Category Archives: Music

There Were Three Ravens

Posted on Monday, 21 March 2011, 12:05 | Leave a comment

An old trad song dating back a few centuries. One of my favorites when I was a kid — kids like the oddest things, sometimes! I guess the tragedy appealed to me! That and the ravens, the loyal hawks and dogs, and the sweet doe. 😉

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Another nice trad song

Posted on Sunday, 20 March 2011, 15:49 | Leave a comment

The Corries sing “The Skye Boat Song.”

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Mo Ghile Mear

Posted on Friday, 18 March 2011, 7:30 | Leave a comment

Music for a Friday.

Hope, longing, loss, love, it’s got it all, doesn’t it?

A nice Irish song of Scotland for the day after St. Patrick’s Day. 🙂

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Silly Wizard’s “Donald McGillivray”

Posted on Sunday, 12 December 2010, 22:53 | Leave a comment

One of my favorite versions of “Donald McGillivray” is this one by the Silly Wizard group.

I listened to “Donald McGillivray” when writing some of the scenes in chapter 29 of Death’s Dominion, because it strikes me as a very Gareth McGonagall kinda song — when he’s in a certain mood, anyway! 😉

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Hallelujah k.d. lang

Posted on Sunday, 21 November 2010, 8:24 | 2 comments

I was pottering around on YouTube listening to different covers of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. I hadn’t known that k.d. lang had done a version of it. I liked it — and she sings a version that I like, though not the final verse that I prefer about standing before the Lord of Song (I guess that there are literally dozens of Cohen’s verses to choose from). Still, it’s a good cover.

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