0:00:08 > 0:00:19Welcome to Celtic Connections 2016
0:00:19 > 0:00:22singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26From Scotland, the Scott Wood Band.
0:00:26 > 0:00:33Singer Karen Matheson.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36From Quebec, Les Poules A Colin.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41From Glasgow, The Langan Band.
0:00:41 > 0:02:51American singer-songwriter Angaleena Presley.
0:03:28 > 0:03:35APPLAUSE
0:03:36 > 0:03:40I started as a songwriter.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I was a songwriter in Nashville for about ten years before
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I ever played with a band.
0:03:46 > 0:03:55The the songs that I write are really fun.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58They are many artists who pretend that, just
0:03:58 > 0:03:58because they are personal, sometimes, and they are
0:04:00 > 0:04:06# I read all the books
0:04:06 > 0:04:08# I bought a sexy nightgown
0:04:08 > 0:04:10They are many artists who pretend that, just
0:04:14 > 0:04:16# I fed your baby
0:04:17 > 0:04:20# I whittled all our debt down and you were drunk
0:04:20 > 0:04:22# I did your dishes
0:04:24 > 0:04:27# I never let myself go
0:04:30 > 0:04:31# I kept your baby clean
0:04:34 > 0:04:41# I washed his toys and all his clothes and you were drunk
0:04:41 > 0:04:45# Denial must be a man's best friend
0:04:45 > 0:04:50# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in
0:04:50 > 0:04:52# This is a game I cannot win
0:04:52 > 0:04:56# I'm leaving
0:04:56 > 0:05:06# And you're stayin' drunk
0:05:09 > 0:05:13# I had the oil changed
0:05:13 > 0:05:16# I kept my lipstick on
0:05:16 > 0:05:20# Bought the groceries
0:05:20 > 0:05:29# Four years have come and gone and you were drunk
0:05:29 > 0:05:32# Denial must be a man's best friend
0:05:32 > 0:05:36# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in
0:05:36 > 0:05:40# This is a game I cannot win of mind you're always in
0:05:40 > 0:05:43# I'm leavin'
0:05:43 > 0:05:53# And you're stayin' drunk
0:06:02 > 0:06:08# My daddy loved you like a son
0:06:08 > 0:06:16# Cos I kept your secret from everyone
0:06:16 > 0:06:20# Denial must be a man's best friend
0:06:20 > 0:06:24# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in
0:06:24 > 0:06:28# This is a game I cannot win
0:06:28 > 0:06:32# I'm leavin'
0:06:32 > 0:06:36# You're stayin' drunk. #
0:06:38 > 0:06:44APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:09:31 > 0:09:33# How blue can I be
0:09:33 > 0:09:35# Just sitting here and waiting for me
0:09:35 > 0:09:36# Waiting to take a dare
0:09:36 > 0:09:39# Trying to look as if I don't care
0:09:39 > 0:09:43# If you expect me to believe it was me
0:09:43 > 0:09:45# It was me that made you leave
0:09:45 > 0:09:47# This is how blue I can be
0:09:47 > 0:09:48# All your colours left behind the ones I like most I kept for mine
0:10:07 > 0:10:10# I hung them on the walls in the bedroom and the hall
0:10:11 > 0:10:14# They change like seasons do in the winter, in the winter
0:10:15 > 0:10:20# They change to blue As blue as I can be
0:10:35 > 0:10:41# What a different point of view
0:10:41 > 0:10:43# pointing at me not at you
0:10:43 > 0:10:46# I think about the road the whispers of things I don't know
0:10:46 > 0:10:49# Reminds me of your touch, I'm not even half as much
0:10:49 > 0:10:59# I'm not even half as much as blue as I could be #
0:11:44 > 0:11:52APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:12:17 > 0:12:26# The summertime is over
0:12:30 > 0:12:34# She's sleeping once again
0:12:34 > 0:12:41# The summertime is over
0:12:41 > 0:12:48# And I was a merry friend
0:12:48 > 0:12:54# Roll on winter.
