#the version I know is the planxty one

[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

[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

[finnlongman]

any celtic folk recs? any thoughts on celtic fusion (especially when, for example, slavic influences are weaved in)?

Like, trad music? Hmm, I don't know if I have any recs per se -- I'm just getting back into folk myself and my knowledge of the bands and musicians that are out there these days is extremely limited. It would be an exaggeration to say my folk knowledge stops with Planxty but unfortunately not as much of one as I'd like it to be. (When I first got into folk my uncle bought me Clannad, the Chieftains, Planxty etc... meaning I had the music taste of someone ten or twenty years older than me. I come from a family with zero trad background -- my parents are Classical musicians -- and lived in an area with no folk scene, so I was kind of fumbling around in the dark trying to figure it all out.)

With regard to currently active contemp folk musicians, I enjoy Fergal Scahill's "tune a day" videos on Facebook! (He's a fiddle player, he's posting a different tune every day for 2019. Sometimes he does them with others, especially if he's overlapping with anyone's tour or performances, and sometimes they're solo.)

What else... I used to listen to Leahy quite a bit. They're from... hmm, I wanna say Cape Breton, but that might be wrong. I've always been pretty drawn to instruments that I play myself, so I love a good fiddle player. I also had a couple of CDs by Brian Finnegan, who's a flute player -- based in Scotland, I think, but again, don't quote me on that.

Just flicking through my Spotify... I also enjoy Lúnasa and Sileas, both bands I think I discovered through a rec from Maggie Stiefvater a few years ago. I also got really into like... folk-punk fusiony stuff for a while. There's a band called Ockham's Razor who did some really trad stuff, but some much less trad stuff, and I was *super* into their music in like 2012. (I actually wrote a novel inspired by one of their songs.)

Not sure if she's really what you're looking for, but there's a Northumbrian piper (as in, she plays Northumbrian pipes, I don't know where she'd from herself) called Kathryn Tickell whose stuff I like. I saw her perform a few years ago and that was kind of fusiony with Classical; she did some versions of classical pieces with pipes alongside the cello, though also more trad folk.

For Scottish stuff my aunt bought me a Julie Fowlis album like, I don't know, going on ten years ago now. Most people know her from the Brave soundtrack. She's pretty good, I like her.

But honestly this is a rubbish list, lol. One thing I discovered at the Blas summer school this year (well, I already knew, it was a reminder) was that my folk knowledge is woefully limited. There are so many GREAT bands out there producing music all the time, and I probably couldn't name any of them. I'm trying to broaden my knowledge a bit as part of my whole 'getting back into folk music' thing (and I also want to learn more songs, including Irish-language songs).

As for fusion stuff, I'm definitely a fan! I love seeing trad music played on non-trad instruments or on another country's trad instruments. I love people doing trad dance to non-trad music and the reverse. I think it's good fun. I don't have a lot of experience with it outside of, like, folk rock, folk punk type situations -- I've listened to less that directly mixes trad influences from different traditions -- but I'm down to hear more if anyone's got any recs!

[cruelsister-moved]

Are Planxty's post-reunion albums worth listening to? I adore those first three records but I've heard the others aren't as good. Or was that one of those opinions codified in the 70s that hasn't held up?

omg hiiiii<333 tbh i think the only one ive often heard is the woman i loved so well & i like it well enough! i have to say I don't enjoy the tunesets as much and definitely prefer pre-reunion for tunes. also in the last year or so ive been a huge turncoat and abandoned #teamchristy for #teamandy so i enjoy the songs less than i used to cos id rather hear andy irvine singing more 😭

I would say it's overall sweeter and more produced, there is more christy singing and less andy (and andys voice has quite a different quality from the earlier albums). christy really shines on that stuff in particular like true love knows no season and little musgrave are gorgeous for sure but there is a lot less of the follow me up to carlow type stuff. I don't think that has any objective merit or not, just depends what you like. though in my opinion the production is a lot kinder to the pipes and maybe the whistles too.

if you adore the first 3 records you should definitely check out andy irvines solo stuff!!! like i just listened to the version of ye rambling boys of pleasure on after the break and personally I prefer other times he's done it outside of planxty (theres an atlantic sessions version where it goes by the name i wish I was in belfast town) . i love his album with paul brady and his album with dick gaughan has a lot of filler but captain thunderbolt is elite.

also tbh in the trad world anyone whos like trying to do that thing of oh so and so was better before bla bla bla is probably too big for their boots cuz it really varies so much from person to person and what you value but like andy irvine has never not shagged deliriously on the mandolin and the repertoire is always at least alright so theres not really anything objective here and this isn't pitchfork or anthony fantano like most trad enjoyers will hold highly obscure and random and minute criteria for evaluating trad it's really up to if u enjoy it urself :-) love 2 u my friend!!