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Musical Traces
by Musical-Traces
The idea is quite simple.I read a book by Will Hodgkinson that outlined a trip to collect music around the British Isles, in true Cecil Sharpe manner. With modern digital recorder in hand, off he went, but I think he missed a trick or two and yet, I don’t have the time necessary to prove my theory. I can’t get in the car and just go prove that I could do it better, so I gave up on the idea of being the next best thing to Alan or John Lomax, or Moses Asch.Then I asked myself the questions…. how would I have to do this in order to make it work? I’d need to do it from my virtual armchair. Could you be a recorder of Folk music, or rather people’s music from all over the world without leaving the confines of your own living room? Then it struck me. What if I started with someone I knew, asked them to record a song, or give me something they’d already done, with a little blurb about who they were and what they’d done, and then send me to the next link in the chain by helping me to contac
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02 Cunla (The Frieze Britches) ~ Terry Lees
The tune is called Cunla or sometimes 'The Frieze Britches' Terry describes it thus - I had always liked Celtic music but growing up in England in the early 60's I seldom got to hear much, only when my Mother (originally from Ireland) used to sing to us. This is the first Irish Jig I learned to...
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01 Kick Up Dee Debbel On A Holiday
Starting Point - Barry Murphy and Dan Stewart ~ 'Kick Up Dee Debbel On A Holiday' The first tune, the starting place, in the Musical Traces line, 'Kick Up Dee Debbel On a Holiday', is here performed by my Dad - Barry Murphy and his friend Dan Stewart, who played the 12 string guitar and...
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The idea is quite simple.I read a book by Will Hodgkinson that outlined a trip to collect music around the British Isles, in true Cecil Sharpe manner. With modern digital recorder in hand, off he went, but I think he missed a trick or two and yet, I don’t have the time necessary to prove my theory. I can’t get in the car and just go prove that I could do it better, so I gave up on the idea of being the next best thing to Alan or John Lomax, or Moses Asch.Then I asked myself the questions…. how would I have to do this in order to make it work? I’d need to do it from my virtual armchair. Could you be a recorder of Folk music, or rather people’s music from all over the world without leaving the confines of your own living room? Then it struck me. What if I started with someone I knew, asked them to record a song, or give me something they’d already done, with a little blurb about who they were and what they’d done, and then send me to the next link in the chain by helping me to contac
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The idea is quite simple.I read a book by Will Hodgkinson that outlined a trip to collect music around the British Isles, in true Cecil Sharpe manner. With modern digital recorder in hand, off he went, but I think he missed a trick or two and yet, I don’t have the time necessary to prove my theory....
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