@9SolAnge9 Then go home, go home, to your father's garden. You go home and weep your fill. And you think of your own misfortune that you've wrought with your wanton will.
For there's not a girl in this whole wide world as easily led as I. Sure it's fishes they'll fly, and the seas run dry, 'tis then he'll marry I.
@9SolAnge9 One morning fair, to take the air, down by Blackwaterside, 'twas in gazing all, all around me, 'twas the Irish lad I spied.
All through the first part of the night, well we lay in sport and play. Then this young man he arose, and he gathered his clothes. He said, "Fare thee well today."
Well that's not the promise that you gave to me when first you lay on my bed. You could make me believe with your lying tongue that the sun set in the west.
I always read that many folk artists were "influenced by Anne Briggs" and had a picture in my mind of some matronly old biddy with a radio three voice ......how wrong was I ? :-)
@MultiDean75 'some matronly old biddy'??? :( careful how you speak about 'matrons'. they're the salt of the earth and this world would be completely up the swanee without their unrecognised underappreciated but vital contribution to society
@MultiDean75 stop digging. otherwise the magnificent hattie jacques will have to come down from Matron Heaven and sit on you until you beg for mercy (which you may not receive for some time)
anne please please please play a couple of free (or pay what you can) concerts in buncrana (st mary's hall or the plaza theatre). you could stay at the main b&b on the main street or the lake of shadows hotel. i think they need someone like you at this difficult time. it could be good for you too. thank you
just came across this,always liked jansch's and page's versions. I've just got to say that it was worth coming to this page to read the comments almost as much as to listen to the music.......Brittany Spears.....!!!....LMFAO........
just came across this,always liked jansch's and page's versions. I've just got to say that it was worth coming to this page to read the comments almost as much as to listen to the music.......Brittany Spears.....!!!....LMFAO.........
beautiful. thanks for posting. i saw anne briggs singing at the neptune rowing club in islandbridge, dublin in the late sixties. i still remember her on the stage and have an image in my mind of her on that evening, and a memory of her voice. i learned to sing the song that i posted above using her interpretation and delivery. i see i left out the last verse as anne sings it. thanks again. lovely anne !
I can certainly hear this interpretation in Sandy Denny's version of the song, though Sandy characteristically gives it a more dramatic reading. Both versions are beautiful, but Sandy's gets my nod for the extra "non-traditional" bits (like Richard Thompson's heavily Leslied guitar).
Wow! What a dark angel with an angel's voice. She's definitely up there with the best of them. Beauty is as beauty does. A girl like that could make me forget my principles - oh, that's right, a girl like that did. Whoever loved her...was a better man after. Thank you for this celtic gem.
This performance is utterly sublime an poignantly evocative to the deepest feelings stirring within my heart. I hear it now - in 2010, and imagine myself walking through fields of heather, in my 20's again, and in the warm embrace of a raven-haired Celtic lass named Darby.
Simply magnificent. Comparing this angel-voiced lady to kosher pop sluts like Gaga & Spears is a clear indicator of just how low artistic tastes have deliberately been laid.
the accompaniment reminds me of music in an old italian movie State buoni se potete (stream at megavideo, easy to google) just at the intro of the movie... anyone agrees?
@leiaflower the composer of the music of that movie is Angelo Branduardi. if you liked that tune, you should look for the rest of his songs, I'm sure you'll like them
The Britney Spears conversation on this is just hilarious. I love her vocal trills. She taught the song to Jansch who taught it (indirectly) to Led Zep! :-) Pls check out my humble version when you have the time! :)
I always have loved the music of Davey Graham and Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson and as a result I have been led to the music of Anne Briggs and also Wizz Jones. Thank you! This is just one of the most beautiful songs and performances. If I never heard another tune after this I believe I might be quite content. Real and honest music.
In fact (and the sermon/lecture will end in a minute!) the modern "liberal-left" have sold out completely to the most lowbrow, trashy popular culture (ostensibly in the obviously pea-brained belief that it would somehow be "elitist" to object to popular taste, however corrupted and worthless, but more likely because they've abandoned economic socialism and made a devil's deal with the money-grubbing, anarcho-capitalist corporations that produce this trash).
@JekyllBoote The political left initially with goals of Equal wages and rights were admirable have wrought a society of people that regard talent and hard work as right wing we have seen this hard left go against common sense in diet (veggoes) literacy, massive obesity, poor art schools were no one learns figure drawing (Its how Johnny expresses herself not about having skill)
Art and music are about marketing,this mindset has brought about the Ilk in the world like Spears Hilton et all
It's pretty obvious to any reasonably intelligent person - whether they're over or under 25 - that Anne Briggs is artistically is another (infinitely higher) league than Britney Spears, even if Ms Spears could probably buy and sell Anne several thousand times in terms of earnings.
Something has gone desperately wrong with our culture and society, and although I hate the political right, the political left (both mainstream and fringe) have failed to challenge it or propose an alternative.
