Here’s a cracking Jean Blanchard tune I can’t believe I don’t remember before hearing it on Mel’s #MelodeonMonday yesterday so I have to share for #TuneswapTuesday - Boite a Frissons
I heard this and thought “Gallopede” but apparently this called “Knife’s Edge” except that if you search for that you find another tune instead… so I don’t know what I’m sharing this #TuneswapTuesday except that it is early #Blowzabella.
“La Roulante” by Jean Blanchard - with my usual pedantry that it is a simple and easy basic courtesy to call tunes by the name their composer gave them at least while they’re still alive.
It must be #TuneswapTuesday
This 1975 album pretty charted the course for the next 50 years of Irish traditional music. To this day, many of the tunes are often played in the same order as they appear on the album.
All of the musicians in this Bothy Band lineup went on to be influential solo musicians and members of numerous other groups.
Robin Williamson's song about the great Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas has been playing in my head today. Williamson's wordplay evokes Thomas' writing well.
And yes, this is the same Robin Williamson who was in the Incredible String Band.
i'm usually a bit iffy about Irish musicians doing songs from other traditions because it can sound fairly bad (e.g., The Dubliners doing some American songs... bleh) but i think the Donegal fiddle style works well with Brenda Subbert's, even if it does come off a bit more tame than i'd normally like.