Child ballads
As fond as I am of Child ballads for lo these five decades or more, I don't recall hearing "Earl Richard" until this week. Possibly I'd heard other version of it that didn't suit me and so didn't stick in memory, but I quite love this Sean Garvey rendition. I wasn't familiar with him, either, and am sorry to find he died earlier this year, and also to find that his recordings mostly don't seem available for purchase.
This is a slow, repetitive, pretty, sad, hypnotic tune. What a nice burr Garvey had in his lower register.
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It's an interesting fact about Scottish songs that it's just about as often that the woman murders the man in the murder ballad as otherwise.
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