Hello Christy,
Here’s a recording I wandered a Ross while looking for other things. It starts with a version of Who put the blood.
SFC Audio Open Reel 1795: Paddy Tunney 3 of 6, Donegal, Ireland, 8 August 1979: Side 1 :: Digital SFC https://search.app/M78C1rQYrmnZd78cA
Thank you Hilary and Christy for directions to Lisa Lambe talk with Dolly McMahon. Can’t be easy to open up about one’s art and craft with lights and cameras right there, but no blather and It woke many neurons in Connaught region of my head.
Christy hi
What a fine day.
Up at murrayfield for a solid win v the italians.
In the stadium they were serving sicilian guinea fowl, pizza wraps, gnocci, italian wine n beer…i mean how ridiculous, what about a dram, irn bru, haggis neeps n tatties and kirriemuir shortbread?
Anyway both ireland and scotland made heavy weather of winning but win we did deservedly.
Great to hear the Fields if Athenry being belted out towards the end .
Now off to see the laird of the Mournes, Matt McGinn , at the Celtic Connections with son Charlie.
Matt has just released a couple of songs duetting with Paul Brady so i really hope that this collaboration boosts his popularity because his talent deserves it.
All the best
Rory
And charlie
Ps you dont do many duets but i wonder who you might have liked to have sung with but never got the chance?
Greetings Christy,
I recently heard Barney Rushe’s Crack was 90 with some different lyrics from the version that’s been around. Do you happen to have the lyrics to that version?
Thanks for your time.
Cheers
Mickey
Christy's reply
you may be referring to “Weekend in Amsterdam”…Paul McCormack , a townie of mine, wrote a parody to Barney’s “Crack 90″…I subsequently did an amended version of Paul’s song on an album “On The Road” in 2017…or easier still, see the lyric section of this site….
Hi Christy,
Hope you enjoy the match.
Did you get to sing a few songs for the lads?
They are a hard team not to like.
No spoilers ar eagla na heagla
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
no call this year …. dropped once before when Eddie reigned but recalled again by Declan, Joe and Andy…some great sessions and a few mighty singers among the different squads….my boots are always ready if the call comes
Marianne Faithful’s ‘Love is Teasing’, on The Chieftains ‘Long Black Vail’ brings back memories of ’90’s Holidays spent at my parents home, as the CD was first to make it onto the new device that had no pops and skips during playback. It’s a pleasure to listen to the song sung by CM during ‘The Poor Old Earth’ (box). As I write, I recall long gone faces and voices of east Galway/south Roscommon people, born when the world was young, time-travelling as the song played on Fordham radio broadcast in the ’70’s (but drink wasn’t to them what it was to the woman in song). On the great server in the cloud I’ve found Dolly McMahon (don’t ask how Americans pronounce) interpreting the song. Is Dolly’s the recorded version most Irish are familiar with? I think its the one I heard as a boy.
Christy's reply
I remember the song as being part of the early folk revival repertoire that emerged after The Clancy Brothers broke through the sound barrier and turned a generation on to what lay beneath the surface of the imposed culture of church and state….you have awoken my curiosity about this beautiful song…now I want to find its origin from where it came….Dolly is still to the good thanks be…we meet occasionally at gatherings … the light still shines
see
Drawing from the Well SAOITHE Dolly McMahon | song …
on
Irish Trad Music Archive website
It was great to see DAGRAB at Manchester Central Library today. What it is… Sounding the Century: The Exhibition is a tie-in with the Sounding the Century books by Mike Butler (alias DJ Poppy), and offers a visual counterpart with images instead of voices. It’s currently sharing the space with an exhibition about The Fall. We were double-booked! Una Baines is a gracious lady and she’s promised to cede two further cabinets next week, but she’s holding out for her full allotted month which means the Sounding the Century exhibition won’t be all there till mid or late February. I’m pressing to have the dates of the exhibition extended to compensate and I’m sure the management will accede. The majority of the exhibits come from the Bill Leader collection, as Dagrab says. Books and exhibition between them tell the WHOLE story of the British Folk Revival. I’ve got a desk and chair earmarked near the cabinets and will scribe away on future volumes in the series (8 in all), so if visitors’ memories are sparked I will be well placed to receive/recycle them.
RIP Marianne Fairhfull…an instantly recognisable voice in song and spoken word. A great talent and so much more than a tacky tabloid story…She’ll be greatly missed.
