Hi Everybody,

I'm new here and this is my first post. Joining the discussions I would like to touch upon a particular topic of the unpublished Loreena's songs.

Certainly, many of you are familiar with BMI records registry. I found there a list of Loreena's songs that includes a lot of unpublished material (for example: Ballad Of The Foxhunter, Melodie Manxoise, Star Of The County Down, Three Ravens)

Can any of you shed a light on this? Can we expect them to be released someday by any chance? What do you generally think about it?

Here is link to BMI:

http://repertoire.bmi.com/writ...n=SOCAN&cae=36032124

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Originally posted by Anxious 2:
Hello Tokoferol:

Welcome on board.
Hope you'll have a good time here. Or we'll make you have it!

At a closer thought, I just thought maybe these songs couldn't fit in between the others...? And making a CD is like telling a story, I guess. The songs must relate to each other.

But yes, it could be fun to hear them sometime

I agree with you, maybe the songs has a certain connection to the others, to tell a story or share something, and that's must be the reason she has some unreleased songs, although I agree, I'm not sure if it's really what happens

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Originally posted by Tokoferol:
Hi Everybody,

I'm new here and this is my first post. Joining the discussions I would like to touch upon a particular topic of the unpublished Loreena's songs.

Certainly, many of you are familiar with BMI records registry. I found there a list of Loreena's songs that includes a lot of unpublished material (for example: Ballad Of The Foxhunter, Melodie Manxoise, Star Of The County Down, Three Ravens)

Can any of you shed a light on this? Can we expect them to be released someday by any chance? What do you generally think about it?

Here is link to BMI:

http://repertoire.bmi.com/writ...n=SOCAN&cae=36032124

Welcome, and thank you so much for the link to the BMI site! I see a great many songs listed in it which Loreena formerly sang during her live concerts a very long while back, but have for whatever reason never been recorded onto studio albums. I cannot say for sure 'why', either; most (but not all) appear to be her versions of traditional folk songs, therefore nothing she could actually publish I don't think, unless she were to do something unusual and original with her versions of them.

Also, Loreena did begin going another direction with her music, moving away from mostly 'older' public domain Celtic folk songs into an arena of her own original music with that 'eclectic Celtic' flavor. I should think she may have wished to record 'new' material, and to write it herself; many artists have recorded traditional Celtic music for decades, now, and 'something new' is always a great selling point when it comes to making recordings.

Anyway, perhaps that is one reason many of those songs on that BMI list were never published or recorded, but that is only a guess on my part.

Now that she's come 'full circle' and gifted us with the lovely new album 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley', which is ALL folk music alongside one of her own instrumental tunes, I'd sure enjoy the opportunity of purchasing recordings of Loreena singing more of the songs she's not ever put onto studio albums. But the one I'd most like to hear recorded, if I had to choose just one? 'Pagan Trees'. It's especially lovely!

Hi there, now the song "Star of the County Down" is going to be released on Loreena's new album. "Ballad of the Foxhunter" is a poem by W.B. Yeats which is beautiful and sad, I really wish Loreena were going to release this song on her future albums someday.

As for the other songs you mentioned, I've never heard of them.

Hello Tokoferol:

Welcome on board.
Hope you'll have a good time here. Or we'll make you have it!

At a closer thought, I just thought maybe these songs couldn't fit in between the others...? And making a CD is like telling a story, I guess. The songs must relate to each other.

But yes, it could be fun to hear them sometime.


Greetings

Anxious 2