Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is Pt. 2

pdcawley@bofh.org.uk (Piers Cawley) — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:59:00 -0500

Not content with inflicting my reading of Tamlyn on you all, I’ve recorded a couple more songs

Bill Norrie

First up is Bill Norrie, which I was inspired to learn when I heard Fay Hield of the Witches of Elswick singing it at the Cumberland Arms sessions. It’s a fine example of a ‘big’ ballad, and one of countless tragedies that could have been forestalled if people had simply talked to each other.

Composed in August

Composed in August is a love song by Robert Burns. It’s one of my favourite autumn songs. I got it from Lady of Autumn¹ by Beggar’s Velvet. It’s a delight to sing; the tune is gorgeous and the words are lovely.

Licenses and stuff

These recordings are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence. In the unlikely event that you do create a derivative work, please let me know about it.

¹ A long deleted vinyl album that’s recently been released on CD by Old and New Tradition

Putting my money where my mouth is

pdcawley@bofh.org.uk (Piers Cawley) — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:00:00 -0500

One of the great things that the internet allows us all to do with music is to share it. I don’t mean ‘sharing’ copyrighted material that we have ‘liberated’ from the media we purchased it on – I know enough struggling folk musicians to realise how important royalties are to those people.

What I mean by sharing is sharing the music we make ourselves.

So I’m putting my money where my mouth is. I’ve recorded myself singing Tamlyn and made that recording available. Tamlyn’s my favourite ‘big ballad’. My version runs to just over 9 minutes and is completely unaccompanied. If your idea of listenable music involves, well, almost anything you’d hear in the charts, you may well hate this. But if you think you might like to hear a stranger singing a song he loves to the best of his ability, go for it, you might like it.

For the avoidance of doubt, both song and tune are traditional, arranged by me, and the recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence. In the unlikely event that you do create a derivative work, please let me know about it.

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Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is Pt. 2

Bill Norrie

Composed in August

Licenses and stuff

Putting my money where my mouth is