Comments | seanan_mcguire: Everything leaves us, everything stays.

seanan_mcguire

Everything leaves us, everything stays.

Jan 25, 2017 16:19

Sometimes I look back at my own teenage years, tangled and tempestuous as they were, and wonder if I knew how lucky I was, musically speaking. The Counting Crows still played at the U.C. Berkeley on-campus club; Heather Alexander was both local and frequently touring; Celtic rock was having a resurgence, with Avalon Rising and Four Shillings Short ( Read more... )

filk, music, good things

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vulpine137 January 26 2017, 00:36:58 UTC

Oh, I never knew she passed. :( Yeah, they were fun. Their version of Matty Groves was hysterical.

brooksmoses January 26 2017, 01:44:26 UTC

Oh, wonderful!

I had the unrecognized-at-the-time luck of coming across a copy of Come Away to the Hills at a Palo Alto library booksale some time around 2007, bought it on a whim (because that is the point of library booksales!) and fell in love with it as soon as I played it.

I shall be buying Now and Then as soon as I get to an internet connection with appropriate bandwidth.

_dante_sparda_ January 26 2017, 02:36:40 UTC

What lovely music. I have an inkling of how you were inspired just by hearing the preview snippets. I am belatedly sorry for your loss.

archangelbeth January 26 2017, 05:00:40 UTC

*buys the album from iTunes without even sampling*

Edit: OMG! It's got the original for the "Black Flag" filk! I never knew where to get that! THANK YOU!

egoldberg January 27 2017, 06:49:00 UTC

You want to know the funny thing? It's *exactly* that filk that led to this whole project.

See, back in December, I had $15 in Roundworm royalties to pay Elton. It was a small amount of money -- but enough to trigger an unwanted 1099 form. So he suggested I donate it to charity.

I countered that we create our own (virtual) charity dedicated to putting Leigh Ann's music back in distribution, and use it as a downpayment towards the first project. Elton was super agreeable, and I'll spare you the rest.

davidgoldfarb January 26 2017, 05:25:37 UTC

Annwn! I first encountered them when they opened for the Flash Girls at a club in San Francisco. I remember the album release party for Come Away to the Hills at Starry Plough. Not gonna buy it now of course, because I long since ripped my CD. (Daoine Sidhe, not so much: probably will buy that one.)

I do have to admit there are two songs on the album that don't do it for me: "Welcome in the May" (which I find to be a bit...sniggery) and "Sunday Afternoon in Upper Wallop" (which is just "What were they thinking?"). Leave out those two, though and you have an album which truly merits the word "great".