Werner Icking Music Archive, Sacred Harp, Madrigals, Golden Wedding, John Dowland, George Kirbye, The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Physiology of Taste, Rabelais, Bakhtin, Knob Creek, Oliver!, Half-sour dills, Hohner, Gimlet, Hamlet, Gauntlets, Trasheye Brown, Cod & codpieces, loue, crab chips, dauncing & enamouring!
Secret choir shall sweepe the wynter season
with dulcet odes to Grape and Grain!
Thou who wouldst a chorister make, prepare thyself in forme and reason,
for drunken joy does not the sober soul obtaine!
The lips need lubrication by the tinne,
and the pipes wetted with the cannikin!
Nor canst thou hungry-hearted sing
songs in praise of reveling;
the Stomack must have its Pie & Meate,
the Tongue it's contrivance of Salt & Sweet,
the Braine by draughts unseated from its Throne,
if thou wouldst a drinker's hymn intone!
O Singer! Tune the aeolian harp of thy soul,
that the gentle breeze of Musick's breath,
and all fair Muses in their roles
may sound strings of Jubilation and Regrete!
Thanks! It's an allusion to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath as well as to early Judeo-Christian myths about Satan as the "Left Hand of God."...1st Chapter of the Book of Job kind of stuff. Thus, the Terrible Swift Sword in the Battle Hymn of the Republic is Satan himself.
Thanks for the comment- No official distribution yet, but the DVD is available for purchase at http://www.awakemysoul.com. And so is the companion cd, "I Belong to This Band". Here's the first 7 min. of the film: http://i.timeinc.net/southern/images/features_ss/special_sections/1226428/hi_movie.mov
Y'all are doing interesting stuff! Do you have real Sacred Harp singings up there? Do you know what I mean by that?
I need Montreal too. I wish I could come back right now. You guys sound terrific, just fantastic, truly superlative. If only I was singing Greenwich tonight, from the bottom of a bottle of Golden Wedding, with you dear friends...
Oh man do you guys sound good now! I miss you all so much. I won't be back in Montreal until next August, but when I do come back I hope there's still a place for me down in the low end...
