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Thread #15339   Message #137186
Posted By: BK
16-Nov-99 - 11:44 PM
Thread Name: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
Subject: RE: What Song Makes You Drop Everything?
lamarca: where can I hear June Tabor doing that Bill Caddick song Aqaba?

As for mesmirizers;

Steeleye Span, esp the album "Below The Salt." Lots of Stan Rogers, (but I often particularly like "The Witch of The West Merelands." Garnet Rogers "Stars In Their Crown" or "Small Miracles," or "Sleeping Buffalo," or many others... Danny Doyle doing "Christmas in The Trenches," or "My Grandfathers' Emigrant Eyes"(I can picture & smell Ellis Island while listening; it just takes me away w/a flood of images) or the true-story-based, "Rose Of Saigon," & "Kilkelly, Ireland," & many others... Sally Rogers doing "Seven Long years." (much like our lives!) Much of Joan Baez's early stuff. not too much of her later stuff. Lots of Gordon Lightfoot's early stuff. Lot's of Ian & Sylvia. a lot of Loreena Mckennit, esp if I'm in the right mood.."All Soul's Night"... 'n I'm tired, betcha lots more fit, but I gotta go ta bed.. Too late!! A few more are insisting on getting out.. Ann Hills singing "Follow that Road" (talk abt images..!! I've lived in that part of the country..)Priscilla herdman's whole CD "Star Dreamer"... Wow! Sanders, Cass & White doing "Woyaya" (We Are Going) or their fantastic song abt the Aids Quilt "Be Still".. I start to cry just thinking abt it then I get the damn keyboard wet & can't see the keys any-way.. IMHO they also do the DEFINITIVE VERSION of Cristine Lavin's "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind," all on their CD "Feels Like Home." & Then there's Sally Fingerett's "Home Is Where The Heart Is" to get the ol' tear ducts flowin. James Keelaghan's "Fires Of Calais" & "Jenny Brice" if the foregoing ain't enough.. & a zillion more; let's face it, I'm easy.. I still enjoy "Waltzing With Bears," (w/the extra verse, of course) & the wacky sequel by the Berrymans, "Aunt Emily," & the equally wacky parody, "Golfing With Hares," by Sue Train*r.

I REALLY gotta get to bed..

Cheers, BK