Bold Riley - Kate Rusby

[@alanjohnson1868]

What a magnificent arrangement. I buried my brother on Sunday, September 22. We are played this song at the burial. I’m still reeling. Thank you for the beautiful music. 😮

[@grahamalexander9956]

Simply lovely !!! Just named our new puppy Riley!!! The name came to us today as we walked around the local loch For some reason this song was in our head !!! And yes he loves his new name !!

[@dpoland]

This song has haunted me for several years now.....it never ends in my mind...like an old friend. Concertina brings out the sentimental lonesome in me.

[@himanshu7103]

dppoland i know you will never see this comment , because i am replying 10 years latter . i dont know why , but i am wondering who you are and what are you doing now , are you ok how do you living .

[@pkarol8786]

@@himanshu7103 I was listening to this song and scrolled down to see dpolands comment which was a surprise as he was a close friend. He was a magnificent fiddle player, the best! Sadly he very recently passed away. The world lost a wonderful musician and I lost a dear friend. He made a CD called Appalachian Field Trip, so you could have and opportunity to hear him and find out who he was.

[@himanshu7103]

@@pkarol8786 P Karol wow strange, i was not expecting a reply , one day when i saw this comment, don't know why but feel very strange , so i ask about how he is ,i don't even know from which country your friend was , i am half way across the ocean , but i kind of sad to know he is not in this world anymore . can u tell me who he is , a fb profile or something , and what was his age when this happen . i will look for his CD but don't think it will be available in my country . after all thank you for replying

[@pkarol8786]

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[@pkarol8786]

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[@tubite2]

I was looking for a version by The Wailin' Jennys and discovered Kate's amazing version. Her pure voice is a treat for ear and soul. Yes. Please. Come to America.

[@fionnmccueil]

Once upon a time, my wife left, to go work in Hong Kong for half-a-year, halfway around the world from me. I'd never been, and could not fathom where she was in the world, only knowing that each night as i closed my front door on the California coast, I'd look off into the sunset to the west and imagine I could smell her skin on the breeze off the Pacific. A month or so into her move, decidedly not my usual happy self, I did this song at Open Mic night for all of our friends, changing the chorus to "Bold Holly", of course, and wound up singing and crying at the same time. This song will forever be about my wife, for me. : ) Oh, surprise, I'm crying now... Thank you, Kate Rusby. You are _astonishing_.

[@rozaya8476]

Aww. I'm crying now :d Are you back with her? :)

[@fionnmccueil]

Yes! She finally came home from Hong Kong! I was so happy! That was ten years ago... We just celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary! She might be going to Shanghai soon, so I'm prepared to get all verklempt again!

[@Benedictwesson]

+fionnmccueil Holy crap. I have shivers. Thank you for sharing :3

[@Pauline6247]

That is such a sweet story. Thank you.

[@thunorwodenson]

With men this weak it's no wonder the west is in turmoil.

[@spadesofsunflowers6117]

My mom was a wonderful folk singer, and one of the only songs she sung in english (she was primarily a macedonian artist) was this one. It's such a special audio for me, especially since her friends (also musicians) played it for her memorial. When I hear it, I think of my mom tenderly saying goodbye to me. I miss you so much. I will never not love you.

[@chagotdidier6069]

the lovely voice of Kate Rusby, and the fantastic accordion of Andy Cutting... a taste of Paradise....

[@captainboggles]

my first introduction to Kate Rusby... still love it , still brings tears....

[@filipo876]

Sadness and melancholy prevail in this traditional and Kate's crystal voice matches perfectly, a gift she apparently inherited from her mother. God bless the Rusby family, they're a treat to humanity and they make my life bearable.

[@markbrady8324]

Beautiful song everyone that hears it has already came back to love

[@imamba1]

Perfect voice for a perfect song. It is so beautiful and often in my head.

[@stewstryker]

A gorgeous song that has a very personal connection for me. I just wish this was an actual video of Kate playing it.

[@bdavis7801]

Wow I like that!

