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Ballads And Songs
''Ballads and Songs'' is an album by Nic Jones, released in 1970. Track listing #"Sir Patrick Spens" 3:53 #"The Butcher and the Tailor's Wife" 1:51 #"The Duke of Marlborough" 4:04 #"Annan Water" 7:04 #"The Noble Lord Hawkins" 2:12 #"Don't You Be Foolish, Pray" 1:31 #"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, The Outlandish Knight" 4:11 #"Reynard the Fox" 2:17 #"Matty Groves, Little Musgrave" 6:11 References 1970 albums Nic Jones albums {{1970s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Jones
Nic Jones (born Nicolas Paul Jones; 9 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Regarded as a prominent figure of the British folk revival, he has recorded five solo albums and collaborated with various musicians. Biography Nic Jones was born on 9 January 1947 in Orpington, London, England, where his father owned a newsagent's shop. The family moved to Brentwood in Essex when he was two, and he later attended Brentwood School. He first learned to play guitar as a young teenager and early musical influences included such artists as The Shadows, Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins, Wes Montgomery and Ray Charles. His interest in folk music was aroused by an old school friend, Nigel Paterson who was a member of a folk band called The Halliard. When the members of the group decided to turn professional, one of them left to pursue a different career and Jones was invited to take his place. Whilst playing with The Halliard, Jones learned to play the fiddle and also how to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Jones (album)
''Nic Jones'' is an album by Nic Jones, released in 1971. Track listing #"The Lass Of London City" 2:08 #"Napoleon's Lamentation" 2:53 #"The Bonny Bunch Of Roses" 6:05 #"Edward" 3:29 #" The Outlandish Knight" 3:35 #"William And Nancy's Parting" 2:13 #"Lord Bateman Baron Bateman, of Shobdon in the County of Hereford, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 January 1837 for William Bateman, previously member of Parliament for Northampton. Born William Hanbury, he was the gran ..." 7:09 #"Dance To Your Daddy" 1:29 #" The Two Brothers" 3:52 #"The Banks Of Green Willow" 2:51 References 1971 albums Nic Jones albums {{1970s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Patrick Spens
"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea. Background ''Sir Patrick Spens'' remains one of the most anthologized of British popular ballads, partly because it exemplifies the traditional ballad form. The strength of this ballad, its emotional force, lies in its unadorned narrative which progresses rapidly to a tragic end that has been foreshadowed almost from the beginning. It was first published in eleven stanzas in 1765 in Bishop Thomas Percy's ''Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'', based on "two MS. copies transmitted from Scotland". The protagonist is referred to as "young Patrick Spens" in some versions of the ballad. Plot The story as told in the ballad has multiple versions, but they all follow the same basic plot. The King of Scotland has called for the greatest sailor in the land to command a ship for a royal errand. The name "Sir Patrick Spens" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Butcher And The Tailor's Wife
"The Butcher and the Tailor's Wife" also known as "Benjamin Bowmaneer" (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud #1528) is a Folk Music of England, traditional English folk song. It dates from the mid-17th century and exists in several versions, for example "The Tailor's Breeches", "The Tailor and the Louse", "The Bold Trooper", and "The Trooper and the Tailor". In all versions the tailor suffers a variety of humiliating indignities. Synopsis In a version sung by Nic Jones, the tailor is a cowardly man dominated by his wife. She goes to the butcher for a joint of meat and hatches a plan whereby her husband is to hide under the bed with a sword while she lies with the butcher, explaining that, by doing this, her husband might become a rich butcher himself. When the time arrives the butcher sees the tailor's leg and, thinking it belongs to a dog, announces that he will fire a gunshot to scare it away. On hearing this the tailor leaps up and says that, if the butcher spares his life, he can have hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight
"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" ( Child #4; Roud #21) is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads. The most frequently collected variant, The Outlandish Knight or ''May Colvin'' tells the tale of a young woman who elopes with a knight who has promised to marry her (and who in some instances uses magic to charm her) but who then tries to murder her to get money, clothes and horses. By a quick-witted ruse she manages to kill him instead, and in many versions she is helped to keep this experience from her parents by a resourceful parrot. The main variant has been collected frequently from traditional singers in England, Scotland, Ireland and North America.Roud Fold Song Indexes, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library https://www.vwml.org/search?ts=1489607963291&collectionfilter=RoudFS;RoudBS&advqtext=0, rn, 21# Retrieved 2017/03/14 Synopses Three main English language variants of this group of ballads, with rather different plots, have been publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matty Groves
"Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 in the Roud Folk Song Index. This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least 1613, and under the title ''Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard'' is one of the Child ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child. Synopsis Little Musgrave (or Matty Groves, Little Matthew Grew and other variations) goes to church on a holy day either "the holy word to hear" or "to see fair ladies there". He sees Lord Barnard's wife, the fairest lady there, and realises that she is attracted to him. She invites him to spend the night with her, and he agrees when she tells him her husband is away from h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Albums
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
