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06-19-2022, 01:05 AM
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One of the sweetest and just best singers of my short life
Kate Rusty From Yorkshire. She was raised in a family of folksingers and she’s been heralded as the ‘queen of the folkies’ by the British press. I guess Yorkshire and Ireland aren’t that far apart because her songs have a Irish feel to them.
Or perhaps, unbeknownst to me, all this time Irish songs have had a Yorkshire feel to them. Sometimes, though, with her stuff I feel like I’m being lullabied to death. From the verb “to lullaby.” But then I think if I want up-tempo brainless music I can go to 24 Hour Fitness and lift weights. The stuff is like light duty sandblasting to me. Corrosive on my sense of calm and peace. Therefore then, I will continue to take refuge now and then in the dulcet tones and keen songwriting instincts of Ms. Rusby. https://youtu.be/qLztSSCkEi8 First in a series.
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06-19-2022, 02:53 PM
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This is one of the more up-tempo tunes from Rusby. Might have been the first song of hers that really caught my attention. Oddly enough, the lyrics are not entirely happy.
https://youtu.be/FqgV-JNxYRk I and three mates had a wee Irish bund (Irish accent for band) sometime in the late 80s. I was on guitar, we had a cittern player (sort of a mando–cello, similar to a Greek bouzouki), a fiddle player, and a flute player. We did not have a long and illustrious career but we had some fun, we played the wooden boat show in Port Townsend, WA and other other public events, various street fairs, etc. Irish rhythm guitar is some tasty stuff, and not easy.
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06-19-2022, 03:01 PM
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She and her husband did a number of at home sessions during the pandemic, they called them Singy Songy Sessions.
He, Damien O'Kane, is an incredible guitar player to my ears. Most all of the sessions featured a little more talk than people sometimes want at the beginning. Oh well. https://youtu.be/IJNBY6Xa6RA
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06-19-2022, 03:07 PM
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Here is another singy songy session, they do a cover version of an old Cyndi Lauper song. He plays an electric tenor guitar, four strings. I’ve never heard one used to good effect in this manner. They were never very common, the old white bread folk group The Brothers Four used an acoustic tenor guitar now and then.
https://youtu.be/f0Pq3PG2NdM Music begins at about 1:05 mark.
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06-20-2022, 12:06 AM
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06-20-2022, 01:22 AM
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