#barbara allen

[dreamilytwistedexile]

Barbara Allen

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol, Victor Hugo, Barbara Allen, Halston, Barry Landau, Andy Kuehn, and Jed Johnson at Studio 54 in New York City, 1977.

[sherbertilluminated]

Why does Willie always have to be sweet even when his behavior is to the contrary. Does anyone make folk songs about That Motherfucker William anymore

[tayciebaird]

‎“They grew and grew to the old church wall

‎And could not grow no higher

‎And there they died in a true love-knot

‎The rosebush and the briar”

‎ִ ࣪⋆˖⁺‧₊☽₊‧⁺˖⋆ִ ࣪

[davebowman4ever]

Dark of the Moon is just Romeo and Juliet but cooler because it's about a trans man who's also a witch falling in love with a girl.

[mahgnib]

Richard Dyer-Bennet was an English-born American-based folksinger - though he preferred the term “minstrel”, in the Medieval/historical sense of the word, definitely NOT the 19th-century racist-entertainment sense - who performed traditional English folk ballads in a very meticulous, “artsy” manner, which went out of fashion some seven decades or so ago. The three discs in this 78-RPM album were recorded for the Asch label, a forerunner of the highly influential Folkways Records (now owned by the Smithsonian). He recorded for Asch from the late 30’s well into the 40’s. In the 1950’s, he would go on to record numerous LP’s for his own Dyer-Bennet label, bucking every commercial trend of the day. You have to admire a man who believes that much in his unfashionable music. His very deliberate approach is an acquired taste, to be sure, but his records document an early period in the development of recorded folk music in the US.

[vexic929]

bnnuy

messy concept doodle for bunny Barbara <3333

[heavensbeehall]

Barbara Allen

I have been thinking about the Covey name poems and what they might say about the characters, particularly the girls because ew boys. I don’t know much I should read into it. Sometimes Suzanne’s allusions are quite detailed and sometimes it’s just ‘she is Lucy Gray because she is a mystery.’

But obviously a lot of people have noticed Barb Azure isn’t among the Covey graves. I’d like to believe that means she is alive. But it could also be the poem. Barbara Allen is buried with the man who loved her, in many versions of that poem. It’s also kind of interesting to me that Suzanne picked Barbara Allen but Barb Azure who is meeting with a girl in TBOSAS. Because in the poem, a man loves her and she like “er, okay” and it is only after he is dead that she regrets it? (Though one thing that is frustrating to me about that poem is that is seems to me, at least, that Barbara Allen doesn’t like him? And then after death they are “true love”?)

Weird that Barb Azure’s poem is the one about a grave and she doesn’t have one that we know of?

Maude Clare is a bit happier. She loved this dude, but decides to marry someone more “appropriate”, and she calls him out at the wedding and the new wife, Nell, has the task of making him love her more than Maude Clare. This makes me think of Burdock and Asterid, like if Asterid did marry Otho Mellark or someone from town even though she loved Burdock better. Or possibly if Katniss had married Gale out of a sense of duty.

I guess I say it’s happier because Maude Clare herself doesn’t die. She doesn’t marry the dude but fuck him, you know? I bet she’ll find someone else.

I wish we knew if Burdock’s mother was still alive in SOTR. I know Haymitch has that memory of making animals with Burdock’s Ma. But he also has memories of his own dad, who is dead.