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Subject: What fills your ducts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 12 Jan 02 - 12:24 PM I'm sitting here listening to Iris De Ment's, "Infamuos Angel" CD, and although I love "Our town", I can't sing it for the lump in my throat. Don't know why it does it, it just does, it's like I can't sing the line in Eric Bogle's "The band played Waltzing Matilda" about "the armless, the legless, the blind the, insane" without that same old lump. I guess I'm just an old softie. Sniff-sniff.....Jock |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: DonMeixner Date: 12 Jan 02 - 12:36 PM Samr here Jock, Iris has what I'd call a perfect voice for the songs she writes. "Our Town" is a most compelling piece. "Let the Mystery Be" is also a great song. That who;le album is fine infact. Don |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Bat Goddess Date: 12 Jan 02 - 02:25 PM I used to have the same problem singing "Dancing At Whitsun." Hey, Giok -- I've got a Bib Nilson drawing that includes you the night you visited The Press Room. PM me your snail mail address and I'll ship it off to you post haste. (You haven't answered my PM of a few weeks back.) Linn |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Amos Date: 12 Jan 02 - 02:33 PM Thinking about Jen in that cake kinda gets me choked up....oh....that's not what you meant? Sorry, sorry.... The first time I heard Parting Glass, a version by the Voice Squad, the last quatrain stuck in my head and my tear ducts, as well -- the line about it falling to my lot, that I should rise and you should not....but you understand, I at first thought it meant rise physically, meaning the song was being sung to the deceased. I think now it means just to those left in a small town by one moving on to bigger things. Much less sentimental that way. I got that way the first time I heard the Clancies sing Roddy McCorley, too. And the Foggy Dew. Guess I'm just a bloody oul' Protestant, eh? A |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jan 02 - 03:02 PM Barbara and I didn't get a chance to watch Northern Exposure very regularly when it was on the network, but when A&E stripped it, I taped it (came on early in the day), then Barbara and I watched it in the evenings. We really got into the show. Then, as the last episode came to its conclusion, on comes Iris Dement singing Our Town. The first time we'd ever heard it. Talk about getting choked up. . . . I went through a sticky patch a few years back, and one song that I found really hard to listen to was Gordon Bok's Turning Toward the Morning. Still gets to me. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: gnu Date: 12 Jan 02 - 03:04 PM Giok... so now every April I sit on the porch... I can hardly type it ! Amos... you cry at Cat'lic songs ? That's a good first step. BTW, the deceased is to rise to heaven and you are to stay on in life. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Mudlark Date: 12 Jan 02 - 03:42 PM Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold...floods of tears every time. And I rarely sing The Great Silkie in public, because I can't be sure I wont choke on the last verses...every time I sing it I hope it will come out differently. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: gnu Date: 12 Jan 02 - 03:46 PM Amos... you're a trout, you're not a steak. (All in good fun, now, me son.) |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: kendall Date: 12 Jan 02 - 03:54 PM It took me 20 years to be able to get through THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA. Finally recorded it, but, had to get my mind on something else. (My ex wife's lawyer works) Same problem with LONESOME ROBIN, right Dani? |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Morticia Date: 12 Jan 02 - 04:10 PM Singing the Spirit Home by Eric Bogle, which I've had to banish from the car as I can't drive safely with my eyes full of tears. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: gnu Date: 12 Jan 02 - 04:16 PM Why is it that "Matilda" breaks up so many of us ? All of the lads here have a hard time of it. My buddy Chris does an amazing rendition. He sings and plays the guitar very softly and it is a slow version. The audience leans in and strains to cry along. The room is completely silent, with most heads bowed, until the last verse, when we all wipe our eyes and join in. Is it the "anti" message or the delivery ? I'm tearful just remembering some of the sessions in which it was done by Chris. However, my cousin does a faster version, with more "voice" and it doesn't have the same effect. What say you ? |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Amos Date: 12 Jan 02 - 06:44 PM THere's a lot of pieces to that [uzzle. Gnu words, the imaes behind them, the thoughts, the pacing, the emotion laid on by the singer, the conviction offered in the singing, the musical part of it and how well it is phased against the song.... one combination will leave them flooded in tears and another just half-a-beat off in some respect or other wiill leave them nodding or worse, never shut them up at all. Hard to say precisely which element does what in penetrating the screen, although slower pacing does usually seem to slip under the guard easier. A. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: kendall Date: 12 Jan 02 - 09:42 PM One of the greatest compliments I ever got was Eric Bogle telling me that he likes my rendition of his song. He said I sing it the way he meant it to be sung. