Just heard Paul Brady tonight for the first time ever on Wisconsin Public Radio. What rock have I been living under all these years? Simply one of the finest folk voices ever.
In the same way as a duck flaps its wings but does not take off, to release trapped energy... It is a very healthy and wise for humans to cry or play sports maybe scream at the top of our lungs in a forest to also release built up trauma. This world is not an easy one. Trapped trauma can manifest as disease in the body later on over time.
IIRC he found a poem by the same name in an unpublished book in someone's house and reordered it/made some slight changes. I'd pay anything to have gotten to listen to him play
I was there. Paul Brady had and has a truly unique talent and voice. Oddly enough, he felt quite insecure that evening. I was working with the BBC's Tony McAuley and the concert was being recorded live. Paul was quite nervous, which i couldn't understand at all, but hey, even the most gifted have their insecurities.
This still gives me chills. I think it's the best performance of this song ever, surpassing even Paul Brady's other recorded versions. Something was different that night in 1977. Simply amazing.
no such thing..America was populated by immigrants who brought their music with them, Scots, Irish, Welsh, English, African..unless you mean the music of the Native Americans?
That is so stunning, Paul Brady voice is amazing, his guitar playing as well as Andy Irvine's bouzouki playing is exquisite. How lucky we are to be able to enjoy it still.
Absolutely brilliant performance by Paul Brady, delivering the definitive version of Lakes of Pontchartrain. And doing it live. Absolutely brilliant. What an amazing talent.
@@NickleJ I'll take your word on that. Great cover from Brady?. Check out "Arthur McBride" from the the same concert. Another definitive cover from Brady. All the best, from the banks of the Blackwater, Cork.
I spent my 30th birthday in Doon Ireland last year and I and the bar patrons took turns singing favorite songs. A priest who was home from his work in Argentina played guitar and sang this song which I had never heard before. I was FLOORED! What a song.
T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu And I took the rode to Jackson town, me fortune to renew I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain. I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun And I rode the roads 'til evening and I laid me down again All strangers here, no friends to me 'til a dark girl towards me came And I fell in love with a Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain. I said my pretty Creole girl, me money here's no good If it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the wood You're welcome here kind stranger, our house it's very plain But we never turn a stranger out at the Lakes of Pontchartrain. She took me to her mummy's house and she treated me quite well The hair upon her shoulders in jet black ringlets fell To try and paint her beauty I'm sure t'would be in vain So handsome was my Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain. I asked her if she'd marry me, she'd said it could never be For she had got another and he was far at sea She said that she would wait for him and true she would remain 'Til he returned for his Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain. So fair thee well me bonny o' girl I never see no more But I'll ne'er forget your kindness and the cottage by the shore And at each social gathering a flowin' glass I'll raise And drink a health to me Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
I played this song once while on holiday in Italy and I ended up with more people watching than I started with. Even the Germans liked it and they previously complained about me playing the guitar late at night.
Watched and heard the Great Paul Brady sing this in Perth Concert Hall 2 weeks ago. Luck got me there. A chance sighting of an article in a paper. 4 x legends doing possibly their last concert. This was their final piece after an awesome evening and unforgiving standing ovation. This was their pin-drop moment. Paul's voice is unchanged imo. We had Donnal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady (all had been in Planxty) and Ken Burke (Bothy Band). Thought my heart was going to burst.
I think you mean KEVIN Burke. I met him last year at a dinner in Scotland without knowing who he was. I was so impressed by his conversation and weird Irish/Cockney accent. When I realized who was (he played and sang for us) I was amazed by his humility and grace.
I met an Irish girl this year. She took me back to her home in Cork and introduced me to her family and this incredible music. We are no longer together but part of my soul will always stay with her
@jeflynnenut Thanks! We had a wonderful time -- mostly around Westport and North Mayo. We were able to drive through the Burren, and even saw Christy Moore in Athlone. As beautiful as Ireland is -- and it is beautiful -- the Irish people are just as lovely, and half the reason to go!
Was there ever another song that fills your heart with love, heartbreak and desire as much as this? Paul Brady was born to sing this song. A true calling if i ever heard one!
