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Ewan MacColl was one of the architects of the folksong revival. Whether as an interpreter of ancient ballads or as a writer of new songs, he influenced almost everyone involved in folk music in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. He brought the same skill and understanding to songs of Britain's industrial cities, ballads of Scots history and lyrics from the English countryside. His own compositions, many of which have passed into the common currency of folk music, are featured both on his own albums and on The Radio-Ballads.
Chorus From The Gallows, first released in 1960, opens with the tale of Craig and Derek Bentley and closes with "Go Down Ye Murderers," which relates the story of Timothy John Evans, convicted and executed for murders he did not commit, both true and awful stories from the annals of 20th century British justice. The repertoire ranges from the cattle-rusting border raiders of the Middle Ages and the 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin to MacColl's own compositions about controversial murder trials of the 1950s.
1Â Derek Bentley
2Â The Black Velvet Band
3Â Jamie Raeburn's Farewell
4Â Johnny O
5Â Hughie The Graeme
6Â Minorie
7Â The Treadmill Song
8Â Turpin Hero
9Â The Crafty Farmer
10Â McKaffery
11Â Jimmy Wilson
12Â The Lag's Song
13Â Van Dieman's Land
14Â Go Down Ye Murderers
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This was the first recording made by the New High Level Ranters. It sees the group changed by the departure of Alistair Anderson and Tom Gilfellon, wholeft to pursue their own ways in making their own kind of music. The two lads who replace them are Jim Hall and Peter Wood, who contribute their particular skills in playing and singing, thus continuing the Ranters' commitment to British folk music and especially the music of the North East of England.
The original members of the group are Colin Ross and Johnnie Handle, who are perhaps too well-known to merit description. Anyway, Colin plays the fiddle and pipes and Johnnie sings and plays the accordion. There was never any doubt in their minds that the group would carry on after Ali and Tom left, so it was only natural that Jim and Pete, fellow members of Folk Song and Ballad Club, Newcastle, be asked to come into the Ranters.
1 Fisherman's Friend / Black and Grey
2 Ca' Hawkie
3Â The Old Drove Road / Kennedy North
4Â Jim Jones
5Â The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
6Â John Peel
7Â Durham Regatta / Little Jenny
8Â The Snows They Melt the Soonest
9Â Yellow Haired Laddie / The Glen Coe March
10Â New Song of the Coal
11 Skipper's Wedding
12Â The Duke of Fife / Maggie Laudert
First published by Topic Records 1982
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The Wild Hills O'Wannie is a tremendous collection of some of the finest exponents of the Northumbrian Small Pipes – George Atkinson, Diana Blackett-Ord, Tommy Breckons, Colin Caisley, Forster Charlton, Joe Hutton and Billy Pigg.
The pipes have at various times been called seductive, wild, plaintive, lyrical, exciting, and sophisticated. These apparently contradictory descriptions result from the unusual versatility of the instrument as well as from differences in the tonal quality of individual sets of pipes. Thus, it is possible for each performer to develop his own characteristic style of playing and if you listen carefully to this record you will soon become able to identify the player from the sound of the first few notes of a tune.
