Episode 2 Transatlantic Sessions

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'I started playing when I was around the age of seven.'

'And my dad taught me really.'

'He doesn't do gigs or anything, it's just a labour of love.'

I used to pick up the tune on a Monday

and then, say, by Friday, I'd have the full...

I'd just get a little bit off him every night.

I'd say, "Sit down, go through it slow."

'One of the reasons I'm even playing music in the first place is Tim O'Brien.'

'Oh yeah.'

He's been an amazing mentor to me growing up.

-His songwriting, singing and playing.

-He's great, isn't he? >

I just love.

And then, Gillian Welch too has been a big influence

and Darrell Scott and Chris Healy.

'Lots, I could go on forever.'

-'All great people too.

-Yeah.'

# Many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea

# There lived a maiden you may know By the name of Annabelle Lee

# No other thought Did trouble her mind

# But to love and be loved by me

# We were children both In this kingdom by the sea

# But we loved with a love That was more than love

# I and my Annabelle Lee

# With a love That the winged angels high

# Coveted her and me

# This was the reason long ago In this kingdom by the sea

# A wind blew from a stormy cloud That took my Annabelle Lee

# Then her wicked brothers came To steal her away from me

# They shut her up in a tomb below This kingdom by the sea

# But no maiden's grave Could sever my soul

# From the love she bore for me

# For the moon don't beam without A dream of my darling Annabelle Lee

# For many years I've wandered Through this kingdom by the sea

# I've laid myself beside the bones Of my beautiful Annabelle Lee

# I'll make my bed Near the rising tide

# In her tomb By the sounding sea. #

'I met Dewey Balfa, a great fiddle player,

'and his daughter Christine, and I fell in love and got married.'

'When I could barely even play Cajun music, he invited me up to play with him on stage. Second fiddle.'

'Then he left the stage, I didn't even know how to play the style yet.'

It was his band in front of a thousand people.

And he said, "Any son-in-law of mine is going to play Cajun music."

< Well, I can see him saying that.

And this was when I had been dating Christine for a week!

< HE LAUGHS

# When I was 16, so eager and green

# I searched for The belle of the ball

# She never appeared So often I feared

# I might be alone after all

# Night after night I hid from the light

# Until you appeared at my side

# You held out your hand Told of a land

# Where you said I'd have nothing to hide

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna bid you goodbye

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna take wings and fly

# I'm gonna take wings and fly

# How your sweet lips would sing Saying I was a king

# Whose crown had been stolen away

# We get what was mine Just a little more time

# A little more out of my day

# Round after round I followed you down

# But I never could find the way

# Your smile disguised A hole in your eyes

# Where the door to your heart Should have been

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna bid you goodbye

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna take wings and fly

# I'm gonna take wings and fly

# When I look in the rain You're standing so near

# Your breath turns My colour to twine

# But when I turn around There's just empty ground

# No-one's reflection but mine

# But some sweet day Before my life fades away

# A hand will be offered to me

# Not a stiff hand I turn Calloused nor burned

# But gentle, lovely and free

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna bid you goodbye

# Some old day

# Some sweet day

# I'm gonna take wings and fly

I'm gonna take wings and fly

'It's just very natural and rootsy, the way music should be played, I think.'

'You know, people sitting around, looking at each other playing.'

You know, that's the vibe I love.

# If I ever thought I had lost my friends

# I'd roam this world Till my back was bent

# To find them all Searching high and low

# You can never have enough friends

# This much I know

# If I ever thought I could not be true

# Myself and do what I wanted to

# At the same time I'd have to change my tune

# Nothing better you can do Than to yourself be true

# But if I had a time machine

# And if I put it in my dreams

# Life is our only time machine

# It only goes one way it seems

# You learn how As we float downstream

# If I ever thought I had hurt someone

# I'd hurl a stone That would weigh a ton

# Until I learned to make good Or take it back

# Even the strongest pair of hands Cannot take it back

# But if I had a time machine

# And if I put it in my dreams

# Life is the only time machine

# It only goes one way it seems

# We learn how As we float downstream

# When I live alone In the dark of night

# With just my fears to hold me tight

# And I think of you

# And then I feel all right

# And I want to let you know You make me feel all right

# I just want to let you know You make me feel all right. #

# When not a word Had cheated me... #

# Cheated me. #

'Ultimately, music is a, you know, it's a,

'it's brother and sisterhood kinda thing.'

'We come together through the songs.'

'There might be a little bit of unease and things like that.'

But once you create together and you get in a space,

all those walls melt away and all of a sudden your humanity is exposed.

And a lot of people who are musicians have a lot of beautiful stuff inside of them.

So it's humbling, but it's fun.

# Oh, Jesus, can you help me now?

# Jesus, can you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus, can you help me now?

# Jesus, will you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus, can you help me now?

# No, I never felt so alone

# I remember when I was wild and free

# Oh, so wild and free

# Oh, so wild and free But my heart was a skipping stone

# Yeah, yeah

# But now the world has jaded me

# Jaded me

# Oh, corrupted and defeated me

# Defeated me

# You know, I never thought You hated me

# But I've never felt so alone now

# Oh, Jesus, will you help me now?

# Jesus, can you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus, will you help me now?

# Jesus, will you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus, will you help me now?

# No, I never felt so alone

# So alone

# So, Jesus, will you help me now?

# Jesus, will you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus, will you help me now?

# Jesus, will you help me now?

# Oh, Jesus will you help me now?

# No, I never felt so alone

# So alone

# So alone. #

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