I've just checked my iTunes library, and I have no fewer than 9 versions of Tam Lin!
LOL -- I have at least three versions of the Tam Lin reel, myself. (That cello player really wasn't doing it up to speed, but I thought it was cool that there was a cello version at all, heh.)
I have to admit to not being that fond of the Steeleye version - it just can't compare with the guitar bits on the Fairport one.
Hmm, see, I'm the other way. I really like the "♩. ♩ ♩." rhythm in the first section of the SS version. I also like that they used Bulgarian folk tunes. :) Sometimes it's just a question of what you hear first! (And for what it's worth, I like the SS live version from "Tonight's the Night Live" much more than the studio version they've got on another album.)
I'd really recommend checking her out if you don't know her stuff already - Panchpuran is a particularly good album.
I will! That link I posted was the first I'd run across Bill Jones at all, but she has such a beautiful voice.
Hunsdon House is a tune and a dance.
Oh, very nice, and thanks for the links! The dance video seems to be titled "Hudson House", but that may just be a variant, because it's clearly the Hunsdon House tune. (I don't know what that figure is called where the side couples take hands with partner, advance, take hands with neighbor, and turn and retire out the other direction, while the end couples move in center-wards; the path they're tracing on the floor makes it look like some kind of a hey, but it's all very squared-off and interlocking. Very cool!)
It's a little too cheery for the Leroy Perry house, though. ;)
poet Benjamin Zephaniah's modern retelling with The Imagined Village
Ah, there we go, nice and creepy. :)
(the people who brought us 'Cold Haily Windy Night with sitars)
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Re: (This comment doesn't actually include any book discussion - just folk music...)
Date: 2013-08-15 06:16 pm (UTC)LOL -- I have at least three versions of the Tam Lin reel, myself. (That cello player really wasn't doing it up to speed, but I thought it was cool that there was a cello version at all, heh.)
I have to admit to not being that fond of the Steeleye version - it just can't compare with the guitar bits on the Fairport one.
Hmm, see, I'm the other way. I really like the "♩. ♩ ♩." rhythm in the first section of the SS version. I also like that they used Bulgarian folk tunes. :) Sometimes it's just a question of what you hear first! (And for what it's worth, I like the SS live version from "Tonight's the Night Live" much more than the studio version they've got on another album.)
I'd really recommend checking her out if you don't know her stuff already - Panchpuran is a particularly good album.
I will! That link I posted was the first I'd run across Bill Jones at all, but she has such a beautiful voice.
Hunsdon House is a tune and a dance.
Oh, very nice, and thanks for the links! The dance video seems to be titled "Hudson House", but that may just be a variant, because it's clearly the Hunsdon House tune. (I don't know what that figure is called where the side couples take hands with partner, advance, take hands with neighbor, and turn and retire out the other direction, while the end couples move in center-wards; the path they're tracing on the floor makes it look like some kind of a hey, but it's all very squared-off and interlocking. Very cool!)
It's a little too cheery for the Leroy Perry house, though. ;)
poet Benjamin Zephaniah's modern retelling with The Imagined Village
Ah, there we go, nice and creepy. :)
(the people who brought us 'Cold Haily Windy Night with sitars)
I listen to those CDs quite a lot, by the way!