I have long been an admirer of Anne's. Lovely, pure, captivating and unpretentious. No unnecessary or distracting embelishments. Just sung straight and sweet. Quite brilliant. Thank you for posting this.
"Reminiscent of Brittany Spears at her best." She is the lowest and least talented of any pop star in the history of music britney is just shit she cant even move like a bad lap-dancer even when she lip syncs
Soft, subtle and very powerful voice. It reminds me of the opera, where a small demure figure emerges on the stage and belts out an aria that can be heard on the street outside the opera house. Anne's voice is quieter, trembling but yet bold and with a sweetness of tone like none other.
have had a fairly stressful, crazy day and have been on the verge of tears for most of the afternoon/ evening, then by chance came across this song/ playlist and suddenly find myself soothed, calmed and relaxed... i shall be listening again!
I first HEARD of Anne Briggs about 30 years ago. I first LISTENED to her about a year ago. I regret those many years I might have been soothed and moved by her amazing voice and music. But, better late than never, I guess.
Her voice makes me shiver deep inside, at the core of my being. When I hear her singing, there's nothing else in the world going on; just her, and me listening to her. I wonder if she has ever known just how very strong she is, and always will be. Rare, and beautiful.
I met Annie some years ago, and never knew she could sing...tho she told me she had a following and a hay day once....but this is the first time Ive heard her voice when she was in her prime..life has been lived, water under the bridge, an all that...but wot a voice..it knocks you fat...so pure and sweet...what a gift, she had....My heart goes out to her now and I wish her well wherever she is now.
It is perfectly possible to like Lady GG and Anne Briggs without compromise or irony. Nobody would demur if you liked say Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. If someone is reminded of the tone in B Spears' voice, that's a subject of surprise maybe not snobbish ridicule or reverse ageist put down.
wungabunga, it's not easy to sort out the tongue-in-cheek comments from the truly daft ones. If you don't believe me, go look at the adulation being heaped upon vids by Lady Gaga, and you would think she is the reincarnation of the Mona Lisa with the voice of Maria Callas. Good joke by you, though.
This was performed by Anne Briggs over a decade before Spears was born. How can it be "reminiscent". Also, Briggs created her own unique vocal arrangement and guitar accompaniment to a very traditional song In this timeless performance. Spears performs a bunch of trashy pop that lasts about two weeks before it's discarded, can't play an instrument, and relies on others to arrange her music. You must be under 25 to make such a silly comment.
@irelephant The guy must have been using Sarcasm m8 ! no one can be that completelty and utterly tasteless and stupid...
But then again, girls lined up at Sydney airport to "see" Paris WaldorfSaladBrain and cried when she snubbed em , sadly it was on the Six O'clock news..
@DROTTOHARRIS Every time I listen to Anne Briggs performing Blackwaterside, I am transported back to the most treasured moments of my youth, gazing into the eyes of the one I love on a fine summer's day, in a meadow of wildflowers, with gentle breezes blowing and the sound of a mountain stream nearby. Anne didn't even consider herself talented, and abandoned her recording career early on. Spears and Hilton by comparison seem utterly self-absorbed, so perhaps you're correct.
@TheFashionbugs You're supposed to fashionistas? Then you should know that "bwahhaha" etc went out a couple of years ago. I bet you still use "lol" too.
@persear Let's see how many thumbs up you get for your insightful comment. I think my reverence and love of Anne Briggs performance here is nothing to play with, nor is this music to be disrespected by trifling, even if the ridiculous comparison to Spears was meant as a joke. Y'all need to get off my back, I am deeply moved by this music, even though Anne is now elderly and out of the scene entirely. I feel no embarrassment whatsoever for loving and defending this wonderful lady.
@irelephant Guss you didn't "GET IT" ! Whoever wrote that comment made me laugh out loud! Whoever DID write it your sarcasm was duly noted and appreciated! Hilarious!!!!!!!
you must be and old man to not understand the youth of today. So get off your 'it was so much better in the old days' horse and enjoy the world around you now, once you've wiped the shit from your eyes.
@slamvyn Not sure who you're hanging out with, but most 20-somethings I know detest the music of this era. In fact, I'm always taken aback by the vociferousness with which they seem to attack it.
@slamvyn Unable to express yourself without bringing excrement into the conversation, yet you consider yourself representative of your entire generation. I merely said your demographic has failed to produce anything close to the music of the sixties, and that is a fact. If you can prove otherwise, do so. Just find someone from your age group as good as Dylan, Beatles, Dead, Floyd, Richard Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, Sandy Denny. Luck to you mate.
@irelephant Those are all great artists, but I respectfully suggest you find albums by the following contemporary artists and take a good long listen: Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Midlake, Gillian Welch, Horse Feathers, the National... just the start of a very long list.
@crowpass All of my comments pertaining to the music of Anne Briggs have been appreciative. Your comment seems to have been made under the influence of cannabis, which is fine in its intent, yet not completely sensible, coherent, or in line with objective reality.
