Dick Gaughan - Flooers o' the Forest

From a 1983 BBC Spectrum documentary

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gaughan
• Folk

[t4texas]

There's just no finer singer than Dick Gaughan. Thank you for posting this!!

[moominpic]

This is fantastic! Thanks so much.

[smujiodome]

Thanks for posting this..

[rbmMan2]

Dick, I was there. Since the day I heard you sing it, i blessed it. Thank you for honoring us. I died there. Thank you, after all these years, with so much feeling, honoring us, and the suffering that followed. It is both magnificant, and a miracle, and beyond any description. There is a god. Thank you for honoring our suffering, and the suffering of those of us who laid dying....crying...for those we loved. My the Scottish people know they are loved by those of us who gave our lives.

[Dayepipes]

Heard him on the Boys of the Lough 1st album. I'm sorry I didn't follow him these many years since. I've got a lot of catching up to do. This isn't my favorite version of the melody of this song, but the totality of the performance is untouchable. I'll be listening to this the rest of my life. When the pipes play this there are 2 particular elements of the original song they can't do; one is a tone thing, the other is 1 note -- which he quotes once in the song. This man knows.

[GuyEmusic]

@anonymoose711 Indeed!

[anonymoose711]

Radiant! 

[SuperBeanson]

I am alone in thinking Kist O Gold is a better album than Handfull of Earth?

This song is probbaly in the 5 best sung songs of all time

[FozzieFaeCumbersneky]

@Jaco1314 take your bile elswhere ya fud.

[makemeateeshirt]

great version...pity yer no fae Ayrshire dick...and can ca' it like it is

[MrVampiredog]

WONDERFUL SINGER

[kalthaushummel]

this one brings tears to my eyes. his voice is so unearthly gentle, strong and beautiful. what a treasure.