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  1. Yes, @uathachas, that's the sort of spirit that #PercyFrench's music needs.

    For some reason I can't warm to the #MaryWallopers. But they have done a heroic job in stripping away a century of sticky sugar off of Percy's songs.

    youtu.be/UnOgrh-U81w

  2. Yes, @uathachas, that's the sort of spirit that #PercyFrench's music needs.

    For some reason I can't warm to the #MaryWallopers. But they have done a heroic job in stripping away a century of sticky sugar off of Percy's songs.

    youtu.be/UnOgrh-U81w

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    #PercyFrench was aways a bit too tame for more defiant stars of the Irish folk revival such as #TheDubliners. He was a bit off-brand for the likes of #TommyMakem and #LiamClancy.

    But to me, Percy French still awaits the arrival of some loudly passionate and irreverent scruffs who can give his words some welly. #Shane and #Sinead would both have known what to do with this material, but it's too late to ask them why they didn't use it.

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    #PercyFrench was aways a bit too tame for more defiant stars of the Irish folk revival such as #TheDubliners. He was a bit off-brand for the likes of #TommyMakem and #LiamClancy.

    But to me, Percy French still awaits the arrival of some loudly passionate and irreverent scruffs who can give his words some welly. #Shane and #Sinead would both have known what to do with this material, but it's too late to ask them why they didn't use it.

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    #PercyFrench was aways a bit too tame for more defiant stars of the Irish folk revival such as #TheDubliners. He was a bit off-brand for the likes of #TommyMakem and #LiamClancy.

    But to me, Percy French still awaits the arrival of some loudly passionate and irreverent scruffs who can give his words some welly. #Shane and #Sinead would both have known what to do with this material, but it's too late to ask them why they didn't use it.

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    #PercyFrench was aways a bit too tame for more defiant stars of the Irish folk revival such as #TheDubliners. He was a bit off-brand for the likes of #TommyMakem and #LiamClancy.

    But to me, Percy French still awaits the arrival of some loudly passionate and irreverent scruffs who can give his words some welly. #Shane and #Sinead would both have known what to do with this material, but it's too late to ask them why they didn't use it.

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    #PercyFrench was aways a bit too tame for more defiant stars of the Irish folk revival such as #TheDubliners. He was a bit off-brand for the likes of #TommyMakem and #LiamClancy.

    But to me, Percy French still awaits the arrival of some loudly passionate and irreverent scruffs who can give his words some welly. #Shane and #Sinead would both have known what to do with this material, but it's too late to ask them why they didn't use it.

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    O'Dowda kept #PercyFrench's music alive, but nearly smothered it in saccharine. French's audience was never respectable. It was raucous and rowdy, and there is a hint of punk spirit to French.

    I see echoes of French in the great Scottish musician #HamishImlach, whose work in the 1960s and 1970s was similarly multilayered.

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    O'Dowda kept #PercyFrench's music alive, but nearly smothered it in saccharine. French's audience was never respectable. It was raucous and rowdy, and there is a hint of punk spirit to French.

    I see echoes of French in the great Scottish musician #HamishImlach, whose work in the 1960s and 1970s was similarly multilayered.

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  10. THREAD: Last year, my train of thought chugged slowly down a branchline to my favourite song: #PercyFrench's "Slattery's Mounted Foot" (SMF), written in 1889.

    This song is a multi-layered gem from French's short but productive period as a civil engineer in County #Cavan.

    (I mean musically productive. I do not doubt the heroism of French's engineering achievements as an Inspector of Drains, but his drainage works are not widely celebrated.)

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  11. THREAD: Last year, my train of thought chugged slowly down a branchline to my favourite song: #PercyFrench's "Slattery's Mounted Foot" (SMF), written in 1889.

    This song is a multi-layered gem from French's short but productive period as a civil engineer in County #Cavan.

    (I mean musically productive. I do not doubt the heroism of French's engineering achievements as an Inspector of Drains, but his drainage works are not widely celebrated.)

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  12. THREAD: Last year, my train of thought chugged slowly down a branchline to my favourite song: #PercyFrench's "Slattery's Mounted Foot" (SMF), written in 1889.

    This song is a multi-layered gem from French's short but productive period as a civil engineer in County #Cavan.

    (I mean musically productive. I do not doubt the heroism of French's engineering achievements as an Inspector of Drains, but his drainage works are not widely celebrated.)

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  13. THREAD: Last year, my train of thought chugged slowly down a branchline to my favourite song: #PercyFrench's "Slattery's Mounted Foot" (SMF), written in 1889.

    This song is a multi-layered gem from French's short but productive period as a civil engineer in County #Cavan.

    (I mean musically productive. I do not doubt the heroism of French's engineering achievements as an Inspector of Drains, but his drainage works are not widely celebrated.)

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  14. THREAD: Last year, my train of thought chugged slowly down a branchline to my favourite song: #PercyFrench's "Slattery's Mounted Foot" (SMF), written in 1889.

    This song is a multi-layered gem from French's short but productive period as a civil engineer in County #Cavan.

    (I mean musically productive. I do not doubt the heroism of French's engineering achievements as an Inspector of Drains, but his drainage works are not widely celebrated.)

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