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[snazzystarlight]

This was so pretty! This is "Drew" by Planxty as I see it because of synesthesia!

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1945 – Birth of folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Christy Moore in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

Christy Moore is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. In 2007, he was named as Ireland’s greatest living musician in RTÉ’s People of the Year Awards. The former lead-vocalist and chief songwriter of Planxty and Moving Hearts, Moore helped to bring the musical traditions of Ireland up to modern standards and he has been a major inspiration to many modern Irish…

[sodeartomyheart]

Planxty - The Blacksmith (Live at Pavilion Theatre, County Dublin 1980)

[bjfinn]

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! ☘️🥃🍺🍻

[corporealconcept]

I can’t be at the club I’ll be there bumping it to songs like Hewlett

[midnightswithdearkatytspb]

In This Heart Mix Tape: Side A 

Two souls, forever bound in the multiverse. (Tommy Shelby x OFC! Estella Holland)

In This Heart by Sinéad O’Connor 

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Sparkling Diamonds - From “Moulin Rouge” by Nicole Kidman

Work Song by Hozier

Why Don’t You Do Right? by Amy Irving and Charles Fleischer

One Day I’ll Fly Away - Acoustic by Vaults

I Wanna Be Loved By You by Annette Hanshaw

Merrily Kissed The Quaker by Planxty

Cheek To Cheek by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Morrison’s Jig by Orthodox Celts

He Moved Through the Fair by Sinéad O’Connor

Swan Upon Leda by Hozier

An Irish Party in Third Class by Gaelic Storm

Brigg Fair by Jackie Oates 

The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Dead Can Dance

Return to Me by October Project

I Know You Know Me by Caroline Spence and Matt Berninger

Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine

I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger by Joe Slovick

Nostalgia - Wallander Version by Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo

The Only Exception by Paramore

Take Me to Church by Hozier

Queen Of Peace by Florence + The Machine

[tfc2211]

The Lost Tribe of Wicklow - Christy Moore [Lily] The Well Below The Valley - Planxty [The Well Below the Valley] Follow Me Up To Carlow (written by Fiach Mac Aodha Ó Broin) - Screaming Orphans [Taproom] Ghost Riders In The Sky (written by Stan Jones) - Screaming Orphans [Lonely Boy] March Into Trouble - Horslips [The Book of Invasions] Trouble (With a Capital T) - Horslips [The Book of Invasions] King of the Fairies - Horslips [Dancehall Sweethearts] 1969 - The Tossers [Smash The Windows] Trip to Jerusalem (written by Christy Moore) - Pól MacAdaim [Forsaken Land] Another Day - Pól MacAdaim [My Name Is Troy Davis] I'd Rather Be Dancing (written by Wally Page) - The Amadans [Sin é] Running Bear (written by 'The Big Bopper') - Stiff Little Fingers [All The Best] Harp - Stiff Little Fingers [Get a Life] Sleep on a Clothes Line - Rory Gallagher [Tattoo] The Irish Spring - David Rovics [1939] Bás in Éirinn - Black 47 [Bankers & Gangsters] The Night The Showbands Died - Black 47 [Last Call] Advertising - George Carlin Amazing Offer - Horslips [Short Stories / Tall Tales] Stacey Lawlor - Clan Of Celts [Beggars, Celts And Madmen] Lord Randall's Bastard Son - The Walker Roaders [The Walker Roaders] Seo Yun - The Walker Roaders [The Walker Roaders] The Voyage of the Sirius - John Spillane [The Man Who Came In From The Dark] Arkle (written by Dominic Behan) - Seamus Kennedy [Party Pieces] Concrete Road - Seamus Kennedy [Live!] Cushialitee - Paddy Nash and The Happy Enchiladas [When We Were Brave] Tom Williams - Flying Column [Favourite Irish Rebel Ballads] Home By Bearna - Christy Moore [Whatever Tickles Your Fancy] Farmer Michael Hayes - Christy Moore [Folk Tale] The Galway Farmer - Davey Arthur & Co [Celtic Side Saddle] Euston Station - Davey Arthur & Co [Celtic Side Saddle] Henry Joy - Goitse [Úr] The Queen of Argyll - Goitse [Úr] The Hare in the Heather - The Wolfe Tones [Belt Of The Celts] The Tinvane - Coscán [Dinnsenchas (Lore of Places)] A Warning to Conquerors/ Dublin 1913 - Colm O'Brien [Thomas MacDonagh: Poet and Patriot] The Poems of a Good Man · Martin Butler & John Owens [Thomas MacDonagh: Poet and Patriot] The Snows - Pól Mac Adaim [Forsaken land] Crabs In The Skillet - Horslips [Drive The Cold Winter Away] I Roved Out - Clear the Battlefield [Set Me Free] The Rights of Man - Clear the Battlefield [Set Me Free] Allende - Christy Moore [Live at Vicar Street] Chestnut - The Walls [HI-LO] Grian Gheal Lonrach - The Walls [Ceol 10 Súil Siar] Big Blue Whale - Gypsy Rebel Rabble [The Under Over Album] I'm Moving On - Taste [Taste] If I Don't Sing I'll Cry - Taste [On the Boards] Mama Nature Said - Thin Lizzy [Vagabonds of the Western World] The Hero And The Madman - Thin Lizzy [Vagabonds of the Western World] Vagabond of the Western World- Thin Lizzy [Vagabonds of the Western World]

