Their distinctive combination of uilleann pipes, harps and harmony vocals set a new standard for Irish music in the 1950s & 60s. Often containing as many as three generations, the Belfast born and bred McPeake Family played as far afield as Moscow and was a great favourite on the BBC. And sticking a gorgeous old folk ballad in between a waltz about the Theory of Relativity (or taking acid) (or both!) and a country song about wanting to be abducted by aliens pretty much sets the listener up for the psychedelic madness still to come.The McPeake Family’s Wild Mountain Thyme, also known as Will Ye Go Lassie, Go, is one of the most famous songs to emerge from the folk revival of the 1950s, being covered by an incredible variety of artists including Fotheringay, The Byrds, Mark Knopfler and Rod Stewart as well as Ewan MacColl, The Chieftains and Clancy Brothers. Gene Clark had left the band, and neither McGuinn or Crosby had more than a couple of songs ready to go, and instead of doing Dylan songs (only two of their eight 1960s album didn’t have at least one Dylan song), they decided to do traditional songs that may influenced Dylan, whom in 1966 was taking tradition out into a back alley and beating it to within an inch of its life.īut it’s great filler. On Fifth Dimension, “Wild Mountain Thyme” is filler, for sure. WILD MOUNTAIN THYME (aka WILL YE GO, LASSIE, GO) (Francis McPeake - based on an 18th Century Scottish poem entitled The Braes of Balquhidder by Robert. Because I lost nearly all of the cassettes that I treasured in the 1980s, which almost killed me. Although the Byrds’ version is the one I grew up listening to, my favorite is the one by Marianne Faithfull, which is on her 1966 album North Country Maid, (released in 1965 on Go Away from My World in the U.S.). I treasured my cassette copy of that show for years. This is another of those songs which many people believe to be a traditional Scottish song, but like so many songs popularised during the 1960’s folk boom, is actually quite modern, having been copyrighted in 1957 Published 12 April 2011 1 min read. A couple of years ago I began to wonder about the origin of the song Wild Mountain Thyme. That said, I have to give a shout-out to a version of this song that Peter Case performed solo live in the KFSR studios in either 1986 or 1987. 'Wild Mountain Thyme' (aka 'Purple Heather' and 'Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go') is a Scottish/Irish folk song with lyrics and melody being a variant of the song 'The Braes of Balquhither' by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (17741810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (17801829). Afrikaans (1) Array (3) Blues (30) Cowboy (16) Humor (4) Humor/games. Roger McGuinn Home Page Byrds FAQ Video Folk Den MP3s Tour Dates Categories.
I’ve heard only a fraction of those, but I can’t imagine any of them being more achingly gorgeous that the block vocals / 12-string guitar / soaring strings arrangement that The Byrds pull off here. To pull wild mountain thyme All around the purple heather Will ye go, lassie, go Author McGuinn Posted on ApNovemCategories Irish/british, Islands, Love.
A serious contender for The Prettiest Song Ever Recorded (Folk Division), “Wild Mountain Thyme” has of course been recorded dozens and dozens of times.
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