Music post: Poetry
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resonantIn honor of it apparently being National LiveJournal Poetry Month or something, here are some songs based on poems that might have been in your high school literature anthology.
Karan Casey, Song of the Wandering Aengus (from "Songlines")
Maddy Prior and June Tabor, How Should I Your True Love Know (from "Silly Sisters: No More To the Dance")
Baltimore Consort, O Mistris Mine (from "Elizabeth's Music")
Jim's Big Ego, Jumblies (from "Don't Get Smart")
The King's Singers, Humpty Dumpty (from "20th Anniversary Celebration Sampler")
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, Who Would True Valour See (from "Sing Lustily and With Good Courage")
The Revels, Summer Is I-Cumen In (from "Wild Mountain Thyme")
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, O Westron Wynde (from "Summer Solstice")
Karan Casey, Song of the Wandering Aengus (from "Songlines")
Maddy Prior and June Tabor, How Should I Your True Love Know (from "Silly Sisters: No More To the Dance")
Baltimore Consort, O Mistris Mine (from "Elizabeth's Music")
Jim's Big Ego, Jumblies (from "Don't Get Smart")
The King's Singers, Humpty Dumpty (from "20th Anniversary Celebration Sampler")
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, Who Would True Valour See (from "Sing Lustily and With Good Courage")
The Revels, Summer Is I-Cumen In (from "Wild Mountain Thyme")
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, O Westron Wynde (from "Summer Solstice")
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Date: 9/21/05 02:43 pm (UTC)Going to check these out now!
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Date: 9/21/05 02:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 02:48 pm (UTC)Have you heard Richard Thompson's version of Sumer Is Icumen In? (http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PIN34NMS1BQH24PNJ88ACYMRL). It's from his 1000 Years of Popular Music, fun stuff.
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Date: 9/21/05 02:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/21/05 03:24 pm (UTC)Thanks.
I miss my hometown's annual folk festival. I miss Strawhead concerts and all the good stuff three days of folk (and some world) music.
Thanks for easing/feeding my cravings!
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Date: 9/21/05 03:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 04:22 pm (UTC)This isn't quite folk, but it is a poem set to music, from an album of the same name: 15 Wild Decembers - Geoff Smith
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Date: 9/21/05 04:48 pm (UTC)Is there aught I could post to repay you?
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Date: 9/21/05 05:51 pm (UTC)I spent the last two weeks hunting down a CD version of the "RED" album of "The Communards" (Yes, the band with Jimmy Somerville).
There's a song on it called "If I could tell you" with Auden's "Time will say nothing" as lyrics. (And it's still a wonderful timeless album).
For more songs with poems as lyrics check out "Unto Ashes".
I love their song version of "Fire and Ice" (Robert Frost). I'm not entirely sure but I think I downloaded the file from mp3.com when it was still alive and free.
When I googled the song only "Flayed by Frost" also from Unto Ashes came up. I don't know if it's a totally different song or if they ran into copyright issues.
Anyway - Unto Ashes also used other poems for lyrics. Sound samples are on their webpage.
http://www.untoashes.com
(There's also a webshop with sales information for Europe and the US.)
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Date: 9/21/05 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/21/05 06:53 pm (UTC)What kind of stuff do you like? Genres, artists? I won't have broadband access again till Saturday (I'm still on lowly dial-up at home), but I'd be happy to toss some stuff up for you.
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Date: 9/21/05 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/21/05 06:56 pm (UTC)Yeah -- I used to live in a place where public radio had a folk show on Saturday mornings, and sometimes artists would drop by the studio to perform there, and I miss that desperately.
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Date: 9/21/05 06:57 pm (UTC)Yousendit is really very easy -- you enter an e-mail address, push the Browse button and find the music file on your computer, hit Send, and then wait ... and wait ... and wait ...
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Date: 9/21/05 06:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 06:59 pm (UTC)I have a program that lets me put things back from the iPod, but that's only 40 GB and so I'm still missing 20 and I can't begin to think about what it *was*, as I had so much. ;)
I like *everything*. Pop, Rock, Rap, Folk, Broadway, Classical, "Alternative" (what does that even mean?), depending on the piece I'll really listen to absolutely anything.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:03 pm (UTC)I've got a whole list of songs I'm looking for that are too obscure for iTunes -- Graham Parker's "Wake Up Next To You," James Taylor's "Mona," the Alan Parsons Project's "Lie Down With Dogs," any performer doing jazzy versions of "Hazel's Hips" and "The Duck" -- weird enough for you? Got any of that?
Or you could just put up your "buttonhole strangers and shout, You have got to hear this!" list. I've discovered all sorts of great artists via my flist, which is a good thing, since radio is so impossibly lame.
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Date: 9/21/05 07:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/21/05 07:09 pm (UTC)Evidently my collection is heavy on trad folk, white male singer-songwriters (e.g. Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello), bluegrass and old-time acoustic, Renaissance, Celtic, and ping-ping '80s music.
I'm planning to keep putting up more, but if you've got any particular requests, let me know.
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Date: 9/21/05 10:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/22/05 01:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/23/05 06:06 am (UTC)http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GJXPSZNWAFYW155M7K7V41131
though obviously others can dl too, until it's gone. :)
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Date: 9/23/05 06:51 am (UTC)From my trolling around eMusic, I've discovered:
Craicmore - main singer has this fascinating deep deep alto voice.
Stone Soup Band - do only one kind of music, but if you like it (the kind of happy peppy rocky Celtic fusion--uh, Gaelic Storm in some of their uptempo pieces?) they are AMAZING. Though better in doses of only a few songs. Just find a song called "Big Strong Man (Sylvest)"...it's a prime example.
The Crofters - Jury still out on band as a whole, but the CD of theirs I have is called "Hold My Beer While I Kiss Your Girlfriend." They do a cool version of "Scotland the Brave" which is like a driving rock song with bagpipes.
David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic - See band name. Fascinating fusion stuff.
There's a woman named Moritz Behm - or perhaps a band, I'm not actually sure. Anyway. Most of it's on the good side of okay, mostly original compositions with a Celtic flavor, but if you can find a song called "This Castle is Crumbling" it's...oh, man. The kind of soul-aching deep earthy tones that Maura O'Connell gets at her best.
Guy named Paul Clayton did some interesting renditions of, well, "Whaling and Sailing Songs" on an album of that title.
So that's it for lesser-known (I think) bands. And of course all the standards--Solas, Old Blind Dogs (thanks Clue!), Maura O'Connell, Nic Jones, Cathie Ryan, Oysterband, etc. :)
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Date: 9/23/05 06:53 am (UTC)(I've just been going through my music collection lately.)
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Date: 9/24/05 03:11 pm (UTC)June Tabor/Les Barker
Date: 9/25/05 12:22 am (UTC)http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09UC8BI6RFMLG3DBWRIUFPIWV4
is a link to Jone Tabor singing "My Husband Has No Porridge in Him" by Les Barker, and this one http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VNSSTA1NEQ7R04YWY86QSAJ46 is The January June.
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Date: 9/25/05 01:15 am (UTC)