I’ve listened to this song for the first time in Grafton Street, Dublin City. Some buskers were playing at night. I could just memorize some verses and then I found the song here. Amazing!
Apart from the love in my dogs eyes when I tell him genuinely he's a good boy I cant compare anything to my hearts joy unless listening to PB. Purebloods listening to PB again and again. ❤ it.
Revisiting this wondrous performance and wouldn’t you know my lovely Alsatian bitch is at my side with deep brown liquid eyes watching the tears dripping from mine.
The setting for this song is the place where I was raised. It has always filled me with sweet sorrows as oil refineries and "development" has destroyed the magic that once was.
I lived in Ireland from 1996 to 2005. Played music there all those years and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m now back in Singapore with my family.. our hearts are still there. Left behind many great memories and friends. Up Ireland!
@candom rommenter Amen. They need to be put in their place. Too many "progressives" are owned by Chinese money. But that's a political rant that I'll save for another time. Enjoy this wonderful song again and again........
Hi Tom, I played the guitar. Had an uilleann piper, percussion and flute player in our group. Played around Garykennedy, Co. Tipperary and Co. Clare. Had a blast of a time all those years.
You wonder...did Paul Brady know when he was singing this particular version how powerful and lovely his interpretation was? Could there be a better way to sing this song than the way he sings it here? Thank you Mick Connell for uploading this gem.
Strangely, I think there is. RTE (Irish TV) did an anthology of Paul's output in the very early '90's called "Echoes & Abstracts". On that he's on his own, in the corner of a recently built industrial bay, basic rig. And absolutely nails it. Never seen a better version, other than Aoife O'Donovan's which comes close, I'll admit.
Not alone is Ireland the home of country and western music, and Irish traditional music, it's also the real home of Folk music and it should be promoted as such worldwide. I mean what other country has so many brilliant folk singers like Paul Brady and I'm delighted to see the huge folk revival sweeping the country again, and isn't it part of who we are.
I have long admired Paul's use of "open tuning" and his perfection of same! And how qabout that great accoustic sound using only a microphone and no built in graphic equalizer etc!
I am 54 years old now. Live here in Germany and heard this song for the 1st. time on British Radio 30 years ago. This is the best song i have ever heard in my Life !!!
I first heard Paul Brady singing with the Johnstons at the Aldermaston folk club in the 60's ..... a great voice in a harmony of great voices ...... their music still thrills me .
I was still at primary school when my brother bought Planxty's Cold Blow and the Rainy Night. It was just sublime. Brady does it well too. I love his song The Island 👌
There was a period in my youth when this was my favorite song by my favorite singer. Many many years later I met a lifelong friend of his and had the chance to play it for her. Special for me.
Ah, Friels in Miltown Malbay what days, the pub is still there but the soul is fading! Bring back the 70s they were simpler times with a guitar, large bottle of Guinness and a packet of large size rizzla!
hello the answer to yer question is that Rizzla is a brand of cigarette papers popular in all the Keltic countries. .. including england . from a fella forty years behind the,"roll up" Slante'
I saw Andy and Donal live two years ago. Then Christy a few months later. Never seen Paul (sadly). And Liam is gone but not forgotten. Such amazing musicians... up the with the best.
I suppose it does not matter who's version is better, it is one of the finest folk songs ever written. Haunting and beautiful and guaranteed to make anyone sit in contemplation long after the song has finished.
I'm utterly dismayed! I'm in Glasgow and I didn't know he was playing otherwise I'd have been there. He's one of the best artists I've ever seen - a genius.
Brilliant performance. Paul Brady is such a brilliant folk singer. A pity he left that genre to pursue rock, but he could always go back again. He can be both a rockstar and a trad legend. He is, actually.
Paul Brady was like a baby when he sang this all those years ago, so if he had this tallent then !!!. - its still so fresh and what about the attentive audience - they came to listen and love , not to shout and roar and listen to themselves - this was what sessions were like then - I know, I followed them.
