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Thread #97101 Message #1943161
Posted By: GUEST,Deep Throat
21-Jan-07 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: BBC Folk Awards- Open and clear
Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards- Open and clear
I want to know which version of "The White Hare" is supposed to be the song that is nominated.
The version on the *first* edition of Freedom Fields has an extra verse to the version they put on the second edition and the single. That is in addition to the completly changed arrangement without banjos or Kathryn Roberts. Mike Harding always plays the first version (probably because it sounds a bit more "folky") even though you can't buy it any more. But it is quite important which version of a "trad" song really is being nominated, isn't it?
As Sir Walter Scott might have said, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to..."