Mary Black-Transatlantic Sessions

[MrHoneyWho]

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On you tube: Willy O'Winsbury by Andy Irvine Sedbergh folk festival 2011

[murtlemcturtle]

Clear Diction.Beautiful.

[kennyfraserdotcom]

Transatlantic Sessions 2 is to be officially released on DVD in September 2011. You can pre-order it at Music Scotland.

[auldnickdevlin]

i enjoy everything mary does. she is one of my heroines. may your songs go on forever mary.

[charleshenry1100]

Transatlantic Sessions, the best  musicians and singers at that time and still today too. Tanks for posting.

[StevieB1362]

Who is this woman with this beautiful voice. Simply beautiful. Thanks for posting this.

[spunkydogfish]

Filmed at Montgreenan Mansion, Ayrshire. I used to help out there. They all stayed with us for a month.

[MrHoneyWho]

Great song. Tune is of Willy O'Winsbury, written by Andy Irvine, hijacked by Richard Thompson for this song. Great nonetheless...

[RatherLargeAllan]

This still puts a lump in my throat and makes the hairs on my arms stand up! Someone said Richard Thompson songs touch the soft places inside hard men - I could never imrove on that comment.

I might get attacked for saying this - heretics get burned! - but I think this captures the song better than Sandy Denny did. How did a barely 20 year old Richard Thompson write songs with such depth and significance?

[cavaliereQadosh]

thank you... it is awesome, thank you

[Winterlightsky]

That's it.....I'm in tears, she haunts my soul with her lonely voice!

[Winterlightsky]

what a lonely, voice of beauty...she touches the heart and soul of everything!!

[unclebobunclebob]

I never understood why Mary never went over bigger in the U.S. but some over the top singer like Celine Dion did. No accounting for taste.

[mickeybroon1]

Magical

[beannacht1]

Lawd, Jesus! As good as anything on this earth ever gets!!!

[facusnia]

What can you say about this music, it is epic, and beautiful.

[astromystic]

I play this song at least once per day. I love the pure musical quality of these mainly acoustic Transatlantic Sessions, mostly lacking syncopated beat. And I love the art of Mary Black who has never been more beautiful than during these sessions, in my arrogant opinion.

[weeweelegs]

would love to see Mary in another, future Transatlantic sessions,

Keep them coming Gerry and Aly

[fch1639]

The simple sweetness of her voice, unembellished and unadorned, stirs the soul.

Never melodramatic, never bland, just an outpouring of sincerity and honesty from within.

Right up there with her unforgettable renditions of Anachie Gordon and Heart Like a Wheel. Pure innocence from the heart of a fair maiden... for the hopelessly romantic.

[mobilechief]

@fch1639 Words can not describe beauty in ones eyes nor ones hart, thankful be that there is music !

[dennyking]

I've only found Mary Black relatively recently drawn in by her wonderful voice. I heard a ballad of hers on Bob Harris's BBC2 show about 2 years ago but don't know what it was - I wish I could hear it again. It's made me look for it anyway and find things like this clip - all good!

[kierabyrne09]

amazing what a voice!! cant wait to see her in feb :)

[MrTilaws]

where is she playing please

[MrTilaws]

just plain ole wonderful !!!

[breffnipark]

Beauiful woman !

Beautiful voice !!!!! :)

[usercubby11]

Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention also did a beautiful version of this tune many years ago.

[IndigoJo]

That was the original; it's on Liege and Lief and it was written by Richard Thompson.

[kennythepiper]

What is the name of the song?

[egorn1971]

Farewell, Farewell

[Elderwilliam]

BOHOJO7- you will find Golden Mile on the album Babes In the Wood released by The Grapevine Label

[Irishcherokee1]

Stunning performance!! Very soul stirring.

[rgadave]

Takes some beating !.

[swirlingone]

Farewell, farewell to you who would hear You lonely travellers all The cold north winds will blow again The winding road does call. And will you never return to see Your bruised and beaten sons O I would, I would if welcome I were For they loathe me every one. And will you never cut the cloth Nor drink the light to be And can you never swear a year To anyone but he. No I will never cut the cloth Nor drink the light to be But I'll swear a year to he who lies Asleep alongside of me

[dreastubes]

sheer joy

[kk99ll]

Pleased you like it.

[bohojo7]

What a voice! It can hardly be equalled. I've been looking everywhere for a song by Mary Black called 'Golden Mile' that I used to have on a compilation. Does anyone know it, or know where I could find it please? Thank you!

[celticbritain]

Great video!

[toilntrouble]

tears stand in mine eyes. thank you

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Stunning. Thank you!

So beautiful.

[minstrelbhoy]

Truly magnificent, Mary has no equals and never will. Absoloutely note perfect... an audio masterpiece.

[thereisnosuchname]

Is Pollanach me - Mary is my Queen!

[auntsal123]

Cannot but stir the emotions Beautifully sung . I will take this with me when heaven calls..............Thanks

[jayrayinnv]

A beautiful rendition by my favorite living singer of a song by my favorite songwriter (Richard Thompson). This - along with Mary's version of "By the Time it Gets Dark" (by my second-favorite song writer :-))- are two wonderful postings from the Transatlantic Sessions. Thank you to whoever put these up.

[danzathemanza67]

this would have to be one of the most heart felt song l have heard. thank you mary daniel

[clarebannerman]

Tá an cailín seo agus an amhrán go hiontach ar fad ~~~ Mícheál.