Good man Rory, thanks for your usual pointer to the great injustices of the world.
A perfect day for walking….and slapping the Home Secretary.
A heart-rending, terrible day.
50000 of us gathered in Newry a week later to remember the dead, and to back up Bernadette’s statement:”the streets belong to us”.
She was there, inspiring us all to peaceful protest by her passionate speech from the back of a lorry.
I quote the coroner, a retired British Army major, at the inquest into the deaths which was held in August 1973.
“This Sunday became known as Bloody Sunday and bloody it was. It was quite unnecessary. It strikes me that the Army ran amok that day and shot without thinking what they were doing. They were shooting innocent people. These people may have been taking part in a march that was banned but that does not justify the troops coming in and firing live rounds indiscriminately. I would say without hesitation that it was sheer, unadulterated murder. It was murder.”
It took a lifetime before the official British record was amended to reflect the truth, although the murderers were never really brought to justice.
Yesterday,a regular wander into Central Library.Fabulous,circular building with a number of exhibition cases on the 1st floor…After admiring cover art for LPs by ‘The Fall’,I was heading to the cafe…then I wasn’t!
I pulled up short in front of a case packed full of folk music info,photos,flyers…then saw three more! A stunning mix of national events,local Manchester memorabilia and a stack of stuff about Bill Leader…by now,I had a hunch about the likely source,but wasn’t sure…
A small notice about ‘Sounding the century’ was the clue…a series of books being a magnum opus in progress…by Mike Butler about Bill Leader
Today,I returned to make notes…and had the great fortune to meet Mike Butler,adding more info to cases! A brilliant few minutes followed. Confirming that much of the display emanated from Bill Leader,via circuitous route…
So,the news will,hopefully,be of great interest to many here…Central Library,Manchester will be hosting the treasure trove for the next two months at least…Mike hopes to be there on many occasions. He’ll happily chat with punters and share knowledge…
At present,the exhibition is well worth a visit,but there’ll be more items added quite steadily…I’m buzzing from the material.So many memories jogged and questions raised about the who’s who and what when…
Hello Christy,
So many different thoughts and feelings to be found on this guestbook. Such a human place and I’m thinking and feeling this after reading that AI has worked out how to replicate itself. It’s a strange thing to contemplate something that only has intelligence. No desire, no aversion, no joy, no sadness, no self-ness ever. it has none of the big fat emotions,and feelings that make life such an amazing thing. So it can replicate, but it feels no desire? The whole thing is something I find scary, and sad.
So, back to the comfort and safety of the guitar.
Left hand is moving about ok now. Feeling very happy with this. On to songs and the capo. It’s all discovery right now. I’m playing Come Up the Stairs with the capo on the 8th fret. Up here the sound is all zingy and the chord shapes are small. Such a,different noise and feel.
I’ve worked out that I should be able to play Musgrave with the Capo on the third. That will turn my C and F into a much easier A and D…? Job to get started on today. It’s been a few months since I was singing but everyday. I’ve missed it.
List of songs that are becoming doable
Parting Glass
Come up the Stairs
Billy Grey
Musgrave?
My heart is aching and breaking a little this morning as we are no longer able to attend this gig. I have two face value tickets going to a good home. Not sure how to do this?
Bernadette Devlin MP
The fact that thirteen people were murdered by the paratroopers in Derry yet the British home secretary got up and made what he called a statement. It did not have one substantiated fact in it. It lasted three minutes and at no stage did he even say ‘I regret the fact that thirteen people are dead’.
Really interesting about Hendrix,Christy…I had a similar,fractious tea with my parents after the sad news broke…
my good companero,Fred was the first person I knew to be captured by Jimi’s magic c 1966…as soon as I heard the sad news,I raced round to Fred’s house to chat…his Mum greeted me and said that Fred was so upset that he’d retreated to his bedroom and wouldn’t see anyone…’not even Dave’…a few days later we spoke about the tragedy…
Fred is a brilliant guitarist. To this day, on our catch-ups ,he’ll regale me about a new YouTube clip he’s found,featuring the maestro…and there’s always a line about the mystery of how Jimi played what he did…Not just raw power either…’Little Wing’ is so mellow…D
The other day I had a wander round Salford Quays. Visited the IWM war museum to ponder on the Holocaust exhibits…nearby,was a painting newly put on display. I didn’t know the artist,but do now….’The Death Cart’ by Edith Birkin (nee Hoffman) is as haunting as the title. Thanks to online info,I’m now aware of this remarkable woman’s life and art. Hopefully,fellow travellers here can share it…
In a side room that lures me in on every visit…a small TV shows a montage of harrowing news footage from the Viet Nam war. The soundtrack is Hendrix riffing on ‘The star spangled banner’ at Woodstock…the power,distortion,controlled feedback has never sounded so evocative. A brilliant example of music and history info in sync…mad to think that this year is 55 years since Jimi Hendrix died. If ever a musician was ahead of his time…
Dave
Christy's reply
Thank you for the Edith Birkin pointer..
