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• W247050776 abstract "Sarah Makem. CD + 50 pp. booklet. The Voice of the People. Topic TSCD674, 2011. [pounds sterling]12. As I Roved Out Sarah Makern. 3 CUs + 48 pp. booklet. Musical Traditions MTCD 353-5, 2011. [pounds sterling]20. You wait over forty years (since Topic's 1968 LP Mrs Sarah Makem: Ulster Ballad Singer) for more of Sarah Makern's marvellous, compelling singing to be made available, then two releases come along at once--one a three-CD set! Both essential--of course. Despite considerable overlap, all and any recordings of an artist of Sarah Makem's quality are to be treasured. Great credit is due to Topic and Musical Traditions, and to the many contributors of recordings and information, but especially to Rod Stradling who has researched and compiled both releases. Rod Stradling is selector and presenter of the Topic CD, under Reg Hall's general editorship of this second Voice of the People series. Reg's introduction gives an overview of current thinking on collecting and on what constitutes a traditional singer, noting the various paradoxes and contradictions that make definition problematic. He also contributes the biography, drawn mainly from Aideen Darcy's work in 2007 for the South Armagh Genealogical Society. Her biography (full text in the MT booklet) gives a detailed account of Sarah's life, surely quintessentially that of a traditional singer: born into a singing family (the Greenes) in a small market town (Keady), marrying into another (the Makems), her husband Peter a scutcher in the linen mills, herself a weaver. Sarah and Peter Makem's home was known as a ceilidh house full of music, Peter being a fiddle player and sons Tommy and Jack whistle players, holding lively sessions vividly described by Jean Ritchie, Liam Clancy, and Sarah herself, in conversation with Sean O'Boyle. Sean Mone's evocative personal memoir appears in both booklets, adding the fascinating perspective of a child's reaction to neighbour Sarah's sudden fame when her 'As I Roved Out' was first heard as the signature tune to the BBC radio programme in 1952. Sean regarded her as an extra granny, 'noted for her treat of bread topped with a generous layer of syrup', and it came like a bolt from the blue: 'Did you hear it? Sarah Makem--on the radio--singing? I had seen her that very morning, walking, as she did every Sunday from early mass, the Sunday Press under her arm, calm as you like--and her on the radio!' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Carter, one of the original recorders of the Topic LP (with Sean O'Boyle, in 1967), initiated the releases by offering Rod some tapes from his attic. This coincided with Tony Engle of Topic acquiring the Peter Kennedy archive (and depositing it in the British Library for the benefit of the nation), and Nicholas Carolan at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) contributing recordings by Diane Hamilton. The very clear sound recordings from these three sources supply the Topic CD, which brings back to us all but one of the classic songs from the LP (though several are different performances) plus seven more. Wonderful to listen again to 'It Was in the Month of January', where Sarah's measured, understated, yet intense delivery so subtly conveys the heartbreak, or 'Robert Burns and his Highland Mary', a slowly unfolding historical romance sung with sweet, true high notes and the lower notes well sustained, cherished as if a favourite song. This represents the Scots side of the typical repertoire of an Ulster singer ('lang', 'little they kent'--it's odd that Rod can't hear 'Greenock kirkyard' here, though it's given clearly in the MT transcription), while other songs are more often associated with English tradition: 'The Canny Ould Lad' (better known as 'Marrowbones') or 'The Laurel Wear' ('Cupid's Garden'). One could quibble about titles ('Our Ship She Is Ready'/'Farewell My Love'), hut the admirable Roud index sorts it all out for us. 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' is (sadly) omitted from the CD in favour of another political song, 'The Jackets Green', in a wonderfully intense performance illustrating Sarah's subtle shifts between major/modal notes and her breathtaking downward glissandos. …" @default.
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