Midwinter as it still seems (around 15 degrees this morning up in Harpswell Holler), St. Patrick's Day has done sneaked up on us! Granted, I don't count down the days or plan out excursions on the town for it nowadays but, in heed of my parents and in honor of our Old Brooklyn Irish-American roots, I do pay attention. As skeptical of the fake aspects of this holiday as any other, I'm still happy to set down for a Guinness or a whiskey if you're offering. I'd love nothing better than to see a crack band of pickers, pipers and fiddlers do their thing. In a few weeks, stocked up on holiday surplus from the market, I'll be living large on good corned beef and all that sterotypical immigrant fare.
Last year I tried to knock out these covers and get them posted, but only half succeeded. So the cover of the Pogues' "Streams of Whiskey" (off their murky debut "Red Roses for Me") is a re-post. And yesterday I was able to roll out a quick version of "The Old Black Rum", from St' Johns, Newfoundland's favorite sons, Great Big Sea. They've certainly put out some E-Z Cheeze in their day but when they get it right, they can indeed nail it. On this one, I was gonna bring up a tom-tom drum and fake some bodhran for percussion, as I did on the Pogues song, but Miss Oonagh, knowing well how they'd do it in Nova Scotia, sorted through the fine silver and selected a solid pair of spoons.
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"The Old Black Rum" (Great Big Sea): https://app.box.com/s/05vio0l9wglu6ts7ryg7
"Streams of Whiskey (the Pogues): https://app.box.com/s/ej5sbpdj5r6in4crwqy7
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