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Disc 2 - Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop "The Curragh Of Kildare" "Poor Mouth" "Blackwaterside" ... "Wild Mountain Thyme" "Come Back Baby" "I Am Lonely" Personnel
"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 ...
Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison. pp. 193–194. ISBN 9780826429766.. Less explicit but more succinct is Oliver Trager (2004). Keys to the rain: the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia. Billboard Books. p. 684. ISBN 9780823079742. which simply lists "Wild Mountain Thyme" (tradional/Frank McPeake) a.k.a.
Transatlantic Sessions musical co-directors Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas. 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 music will come as no surprise to anyone who's seen and heard such previous Knopfler soundtracks as those for Local Hero and The Princess Bride. There are some Scottish themes in keeping with the movie's setting ..., a couple of slow-moving instrumentals in which Knopfler fingerpicks an acoustic guitar, and three vocal tracks.
Track 12, later released as a single featuring the Scottish Euro '96 Football Squad, "Purple Heather" is a folk song that normally goes by the name "Wild Mountain Thyme". It is often credited as traditional, but was written by Francis McPeake.
Before forming The Silencers, vocalist Jimme O'Neill and guitarist Cha Burns were active in London's new wave music scene. O'Neill wrote songs for Paul Young and Lene Lovich, while Burns played guitar in Adam Ant's backing band during 1982–1984, together with Fingerprintz drummer Bogdan Wiczling. [2]
He also praised the title track and its "amazing, complex guitar solo." [ 6 ] In his Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal , Martin Popoff defined the album as "a charmed release" where "Waiting for an Alibi" and "Got to Give It Up" emerge as "two Thin Lizzy classics" and the title track "is on a plane more in league with fine literature than ...