Bob Wood performs David Francey's "Broken Glass" live at Folk@thecornerHOUSE.
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@suegravesfolksinger Жыл бұрын
Wonderful version of a great song, with Bob on top form!
@iainbremner89092 ай бұрын
Nice. The chord sequence added to the opening made me think he was going to sing 'Pacing the Cage' by Bruce Cockburn!
@bobwood66592 ай бұрын
Hi Iain … well spotted😀. John Mannel at the CornerHOUSE was good enough to draw my attention to your comment above. Here, if of any passing interest, is some brief explanation and background. I kinda like to bookend songs with a bit of a guitar intro and outro. As in my spoken intro, Broken Glass is a song composed by David Francey, a friend - who originally, like me, hails from Ayrshire but who, unlike me, lives in Canada. David’s own intro to the song explains that one trigger for writing it came at a time when his then teenaged and pure Canadian daughter was starting to date boys. I’ve always been a great admirer of the equally quintessential Canadian, Bruce Cockburn - with that half-baked thought sparking the idea of using the Pacing the Cage as my bookends to Broken Glass. When David was last on tour in the UK - and before I’d played Broken Glass anywhere in public - he happened to be staying over with us for a couple of nights. Having already recorded another of his songs in the past, I mentioned that, provided he’d no objections, I was minded to add Broken Glass to my repertoire, including my tenuous reason for employing the Pacing the Cage motif. Turned out David was no less of a fan of the estimable Mr Cockburn. He asked me play it and then to play it again, taking a video on the second time around, before graciously agreeing. You prob'ly didn’t need to know any of that .. but you might agree that background doesn’t offer an audience the greatest of song intros🤡. Many thanks for giving it a listen🤙. Bob