1,000,000 yrs ago, in L.A., my boyfriend & Michelle Shocked & her husband, Bart's were bestfriends. Went to their wedding, hung out on their houseboats, took care of their sweet old cat when they were on the road. One night, 12+ years ago, after Michelle's birthday dinner, we went w/ the Hothouse Flowers & jammed to the wee hours. They played this... plaintively & mournfully: sweet voices, guitar & pennywhistle. My heart has longed, since then, to hear them play this again. This will do ;-)
it's a joy to hear this song again with Brady and Irvine. It always was a stand-out track for me, since first hearing it in the 1970's. The yearning expressed in both the melody and Brady's singing of it is both heart-tugging and 'haunting.' What I notice on rehearing is the courage of both players to take it slowly and reflectively. Incomparable, imo. Thank you for sharing it.
I knew these amazing singers and musicians so many years ago and had Planxty at my folk club in Blackpool England. I’m still playing and listening and enjoying the wonderful music they gave us. 🥰
A long day of work ahead, and this marvelous artist is helping me. Beautifully done. Such ease. Such skill. Thank god for this medium. Now if all that happens on the internet were at this level, what a world we would have.
I'm singing this tomorrow at a session and I'm completely nervous. I don't have all the ornaments but I'll add those in as I go along so that it sounds natural. I think this is his definitive performance regardless of how nervous he was. Simply brilliant. Someone has asked me to revise the song as a non-generic which I won't be singing tomorrow but I'm going to send it to him and run it by him. Very difficult to change millions of songs and take away the "he" and "she" but it is an exercise. I also have been bothered it says "Lakes" when there are none so maybe changing it to "Banks". It is a perfect song but when you sing for a younger crowd...they are very picky about this stuff! Again, this is brilliant beyond belief and with Andy Irvine playing with him just takes it out of the universe.
@@pmathews109 well, there is Lake Ponchartrain, which is the main body of water in a connected basin (also called Ponchartrain) that also includes two other lakes, Maurepas and Borgne. Since we're not in the habit of naming things next to each other the same thing, I'd say that's about as close to there being "Lakes" of Ponchartrain as can be reasonably expected from a folk song. If you must be pedantic about something, Lake Ponchartrain is technically an estuary, go with that.
43 years later and we are in lockdown. This song made me cry, it's a timeless song about heartbreak. Please God forgive me but I think that I broke a lot of hearts :(
I don't think it was heartbreak. Truth hurt him. And he respected her enough to raise a glass. And now America is so very, very lost. Cheers, from Toronto.
There are only so many performances that reach a star level of beauty and feeling and this is one of them. Neil Young’s Old Man and Bruce Springsteen’s The River, etc. This one is special.
I remember owning his tape "Welcome Here, Kind Stranger" (whose title comes from the lyrics of this song)in the mid-1980s. I think inside there was a folded up sheet of paper that had information about the song. I forget most of it, but the song is set in the post Civil War South. At the beginning, the song's character is referring to the fact that the Confederate money is now worthless: "I cursed all foreign money / No credit could I gain."
I love it! Irvine looks like he's laying back having a cappuccino in his local coffee shop, Brady is on auto pilot with a marvelous rendition of "the Lakes". Fantastic to be able to see live what has been unavailable for years. God Bless CZcams! (and the posters)
this was 40 years ago and we're enjoying this 40 years ago, people could not enjoy what their ancients did 40 years before ... how many treasures like this from "baladins" and singers have been lost in time ! (.heuumm .. uderstandable ? )
Just heard Paul Brady tonight for the first time ever on Wisconsin Public Radio. What rock have I been living under all these years? Simply one of the finest folk voices ever.
Im a 43 year old man listening to this for the first time...why am I crying right now?
Its an emotional song to listen too.
Please don't cry, just enjoy the song, but I sincerely hope you're life hasn't got bad enough circumstance's for you to be sad.
In the same way as a duck flaps its wings but does not take off, to release trapped energy... It is a very healthy and wise for humans to cry or play sports maybe scream at the top of our lungs in a forest to also release built up trauma. This world is not an easy one. Trapped trauma can manifest as disease in the body later on over time.
Because you are a human being.