You bring back a long forgotten memory…I was in (I think) Nottingham…..( back then the norm was to stay with one of the Folk Club organisers…in my 6 years across the water I never once stayed in a Hotel,B&B or Hostel. ***…always received great hospitaity from hundreds of Folk Club people, established many enduring frendships some of which still exist 50 years later…)
back to the flasback !!
News came on the radio of the death of Jimi…my hosts made some disparaging remarks about our fallen hero…I objected and it became quite a fractious breakfast …it became heated , eventually I left their house and never heard from them again
*** correction, I stayed in a guest house when I played the folk club in Guernsey, I have good reason to remember which I’ll not divulge for fear of frightening the horses
Aaah…The Last Waltz..what a buzz it still is!
I alternate between TLW, No Direction Home. Woodstock & McCabe & Mrs. Miller (for my Cohen fix) when the missus doesn’t want the tube
Yep, The Band absolutely dripped with talent..
– I think I’ll go & put on Rag Mama Rag at an uncomfortable decibel…
Love to youse orl
Harris, D
I’m not going to describe this.
Mainly because I don’t know how to.
https://youtu.be/MywsQdfs8UM?si=vtDU325NxgIeAvNZ
not my cup of tea
Hello Christy,
Here’s a recording I wandered a Ross while looking for other things. It starts with a version of Who put the blood.
SFC Audio Open Reel 1795: Paddy Tunney 3 of 6, Donegal, Ireland, 8 August 1979: Side 1 :: Digital SFC https://search.app/M78C1rQYrmnZd78cA
Rebecca
Thank you Hilary and Christy for directions to Lisa Lambe talk with Dolly McMahon. Can’t be easy to open up about one’s art and craft with lights and cameras right there, but no blather and It woke many neurons in Connaught region of my head.
Christy hi
What a fine day.
Up at murrayfield for a solid win v the italians.
In the stadium they were serving sicilian guinea fowl, pizza wraps, gnocci, italian wine n beer…i mean how ridiculous, what about a dram, irn bru, haggis neeps n tatties and kirriemuir shortbread?
Anyway both ireland and scotland made heavy weather of winning but win we did deservedly.
Great to hear the Fields if Athenry being belted out towards the end .
Now off to see the laird of the Mournes, Matt McGinn , at the Celtic Connections with son Charlie.
Matt has just released a couple of songs duetting with Paul Brady so i really hope that this collaboration boosts his popularity because his talent deserves it.
All the best
Rory
And charlie
Ps you dont do many duets but i wonder who you might have liked to have sung with but never got the chance?
An Interview with Dolly Mc Mahon from ITMA https://www.itma.ie/people/dolly-mcmahon/ H
a mighty woman
Greetings Christy,
I recently heard Barney Rushe’s Crack was 90 with some different lyrics from the version that’s been around. Do you happen to have the lyrics to that version?
Thanks for your time.
Cheers
Mickey
you may be referring to “Weekend in Amsterdam”…Paul McCormack , a townie of mine, wrote a parody to Barney’s “Crack 90″…I subsequently did an amended version of Paul’s song on an album “On The Road” in 2017…or easier still, see the lyric section of this site….
Hi Christy,
Hope you enjoy the match.
Did you get to sing a few songs for the lads?
They are a hard team not to like.
No spoilers ar eagla na heagla
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
no call this year …. dropped once before when Eddie reigned but recalled again by Declan, Joe and Andy…some great sessions and a few mighty singers among the different squads….my boots are always ready if the call comes
Happy new year CM and 4711ers.
