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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2009-08-04 10:58 am
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Loreena McDredlock


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

[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently, Loreena has a big surprise for us. Her tone is international, so why wouldn't she do an album with a reggae panache.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-05 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)

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

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all part of the continuing connection between Jamaica and Scotland.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)

"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 . . .

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nova Scotia's not so called for nothing.

[identity profile] dqg-neal.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
*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.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-05 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)

"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.

[identity profile] pds-lit.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh! I wonder what she will look like with dreadlocks! Definitely a style departure for her.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-05 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)

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

[identity profile] monissaw.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-05 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)

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

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)

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?