Because Paul Brady's voice speaks for our hearts
What Paul Brady does with his voice just isn't taught. That's something you're born with and my god Paul was born with the most magical voice 💚☘️
I was married to an irishman who introduced me to irish folk music sadly i have l lost him now but his music will always be with me love you mcflute x
Mc Flute? Muah-ha-ha! Pair of legends.
I befriended an Irishman that introduced me to drink.
@@rateyesmertz3785 And he was called McWhiskey?
Lynda where ever you are I hope you are safe and you made me laugh.
You saw your opportunity and seized it, respect
As a native Louisianan, I just adore this song. And it’s nice having an Irish folk tune about this place. Special special
Pretty sure it's actually an American song, I'm not 100% on that but it's American according to Wikipedia,
IIRC he found a poem by the same name in an unpublished book in someone's house and reordered it/made some slight changes. I'd pay anything to have gotten to listen to him play
as someone from New Orleans I never expected a song about Lake Pontchartrain from an Irish singer! It's special indeed.
@@musashidanmcgrath that's very interesting thanks man
@@st3altypandas63He lives and gigs to this day.
I was there. Paul Brady had and has a truly unique talent and voice. Oddly enough, he felt quite insecure that evening. I was working with the BBC's Tony McAuley and the concert was being recorded live. Paul was quite nervous, which i couldn't understand at all, but hey, even the most gifted have their insecurities.
You lucky lucky lady.
Interesting observation. Thanks for passing it on Maggie.
Bad Hair Day.
How wonderful to have been there!!!
Great story Maggie.
This still gives me chills. I think it's the best performance of this song ever, surpassing even Paul Brady's other recorded versions. Something was different that night in 1977. Simply amazing.
ditto on the chills. a confluence of two great talents, in the moment, a live, high wire performance with no safety net. it's stunning.
Yes, this is special magic. It's haunting in an indescribable way.
Could not agree more
they could never have known that 35 years later we'd still be sitting here loving this
Its 43 years now
Make that 43 years :)
Who indeed ?
Kept coming back to it for several years now. Irresistible.
43. Ditto.
I lived in Ireland from 71 to 78 a magic time for traditional music
Traditional American .
+Happy plucker Traditional Ignorance.
Pretty much one in the same. Irish and Scots-Irish and the Scots brought music to America, and it evolved into Modern Music we hear today.
no such thing..America was populated by immigrants who brought their music with them, Scots, Irish, Welsh, English, African..unless you mean the music of the Native Americans?
Lucky spud!
That is so stunning, Paul Brady voice is amazing, his guitar playing as well as Andy Irvine's bouzouki playing is exquisite. How lucky we are to be able to enjoy it still.
No shade, but give giorgos zambetas a listen if you wanna hear some otherworldy bouzouki playing
Absolutely brilliant performance by Paul Brady, delivering the definitive version of Lakes of Pontchartrain. And doing it live. Absolutely brilliant. What an amazing talent.
Listening to this at my home on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain :)
Any nice Creole girls there ? 😊
Listening on the North Shore here.
Is there even any alligators in the woods:)
@@Johnnyfive55 yup. But theyre friendly little creatures :)
@@NickleJ I'll take your word on that. Great cover from Brady?. Check out "Arthur McBride" from the the same concert. Another definitive cover from Brady. All the best, from the banks of the Blackwater, Cork.
I spent my 30th birthday in Doon Ireland last year and I and the bar patrons took turns singing favorite songs. A priest who was home from his work in Argentina played guitar and sang this song which I had never heard before. I was FLOORED! What a song.
T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu
And I took the rode to Jackson town, me fortune to renew
I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain
Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain.
I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun
And I rode the roads 'til evening and I laid me down again
All strangers here, no friends to me 'til a dark girl towards me came
And I fell in love with a Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
I said my pretty Creole girl, me money here's no good
If it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the wood
You're welcome here kind stranger, our house it's very plain
But we never turn a stranger out at the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
She took me to her mummy's house and she treated me quite well
The hair upon her shoulders in jet black ringlets fell
To try and paint her beauty I'm sure t'would be in vain
So handsome was my Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
I asked her if she'd marry me, she'd said it could never be
For she had got another and he was far at sea
She said that she would wait for him and true she would remain
'Til he returned for his Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
So fair thee well me bonny o' girl I never see no more
But I'll ne'er forget your kindness and the cottage by the shore
And at each social gathering a flowin' glass I'll raise
And drink a health to me Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
Fantastic lyrics heard it the first time last night in my Bar here in Valencia,Spain ,an Irish boy sung it brilliantly,,,God bless
I played this song once while on holiday in Italy and I ended up with more people watching than I started with. Even the Germans liked it and they previously complained about me playing the guitar late at night.
yeah, we are a strange pack, but sometimes we can be converted by really high quality!
