New Sarah Makem CDs

Subject: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 05:28 PM

I'm delighted to announce that Musical Tradition has released a 3-CD set of the magnificent Sarah Makem. $30 from CAMSCO

As I Roved Out : As I Roved Out : A Servant Maid in Master's Garden : The Canny Oul Lad : Leave Not Your Kathleen : A Man in Love : The Young Sailor Cut Down : The Armagh Nationalists : Farewell My Love : Derry Gaol : Derry Gaol Duet : The County Galway Girl : Jack Donohue : The Irishman : Mary of Kilmore : Now That the Winter is Over : You and I in One Bed Lie : The Banks of the Callan : I Courted a Wee Girl : The Peeler and the Goat : A Rich Farmer's Daughter : New Year's Song : The Jolly Thesher

'Twas in the Month of January : Take Back the Engagement Ring : John Reilly : Keady Convent : Keady Town : The Factory Girl : Barbara Allen : Barney Mavourneen : Blow Ye Winds Hi-O : Annie Dear I'm Called Away : The Butcher Boy : Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold : Castleblaney Besoms : The Laurel Wear : The Cot in the Corner : The Mother of a Slave : Dobbin's Flowery Vale : John Mitchell : The Alphabet Song : Johnny Doyle : Love is Easing : Land of My Birth : The Magpie's Nest : The Magpie's Nest : My Name is Pat Clancy : Nothing's Too Good for the Irish :

Skibbereen : My Love is Like a Red Red Rose : Erin's Lovely Home : The May Morning Dew : Mary of the Curling Hair : The Scutchers : Robert Burns and his Highland Mary : The Wind that Shakes the Barley : Miss Jenny : Space : The Banks of the Callan : Barbara Allen : Blow Ye Winds Hi-O : The Butcher Boy : The Canny Oul Lad : Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold : Castleblaney Besoms : Derry Gaol : Dobbin's Flowerey Vale : The Factory Girl : I Courted a Wee Girl : Johnny Doyle :

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: maeve
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 05:53 PM

Oh my goodness! What a treasure trove.

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 07:47 PM

Yes - just been listening to the first CD today. Great stuff.

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Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 06:06 AM

The CD booklet, with lyrics and notes, is available on the Musical Traditions site:

Click here

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Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 08:30 AM

CD's now also available from Irish Traditional Music Archive
Click here

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Subject: Sarah Makem Pure Magic
From: zozimus
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 06:33 PM

I want to warming congratulate all those involved in putting together the 3 CD package on Sarah Makem. It's an absolute treasure. Well worth seeking out for the Christmas stocking. What a voice!

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: Greg B
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 06:58 PM

The legend behind the legend.

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 10:32 AM

I had the pleasure of dealing with the raw tapes for this project. Glad they scrubbed up well!

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 10:36 AM

... and I supplied some notes. Mudcat rocks!

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: GUEST,Eoin O'Buadhaigh
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 04:26 PM

I notice that on the 1st disc and also the 3rd disc the same title 'I Courted a Wee Girl' I take it they are different songs (NOT being pickie!) I can't wait to get my hands on the 3 CD set. Well done!!!

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 04:50 PM

Same song, different recording! There are several duplicates in the set where recordings were made by different people at different - and sometimes widely separated - times. This is interesting from the point of view of comparing the singer's approach to each song and the changes that occur. As GUESTRalphie implies, the sound quality inevitably varies - but the interest remains.

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Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 05:16 PM

Hi Martin. There were numerous diffent takes of some songs. It was a case of trying to decide the best ones! Both performance or technical quality. (could have ended up with a 6 CD Box set! Choices had to be made!)
Looking forward to seeing/hearing the finished set.
It was a pleasure to have worked on the project, and I hope it brings Sarahs voice forward for future generations to enjoy.

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 08:27 AM

Does anyone know what has hapened to the new Topic Voice of the People set? That's the one which will draw exclusively on Peter Kennedy's field recordings. I ask partly because rumours of its imminent release have been circulating for ages now, but mainly because I've heard that one of the first CDs in the series will be devoted mainly or exclusively to Sarah Makem.

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 09:51 AM

I've just heard that February 2012 is the projected release date.

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 01:23 PM

there is a feature on the new series of The Voice of the People in the brand new issue of English Dance & Song magazine, published today! there is, indeed, a new Sarah Makem CD in the first releases, as well as one of southern English singers and a double of Gypsy and Traveller singers (compiled by Shirley Collins) and a treble CD of ballads (compiled by Steve Roud). Release date is February.
Derek

Subject: RE: New Sarah Makem CDs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 08:58 PM

Sor a review of the CD's on the Musical Traditions website -
Click here

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