Post by Vampire Bat Bite Girl on Jan 8, 2004 12:05:30 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to share my most recent musical discovery:
June Tabor!
www.brightfieldproductions.co.uk/tabor.htm
She has a new album out,called an echo of hooves and it's really amazing!
June says about her new cd: [Long, long ago, almost 40 years ago in fact, I borrowed a record from my school library. It was called The Jupiter Book of Ballads, and the most important thing about it (apart from a stunning recitation of McGonagall’s Tay Bridge Disaster by John Laurie, alias Private Fraser of Dad’s Army) was that some of the Ballads were sung. To someone accustomed to seeing them only as printed lyrics in a school anthology of poetry, this was a revelation. And so began a life-long love affair with the Ballads of the English (and Scots) speaking peoples.
A strong story-line has always attracted me, no matter what a song’s origins might be, and in the Ballad you have story-telling at its stark, urgent best. The narrative can be brutally direct, subtly oblique, or a mixture of the two, but it always unfolds itself vividly in the mind’s eye as a sequence of unforgettable images. The Ballad-Maker, whoever he/she/they might have been, never missed anything that matters. In this most intensely dramatic of all poetic forms, it is the music that controls phrasing, expression and the shape of dialogue. It is unique and timeless in its appeal.
Consequently, on almost all my solo albums from Airs and Graces (1976) and Ashes and Diamonds (1977) to the most recent Aleyn (1997), A Quiet Eye (1999) and Rosa Mundi (2001), and indeed, on the collaborations both with Maddy Prior (Silly Sisters,1976, No More to the Dance,1988) and Oysterband (Freedom and Rain, 1990) you will find a Ballad.
And from a simple act of theft (because I didn’t take that LP back – I’ve still got it – and to think that I became a Librarian !) an entire album of Ballads has finally evolved. They come from the wild Debateable Lands of the Anglo-Scottish Border, from Scotland and from the Appalachian Mountains of the South-Eastern United States. They feature both my long-time (and treasured) accompanists Huw Warren and Mark Emerson, and the most recent recruit to our quartet, Tim Harries, as well as a guest appearance by Northumbrian pipes virtuosa Kathryn Tickell, and a re-union with guitarist extraordinary Martin Simpson.
Each Ballad is the equivalent of a private cinema in your head. As you listen, feel the wind and rain, see the Hunter’s moon rise and catch an echo of hooves on the night air. ”
/i]
She's great!!!!
I just wanted to share my most recent musical discovery:
June Tabor!
www.brightfieldproductions.co.uk/tabor.htm
She has a new album out,called an echo of hooves and it's really amazing!
June says about her new cd: [Long, long ago, almost 40 years ago in fact, I borrowed a record from my school library. It was called The Jupiter Book of Ballads, and the most important thing about it (apart from a stunning recitation of McGonagall’s Tay Bridge Disaster by John Laurie, alias Private Fraser of Dad’s Army) was that some of the Ballads were sung. To someone accustomed to seeing them only as printed lyrics in a school anthology of poetry, this was a revelation. And so began a life-long love affair with the Ballads of the English (and Scots) speaking peoples.
A strong story-line has always attracted me, no matter what a song’s origins might be, and in the Ballad you have story-telling at its stark, urgent best. The narrative can be brutally direct, subtly oblique, or a mixture of the two, but it always unfolds itself vividly in the mind’s eye as a sequence of unforgettable images. The Ballad-Maker, whoever he/she/they might have been, never missed anything that matters. In this most intensely dramatic of all poetic forms, it is the music that controls phrasing, expression and the shape of dialogue. It is unique and timeless in its appeal.
Consequently, on almost all my solo albums from Airs and Graces (1976) and Ashes and Diamonds (1977) to the most recent Aleyn (1997), A Quiet Eye (1999) and Rosa Mundi (2001), and indeed, on the collaborations both with Maddy Prior (Silly Sisters,1976, No More to the Dance,1988) and Oysterband (Freedom and Rain, 1990) you will find a Ballad.
And from a simple act of theft (because I didn’t take that LP back – I’ve still got it – and to think that I became a Librarian !) an entire album of Ballads has finally evolved. They come from the wild Debateable Lands of the Anglo-Scottish Border, from Scotland and from the Appalachian Mountains of the South-Eastern United States. They feature both my long-time (and treasured) accompanists Huw Warren and Mark Emerson, and the most recent recruit to our quartet, Tim Harries, as well as a guest appearance by Northumbrian pipes virtuosa Kathryn Tickell, and a re-union with guitarist extraordinary Martin Simpson.
Each Ballad is the equivalent of a private cinema in your head. As you listen, feel the wind and rain, see the Hunter’s moon rise and catch an echo of hooves on the night air. ”
/i]
She's great!!!!