What a singer as powerful in 2022 as it was back in the day. Those were the days for Irish traditional singers . Brilliant🧤👏
Watched and heard the Great Paul Brady sing this in Perth Concert Hall 2 weeks ago. Luck got me there. A chance sighting of an article in a paper. 4 x legends doing possibly their last concert. This was their final piece after an awesome evening and unforgiving standing ovation. This was their pin-drop moment. Paul's voice is unchanged imo. We had Donnal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady (all had been in Planxty) and Ken Burke (Bothy Band). Thought my heart was going to burst.
My goodness, how lucky you are! Unfortunately, they have not come to Germany…
Wow Claire - thanks for sharing about that. Sounds unbelievably precious.
Love it...
is there any videos of this?
I think you mean KEVIN Burke. I met him last year at a dinner in Scotland without knowing who he was. I was so impressed by his conversation and weird Irish/Cockney accent. When I realized who was (he played and sang for us) I was amazed by his humility and grace.
The most beautiful voice in folk music. Unbelievable. This version is the best of them all❤
I met an Irish girl this year. She took me back to her home in Cork and introduced me to her family and this incredible music. We are no longer together but part of my soul will always stay with her
James Kelly, I am so sad that you are no longer together. What a loss.
James Kelly, you absolutely have to get yourself back to Ireland and meet another Irish lady.
Lovely story, James. I’ll drink s Guinness to the two of you when I’m there this summer. Best wishes.
James Kelly ❤️❤️
@jeflynnenut Thanks! We had a wonderful time -- mostly around Westport and North Mayo. We were able to drive through the Burren, and even saw Christy Moore in Athlone. As beautiful as Ireland is -- and it is beautiful -- the Irish people are just as lovely, and half the reason to go!
Was there ever another song that fills your heart with love, heartbreak and desire as much as this? Paul Brady was born to sing this song. A true calling if i ever heard one!
this song is full of heartbreak and beauty
I’ve listened to this song for the first time in Grafton Street, Dublin City. Some buskers were playing at night. I could just memorize some verses and then I found the song here. Amazing!
I play this song on grafton street. Say hello next time bro!
@@Paddyy2012 class
And throw a pound into
the hat
Had the pleasure to play with and listen to paddy2012 on a session in Dublin last Wednesday. It was sublime.
Apart from the love in my dogs eyes when I tell him genuinely he's a good boy I cant compare anything to my hearts joy unless listening to PB.
Purebloods listening to PB again and again.
❤ it.
Revisiting this wondrous performance and wouldn’t you know my lovely Alsatian bitch is at my side with deep brown liquid eyes watching the tears dripping from mine.
Swiss Shepherd and Truth cousins keep it on track.
This is what you call proper music, im 24 and grew up listening to all these songs, Paul Brady is just amazing, his voice is a gift..
The setting for this song is the place where I was raised. It has always filled me with sweet sorrows as oil refineries and "development" has destroyed the magic that once was.
It sounds such a beautiful place in this song John.Jim.Liverpool.
I lived in Ireland from 1996 to 2005. Played music there all those years and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m now back in Singapore with my family.. our hearts are still there. Left behind many great memories and friends. Up Ireland!
@candom rommenter Amen. They need to be put in their place. Too many "progressives" are owned by Chinese money. But that's a political rant that I'll save for another time. Enjoy this wonderful song again and again........
Where did you play and what instrument?
Hi Tom, I played the guitar. Had an uilleann piper, percussion and flute player in our group. Played around Garykennedy, Co. Tipperary and Co. Clare. Had a blast of a time all those years.
@@jeffng6172 thanks for reply...used to play a bit in O'Donoughe's in Dublin around those years.
