Hello Both
No, Matt it wasn't you it was Phil Ranson that did the original
interview and recording. He was a librarian who did quite a bit of
collecting. He lived near me when I lived in Wylam, he was at Hagg Bank
a mile up the river and was a very down to earth Geordie lad.
John A was an even more no nonsense man and player who impressed me
deeply on the two or three occasions we met and had tunes together (Joe
Hutton's and Archie Bertram's).
I agree whith your main points but still claim a tenable stance in
being puzzled by the whole thing.
By the way the sound clip of John A playing is the perfect antidote to
the 'hell for leather' approach so prevalent with most (but thankfully
not all) youngsters at the moment.
Anthony
--- On Thu, 14/7/11, Matt Seattle <theborderpi...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle <theborderpi...@googlemail.com>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Shield's H'pipe
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thursday, 14 July, 2011, 22:03
To make it absolutely clear, it was not I who attached the name
Shield's to the soundclip. Whether the source - JA of C - gave it
that
title, I don't know. This is not impossible given the Clough
connection. The FARNE Core Tunes article on Morpeth Rant (not my
work) also gives the Shield attribution.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Gibbons, John
<[1][1]j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
But isn't Matt just quoting the Cloughs' title there?
Beware of secondary sources, in other words -
they don't corroborate where they are drawn from.
A citation of 'The Morpeth Rant' (new or old) from anyone but the
Cloughs,
with the Shields' title, from pre-1900 would be interesting -
one from anywhere near as far back as 1770,
when 'The Morpeth Rant' made its first virtual appearance, would
be
astonishing.
John
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