A double treat last night - Jean Redpath was on both Prairie Home Companion and Thistle and Shamrock. I can't remember if I first heard her on PHC or the infamous Morning Pro Musica with my fellow Dutchman Robert J. Lurtsema on WGBH. She sounds as wonderful as ever, a little huskier to be sure, but then she's entitled - she's been singing for 50 years.
To think I stayed home on a Saturday night to listen to MPBN, when I could have gone to the Toboggan Championships and possibly hooked up with the Frozen Ass-ets or Night of the Living Sled for a wild night out in the bars of Camden. (The team names are well worth a look at the end of http://knox.villagesoup.com/Community/story.cfm?storyid=145355 ). Actually, I can hardly think of anything better than American roots, Scottish laments, and Celtic reels on the Bose, in the quiet of a Saturday night in Owls Head. Radio sounds great up here. But Garrison, please try to limit yourself to one singing performance a show. It's your show, I know, but you're an English major and definitely a singing minor.
Once again, Scotland calls. We must go - it's possibly the only true Calvinist place left on earth. Jean Redpath's voice is as bonny as the heather, and the weather, and the scotch, and the hills, and the lochs....
About Me
- Jim Krosschell
- Retired publishing executive ecstatic with the idea of spending most of his time on the coast of Maine
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I heard her (Jean Redpath) on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. However, I didn't catch the name of the song. I liked how she worked all the different denominations in there, and I want to purchase the CD. If only I could figure out the song title, so I could get the right CD.
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