The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117744   Message #2544000
Posted By: Bat Goddess
20-Jan-09 - 10:27 AM
Thread Name: Jan Shanty Session @the Press Rm (NH)
Subject: RE: Jan Shanty Session @the Press Rm (NH)
Don't know how I could have forgotten Chris Maden at the session, too -- he led the first song -- "Lover's Heart" -- which he had sung at the previous night's session and Bruce wanted to join in on again as he and Dave Hallowell used to do it (and Tom needed to revive the concertina accompaniment for).

He also sang "Hanging Johnny" and "Fiddler's Green" and can't remeber (yet) what else -- and introduced the subject of Boston's Great Molasses Flood, of which this was the anniversary (or close anniversary. (Giving an entirely new perspective on the phrase "slow as molasses in January".) Of course that degenerated into a discussion of rum...

Linn