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Brass Band Music

[Leon Rosselson]

Martin Carthy sang Brass Band Music on his and Dave Swarbrick's 1968 album, But Two Came By. He said in the album's sleeve notes:

Money, and the failure of people to handle it is the subject of Leon Rosselson's song Brass Band Music. It was inspired by the Louis MacNeice poem Bagpipe Music.

Leon Rosselson recorded it himself with very slightly changed words for his albums Songs for Sceptical Circles (1966), Palaces of Gold (1975), and Turning Silence into Song (2004). On the latter, he and Martin Carthy played guitar, and his album sleeve notes said:

Louis MacNeice's poem Bagpipe Music was obviously the model for this song, written very early in my songwriting “career” when the words flowed more easily and technical control was less in evidence. Rachel Carson's book The Silent Spring had not long been published and environmental concerns were starting to emerge.

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