Very lovely. Wonder if there's a recording of her singing this with Bert Jansch playing guitar. His guitar work on this piece is a perfect match for her voice. I read that Ann has been living a secluded life on an island in the Hebrides for years and avoids all public contact. Good for her, sad for fans.
She always sang this unaccompanied, even though she gave it to Jansch. She sings it on #1 of Bert Jansch; Acoustic Routes, on Youtube, and Jansch stitches in a guitar riff, so you half way get your wish. Apparently she still has some contact with Bert, and apparently she became what he once was, a plant nursery person. - Amazing for one who even influenced the Watersons, among others.
I love her music AND who she was, and I'm sure still is. I would love to have known her in the 60's. She was the inspiration for Richard Thompson's song "Beeswing". He didn't know her very well but was obviously so taken with her he wrote this beautiful song.
Isn't it strange. She gives up singing 'cos she hates her own voice, and nearly every English female singer from the Watersons, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, all try to sound like her. Over so many years too. It would be nice indeed if she would do another album.
Great singer, a beautiful mystery... If you ever get a chance,check out John Cromwell.This man will be a legend. One of Dublins finest.He pops up in The Dame Tavern and The Cobblestones from time to time. He sings a fw briggs songs, and what this man doesnt know about folk isnt worth knowing
Tip - forget showbiz values. If you're in a small pub, and someone like Briggs sings a song, it's very special. Plus - don't forget - she was a trailblazer.
it's the sort of accent that someone singing this sort of song sort of slips into. Like the thigh slapping interlude before you decide on a book from the shelf, or a bloke who is on the shelf, or an Ikean shelf...one always slaps ones thighs as a sort of ultimate decision..like smelling our armpits....not having a good day...night night x
Dia duit, I only drink the black stuff. I think Ann drank whatever was going. Have a look at the Dubliners, Humpty Dumpty, a song written by James Joyce. Bawnog.
I would find out from Bert Jansch directly who still does this song- maybe write him at his web site or look there. Usually artists can provide simple chord outlines if time permits. Since this is Celtic fingering, you most likely won't find info on US websites. Also you can go to the Irish/English/Celtic guitar society and they will help sort it.
yeap! The voice still seems the same. McDaids is still there. In the fifties it used to be frequented by Brendan Behan, JP Donleavy and other writers and poets along with a few left wing revolutionaries and the few tappers. I haven't been in it for years but it still might be worth a visit. The sort of equivelant pub in Dublin now would be Grogans, the Castle Lounge, South William Street. It has no television which says a lot.Grogans and McDaids are only a few minutes walk from each other.
Oh, by the way. If I am ever in Dublin, and I fully intend on going there, I will hoist I pint to you and Anne at McDaids. It is still there, I checked.
I was just one of many who had frequented O'Donaghues in the mid sixties. Though not involved in music myself I was pally with those such as Luke, Ted Furey, Tony McMahon, Johnnie Moynihan etc. Actually it was Johnnie Moynihan that Ann was closest to. I think she actually sang with Sweeney's Men. I haven't seen her since 1969.
Is the voice here as good as you remember? Man, I wasn't born until the 1970's. Did you know how lucky you were to see her, Jansch, and Zeppelin? My generation got New Kids on the Block...
How on earth is this not known as an English gem by every person in the country? And another thing...
Pitsku 1 week ago
Good God, this is amazing.
demonstrator05 1 week ago
Such great times Annie. Remembered with both fondness and reverence.
Gluepack 2 weeks ago
Really interesting comparing her performance on this with Sandy Denny's. Both are sublime.
daf827 3 weeks ago
Wow, had to pinch myself to come back to my living room.
mrmojo37 4 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Anne Briggs
10 people had their brains removed & replaced with a clock-work mouse.
Cabronosidad 1 month ago 3
What a beautiful voice,it's mesmerising and so pure in tone.
MrHaggis64 2 months ago 2
Never heard of her before, but I knew this song from Bert Jansch. This version is just lovely! Anyone have the guitar tabs?
Cabronosidad 2 months ago
wow
cinezoic 3 months ago
Would anyone post the lyrics, please? I'm not a native speaker and I'd love to sing this song...
9SolAnge9 3 months ago
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danaraina 1 week ago
@9SolAnge9 Then go home, go home, to your father's garden. You go home and weep your fill. And you think of your own misfortune that you've wrought with your wanton will.
For there's not a girl in this whole wide world as easily led as I. Sure it's fishes they'll fly, and the seas run dry, 'tis then he'll marry I.
danaraina 1 week ago
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@9SolAnge9 One morning fair, to take the air, down by Blackwaterside, 'twas in gazing all, all around me, 'twas the Irish lad I spied.
All through the first part of the night, well we lay in sport and play. Then this young man he arose, and he gathered his clothes. He said, "Fare thee well today."