This song is about the US, nothing to do with Ireland bar Brady being Irish.
This reintroduced me to emotions I forgot had existed.
You wonder...did Paul Brady know when he was singing this particular version how powerful and lovely his interpretation was? Could there be a better way to sing this song than the way he sings it here? Thank you Mick Connell for uploading this gem.
I completely agree with your comment. I saw and heard him back then at a local festival here in Flanders. Still am thrilled by his version.
Martin Taylor
Irish tenor
Martin Taylor 100 % right , in my opinion no version of this song comes close to this one .
Strangely, I think there is. RTE (Irish TV) did an anthology of Paul's output in the very early '90's called "Echoes & Abstracts". On that he's on his own, in the corner of a recently built industrial bay, basic rig. And absolutely nails it. Never seen a better version, other than Aoife O'Donovan's which comes close, I'll admit.
Simply masterpiece!!! Excellent bouzouki playing!
Greetings from Hellas!
Still loving this in 2024.❤❤❤
To have missed this song all my life blows me away. Never too old for Revelation!!
Beautiful Beautiful ❤
'Never too old for a revelation'... I love it! I'm gonna get me a tee shirt!! Cheers buddy.
Cead míle fáilte!
I trust you now have caught up with Paul's version of Arthur McBride!
A most beautiful thing.
Young master Brady looks like he has just left the harry potter set.
A pure voice
The original Weasley
Once the expellarmus is learned the alligators in the wood will be no problem
Andy Irvine on bouzouki- another legend.
im 18 years old and love to listen to drum and bass, dubstep, trance, dance and hip-hop - this is my favourite song of all time.
Yes, it is so beautiful! It always makes my heart ache - not in a bad way - in a special way
27 now. I wonder what you're listening to now. And are you still loving this song?
Andy Irvine is beautiful player. Don't get much better than this.
Greetings, my fellow yellow-belly!
there is no better interpretation possible.
The most beautiful love song ever.💚
Wow! What a voice and what playing, while accompanied by another of the Kings of Irish music Andy Irvine!
Not alone is Ireland the home of country and western music, and Irish traditional music, it's also the real home of Folk music and it should be promoted as such worldwide. I mean what other country has so many brilliant folk singers like Paul Brady and I'm delighted to see the huge folk revival sweeping the country again, and isn't it part of who we are.
I have long admired Paul's use of "open tuning" and his perfection of same! And how qabout that great accoustic sound using only a microphone and no built in graphic equalizer etc!
+KyranI an Geraghty those mics pick up a much warmer sound eh? Plus those Yam FG 180's kick out a beautiful bassy tone which helps ;)
Saw him and Andy Irvine play this and many others at recreation of their 1976 album...Celtic Connections in Glasgow last week..
It was even better!!
I am 54 years old now. Live here in Germany and heard this song for the 1st. time on British Radio 30 years ago. This is the best song i have ever heard in my Life !!!
Paul's singing and playing had an effortless sweetness and softness back then.
I absolutely am in love with Paul singing one of my most beloved songs.
I first heard Paul Brady singing with the Johnstons at the Aldermaston folk club in the 60's ..... a great voice in a harmony of great voices ...... their music still thrills me .
I was still at primary school when my brother bought Planxty's Cold Blow and the Rainy Night. It was just sublime. Brady does it well too. I love his song The Island 👌
There was a period in my youth when this was my favorite song by my favorite singer. Many many years later I met a lifelong friend of his and had the chance to play it for her. Special for me.
Ah, Friels in Miltown Malbay what days, the pub is still there but the soul is fading! Bring back the 70s they were simpler times with a guitar, large bottle of Guinness and a packet of large size rizzla!
Lucky you're in the company of Guinness, I travel 1000s miles to get a real Guinness!
what's rizzla?
michael cushing 😊
hello the answer to yer question is that Rizzla is a brand of cigarette papers popular in all the Keltic countries. .. including england .
from a fella forty years behind the,"roll up"
Slante'
Up the Banner
such a great song always reminds me off a special girl who is always on my mind and she introduced me to this song on a great day out ❤
I've seen paul in concert in nyc 6 times,he is a fantastic musican
Wish I could shake this mans hand before our time on earth ends... Beautifully sung ✌
There are many several good covers of this song, but Brady's is the ultimate. And, just a great song to begin with.
