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Westlin Winds

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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Also published as, “Song Composed in August” in 1775, when Burns was 17 years old. A love song to nature’s cycles, and the person by my side sharing them.

lyrics

Now westlin winds and slaughtering guns
bring autumn's pleasant weather
The moorcock springs on whirring wings
among the blooming heather
Now waving grain, wild o'er the plain
delights the weary farmer
And the moon shines bright as I rove at night
to muse upon my charmer.
The partridge loves the fruitful fells
the plover loves the mountains
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells
the soaring hern the fountains
Through lofty groves the cushat roves
the path of man to shun it
And the hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush
the spreading thorn the linnet
Thus every kind their pleasure find
the savage and the tender
Some social join and leagues combine
some solitary wander
Avaunt away! the cruel sway
tyrannic man's dominion
The sportsman's joy, the murdering cry
the fluttering gory pinion
But Peggy dear, the evening's clear
thick files the skimming swallow
The sky is blue, the field's in view
all fading green and yellow
Come let us stray our gladsome way
and view the charms of nature
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn
and every happy creature
We'll gently walk and sweetly talk
till the silent moon shines clearly
I'll grasp thy waist and, fondly pressed
swear how I love thee dearly
Not vernal showers to budding flowers
not autumn to the farmer
so dear can be as thou to me
my fair, and lovely charmer

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from Taking Flight, released December 1, 2022
Westlin Winds - Robert Burns
Amelia Hogan-vocals, Ray Frank-guitar.

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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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