[No9Jimbo]

mary will you marry me

[hanlina]

Aye, and don't forget the scots who have one of the largest immigrant communities in the world and feel just the same as the aforesaid nationalities, alba gu braith....

[goldengreen73]

My mom's father had lived in Utah for more than 20 years before coming back to the Balkans and starting his own family. My mom's sister then went back to the place some 40 years ago, stayed there with her husband and kids and now her grandchildren don't even now our language...and that's sad.

Yes, this song is about the Irish and the Croats, the Serbs and the Poles, the Germans and the Italians and just about everyone who has ever left his homeland to start a new life someplace else.

[radiotarifa]

sitting here with tears running down my face thinking about the hardships over the years of all the different people and cultures striving for a better future for their children, beautiful and moving.

[gourdonboy]

I'm in love

[Quietlydoesit]

"...nor drink the light to be..." this refers to the custom of drinking to the anticipated child. The 'light to be'

[Quietlydoesit]

Mary Black is soul on a stick.

[metalpiper]

well put...lol

[Quietlydoesit]

Will you never cut the clothe nor drink the life to be.....this song is sung to those who left Ireland in the hard times. "Farewell, farewell..." she sings. It is a song to the departed. About the harship of those left behind. "...will you never return to see, your bruised and beaten sons..." You guys are getting hung up on the reference to clothe. Listen!

[Brooklynguy169]

I think you've got it. Brilliant.

[ScooterNerd]

She is lovely in every sense.

[ampullae51]

The reference cut the cloth relates to the girlfriend of Richard Thompson, author of these lyrics, who was a tailor or seamstress,

before she died in an accident.

[billiebigalo]

Could be a reference to touching cloth?

[talkto20john]

maybe its a religious reference, in ireland a man of the cloth is a priest or clergyman. probably not though...

[jackwhiskey]

What is the origin of the phrase, ". . .cut the cloth. . ."? Thank you.

[JosephEaorle]

what does it mean, do you know?

[jackwhiskey]

No. I have an idea of its meaning but don't know for sure its origins. Something to do with the love between a man and a woman in this song but exactly how "cut the cloth" relates to the relationship is a mystery to my decidedly un-Gaelic mind.

[JosephEaorle]

it seems similar to crossing the rubicon, I mean cross the point of no turning back, but it's just a guess.

[jackwhiskey]

Thanks, Joe. That's more than I had.

[whearndon]

traditional cutting of cloth for swaddling clothes during first pregnancy

[weeweelegs]

beautifull Mary

[weeweelegs]

Mary your beaufill

[IrishRover00]

How beautiful is this. Simply fantastic.

[susanders68]

Farewel Farewell. Sandy Denny with Fairport Convention sings it like an angel.

[jackwhiskey]

PUHLEEZE. . .does anyone know the name of this song?

[cantarach]

willy o´winsbuty. Pentangle sang it late 70´s

[jackwhiskey]

Thank ya.

[gskarogiannis]

So,so beautifull.

[Caritone]

Great song and great voice and great musicians and great Mary Black. Thanks for posting. Music and songs like that are bridge to people and countries.

[ASTRAMATZO]

Great days the transatlantic sessions.And Mary Black at her best,so quiet,tender, moving and suggestive.

[LochMeikle]

Good news for all fans is the release of the DVD "Transatlantic Sessions: Series 3" bringing together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland to perform what has been called "the greatest backporch shows ever".

All of the six half-hour programmes from the BBC/RTÉ TV series are included, recorded in a beautiful old converted farm steading in the Perthshire Highlands.

[maicoace]

The bowed double bass on this piece is so beautifully and tastefully played by Molly Mason.

[KathrinIG]

Series 3 will be available on DVD on Amazon UK on Nov 12th :). But I haven't found a listing for series 1 and 2 yet.

Series 1 and 2 is already available on Audio CDs though.

Series 3 will be released on Audio CD in November as well. Just as Series 2 there will be a volume 1 and 2 of it.

[ClothytheCat]

On another thread on these sessions, Youtube member Tomtscotland, who posted several and seems knowledgable, says that these BBC sessions will be released by "Pelicula Films" very soon. This is excellent news, as everybody had until now been saying you can't buy them, which I think is / would have been a travesty had remained so.

[no5eyparker]

Yup Mary Black the Irish popular folk and pop singer, here singing a Scottish folks song and backed by the creme de la creme of fiddlers Scottish and American.

[NSResponder]

If I ever meet a woman who can sing like that, I'm hers.

-jcr

[harvobro]

Georgeous! I think I recognize Jay Ungar, Aly Bain, and Jerry Douglas... all in their younger days. Marvelous music! Thank you for posting this.

[gorbalsbhoy]

ive tried to get this on video/dvd was the series ever released commercialy?or where can i get a copy..help guys!!

[RTFan52]

RT wrote the lyrics, but tune is from the traditional "Willy O'Winsbury". Great song and beautiful version though.

The lyrics apparently refer to RT's girlfriend, Jeannie Franklin who was killed in the Fairport car crash in 1969. She was a dress designer, thus the references to "cutting the cloth".

[perrimeno]

Originally performed by Fairport Convention and sung by the late Sandy Denny, the Richard Thompson composition was first released in 1969. This version is true to the original.

[Arlenoclast]

The Transatlantic Sessions was a great BBC series that featured such a great variety of performers. If you get a chance to see the programs, DO so.

[kk99ll]

thanks

[brenda3847]

I believe her name is Mary Black