1   The Morpeth Rant BILLY PIGG
2Â Â Â Skye Crofters/ The SwalIow's Tail BILLY PIGG
3Â Â Â Sir Sidney Smith's March TOMMY BRECKONS
4Â Â Â The Barrington Hornpipe GEORGE ATKINSON
5Â Â Â Blow the Wind Southerly DIANA BLACKETT-ORD
6Â Â Â Lovat Scouts / Roxburgh Castle / Bonny North Tyne / Alston Flower Show JOE HUTTON
7Â Â Â The Navvy on the Line / The Friendly Visit / Remember Me / Biddv the Bold Wife / Lamb Skinnet /
De 'il amang the Tailors GEORGE ATKINSON
8Â Â Â Londonderrv Hornpipe / Boys of the Blue Hills / Corn Rigs / Harvest Home DIANA BLACKETT-ORD
9Â Â Â The Blackthorn Stick / Biddv the Bold Wife JOE HUTTON
10Â Â The Holey Ha'penny BILLY PIGG
11Â Â The Humours of Bandon / Saddle the Pony JOE HUTTON
12Â Â Noble Squire Dacre COLIN CAISLEY & FORSTER CHARLTON (duet)
13Â Â Rowlev Burn Hornpipe JOE HUTTON
14  The Wild Hills o'Wannie BILLY PIGG
15Â Â Westering Home DIANA BLACKETT~ORD
16Â Â The Midlothian Pipe Band / Charlie Hunter JOE HUTTON
17Â Â The Lark in the Clear Air BILLY PIGG
18  Fenwick o' Bywell TOMMY BRECKONS
19  Variations on 'Oh dear, what can the matter be' GEORGE ATKINSON
20  The Gypsy's Lullaby / The Hawk / Memories / Coates Hall BILLY PIGG
21Â Â Salmon Tails up the Water / The Herd on the Hill / Sweet Hesleyside COLIN CAISLEY & FORSTER CHARLTON (duet)
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Traveller, horse-dealer and uilleann piper, Felix Doran was also a great-grandson of the famous 19th-century piper John Cash of Wexford. Carrying on the tradition of that extraordinarily influential musician, Doran played all over Ireland for many years.
1 Air: Mary of Murroe / Reel: The Green Gates
2 Air: The Dear Irish Boy / Reel: The Primrose Lass
3 Reel: Rakish Paddy
4 Air: Rolandstown Churchyard
5 Reel: The Ash Plant
6 Jig: The Lark in the Morning
7 The Fox Hunt
8 Reels: George White's Favourite / The Ivy Leaf
9 Air: The Coolin
10 Reel: Boys of the Lough
11 Reels: Pigeon on the Gate / Miss Monaghan
First published by Topic Records in 1976
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Len Graham of Antrim has been studying and performing the song tradition of Ireland, especially that of his native Ulster, for many years, and is well known and respected for both his scholarship and his singing. Wind and Water was his first solo recording.
"This is not a record of sea songs and shanties, so you may wonder why 'Wind and Water' for its title? It was wind and water that brought our ancestors to these shores, be they Celts, Norsemen, Normans or planters. It was also wind and water that propelled the missionaries, the 'Wild Geese' and the emigrants to foreign parts… These various comings and goings have left their mark
on the traditional songs of Ireland and, in particular, Ulster where forever history seems to stare one in the face. I hope the choice of songs on this record will in some way illustrate and reflect some of these influences." Len Graham
1 My Parents Reared me Tenderly
2 Maggie Picken
3 Séan Ó Duibhir a' Ghleanna
4 The County Mayo
5 The Star of Moville
6 The Green Fields of Amerikay
7 Western Winds
8 PaÃdÃn Ó Raibheartaigh
9 My Willie-O
10 Daniel O'Connell and his Steam Engine
11 The Rights of Man
12 One Morning in May
13 The Knight Templar's Dream
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John Kelly was born in the district of Rehy West, County Clare, and for over thirty years was a force in Irish music – he was a member of Seán Ó Riada's Ceoltóirà Cualainn, of the Castle Ceilidh Band, and of Ceoltóirà Laighean, and regular musician at respected Dublin sessions.
John's fiddling is in the relaxed Clare style and his concertina playing is spikier, with subtle variations of notes, the occasional harmonic effect, and again that off-beat emphasis.
John taught at the Willie Clancy Scoil Éigse, and supported the Tradition Club held on Wednesdays at Slattery's, just a few doors away from his Dublin home: he was recorded by John Tams and Neil Wayne in January 1974 and by Tony Engle and Patrick Hayes in March & April 1975.