Well that's not the promise that you gave to me when first you lay on my bed. You could make me believe with your lying tongue that the sun set in the west.
danaraina 1 week ago
For me she is the best singer of the folk revival. Superb. This inspired Bert Jansch's version which then led to Zeppelin(A load of hot air).
mouldybear 3 months ago
forget my comment,totally wrong.happy about it too
alastairpearson 4 months ago in playlist alastairpearson's Favourited Videos
im afraid she died young.if i remember rightly.
alastairpearson 4 months ago in playlist alastairpearson's Favourited Videos
@alastairpearson Anne Briggs is alive and well..
RC501 4 months ago
I always read that many folk artists were "influenced by Anne Briggs" and had a picture in my mind of some matronly old biddy with a radio three voice ......how wrong was I ? :-)
MultiDean75 4 months ago
@MultiDean75 'some matronly old biddy'??? :( careful how you speak about 'matrons'. they're the salt of the earth and this world would be completely up the swanee without their unrecognised underappreciated but vital contribution to society
jaddajn1 4 months ago 3
@jaddajn1 Point taken...but you have to consider that most people's concept of Matron comes from the " Carry on" films.... :-)
MultiDean75 4 months ago
@MultiDean75 stop digging. otherwise the magnificent hattie jacques will have to come down from Matron Heaven and sit on you until you beg for mercy (which you may not receive for some time)
jaddajn1 4 months ago
she was a rare thing - fine as a bee wing - so fine a breath of wind could blow her away......
cass1798 4 months ago 3
anne please please please play a couple of free (or pay what you can) concerts in buncrana (st mary's hall or the plaza theatre). you could stay at the main b&b on the main street or the lake of shadows hotel. i think they need someone like you at this difficult time. it could be good for you too. thank you
jaddajn1 5 months ago
Bert Jansch's tune wasn't it ?
Pinched by Jimmy Page.
PhilK1080 5 months ago
@PhilK1080 nope traditional folk song owned by nobody
mojopin70 4 weeks ago
Incomparable...So pure and natural, young and very sexy...A
cottageorgan 5 months ago
is Anne still singing ?
TheBones1234 6 months ago
The most sad and haunting song I have ever heard, but the most beautiful song in the world sung by an angelic beauty.
greenmudbug 6 months ago
absolutely beautiful
forsytherob 6 months ago
Just the best melody in the world.
dadasim34 6 months ago
does give one shivers...
BooGyrl13 7 months ago
I love it
glaeken14 7 months ago
She is absolutely mesmerizing and brings tears to my eyes. Beautifully done, and I am now a complete fan of hers.
secactus 8 months ago 10
This woman truly sings from her soul. It's so full of beautiful feeling I just love it
She's an amazing singer. I wish most music sounded like this today. Truly a gift.
A6495 8 months ago 2
Could you imagine The Silly Sisters as a trio?
What a loss.
woodbell67 8 months ago
just so so beautiful moves me to my core..........
nmorgan346 9 months ago
just came across this,always liked jansch's and page's versions. I've just got to say that it was worth coming to this page to read the comments almost as much as to listen to the music.......Brittany Spears.....!!!....LMFAO........
gregmando3 9 months ago
just came across this,always liked jansch's and page's versions. I've just got to say that it was worth coming to this page to read the comments almost as much as to listen to the music.......Brittany Spears.....!!!....LMFAO.........
gregmando3 9 months ago
this is BEAUTIFUL
mhefhef123 9 months ago
This video shows the best and worst of Youtube.
Fortunately we don't have to read the comments.
DOUGAJ4 9 months ago 6
Jimmy Page turned it into "Black Mountian Side" !
Just a sweet voice and song. Peace !!!
BVODDBALL 9 months ago
Spears at her best??? are you shittin me.
brucegor 10 months ago
Absolutely brilliant performance!
kontrapunkti 10 months ago
Does anyone have a tab or know the tuning?
Fooliccini 10 months ago
@Fooliccini Try this fretplay.com/tabs/t/thompson_linda/blackwaterside-crd.shtml
It is slightly different (Linda Thompson) but can be easily re-arranged to fit (as far as open-chords can fit.) Good luck.
freethoughtmusic 8 months ago
pretty.
RobRobertTheMusicMan 11 months ago
beautiful. thanks for posting. i saw anne briggs singing at the neptune rowing club in islandbridge, dublin in the late sixties. i still remember her on the stage and have an image in my mind of her on that evening, and a memory of her voice. i learned to sing the song that i posted above using her interpretation and delivery. i see i left out the last verse as anne sings it. thanks again. lovely anne !
cuchaia 1 year ago
Such a beautiful voice!
beatlemaniac1966 1 year ago
the rain outside, and this song, fits so perfectly. out of this world
sepultribe666 1 year ago 2
Hang how can you liken them! One is a fine singer the other isn't, and I'll give you a clue, it aint Britney.ah bless, eh
crc778Hypnodoc 1 year ago
I can certainly hear this interpretation in Sandy Denny's version of the song, though Sandy characteristically gives it a more dramatic reading. Both versions are beautiful, but Sandy's gets my nod for the extra "non-traditional" bits (like Richard Thompson's heavily Leslied guitar).
