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Musician: Johnny Adams
Location: Halifax, W.Yorks
Instruments: vocals / fiddle
Music: English folk / Irish folk
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 听听Listen (3'10) 'She Wants a Fellow' & 'Thomas Birkett's Jig' 9, performed by Johnny Adams along with fellow-fiddlers, Chris Partington and Paul Roberts.
A favourite song:
There are so many good tunes, so little time! It's almost as impossible as trying to pick your Desert Island Discs to have to pick just one but there's one tune that's fascinated me over the years. In Cromwellian times, John Playford published it as 'The Buff Coat Hath No Fellow'. Fifty years later in 1695, one Henry Atkinson was still playing it in Morpeth, Northumberland (it's in his music book in the museum). A hundred years after that, James Lishman was playing it in the Lake District, except he called it 'She Wants A Fellow' which just goes to show, even in history, sex eventually comes into everything.
It's a simple unadorned sound that we learned from old guys who'd play for village dances with just one or two fiddles. We sometimes do dances with the three fiddles and a cello, which was a popular combination in the 19th Century.
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