial-breaks-1.1028040?mode=amp

i love Abyssinians

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https://mainlynorfolk.info/june.tabor/songs/acoldwind.html

Hearing "Bonnie James Campbell" on a free compilation with a magazine was the first thing that drawn me to folk music (must have been in my late teens). I was blown away by this at the time. It's on An Echo Of Hooves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rooy2lQtY

I got her three 00s albums, Airs & Graces and the first Silly Sisters album. Not got anything by her since.

I had never heard anything like the early albums, especially the songs with no music accompanying her voice.

For spookiness "Silver Whistle" from Silly Sisters really stands out.

The 00s albums are sometimes a bit so-so, but I remember there being some good stuff on them.

I should pick up her other albums soon.

Try "The Dancing" from Apples (2007). It's a particular favourite. https://youtu.be/yuV8aV0DxuY

Saw a reissue of Airs & Graces in shops last week. Bonus tracks (previously unreleased songs?) and extra packaging artwork, looks very nice.

Video from 2013 profiling her as a John Peel favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXUYbx-eUF8