Personified Hatred
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The album "Kveldssanger" by Ulver and the album "Visor Om Slutet" by Finntroll.
Folk music
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WarLord Aden
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Try morgan the bard
hes on myspace somewhere, im not sure if thats how he spells his name or whatever.. but im sure you'll find it.
but i dont think its the 'folk' you mean, 'tis actually hard to find, i have the same problems...
hes on myspace somewhere, im not sure if thats how he spells his name or whatever.. but im sure you'll find it.
but i dont think its the 'folk' you mean, 'tis actually hard to find, i have the same problems...
biggsy
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Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
Folk? You'll never beat the Irish, and as that goes you'll never beat The Wolfe Tones. Just check out their versions of Come Out Ye Black and Tans, Oró Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile, and The Foggy Dew. The Chieftains older stuff is also exceptional as is The Dubliners, although the latters' recordings are pretty old and rough. They performed the best version of Rocky Road to Dublin of all time.
Hell yea.
Irish folk is amazing... And damn, I love those Irish rebel songs. It's great stuff. Wolfe Tones are amazing. You have good taste.
Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
Well, same to you. Not alot of people stateside who like true Irish folk music and its a real shame. Especially if you're talking about the older stuff like going back to the Dubliners, its just too rustic and "real," for people who have never listened to a song that's not some overly processed fad that's "hot" according to Entertainment Weekly.
I was actually surprised to find footage from some Dubliners shows in the 70's up on Youtube. Its worth checking out, as I had never seen any of these videos myself. Its impressive to see what it takes to truly perform some of this deceptively simple music - i'd pass out halfway through trying to sing, play guitar, and play whistle to Peggy Lettermore...in gaeilge no less.
YouTube - The Dubliners
Nice.
I also really like Irish sea songs... and Irish Civil War songs from camps. Nice stuff, I tell ya. I'm adding you on myspace because of your awesome taste.
I also really like Irish sea songs... and Irish Civil War songs from camps. Nice stuff, I tell ya. I'm adding you on myspace because of your awesome taste.
Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
Added.
Speaking of civil war songs, Brian Warfield of The Wolfe Tones did a few excellent albums of songs of both the Union and Confederate Irish. They have great production (better than the Tones have had recently) and Brian's voice is also really good on them. I'm partial to the Confederate album, but that's because I'm a Kentuckian.
Ah, I'm a Northern girl. All of the music is great, though. There are so many redeeming points to both of the armies, though.
I mean, it's impossible not to root for both sides while watching Gettysburg or reading Killer Angels. So damn impossible.
I mean, it's impossible not to root for both sides while watching Gettysburg or reading Killer Angels. So damn impossible.
TylerTheNuke
I have eaten you
I don't know if this is the same type of folk that you guys are talking, but I recently took a plunge and got the telluride sessions by strength in numbers, and I really liked it. DO you guys have any suggestions of similar bands?
Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
...I meant Derek Warfield. I must be dyslexic.
Yes, the fighting men themselves all deserve respect, i'll grant you that...except Sherman. That's where I draw the line.
I'm sure you're aware that people your age and women in general are not supposed to know a damn thing about military history. Its a damn good thing you do though. History is everything, literally. Oliver Wendell Holmes said it best: "[SIZE=-1]A page of history is worth a volume of logic."
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Yes, the fighting men themselves all deserve respect, i'll grant you that...except Sherman. That's where I draw the line.
I'm sure you're aware that people your age and women in general are not supposed to know a damn thing about military history. Its a damn good thing you do though. History is everything, literally. Oliver Wendell Holmes said it best: "[SIZE=-1]A page of history is worth a volume of logic."
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Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
I forgot about that album. That's...more of an eclectic world acoustic sort of thing than folk, but close enough, and damn good. Now I need to go find that album again...
...I meant Derek Warfield. I must be dyslexic.
Yes, the fighting men themselves all deserve respect, i'll grant you that...except Sherman. That's where I draw the line.
I'm sure you're aware that people your age and women in general are not supposed to know a damn thing about military history. Its a damn good thing you do though. History is everything, literally. Oliver Wendell Holmes said it best: "[SIZE=-1]A page of history is worth a volume of logic."
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Thanks.
Hmmm. Sherman really gave Georgia a raping.
Now, McClellan really pissed me off. He was 'nervous in the service'. Though I am a Northern girl, there will always be a place in my heart for Stonewall. He's quite damn awesome, with all of his little quirks and myths.
Sickles is pretty cool, too. I mean... who else would visit their own amputated leg in a museum on the anniversary of the amputation? When I visited the Gettysburg Battlefield, I found out some hilarious info about Sickles. He embezzled the money for his own monument at the battlefield for booze and crap like that -- and when he was asked about it, all he said was, "This whole damn battlefield is my monument". He's bad-ass. I like him.
Now (if you're bored by now, that's okay, you can go to another post, haha) I had this really great tour guide named Ed Bearss. That guy is freaking legendary. He gave me a great tour of Little Round Top.... Regardless, it was an amazing historical experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bearss That man is god.
Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
Ha, Sickles is a hell of a character. Larger than life in every way...some of his exploits outside the war are pretty hard to believe, even though many historians maintain they are most likely true...like his having an affair with Queen Isabella.
I think i've seen Ed Bearss on TV before. Damned awesome he was your guide...i've never been to Gettysburg or the Confederate Capitol or the Shenandoah Valley. Since I moved here i've visited some sites in Georgia, most notably Kennesaw Mountain (been there numerous times simply because its great exercise and very scenic). This does however give me ideas for future trips I must make.
Sherman...I could truly ramble on about it, but we all know Sherman completely violated the rules of war. The South and General Lee especially held steadfast to a code of honour that would not allow these rules to be violated - not to say that everyone was squeaky clean, but Sherman made such atrocities a matter of Union policy, and that had much to do with what lost the war for the South. It was a matter of who had the will to keep upping the ante, who was willing to wage total war. We really were (I emphasize were) different civilizations with different values, and to the Southern leadership Sherman's "take the war to the people" type of tactics were not even a possibility.
Of course, we could argue (and correctly) that this is simply how you win a war. As a comparison, Jefferson Davis (proving himself wise and ahead of his time) wanted to revert to guerilla warfare, but Lee would not do it. I believe if we had used these tactics, we would have had a chance to wear down and fatigue the Union into granting some sort of concessions, if not autonomy of some portion of the South. So, a part of me wishes Lee were less honourable and more cruel, but another part takes pride in knowing that in a long world history of warfare, he was one of the few who truly did follow this sort of knightly code of honour, and it earned him immortality, and he became our badge of honour, so to speak. Half of me will forever be pissed at Robert E. Lee for not having the will to go farther, and the other half admires him as the archetype of the Southerner. So there you are.
Anyway...
This is a folk music thread, right?
