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Death and Afterlife Songs | Forgotten Melodies #13
In this final episode of our 13-part exploration of folk music history we are concluding with Death and Afterlife Songs!
We welcome our musical collaborators for the series Ben and Katie to join us for this bumper-length episode, which includes a conversation at the end in which we reflect on the journey we have been on together over the last 15 months.
As for the songs, we begin with Death and the Lady, a song that feels like it ought to have Medieval roots and which seems inspired by the Black Death, yet which is only recorded for the first time in the 18th century.
Next, we sing and…
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