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The Wailin' Jennys — Long Time Traveller
Album: Firecracker
Avg rating:
7.6

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Total ratings: 2870









Released: 2006
Length: 2:04
Plays (last 30 days): 2
These fleeting charms of earth
Farewell, your springs of joy are dry
My soul now seeks another home
A brighter world on high

I'm a long time travelling here below
I'm a long time travelling away from home
I'm a long time travelling here below
To lay this body down

Farewell kind friends whose tender care
Has long engaged my love
Your fond embrace I now exchange
For better friends above

I'm a long time travelling here below
I'm a long time travelling away from home
I'm a long time travelling here below
To lay this body down...
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 ziggytrix wrote:

Good grief these gals are great!


Gosh, they're grand and glorious!   ; )
Beautifully sung…
So beautiful
Oh my, that's just so fine.
Is it just me or are they pausing at random lengths between the verses? 
Love the great stories... In music
I love this! It makes my ears smile.
 hellsgardener wrote:



 And I'm here from the future to tell you that The Wailin' Jennys are STILL followed by Queen with "Somebody to Love"   Hail Bill!!

Nice - today while listening to My Favorites, this tune was followed up with Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" - another great combo even if the My Fav is a random play of my 8+ rated songs.  

Long Live RP and BillG's segue-craft in all the mixes provided, intentional or not!
There was a lovely a cappella quartet called Vida that put out a couple of albums in the mid/late-90's, performing mostly rearranged versions of Eastern European folk songs. I need to upload some tracks to YouTube or wherever, then post them here for consideration. (Trying to search for videos for them is damn near impossible with such a simple band name.)
God I love the Wailin' Jenny's. Even a sad song like this puts a smile on my face, their voices are so lovely.
so amazingly fun to sing along with, and if my voice just will never be Ruth Moody's, I love singing with Annabelle Chvostek and Nicky Mehta (more my range). The music is joyful!
Good grief these gals are great!
 lizardking wrote:

7 to 8 today, and followed by Queen's "Somebody to Love" was a song choice of BillG caliber....top notch...Long Live RP!!




 And I'm here from the future to tell you that The Wailin' Jennys are STILL followed by Queen with "Somebody to Love"   Hail Bill!!
Ten every harmonic one oh
My little brush with fame, such as it is for a band like the Jenny's. I knew Cara in the early 90's when she was friends with friends. Got to help her set up and sound check at another friends wedding mid 2000's in Vernon, B.C. after I'd moved back home from Ontario. Always loved her voice and doing the soundcheck at the wedding was a wonderful little look into how a voice can mature as a person does. Always loved their sound.
 a_geek wrote:
Great funeral song if you were a Christian.
 
I'm pretty sure that's not a prerequisite.
c.

We played a Wailin' Jennys song at our wedding and looks like we'll be playing this for my mom's funeral. Been struggling to find the right tunes.
 
ProjectGemini07 wrote:
Would depend on the person of course, but for some people, this would be a marvelous song to play at their funeral.
 

Great funeral song if you were a Christian.
Songbird Central
Wow !
Amazing harmonies!
 trekker308 wrote:

It is ... and we just have.
 
This one and the song "The Parting Glass" have been played at my father's and brothers' funerals and will be played at mine.

 javelipix wrote:
As much as I like them, this is boring and repetitive music. Same feel, same band: Arlington, Glory Bound.
 
Well duh - it's their genre.  Same way punk is all similar.
First time for me - just made me stop in my tracks
Harmonies anyone?
7 to 8 today, and followed by Queen's "Somebody to Love" was a song choice of BillG caliber....top notch...Long Live RP!!
 ProjectGemini07 wrote:
Would depend on the person of course, but for some people, this would be a marvelous song to play at their funeral.
 
It is ... and we just have.
sublime...
As much as I like them, this is boring and repetitive music. Same feel, same band: Arlington, Glory Bound.
And on top of that, they are cute.
 SeriousLee wrote:
Mark Knopfler - Privateering to this. Great segue.

 
Genius.  Time to contribute.
Sonbirds 
Mark Knopfler - Privateering to this. Great segue.
Saw these gals in a small theater that only seats about 100 people a few years ago...one of the best shows I've ever seen.  Not only are their voices amazing they have such great personalities as well.  
Sublime. 
 Jeff09 wrote:
The first song on the playlist for my wake.

