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The tracks are quite long, actually and it’s a sort of concept album. Track 5 is titled “Light on a distant shore” but I’ve just listed the individual tunes.
John
La Chanson des Livrées is a more adequate heading for the Fench title here (‘Livre’ is a typo, here) It is a song that comes from the Berry region in France and is mentioned in Georges Sand’s La Mare au Diable as part of a wedding ritual she describes.
NB:
The melody to Johnny Todd is not that of Far From Home (as indicated here in the links), at least not on this album.
it is sung to the following lyrics, which are not always connected to the same tune:
http://www.feniks.com/skb/music/lull7.html
That melody can be sampled at:
http://www.allcelticmusic.com/music/4913d160-de90-102a-8020-000f1f67beb1/Light_on_a_Distant_Shore.html
More bio and album info at:
http://www.allcelticmusic.com/artists/Ossian.html
Light On A Distant Shore by Ossian
You are wrong birlibirdie. The first track is listed correctly here. And the album is currently only £3.45 as a download from amazon.co.uk 🙂 🙂 🙂
The first track is the song “Johnny Todd”, followed by the reel “Far From Home”. That’s all.
Light On A Distant Shore by Ossian
Trouble with the download there are no sleeve notes. Is that Iain MacDonald on flute on Far From Home ?
Yes it is.
Thanks Kenny. My confusion was that to my ear the ong tune includes one the main ‘hooks’ of Far From Home, appearing at the same points, so I assumed that it was a variant of that. Elsewhere I only recall Johnny Todd to another tune.
My searches into the database are rarely more successful than finding that flute solo.
Ossian had a lot of Mettle!
Never did Billy Ross, Billy Jackson, John Martin, or George Jackson look so serious about their music. Clearly this was before Martin lost his hair - or maybe it’s a !wig!
https://thesession.org/recordings/952
