Tam Lin has cropped up in music, books and film over the last century: “The Ballad of Tam Lin”, Roddy MacDowall’s film of 1971, entwines the supernatural of ancient lore with the counterculture of the sixties
and his band of outlaws skulked around Sherwood Forest, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Less well known however, is Tam Lin, a fairy knight who roams the woods near the Scottish border. For centuries musicians have retold the story of Tam Lin through a ballad, a type oftune with no chorus that is traditionally sung a cappella. And, much like King Arthur and Robin Hood, Tam Lin has cropped up in music, books and film over the last century.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s the story featured in a new wave of popular culture in Britain. Fairport Convention, an English folk-rock band, recorded an electrifying arrangement of the song on “Liege and Lief”, their album of 1969. Anne Briggs, a folk musician, sang a spine-tingling rendition called “Young Tambling” in 1971.
Why did Tam Lin speak to artists of the era? The answer may lie in the historical-revival movement sweeping through Britain at the time. Musicians and film-makers were seeking inspiration from British lore. A folk music revival was under way. Rob Young, a writer, refers to the period as Old Weird Britain.
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