jackal59 1 year ago
Wow! What a dark angel with an angel's voice. She's definitely up there with the best of them. Beauty is as beauty does. A girl like that could make me forget my principles - oh, that's right, a girl like that did. Whoever loved her...was a better man after. Thank you for this celtic gem.
arhatyellow 1 year ago 2
@arhatyellow Bert Jansch was the man and your 100% right. He's the best goddamn guitar player ever.
assdickass 1 year ago
This performance is utterly sublime an poignantly evocative to the deepest feelings stirring within my heart. I hear it now - in 2010, and imagine myself walking through fields of heather, in my 20's again, and in the warm embrace of a raven-haired Celtic lass named Darby.
irelephant 1 year ago
@irelephant Wow! that sounds so lovely! :)
HeatherGallagher11 1 year ago
Simply magnificent. Comparing this angel-voiced lady to kosher pop sluts like Gaga & Spears is a clear indicator of just how low artistic tastes have deliberately been laid.
AnnihilatingAngel 1 year ago 2
Dear irelephant.....its a facetious comment regarding BS ;)
cayenneturbot 1 year ago 2
the accompaniment reminds me of music in an old italian movie State buoni se potete (stream at megavideo, easy to google) just at the intro of the movie... anyone agrees?
leiaflower 1 year ago
@leiaflower the composer of the music of that movie is Angelo Branduardi. if you liked that tune, you should look for the rest of his songs, I'm sure you'll like them
ansiaaa666 1 year ago
Is she irish?
morgzlucas 1 year ago
@morgzlucas English
50dss 1 year ago
@morgzlucas English, Nottinghamshire
steeletara01 1 year ago
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Reminds me of Lady Gaga.
waldo2384 1 year ago
@waldo2384 lady fuck-all doesn't hold a candle to this angel
eirinikos 1 year ago
The Britney Spears conversation on this is just hilarious. I love her vocal trills. She taught the song to Jansch who taught it (indirectly) to Led Zep! :-) Pls check out my humble version when you have the time! :)
MrAshToast 1 year ago
@MrAshToast True. Jimi learned it from Al Stewart and he learned it from Bert.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
I always have loved the music of Davey Graham and Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson and as a result I have been led to the music of Anne Briggs and also Wizz Jones. Thank you! This is just one of the most beautiful songs and performances. If I never heard another tune after this I believe I might be quite content. Real and honest music.
2bonzandapick 1 year ago
In fact (and the sermon/lecture will end in a minute!) the modern "liberal-left" have sold out completely to the most lowbrow, trashy popular culture (ostensibly in the obviously pea-brained belief that it would somehow be "elitist" to object to popular taste, however corrupted and worthless, but more likely because they've abandoned economic socialism and made a devil's deal with the money-grubbing, anarcho-capitalist corporations that produce this trash).
JekyllBoote 1 year ago
@JekyllBoote The political left initially with goals of Equal wages and rights were admirable have wrought a society of people that regard talent and hard work as right wing we have seen this hard left go against common sense in diet (veggoes) literacy, massive obesity, poor art schools were no one learns figure drawing (Its how Johnny expresses herself not about having skill)
Art and music are about marketing,this mindset has brought about the Ilk in the world like Spears Hilton et all
DROTTOHARRIS 1 year ago
It's pretty obvious to any reasonably intelligent person - whether they're over or under 25 - that Anne Briggs is artistically is another (infinitely higher) league than Britney Spears, even if Ms Spears could probably buy and sell Anne several thousand times in terms of earnings.
Something has gone desperately wrong with our culture and society, and although I hate the political right, the political left (both mainstream and fringe) have failed to challenge it or propose an alternative.
JekyllBoote 1 year ago
Such a powerfull and moving voice.
TheRorasauras 1 year ago 2
I only knew this song from Sandy Denny's version..similar haunting, pure tones! love it.
sujeffay 1 year ago
I have long been an admirer of Anne's. Lovely, pure, captivating and unpretentious. No unnecessary or distracting embelishments. Just sung straight and sweet. Quite brilliant. Thank you for posting this.
bondmatty 1 year ago
"Reminiscent of Brittany Spears at her best." She is the lowest and least talented of any pop star in the history of music britney is just shit she cant even move like a bad lap-dancer even when she lip syncs
DROTTOHARRIS 1 year ago
Anne Briggs the inspiration for Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior and all the folksters from the '60's and '70's and onward - just lovely
quaich14 1 year ago
Soft, subtle and very powerful voice. It reminds me of the opera, where a small demure figure emerges on the stage and belts out an aria that can be heard on the street outside the opera house. Anne's voice is quieter, trembling but yet bold and with a sweetness of tone like none other.
nebulous42 1 year ago
have had a fairly stressful, crazy day and have been on the verge of tears for most of the afternoon/ evening, then by chance came across this song/ playlist and suddenly find myself soothed, calmed and relaxed... i shall be listening again!
