Loreena McDredlock

[realthog]

I've just been idly checking to see if there might be a new Loreena McKennitt album on its way, and discovered Free Napster's intriguing classification of this artiste:

Home > World/Reggae > Loreena McKennitt

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[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Apparently, Loreena has a big surprise for us. Her tone is international, so why wouldn't she do an album with a reggae panache.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

She and her musicians actually have the instrumental chops for it, though I'm not sure she'd manage the vocals so comfortably.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

It's all part of the continuing connection between Jamaica and Scotland.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"It's all part of the continuing connection between Jamaica and Scotland."

. . . via Canada, which is where LK is from.

Thanks to LK, there's a glorious moment in the soundtrack for Highlander III where the lovers cavort in the Scottish Highlands to the soundtrack strains of an Irish folksong being sung by a Canadian singer . . .

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Nova Scotia's not so called for nothing.

[dqg-neal.livejournal.com]

*laughs* thats an amusing classification.

As for idly checking, you can sign up for news on the Quinlan Road website.
Sometimes fairly important to get news of concerts ahead of time so you can get tickets.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes fairly important to get news of concerts ahead of time so you can get tickets."

Talking of which, a friend pointed out this morning that there's a Janis Ian concert scheduled next April almost within walking distance of us in sleepy, sylvine West Milford.

Should be quite a riot, actually. It's in the Presbyterian Church Hall, so there may be fundie demos going on outside.

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I wonder what she will look like with dreadlocks! Definitely a style departure for her.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Haven't you got a PhotoShop program that'd produce a mockup for us?

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Huh.

I was organising mp3s downloaded from eMusic last night with a "Multimedia Manager" and noticed much of the Irish/Scottish folk music had been tagged as "Reggae". The rest is "Country".

I'm sure it makes sense to someone.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Sort of Johnny and Sinead O'Cash or Bob MacMarley and the Auld Wailers, you mean?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Oh, and free.napster's classification of Irish singer Claire Roche's CD Journey, several of whose tracks have (to me) incomprehensibly and unpronounceably Gaelic titles, is:

Home > Album Americana > Claire Roche > Journey With Claire Roche [Album]

Americana?