Songs »Matty Groves

matty groves fairport convention“Yes, I have to beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse” – if that's the kind of lyrics you like in your rock, this household favorite will soon be your favorite too.

Here's what I said then (Jan 2 – 8):

Have you ever wondered what a Seventeenth Century English ballad about a Lord's wife's adulterous affair sung by a maiden given the voice of an angel-fairy-queen with a long rocking renaissance jam at the end would sound like? Wonder no more, because here it is.


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Posted on November 6, 2006

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