Music as inspiration

[cornerofmadness]

I write to music a lot. The geeklove story I'm trying to find a plot twists the old Tam Lin ballad. I used to have one that I adore (and can not find on youtube) by Tempest (but I do see I can replace my old school tapes with slightly newer old school cds. Need to scrape the money up for that).

I did persue you tube for the one evil_little_dog pointed out by Steel-eyed Span (whom I love). I did find a few other versions and thought I'd put them here. In my story, Tam Lin gets taken back by the Faerie Queen, pretty much any time he manages to escape mostly because I wanted to do a modern version of this (and I would have no idea how one would do a geek story in the middle ages).

There are many versions of this ballad and I have loved it since I was a kid. I could sing Tempest's version by heart when I was in college (and yes I was naturally that dorky)

I have never heard of this group, the Tricky Pixie but I really liked this version, especially having both a male and female singer doing Janet and Tam Lin's parts.

"ghost of a rose Spike and Drusilla" (Watch on YouTube)

The Steel-Eyed Span version has every piece of Pre-Raphealite art the person could find.

"SPIKE & Drusilla song: Mad Hatter" (Watch on YouTube)

And probably my least favorite version of the group, is a very shortened version by the Mediavel Baebes but I like them in general and this one does keep more of the old Scottish words in it (which means its nigh uncomprehensible)

"spike & drusilla ~ howl" (Watch on YouTube)

You can find Tempest here and you want to go almost to the bottom to Serrated Edge for a sample of Tam Lin and a song that I really like for an old Mercedes Lackey novel.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Tricky Pixie although I'm a longtime fan of Steeleye Span. Fasicinating hearing the differing versions.

Here's another version by Fairport Convention with vocals by the haunting Sandy Denny, guitar work by the great Richard Thompson.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks yes I stumbled across that one youtube as well. I've never heard of Tricky Pixie either but like you I've loved Steel-eyed Span for years.

I found it very interesting to hear all the various versions. It's also interesting to hear a ballad that is at a min. 500 years old still holding an interest for m odern performers

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I'm a long time Fairport fan although they were never that big here. Judy Collins had a huge hit with their song "Who Knows Where the Time Goes".

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

very cool. Looking at my cd collection I have ungodly amounts of celtic, native american and classical music with more than reasonable amounts of jazz and country