PAUL BRADY - THE LAKES OF PONCHARTRAIN

Irish singer Paul Brady bringing it all back home with a stunning version of The Lakes Of Ponchartrain.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Irish
• Folk
• Traditional
• Roots
• Americana

[macmaghnusa]

as the spanish say mrs jaycloth, opinions are like colours, there's lots of them, and you're most welcome to yours! :-)

[jimdruid]

A two hit wonder? Living off past glory> Aren't we all?

[macmaghnusa]

@jimdruid

A dissenting voice! You're about the first one, notwithstanding the Hothouse Flowers fan. By 'hits' I suppose you're referring to an assault on the pop charts 'All Around My Hat' style, right?

[macmaghnusa]

The argument seems futile to me. Many songs went over, came back and went back over again, sometimes within the same generation. It's part of the folk process. Restless Farewell is as valid as The Parting Glass and vice-versa. Just enjoy the song for god's sake...

[akku2222]

Agree. He is a genius with the guitar...but we need a song that will last for few hundred years

[macmaghnusa]

would you like to expand on that?

[rainharper62]

Love paul brady-glad he's still playing & moving around the country-Of course his guitar playing has gotten much much better over the years! If it wasn't for him, i would have never even heard of this song-I'm glad of that-thank you for posting this

[Trotskyish]

Magnifique !! - Vive La Belle France et les Creoles !!

[nickyorourke]

@PeterOzanne i should have looked at the video first it is open d, confused myself now cause i forgot i play this in open g myself as its suits my voice in this key anyway happy listening

[PeterOzanne]

@nickyorourke I was a little confused at first - then I realised you quote your tunings in reverse . Tunings are counted from the 6th string to the first, not vice versa. So people count from the 6th - ie thickest - bass string, which gives DGDgbd for open G, which Brady plays for Arthur McBride. However, here he's definitely playing Open D, which is DADF#AD - one string off DADgad. I play Blackbird standard, but I worked out Solsbury Hill in open G :-)

Have fun

[nickyorourke]

@PeterOzanne its tuned d b g d g d i always thought it was open g but i stand corrected if im wrong it is not tuned dagdad as i,ve seen paul tune his guitar this way for this song and many other songs like arthur mcbride and mary and the soldier.if you play guitar this is a great tuning for playing the blackbird by the beatles although the beatles use standard tuning for the blackbird

[PeterOzanne]

@nickyorourke mrs jaycloth obviously misheard "dadgad", but "dagda" sounds nice: like an Irish legend!

It's actually open D, as any good guitarist will confirm.

[PeterOzanne]

@akku2222 Don't get your point. This song HAS lasted 100 years or more, and being a great folk song, will surely last a few more hundred......?

[PeterOzanne]

@reevedavey I know, love, and play some of Robin's songs. He probably did tune his A D and G up to B E G#, but that gives the same relative string tuning as open D - which is the usual generic term for this tuning - where one uses a capo for playing E or whatever. I sometimes tune down to open C# or even C: not to be confused with the "other" open C used by Dougie Maclean: CGCGCE (Caledonia) or CGCGCEb (Ready for the Storm, Robin's "Womankind"), or CGCGCD ("Waltz OTNM", Zeps "Rain Song")

[renderizer01]

@reevedavey DADGAD with the G down to F# is called open E? I honestly don't think so...

[reevedavey]

to nickorourke.wrong.a variant of DADGAD with the G down to F SHARP known as open E used by robin williamson for " october song" circa 1966.