[LMB] recommendation

BOB!! robtjwms at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 03:25:17 GMT 2008


Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:

> Stewart Dean sdean7855 at earthlink.net

>> One of the best fantasy *songs* (although it may be based on a
>> Scottish
>> folk tale) I've ever heard is Stan Rogers rendition of
>> "The Witch of Westmoreland",. perhaps best heard from Between the
>> Breaks, Live! CD.

> *** And not so Off Topic after all -- this song was the direct 
> inspiration for the Durona Group and Rowen Durona, back when I was 
> writing _Mirror Dance_.  I found it on a filk/folk tape, by a group
> a 
> quick check of my dusty cassette drawer tells me was named Golden 
> Bough.  What goes around...
> 
> I never knew who wrote it.  Drat that we lose the good ones too
> soon.

I second the recommendation (I'm a big fan of Stan Rogers), but I
also wanted to point out that Archie Fisher actually wrote the song.

Regards,

BOB!!


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