We Know By The Moon

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Release Date: 2023-11-27

Label: Hudson Records

Tri-fold card CD sleeve with 24 page booklet insert with illustrations and notes for source of each song.

01: (Roud 702) Emily: "The beautiful Dorian melody to our version of 'The Moon Shines Bright' was sung by Mr G. Vaughn at Dilwyn to the Hereford collector Ella Mary Leather in March 1907; I made up an additional B-part melody to augment it. [...] The text is compiled from various versions found in the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library and Bodleian archives [...]"

02: (Roud 6959) Rachel: "I found a 1953 recording, made by Hamish Henderson of Aberdeenshire Traveller singer Jeannie Robertson singing this song on the Tobar an Dualchais website, a collection of recordings from the School of Scottish Studies archive. [...]"

03: (Roud 3601) Lucy: "This is a variant of 'Dearest Dear' noted down by Margaret MacArthur from someone in southern Vermont, and recorded on her 1975 album The Old Songs. I heard Tim Eriksen's version on his 2012 album Josh Billings Voyage [...]"

04: (Roud 368) Alasdair: "This song was learnt from a live recording, made in Haarlem in 1977, of the American banjo player and singer Derroll Adams."

05: Rachel: "[...]"

06: (Roud 4897) Alasdair: "This song is by the Paisley poet and songwriter Robert Tannahill (1774-1810). [...] Our version, however, perhaps owes more in mood to one sung by the late Glaswegian singer Ray Fisher (1940-2011); it features on her 1982 LP Willie's Lady."

07: (Roud 24845) Emily: "I learnt this song from a recording of Ray Driscoll (1922-2005) made in 1989 by Mike Yates. [...]"

08: Alasdair: "This track begins with the English country dance tune 'The Emperor of the Moon', which was first published by John Playford's son, Henry Playford (1657-1709), in his Dancing Master, (8th edition, 1690). It is followed by the very last song written by Sotlands most famous poet, Robert Burns [...] Felix Mendelssohn composed a tune for it, which is the one we sing. [...] I first heard this sung by the great Glaswegian singer Ellen Mitchell [...]"

09: (Child 79, Roud 196) Lucy: "Chris Coe sang me this version of the classic supernatural ballad in a singing lesson [...] Mostly taken from A Book of British Ballads by Roy Palmer [...]"

10: Alasdair: "[...] The English translation is based on one sung by Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene (1865-1936)."

11: (Roud 18281) Emily: "We learnt 'Oh Watch the Stars' from The Seeger Sisters's 1957 LP accompanying their mother, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger's songbook American Folk Songs For Christmas (Doubleday, 1953). [...]"


Recorded by [...] at Gloworm Studios, Glasgow, Tesla Studio, Sheffield, Yellow Arch, Sheffield & Hudson Studios, Sheffield

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