This was one of my dad's favorite songs. I grew up hearing my dad play this album (and "Penguin Eggs") on vinyl over and over again. My dad died last year from a brain tumor, and listening to Nic Jones always makes me feel like he's still here with me.💓"
I had the Noah's Ark Trap on vinyl but stupidly stored a lot of my vinyls in my shed and the rats got at them! Saw Nic several times in various folk clubs in the 70s, even better live then but this song still blows me away.
Fare you well, my own true love, Farewell for a while; I'm going away, but I'll be back If I go ten thousand miles. Ten thousand miles, my own true love, Ten thousand miles or more. And the rocks may melt and the seas may burn If I no more return. Oh don't you see yon lonesome dove Sitting on yon ivy tree: She's weeping for her own true love As I shall weep for mine. Oh come back, my own true love, And stay a while with me; For if I had a friend all on this earth You've been a friend to me.
I expect some of you know that since this recording, Nic had a dreadful accident and didn't sing in public any more for thirty years. Last year he made a very moving return to the stage, and you can hear him singing this song last year on RUclips - " Ten Thousand Miles - live at the QEH"
He made two more solo albums after this (From the Devil to a Stranger in 1978 and Penguin Eggs in 1980), and played briefly with a band called Bandoggs who made an album in 1978.
He was in his prime in the 1970s-early 1980's until his accident. Brilliant. Another folk singer and very, very fine guitarist of the same period was Dave Walters. It's very hard to find any of his recordings but there is one track on RUclips. If you like Nic you are bound to love Dave Walters, too.
It's good! I heard him live several times back in the late 1970s. Fabulous. But it was difficut to keep up with him as he seemed to change the tuning his guitar for every darned song! :) Of course, he's not been the same since his accident, but he still sounds decent and with his son, Joseph (Joe) accompanying him, much in the playing style of his Dad, it's possible for me to go back in time and still smell the smoke in the folk club where I saw him so often.
This was one of my dad's favorite songs. I grew up hearing my dad play this album (and "Penguin Eggs") on vinyl over and over again. My dad died last year from a brain tumor, and listening to Nic Jones always makes me feel like he's still here with me.💓"
Bless your Dad
What a singer-and guitarist!
Oh just fantastic! A unique votive and a master of the guitar!
I had the Noah's Ark Trap on vinyl but stupidly stored a lot of my vinyls in my shed and the rats got at them! Saw Nic several times in various folk clubs in the 70s, even better live then but this song still blows me away.
Fare you well, my own true love,
Farewell for a while;
I'm going away, but I'll be back
If I go ten thousand miles.
Ten thousand miles, my own true love,
Ten thousand miles or more.
And the rocks may melt and the seas may burn
If I no more return.
Oh don't you see yon lonesome dove
Sitting on yon ivy tree:
She's weeping for her own true love
As I shall weep for mine.
Oh come back, my own true love,
And stay a while with me;
For if I had a friend all on this earth
You've been a friend to me.
Nick Jones, Peter Green: nothing else for my funeral please.
"@TheUnthanks: Wow just turned on @BBC6Music and hear Nic Jones singing Ten Thousand Miles. I love this, all time favourite. Becky x"
Thank you Becky
Just heard Johnny Flynn giving this a ringing endorsement and no wonder - it's beautiful.
a song of beauty
Just found this. Thanks very much, what an emotive singer.
love this melancholic, beautifully haunting work of art
such a lovely voice (:
thank you for this.
Those rats in Suffolk have got good taste
I expect some of you know that since this recording, Nic had a dreadful accident and didn't sing in public any more for thirty years. Last year he made a very moving return to the stage, and you can hear him singing this song last year on RUclips - " Ten Thousand Miles - live at the QEH"
He made two more solo albums after this (From the Devil to a Stranger in 1978 and Penguin Eggs in 1980), and played briefly with a band called Bandoggs who made an album in 1978.
I had Penguin Eggs, but this is something else.
I thought I knew English folk music. Then I discovered Nic Jones
He was in his prime in the 1970s-early 1980's until his accident. Brilliant. Another folk singer and very, very fine guitarist of the same period was Dave Walters. It's very hard to find any of his recordings but there is one track on RUclips. If you like Nic you are bound to love Dave Walters, too.
You can buy his recordings direct from www.nicjones.net/shop
@@harryf200 Don't forget Tony Rose(they were in the same band) and Chris Foster.All highly rated in the same era as Nic's heyday.
wow
Sublime. Does anyone know what the guitar is tuned to?
cmodel CGCGCD (I think!) quite straight forward once you get there :) there's a fella does a cover of it somewhere on youtube that I learned it from
@@philmoss3146 I think you're right mate. I remember Nic telling me so.
You could actually DISLIKE this........?
Unbelievable there are any dislikes 😥
Has ANYONE got the Annarchie Gordon audio?!
pm me if you never found it
ruclips.net/video/fU3aFPcb064/видео.html
@g4224m if you are just getting into nics music you are in for a great time
Bet this was a big inspiration for boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
@g4224m :)
I am desperately seeking it too.
pm me if you were look for Annachie Gordon and never found the audio
It's good! I heard him live several times back in the late 1970s. Fabulous. But it was difficut to keep up with him as he seemed to change the tuning his guitar for every darned song! :) Of course, he's not been the same since his accident, but he still sounds decent and with his son, Joseph (Joe) accompanying him, much in the playing style of his Dad, it's possible for me to go back in time and still smell the smoke in the folk club where I saw him so often.
ruclips.net/video/fU3aFPcb064/видео.html