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Friday 14 October 2022

A Bonny Bunch Of Folk

Take one word from each these song titles...

"The Bonny Earl of Moray" - The Ian Campbell Folk Group

"Hallucinating Light" - Roy Harper

"Fine Horseman" - Lal & Mike Waterson

And what do you get? Why, "Earl Hallucinating Fine" of course. Or this...

"The Bonny Light Horseman" - Planxty

All of which is a convoluted way of saying that I have my copy of "Rolling Golden Holy", the second album by Bonny Light Horseman. It came out last week and is available from Bandcamp and many other places.

I have also booked my tickets to see them in London when they are over in February next year. It is part of a UK mini-tour - the other gigs are in Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester. 

I have listened to "Rolling Golden Holy" a couple of times now. I liked it the first time, I liked the more the second time, and I daresay I will like it even more when I next listen to it. It is a worthy successor to their self-titled debut album (which if you haven't heard by now you really should).

Favourite tracks so far include "Exile", "Summer Dream" and this one... 

5 comments:

  1. Am I the only one who hears a similarity with Hiss Golden Messenger and Bonny Light Horseman?

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    1. No. Josh Kaufman of BLH is a sometimes member of HGM and Anais Mitchell also of BLH has sung backing vocals on at least one HGM LP. Enough acronyms. TTFN.

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  2. This popped up in my recommendations from the streaming people and I dismissed it as I often do algorithm-recommendations. Need to revisit that decision now...

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