>>>Neither are we making personal attacks on Lizzie.<<<

Sadly Mary...that can't be said for all in here, but..as always it's the 'usual suspects' who are of no importance to me whatsoever anymore.

So...back to the CD then and the inner sleeve notes once again...continued from above......


"Another adopted folk song ' Farewell To The Gold'- which is performed beautiifully here by the duo Nancy Kerr and James Fagan - was written by a New Zealander, Paul Metsers, in 1969. Following a school trip on which Metsers had taken his class to old gold panning territory in the Shotover River, he read about a flash flood that occurred in 1863, and created a story about a pair of prospectors who are caught in the flood.

The tender ballad, 'Sally Wheatley' is performed here by the North Eastern duo Bob Fox and Stu Luckley. This delightful song was written by the great nineteenth century music hall artist, Joe Wilson. It tells a cautionary tale about how a man is caught out by 'courting too slow', taking his time to woo the titular Sally, only to see her go off with another man, 'cause she gans with Mr. Black, and they say he's gonna marry Sally Wheatley', the moral of the song - as Bob Fox puts it in the North Eastern vernacular - 'shy bairns get ne broth!'

The famous modern folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg's moving song 'King James Version' is given a wonderful makeover by Eliza Carthy, with assistance from Spiers and Boden, as well as violist Ben Ivitsky. This song features on Eliza's fantastic 2005 album, Rough Music, the title of which alludes to an old English form of punishment for minor offences, designed to induce shame and encourage the offender to leave the community."

Brilliant stuff isn't it! :0) :0) :0) :0)


More a bit later on...

Lizzie :0)