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Because LJ knows everything...
Sep. 3rd, 2008 08:23 pmI was listening yesterday to Folk Radio UK: good music and no chat. Which is splendid until they play something that makes me go "What was that?" Then I wish for an announcer, or at least a playlist on the web site.
The song that caught my ear yesterday began with the horses running in the fields by the Deerness; well, I know enough about place names to know that few of them are unique, and that goes double for the rivers. But these green fields are where the Esh Winning mine once stood, the song goes on, so yes, this is local. The terraces were full of people who worked in the mine from the cradle to the grave. Now the mine is gone, the fields are green, the trees are not felled for pit props, and "poets live in the terraces now..."
All of which is true. Esh Winning is a small place, it doesn't have many songs written about it, and I'd love to know more about this one. Does anyone recognise it?
The song that caught my ear yesterday began with the horses running in the fields by the Deerness; well, I know enough about place names to know that few of them are unique, and that goes double for the rivers. But these green fields are where the Esh Winning mine once stood, the song goes on, so yes, this is local. The terraces were full of people who worked in the mine from the cradle to the grave. Now the mine is gone, the fields are green, the trees are not felled for pit props, and "poets live in the terraces now..."
All of which is true. Esh Winning is a small place, it doesn't have many songs written about it, and I'd love to know more about this one. Does anyone recognise it?