I saw Andy and Donal live two years ago.
Then Christy a few months later.
Never seen Paul (sadly).
And Liam is gone but not forgotten.
Such amazing musicians... up the with the best.
Their likes will not be seen again.
Wow, what sound of nostalgia and longing, this song gets me every time.
I suppose it does not matter who's version is better, it is one of the finest folk songs ever written. Haunting and beautiful and guaranteed to make anyone sit in contemplation long after the song has finished.
My Irish niece, now living in the carolinas with an american husband just loves this song, as i love her
I'm utterly dismayed!
I'm in Glasgow and I didn't know he was playing otherwise I'd have been there. He's one of the best artists I've ever seen - a genius.
It still amazes me after all these years how easy he makes singing and playing these songs look. Second nature to him. Wonderful.
When my daughters were small I sang them to sleep with this lovely song.
Brilliant performance. Paul Brady is such a brilliant folk singer. A pity he left that genre to pursue rock, but he could always go back again. He can be both a rockstar and a trad legend. He is, actually.
My song! I was engaged to and called to sing in my locals.....tis my love song....
Paul Brady was like a baby when he sang this all those years ago, so if he had this tallent then !!!. - its still so fresh and what about the attentive audience - they came to listen and love , not to shout and roar and listen to themselves - this was what sessions were like then - I know, I followed them.
I am so fascinated, this is probably the best version I ever heard!
'WE NEVER TURN A STRANGER OUT ON THE BANKS OF PONTCHARTRAIN"
Still just as heart catching as many yesterdays
Capolavoro della musica folk
I never thought I would say this but I actually miss the '70's.
We'd all like to be over 40 years younger again!
@@winterishere9828 I guess that is true to a point.
The music, yes. Definitely. The rest of it not so much.
that is my life forever and ever, thank you god
and thank you paul,
Irvine and craig
I just never get tired of this...nor of Arthur MacBride. True classics.
Never been to Ireland although my guitar has. I HAVE been to Lake Pontchartrain.
An Irish Band played this at my request, at a pub on St. Patrick's Day, 1997, in Dublin, Ireland. I will never forget it. ❤ Erin Go Bragh!
Does it, Can it get any better than this? I would love it to bear witness to whatever that thing is because THIS is astounding.
Actually, I think Dylan makes it better!
Wonderful musician!
Yes - perfection. And I have no idea why the beauty of it chokes me up.
1,000,000 yrs ago, in L.A., my boyfriend & Michelle Shocked & her husband, Bart's were bestfriends. Went to their wedding, hung out on their houseboats, took care of their sweet old cat when they were on the road.
One night, 12+ years ago, after Michelle's birthday dinner, we went w/ the Hothouse Flowers & jammed to the wee hours.
They played this... plaintively & mournfully: sweet voices, guitar & pennywhistle.
My heart has longed, since then, to hear them play this again. This will do ;-)
it's a joy to hear this song again with Brady and Irvine. It always was a stand-out track for me, since first hearing it in the 1970's. The yearning expressed in both the melody and Brady's singing of it is both heart-tugging and 'haunting.' What I notice on rehearing is the courage of both players to take it slowly and reflectively. Incomparable, imo. Thank you for sharing it.
Incredible
I knew these amazing singers and musicians so many years ago and had Planxty at my folk club in Blackpool England. I’m still playing and listening and enjoying the wonderful music they gave us. 🥰
I could put this on repeat for the rest of me life and die even happier than I am now.
u could try and record this 100 times in a studio and you would not get even close to this. perfect performance!
he greatest "pick-up lin"ever written... "if it weren't for the alligators, I'd sleep out in the woods" YEAH SURE!!!
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It's a well known fact people with Irish blood can sleep anywhere except with alligators even though I know some people married to some
@@michaelf4506 Ah yes, Alligators, the Irishman's greatest foe.
Brady will never be forgotten for that goal against Italy. Good man.
