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A 1956 one-hit wonder.
Which rather overstates it - because it wasn't a hit - but it was a (minor) wonder - and worth a re-spin 52 years later
And it's another cover of a Bob Dylan song - this is a rarely-heard and unusual cover of Bob's venomous Positively Fourth Street by Johnny Rivers, a popular American singer who has also covered the likes of Memphis, Maybellene, Baby I Need Your Lovin', The Tracks of My Tears, Into the Mystic etc
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This is a 19th century traditional irish song which has been covered by a host of Celtic and non-Celtic luminaries like Van Morrison, the Corrs, Sinead O'Connor, Kate Bush etc etc
It would be too easy to play one of those versions - instead we're going for a South African folk group with a Scots/Irish name who specialised in remarkably authentic renderings of Celtic originals fae the ould country - so this is Irish folk music from Johannesburg
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Lovely tune.
As I've posted before, my grandfather, born in 1875, spent many years in South Africa before returning to Scotland around 1919, where he was a noted singer in his village, leading the Church choir in days when paying for an organ would have been seen as close to Papist idolatry in that part of Scotland. I believe that my mother was entered for the Mod, without success.
Ideas. They float like seedpods, unconcerned with borders. They can take root in amazing places.
This track is a delight, with an airy depth and gentle melacholy.
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Great stuff once again