A more animated Tangleweed, part III
Mr. Billy Oh
Paul and the Suitbass
Our friend Mindy Fisher is working on a short animated film set to our version of The Fox, from our forthcoming fourth CD, Please Punch Richard for Me. Pictured are our own Paul Wargaski and Billy Oh. Paul is playing a cartoon version of his homemade suitbass.
The Fox is an interesting piece. Though it’s been widely recorded since the postwar folk revival, it has roots that run quite a bit deeper. There is a 15th-century manuscript in the British Museum with an early version of the lyrics. There’s an article Paul ran across from the Journal of American Folklore with some excerpts from the old text:
It fell ageyns the next nyght
the fox yede to with all his myghte,
with-outen cole or candelight,
whan that he cam vnto the toowne
You can follow the development of Mindy’s animation on her blog: Ornaglyphology.
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