0:12:54 > 0:13:01# Roll in upon the breeze
0:13:01 > 0:13:09# Roll in upon the howling gales
0:13:09 > 0:13:11# Shake leaves from all the trees
0:13:11 > 0:13:21# Roll on the winter
0:13:39 > 0:13:44# But on she went my one true love
0:13:44 > 0:13:50# Beneath the frost and rain
0:13:50 > 0:13:52# For we'll defy the cold and wind
0:13:52 > 0:13:56# To tell tales of summer days
0:13:56 > 0:14:00# Roll on winter
0:14:00 > 0:14:07# Roll in upon the breeze
0:14:07 > 0:14:13# Roll in upon the howling gales
0:14:13 > 0:14:15# Shake the leaves from off the trees
0:14:15 > 0:14:25# Roll on winter
0:14:25 > 0:14:27We don't aim to be playing in any specific genre,
0:14:27 > 0:14:31when we are writing it is just what takes us at the time,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34we try not to be restricted to any kind of thing,
0:14:34 > 0:14:35you know?
0:14:35 > 0:14:38We are influenced by so many things and if we feel a certain
0:14:38 > 0:14:48thing at the time we will take it and go with it.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54# I remember summer breeze, the rain upon your face
0:14:54 > 0:15:04# We danced among the hazy green
0:15:23 > 0:15:33# Now's the time to sleep, my love, and dream of summer days
0:15:33 > 0:15:37# The summertime is over
0:15:37 > 0:15:44# She's sleeping once again
0:15:44 > 0:15:49# Now is the time to sleep, my love, the flowers bloom again
0:15:49 > 0:15:54# Noo's the time to sleep, my love, till the flowers bloom again
0:16:01 > 0:16:11# Noo's the time tae sleep, my love, till the flowers bloom again
0:16:13 > 0:16:23# Roll on winter...
0:17:12 > 0:17:21# Now we went down to the garden
0:17:21 > 0:17:22# Beneath the olive trees
0:17:22 > 0:17:29# The bells were ringing The rooster crows
0:17:29 > 0:17:34# The men were standing all around
0:17:34 > 0:17:41# Other men are laying on the ground
0:17:41 > 0:17:50# And I am standing by myself I just let them to sleep awhile
0:17:57 > 0:18:07# Just let them sleep awhile
0:18:07 > 0:18:08# You know you wake up one morning
0:18:08 > 0:18:10# And you're someone else
0:18:10 > 0:18:20# You're on your own There is no miracle
0:18:26 > 0:18:28# So you cry to the God who leaves
0:18:28 > 0:18:29# you there
0:18:29 > 0:18:32# To the branch and the bird and the empty air
0:18:32 > 0:18:40# To the God of why can't we turn back around
0:18:40 > 0:18:50# You say I've been true, oh I
0:18:54 > 0:19:00# Been true to you
0:19:00 > 0:19:04# You leave me here
0:19:04 > 0:19:11# I call for you
0:19:11 > 0:19:16# I reach and you turn
0:19:16 > 0:19:27# All I want is your hand
0:19:27 > 0:19:32# You turn away from me
0:19:32 > 0:19:45# I been true
0:19:48 > 0:19:53When I lost my parents I started looking into the family tree
0:19:53 > 0:19:56which is a fascinating thing in itself and I started my mother's
0:19:56 > 0:20:00side and I found all these old photographs and letters from way
0:20:00 > 0:20:03back in the war and prewar and it opened up a complete new story to me
0:20:03 > 0:20:11about my mother's life which I had not even realised.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15I was working on a solo album that was going to be the mix
0:20:15 > 0:20:21of contemporary and Gaelic but I decided I wanted it to be
0:20:21 > 0:20:25a totally Gaelic album and about that story.
0:20:25 > 0:20:33It inspired me through that story.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46SHE SINGS IN GAELIC
0:25:02 > 0:25:05APPLAUSE
0:28:52 > 0:28:52The
0:28:52 > 0:28:54APPLAUSE The
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