From Transatlantic Sessions series 2 (1998) guitar & harmonies : Boo Hewerdine mandolin: Russ Barenberg fiddles: Aly Bain & Breda Smyth percusion: Tommy Hayes
This is a song I can never listen to without tears in my eyes. I've seen Boo a number of times and he is a very underrated musician and song-writer; Eddi I have never seen, but she has a beautiful, clear voice, and she has sung Boo's songs on other occasions. I'm a performer myself, and I've done this song a few times, and I still get a catch in my throat. It really is pure magic, no other description for it. Another comment said that it's 'achingly beautiful', and I can't add to that.
Boo Hewerdine wrote and released this in 2000, in regard to the lyrics ... Then I would have been making those "footsteps" now I'm the person hearing them!.
Eddi is probably my favourite female singer and this is probably my favourite song by her. On her own she is brilliant but I think her best work is with Boo.
If you've lived then it would be impossible not to relate to this song. However much we might love somebody we never own them, we should never try too, and of course whatever promises might be made we must accept few things last for ever. What I like about this song is there's no bitterness, it's just the heartfelt tale of somebody who finds themselves alone, and how those little things we see and hear remind us of what we had and what we miss. And Eddi's voice adds to the magic.
Haunting and memorable. Found it first on Transatlantic Sessions 2 (which took ages to appear on DVD!) See also her duo with Radney Foster from same DVD. Jerry Dobro Douglas? Incomparable! Boo too!
Love it love it love it Footsteps Fall and Dragonflies are two of the greatest songs she has ever sung....and there are many more!!!! Beautiful voice ♥♥♥
Good news for all fans is the release of the DVD "Transatlantic Sessions: Series 3" bringing together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland to perform what has been called "the greatest backporch shows ever". All of the six half-hour programmes from the BBC/RTÉ TV series are included, recorded in a beautiful old converted farm steading in the Perthshire Highlands.
Oh Hexcane.... I love this song too... and your comments made me want to reply to you. I'm sure you're a good person, because the music touches you. If you were the complete, barsteward you claim to be, music would not touch your soul. And how lucky you have people to love you. It take a certain strength to to admit you've not got it right all the time either. Snap! Happy listening x
...and then back through...the door that only seemed to open so widely for her.....now she's back full grown.....and no Silence....only summer twitterings....:-)))
I first heard Boo = Mark Nicholas Hewredine sing this by himself In a small venue/bar in Liverpool in the summer of 2000 ... its the hole song that takes my memory to the things back then, I don't mean the lyrics although they would be apt for me now.
I was looking for chords for Boo's "Muddy Water" searched youtube and a list appeared with Boo and Eddi's songs, for some reason there was a video of Cheryl Cole singing some rubbish at the top of the list showing No of hits 486,000 Vs Boo and Eddi's 25,729 for Footstep Falls. Oh the ignorance of the masses!!!!!!!!!! I dispare sometimes...
