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Thread #17311   Message #2724061
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
15-Sep-09 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: poet songs
Subject: RE: poet songs
Ochs did a superb job on The Highwayman, but he left out large chunks of it, including all reference to the ostler. Loreena McKennitt did another setting, recorded by Andy Irvine, which does have the entire poem - and it is long, over 9 minutes, but outstanding.

Debby McClatchy did a fine job of putting The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, by Robert Service, to music. She also did Cremation of Sam McGee, by the same poet, but I find that setting a bit too monotonous to really work well.

There's a new edition of the book by the late Chris Kempster with over 200 settings of poems of Henry Lawson.