 
Its in my playlist as well. though have Lonesome Sisters "When the Angels Call My Name" in the numero uno spot
The first song on the playlist for my wake.
 norbertZ wrote:
9
 
Agreed. I hadn't rated it but it is a solid 9. Beautiful.
9
8===>9
I had the pleasure of seeing them at the Kate Wolfe Music Festival this year. They are a fine group of musicians and performers; I'm glad to hear them often on RP.
8 -> 10.

I love being married to a second alto; we blend well. There is something to be said for female baritones.
 rdo wrote:
So I finally just checked them on Wiki.  None of them are named Jenny.  LOL
 
Interestingly, none of them were wailin' either.  Very sweet and soulful.
Sweet. I'd heard of the Wailin'Jennys but hadn't taken the time to check 'em out.
Thanks for the intro.
Very pretty voices and arrangement. 
 mrtuba9 wrote:
Thanks, Bill.  I needed this this afternoon.

 
Ditto.
 
Thanks, Bill.  I needed this this afternoon.
Thanks RP to introducing me to the Jenny's.....had a chance to see them in concert in a tiny little venue about3 years ago......incredible voices...and quite funny as well
Sweet feminine calls!

thanks Bill!
I like this album, like this track, just not sure of if it should be on a radio playlist.
So I finally just checked them on Wiki.  None of them are named Jenny.  LOL
Sigh.  (Southern boy thinks about his childhood in the sun and woods ... and other things that are gone, never to return.)
The Corrs, yeah!! {#Bananapiano}
 xtalman wrote:
Had a friend pass away just yesterday.  Makes me think of him.

 
Energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed.
Sorry about your loss.
Heaven is a better place.


Had a friend pass away just yesterday.  Makes me think of him.
Bootiful!
Love the Wailin' Jennys

Tom Waits followed by Joni Mitchell followed by this. Can't catch a break.
This is the kind of song that's so good it's almost enough to make me hop off RP and listen to the entire album that it comes from.

(Almost.) 
No, they meant ''aural orgasm.''  Like what you get from aural sex.


Businessgypsy wrote:
You mean...eargasm?


 



Thank you, Canada, for more golden musical voices such as Leonard Cohen's. Remember that he said he ''was born with the gift of a golden voice.'' 
 zenhead wrote:
three brilliantly talented women. and darn nice, too. their lover performances are astonishing. never fail to bring a tear to my eye.

 
...their lover performances are astonishing.

Autofill problems again?

Hee, hee.

This is quite nice.  
Chills up and down my spine.
three brilliantly talented women. and darn nice, too. their lover performances are astonishing. never fail to bring a tear to my eye.
Wow
 Sloggydog wrote:
Love it.  "Didn't leave nobody but the baby" anybody?
 
We thought you was a toad.
 ProjectGemini07 wrote:
Would depend on the person of course, but for some people, this would be a marvelous song to play at their funeral.
 

My family is from the mountains of Southwestern VA and North Carolina and I grew up with Blue Grass, Folk, Mountain Music, etc.

My parents dragged me to many a Blue Grass Festival in the '60s and '70s when I was a young, impressionable lad.

Mom just passed away and I plan on using this wonderful song at her service. 
Thanks to RP I bought the Jennys' first disc. Now I'm about to buy this one too.
Heard this beauty last night, bought the CD this morning. Thanks, RP!
Would depend on the person of course, but for some people, this would be a marvelous song to play at their funeral.
Wonderful!
Love it.  "Didn't leave nobody but the baby" anybody?
Sublime...I can feel my insides humming over the three-part harmonies.  The other members of my house thought it was the Alison/Emylou/Gillian a cappella song from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou", a flattering mistake if ever there was.
No instrument like the human voice in perfect tune. {#Meditate}
This time it followed Ripple, a song about the existential road, just like that of the Long Time Taveller (sic).
Love it.
Now I get the thread here: Willie & Lobo followed by The Wailin' Jennys—two acts that came together serendipitously as a result of some random guy (a Canadian guitar shop owner in the Jennys' case, and a Mexican bar owner in W&L's) hearing them and suggesting they perform together as a group. (In the Jennys case, the guitar shop, Sled Dog Music, owner named them, as well.) Thank you, Wikipedia; got my donation's worth again! :-)
I get goosebumps when this song begins. Amazing.
 johnjconn wrote:
Lifts my spirits on a day that needs it.
Love the Jennys
 
I agree! Harmonies are uplifting.      {#Clap}
Kinda repetitive right?  Just kidding, I LOVE this tune... they could sing the phone book for me and I would listen all the way through.
Heard them sing this in both hemishperes, the only difference was  the direction the speakers swirled. So good both times.
Sublime artistry. Truly.
Or ''auralgasm''?