JessicaRobyn89 1 year ago
My favorite female singer of all time along with Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell!
gnomebottom 1 year ago
Thank you for introducing me to this outstanding singer. I didn't think there was a singer to rival Sandy Denny, but I am mistaken. Beautiful!
timmiesbaker 1 year ago
Perfection
DJPaulJay 1 year ago
just beautiful,perfect in fact...thanks for posting x
pixiewilson42 1 year ago
Stunning voice - thanks for posting.
davegiraffe 1 year ago
I first HEARD of Anne Briggs about 30 years ago. I first LISTENED to her about a year ago. I regret those many years I might have been soothed and moved by her amazing voice and music. But, better late than never, I guess.
moondough 1 year ago
What a wonderful voice! It is a shame that for whatever reason, she couldn't get the audience she so deserved...
geraghtymichael1 2 years ago
a lovely tune, indescribable vocals.
zodiacflower 2 years ago
absolutely beautiful. i heard this for the first time yesterday. she is amazing.
metrostationrocks 2 years ago
How could you not fall in love with Anne.
greenmudbug 2 years ago 3
Wonderfull
Anne OWNS this song
FrankRonnie1981 2 years ago
Just haunting. Like a ghost from a past that predates Christianity.
brianl890 2 years ago
wow
aenoch75 2 years ago
This IS a new one on me, what a beautiful voice the lady has, one of those people whom God put on earth just simply to sing.
joeygsmom 2 years ago
And to teach.
neohip 2 years ago
Her voice makes me shiver deep inside, at the core of my being. When I hear her singing, there's nothing else in the world going on; just her, and me listening to her. I wonder if she has ever known just how very strong she is, and always will be. Rare, and beautiful.
terrydalek 2 years ago 12
so wonderfull thanks for posting this
sawabojo 2 years ago
@wikedwhich: Thanks for the anecdote. Together with the tune, so haunting, lovely.
MKyd 2 years ago
I met Annie some years ago, and never knew she could sing...tho she told me she had a following and a hay day once....but this is the first time Ive heard her voice when she was in her prime..life has been lived, water under the bridge, an all that...but wot a voice..it knocks you fat...so pure and sweet...what a gift, she had....My heart goes out to her now and I wish her well wherever she is now.
wikedwhich1 2 years ago 28
A perfect blend of song and voice. Beautiful!
FENNYMAN 2 years ago
PRECIOSO
NegativeCreep96 2 years ago
Stunning. It's like listening to a soul!
shortithehorn 2 years ago
I feel like crying.
The most stunning voice I have ever heard.
Im in love.
dogeatdog69 2 years ago 2
you`re right :)
gitarre82 2 years ago
Damn great taste in music. Had to subscribe.
Niamhdm7871 2 years ago
It is perfectly possible to like Lady GG and Anne Briggs without compromise or irony. Nobody would demur if you liked say Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. If someone is reminded of the tone in B Spears' voice, that's a subject of surprise maybe not snobbish ridicule or reverse ageist put down.
awol2602 2 years ago 2
Heartbreakingly beautiful
cayenneturbot 2 years ago
1000 years distilled into 4 minutes of purity which seeps into every pore and comes out as tears. Beautiful indeed.
Parityview 2 years ago 2
wungabunga, it's not easy to sort out the tongue-in-cheek comments from the truly daft ones. If you don't believe me, go look at the adulation being heaped upon vids by Lady Gaga, and you would think she is the reincarnation of the Mona Lisa with the voice of Maria Callas. Good joke by you, though.
irelephant 2 years ago
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Reminiscent of Brittany Spears at her best.
Thanks
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wungabunga 2 years ago
"Reminiscent of Brittany Spears at her best."
This was performed by Anne Briggs over a decade before Spears was born. How can it be "reminiscent". Also, Briggs created her own unique vocal arrangement and guitar accompaniment to a very traditional song In this timeless performance. Spears performs a bunch of trashy pop that lasts about two weeks before it's discarded, can't play an instrument, and relies on others to arrange her music. You must be under 25 to make such a silly comment.
irelephant 2 years ago 55
I got you. :)
wungabunga 2 years ago
They're only fooling about. . .
sondinium 2 years ago
well said, its an insult to compare this with britney spears . chalk and cheese springs to mind!
bradshawvincent 2 years ago
@irelephant
I love Briggs, and fully agree with you, except I am offended by your ageist remark.
54mwi53 1 year ago
@54mwi53 it's ann, actually.
russinhouse 1 year ago
@54mwi53 i'm old and lost my sense of humor!!! blaarrrggggg yelling...
samuelshepard 11 months ago
@irelephant
I think that some irony might have been intended!
JekyllBoote 1 year ago 3
@irelephant And you must be too old to get the joke.
HamSandwich09 1 year ago 3
@irelephant - Bwahahah!! Someone's sarcasm detecter has a flat battery....
goodbyeberet 1 year ago 3
@goodbyeberet like your vibrator.
irelephant 1 year ago
@irelephant The guy must have been using Sarcasm m8 ! no one can be that completelty and utterly tasteless and stupid...
