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They continue to perform today, most notably each Saint Patrick's Day at First Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band's name comes from these lyrics:\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a circle of stones they placed the pot,\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a circle of stones, but barely nine\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey heated it red and fiery hot\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey rolled him up in a sheet of lead\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sheet of lead for a funeral pall.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey plunged him in the cauldron red,\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelted him, lead and bones and all.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Skelf Hill the cauldron still\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men of Liddesdale can show\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd on the spot where they placed the pot\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grasses they will never grow.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Leyden's ballad of \"Lord Soulis\" as recounted in Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain, recorded by Boiled in Lead on their first album, Boiled in Lead, as \"The Man Who Was Boiled in Lead\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir first album contained primarily traditional music, much of it Celtic, as well as a cover of \"Over Under Sideways Down\" by The Yardbirds. With the addition of Robin \"Adnan\" Anders on drum set and percussion in 1986, the band's sound changed: not only did their repertoire include a wider variety of traditional music (African, Hungarian, Serbian, Egyptian, Swedish, Macedonian and Turkish for example) as well as original songs written by band members and even by Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple's mother, but the music came to draw stylistically from other sounds. (The band recognized this, their third album having a note on the back saying \"File Under: Celtodelic Rock 'n' Reel\".)\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Boiled+in+Lead","playStationPath":"/stations/269118487/play","stationId":269118487,"bioPath":"/music/Boiled+in+Lead/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Finbar+Eddie+Furey","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/9c7/9c79b2ffd63a1cc24c892205a5ef1d7f_md.jpg","artistName":"Finbar \u0026 Eddie Furey","artistId":129306,"station_id":284994207},{"musicPath":"/music/Danu","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/70f/70fc196f8f14ee704bb76a668d4a90a5_md.jpg","artistName":"Danú","artistId":80246,"station_id":267909106},{"musicPath":"/music/Seven+Nations","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/93d/93de9c12fb1bbc80fb061ec10849e2b7_md.jpg","artistName":"Seven Nations","artistId":76946,"station_id":266827052},{"musicPath":"/music/Cherish+the+Ladies","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7fd/7fd7041e4df1b834810c2e301bf6a517_md.jpg","artistName":"Cherish the Ladies","artistId":80229,"station_id":267839737},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Peelers","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/efa/efafc7e8f8dfffaf4b6397c7a3772662_md.jpg","artistName":"The Peelers","artistId":126286,"station_id":284348071},{"musicPath":"/music/Shooglenifty","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a5d/a5db75430e93b367f784c60e0dddef66_md.jpg","artistName":"Shooglenifty","artistId":13116,"station_id":114691850},{"musicPath":"/music/Tommy+Makem+Liam+Clancy","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/8ea/8eab4dbc9304881ece8517e0f32b3111_md.jpg","artistName":"Tommy Makem \u0026 Liam Clancy","artistId":2024,"station_id":302608257},{"musicPath":"/music/De+Dannan","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/71b/71b50a4fe7143da8a981cd3abe9d6c0f_md.jpg","artistName":"De Dannan","artistId":1486,"station_id":114555424},{"musicPath":"/music/The+House+Band","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7a6/7a65b846e0d0348bc1e1be0d1832bc95_md.jpg","artistName":"The House Band","artistId":76936,"station_id":266827559},{"musicPath":"/music/Culann+s+Hounds","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/cf5/cf5c1023905cc9684b896323ba983502_md.jpg","artistName":"Culann's Hounds","artistId":77060,"station_id":266826842},{"musicPath":"/music/Boys+of+the+Lough","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/f49/f49fa32c1d839881507f5b058c06e5a0_md.jpg","artistName":"Boys of the Lough","artistId":80317,"station_id":267958977},{"musicPath":"/music/Mick+Moloney","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/faf/faf78c6e091d5f54ebb82f93c18ec446_md.jpg","artistName":"Mick Moloney","artistId":7887,"station_id":118651046},{"musicPath":"/music/Gaia+Consort","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/358/358ebe34f6631fdbf1bc8889b7b4ab7c_md.jpg","artistName":"Gaia Consort","artistId":110655,"station_id":316215693},{"musicPath":"/music/Battlefield+Band","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/713/713b071230b614868109c7fd9acf1a03_md.jpg","artistName":"Battlefield Band","artistId":77066,"station_id":266796940},{"musicPath":"/music/Ad+Libitum","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/ae3/ae36cc42ae94f544963ff11fe1c65099_md.jpg","artistName":"Ad Libitum","artistId":143209,"station_id":400334944},{"musicPath":"/music/Old+Blind+Dogs","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7f4/7f49b37e5b539ce1a7cb842b28c643aa_md.jpg","artistName":"Old Blind Dogs","artistId":76949,"station_id":266799503},{"musicPath":"/music/Wolfstone","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/9b6/9b61ab3fa47ab2120bb223b0425096c4_md.jpg","artistName":"Wolfstone","artistId":101655,"station_id":280763807},{"musicPath":"/music/Kathryn+Tickell","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/134/13489f9ddb267c471038751e8d46a4fb_md.jpg","artistName":"Kathryn Tickell","artistId":80275,"station_id":267958949}]}