Bleckell Murry Neet
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Label: Willowhayne Records
Cat No: WHR071
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 4th February 2022
Contents
Works
Bleckell Murry Neet (arr. Ed Heslam)Geordie Gill (arr. Ed Heslam)
Silly Andrew (arr. Ed Heslam)
And ye shall walk in silk attire (arr. Ed Heslam)
Hughie the Graeme
Tears That Must Ever Fall
The Howk Reel
Alice Gray (arr. Ed Heslam)
Andrew Carey (arr. Ed Heslam)
Applbey Election Hornpipe (arr. Ed Heslam)
Melony Jigg (arr. Ed Heslam)
My Dearie, if thou die (arr. Ed Heslam)
Slates away, time to play (arr. Ed Heslam)
What ails this heart of mine? (arr. Ed Heslam)
Artists
Tommy Coulthard (narrator)The Cumbrian Duo
Works
Bleckell Murry Neet (arr. Ed Heslam)Geordie Gill (arr. Ed Heslam)
Silly Andrew (arr. Ed Heslam)
And ye shall walk in silk attire (arr. Ed Heslam)
Hughie the Graeme
Tears That Must Ever Fall
The Howk Reel
Alice Gray (arr. Ed Heslam)
Andrew Carey (arr. Ed Heslam)
Applbey Election Hornpipe (arr. Ed Heslam)
Melony Jigg (arr. Ed Heslam)
My Dearie, if thou die (arr. Ed Heslam)
Slates away, time to play (arr. Ed Heslam)
What ails this heart of mine? (arr. Ed Heslam)
Artists
Tommy Coulthard (narrator)The Cumbrian Duo
About
The content represents a snapshot of musical themes which would have been familiar to the people of Cumberland and Westmorland during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Bleckell Murry Neet carries with it the history of a bygone era. It alludes to a time when dialect was widely spoken (and sung) in Cumberland and Westmorland; to a period when everyday people danced with an energy and passion that is now hard to imagine and to an era when the town of Whitehaven was at the centre of trade and communications, while central Lakeland was merely an obscure backwater. The album consists of a series of melodies gleaned from the manuscripts of Cumbrian musicians. These old tunes carry the hint of stories of love lost, of love yearned for and of love found; they allude to tales of the Border Reivers and stories of the corruption and electoral fraud of the rich landed gentry who often exerted a malign control over the region and its people.
Bleckell Murry Neet is not an attempt to recreate the sound of the past. The Lakeland fiddle-playing tradition died out at the beginning of the twentieth century and, with the demolition of the White Ox pub (scene of the party mentioned in the title track) in 1904, the ballads of Robert Anderson became a vague and distant memory forgotten to all but a few. The melodies do, however, live on in this album within new musical forms. Heslam and Altshuler are respectful of the past, but they are not in thrall to it. They take the view that musical traditions are not fixed and static and, while the basic tunes continue to be played, the overall context moves on with the times. This is just as it was back in the 1840s when John Rook of Waverton took up his pipes and his violin and created his own variations on the well-known melodies of the period.
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