The first three songs on Ken Theriot’s album, Human History, are all about The Battle of Agincourt. It was not necessarily intentional. It’s just that Ken has had a fascination with Agincourt for years, and the first songs written (lyrics by Lisa Theriot and music by Ken Theriot) for the album were those three. And […]
Oral Tradition Pulp Fiction– “The Ballad of Hind Horn”
Sure, there was no TV, and literacy was pretty thin on the ground, but the common folk of the late Middle Ages weren’t hurting for sensational entertainment. The songs that we’ve come to know as “traditional ballads” often had stories that would put the Syfy channel and the soaps to shame. They frequently preserved a […]