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"Silver Dagger" as sung by Joan Baez. Don't sing love songs; you'll wake my mother She's sleeping here, right by my side And in her right hand, a silver dagger She says that I can't be your bride. All men are false, says my mother They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies The very next evening, they'll court another Leave you alone to pine and sigh.
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The song combines the melody from the nineteenth century folk song "Silver Dagger" with a driving techno beat influenced by German groups Kraftwerk and Snap!. [citation needed] It describes a friend whose lover has mysteriously vanished. [5] The cover art for the single features an abandoned car overgrown with foliage.
The rest of the performance features Pecknold performing solo on acoustic guitar. It features performances of songs from Shore and older Fleet Foxes songs, as well as cover versions of the traditional folk ballad "Silver Dagger" and the Bee Gees song "In the Morning". A Very Lonely Solstice is dedicated to Sam Jayne of the band Love as Laughter ...
Originally released on vinyl as a two-record set, the 1987 CD reissue consolidated the album onto a single disc, omitting five songs. The cover photo was taken by rock photographer Jim Marshall . Inside the original gatefold album on the original vinyl release was a photo montage of images from Baez' career.
"Silver Dagger", a late nineteenth century ballad, had been popularized by Joan Baez during the early 1960s. Parton had originally written "Steady as the Rain" for her younger sister Stella Parton , who had a top 40 country hit with the song in 1979.
The album is described by Bob Stanley as "an album of modern folk songs done in twentieth century styles like techno and dub". [3] "Like a Motorway", for example, blends Kraftwerk-style techno with the melody from the nineteenth century folk song "Silver Dagger". Some of the songs, such as "Marble Lions" and "Former Lover" forsake electronics ...
Rare, Live & Classic is a 1993 box set compilation by Joan Baez.Released on Vanguard, where Baez had recorded her most influential work during the first twelve years of her career, the set also included material from her subsequent record labels, A&M, Columbia and Gold Castle Records, as well as a number of previously unreleased studio and live recordings.