<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hml-tUJ3Peo";>the sally gardens - makem & clancy</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86egt8PDmos";>skye boat song - the corries</a>
― chachuuung, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)
whoops
― chachuuung, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2c0Ph5FmGo
― seandalai, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)
lovely, lovely song seandalai.
― chachuuung, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)
obvious, but always welcome imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2g2WuGXwE
― the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)
A folk-singer friend of my Mum sang this for her 50th birthday. Beautiful song, always makes me cry like a bloody babby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A9rtg0iI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 22 November 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)
"the parting glass" is a wonderful tune.
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 22 November 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP15bKvUpdw
^ Dick Gaughan - Craigie Hill
― Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Monday, 22 November 2010 08:28 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibIM0AOu_w
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14iipXu5wA0
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 08:44 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06ozEXOSaY&feature=related
― buzza, Monday, 22 November 2010 08:48 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4V7aoAguEs
Shelagh McDonald - Dowie Dens of Yarrow
― Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Monday, 22 November 2010 08:50 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHx8xsp8EMI&feature=relatedRichard Thompson, "Banish Misfortune"
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 09:02 (fifteen years ago)
jeeves, black books is undoubtedly the standout track here.
― chachuuung, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)
"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 (fifteen years ago)
― 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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
Man, that caledonia upthread kicked my arse from under me ;_;
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:53 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hndHlh9xxJ4
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:17 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCl1VBM-0A0
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:14 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2wDyypszM
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:53 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A
― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:56 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)
sorry for sting
― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:02 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTh_kUgi3Q
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:02 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
And it's not the Burns version.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnSzg7o7gjQ
― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:29 (twelve years ago)
^^^ Gemma Hasson, "Dan Malone"
― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:30 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
craigie hill was lovely
― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 June 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)
It's a tearjerker and a half
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:01 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9wTmHgcuE
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2013 15:33 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBRznHQPe0
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 11:19 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RHP4IAmW8
― anvil, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:24 (eleven years ago)
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 (eleven years ago)
https://youtu.be/Ad8RVexRUoQ
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 December 2015 06:06 (ten years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
Oops,
https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:27 (eight years ago)
wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJg6mYxw88
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:28 (eight years ago)
... 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 (eight years ago)
I.bumped the hiberno thread only this week. Must be the weather
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:47 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
https://g.co/kgs/Y77dkBMellow Candle to thread
― calstars, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:53 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
"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 (eight years ago)
Oh, this is good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paq4pLs9L4M
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:09 (eight years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:25 (seven years ago)
https://youtu.be/i-u7yPTDOQ4
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:21 (seven years ago)
stupendous to me
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:22 (seven years ago)
Christ, that damn near broke me.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 June 2018 09:01 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlMpIkApc4
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:38 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9Y3ChP1go
― mick signals, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 04:32 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMC4lqh1aI
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:03 (six years ago)
"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 (four years ago)
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 (two years ago)
Ray Fisher, "Mill o' Tifty's Annie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-MzNaZceg
― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 February 2025 15:21 (ten months ago)