[rhianna]

Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair dom do laimh - Planxty 1973

[theamazingsaraman]

There’s a traditional folk song called ‘Arthur McBride’ which has the lines ‘Then after resting we both took a tramp/ We met Sergeant Harpur and Corporal Cramp’ and I always thought that would make a great period euphemism.

It would be basically useless to me because I subscribe to the Talk Very Decisively About Periods Without Euphemisms school of thought, but it would just be neat y’ know?: ‘You don’t look very well, are you ok?’ ‘No, Corporal Cramp has come recruiting 😭’

Especially because, in the song, Corporal Cramp gets hit over the head with a shillelagh. I feel like that thought would encourage me in my time off pain.

gang I need your help I have a phrase I really want to catch on and it’s calling any secret or invisible struggle you have a “fight with a gorilla” like the onion article. if they can have cinnamon roll catch on this can too. “yeah she told me about it, I had no idea, sounds like a real fight with a gorilla” “sorry man I can’t come I’ve really been fighting the gorilla lately” do you see the vision

[clivechip]

Tuesday Tunes 202: Alcohol

I think it is about time that I give you a new, unused theme for these posts, and I was pondering what to choose when I saw an advert for a drink. The plan quickly fell into place, and the beauty of this is that there are several varieties I could go with: there will be a ‘beverages’ version coming soon, but for today I’m going with what most of us think of when someone asks if we’d like a drink,…

[theoutcastrogue]

That's a completely different ballad, other tune*, other story.

"The Baron of Brackley" is Roud 4017 / Child 203, and has a page on mainlynorfolk.info. (I take this opportunity to plug this WONDERFUL resource, because collecting broadsides is great and all, but folk music spreads with recordings nowadays, and this site covers them, sample lyrics included.)

"Matty Groves" aka "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" is Roud 52 / Child 81, and here's its mainlynorfolk page. (also on wikipedia)

* Well the tunes of Matty Groves are a whole Thing (see links above!). Several people came across a broadside with lyrics but no music, and improvised, or slapped an unrelated tune on it. I'm fond of Planxty's version, it's very sad. Little Musgrove isn't very defiant here, but the Lady is.

Then up spoke the lady fair, from the bed whereon she lay, “Although you're dead, Little Musgrave, still for you I'll pray.

“How do you like his cheeks,” he said, “how do you like his chin? How do you like his dead body, now there’s no life within?”

“It’s well I like those cheeks,” she cried, “Well I loved that chin. It's more I want his dead body than all your kith and kin.”

And Fairport's most famous version is simply set to the tune of Shady Grove. I can't describe to you how much I love Shady Grove.

I wish I had a banjo string made of golden twine The only tune I'd pick on is, I wish that girl were mine

Shady Grove my little love, Shady Grove my darling Shady Grove my little love, going back to Harlan

"Oh, well I like your feather bed And well I like your sheets But better I like your lady gay Who lies in my arms asleep"

"Well, get up, get up," Lord Donald cried "Get up as quick as you can It'll never be said in fair England I slew a naked man"

"Oh, I can't get up, I won't get up I can't get up for my life--

[boatmediatourney]

🚢Boat Song Tournament🚢

Round 1B, match 9

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[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: Planxty Planxty

Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn, and Dónal Lunny's first effort under the Planxty banner bears the sepia-tone sonic hallmarks of the early-'70s UK scene. Their impeccable musicianship and tight, organic, and authentic renderings of tunes like "Raggle Taggle Gypsy," "The Blacksmith," and "Merrily Kissed the Quaker" set a highwater mark for traditional music going forward.

- James Monger

[darkempathsmiley]

Bob Dylan's rendition of Arthur McBride sucks so much. Its a song about fun and mischief with your cousin and he sounds like he's going to kill himself

[dummerjan]

OAU - This Song - Planxty Irwin based on an 18th century compostion by Celtic harper Turlough O'Carolan