Viv Legg, Thomas McCarthy - Jauling The Green Tober (CD, 2017)

www.veteran.co.uk www.thomasmccarthyfolk.com https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/web... https://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/ja...   / romany-roots   Buy this CD: http://www.thomasmccarthyfolk.com/pro... Track listing: 1. Thomas McCarthy – Ask Me Again 2. Thomas McCarthy – My Emmet's No More 3. Viv Legg – Down By The Shannon Side 4. Viv Legg – The Good-For-Nothing Man 5. Thomas McCarthy – In The Golden Vale Of Limerick 6. Thomas McCarthy – The Widow's Only Son 7. Thomas McCarthy – Mikey O'Leary Courted A Fairy 8. Viv Legg – Down By The Old Riverside 9. Viv Legg – The Prisoner Lad 10. Viv Legg – The Young Rackly 11. Thomas McCarthy – The Glens Of Aherlow 12. Thomas McCarthy – The Dolting Old Man 13. Viv Legg – The Dark-Eyed Sailor 14. Viv Legg – Catch Me If You Can 15. Thomas McCarthy – The Exile Of Erin 16. Viv Legg – Romany Rose Jauling the Green Tober (Travelling the Green Roads) With these recordings Viv and Thomas are both revisiting the green routes of their own family heritage of songs. After meeting at Bodmin Folk Club the idea of recording a joint CD emerged as they chatted together and eventually the suggestion became reality. Then a song from Thomas or one from Viv could often trigger a response with another song which contains some similarity or parallel in the narrative, the situation or in a motif. So recording proceeded in a relaxed easy manner just as and when each singer was ready and stepped up to the microphones. Each singer made their own choice of songs to record and then which to include in this CD. The sheer joy of these two superb singers in sharing their family memories and experiences has filtered into the performances and so into these recordings as both bring extraordinary skills to their singing. These are songs from two differing influences and cultures unified by both being aspects of the rich lineage inherited from a background in Roma traveller life. Viv's family base is in the West Country of England and Cornwall in particular whilst Thomas grew up mainly in London but comes from a traveller background based right in the heart of Ireland in Birr, County Offaly in the midlands region. Two songs here are not traditional — yet: The Young Rackly created by Viv and Sophie Legg and Romany Rose by Tony Truscott. Viv — We're so grateful Pete Coe collected and recorded songs from my mother and aunts in 1978. Sadly my grandmother, Susan Orchard, was never recorded and I think a lot was lost. When I was a child I would hear her singing around the house. Her songs were those that her parents and others before her had been singing and swapping whilst meeting up in public houses, gatherings at fairgrounds and of course around the camp fires. Biographical details. and photos, of Viv's family can be found in the exemplary booklets of CDs from the Veteran label. VT119CD has Viv's mother and two aunts, VT153CD is Viv solo and VT129CD is her brother Vic. Veteran is a treasure trove of traditional music: www.veteran.co.uk Thomas has recorded two previous CDs: Round Top Wagon, ITCD001, 2010, and the wholly unaccompanied Herself and Myself, Tin Folk music / Brown Label, ITCD002, 2014, which includes one track from his mother. www.thomasmccarthyfolk.com