Hi
I have this great live concert on DVD with Mark Knoppler and Emilou Harris.
EH is some kind of country queen, if I understand it right - not into that genre per se.
Not sure what to consider this music as?
If missing pedal steel - then Irish folk music, or?
What are the significant differences?
Did Irish immigrants to US bring this, and then evolved to country, or?
Thanks.
What is the difference Irish folk music and Country?
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- KVRAF
- 4801 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
Country is white man's blues, unlike European folk it borrows from African music.
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- KVRian
- 997 posts since 27 Apr, 2005
there's definitely a lot of irish/british folk music present in the musical dna of american country or especially bluegrass, although there is other stuff there as well, with the blues influences and such.
EH is closer to bluegrass roots than a lot of other country artists, so there is more of that evident with her than some others.
EH is closer to bluegrass roots than a lot of other country artists, so there is more of that evident with her than some others.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7104 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
Thanks Zombie and Shawn.
They did a really nice job incorporating tempodriven synths in the arrangements as well, so it was pretty much a violin that gave the irish flavour to it.
It's on YT as well obviosly:
They did a really nice job incorporating tempodriven synths in the arrangements as well, so it was pretty much a violin that gave the irish flavour to it.
It's on YT as well obviosly:
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35491 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Not quite, Scots immigrants did. The original wave of 'Irish' immigrants were actually Scots who'd relocated to Northern Ireland the previous century. Not long after that migrations began from Scotland because of the Highland Clearances. That'd be the 1720s or do onwardslfm wrote:Did Irish immigrants to US bring this, and then evolved to country, or?
There wasnt significant migration of the Irish until over a century later, mid 1800s
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WRT style : I do remember Aly Bain pointing out that (wrt fiddle/violin at least), even though the songs were inherited one difference is that American folk/country habitually run/slide notes into each other, whilst scots/irish folk music kept them separate. I guess that folds into the steel guitar/slide thing too.
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
One goes 'deedly-deedly-DEEDLY-deedly,' and the other goes 'TWANG!'
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7104 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
Good read, thank you.whyterabbyt wrote:Not quite, Scots immigrants did. The original wave of 'Irish' immigrants were actually Scots who'd relocated to Northern Ireland the previous century. Not long after that migrations began from Scotland because of the Highland Clearances. That'd be the 1720s or do onwardslfm wrote:Did Irish immigrants to US bring this, and then evolved to country, or?
There wasnt significant migration of the Irish until over a century later, mid 1800s
https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com ... can-music/
WRT style : I do remember Aly Bain pointing out that (wrt fiddle/violin at least), even though the songs were inherited one difference is that American folk/country habitually run/slide notes into each other, whilst scots/irish folk music kept them separate. I guess that folds into the steel guitar/slide thing too.
