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Martin Carthy (album)
''Martin Carthy'' is the debut solo album by English folk musician Martin Carthy, originally released in 1965 by Fontana Records and later re-issued by Topic Records. The album features Dave Swarbrick playing fiddle or mandolin on a number of the tracks. Swarbrick was not headlined on the album for contractual reasons as he was with the Ian Campbell Folk Group at the time with permission granted by Transatlantic Records. The song notes on the album are written by Martin with Ian Campbell writing the introduction. All the tracks are Traditional except " Springhill Mine Disaster". which was written by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger following the 1958 disaster and " The Wind That Shakes the Barley" which was written by Robert Dwyer Joyce.Sleeve Notes on vinyl album Track listing The references after the titles below are from the three major numbering schemes for traditional folk songs, the Roud Folk Song Index, Child Ballad Numbers and the Laws Numbers. All tracks Traditional, ... [...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] |
Roud Folk Song Index
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud. It subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child (the Child Ballads) and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the index was available by a CD subscription; now it can be found online on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). A partial list is also available at List of folk songs by Roud number. Purpose of index The primary function of the Roud Folk Song Index is as a research aid correlating versions of traditional English-language folk song lyrics independently documented ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A plectrum or individual finger picks may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant chamber on the instrument, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone – meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States; nylon strings came in the 1940s. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four- course Renaissance guitar, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beggars Chorus
''The Beggars Chorus'' OR The Jovial Crew is an English broadside ballad from the mid-18th century. It celebrates the life of a beggar, and treats begging as a legitimate English trade. Sung to the tune o''A Begging We Will Go'' Copies of the broadside can be found in the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the Huntington Library. Synopsis This ballad tells the story of a beggar who was born lame and has a wooden leg. The beggar sings of his food, his drinks, and his dog. He sings of going to Pimlico with his fellow beggars, where they will all have drinks with girls. He brags of his skills as a beggar, and his ability to evoke pity in others. He lives in a hollowed out tree, and wonders why anybody would be a king when a beggar's life is so good. Historical and Cultural Significance Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth attributes the song to Richard Brome, from his 1642 play, ''A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars''. However, the words to the song do not appear in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Magicians
"The Twa Magicians", "The Two Magicians", "The Lady and the Blacksmith", or "The Coal Black Smith" (Roud 1350, Child 44) is a British folk song. It first appears in print in 1828 in two sources, Peter Buchan's ''Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland'' and John Wilson's ''Noctes Ambrosianae'' #40. It was later published as number 44 of Francis James Child's '' English and Scottish Popular Ballads''. During the 20th century, versions of it have been recorded by a number of folk and popular musicians. Synopsis A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady, who vows to keep herself a maiden. A transformation chase ensues, differing in several variants, but containing such things as she becomes a hare, and he catches her as greyhound, she became a duck and he became either a water dog or a drake. In the Child version of the ballad she does not escape, but in other common renderings, she does. Motifs In ballads, the man chasing the woman appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovely Joan
Lovely Joan is a traditional England, English folk song/ballad (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud #592), and the tune to which it is sung. Its melody was used as the counterpoint tune used in British composer Ralph Greaves's arrangement of ''Fantasia on "Greensleeves"'' from Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera ''Sir John in Love''.'' Lyrics The words to "Lovely Joan," as printed in ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', are as follows: :A fine young man it was indeed, :He was mounted on his milk-white steed; :He rode, he rode himself all alone, :Until he came to lovely Joan. :"Good morning to you, pretty maid." :And, "Twice good morning, sir", she said. :He gave her a wink, she rolled her eye. :Says he to himself, "I'll be there by and by." :"Oh don't you think those pooks of hay :A pretty place for us to play? :So come with me like a sweet young thing :And I'll give you my golden ring." :Then he pulled off his ring of gold. :"My pretty little miss, do this behold. :I'd freely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarborough Fair (ballad)
