frettedstrings said:
I hope, in a year or so, that I will have a CD available with 11 songs played on two fine GUILD ACOUSTIC GUITARS.
-frettedstrings
Through The Ages Of Time CD
1. Early One Morning (Roud 12682)
The lyrics are first found in publications as far back as 1787. The melody may be derived from an earlier song "The Forsaken Lover". (Guild D-35; Alto Baroque Flute and Percussion)
2. Danny Boy (Frederick Weatherly)
A ballad written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly and usually set to the Irish tune of the "Londonderry Air". Even though the words were initially written to a tune, a tune that were proven unsuccessful, Weatherly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit the rhyme and meter of "Londonderry Air". (Guild D-35 and Percussion)
3. Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460)
By Becket Whitehead (1862). Listed as and was probably derived from "The Poor Cotton Weaver" (Pre-1800) is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. A Four Loom weaver is power loom weaver using four Lancashire Looms in a Lancashire weaving shed. (Gut String Banjo and Percussion)
4. Three Ravens (Child 26, Roud 5)
An English folk ballad, printed in the song book Melismata[1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611,but it is perhaps older than that. (Guild D-35, Baroque Flutes)
Tubal Cain (Tim Foote -2008)
Adapted from a Poem by Charles Mackay, a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter; Music by Timothy Foote. Genesis 4:22 says that Tubal-Cain was the "Forger of All Instruments of Bronze and Iron". (Guild F-212,
6. Curragh Of Kildare (Traditional)
Also known as The Winter it is Past, from Irish Tradition. The Curragh of Kildare speaks of the actual Curragh, which is a large area of common land in Kildare, Ireland, used to rally the Irish Army.
7. Mary Ann (Roud 4438)
A Canadian Sea Shanty (1850)
8. Through The Ages Of Time (Tim Foote –2011)
A Bridge Linking The Past to Present and the Present to the Past. (Guild F-212; By Timothy Foote
9. Boys Are You Ready (Tim Foote –2011)
Referring to the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812 and Commadore and Captain Oliver Hazard Perry and his crewmen. By Timothy Foote
10. Loch Lomond (Roud 9598)
By Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and folklorist Andrew Lang (1876) who wrote a poem based on the song titled "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". Concerns a Jacobite Highlander who was captured after the 1745 Rising. Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish Loch, lying on the Highland Boundary Fault, Scotland.
11. An Irish Blessing (Mary Black / Tim Foote –2012)
An adaptation of "Old Irish Blessing" by Denes Agay. Traditional. Music for Chorus Melody by Mary Black. Words & Music for Verses by Timothy Foote.