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: GUEST,][ceman Date: 12 Jan 02 - 10:57 PM Angel band does it for me, but I can keep belting the high lonesome sounds _through_ the tears. Another old softie, this brings my late mando-pickin' bro to mind. kendall: that's waaaaaaay cool!!!!! }{ceman |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Hrothgar Date: 13 Jan 02 - 05:49 AM Anachie Gordon can get me sometimes. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Deckman Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:38 AM Many years ago, 1965 I think, when my friend David Spence was killed in a gyro-copter crash in California, we had a two night fundraising concert for him. Performers and friends came from all around. David was native Irish, and there were many Irish singers there. The closing song each night was "Parting Glass." To this day, I can only sing it for myself. Good thread! CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: gnu Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:23 AM "Long Night" by Rawlins Cross of Newfoundland is a tear jerker if you know that it was written shortly after the news of the death of Emile Benoit, a famous Newfoundland fiddler, was received and one of the lads said, "This is going to a be long night." The wailing pipes and fantastic mandolin, combined with one of the strongest voices I have ever heard, that of Joey Kitson of Prince Edward Island, are simply amazing. It's on "Reel and Roll", so some of the true folkies may not cotton to it's rock 'n roll flavour, but the use of traditional instruments - pipes, mandolin, accordian(s), bodhran - is worth a listen. That one song is worth the price of admission, but it's not the only great tune on the album. If you didn't know the story behind "Long Night" and you have "Reel and Roll", go have another listen. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: michaelr Date: 13 Jan 02 - 03:56 PM "Our Town" is a great song but Iris's voice just grates on me. (BTW, I've always thought that her and Jimmy Dale Gilmore should record a duet or two... the combination of two such annoying whiners should be something... any thoughts on that out there?) Always fills my ducts: Emmylou Harris, "Spanish Is A Loving Tongue"; Mary Black, "Without The Fanfare"; Jimmy Crowley, "The Banks Of Sulan"; Clive Gregson and Christine Collister (any number of their songs). ~Michael |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Brían Date: 13 Jan 02 - 07:54 PM I would have to say ditto to DANCING AT WHITSUN and THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA. I was once asked to play FAITHFUL DEPARTED, which I learned from a Christy Moore tape for a friend at her father's funeral, and I choked up so bad that someone leaned over and told me it was all right to cry if I wanted to(hooo, run-on or what). Brían |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 13 Jan 02 - 07:57 PM Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game"; ever since I was a little girl, and as I've grown older & become a mother it only gets worse! |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Jon Freeman Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:05 PM Eric Bogle can have that effect on me but TBPWM is not one of the songs that does it to me - Scraps Of Paper and The Leaving Of Nancy can get to me. I'm sure I have mentioned this before and seem to remember others having problems trying to sing Maggie. I was OK until I learned the story behind the song but have struggled with it since. Jon |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: kendall Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:23 PM One of the dumbest things I ever agreed to do was to sing, "Gently, down the stream of time" at Marshall Dodge's funeral. 'Course I didn't get through it. |
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Subject: RE: What fills your ducts? From: Sorcha Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:33 PM It's a real dumb ass one...........good old worn out Amazing Grace played on pipes. I was just plain bored with it until about 9 years ago when we had a local police officer killed in the line of duty. It was not played at his service, but as soon as the service/after meal was over, we booked it out of town to the Estes Park Highland Games.
Arrived and parked just in time for the end of Tattoo/Massed Bands tribute to fallen heroes.......there we are, fresh from the funeral, at the back gate where the bands go in and out. All these guys in kilts and uniforms standing around with us. Everybody standing at attention with tears just streaming........daughter Kate litterally collapsed at the end, but she made it through the song.
It was 4 years before she could hear it without screaming NOOOOOOOOoooooooooo and running away. 7 years before she could even think about it. At 8 years, she volunteered to sing it at our local police memorial service and asked me to back her. We got through it, 2 verses, even. She finished, and ran. I have never been so proud of her. Me, I just stood there and pretended I wasn't crying.
She will occasionally play it on the piano now, if she is alone. The officer who was killed was a special friend of hers, as he helped us build her bedroom from scratch. We still miss him. Always will. And I won't play the damn song except for special occasions. Had to play it at a fellow fiddlers funeral a couple years back. I did it, but it wasn't easy. |
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