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Fairest Floo'er
''Fairest Floo'er'' is the third studio album by Scottish folk musician Karine Polwart, released on 10 December 2007. ''Fairest Floo'er'' is one of two albums that Polwart recorded in 2007 during a break from live performances; Polwart was pregnant with her first child whilst recording. Unlike her other solo albums, ''Fairest Floo'er'' mostly comprises traditional songs. It also differs from her other albums in its sparse instrumentation; instead of a full band, Karine is backed only by her brother Steven Polwart on guitar, and on two tracks by Kim Edgar on piano. The final song, "Can't Weld a Body", listed as a "preview track" on the track listing, is the only original song on the album and was composed for the "Ballad of the Big Ships" episode of BBC Radio's 2006 Radio Ballads series. Track listing All songs Traditional, arranged by Karine Polwart, except "Can't Weld a Body" composed by Polwart. #" Dowie Dens of Yarrow" – 6:01 #"Thou Hast Left Me Ever Jamie" – 3:00 #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karine Polwart
Karine Polwart ( ) (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel, her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide. She has been most recognised for her solo career, winning three awards at the BBC Folk Awards in 2005, and was previously a member of Malinky and Battlefield Band. Polwart is currently a member of The Burns Unit, and collaborated with The Fruit Tree Foundation on its debut album, ''First Edition''. Biography Early life and career Polwart grew up in the small Stirlingshire town of Banknock and had an interest in music from an early age. She has described her whole family as being interested in music and one of her brothers, Steven, is also a professional musician who plays guitar in the Karine Polwart band, whilst her sister Kerry is developing her own musical career with the group The Poems. Despite an active musical career from a young age, including forming her own ... [...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] |
Scribbled In Chalk
''Scribbled in Chalk'' is the second studio album by Scottish folk musician Karine Polwart, released on 7 March 2006. The album was shortlisted for Best Album at the Scots Trad Music Awards, and the track "Daisy" won Best Original Song at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Track listing ''All songs by Karine Polwart.'' #"Hole in the Heart" – 4:48 #"I'm Gonna Do It All" – 4:56 #"Daisy" – 3:27 #"Maybe There's a Road" – 4:17 #"Where the Smoke Blows" – 3:16 #"Holy Moses" – 4:30 #"Don't Know Why" – 4:39 #"Take Its Own Time" – 3:45 #"I've Seen It All" – 3:22 #"Baleerie Baloo" – 3:27 #"Terminal Star" – 4:38 #"Follow the Heron" – 3:11 "Daisy" and "I'm Gonna Do It All" were also released as CD singles. A music video was made for the latter in which the song was lip-synch Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , the same as the word ''sink'', short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Earthly Spell
''This Earthly Spell'' is the fourth studio album by Scottish folk musician Karine Polwart, released on 10 March 2008. The album was released just three months after ''Fairest Floo'er'', and contains original compositions. "The Good Years" previously appeared on ''Ballads of the Book ''Ballads of the Book'' is a collaborative studio album, released on 5 March 2007, on Chemikal Underground. The project was curated by Idlewild lead vocalist Roddy Woomble, and features collaborations between Scottish musicians and Scottish ...''. "Firethief" was originally written for and appeared in '' The Radio Ballads 2006''. "Rivers Run" was also issued as a one-track promo CD to publicise the album. Track listing All songs by Karine Polwart, except where noted. #"The Good Years" (Polwart/ Edwin Morgan) #"Sorry" #"Better Things" #"Rivers Run" #"Painted It White" #"Firethief" #"Behind Our Eyes" #"The News" #"Sorrowlessfield" (Karine Polwart / Steven Polwart) #"Tongue That Cannot Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish People
The Scots ( sco, Scots Fowk; gd, Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or ''Alba'') in the 9th century. In the following two centuries, the Celtic-speaking Cumbrians of Strathclyde and the Germanic-speaking Angles of north Northumbria became part of Scotland. In the High Middle Ages, during the 12th-century Davidian Revolution, small numbers of Norman nobles migrated to the Lowlands. In the 13th century, the Norse-Gaels of the Western Isles became part of Scotland, followed by the Norse of the Northern Isles in the 15th century. In modern usage, "Scottish people" or "Scots" refers to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from Scotland. The Latin word ''Scoti'' originally referred to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Cons ... [...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] |
Radio-ballad
