After my happily meaningless and mundane post of yesterday, I felt the music didn't match the post. I was just blathering, really, about something that will mean nothing to anybody. But still, the music video didn't fit. I was trying to find something authentically Scottish, and although the piece was composed by Dougie Maclean, a Scot as said, the song was a tad bit too wistful, methought.
So today a song by the late Englishman, John Renbourne, called "The New Nothynge" (sic re the Elizabethan spelling) accompanied by a video of castle remnants from Wales and elsewhere in Britain. The song always calls to mind a vision of a court jester playing a lute and dancing in tights or pantaloons before the court. I can even see in my mind's eye exactly how I would stage the dance. Ah, life. Ah, music. And a bygone era....
John Renbourne, then --
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