#Shelagh McDonald

[radiophd]

shelagh mcdonald -- mirage

[mrbopst]

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[theartistknownaslymond]

He was a Stargazer She asks what'll the future bring Mercury and Jupiter will bring you wealth and golden rings They have climbed the hill and watched the sun go down to rest He said: "Will you be my friend? I fear that there's nothing left to give, my Lady" She said: "Let's follow the sun behind the hill To where it's hiding."

He was a stranger to her His father was a poet Lead her by the hand on the hill Touch the golden sunset How did feelings die, he's afraid to know Why did she have to lie She'd only stay until it's time for her to go She said take the sun in your hands, be glad For this is love you hold.

[wellofmissouri]

My mom likes steeleye span.... she does not like fairport convention... she likes solo sandy denny... she likes pentangle... she does not like John renbourne group... she does not like solo bert jansch... she does not like Martin carthy... she does not like Roy harper... she likes donovan... she does not like the incredible string band... she does not like shirley collins :(... she does not like anne briggs :(... she does not like trees... she does not like renaissance... she does not like spirogyra... she does not like vulcan's hammer... she does not like folkal point... she does not like the albion band... she does not like shelagh mcdonald... who's left...

[1264doghouse]

Shelagh McDonald

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.15

Beer Birthdays

Carry Nation; temperance nut job, terrorist (1846)

Gustave Pabst (1866)

Bob Leggett (1953)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Poul Anderson; writer (1926)

Christina Applegate; actor (1971)

Paul Desmond; jazz saxophonist (1924)

P.D. Eastman; writer (1909)

Virgil Thomson; composer (1896)

Famous Birthdays

Nat Adderley; trumpet player (1931)

Alice Ambrose; philosopher and logician (1906)

Winthrop Ames; director and screenwriter (1870)

Karl Benz; German engineer, inventor (1844)

Marc Brown; author and illustrator (1946)

Alfred Capus; French journalist, author, and playwright (1858)

Andrew Carnegie; businessman (1835)

Cris Carter; Minnesota Vikings WR (1965)

Katie Cassidy; actres (1986)

Chris Claremont; English-American author (1950)

Gail Collins; journalist and author (1945)

Kathryn Crosby; actress and singer (1933)

Maurice Denis; French painter (1870)

Bucky Dent; New York Yankess SS (1951)

Lope de Vega; Spanish playwright and poet (1562)

Joe DiMaggio; New York Yankees OF (1914)

Lars Eighner; author (1948)

Takayo Fischer; actress and singer (1932)

Jill Flint; actress (1977)

Roelof Frankot; Dutch painter and photographer (1911)

Shelagh Fraser; English actress (1920)

Mark Frost; author and screenwriter (1953)

Kate Gleason; engineer (1865)

Amy Grant; pop singer (1960)

Harley Granville-Barker; British actor and director (1877)

Franz Xaver Gruber; Austrian organist and composer (1787)

Charlaine Harris; author and poet (1951)

Jill Hennessy; Canadian actor (1968)

Stephanie Hsu; actress (1990)

Jeffrey Hunter; actor (1926)

Ilja Hurník; Czech composer and playwright (1922)

Ba Jin; Chinese writer (1904)

Albert Henry Krehbiel; painter and illustrator (1873)

John Larriquette; actor (1947)

Bob Lind; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942)

Peg Lynch; actress and screenwriter (1916)

Donovan McNabb; Philadelphia Eagles QB (1976)

Ricardo Montalban; actor (1920)

Lenny Moore; Baltimore Colts HB (1933)

Bill Morrissey; singer-songwriter (1951)

Patrick Nagel; artist, illustrator (1945)

Noel Neill; actress (1920)

Herschel Savage; porn actor (1952)

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck; English author and activist (1778)

Ernst Schröder; German mathematician (1841)

Jean-François Séguier; French astronomer and botanist (1703)

Percy Sledge; pop singer (1941)

Laurence Stallings; writer (1894)

Ben Stein; speechwriter, actor, creationist wingnut (1944)

Edward Traisman; invented Cheez Whiz, freezing process for McDonald’s fries (1915)

Woody Woodpecker; cartoon (1940)

Alexis Wright; Australian author (1950)

Takaaki Yoshimoto; Japanese poet and philosopher(1924)

[dstrachan]

'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 26th June 2023

Steeleye Span ‘False Knight On The Road’

Trees 'Glasgerion’

Hedgehog Pie 'Jack Orion’

David Kilpatrick ‘Matty Groves’

Fairport Convention 'Tam Linn’

The Imagined Village 'Tam Lyn Retold’

Shelagh McDonald 'Dowie Dens Of Yarrow’

Malinky 'Whaur Dae Ye Lie’

Johnny Dickinson 'A Reiver’s Neck-Verse’ not TD1

From The Deep 'Thomas The Rhymer’

The Imagined Village 'Ouses, Ouses, Ouses’

The Bird & the Monkey 'Tibbie Tamson (extract)’

Joan Baez ‘ Silver Dagger’

Fire In The Middle ‘How We Spark’

The Unthanks ‘Felton Lonnin’

Karine Polwart ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’

Silly Wizard ‘Broom O’ The Cowdenknowes’

Archie Fisher ‘Thomas The Rhymer’

Ebony Buckle, Bobby Eccles, John Steele, Phillip Granell, Cormac Byrne & Nick Hendrix ‘Matty Groves’

[vesper-to-the-stars]

Good music is good even if it doesn’t join top 40 and isn’t widely known

[betty-banxs]

Timeless.

[fuckyeahmotorik]

#1722

Shelagh McDonald - Waiting for the Wind

“Shelagh McDonald”, 1970

[radiophd]

shelagh mcdonald -- stargazer

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: Shelagh McDonald Album 1970 British Folk-Rock

Before mysteriously disappearing from public life in 1971, Scotland's Shelagh McDonald delivered a pair of gorgeous folk-rock albums that stand among the best of that vibrant period in the U.K. Warm, intimate, and elegant, her 1970 debut illustrates the promise that her brief career offered. - Timothy Monger

[theartistknownaslymond]

But, just as Shelagh's career looked set to take off, her life began to falter. A relationship turned sour, she found herself living in a rough area of London and, most damaging of all, she began experimenting with drugs. Her fragile and sensitive personality could not cope with the psychedelic onslaught of the cannabis and LSD so readily available in the folk scene.               "Everybody was experimenting with drugs," she recalls. "But in April 1972 I took a trip that turned my world upside down. I thought it would be out of my system within 12 hours, but three weeks later I was still hallucinating.          "It wasn't the kind of colourful hallucination you normally got with LSD - this was horrific. I was walking around the shops and looking at people who had no eyes or features, their faces were just blank.                    "It went on for so long, I just forgot to eat and was just skin and bone. I was all over the place and didn't seem to know what I was doing or where to turn to.          "Suddenly, I had to get out. My disappearance wasn't at all conscious.          It was a coping mechanism - self-preservation."

[iggyinuit]

Folk-singer Shelagh McDonald disappears after a bad LSD (or STP?) trip in 1972, only to reappear in the mid-2000s. Sounds familiar? (Article found by Andrew Stepp. URL: www.lifedaily.com/story/local-newspaper-uncovers-the-truth-behind-70s-scottish-songstress-mysterious-disappearance/)

[flockdog]

Illustration inspired by The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, one of my favourite border ballads.

~~Version with words under the cut~~