First off Happy Birthday to
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The phlebotomist got me on the first jab. Whoo hoo. Here's hoping for a better HGA1C. It should be. Invokana seems to be working.
If you want to see my productive Writers Retreat week you can see it
here The snow looks beautiful.
And for this week's Music Monday, let me say my folk/Irish music roots are showing again. I LOVE songs that have a theme to them or tell a story. You see that a lot in folk music. For example
Jethro Tull's
Hunting Girl. In fact the whole
Songs from the Woods album would fit and this link will take you to most of it. I love Jethro Tull and it's fun that so many of my friends love them too even though really this was music from a generation before ours.
I'm a huge fan of the Scottish ballad
Tam Lin, so much so I've been trying to write a story based off of it since the mid 1980s (I always fail including my last attempt in 2012). Here is Steel Eyed Span's version. I couldn't find my favorite version but theirs is excellent. Like Tull, many of their songs could fit this week's theme.
And since I mentioned Irish folk music have a great band, the Dubliners doing another all time favorite of mine. I love that this is played at almost every Irish bar I've been in and all the Irish fests. I love singing along.
Whiskey in the Jar. Damh the Bard (another favorite of mine) sings an original composition of one of my favorite stories in the old Celtic belief system. It's a wonderful tale.
Ceridwen & TaleisinTempest, the band I was trying to find doing
Tam Lin has this arrangement of a song they're calling
Black Jack Davy which is a take-off the raggle taggle gypsy ballad.
Not all of it has to be traditional folk music. I asked ELD and our friend Flippy for some of their favorites that fit the them. ELD offered up
After Me by Marillion
And Flippy gave me David & David's
All For You Flippy also introduced me this video by Gorillaz and it's pretty much a themed album. I had heard the song, of course, but hadn't realized that it was a dystopic world theme.
Feel Good And Abney Park, the steampunk band, has a lot of themed songs but this is my favorite. Read the inspiration for the song. It's fun.
To The Apocalypse In Daddy's Sidecar Speaking of apocalypses (since I just did twice) I didn't want anyone to take offense at yesterday's dystopia post. If you like them, I'm good with that. I was thinking about that half the night after seeing a post from someone I know in regards to the Oscars and she was absolutely VICIOUS twice to several people who didn't share her love of a certain movie. I'm like WOW. If that had been me, I would have called her on that shit. It was uncalled for. Hope I didn't come across that way. it wasn't my intent.
And lastly the saddest of them by another artist I've featured, S J Tucker's Valkyrie's Daughter. This one made me cry.
So what are your favorite story-songs? Share them please!
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