Irish Fridays

[Globaltruth]

There has been some comment, think it was in Songlines, about the evolution of bouzouki in Irish "folk" from being an exotic & welcome addition to now being a hackneyed irritation.

To be fair I think Alec Finn was one of the early adopters.

[johncorrigan]

There has been some comment, think it was in Songlines, about the evolution of bouzouki in Irish "folk" from being an exotic & welcome addition to now being a hackneyed irritation.

To be fair I think Alec Finn was one of the early adopters.

I think Donal Lunny would have been the first I saw playing it, Global.

[johncorrigan]

Call me an old softie, but after such a long winter and a slow start to the spring, suddenly the land and the trees and the grass have burst into green, and I found myself walking along the road yesterday singing this song that Johnny Cash wrote while travelling in Ireland in the late fifties. It seemed to be ubiquitous back in the sixties, but I know of no greater version than this one by Johnny's daughter Rosanne, accompanied by Karen Matheson and Kate Rusby, and the Transatlantic Sessions crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kXrEisqb4

Happy Irish Friday...hope it's green where you are.

[Globaltruth]

Call me an old softie, but after such a long winter and a slow start to the spring, suddenly the land and the trees and the grass have burst into green, and I found myself walking along the road yesterday singing this song that Johnny Cash wrote while travelling in Ireland in the late fifties. It seemed to be ubiquitous back in the sixties, but I know of no greater version than this one by Johnny's daughter Rosanne, accompanied by Karen Matheson and Kate Rusby, and the Transatlantic Sessions crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kXrEisqb4

Happy Irish Friday...hope it's green where you are.

Yep. It's green alright, this isn't Irish but is my favourite track for This Kind Of Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe-WWMHQASg&list=RDFe-WWMHQASg&start_radio=1

and, I guess you know and maybe I should post this on the gardening thread but pot marigold petals are delicious...grow them every year (v. simple)

Lisa Knapp's song may be based on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9PMky7Fj0

Which looks like it was recorded live in The Bluebell Inn in Hull Old Town

[Padraig]

Happy Irish Friday...hope it's green where you are.

Sure it's always green in the Emerald Isle, you old softie.
Two green songs by Mr Green himself - though not so green in the former.
In the next he's green to the core.

Green bushes (arr. F. Keel) - YouTube

John McCormack - The Wearing of the Green [Audio Stream] - YouTube

[johncorrigan]

That was great, GT and Padraig. That Lisa Knapp vid never fails to delight; and I imagine there'll be a lot of 'Wearing of the Green' in the East End of Glasgow today as Celtic celebrate another championship.