Filk song: "Cameron of Ardroy's Last Goodnight"

[luzula]

[Podfic] Cameron of Ardroy's Last Goodnight by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Filk, Ballads
Summary: A reworking of the traditional ballad 'Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight', about Ewen's departure from Scotland and his farewell to Keith.

Here is me singing Regshoe's excellent filk song! The melody is mostly from June Tabor's version of the ballad, with some variations from Janet Russell's version. Isn't it a lovely and haunting melody?

Comments

[regshoe]

:D Delighted to see this! Yes, it is a very lovely tune.

[luzula]

I'd been planning to record this forever, but only now sat down and learned the tune properly, and decided on how to merge the two versions...

Multimedia Queen!

[jesse_the_k]

You're so multitalented! Fic, podfic, bookbinding, music!

While I also love June Tabor's version, Fyre and Sword: Songs of the Border Reivers has lots of other relevant tunes. (Maybe? I'm reading Mainly Norfolk's analysis and understanding why Broster supports very deep dives.)

Re: Multimedia Queen!

[luzula]

Awww, thanks!

And yes, so many interesting ballads...the Mainly Norfolk site is always a treasuretrove of information.

[feroxargentea]

(I noticed the remixrevival pinch hits have one that includes Flight of the Heron - https://remixrevival.dreamwidth.org/28472.html - pinch hit #17 - https://archiveofourown.org/users/fawatson. The link to the actual fic is https://archiveofourown.org/works/2789615. I doubt you'll want to write a remix in three days, but just in case!)

[luzula]

Thanks for the link! You're quite right that I'm not going to write a remix in five days. But I do have a fic idea that (among many other elements) includes Keith being captured in Edinburgh, as in that fic, so that's sort of a future remix of it, I guess? : )