The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123244   Message #2713821
Posted By: matt milton
01-Sep-09 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: Ballad Singing – a living tradition?
Subject: RE: Ballad Singing – a living tradition?
"...a girl from one of the morris teams (I don't know who she was because her face was blacked) stood up and gave a stunning rendition of "Little Musgrave". Notwithstanding the familiarity of the story, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck standing up and a tear in my eye when she had finished"

There's a great version of Little Musgrave on the new album from James Yorkston. I've never been interested in his past albums, but his new one is all traditional material and on balance pretty excellent