Solas performs "The Poor Ditching Boy", live from Folk Alley Studios
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@russhouldin577411 ай бұрын
Love it. So great to hear a new generation singing Richard Thompson songs.
@gaspode1814 жыл бұрын
Written, of course, by the great Richard Thompson.
@ClareJulissa13 жыл бұрын
Bands like Solas are proof that there's hope for America yet!
@DavidStanley852818 ай бұрын
I'm only just discovering them. But, yeah, great to hear some American bands covering British folk :)
@Orchdork5414 жыл бұрын
This is an Amazing Band just saw them live tonight. So Awesome!!
@MajorWolfgangHochstetter10 жыл бұрын
Only recently found Solas! Deprived here in central Florida! Love this song (version), and this group! Fantastic!
@Shooterpirat9 жыл бұрын
I think so too - they are amazing!
@DavidStanley852818 ай бұрын
Magnifique!
@Travailleradomicile77714 жыл бұрын
beautiful music!!! I love irish music, this is just so great!!!!
@dunebasher19712 жыл бұрын
This is an English song (written by Richard Thompson).
@nicnacpadawak14 жыл бұрын
My favorite song from "The Turning Tide"!!!
@JonMcNamaraM369111 жыл бұрын
Solas is a tremndous, brilliant group. Really, go see them if they come into your area.
@nicnacpadawak14 жыл бұрын
100 of these views have to be mine. Such a great song by a great band.
@rayfaria13 жыл бұрын
Cool song...wonderfull band!
@IrishGigs12 жыл бұрын
Séamus Egan was born in Hatboro, Pennsylvania to Irish émigrés Jack and Ann Egan. At the age of three his parents moved the family back home to County Mayo, Ireland.
@carabistouillette12 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@timbuchanan65788 жыл бұрын
Great harmonies!
@ClareJulissa12 жыл бұрын
@tdbsnr Quoted from the Solas Facebook page: "For over a decade, Solas has been recognized as the most influential Irish-American super group." They may play Irish music, but they're from the USA!
@RedKatieAnne12 жыл бұрын
Literally, a "ditcher"is a ditch digger. The ditches were used for irrigation. On a farm prior to the 1940's it was the most menial, hardest, and generally least paid unskilled labour. Richard Thompson's lyrics, I believe, are meant to suggest that the song's narrator is already an exploited working chap who runs afoul of girl who treats him dreadfully and in the end his employer refuses to pay him because of general hard times. Not a very cheerful song, but wonderfully performed here.
@betseyh0914 жыл бұрын
very nice
@johnniejukebox8 жыл бұрын
Kilkenny lass Mairaid Phelan on vocal.
@JeremyLohan14 жыл бұрын
i like it xD
@Burncourtable12 жыл бұрын
Winifred Horan and Seamus Egan are American. The rest are irish. I dont care if their from the moon. They sound great
@justdave-f7z6 жыл бұрын
They are both born of Irish parents. They're as Irish as can be...but you are right! They sound great! Winifred is the sturdy backbone of the group!
@chrisdansey260011 жыл бұрын
Maybe - but English folk culture (if that is the right phrase) is so thin (compared to Scots, Irish and Breton - Welsh too, probably) that we need to hang on to all we can. Its almost down to The Waterson Family and morris dancing as it is. And anyway, The Poor Ditching Boy seems (to me,. at least) to be a very English sort of song.
@christaylor2070 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget Martin Carthy [unless you include him in the Watersons] and Richard Thompson!
@gaspode1812 жыл бұрын
Digging ditches.
@carabistouillette12 жыл бұрын
I don't speak currently english... so... Anyone can tell me the definition of "ditching" ?
@chrisdansey260011 жыл бұрын
Oh, forgot to mention - I was formerly Gaspode18
@steverothsteinmo11 жыл бұрын
who is the singer?
@tdbsnr12 жыл бұрын
@ClareJulissa Actually they're Irish...
@quedecree7 жыл бұрын
She's Cheating!! She's got the lyrics printed on the back of her eyelids! Nah, great band and really good song.
@ninjaturt13 жыл бұрын
watch?v=bL23OxsY95E Another Solas song for you guys
@gaspode1812 жыл бұрын
Not really Irish.Richard Thompson is half-Scottish born in England.
@hedgerow21512 жыл бұрын
a good band seemingly, but to me it's a tad too sweet and too nice for a more ragged kind of song.
@richardpowell16453 жыл бұрын
Try the original by Richard Thompson, written shortly after he left Fairport Convention
@marlajomac3 жыл бұрын
The band is great but their version of this song is not worth listening to.
@davidgray55858 жыл бұрын
Stop keep going on about the English and if it's sound lrish Welsh Scottish,does it really matter enjoy , get a life for Christ sake
@JonMcNamaraM369111 жыл бұрын
@gaspode18: Re: '...not Irish'. Not really significant. At this point, there's been so much cross-culture/cross-genetics between the Isles, it's more under the umbrella of 'Celtic'. After all, isn't that what Paddy Maloney (Chieftains) has been telling/teaching us for the last 40 years. Like Solas great rereading here, not even R Thompson can stand outside of that umbrella for very long, as seen all through his considerable catalog.