But then again, girls lined up at Sydney airport to "see" Paris WaldorfSaladBrain and cried when she snubbed em , sadly it was on the Six O'clock news..
DROTTOHARRIS 1 year ago
@DROTTOHARRIS Every time I listen to Anne Briggs performing Blackwaterside, I am transported back to the most treasured moments of my youth, gazing into the eyes of the one I love on a fine summer's day, in a meadow of wildflowers, with gentle breezes blowing and the sound of a mountain stream nearby. Anne didn't even consider herself talented, and abandoned her recording career early on. Spears and Hilton by comparison seem utterly self-absorbed, so perhaps you're correct.
irelephant 1 year ago 3
@irelephant you got played!
TheFashionbugs 1 year ago
@TheFashionbugs Perfume criticism seems more your speed than music.
friendlier 1 year ago
@friendlier bwahhahaahahhhaaaahahahaha you tool
TheFashionbugs 1 year ago
@TheFashionbugs You're supposed to fashionistas? Then you should know that "bwahhaha" etc went out a couple of years ago. I bet you still use "lol" too.
friendlier 1 year ago
@friendlier lol bwahahahaha lol
TheFashionbugs 1 year ago
@irelephant
You really think that person's "Reminiscent of Brittany Spears at her best." comment was being serious? Who's silly now?
persear 1 year ago
@persear Let's see how many thumbs up you get for your insightful comment. I think my reverence and love of Anne Briggs performance here is nothing to play with, nor is this music to be disrespected by trifling, even if the ridiculous comparison to Spears was meant as a joke. Y'all need to get off my back, I am deeply moved by this music, even though Anne is now elderly and out of the scene entirely. I feel no embarrassment whatsoever for loving and defending this wonderful lady.
irelephant 1 year ago 2
@irelephant Guss you didn't "GET IT" ! Whoever wrote that comment made me laugh out loud! Whoever DID write it your sarcasm was duly noted and appreciated! Hilarious!!!!!!!
schobots 1 year ago
@irelephant
you must be and old man to not understand the youth of today. So get off your 'it was so much better in the old days' horse and enjoy the world around you now, once you've wiped the shit from your eyes.
slamvyn 1 year ago
@slamvyn Not sure who you're hanging out with, but most 20-somethings I know detest the music of this era. In fact, I'm always taken aback by the vociferousness with which they seem to attack it.
friendlier 1 year ago
@slamvyn Unable to express yourself without bringing excrement into the conversation, yet you consider yourself representative of your entire generation. I merely said your demographic has failed to produce anything close to the music of the sixties, and that is a fact. If you can prove otherwise, do so. Just find someone from your age group as good as Dylan, Beatles, Dead, Floyd, Richard Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, Sandy Denny. Luck to you mate.
irelephant 10 months ago 2
@irelephant Those are all great artists, but I respectfully suggest you find albums by the following contemporary artists and take a good long listen: Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Midlake, Gillian Welch, Horse Feathers, the National... just the start of a very long list.
SubmergedRecords 9 months ago
@irelephant The music this artist created is great. Enjoy it. Judge not. Treasure smiles.
crowpass 11 months ago
@crowpass All of my comments pertaining to the music of Anne Briggs have been appreciative. Your comment seems to have been made under the influence of cannabis, which is fine in its intent, yet not completely sensible, coherent, or in line with objective reality.
irelephant 10 months ago
@irelephant
And you must have a stick up your ass to take life so seriously.
darnok0611 10 months ago
@darnok0611 Another Brit with an anal fixation. What is with you lot ?
irelephant 10 months ago
Wow! I am speechless. Thanks for this!
fartyfairy 2 years ago
Very lovely. Wonder if there's a recording of her singing this with Bert Jansch playing guitar. His guitar work on this piece is a perfect match for her voice. I read that Ann has been living a secluded life on an island in the Hebrides for years and avoids all public contact. Good for her, sad for fans.
irelephant 2 years ago
She always sang this unaccompanied, even though she gave it to Jansch. She sings it on #1 of Bert Jansch; Acoustic Routes, on Youtube, and Jansch stitches in a guitar riff, so you half way get your wish. Apparently she still has some contact with Bert, and apparently she became what he once was, a plant nursery person. - Amazing for one who even influenced the Watersons, among others.
viking1au 2 years ago
I love her music AND who she was, and I'm sure still is. I would love to have known her in the 60's. She was the inspiration for Richard Thompson's song "Beeswing". He didn't know her very well but was obviously so taken with her he wrote this beautiful song.
IStoleYourPotatoes 2 years ago
'twas the Irish lad I spied...."
Indeed!
Anne Briggs's voice is the woman we all seek.
saxman2XL 2 years ago 5
"Anne Briggs's voice is the woman we all seek. " that is so beautifully put, sir!
