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Twa Corbies

from Taking Flight by Amelia Hogan

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    Taking Flight Audio CD comes with a beautiful tri-fold, Eco-Wallet two pocket case, of both full color and black and white images, liner notes, lyrics, and details about the music for this project.

    On "Taking Flight," Amelia Hogan sings both traditional and contemporary folk music with lilting grace and subtlety. Weaving a mysterious old magic, Hogan transports her listeners out of time and place with haunting melodies and evocative storytelling. The 16-track album features one original (the title track), which is a joyous a cappella number in four-part harmony, a number of traditional, public domain songs, and interpretations of songs by contemporary
    songwriters including Laurie Lewis, Lankum, David Francey, Anais Mitchell, and Jez Lowe. Photos: Venee Call-Ferrer

    Produced by Hogan at Foxtail Sound in Dixon, CA, with celebrated musicians Ray Frank (co-producer), Richard Mandel, David Brewer, Christa Burch, Rebecca Richman, Maureen Brennan, and Marla Fibish, Taking Flight is a cathartic and healing endeavor. Songs were chosen to acknowledge grief, loss, heartache, hope, and ultimately a joy-filled conclusion. The theme of birds runs through the project. Often seen as a symbol of loss and sorrow, birds also represent hope and healing and the ability to find beauty in the midst of hardship. The intent of this work is to take the listener on a journey through grief and out the other side, as a bird taking flight might.

    Hogan shared, "For many of us, the few years since the spring of 2020 have been full of grief and loss, between death, illness, cultural changes, and unprecedented political upheaval. It feels as if nothing has been left untouched. As I worked through these feelings in my own life, I kept returning to singing and sharing songs related to birds as solace, comfort, and inspiration. No matter how much we feel we’ve been grounded, we can always find a way to take flight again."

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I first heard this song from my friend, Child ballad collector Sadie Damascus. It was recorded with this iteration of Scots lyrics in the 13th century. Ray Fisher matched the orphan lyrics with a Breton tune, "An Alarc’h" (The Swan). It depicts an anti-colonial sentiment as seen through the lens of two carrion birds discussing the corpse-dinner of a fallen invading knight, found on the Scottish countryside.

lyrics

As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makkin a mane;
Then tain untae the other did say-o,
“Where shall we gang and dine the day-o,
Where shall we gang and dine the day?"
Then int ahint yon auld fail dyke
I wot there lies a new-slain knight;
And naebody kens that he lies there-o
But his hawk and his hound and his lady fair-o,
His hawk and his hound and his lady fair.
His hound is tae the huntin gane,
His hawk tae fetch the wildfowl hame;
His lady's ta'en anither mate-o
Sae we mun mak our dinner sweecht-o,
Sae we mun mak our dinner sweecht.
And ye'll sit on his white hause-bane
And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een;
Wi ilk a lock o his gowden hair-o
We'll theek our nest when it grows bare-o,
Theek our nest when it grows bare.
There's mony a ane for him maks mane
But nane sall ken where he is gane;
And o'er his bones when they lay bare-o
The wind sall blaw for evermair-o,
The wind sall blaw for evermair.
As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makkin a mane;
Tha tain untae the other did say-o,
“Where shall we gang and dine to day-o,
Where shall we gang and dine to day?"

credits

from Taking Flight, released December 1, 2022
Twa Corbies - Trad
Amelia Hogan-vocals, Ray Frank-guitar, Maureen Brennan-harp,
Rebecca Richman-concertina, David Brewer- bodhran

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Amelia Hogan San Francisco, California

Amelia Hogan sings traditional Irish, Scottish, British American, and Contemporary folk music with lilting graces and powerful subtlety. You’ll be transported by her singing,
She has enchanted audiences from Oregon to New York, Dublin to San Francisco and back again. ... more

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