fragments of a faith forgotten (the art of harry smith)

fragments of a faith forgotten: the art of harry smith ran at the whitney museum of american art from october 4th 2023 to january 28th 2024. there were three days of events too. sadly horsemouth was on the wrong continent (never mind the wrong city) to go. 

he will have to make do with a few short films he has found online. 

so yesterday horsemouth was out at howard's from about midday on. they sat in the downstairs living room and they played some guitar (the dulcimer stayed upstairs this time but the 8-string ukulele came down).

amárach from volume four got looked at. they both struggled to remember their parts and then resorted to playing through the track a few times to remind them. they also had a look at blindspot (probably not a runner) and fallen snow and they've looked at broadbury down (in horsemouth's guitar powered version) before.  

howard has worked up a version of townes van zandt's waiting around to die and they already have a version of pastures of plenty (woody guthrie/ practically everybody) . horsemouth's version of go your way my love (norfolk traditional usually known from the anne briggs version) did not get looked at but then they looked at it last week. eyepennies (sparklehorse) got played through again and recorded again (sounds decent).

quite a few of howard's got looked at. howard works for two more weeks and then he is free (until he has to go back to work again). he has a plan to record a whole tranche of his unrecorded songs. 

horsemouth thinks if he sits down and puts the effort in himself and howard can put together a good show for their upcoming gig on the 24th. 

and er. after that they went up the pub. the football was on but they managed to hide in the back garden with a pizza - horsemouth had a pint and a half (very sensible) and howard had two. howard had his phone with him so they listened to music - all the good times are passed and gone (mr.fox) and high on a mountain top (loretta lynn) antithetical but similar songs. 

at home horsemouth watched some paris set we anderson thing for a bit (but he found it too annoying).  and so to bed. 

at the sidmouth folk festival (early august 2nd to the 9th) jim causley and miranda sykes start the week with a celebration of sabine baring-gould, pioneering victorian folk song collector and author.