Tim Eriksen- Mountains of Pomeroy

http://timeriksenmusic.com/

A song from "Mrs. E.M. Sullivan, Springfield VT" as recorded by Helen Hartness Flanders. Supposedly the guy in the story was half fox, whatever you make of that. I knew this song from some digging around I did in Flanders' archival material at Middlebury a long time ago, and then ten years ago or so I found Mrs. Sullivan's copy of The New Green Mountain Songster with the inscription "With much love to Mrs. Sullivan who makes this song-research come alive for me, Helen Hartness Flanders." Cost me twenty bucks which is more than I used to spend on books, but it was one one of those nice coincidences. It's also handy because Mrs. Sullivan wrote in some stuff she apparently couldn't remember at the time of the recording.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fiddle
• ballad
• new
• england
• spring
• cordelia's
• dad
• amherst
• renardine
• reynardine
• ice

[batfancy]

Again about the new Youtube: it's kind of a confusing set-up (to my mind anyway) and I haven't quite figured it out yet. I've unintentionally deleted some comments and posted a couple in ways I didn't mean to. I think the company is subject to the generally conservative economic move (I'm not talking politics here mind you) as the rest of the "business community." You may be seeing advertisements here in future, or...Well, what do you think? Not a loaded question- just interested...

[art2liv4]

Very nice, as usual. I like your recordings in nature, sometimes (like here) by running water, which reminded me of a DVD I cataloged today, Intangible asset no. 82, in which an Australian musician, studying in Korea, visits a singer who trains at the top of his lungs against the backdrop of a waterfall. Evidently it's a genre.

[batfancy]

@art2liv4 sounds like Pansori. Those guys know how to sing!

[riverwindflutes]

Simply fantastic, I'm irish and my fathers family has been here for 9 generations, I belong to the sons of the american revolution, this song makes me think of my irish american roots, and what our irish american forfathers and mothers did for this country.

P.S.

How is your fiddle tuned to this song?

Thanks

Don

[batfancy]

@riverwindflutes it's tuned ADad or close to it.

[tallercaller]

Thanks for the song and the setting, Tim. What sort of camera set-up are you using for this?

[batfancy]

@tallercaller canon vixia hf100 with a little shotgun mic. works pretty well.

[tstlz10]

hey Tim any chance we can get the lyrics to this. The ones I keep finding are not the ones your singing. thanks :)

[comradeshow]

Tim Eriksen is made of awesome

[hrothgarisroger]

Reynard (or some variation thereof) was quite the figure in medieval literature; a fox who usually had mischievous ends and no respect for authority. I had to translate some stuff about him at university; very distasteful and completely irreverent but probably meant to be funny. I like the romantic highwayman version better than the farting jokester. Oddly. Enough.

[MurrintownLad]

Thank you lad for your style of giving us this brilliant song.

[cathead77]

This is the kind of music that puts a chill up my spine. It's my roots. Thank you for keeping this alive.

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

Fucking brilliant. Just fucking brilliant. Thank god for this voice.

[KingMilesTagoyet]

You are a gifted man Mr Eriksen. Thanks for all the beautiful music. Paul

[DerNachtfalke1983]

Awsome!!!...

Greeets from germany...:-)