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   Iain Anderson to Jacey Bedford   
   Re: Bonnie Suzie Cleland   
   17 Jan 07 14:40:11   
   
   XPost: uk.music.folk   
   From: jethro.anderson@bristol.ac.uk   
      
   And by tha late lamented Clutha - Gordeanna McCulloch singing   
   wonderfully - instrumentals sparse, really gets you believing in the story.   
      
   Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   > In message <1168418563.255648.168870@k58g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,   
   > mark_bluemel@pobox.com writes   
   >>   
   >> David Kilpatrick wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It could have done with a gathering of voices for the refrain lines,   
   >>> because in a live performance (at least in Scotland) some of the   
   >>> audience would be accompanying those confidently after the second verse   
   >>> or the singer would begin to feel the song was not going down well. And   
   >>> that is why they are there, of course, in this type of song; to be   
   >>> joined in with.   
   >>   
   >> The Oysterband with June Tabor did this song many years ago, and played   
   >> games with the refrain lines, sometimes dropping the vocal and putting   
   >> in instrumental fills, and for one verse June only sang the refrains.   
   >> Great piece of work, IMHO.   
   >>   
   > Eileen McGann recorded it, too.   
   >   
   > Jacey   
      
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