"Rich Men North of Richmond"
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Have been really getting back into English folk artists since last spring. Reacquainting myself with the likes of Richard Thompson and listening to some of the lesser known ones from the 60s and 70s like Anne Briggs and Martin Carthy.
Have really developed a liking for June Tabor and the late Lal Waterson.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":
Have been really getting back into English folk artists since last spring. Reacquainting myself with the likes of Richard Thompson and listening to some of the lesser known ones from the 60s and 70s like Anne Briggs and Martin Carthy.
Have really developed a liking for June Tabor and the late Lal Waterson.
A marginally funny story - I reconnected with an old school friend via Facebook a couple of years back. It turns out she married a member of The Houghton Weavers, who are an extremely unfashionable Lancashire folk/comedy group who had a relatively brief moment of fame in the late 1970's when they had their own national TV show. Since then my FB feed keeps getting inundated with suggestions to go and see them and others play in various dens of iniquity in the north of England.
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Thompson is a remarkable artist. I believe he's considered one of the truly great guitarists.
If you like covers...
Link to video"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I love it.
Years ago at our local Folk Music Festival, I attended a 2 hour folk guitar workshop in which Richard Thompson, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Martin Simpson all shared the stage. It was other worldly how they seamlessly played together and held the audience their musical spell. It was one of those sessions you just never wanted to end.
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That is such a nice version of the song.
I love the lyric about the bombers turning into butterflies, because it's so oddly reminiscent of one of my dad's stories - my grandmother pointed upwards and said to him 'look, they look like beautiful silver butterflies' - my dad, being a 12 year old boy, correctly told her they were actually Heinkel 111's.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":
You appeared to be telling 89 that he had no right to criticise the beardy bloke because he hadn't done this sort of thing himself. I just asked the question whether the same standard applied to people who criticise more commercially sophisticated ventures?
That’s how I read it too btw. All I said is I wasn’t a fan of the whiny first song and the 2nd song was pretty good but I didn’t care for the repetitive note structure. Guitar sounded nice though.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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You might listen to his interview with Jordan Peterson. Oliver Anthony is his stage name (which seems an odd choice), but he seems a lot more sophisticated than his angry, Appalachian, rebel yellin’ hillbilly trailer trash persona…. And a pretty deep soul.
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I give credit for standing up for his principles.
Anthony had been booked to play Sept. 27 at Cotton Eyed Joe, a popular country music venue in Knoxville, Tenn. However, when the Virginia native on Monday caught wind of how much the tickets cost — $90 to $200 — he angrily pulled over to the side of the road with his “adrenaline pumping” and recorded a message to his fans, warning them not to buy the tickets.
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@taiwan_girl said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":
I give credit for standing up for his principles.
Or maybe investing in his brand?
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@jon-nyc said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":
It’s something I need to a dress. I don’t want to be a stain on everyone’s fun here.
It depends on your definition…
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Spew alert!
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Doesn't Trump (and the rich folks around him) realize this is a song about them?
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That's the saddest thing I've seen all week.
I'm guessing that after The Psalms, that's his favourite song. Other than 'Macho Man', obviously.
