Oysterband - The Deserter (live)

Oysterband performing at Festival Place in Sherwood Park, just outside of Edmonton, Alberta on April 19th, 2008. They sing The Deserter from the album Deserters.

And yes that's me telling my mom "I just got this song!" because I actually bothered to listen to the lyrics for the first time, haha. the song came out when I was 7 and I guess I've always been so used to it that I never really concentrated on what the lyrics meant. Silly me. That's my mom singing, not me.

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Music

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• Oysterband
• Festival
• Place
• Sherwood
• Park
• Edmonton
• Alberta
• Deserter
• Deserters
• folk
• rock
• celtic
• war
• soldier
• live
• concert

[Thrub007]

Well I didn't see the band in 92, but I did catch them twice in Alberta. I thought the new guy was superb. Very powerful but not overbearing, and very tasteful. He was 100% committed to the songs, and the whole band was awesome on both nights.

[DadofVBG]

even the crappy video & sound can keep these guys down!

[SlightlySusan]

Which new guy? The new drummer?

[SteveStLaur]

As good as this was, their rendition of it on the '92 tour was much stronger. Lee Partis's absence from this tour was noticeable. The fill-in fellow was OK but Lee's always spectacular. Caught the tour-closing show in Vancouver a week after your recorded this. The energy here seemed stronger. Liked your comment about your mom. I remember taking mine to a Strawbs concert in Ottawa a few light-years ago. During the music that plays before the band came on, she said "I can't see them at all."