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"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is a Scottish/Irish folk song.The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), but were adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake (1885–1971) into "Wild Mountain Thyme" and ...
All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated "Is It Real?" "Up to the Stars" "Give Me the Time" "If I Were a Carpenter" "Wild Mountain Thyme" (Traditional) "Heartbreak Hotel" (Mae Boren Axton, Thomas Durden, Elvis Presley)
Wild Mountain Thyme is not a traditional song. It was composed by Francis McPeak (and his father). The McPeak family are Irish; The published version in my possession attributes the words and music to Francis McPeak (Alasdair Clayre, 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, Wolfe Publishing Ltd, London, 1968)
Sheet music consisting of tablature is sometimes referred to as "tabs." The same style of tablature is also used for other fretted instruments such as the banjo , mandolin , and ukulele . The following examples are labelled with letters on the left denoting the string names, with a lowercase e for the high E string.
The music is impressionistic in style, influenced by the piano works of Debussy and Ravel, in particular the latter's Jeux d'eau. There are two main themes, a gently meandering melody in A major and a heroic horn-call in F. The music builds swiftly to a climax of cascading arpeggios before a return to the tranquillity of the opening.
Al Petteway was an American guitarist known primarily for his acoustic fingerstyle work [1] both as a soloist and with well-known folk artists such as Amy White, Tom Paxton, Jethro Burns, Jonathan Edwards, Cheryl Wheeler, Debi Smith, Bonnie Rideout, Maggie Sansone and many others.
Reid's solo work has included his debut in 1984 I Saw The Wild Geese Flee, followed by The Better o a Sang in 1996, Emfae Dundee in 2001 and Yont the Tay in 2005. In 2005, Reid released a songbook with a collection of his own songs titled after his second album The Better o a Sang .
The album was a very strong debut for the band, instantly lifting them to stardom. It joined the ranks of albums which were charting a new direction in popular music, including The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo and The Band's Music from Big Pink. "In many ways, the album helped define the California sound," Matt Friedlander wrote. [3] "The ...