‘Terry (Pratchett) has listened to our music from way back,’ said Maddy Prior. ‘He was introduced to Boys of Bedlam as a young man and when you read his books you recognise references to our work. He quotes lines from our songs and you sort of recognise them. So he uses ‘you love not where you live‘ which is a song that we do… But he also knows a lot of other material.’ – Maddy Prior, from The Glamour Cave Blog (follow this link for more good info)
The fate of two people can’t matter at all
Just a waltz in three quarter time
— June Tabor, from “The Dancing”
wiki:
Madeleine “Maddy” Edith Prior MBE (b. 8/14/47) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.
June Tabor (b. 12/31/47 in Warwick, England) is an English folk singer known for her solo work and her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with Oysterband.
Prior and Tabor met at Oxford in the 1960s. At first, they performed together under their own names. They released their first album, Silly Sisters, in 1976, and later took this name as the name of their duo. They toured together in the 1980s, and released a subsequent album No More to the Dance in 1988, on the Shanachie Records label. “The Silly Sisters was conceived as a one-off project,” Tabor explained in 1990. “We said, let’s see if we can still sing together, and we could.” A Chicago Tribune review of this second album called it “nearly flawless”, “elegantly understated” and “brazenly witty.”
In 2009 the song Hedger and Ditcher from No More to the Dance was included in the Topic Records 70th anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten, as track 17 on the seventh CD.
Steeleye Span official website
Oysterband’s official website
Tao-Talk 
two of my fave singers/musos. you name the bands I love.
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Doing WMM is always a treasure hunt. Glad I found these two. Had heard of Pentangle before but not the other group.
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I’ve heard of Steeleye Span but not the other…their voices totally go together really well. Nice post Lisa…it’s almost a flavor of a medival mood.
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Yes, exactly, on the flavor.
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I can’t resist this music in any of its iterations. (K)
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I hear you, Kerfe. It twangs on ancient, resonant strings.
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It does indeed.
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I second Max here. While Steeleye Span rang a bell, I had not heard of Silly Sisters. Their vocals do go very well together!
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Yes, they do!
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I have that album, it’s pretty fun. I like Steeleye Span too, but don’t really know Tabor’s stuff.
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Very cool, Graham. They look and sound like they were having fun.
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Wow, the Steeleye Span and Oysterband videos both struck me as familiar though only vaguely so, but yeah… I love the sound the two women made once they co-created, and had not heard of that pairing before. There’s such creative versatility.
The link to “Hedger and Ditcher” was unavailable for my location, but I found a working one elsewhere on YouTube… the two look like they’re having a great time in the photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3HoLSvtN7I
You’re on a roll for WMM 2025, Li!
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Like Max said, they have a kind of medieval folk flavor to them. Thanks for that link, Steve, in case others have trouble opening it.
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Yes, I’d agree with Max’s assessment, and you’re welcome.
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