New from Budwick Music
morosongs
tales in the voice of the troubadour
Available in the moromusic store
Chronicles abound of the troubadours who wandered Europe
in the middle ages. These wandering minstrels brought
news with them from place to place, often in the form of
lyrical poems, because they sang as well as played their
instruments to gain their bread and board. Some of that old
news still exists today in the form of the classical ballad. Are
they true stories? A few do have traceable histories, though
most were passed down only verbally—so perhaps yes,
perhaps no, perhaps partly true and partly embellished for
the sake of art. That art, like the ballads themselves, still
exists; and although the troubadour of lore is not so common
now as he was in the middle ages, he still exists as well, and
lives to share his tales through song.
Moro's songs in this collection are tales
as told by a modern
troubadour. Listening to them, we can find bits and pieces of
ourselves, as if somehow the minstrel knows our thoughts,
those secret places in the heart where the real person truly
lives. Human nature, after all, has hardly changed since the
earliest days of the first troubadour.
Listen to a few songs... just click and enjoy!
REVIEWMoro, "Morosongs" |
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| Morosongs is very different from my other CDs,
for it's entirely comprised of vocalized folksongs, while my other
CDs are guitar solos. For decades, since leaving the New Christy
Minstrels, I've been solely a composer/guitarist. But I've
continued to enjoy writing and singing folksongs in private. Over
the years, I accumulated quite a few self-penned songs in the
cupboard and sent some to Burl Ives who recorded three of
them. When he asked if I would write him a song just for an
upcoming concert at the National Boy Scout Jamboree, I wrote
Leafscout, and he performed it during his concert though he never
recorded it. Twice Burl and I sat up all night, just the two of us -- passing his guitar back and forth, playing and singing songs for each other. He often encouraged me to record my songs, and I quietly affirmed, just to myself, that I would certainly do that one day if only for him. Finally I've gotten around to making that album (Morosongs), even if it's too late for Burl to see and hear it.
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