Episode 1 Celtic Connections

Welcome to Celtic Connections 2016

singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.

From Scotland, the Scott Wood Band.

Singer Karen Matheson.

From Quebec, Les Poules A Colin.

From Glasgow, The Langan Band.

American singer-songwriter Angaleena Presley.

APPLAUSE

I started as a songwriter.

I was a songwriter in Nashville for about ten years before

I ever played with a band.

The the songs that I write are really fun.

They are many artists who pretend that, just

because they are personal, sometimes, and they are

# I read all the books

# I bought a sexy nightgown

They are many artists who pretend that, just

# I fed your baby

# I whittled all our debt down and you were drunk

# I did your dishes

# I never let myself go

# I kept your baby clean

# I washed his toys and all his clothes and you were drunk

# Denial must be a man's best friend

# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in

# This is a game I cannot win

# I'm leaving

# And you're stayin' drunk

# I had the oil changed

# I kept my lipstick on

# Bought the groceries

# Four years have come and gone and you were drunk

# Denial must be a man's best friend

# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in

# This is a game I cannot win of mind you're always in

# I'm leavin'

# And you're stayin' drunk

# My daddy loved you like a son

# Cos I kept your secret from everyone

# Denial must be a man's best friend

# Cos that's the state of mind you're always in

# This is a game I cannot win

# I'm leavin'

# You're stayin' drunk. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# How blue can I be

# Just sitting here and waiting for me

# Waiting to take a dare

# Trying to look as if I don't care

# If you expect me to believe it was me

# It was me that made you leave

# This is how blue I can be

# All your colours left behind the ones I like most I kept for mine

# I hung them on the walls in the bedroom and the hall

# They change like seasons do in the winter, in the winter

# They change to blue As blue as I can be

# What a different point of view

# pointing at me not at you

# I think about the road the whispers of things I don't know

# Reminds me of your touch, I'm not even half as much

# I'm not even half as much as blue as I could be #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# The summertime is over

# She's sleeping once again

# The summertime is over

# And I was a merry friend

# Roll on winter.

# Roll in upon the breeze

# Roll in upon the howling gales

# Shake leaves from all the trees

# Roll on the winter

# But on she went my one true love

# Beneath the frost and rain

# For we'll defy the cold and wind

# To tell tales of summer days

# Roll on winter

# Roll in upon the breeze

# Roll in upon the howling gales

# Shake the leaves from off the trees

# Roll on winter

We don't aim to be playing in any specific genre,

when we are writing it is just what takes us at the time,

we try not to be restricted to any kind of thing,

you know?

We are influenced by so many things and if we feel a certain

thing at the time we will take it and go with it.

# I remember summer breeze, the rain upon your face

# We danced among the hazy green

# Now's the time to sleep, my love, and dream of summer days

# The summertime is over

# She's sleeping once again

# Now is the time to sleep, my love, the flowers bloom again

# Noo's the time to sleep, my love, till the flowers bloom again

# Noo's the time tae sleep, my love, till the flowers bloom again

# Roll on winter...

# Now we went down to the garden

# Beneath the olive trees

# The bells were ringing The rooster crows

# The men were standing all around

# Other men are laying on the ground

# And I am standing by myself I just let them to sleep awhile

# Just let them sleep awhile

# You know you wake up one morning

# And you're someone else

# You're on your own There is no miracle

# So you cry to the God who leaves

# you there

# To the branch and the bird and the empty air

# To the God of why can't we turn back around

# You say I've been true, oh I

# Been true to you

# You leave me here

# I call for you

# I reach and you turn

# All I want is your hand

# You turn away from me

# I been true

When I lost my parents I started looking into the family tree

which is a fascinating thing in itself and I started my mother's

side and I found all these old photographs and letters from way

back in the war and prewar and it opened up a complete new story to me

about my mother's life which I had not even realised.

I was working on a solo album that was going to be the mix

of contemporary and Gaelic but I decided I wanted it to be

a totally Gaelic album and about that story.

It inspired me through that story.

SHE SINGS IN GAELIC

APPLAUSE

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