DJPaulJay 2 years ago
It's a pity to hear that Ann has stopped singing as her voice is equal to any female folk singer anywhere.
bawnog 2 years ago
Isn't it strange. She gives up singing 'cos she hates her own voice, and nearly every English female singer from the Watersons, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, all try to sound like her. Over so many years too. It would be nice indeed if she would do another album.
viking1au 2 years ago 2
The true test of real talent, a pure un altered voice with simple accompaniment, she passes 5 stars out of 5 !
jsilence418 2 years ago 2
Great singer, a beautiful mystery... If you ever get a chance,check out John Cromwell.This man will be a legend. One of Dublins finest.He pops up in The Dame Tavern and The Cobblestones from time to time. He sings a fw briggs songs, and what this man doesnt know about folk isnt worth knowing
erniebeggs 2 years ago
John Cromwell is not on youtube is he?
subterranean47 2 years ago
Trying to get John Cromwell to go on Youtube but he's proving to be more elusive than Ms Briggs, but Im getting there
erniebeggs 2 years ago
haha, great!
subterranean47 2 years ago
She looks just like I imagined Julia from 1984. Beautiful song.
Svensson450 2 years ago
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pigskin100 2 years ago
Tip - forget showbiz values. If you're in a small pub, and someone like Briggs sings a song, it's very special. Plus - don't forget - she was a trailblazer.
PeterOzanne 2 years ago
Hello, Mr. Pigshit, spreading your goodwill to all men! Long live Ann Briggs and all she stands for.
bramstokerful 2 years ago 2
I would follow her to the ends of the Earth.
Daycron66 2 years ago
and crack one out in her handbag no doubt
Rikk303 2 years ago
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murcherson 2 years ago
What part of the British Isles is her bizarre accent supposed to represent?
nathanielbagshot 2 years ago
it's the sort of accent that someone singing this sort of song sort of slips into. Like the thigh slapping interlude before you decide on a book from the shelf, or a bloke who is on the shelf, or an Ikean shelf...one always slaps ones thighs as a sort of ultimate decision..like smelling our armpits....not having a good day...night night x
Rikk303 2 years ago
Easy - vaguely the North! As she was, I think, from Newcastle, that seems fair enough, don't it?
PeterOzanne 2 years ago
@PeterOzanne
She was from Toton in Nottinghamshire.
sophiejodieful 1 year ago
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bawnog 2 years ago
Dia duit, I only drink the black stuff. I think Ann drank whatever was going. Have a look at the Dubliners, Humpty Dumpty, a song written by James Joyce. Bawnog.
bawnog 2 years ago
wow
Oscar301 2 years ago
truly angelic.
1dudeman2 2 years ago
Does anyone know where I could find the chords or tab for this?
Postscript624 2 years ago
I would find out from Bert Jansch directly who still does this song- maybe write him at his web site or look there. Usually artists can provide simple chord outlines if time permits. Since this is Celtic fingering, you most likely won't find info on US websites. Also you can go to the Irish/English/Celtic guitar society and they will help sort it.
anglinthemtns 2 years ago
Thanks mate!
Postscript624 2 years ago
you can get bert janschs version easily on tab, but its quite difficult.
now i know that this is also bert jansch on guitar, but "his own" version is very different, and kinda hard.
this version i feel brings it more to the voice, which is great cos the song is supposed to be capella
nigusberries 2 years ago
It's not bert on guitar; its Anne herself
sophiejodieful 1 year ago
This music soaks into your soul and enriches it like a good friend.
Broonzied 2 years ago
yeap! The voice still seems the same. McDaids is still there. In the fifties it used to be frequented by Brendan Behan, JP Donleavy and other writers and poets along with a few left wing revolutionaries and the few tappers. I haven't been in it for years but it still might be worth a visit. The sort of equivelant pub in Dublin now would be Grogans, the Castle Lounge, South William Street. It has no television which says a lot.Grogans and McDaids are only a few minutes walk from each other.
bawnog 2 years ago
Funny question, but what did you drink? What did she drink?
Legacy76 2 years ago
Oh, by the way. If I am ever in Dublin, and I fully intend on going there, I will hoist I pint to you and Anne at McDaids. It is still there, I checked.
Legacy76 2 years ago
I was just one of many who had frequented O'Donaghues in the mid sixties. Though not involved in music myself I was pally with those such as Luke, Ted Furey, Tony McMahon, Johnnie Moynihan etc. Actually it was Johnnie Moynihan that Ann was closest to. I think she actually sang with Sweeney's Men. I haven't seen her since 1969.
bawnog 2 years ago
Is the voice here as good as you remember? Man, I wasn't born until the 1970's. Did you know how lucky you were to see her, Jansch, and Zeppelin? My generation got New Kids on the Block...
Legacy76 2 years ago
I knew her in 1968 when we both drank in Mc Daids pub in Harry street, Dublin. Lovely person who sometimes went barefoot as far as I recollect.
bawnog 2 years ago 6
Thats cool, man.
Legacy76 2 years ago
Beautiful. Just a voice and a guitar, and it reaches inside me and twists an emotional response out of me.
The more complex music gets, the less emotive it becomes. Lovely, simple music is so difficult to do well. This is exceptional music, in my view.
Thanks for posting it.
polperro 2 years ago 2