This just grabs my heart. So beautiful.
Top class....
A long day of work ahead, and this marvelous artist is helping me. Beautifully done. Such ease. Such skill. Thank god for this medium. Now if all that happens on the internet were at this level, what a world we would have.
That's why I stopped Facebook and now only listen to music on CZcams.
Songs like this make me know I made the correct choice.
I'm singing this tomorrow at a session and I'm completely nervous. I don't have all the ornaments but I'll add those in as I go along so that it sounds natural. I think this is his definitive performance regardless of how nervous he was. Simply brilliant. Someone has asked me to revise the song as a non-generic which I won't be singing tomorrow but I'm going to send it to him and run it by him. Very difficult to change millions of songs and take away the "he" and "she" but it is an exercise. I also have been bothered it says "Lakes" when there are none so maybe changing it to "Banks". It is a perfect song but when you sing for a younger crowd...they are very picky about this stuff! Again, this is brilliant beyond belief and with Andy Irvine playing with him just takes it out of the universe.
How did it go? :)
@@darkbluemullet trying again tonight. Nobody knew how to play it at the session!!!!!!!! they do now!
There are no “Lakes” of Ponchartrain.
@@pmathews109 well, there is Lake Ponchartrain, which is the main body of water in a connected basin (also called Ponchartrain) that also includes two other lakes, Maurepas and Borgne. Since we're not in the habit of naming things next to each other the same thing, I'd say that's about as close to there being "Lakes" of Ponchartrain as can be reasonably expected from a folk song. If you must be pedantic about something, Lake Ponchartrain is technically an estuary, go with that.
I wish I had known about this man before, he's brilliant, so many wasted years.
43 years later and we are in lockdown. This song made me cry, it's a timeless song about heartbreak. Please God forgive me but I think that I broke a lot of hearts :(
“I broke a lot of hearts” ass
no you didn’t you stupid and ugly
I was born heartbroken
I don't think it was heartbreak. Truth hurt him.
And he respected her enough to raise a glass.
And now America is so very, very lost. Cheers, from Toronto.
Are you gay or something.
Nothing beats a Tyrone vocal!
There are only so many performances that reach a star level of beauty and feeling and this is one of them. Neil Young’s Old Man and Bruce Springsteen’s The River, etc. This one is special.
Isn't that ironic.
Young and the boss advocated the medical intervention.
PB didn't.
Paul Brady for Purebloods.
Thanks Paul and let's not 4get Van.
❤
I was lucky enough to be at the launch of the LP and still have the complimentary single 'A Merry Christmas from Andy and Paul' :) Timeless.
I remember owning his tape "Welcome Here, Kind Stranger" (whose title comes from the lyrics of this song)in the mid-1980s.
I think inside there was a folded up sheet of paper that had information about the song. I forget most of it, but the song is set in the post Civil War South.
At the beginning, the song's character is referring to the fact that the Confederate money is now worthless: "I cursed all foreign money / No credit could I gain."
Duh! Lakes of Ponchatrain! - LA
@@johncronin517 www.google.com/search?q=Ponchatrain&oq=Ponchatrain&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4406j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I love it! Irvine looks like he's laying back having a cappuccino in his local coffee shop, Brady is on auto pilot with a marvelous rendition of "the Lakes". Fantastic to be able to see live what has been unavailable for years. God Bless CZcams! (and the posters)
I think youtube is so powerful, it connects people with similar musical tastes, so, once again, hello Argentina!
You posted your comment 13 years ago... I hope you're doing incredibly well today, these 13 years later.
13 years later still connect people :)
such a Pleasure to hear this wonderful mans voice.
played this version at a gig for the first time and the crowd loved it. beautiful song.
I'm listening to his 'Welcome Here Kind Stranger' right now. Lovely!
Magical both Paul's vocal and guitar and Andy's bazouki
this was 40 years ago and we're enjoying this
40 years ago, people could not enjoy what their ancients did 40 years before ...
how many treasures like this from "baladins" and singers have been lost in time !
(.heuumm .. uderstandable ? )
Love Brady's guitar arrangement on this gorgeous song.
Brilliant then. Still utterly brilliant and moving now.