Marianne Faithful’s ‘Love is Teasing’, on The Chieftains ‘Long Black Vail’ brings back memories of ’90’s Holidays spent at my parents home, as the CD was first to make it onto the new device that had no pops and skips during playback. It’s a pleasure to listen to the song sung by CM during ‘The Poor Old Earth’ (box). As I write, I recall long gone faces and voices of east Galway/south Roscommon people, born when the world was young, time-travelling as the song played on Fordham radio broadcast in the ’70’s (but drink wasn’t to them what it was to the woman in song). On the great server in the cloud I’ve found Dolly McMahon (don’t ask how Americans pronounce) interpreting the song. Is Dolly’s the recorded version most Irish are familiar with? I think its the one I heard as a boy.
I remember the song as being part of the early folk revival repertoire that emerged after The Clancy Brothers broke through the sound barrier and turned a generation on to what lay beneath the surface of the imposed culture of church and state….you have awoken my curiosity about this beautiful song…now I want to find its origin from where it came….Dolly is still to the good thanks be…we meet occasionally at gatherings … the light still shines
see
Drawing from the Well SAOITHE Dolly McMahon | song …
on
Irish Trad Music Archive website
Hello Christy,
Here’s one of my favourites from Billy Connolly
https://youtu.be/fFXx2ibS8T8?si=97SS0jr670dYG4gH
Rebecca
It was great to see DAGRAB at Manchester Central Library today. What it is… Sounding the Century: The Exhibition is a tie-in with the Sounding the Century books by Mike Butler (alias DJ Poppy), and offers a visual counterpart with images instead of voices. It’s currently sharing the space with an exhibition about The Fall. We were double-booked! Una Baines is a gracious lady and she’s promised to cede two further cabinets next week, but she’s holding out for her full allotted month which means the Sounding the Century exhibition won’t be all there till mid or late February. I’m pressing to have the dates of the exhibition extended to compensate and I’m sure the management will accede. The majority of the exhibits come from the Bill Leader collection, as Dagrab says. Books and exhibition between them tell the WHOLE story of the British Folk Revival. I’ve got a desk and chair earmarked near the cabinets and will scribe away on future volumes in the series (8 in all), so if visitors’ memories are sparked I will be well placed to receive/recycle them.
Hi Christy
RIP Marianne Fairhfull…an instantly recognisable voice in song and spoken word. A great talent and so much more than a tacky tabloid story…She’ll be greatly missed.
Dave
Good man Rory, thanks for your usual pointer to the great injustices of the world.
A perfect day for walking….and slapping the Home Secretary.
A heart-rending, terrible day.
50000 of us gathered in Newry a week later to remember the dead, and to back up Bernadette’s statement:”the streets belong to us”.
She was there, inspiring us all to peaceful protest by her passionate speech from the back of a lorry.
I quote the coroner, a retired British Army major, at the inquest into the deaths which was held in August 1973.
“This Sunday became known as Bloody Sunday and bloody it was. It was quite unnecessary. It strikes me that the Army ran amok that day and shot without thinking what they were doing. They were shooting innocent people. These people may have been taking part in a march that was banned but that does not justify the troops coming in and firing live rounds indiscriminately. I would say without hesitation that it was sheer, unadulterated murder. It was murder.”
It took a lifetime before the official British record was amended to reflect the truth, although the murderers were never really brought to justice.
Hi Christy
Yesterday,a regular wander into Central Library.Fabulous,circular building with a number of exhibition cases on the 1st floor…After admiring cover art for LPs by ‘The Fall’,I was heading to the cafe…then I wasn’t!
I pulled up short in front of a case packed full of folk music info,photos,flyers…then saw three more! A stunning mix of national events,local Manchester memorabilia and a stack of stuff about Bill Leader…by now,I had a hunch about the likely source,but wasn’t sure…
A small notice about ‘Sounding the century’ was the clue…a series of books being a magnum opus in progress…by Mike Butler about Bill Leader
Today,I returned to make notes…and had the great fortune to meet Mike Butler,adding more info to cases! A brilliant few minutes followed. Confirming that much of the display emanated from Bill Leader,via circuitous route…
So,the news will,hopefully,be of great interest to many here…Central Library,Manchester will be hosting the treasure trove for the next two months at least…Mike hopes to be there on many occasions. He’ll happily chat with punters and share knowledge…
At present,the exhibition is well worth a visit,but there’ll be more items added quite steadily…I’m buzzing from the material.So many memories jogged and questions raised about the who’s who and what when…
Enjoy the visit,whoever makes the trip…
Dave
Hello Christy,
So many different thoughts and feelings to be found on this guestbook. Such a human place and I’m thinking and feeling this after reading that AI has worked out how to replicate itself. It’s a strange thing to contemplate something that only has intelligence. No desire, no aversion, no joy, no sadness, no self-ness ever. it has none of the big fat emotions,and feelings that make life such an amazing thing. So it can replicate, but it feels no desire? The whole thing is something I find scary, and sad.
