Guest
"Jim I'm reminded of the story about Horton Barker who was banned from singing for school children because his renditions made them cry."
The sign of a good singer
Blind Travelling woman Mary Delaney was one of the finest singers we recorded - she bacame totally involved in everything she sang, forom high tragedy to bawdy belly-laughs
Her best songs was 'Buried in Kilkenny' - a superb Irish version of Lord Randal (I think it's on line somewhere)
It took half-a-dozen goes to get a full version of it - each time she sang it she broke down saying "It's too heavy"
We assumed she'd over-pitched it but in fact each time she sang it she emotionally choke up on it
A difficult experience for her, a moving one for the listener
Singers like Frank Proffitt, Horton Barker and Dillard Chandler do the same for me - knife-edged emotion each time
Horton's sister, Texas Gladden has the same effect
Jim