I pretty much would forgive Joan Baez more or less anything if she sang something to me in way of apology.
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‘Silver Dagger.’
Huh. You’d think I would have put this one up by now.
“Silkie.”
“Barbara Allen.”
One of the first ones I ever memorized. Learned this one off of a scratchy LP in a college library two weeks before the formal start of classes…
…Sorry. My mind was elsewhere for a couple of minutes.
“Farewell Angelina.”
“The Wild Mountain Thyme.”
The Wild Mountain Thyme, Joan Baez
Ach, well, fall is coming.
“Mary Hamilton.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9_jdmcAhY
Nothing like an iPod upgrade to make you remember all the albums that you had previously forgotten.
‘Let It Be.’ (Joan Baez)
Joan Baez was recently injured in a fall. Prayers and good wishes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsYg9MTLfk
Let It Be, Joan Baez
‘Mary Hamilton’
You can have my folk music collection when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
“Matty Groves”
Christopher Stasheff once said of this ballad that it was the one a wise minstrel performed when he was called in to distract his patrons from an unfortunate dispute, on the principle that whatever had happened, it was unlikely to have been worse than the plot.
Yes, I know that there’s half a dozen reasons why Chris Stasheff was spouting off nonsense there. And?
Moe Lane
PS: It’s a murder ballad. They all incorporate poor lifestyle decisions on the part of their participants. And this isn’t even the version with the typical ending.