Showing posts with label Irish folk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish folk. Show all posts

April 21, 2025

Marie Mouri


‪@PeacocksTaleMusic‬ for all our 250 plus videos A very sad song but a joy to play    • Marie Mouri by Peacock's Tale Musical...   Same recording technique and target sound as Pallet On Your Floor. lyrics Chère 'tit zozo quoi t'apré fé? T'apré sauter, t'apré chanter To pas connais n'a p'us Marie Marie mouri, Marie mouri 'Tits herbe tout vert, 'tits herbe tout moux Faut p'us to fais un lit pou nous To pas connais n'a p'us Marie Marie mouri, Marie mouri Quand jou fini n'a p'you soleil Quand nuit fini n'a pas sommeil Quand monde content mo p'us ca ri Marie mouri, Marie mouri credits from Untied States of Americana (LP), track released January 24, 2022 peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/untie…mericana-lp Maz - guitar, vocal; Gaz - drum & bass. A David L. Greely song which we learned in the version by Linda Ronstadt/ Anna Savoy.

March 31, 2025

When I Was On Horseback



We first heard this Irish folksong on Steeleye Span's Ashley Hutchings drenched "Ten Man Mop" album in the 70s and this is the version we follow here. For me its brooding atmospheric electric droning fiddle and thunder bass was like a folk track had strayed onto the first Velvet Underground album and I could never get enough of their version (Still can't.) Being a folk ballad, it speaks volumes by leaving a lot of the narrative unsaid and the suggestions of doom and betrayal amid the hybris of youth can be applied to many situations about the potential shortness of life and love. In our arrangement, we've veered toward the military suggestion rather than disease. (The obscure Steeleye cover notes about 'Another young man cut down in his prime... tasted and wasted.. sickness and disease pull you down" always baffled me but now I know what they might mean I wish I didn't.)