Folk Alley Sessions: Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - "Willie's Lady (Child 6)"
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2013
- Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer perform "Willie's Lady (Child 6)" at Folk Alliance International in Toronto, ON. February, 2013.
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Anais Mitchell: anaismitchell.com/
Jefferson Hamer: www.jeffersonhamer.com/
Filmed and recorded by Beehive Productions for FolkAlley.com 
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Child Ballads is pretty close to being a perfect album.
This is the best bit of music I have heard, for my tastes of course, in ... decades. Unbearably pleasing. Wow. I've heard of, but not heard, her; never heard of him. Wow!
This is freaking wonderful.
This whole set is brilliant. A superb interpretation.
King Willie, he sailed over the raging foam
He's wooed a wife and he's brought her home
He's brought her home all against his mother's will
His mother wrought her a wicked spell
And a wicked spell she's laid on her
She'd be with child for long and many's the year
But the child she would never bear
And in her bower she lies in pain
King Willie by her bedside he would stand
As down his cheeks sodden tears do run
King Willie, back to his mother he did run
And he's gone there as a beggin' son
Says "My true love has this fine, noble steed
The likes of which you have never seen
And at every part of this horse's mane
There's hangin' fifty silver bells and ten
Hangin' fifty bells and ten
This goodly gift shall be your own
If back to my own true love you'll turn again
So she might bear her baby son"
"O of the child she'll never lighter be
Nor from my curse will she e'er be free
But she will die and she will turn to clay
And you will wed with another maid"
And sighing, says this weary man
As back to his own true love he's gone again:
"I wish my life was at an end"
King Willie back to his mother he did run
And he's gone there as a beggin' son
Says "My true love has this fine, golden girdle
Set with jewels all about the middle
And at every part of this girdle's hem
There's hangin' fifty silver bells and ten
Hangin' fifty bells and ten
This goodly gift shall be your own
If back to my own true love you'll turn again
So she might bear her baby son
This goodly gift shall be your own
"O of the child she'll never lighter be
Nor from my curse will she e'er be free
But she will die and she will turn to clay
And you will wed with another maid"
And sighing, says this weary man
As back to his own true love he's gone again:
"I wish my life was at an end"
And up and spoke his noble Queen
And she has told King Willie of a plan
How she might bear her baby son
Says "You must get you down to the marketplace
And you must buy a ball of wax
And you must shape it as a babe that is to nurse
And you must make two eyes of glass
And ask your mother to the christening-day
And you must stand there close as you can be
So you might hear what she does say
King Willie, he's gone down to the marketplace
He has bought a ball of wax
And he has shaped it as a babe that is to nurse
And he has made two eyes of glass
He asked his mother to the christening-day
And he has stood there close as he could be
So he might hear what she did say
And how she spat and how she swore
She spied the babe where no babe could be before
She spied the babe where none could be before
Says "Who was it who undid the nine witch knots
Braided in amongst this lady's locks?
And who is it is who the leather shoe untied
From the left foot of this wedded bride?
And who was it split the silken thread
The spider stretched all beneath this lady's bed
The spider stretched all beneath her bed?"
And it was Willie who undid the nine witch knots
Braided in amongst this lady's locks
And it was Willie who the leather shoe untied
From the left foot of this wedded bride
And it was Willie split the silken thread
The spider stretched all beneath this lady's bed
The spider stretched all beneath her bed
And she has borne him a baby son
And great are the blessings that be then upon
Great are the blessings then upon
Anais&Jefferson must be best folk duo since Simon&Garfunkel, these guys are seriously good.
Too bad it appears to have been a temporary configuration. Their voices are remarkable together and I think Hamer has a rare gift for arranging guitar parts.
Also not to be overlooked, anything that says "Folk Alley Sessions" is recorded WONDERFULLY. Whether it's good equipment or rare expertise, every one of their recording sessions is truly superior.
@@megatrollificus Well said! Every time I revisit this glorious and utterly gorgeous performance, a part of me always thinks "Wow! That loveliness aside, the recording in itself is amazing!" Good gear, perfectly placed, and remarkable skill, a delightful combination. 😊 Oh, and I suspect sorcery might have been involved somewhere along the way 🤫
Yea! Folk music is alive and well! Most excellent!
Fantastic performance!
Wonderful. Thank you!
Brilliant musicianship and harmonies
Sweet, perfect vocals and precise musical fit! Perfect! Anais and Jefferson shine! You got my attention!
Anais has got it goin' on!
This is an absolutely amazing version of this song.
Absolutely love this!
Very nice.
Superb flow and timing.
Nothing short of brilliant, this!
Wow her voice!!!!
Very Beautiful what a fantastic duo .
i know the tune only in german, where the text is a drinking song... expected something wildly different when i heard the tunes and was pleasantly surprised.
Yes its a traditional Breton song i believe, called Son ar Christr (or Ev Christr ta laou). varients of it are found all over - in french, celtic, german, dutch scandanavian folk traditions. These words were put to it relatively recently
What a great use of talent. Hooked.
Took ages trying to count in four thinking what's going on with it rhythmically, then I started counting in pairs of three and it made sense, you forget about non 4/4 music if you listen modern
So THAT'S what that is. Always interesting to find that something sounds unusual becasue it is. Thanx,
love Middle Ages music) words are in english but realy melody frome France (Breton). greetings from Armenia where your ancestors came to Europe)))))
Armenians are a very ancient Indo-European people but it's disputed where exactly Indo-Europeans came from. Good chance they came from the Southern Russia/Ukraine area (Yamnaya people).
Hulk Green hello from London, really? We came from Armenia? My dad came from Wales and the Welsh nationalists tell me that's the oldest language in Europe, older than Hebrew or Aramaic but not as old as Sanskrit or Tamil, some Celts reckon they were here before we got invaded by European dark skinned Caucasians.
Damn! You are good ❤❤
so great !
Brilliant!
great music
Version également reprise par Alan Stivel (Bretagne, France) "Son ar chistr"
This is a very "cool" song - some 500 years old, so I'm told. I heard it a few days ago from these two, and then went to MARTIN CARTHY who recorded it in 1971.
I play it from both versions with either E-D or A-G Chords and some melody. - It sounds a bit dark, but there seems to be a happy end at the end of the song, very strange! I think this real rapping how the lines are sung in such old songs with only few but very effective chord changes.
"A bit dark" LOL. Yes, just a bit.
The instrumentation on the tunes is sparse because most of the very olde songs were originally sung a capella. When instruments were available it would often be as background accompaniment, they didn't carry the melody much compared to the voices. This is the kind of music that became, in similarly poor areas of the US, "porch music". Music that you played at home, absent any other media or entertainment, and every one participated. The scarcity of instruments explains people playing spoons, drumming on collanders and wash tubs, and the development of playing the saw, for people who had a bow, but no fiddle. My parents (going back to the early 20th century) were both raised in such environments, which kind of reflect that of Isles several hundred years ago...
Scooter are you ready 🤣🤣🤣
apologies; my audio jack lacks hackery.
My god..that was good wasn't it?
Balm
who splattered this good music with AUTO-TUNE?
No-one? There isn't any that I can hear.
Is this good or what!
she is an excellent songwriter - i predict a number one for "we build the wall" if donald trump wins
Apologies.Just had my ears laminated.
The mom in this tale is pure evil.
No one.