Rambleaway is a a tune from Somerset collected by Cecil Sharp, and performed beautifully by Shirley Collins and Norma Waterson amongst many others. This is just me unaccompanied.

Rambleaway - Traditional

The first folk song I ever learned from another person. There are many versions, this is the one I learned, so this is the one I sing. Read the history of Geordie or Georgie here. https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/geordie.html

Geordie - Traditional

A traditional song which exists in countless incarnations, both American and British, this is the one I know, probably learned from Joan Baez.

Silver Dagger - Traditional

A wonderful old and gruesome song, Twa Corbies. Thought it might be fun to play both ravens and have a go at harmonising with myself for this one. There are many excellent versions of this, mine owes everything to Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span. Read about it here https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/twacorbies.html

Twa Corbies (Two Ravens) - Traditional

A traditional English folk song collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1904. I love Shirley Collins' version, and also Lisa Knapp's version. Everything you need to know about it can be found here https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/salisburyplain.html

Salisbury Plain - Traditional

This is clearly neither traditional folk, nor unaccompanied, it's a request. (I love requests) This lovely song has been covered lots of times, but perhaps never with an Oud (Thanks Keith, storywheel ). As I can only really press record on GarageBand, I had to learn to fade and play about with it a bit. Still, it's a sketch.

I Need My Girl - The National

My version of Twa Corbies so kindly mastered by Sam Clouston (Thank you Sam https://soundcloud.com/sam-clouston) so it's all proper and everything.

Twa Corbies (Two Ravens) Traditional - MASTERED

My Version of What a Voice. I am in love with Jeannie Robertson the great Scottish ballad singer so I hope I've had a good attempt at it for her. More commonly known and sung as I Wish, I Wish, especially in England. I read it was quite unfashionable to sing now, It brings me joy to be unfashionable then. :) https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/iwishmylove.html

What a Voice - Traditional

**Storywheel Klaxon** I am so delighted to have another track to share with you from my collaboration with storywheel. We chose Shirley Collin's version of Pretty Saro from her seminal folk album with Davy Graham, 'Folk Roots, New Routes', which informs our project. Shirley will always be a true inspiration to me, and Davy to Keith. Did I tell you I LOVE the oud. I love the oud.

Pretty Saro - Catherine Earnshaw & storywheel

Song evoking an idyllic week spent in Ilfracombe, a Devon seaside town, with the great love of my early adult life, a young North African woman whom I’d met while teaching in Algeria. But the idyll was short lived. At Heathrow a few days later we kissed goodbye.  I never saw her again. 

The melody is my take on a half-remembered Kabyle (Algerian Berber) folksong and the song’s harmonic structure is, I suppose, quite Mediterranean in style. The accompaniment is played principally on an oud (Arab lute) in an unorthodox finger style and the solo instrument is a mondol, a hybrid instrument invented in Algiers in the 1940s by the great ‘Shaabi’ songwriter and composer Hajj El-Anka. In recent years the mondol has become more widely known outside Algeria through the brilliant playing of Hakim Hamadouche, sideman to the late great Algerian rocker Rachid Taha.

Long Years Ago

I would love to have spent a long time on this song making it perfect as it deserves to be, but here is what you get, one performance. What can I say about this song? It was written by Eric Bogle and I learned it from June Tabor's version. It breaks my heart. The photograph is a relative who fought, William Furnell. These boys were so young.

No Mans Land / The Green Fields of France - Eric Bogle 11 : 11 : 2018

http://www.storywheelmusic.co.uk
storywheel - originally an oud (Arab lute) duo formed by Patricia de Mayo and ex-Natacha Atlas sideman Keith Clouston -  is now Keith Clouston solo. Mixing traditional folksongs of the British Isles with own songs and influences from North Africa and the Middle East. Atmospheric, intimate, funky, songs of love, loss, piracy, fanaticism & geometry. The duo's debut EP 'I Crossed The Sea' was produced by Mercury Music Prize nominee Gerry Diver (Sam Lee, Lisa Knapp, O'Hooley & Tidow). Keith now performs regularly with traditional style folk singer Catherine Earnshaw.

Long Years Ago

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