[@delaniadelaney9925]

Love this song .makes me in touch with my heart x

[@davidward3707]

Haunting Song

[@ekpnoh1]

That song has kept been playing in my mind since the day I broke up with my husband…. Goodbye my dear …..

[@debbilanham4409]

Love this cover! Similar to Wailin' Jennys cover, also lovely. This is a chanty (shanty). Sailors would sing this faster and more brusquely. Whoever heard the chanty and somehow heard the beauty within to first produce a slower, mournful arrangement is a musical genius.

[@bencressman6110]

Haha, I’ve only ever heard this arrangement, and was thinking how fun it would be to cover it as a sea shanty. 😂

[@MaNia69MuKe]

My favourite. :)

[@smeghead1851]

A superb version of this old sea shantey. Thanks, Kate ! When are you coming to visit us in the USA ?

[@sixgunner455]

sublime.

[@russelldday]

I have been singing this with you all day... Thanks for that!

[@JustAFocus]

@wailinjennyfan I second the recommendation of the Wailin' Jennys performance of this song. Kate Rusby's version is nice, but the Jennys' version blew me away. Just incredible three-part harmony and feeling.

[@tubite2]

Thanks for the information. I am a relatively new fan and just got the album (actually 3 of em). Hope to see them live soon. Any songs they perform will not disappoint I am sure. Same would go for Kate.

[@TheBanjaxed1]

Brilliant....

[@nqomax]

Rutendo, ❤️

[@amokreutz]

THANK YOU

[@daithiobeag]

come white stockin day we'll be drinkin rum. Slainte!

[@carollizc]

@MusicLover1920 Dicey Riley was the titular character of an Irish trad song. There's a lovely version of it here on KZbin, done by Sweeney's Men,

[@grahambennett8191]

lovely song if you like this try Fair Annie by Steve Tilston and Maggie Boyle, these are my all time favourite songs

[@davidrbayez1722]

Quien Sabes...Angeles....En El Mas Alla...

[@richf7683]

I believe this particular recording is actually from her album called 'Ten'

[@damaracarpenter8316]

I have it on my Hourglass album :O

[@richf7683]

Damara Carpenter You know what? You're totally right and I was mistaken. I did a little digging and learned that the version of Bold Riley on the album 'Ten' is simply a remaster of the recording on Hourglass.

[@konamungo]

Bold Riley at Van Wies Point on the Hudson on KZbin

[@konamungo]

10 years on, listening on a rainy eve, I am still so very fond of Kate's melancholic rendition of this shanty

[@BashaPetania]

Does this song have any other names? I swear I've heard the tune before but it wasn't called this...

[@MusicLover1920]

@Aggrevaine I know your post is from a year ago, but which fictitious character were you talking about?

[@2mdcoe]

The origins of this shanty are unclear. It is not found in collections such as Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas and its first appearance seems to be on the LP A Sailor's Garland (1952), sung by A.L. Lloyd. Lloyd claimed to have collected it from sailors in Bristol who had sailed in the West lndies rum and sugar trade. and said that the melody had been recorded as a “Tobago reel”; however, there is more than a slight suspicion that the song may have been largely one of Lloyd's own creations! ‘White Stocking Day’ was the day each month when a sailor's female relatives dressed up in their best clothes to collect his half-pay or ‘allotment’. However. not all sailors made provision for the women to collect this allotment, preferring to take a larger advance payment for themselves, and this problem inspired the famous Liverpool feminist social campaigner and MP Eleanor Rathbone to demand o more equitable system of providing for sailors' and soldiers' dependants during the First World War, eventually culminating in her Family Allowances Act of 1945.

[@bunionfeet1]

Is bold Riley any relation to Dicey Riley?

[@cynthiasenn7004]

Is this song Scottish ? Sounds Irish !

[@chrisdansey2600]

+Cynthia Senn English, probably (Bristol and/or Liverpool).

[@davidrbayez1722]

Auld Clootie...

[@Norfolkscot]

Think the instrument is a melodian.

[@timhague882]

Concertina

[@tubite2]

hey wajefa - That's the ticket.

[@carbomb47]

man shes hot