The Wife of Usher's Well ia a sad tale of loss and the mental illness that ensues. With a return from the dead in the flesh and blood form of the cockerel, are the three sons back to stay?

The Wife Of Ushers Well

Legend has it that this is a very traditional Gaelic song. It is a song of unrequited love for a young fisherman. There are many variations of the story relating to this song, but one version says that it was written at the end of the 18th century by Sìne NicFhionnlaigh from Tong, Isle of Lewis for Donald MacRae of Uig, Isle of Lewis. Further versions state that although this is a song full of despair, the couple ended up marrying a year after the song was penned. 

Fhir a’ bhàta sna hò ro èile,	
Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an tèid thu	

Translation
Oh Boatman - a fond farewell wherever you go.

Original artwork The Boatman by Rob Ellis

Fear a' Bhàta

The seventh track from our Traditional Folk album with Play-Doh artwork by the fabulous Eleanor Macnair

"In the Pines", also known as "Black Girl" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", is a traditional American folk song which dates back to at least the 1870s, and is believed to be Southern Appalachian in origin. The identity of the song's author is unknown, but it has been recorded by many artists in numerous genres. Traditionally, it is most often associated with the American blues musician Lead Belly, who recorded several versions in the 1940s, as well as the American bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, who helped popularize the song (in a different variant, featuring lyrics about a train) among bluegrass and country audiences with his versions recorded in the 1940s and 1950s.

In The Pines

My love is like a red red rose

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The new album from Ranagri, recorded at Real World Studios produced by twice Grammy nominated & Ivor Novello winning Graeme Pleeth.

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Sad Songs

Never Look Back

The Wrong Direction

Cold Shallow

The Snow It Melts The Soonest

Oh don’t look me in the eye or maybe I will find
The thing that makes you lie and the reasons you apply
Whatever makes you bread and that paves your road ahead
All the monuments you reap and the company you keep
You’ve got a lot to answer for

You can do better things than this 
Open your eyes and you won’t miss
You can do better, You can do better
There’s nowhere to find another year, 
There’s nowhere to fake another tear
You can do better - You can do better

Someone needs to cede, I know it’s not your creed
And there’s nothing you will heed, but you could do much better
You’ll be needing bees, so you’ll be wanting trees
It's so easy just like it seems, it couldn’t be much better
You’ve got a lot to answer for

You can do better things than this, 
Open your eyes and you won’t miss
You can do better, oh you can do better
There’s nowhere to find another year,
Nowhere to fake another tear
You can do better - Oh you can do better

Wildflower man - couldn’t do better
The wildflower man - couldn’t do better -
You’ve got a lot to answer for

Oh you can do better X 4

You can do better things than this, 
Open your eyes and you won’t miss
You can do better, oh you can do better
There’s nowhere to find another year, 
Nowhere to fake another tear
You can do better - Oh you can do better

The new album from Ranagri, recorded at Real World Studios produced by twice Grammy nominated & Ivor Novello winning Graeme Pleeth.

Better

Voices

I Wonder

If you’re out there call my name
I can see you on the horizon now
I’m running scared that you won’t find me
Look away…

Hide the stones behind the mask
Let the white doves into the darkness
Hollowed lines setting like clockwork
Falling away..

Is anybody out there 
Can anyone see me here
Can anyone hear me breathing

See the keepers catch my eye
Watch me reappear through your looking glass
We’ll set our future dreams to everlast
Don’t run away

Is anyone out there 
Can anyone see me here
Can anybody hear me breathing

Oh Is anybody out there 
Is anybody out there
Is anybody out there
Is anybody out there

Out There

"You're unlikely to hear anything more irresistible and more folky this year".  Mike Ainscoe,  Louder Than War.

"There's little to use as a point of reference when you discuss the sound created by Ranagri, stunning, dazzling, remarkable,
any of those will do".  Tim Carroll, Folk Worlds.

"Ranagri - Album of the Week - 'Voices'  If they're not playing near you buy the album, if they are - buy the album and go see". Neil King, Fatea Magazine

Katie Derham, Presenter BBC Proms and Radio 3 
"How often do you hear a sound that's completely new which has great energy and immediately makes you want to dance? I'll be following Ranagri around. I hope they don't mind ... " 
 
Ranagri are Donal Rogers, Eliza Marshall, Eleanor Dunsdon and Jordan Murray.

Consisting of flutes, whistles, harps, bodhrans, guitars, bouzoukis and vocals, Ranagri fuse Celtic folk with original song writing and vibrant instrumentals, along with influences from folk music worldwide.

‘Echoes of Pentangle, Jethro Tull and new Celtic folk sounds - cemented by strong contemporary song writing’.
Carl Corcoran
Presenter of RTÉ lyric fm's ‘Blue of the Night’.

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