Weekend Music Chill

This weekend's music is from my childhood.  Pop liked Ian & Sylvia, and their music still get stuck in my head sometimes.

Here they are with "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well."



Another my favorite of mine off the Four Strong Winds album, "Royal Canal", isn't available on video, so I posted The High Kings performing this classic Irish folk song. They play this much more slowly than Ian & Sylvia. Also, the original title of this song is "The Auld Triangle," but because Ian & Sylvia were the first to put the tune on a record and called "Royal Canal," it sometimes causes confusion. The Royal Canal is a real canal that runs from Dublin to Cloondara and was restored in 2010.

Weekend Music Chill

When I was growing up, Pops always had an eclectic variety of music on the stereo: classical, country and western, and folk. (No rock and roll for him.) I wasn't aware of it at the time, but many of the folk singers we heard in our youth were pretty much lefties, Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Cisco Houston to name a few. Didn't seem to harm me much, as I grew into the libertarian leaning conservative and otherwise fine upstanding citizen. I was particularly fond of some of Ian and Sylvia's tunes, especially V'la Le Bon Vent (and yes Paul, you ultra-rightist, I took French in high school.) I couldn't find Ian and Sylvia's version of that tune on YouTube but I came across a group called the McDades who rock! So here are the McDades with a traditional French-Canadian chanson à répondre (a round).