So, back to the comfort and safety of the guitar.
Left hand is moving about ok now. Feeling very happy with this. On to songs and the capo. It’s all discovery right now. I’m playing Come Up the Stairs with the capo on the 8th fret. Up here the sound is all zingy and the chord shapes are small. Such a,different noise and feel.
I’ve worked out that I should be able to play Musgrave with the Capo on the third. That will turn my C and F into a much easier A and D…? Job to get started on today. It’s been a few months since I was singing but everyday. I’ve missed it.
List of songs that are becoming doable
Parting Glass
Come up the Stairs
Billy Grey
Musgrave?
Rebecca
Morning all.
My heart is aching and breaking a little this morning as we are no longer able to attend this gig. I have two face value tickets going to a good home. Not sure how to do this?
On a perfect day for walking.
Bernadette Devlin MP
The fact that thirteen people were murdered by the paratroopers in Derry yet the British home secretary got up and made what he called a statement. It did not have one substantiated fact in it. It lasted three minutes and at no stage did he even say ‘I regret the fact that thirteen people are dead’.
Really interesting about Hendrix,Christy…I had a similar,fractious tea with my parents after the sad news broke…
my good companero,Fred was the first person I knew to be captured by Jimi’s magic c 1966…as soon as I heard the sad news,I raced round to Fred’s house to chat…his Mum greeted me and said that Fred was so upset that he’d retreated to his bedroom and wouldn’t see anyone…’not even Dave’…a few days later we spoke about the tragedy…
Fred is a brilliant guitarist. To this day, on our catch-ups ,he’ll regale me about a new YouTube clip he’s found,featuring the maestro…and there’s always a line about the mystery of how Jimi played what he did…Not just raw power either…’Little Wing’ is so mellow…D
Hi Christy
The other day I had a wander round Salford Quays. Visited the IWM war museum to ponder on the Holocaust exhibits…nearby,was a painting newly put on display. I didn’t know the artist,but do now….’The Death Cart’ by Edith Birkin (nee Hoffman) is as haunting as the title. Thanks to online info,I’m now aware of this remarkable woman’s life and art. Hopefully,fellow travellers here can share it…
In a side room that lures me in on every visit…a small TV shows a montage of harrowing news footage from the Viet Nam war. The soundtrack is Hendrix riffing on ‘The star spangled banner’ at Woodstock…the power,distortion,controlled feedback has never sounded so evocative. A brilliant example of music and history info in sync…mad to think that this year is 55 years since Jimi Hendrix died. If ever a musician was ahead of his time…
Dave
Thank you for the Edith Birkin pointer..
You bring back a long forgotten memory…I was in (I think) Nottingham…..( back then the norm was to stay with one of the Folk Club organisers…in my 6 years across the water I never once stayed in a Hotel,B&B or Hostel. ***…always received great hospitaity from hundreds of Folk Club people, established many enduring frendships some of which still exist 50 years later…)
back to the flasback !!
News came on the radio of the death of Jimi…my hosts made some disparaging remarks about our fallen hero…I objected and it became quite a fractious breakfast …it became heated , eventually I left their house and never heard from them again
*** correction, I stayed in a guest house when I played the folk club in Guernsey, I have good reason to remember which I’ll not divulge for fear of frightening the horses
Aaah…The Last Waltz..what a buzz it still is!
I alternate between TLW, No Direction Home. Woodstock & McCabe & Mrs. Miller (for my Cohen fix) when the missus doesn’t want the tube
Yep, The Band absolutely dripped with talent..
– I think I’ll go & put on Rag Mama Rag at an uncomfortable decibel…
Love to youse orl
Harris, D
enjoy Hazzo
A terrific post,Smal…if an image is needed for the quotation,it’s the front cover of today’s Daily Express…D