transatlantic sessions 5-4 (2011)

[@thundergames5646]

Dear Alison, if ever you read this insignificant little comment, I’ve heard this song a thousand times and every time it moves me to tears…🙏🍀🤗

[@edeledeledel5490]

Never heard a bad version of it no matter who sings it. It's very difficult to b*gger up a great song, but this is superb. Jerry and Mike McGoldrick add something good.

[@edicamon8486]

The Sharon Shannon's smile (accordion girl) lifts everyone's spirits and desire to live. Thanks.

[@goodwintrent2989]

Yep!

[@tonykuphaldt]

In every performance I've ever seen her in, she's got that same infectious smile going on!

[@Cybi0]

Once again, the Transatlantic Sessions demonstrates how american folk music comes from its Celtic roots. American country music wouldn't even exist in absence of the Gaellic tradition : know your history and you'll get a hint about who you are ! " Borders of salt, land of beliefs in crosses and stones " Greetings from France, dudes ♥

[@mangosmadmom]

If only this whole planet would participate in the magic of the song but only after climbing each step of learning the dedication of just letting it flow thru each and every willing partisipant. Beautifull sessions with beautifull people and your beautifull audience.

[@chrishoffman6974]

Thanks for the music! Watching in Vancouver B.C.Canada!

[@michaelw8429]

Thank you God for reminding us of the immense beauty and love we have all around us.

[@steveburke3923]

Finally, Allison Krause makes an appearance here. Like an Angel singing.

[@rjones8576]

it's wild...she really is.

[@WildRiceRDMC]

How great is this.......all of this ear candy in one recording......wow

[@IIVVBlues]

Iain Morrison opted for a Martin 000-15SM in lieu of pipes. His dad wouldn't speak to him for two weeks. I had to laugh. Had a similar experience back in the 60s with my dad, but my 1st guitar was a Stella and dad played the accordion.

[@petervanopdorp3862]

Sharon, Aly, these folks are on fire! Call the authorities.

[@beachdog67]

@love, can I just say that your comprehensive, high res postings of the TA material is a goddamn public service. Thank you.

[@doc4191]

I agree. We must also congratulate those people at the BBC who conceived the idea and produced these sessions in the first place. As Iris deMent said "There are just so many really talented players that are in an environment where they feel comfortable .... When you are asked to go play for television to be put in a setting that feels like home - which is why you get the good music".

[@alistairewen9558]

Slow doon.

[@taylorw]

Tis a spiritual experience as well.

[@kitcarson57]

Didn’t think that there could be a better version than the Thomson’s but of course Allison , and these musicians are perfection !

[@edeledeledel5490]

In my experience of many versions, it's such a masterpiece of a song that nobody can manage to cock it up.

[@paulmartin3725]

And Alison sings RT's "complete" melody with all the highest notes, as Linda T did but many other singers don't, not even the wonderful Bonnie Raitt.

[@paulmartin3725]

And not a single page of sheet music in sight, it seems. Probably a discreet lyric sheet here and there. My kind of music and musicians!!

[@fiddlingglassblower]

The song "Gallileo", sung by Declan O' Rourke (@19:50) is absolutely brilliant.

[@psylurian]

It is profoundly beautiful

[@hymnplayer]

What a voice!

[@daveharrison8286]

Declan's song as good as it is reminds me of something you'd hear from Harry Connick Jr

[@roadie3124]

Eddi Reader! So good.

[@rocaluma]

This is GOOD stuff.

[@davidhowe5112]

Wait a minute! “Just a piper?” What th’? I’m a piper til the end!

[@doc4191]

The first four minutes of music is nothing short of brilliant. (A blonde Sharon Shannon is a visual bonus. Just how shallow am I ? Very.) The last five and a half minutes is exceptional - a live performance which surpasses in intensity the performance on record by AKUS and any other. OK the Dobro may be a touch too prominent and AK occasionally takes an unexpected breath but the softness of her voice and Jerry Douglas's expressive playing [the extra note at 26:53 seems to surprise Russ Barenberg] convey the essence of the song to an extent that may well not be achieved again for a long time, if ever. The orchestration is superb and the house band (which does not [see comment below] include the songwriter's brother) is first-rate. AK conveys the emotion while feeling the emotion but not to an extent that she cannot hold it together. She looks down at the words "in company" but does not break down. Her melismas make the song even more like a traditional Scottish or Northern English folk song.

[@anitaholladay2389]

Sorry to be nit-picky but bassist Danny Thompson is not related to songwriter Richard Thompson, though they have recorded together. See Wikipedia entries on both. Perhaps musical brothers but not from the same parents. But thanks for your perceptive comments, sincerely.

[@doc4191]

I cannot recall how I came to think that Danny and Richard are brothers and I have failed to find any source that I may have seen that says that they are. I am therefore having to come to terms with being the originator of an incorrect assertion. As there was no intention to misrepresent or deceive I don't think that it can be called "fake news" ! My unwarranted assumption may be based on their being contemporaries living in London in their youth and if you picture Danny wearing a black beret the family resemblance is uncanny ! Thank you for putting the record straight. I will soon edit my comment on "Ghost in This House" posted by SidsCardShop to remove the false statement.

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@anitaholladay2389 Danny Thompson nearly always seems completely transported when he plays in these sessions, as if he is in his own private musical heaven....

[@drummerboy1390]

2:44 How to move the capo from the eighth fret to the first fret without missing a beat.

[@ragrisl]

ty 👌😊

[@simonesain2846]

formidable

[@roygavin8219]

Ironic that Richard Thompson has never participated, given that he must have been across the Atlantic more times than any of the other performers.

[@philipcroft2236]

Paul Martin - that's because most trad players learn by ear and can't always read sheet music.

[@thejigantics2641]

Proper

[@WISOTT]

Sgoinnell!

[@neilstamper8699]

Expert Muzak.

[@jamestillman5546]

Is that a joke, or are you?