"Scarborough Fair" ( Child 2, Roud 12) is a traditional English ballad. The song, which is a variant of The Elfin Knight, lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using Dorian mode, with refrains resembling "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" and "Then she'll be a true love of mine." It appears in Traditional Tunes by Frank Kidson published in 1891, who claims to have collected it from Whitby. Republished in 1999: The famous melody was collected from Mark Anderson (1874–1953), a retired lead miner from Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, by Ewan MacColl in 1947. This version was recorded by a number of musicians in the 20th century, including the version by the 1960s folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, who learned it from Martin Carthy. History The lyrics of "Scarborough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broomfield Hill
"The Broomfield Hill", "The Broomfield Wager" "The Merry Broomfield", "The Green Broomfield", "A Wager, a Wager", or "The West Country Wager" (Child 43, Roudbr>34 is a traditional English folk ballad. (The Roud Index lists a number of other titles.) Synopsis In most versions a gentleman, in some versions called Lord John, challenges a maiden to a wager, usually at very high odds: "A wager, a wager with you, pretty maid, My one hundred pound to your ten" That a maid you shall go into yonder green broom But a maid you shall never return" or she makes a tryst and realizes she can either stay and be foresworn, or go and lose her virginity. After, in some versions advice from a witch-wife, or after persuading him to drink "a glass of something so strong" in one version, she goes to the broom field and finds him in a deep sleep. She leaves tokens to show she has been there, and in many versions carries out what seems to be a ritual: "Then three times she went from the crown of his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of Hearts (Joan Baez Song)
"Queen of Hearts" (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud 3195) is a song sung by, among others, Joan Baez and Martin Carthy. The lyrics are from a traditional song. :''To the Queen of Hearts is the Ace of Sorrow, '' :''He's here today and he's gone tomorrow. '' :''Young men are plenty but sweethearts few; '' :''If my love leave me, what shall I do? '' Joan Baez version It was released as the B-Side of Baez' "Farewell Angelina", a Bob Dylan song, on Fontana Records in 1965.''The Encyclopedia of Country Music'' Paul Kingsbury - 1998 "Such hits of hers as "Angel of the Morning," "Queen of Hearts," and "Break It to Me Gently" were among the major ..." In The Joan Baez Ballad Book it is said to be traditional, though elsewhere erroneously attributed to David Coverdale and Micky Moody References {{Authority control 1965 songs Joan Baez songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sovay
Sovay is a traditional English folk song () about a young woman who dresses and arms herself as a highwayman in order to test her suitor. In disguise she robs her suitor of nearly all his possessions, but even under threat of death he refuses to give up the gold ring given by Sovay, thus proving his devotion. Sovay subsequently confesses the ruse to her lover and returns his various possessions, admonishing him only that had he indeed given up the ring, she would have killed him. The name 'Sovay' is probably a corruption of 'Sophie' or 'Sylvie' – both of which appear instead in some versions of the song. History The Bodleian Library has a printed version called "Sylvia's Request and William's Denial" dated to 1877. Sabine Baring-Gould collected a song called "Lady Turned Highwayman" ("Saucy Sally on one day") in Devon in 1890. In 1903 Cecil Sharp collected a version which he published in "Folk Songs From Somerset" (1905). The wikipedia article "Highwayman" says that the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trees They Grow So High
"The Trees They Grow So High" is a British folk song (Roud 31, Laws O35). The song is known by many titles, including "The Trees They Do Grow High", "Daily Growing", "Long A-Growing" and "Lady Mary Ann". A two-verse fragment of the song is found in the Scottish manuscript collection of the 1770s of David Herd. This was used by Robert Burns as the basis for his poem "Lady Mary Ann" (published 1792).Roud, Steve & Julia Bishop (2012). ''The New Penguin Book of Folk Songs''. Penguin. . p.424. The subject of the song is an arranged marriage of a young woman by her father to a boy who is much younger than she. There are numerous versions of both the tune and lyrics. In one set of lyrics the groom is twelve when he marries and a father at 13. According to Roud and Bishop: "Judging by the number of versions gathered in the major manuscript collections and later sound recordings, this song has been a firm favourite with singers in Britain, Ireland and North America for a long time, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to ''Folk Song in England'', Sharp was the country’s "single most important figure in the study of folk song and music." Sharp collected over four thousand songs from untutored rural singers, both in South-West England and the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. He published an extensive series of song books based on his fieldwork, often with piano arrangements, and wrote an influential theoretical work, English Folk Song: Some Conclusions. He also noted down surviving examples of English Morris dance, Morris dancing, and played an important role in the revival both of the Morris and English country dance. In 1911, he co-founded the English Folk Dance So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
