The huskies are fed and watered. The runners on the sled are greased. I’m off to Manchester’s Convention of the Left at first light on Saturday. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
In the meantime….
For anyone who needs a friend
The huskies are fed and watered. The runners on the sled are greased. I’m off to Manchester’s Convention of the Left at first light on Saturday. Normal service will be resumed shortly. In the meantime….
1–2 minutes
4 responses to “For anyone who needs a friend”
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Talking of music.
Here’s a clip of the wonderful Emmylou at Hammersmith last Sunday.What a gorgeous woman and wonderful singer she is!
(Ricky Simpkins is available for fiddle, banjo and mandolin lessons)
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awful video … and not really convincing … 😉
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Pretty convining for a 61 year old!
The sound was way better live & I thought she was just as good as when I saw her there last – in 1980.
As Steve Earle says, “no one is ever de-programmed”
As usual, she employs excellent musicians a sort of cross between the Hot Band and the Nash Ramblers
As you can see Rickie has played with Alison Krause, Bill Monroe, Emmy and the rest…
http://www.rickiesimpkins.com/scrapbook1.html
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Background to the song “Going Back to Harlan”
(post 2)Words and music Anna McGarrigle/Garden Court Music ASCAP
performed by Emmylou Harris “Wrecking Ball” , Asylum Records 1996
‘There were no cuckoos, no sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples, the balsams
And the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions
Assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on a riverbank and grew up by and by
And grew up by and by
Frail my heart apart and play me little Shady Grove(1)
Ring the Bells of Rhymney(2)
‘Til they ring inside my head forever
Bounce the bow,
Rock the gallows for The Hanged Man’s Reel (3)
And wake the Devil from his dream (4)
I’m goin’ back to Harlan
I’m goin’ back to Harlan
Goin’ back to Harlan
And if you were Willie More(5),
Then I was Barbara Allen (6), or Fair Ellen
All sad at the cabin door
A-weepin’ and a-pinin’ for love
Ah, weepin’ and a-pinin’ for love….’notes:-
(1) Shady Grove (Traditional Appalachian ballad)
Shady Grove, my little love
Shady Grove, my darling
Shady Grove, my little love
I’m going back to Harlan.Ricky Scaggs’ version:-
(2) “The Bells of Rhymney” by Idries Davies, Welsh coal miner and poet
A ballad on the failure of the 1926 UK General Strike and the Great Depression in the United Kingdom and their effects on the South Wales coal mining valleys , set to the pattern of the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons by Pete Seeger, became a folk rock standard. It was covered by The Byrds; and later by many others, including Jimmy Page, Judy Collins, Dick Gaughan, John Denver, Cher, Robyn Hitchcock, Oysterband and The Alarm. Also by Bob Dylan live, and Robin Williamson on an album of readings.
“Oh what will you give me
Say the sad bells of Rhymney
Is there hope for the future
Say the brown bells of Merthyr
Who made the mine owner
Say the black bells of Rhondda
And who robbed the miner
Say the grim bells of Blaina”The Bells of Rhymney – the Byrds 1965:
(Roger McGuinn; lead vocal & guitar, David Cosby; backing vocal & guitar, Chris Hillman; bass guitar, Gene Clark; tambourine and backing vocal, Michael Clarke; drums)
(3) & (4) Traditional Scottish fiddle reels
(5) & (6) Traditonal English, Scots and American folk ballads
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Liam redux 
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