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masterofmidgetsI have concluded that the only thing more frustrating than not being able to remember a song is to remember it but have the internet insist that said song does not exist.
A few years ago I was given a mix CD of Celtic music - nothing out of the ordinary, just a bunch of the classics (Seven Drunken Nights, The Wild Rover, From Clare to Here, etc etc) since this was before I got into Celtic music. Actually, this was probably the reason I got into Celtic music to begin with (The same person is also to blame for getting me into filk and Loreena McKennitt. She was obviously a terrible influence). Anyway, what with one thing and another and the fact that I moved five times in two years, I lost the CD, and because I didn't have a computer back then, that meant that I lost the music entirely.
But a few months ago, I decided I wanted a few of those songs back, in some form or another. The Seven Nations stuff was easy enough to find - I got From Clare to Here and Back Home in Derry back quick enough, along with a bunch of new songs by them I really liked. But the rest of the songs that had been on the CD were a bit difficult. I couldn't remember the name of the band, and even when I searched just for the songs, nothing that sounded like the right name came up. And unfortunately I hated every other version of those songs I found. I can't stand the lead singers of The Wolfe Tones and Dropkick Murphy, people keep trying to turn Spancil Hill into a rock song, and apparently no one likes Four Green Fields at all. Worst of all, one of the songs I really wanted to get back, County Antrim, does not exist according to the internet. Every attempt on my part to bend my prodigious Google-fu to the task of finding it turned up exactly nil.
After a not insignificant amount of research, I finally have an answer, as helpful as it isn't. The name of the band is Causeway, they were an Irish folk band popular (within the circles of people who like this kind of thing) in Philly, and the reason I have been able to find jack-all is that their CD was self-produced in 1997 for their fans. So yeah, not all that widely distributed, and not all that likely to have ever made it onto the internet. Lucky me! At this point, my best bet is to hope the person who originally made the CD for me still has her copy and will be willing to make me a new one.
Alternatively, if anyone has any recommendations for good versions of the following songs, I'll take them: Black and Tans, Four Green Fields, The Wild Rover, The Fields of Athenry, Spancil Hill, The Black Velvet Band, Star of the County Down.
ETA: I'm also trying to find a song that may or may not be by Hadrian's Wall, but I've about given up on it since I only heard half of it once six years ago at a fair and all I remember is that the girl is blonde and she drowns herself in the sea. Oh my brain.
A few years ago I was given a mix CD of Celtic music - nothing out of the ordinary, just a bunch of the classics (Seven Drunken Nights, The Wild Rover, From Clare to Here, etc etc) since this was before I got into Celtic music. Actually, this was probably the reason I got into Celtic music to begin with (The same person is also to blame for getting me into filk and Loreena McKennitt. She was obviously a terrible influence). Anyway, what with one thing and another and the fact that I moved five times in two years, I lost the CD, and because I didn't have a computer back then, that meant that I lost the music entirely.
But a few months ago, I decided I wanted a few of those songs back, in some form or another. The Seven Nations stuff was easy enough to find - I got From Clare to Here and Back Home in Derry back quick enough, along with a bunch of new songs by them I really liked. But the rest of the songs that had been on the CD were a bit difficult. I couldn't remember the name of the band, and even when I searched just for the songs, nothing that sounded like the right name came up. And unfortunately I hated every other version of those songs I found. I can't stand the lead singers of The Wolfe Tones and Dropkick Murphy, people keep trying to turn Spancil Hill into a rock song, and apparently no one likes Four Green Fields at all. Worst of all, one of the songs I really wanted to get back, County Antrim, does not exist according to the internet. Every attempt on my part to bend my prodigious Google-fu to the task of finding it turned up exactly nil.
After a not insignificant amount of research, I finally have an answer, as helpful as it isn't. The name of the band is Causeway, they were an Irish folk band popular (within the circles of people who like this kind of thing) in Philly, and the reason I have been able to find jack-all is that their CD was self-produced in 1997 for their fans. So yeah, not all that widely distributed, and not all that likely to have ever made it onto the internet. Lucky me! At this point, my best bet is to hope the person who originally made the CD for me still has her copy and will be willing to make me a new one.
Alternatively, if anyone has any recommendations for good versions of the following songs, I'll take them: Black and Tans, Four Green Fields, The Wild Rover, The Fields of Athenry, Spancil Hill, The Black Velvet Band, Star of the County Down.
ETA: I'm also trying to find a song that may or may not be by Hadrian's Wall, but I've about given up on it since I only heard half of it once six years ago at a fair and all I remember is that the girl is blonde and she drowns herself in the sea. Oh my brain.