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Loud Weather - "White Houses of Shieldaig"

We did a deep delve on this great old reel, which sits in between D and A and has some classic rhythmic hallmarks of old dance tunes. It seems to bear some relation to Culdar’s Rant (Also known as The Auld Wife’s Shanks, also known as Someone’s on the spree.), but that may just be coincidence. Shieldaig is a very picturesque village near Torridon in Wester Ross, Scotland, which was established in 1800 to ‘attract’ what were likely displaced farming families to take up fishing and in the process help build up a stock of trained seamen who could be called upon by the Navy during the Napoleonic wars.
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Elisasheva said:
I present to you this cool Polish band.
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Well, i like a couple of what they did, but particularly the song "900", it's not a long one but I have to admit that I have already listened to it quite a few times during these last days :-[ - let's say that this song is a beautiful modern lullaby, a bit ... enchanting, it's also positive, it gives me hope ! (hard to find good words)
One more time ? :-D

(edit : oh, i forget : Thanks Elisasheva)

Here's another band that will come, end of this month, in my little town south of Belgium, it's instrumental and i was much pleased by the quality of the tunes, name of the band is Grandbrothers, here's one good piece of music they produce :

and one more :

Enjoy !
 
Appalachian Clogging Dance

I've been thinking how we used to dance...with our feet. Some examples of clogging below:

This woman calls it Appalachian Flatfooting...I'll forgive her, she's from the UK, but yeah, she's pretty good at it:

This gentleman sprinkles cornmeal on his board. Dancehalls would sprinkle cornmeal too, so we could slide better:

This is from 1964. This is how I learned to dance with boys. We danced like this in school for gym class, too....it was fun! My family has a big reunion every year, for I guess you could call my Clan...it's interesting to see such a large example of my gene pool....we're a slender bunch and many redheads. 70 years running, our reunion. After dinner, we dance the night away, like this:
Mountain Clog Dancing:
 

Zzartemis​

I once had a girlfriend who could clog and she liked to play bingo too. As kids in school we would nail bottle caps on our boots (nobody knew what Oxfords were). The floors in the school pretty soon got all scuffed up and they outlawed the practice.

Boys started attaching metal taps from tap shoes onto their own oxfords, but as the trend grew, other things like bottle caps, pieces of metal, and even pony-size horseshoes were nailed onto the sole of the shoe to produce the clacking sound.

Metal taps for shoes: Old Memories

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@pinkfreud I like Rising Appalachia, and their videos, very much:

@dennis Hee hee...thanks for the memory....I remember just steppin' on bottle caps, so they'd embed in our sneakers. And YES [!] I love the banjo. It is one of the reasons I like Mean Mary so much....plus she writes beautiful music and fabulous lyrics. Her life is interesting, how she was raised and playin' music with her brother, since children...their father built a logcabin for the family to live in. She started out country western when small but changed to a more Americana type style. This one on the railroad is a good example of her talent in all departments of music...(btw her horse, Apache, who was in many videos with her died last year...beautiful tribute to him at her channel titled, "Wild Dreams.")

Mean Mary: "Iron Horse":

Mean Mary with brother Frank James (yes, that's his iconic name...🤠): "Blazing":
 

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done​



When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I want to stand up, I want to let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I want to shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

Over and again, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
(Time, truth, hearts)
If you can hold on
If you can hold on
 
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