tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post7608996820005095856..comments2023-03-30T04:08:45.468-04:00Comments on These Things Too: The Greatest Song. Ever.Stan Denskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-66715388415658978072010-01-11T12:13:15.323-05:002010-01-11T12:13:15.323-05:00I really appreciate this blog post. It is so nice ...I really appreciate this blog post. It is so nice to see more people touched by Brady's music and voice.Tore Johanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04641134923022603533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-72511832533988478912009-02-22T01:07:00.000-05:002009-02-22T01:07:00.000-05:00I'm 1st-generation Harpo-American, and one of the ...I'm 1st-generation Harpo-American, and one of the most amazing nights of my childhood happened when my parents had a party and dozens of my relatives came. Half of them I'd never seen before and haven't seen since. And sometime late in the evening they decided to start singing. Bus drivers and steelworkers and who-knows-what were belting out "John Connolly" and songs in Gaelic and my father sang "Black Velvet Band." No instruments involved. I would never have thought most of these people could sing, but damn.<BR/><BR/>I grew up with this stuff and it's always been a big part of why I love music. Now I'm off to play some Christy Moore records.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-22627868214340294932009-02-20T14:30:00.000-05:002009-02-20T14:30:00.000-05:00Yes.Much like baseball, Irish music gets better th...Yes.<BR/><BR/>Much like baseball, Irish music gets better the more you drink.Stan Denskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-21312607282111677592009-02-20T13:20:00.000-05:002009-02-20T13:20:00.000-05:00Indeed there is no comparison between the performa...Indeed there is no comparison between the performances. <BR/><BR/>I gave up on Bob in the mid 70s but eventually regained my interest and enthusiasm following TOOM and L&T. That all sent me back to tracking down all the Basement Tapes, reading the Marcus book, getting the 2 "folk" albums and from there to the Harry Smith set, Dock Boggs and....Paul Brady.<BR/><BR/>My interest in folk music goes right back to studying "Industrial Ballads" in school...on to Fairport and various places thereafter.<BR/><BR/>Not all the Irish stuff you can hear in the bars is as good as "Arthur McBride" but there is the Guinness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-29724109659784272522009-02-20T13:02:00.000-05:002009-02-20T13:02:00.000-05:00I like Bob, I truly do. But his version doesn't h...I like Bob, I truly do. But his version doesn't hold an unlit candle in a room in a different hotel compared to Brady's. And one of those records is horribly recorded, the other not so much, and, though it's a fine record, I think I've listened to it maybe twice. I just don't care. People downright mythologize Dylan's place in EVERYTHING in order to imbue those records with some quality that, quite frankly, they don't have.<BR/><BR/>Maybe that's the motivation behind the unending horror of the NET -- Dylan doesn't want to be remembered as a writer. Nobody wants to be loved for the thing that made us love them. How many famous guitarists have finally put out solo LPs on which they play almost no guitar?<BR/><BR/>People are just funny that way.Stan Denskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-27847178356870150632009-02-20T12:50:00.000-05:002009-02-20T12:50:00.000-05:00Very, very special. It sends a continual shiver do...Very, very special. <BR/><BR/>It sends a continual shiver down my spine. The combination of the melody, his awesome voice and the subversive lyrics are dynamite. <BR/>P(p)olitical as so many of the best folk songs are, it's wonderful to see the hint of a smile play around his mouth as he starts into the song aware there will be people hearing it for the first time.<BR/>Brady was born on the border between Ulster and the Republic and Derek Barker's excellent recent book "The Songs He Didn't Write - Bob Dylan" gives more detail. He says the song was first collected in 1840 in Limerick.<BR/>Of course we all know Bob's version and I listened to it and this one both only yesterday. Still not sure if it's on the 90s "folk" album you tolerate or deride?? sealyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com