I came across this quite by accident. I love Martin Carthy doing "Lovely Joan" which I used to sing and have recorded. But Frankie armstrong I have never heard and her "Tam Lin" is just amazing. I have heard Mike Waterson perform it and that is marvelous as well, but Frankie---WoW.
great doc but i resent the claims of "racism" at 11:10 which are the reason why today one can attend an folk music night in England without hearing a single English folk song, which I think is very very sad indeed.
The Imagined Village of a sort of universal super-culture is a crap idea. English traditional music belongs within a distinct and limited English historical and cultural experience. It belongs to the real English people and to nobody else. I'm Irish and though I love English folk music very much, it's not mine. It's not in my blood like my own music is. People who see bloody racism in everything are just sad and enemies of music.
@@michaeligoe3935 To the original point being made; I think that term was being used by MC in order to point out that by 'guarding' the music to that extent suffocates creativity, to which I concur. I think that you don't hear old songs so much because people don't learn them. As to your point, do you mean that only Scottish people can sing Scottish songs? If so, that's the quickest way to kill off folk music. The reason old songs live on is because they have continually changed, been rewritten and generally open to interpretation by all...if I move to America, how long should I be domiciled before I am allowed to sing a mountain ballad, 5, 10 years? If I live in the north, should I be stopped from singing an Appalachian song...where does it end? That said, I am equally fond of the oldest versions closest in their original form.
O love this music for a very long time, that iv lost the memory, except my sweet feelings
I love UK
An amazing version of 'Tam Lin'
I came across this quite by accident. I love Martin Carthy doing "Lovely Joan" which I used to sing and have recorded. But Frankie armstrong I have never heard and her "Tam Lin" is just amazing. I have heard Mike Waterson perform it and that is marvelous as well, but Frankie---WoW.
What a gem
The singer is actually Peta Webb
Oo. My favourite version of Tam Lin
great doc but i resent the claims of "racism" at 11:10 which are the reason why today one can attend an folk music night in England without hearing a single English folk song, which I think is very very sad indeed.
It is ------------as a Scot who has sung for many years in England--------------it is time to tell the PC police to fuck off!
The Imagined Village of a sort of universal super-culture is a crap idea. English traditional music belongs within a distinct and limited English historical and cultural experience. It belongs to the real English people and to nobody else. I'm Irish and though I love English folk music very much, it's not mine. It's not in my blood like my own music is. People who see bloody racism in everything are just sad and enemies of music.
@@michaeligoe3935 *enemies of English (and Irish and all European) people. The music is incidental.
@@michaeligoe3935 To the original point being made; I think that term was being used by MC in order to point out that by 'guarding' the music to that extent suffocates creativity, to which I concur. I think that you don't hear old songs so much because people don't learn them. As to your point, do you mean that only Scottish people can sing Scottish songs? If so, that's the quickest way to kill off folk music. The reason old songs live on is because they have continually changed, been rewritten and generally open to interpretation by all...if I move to America, how long should I be domiciled before I am allowed to sing a mountain ballad, 5, 10 years? If I live in the north, should I be stopped from singing an Appalachian song...where does it end? That said, I am equally fond of the oldest versions closest in their original form.
21:15 that one was definitely from the "Women's Movement"