The radio ballad is an audio documentary format created by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Parker in 1958. It combines four elements of sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. The latter element was revolutionary; previous radio documentaries had used either professional voice actors or prepared scripts. Original radio ballads The original radio ballads were recorded for the BBC. MacColl wrote a variety of songs especially for them, many of which have become folk classics. The trio together made eight radio ballads between 1958 and 1964. They were: # ''The Ballad of John Axon'' (1958), about an engine driver who died trying to stop a runaway freight train # ''Song of a Road'' (1959), about the men who built the London-Yorkshire motorway, the M1 # ''Singing the Fishing'' (1960), about the men and women of the herring fishing fleets of East Anglia and Northeast Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dowie Dens O Yarrow
"The Dowie Dens o Yarrow", also known as "The Braes of Yarrow" or simply "Yarrow", is a Scottish border ballad (). It has many variants (Child collected at least 19) and it has been printed as a broadside, as well as published in song collections. It is considered to be a folk standard, and many different singers have performed and recorded it. Synopsis The song describes an unequal conflict between a group of men and one man, concerning a lady. This takes place in the vicinity of Yarrow. The one man succeeds in overcoming nearly all his opponents but is finally defeated by (usually) the last one of them. In some versions, the lady (who is not usually named) rejects a number (often nine) wealthy suitors, in preference for a servant or ploughman. The nine make a pact to kill the other man and they ambush him in the "Dens of Yarrow". :There lived a lady in the West, :I neer could find her marrow; :She was courted by nine gentlemen :And a ploughboy-lad in Yarrow. :These nine s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of Queen Jane
"The Death of Queen Jane" is an English ballad that describes the events surrounding the death of a Queen Jane. It is catalogued by Francis James Child as Child Ballads, Child #170. Some of the versions given are Scotland, Scottish, in which the queen's name is Jeanie or Jeany. Though the circumstances of the ballad's composition are not documented, a close correspondence of names and events suggests that it very likely describes Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII of England. Historically, Jane Seymour gave birth to a son who became Edward VI of England on October 12, 1537. Unlike in the ballad, where the queen dies of caesarean section, the real Queen Jane gave birth naturally and died of a fever twelve days later. Synopsis There are 20 versions of the song given by Child, but they are consistent in the basic tale. Queen Jane is in difficult labour – the time given ranges from three days to an astonishing six weeks – and asks a succession o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wife Of Usher's Well
"The Wife of Usher's Well" is a traditional ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 79 and number 196 in the Roud Folk Song Index. An incomplete version appeared in Sir Walter Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802). It is composed of three fragments. They were notated from an old woman in West Lothian. The Scottish tune is quite different from the English tune, and America produced yet another tune. William Motherwell also printed a version in "Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern" (1827). Cecil Sharp collected songs from Britain but had to go the Appalachian Mountains to locate this ballad. He found 8 versions and 9 fragments. In the first half of the twentieth century many more versions were collected in America. The ballad concerns a woman from Usher's Well, who sends her three sons away, to school in some versions, and a few weeks after learns that they had died. The woman grieves bitterly for the loss of her children, cursing the winds and sea. :"I wish the wind may never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karine Polwart Albums
Karine is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include: *Karine Bakhoum, Egyptian American chef *Karine Baste (born 1982), French journalist and news presenter * Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French mathematician *Karine Berger (born 1973), French politician * Karine Ferri (born 1982), French television presenter and model *Karine Costa (born 1977), French singer *Karine Haaland (born 1966), Norwegian comic strip creator * Karine Icher (born 1979), French professional golfer *Karine Laurent Philippot (born 1974), French cross country skier * Karine Lebon (born 1985), French politician *Karine Legault (born 1978), retired Canadian female freestyle swimmer * Karine Polwart (born 1971), Scottish singer-songwriter * Karine Ruby (1978–2009), French snowboarder and Olympic champion * Karine Saporta (born 1950), French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director * Karine Sergerie (born 1985), the 2007 world champion in women's 67 kg Taekwondo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