 
Businessgypsy wrote:
You mean...eargasm?

 


 MojoJojo wrote:

It just occurred to me that "Wailin' Jennys" could be construed as a play on "Waylon Jennings".  Am I simply "late to the party", or am I finding humor where it wasn't intended. 



 
The continuing rant on another of their songs.  https://www.radioparadise.com/?name=songinfo&song_id=42323

I for won love the pun.
 Netto wrote:

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This song made me realize the true criterion for ratings is related to how quickly I rush to crank up the volume.
Wailin' is right. Lovely as it is, I could only take this in small doses. The pitches have a "nails on chalkboard" for me after a while. 
 
So Pretty,  Thank you Bill! 
A cappella nirvana. 
Winsome.
Excellent transition from Dead Reckoners - Rocky Road to this!
 coccyx wrote:

Ruth Moody no longer needs to be compared to other singers...Rather, she deserves her place in the 2nd half of those statements!

 
You have to see them live. Not to pick favorites, but Ruth Moody could raise goosebumps on the angels on the head of the pin.

Love this!
 ziakut wrote:
Auditory orgasm...nuff said.
 You mean...eargasm?

 spacemoose wrote:

Alternatively you could re-normalize your ratings.  Otherwise we're just going to have to keep upping the damned max rating every month or two.

 

You must not get the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven


 jamesat43 wrote:
This rating thing needs to go to 11.
 
Alternatively you could re-normalize your ratings.  Otherwise we're just going to have to keep upping the damned max rating every month or two.

Sublime.
 CoYoT51 wrote:
I always loved this kind of voice, the highest one, soprano...
Like Alison Krauss or another singer... I just can't remember her name...

 
Ruth Moody no longer needs to be compared to other singers...Rather, she deserves her place in the 2nd half of those statements!

 MojoJojo wrote:

It just occurred to me that "Wailin' Jennys" could be construed as a play on "Waylon Jennings".  Am I simply "late to the party", or am I finding humor where it wasn't intended. 



 
better late than never, I guess...

This just gets better and better the more I hear it.  I loves me my Jennys.
This song is goose-bump inducing.  Throw in some Alison Krauss, and I'm not sure I could take it.   Beautiful!
We lurves the Jennies! Great in person too.

 ziakut wrote:
Auditory orgasm...nuff said.

 

Sounds like a good name for a band.

8 → 9


 MojoJojo wrote:

It just occurred to me that "Wailin' Jennys" could be construed as a play on "Waylon Jennings".  Am I simply "late to the party", or am I finding humor where it wasn't intended. 



 

You're late.
Rec'd this CD for Christmas  couple of years back. At first listen, oh hum, sounded a little too poppy for my tastes. But over the years, the CD has continued to grow on me, this song one of many fine tunes. Now a favorite. 

It just occurred to me that "Wailin' Jennys" could be construed as a play on "Waylon Jennings".  Am I simply "late to the party", or am I finding humor where it wasn't intended. 



Auditory orgasm...nuff said.


I think this piece is proof that a song does not need to be complex to be beautiful.  The structure is about as straight-forward as you can get, the harmonies are beautiful but not particularly unique, and yet you take the whole together and it is somehow profound.

I don't understand words, but these voices are very close to me. With pleasure has voted.


This rating thing needs to go to 11.
This song is so good for the soul. 
 johnjconn wrote:
God Bless the Jennys
 
Yes!

 ladron wrote:
Simply beautiful.
 
Simply perfect.  Totally agree. {#Meditate}
I am such a sucker for harmony... *happy sigh*
Simply beautiful.
Givin' me chills.....LOVE the harmony.  Wonderful.