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[darchildre]

One of my favorite things to learn to sing are old ballads (or songs that sound like old ballads), especially if they contain either fairies or murder, because they're long and tell a story and you can usually sing them well unaccompanied. (Also, because I enjoy singing pretty songs about over-the-top violence. Like in Lambkin, where they kill a baby by pricking it all over with a pin and then keep its blood in a silver basin for no apparent reason.) I learned the Fairport Convention version of Matty Groves a while ago and it's one of my absolute favorites. But two of the great things about ballads are 1) that you can learn many different versions of them and 2) Appalachian versions. And the other day, I was on 8tracks, listening to someone's playlist of ballads and came across Elizabeth Laprelle.

Here she is, singing Mathey Groves.

Oh my god, you guys, the voice on her. It's gorgeous and I now have to go buy all of her albums.

And learn that version of Mathey Groves, because it has hilarious extra violence.

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[scheherezhad]

Holy wow, that version of Mathey Groves is fantastic. I love her sound.