{"id":182,"date":"2019-12-29T23:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=182"},"modified":"2020-04-25T23:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:27:33","slug":"archie-marry-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/archie-marry-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cArchie, Marry Me\u201d \u2013 Alvvays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me (Live on KEXP)\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TguNuNicPc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/WRjcxnqwjpmZwymGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cape Breton Island<\/a> is in the northeast of Nova Scotia. Waves of Scottish immigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries created a distinct regional form of Gaelic music on the island that still thrives today, in part due to the Rankins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rankins come from Cape Breton\u2019s small coastal community of Mabou. Five Rankin siblings achieved massive success recording as The Rankin Family in the \u201890s, leading what became a global wave of interest in traditional Celtic folk music. Their second LP <em>Fare Thee Well Love<\/em> was a legitimate phenomenon, certified 5x Platinum and winning the Rankin Family Juno Awards over Canadian icons like Celine Dion, Neil Young and The Tragically Hip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the whole family was musically gifted (there were actually 12 Rankin children total), John Morris Rankin stood out as an icon in traditional Celtic fiddling. In a 1972 documentary called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BUaZuV8Vg2E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler<\/a>, a young John Morris helped draw attention to what was seen as a dying art before the mass resurgence that would make the Rankin Family stars years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999, the Rankin Family announced they were going on hiatus. Just a few months later, John Morris\u2019s truck swerved off a cliff into the Gulf of St. Lawrence while he was driving his teenage son to a hockey game, and he died at the age of 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly Rankin is the lead singer and guitarist of indie pop band Alvvays, and the daughter of John Morris Rankin. Only 12 when her father died, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/musicblog\/2017\/oct\/03\/alvvays-molly-rankin-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Molly told The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cAt the time of his passing I was really growing as a fiddle player, and afterwards there was this sign of life through me and through my playing that everyone noticed\u2026 But it was also a lot for me. I felt like I wasn\u2019t at the stage where I had my own style; I was just trying to retrace his steps, and that became fairly exhausting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, Molly and fellow Cape Bretoner Kerri MacLellan would join with three other young musicians from similarly remote Prince Edward Island and form Alvvays. Molly doesn\u2019t play fiddle in Alvvays, but she does write traditional Scottish music in a sense, if Teenage Fanclub is your idea of traditional.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Alvvays\u2019s shiny indie pop is sonically comparable to other current acts like Best Coast and Cults, Alvvays have quickly proven to be their generation\u2019s preeminent Big Star legacy torchbearers with tracks like \u201cArchie, Marry Me.\u201d This is the kind of song I wish I could write, seemingly so simple and yet achieving that rarest form of power pop perfection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Alvvays is obviously not a folk act, there\u2019s an undeniable Celtic quality to Rankin\u2019s crystalline soprano that lends a certain magic to their sound. Beyond that, I believe the jangle pop I\u2019ve always been drawn to originated in the unmistakably American marriage of blues and Celtic folk. Look up the 1937 Lead Belly song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G5XBDZtYVQg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If It Wasn\u2019t for Dicky<\/a>,\u201d which was his take on an Irish lament for a dead cow. It\u2019s basically R.E.M., half a century earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So maybe Molly Rankin just fronts a particularly great indie pop band. Or, maybe what she\u2019s doing is closer in spirit to her father\u2019s legacy than it would appear at first. I personally think she\u2019s helping to keep an important branch of that musical legacy alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Breton Island is in the northeast of Nova Scotia. Waves of Scottish immigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries created a distinct regional form of Gaelic music on the island that still thrives today, in part due to the Rankins. The Rankins come from Cape Breton\u2019s small coastal community of Mabou. 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