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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 ...
A reviewer said about the ten and a half-minute "Autumn Song": "I can't deny that it's the funkiest song about the splendors and moods of fall that has ever glided through my ears." [ 9 ] The ending song, "Purple Heather" is the traditional " Wild Mountain Thyme " written by F. McPeake as a variant of Robert Tannahill 's "The Braes of ...
The Yetties (John "Bonny" Sartin, Pete Shutler, and Mac McCulloch) were an English folk music group, who took their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster, their childhood home. [1] In 1975, they released an album entitled The Yetties of Yetminster. [2] The Yetties retired in 2011. [3]
The first available unauthorised/bootleg CDs available in the 1980s and 1990s comprised principally off-air and other obscure material under such titles as Borrowed Thyme, Poems from Alexandra, Dark the Night, Wild Mountain Thyme and One Last Sad Refrain; such compilations are now largely superseded by the subsequent availability of most of the ...
A Pair of Brown Eyes. " A Pair of Brown Eyes " is a single by The Pogues, released on 18 March 1985. [1] The single was their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 72. [2] It featured on the band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan. Its melody is loosely based on that of “ Wild ...
Transatlantic Sessions. Transatlantic Sessions is the collective title for a series of musical productions by Glasgow-based Pelicula Films Ltd, funded by- and produced for BBC Scotland, BBC Four [1] and RTÉ of Ireland. [2] The productions comprise collaborative live performances by various leading folk, bluegrass and country musicians from ...
Martin Hanlin. Joseph Donnelly. Lewis Rankine. JJ Gilmour. Jim McDermott. Phil Kane. Stevie Kane. The Silencers are a Scottish rock band formed in London in 1986 by Jimme O'Neill and Cha Burns, two ex-members of the post-punk outfit Fingerprintz. [1] Their music is characterised by a melodic blend of pop, folk and traditional Celtic influences.
The song describes how the child's spirit now walks the earth in search of peace in the nuclear age. [2] [21] The two traditional folk songs included on the album, "John Riley" and "Wild Mountain Thyme", were both introduced to the band by McGuinn, who had learned them via recordings made by Joan Baez and Pete Seeger respectively. [5]