John Renbourn - The Snows That Melt The Soonest

Live Concert in Pavia (Italy), 07 September 2005.
Thanks to MARTL3T for tellin me the title of the song.

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[heman521]

can anyone tel me what guitar he's plaiyng on

[VanDeFields]

I asked the same question to a friend from New Zealand a couple of yrs ago and he replied:

'Its a guitar made by an English Luthier Ralph Brown....John told me he has not got a website ...Hk'

Cheers

Van

[WilhelmKojac]

It is made by Ralph Bown (not Brown), there is a (sketch of a) website too, but it has been under construction for a couple of years

[VanDeFields]

Thank you Wilhelm.

Wish I had one of those... sounds very very good! He seems to be barely touching the strings!

[t4texas]

If you've never heard Dick Gaughan's version of this song, on his "Handful Of Earth" album, you owe it to yourself to seek it out!

[VanDeFields]

Thank you, bud. I appreciate that a lot. I know Dick Gaughan.

I see you're from the State of the yellow rose. I didn't found Stevie Ray Vaughan in between your many favorite artists. Don't you think he might be considered one of the greates Texas musicians of all times?

Cheers

Van

[Rikk303]

@heman521 it's so heavily treated at this volume it doesn't really matter

[rosasomniferum]

@viking1au Not so - though very many people believe that to be the case. It was actually collected from a street singer, and first printed up in a journal in 1821.

[tc1991t9]

i bet back in the north in the 1800's, this is how the song was really sung.

[viking1au]

Nice song; written by Anne Briggs.

[PeterOzanne]

Looks/sounds like dropped D (6th is D)

Gaughan plays it in DADGAD - his version makes my hair stand on end, though it's nice to see Renbourn do it.