1 Paddy on the Turnpike – reel (concertina)
2 a The Bunch of Rushes – reel (fiddle), b The Bunch of Rushes – reel (concertina)
3 John Kelly's Slide/ Tom Keane's Reel (concertina)
4 a Blackberry Blossoms – reel (concertina), b The Spike Island Lasses – reel (double-reed concertina)
5 The Heathery Breeze – reel (concertina)
6 Delia Keane's Jig (concertina)
7 The Blacksmith's Charm – hornpipe (concertina)
8 We were drinking and kissing the Ladies/ Old Tipperary – jigs (fiddle)
9 Rocking the Baby to Sleep – air (fiddle)
10 Eddie Dunn's – reel (concertina)
11 The Fishermen's Hornpipe (concertina)
12 The Sister Reels – Carney's / Gilbert Clancy's Favourite / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn (fiddle)
13 The Crooked Road to Dublin and The Duke of Leinster's Wife – reels (concertina)
14 The West Cork Reel (concertina)
15 a The Ivy Leaf – reel (concertina), b The Ivy Leaf – reel (fiddle)
16 The Flogging Reel (double-reed concertina)
17 Scattery Island Slide (double-reed concertina)
18 The Ebb Tide – hornpipe (concertina)
19 The Blackbird – air/hornpipe/set dance (fiddle)
20 The Bunch of Keys – reel (fiddle)
21 Lord Wellington's Reel (concertina)
Produced by John Tams, Neil Wayne and Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic Records 1975.
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One of Scotland's best known traditional singers, Jimmy McBeath, was a former farm servant and traveller from Banffshire. He sang in a direct any authoritative style bothy ballads and songs learnt on the road. His 1967 album has long been regarded as a very important collection of traditional song.
1Â The Bold English Navvy
2Â Come A' Ye Tramps an' Hawkers
3Â Johnny McIndoe
4Â The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
5Â The Merchant and the Beggar Maid
6Â Nicky Tams
7Â The Barnyards o' Delgaty
8Â I'm A Stranger in this Country
9Â The Moss O' Burreldale
10Â The Highlandman's Ball
11Â McPherson's Rant
12Â Grat For Gruel
13Â Drumdelgie
14Â Wild Rover No More
First published by Topic 1967
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As a scion of the famous family of 'singing coppers',he irreplaceable Bob Copper grew up into a rich tradition of Southern song. In the 1950s he recorded many country singers for the BBC, an experience reflected in three best-selling books and partly documented in Songs & Southern Breezes (TSDL317). Sweet Rose In June presents his own beautifully sung versions of countryside songs from the South of England.
1Â Â The Trooper
2  The Bold 'Princess Royal'
3Â Â The Farmer from Chester
4Â Â The Mistletoe Bough
5Â Â The Bold Dragoon
6Â Â Young Johnnie
7Â Â The Parson and The Sucking Pig
8Â Â Lord Thomas
9Â Â The Squire's Lost Lady
10 Bold General Wolfe
11 Dick Turpin
12 The Fox
13 Dogs and Ferrets
14 The Fisherman
15 Rose in June
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It is very appropriate that the artistry of William Hardie should be featured on this disc along with that of J. Scott Skinner, for many authorities believe him to be the finest living exponent of the Scott Skinner style.
William Hardie, accompanied on this record by his son, comes from a family with a long and honoured place in Scottish musical life – his great-great grandfather, Peter Hardie, (1775 – 1863), was a pupil of Niel Gow and a violin maker and composer of note; Peter's cousin, Matthew Hardie (1755 – 1826), is widely regarded as the doyen of Scottish violin makers, and Charles Hardie (1849 – 1893), the grand-uncle of the present artist, was considered one of the best violinists in Scotland in his day, and held by Skinner to excel particularly in slow airs, light reels and hornpipes.
Bill Hardie / stereo
1 The Marquis of Huntly's Snuff Mull/Mrs Chree/Carnie's Canter
2 James F. Dickie's Delight/The Laird o' Drumblair/James F. Dickie's reel
3 MacPherson's Rant/Tullochgorum/The East Neuk o' Fife
4 Master Francis Sitwell & variations/Newcastle Hornpipe]
5 Hornpipes: The North Shore/The Liverpool
6 The Dean Brig o' Edinburgh/Banks Hornpipe
Bill Hardie is accompanied by his son, Alastair Hardie, on piano on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 – tracks 3 and 5 are solo.
Scott Skinner / 78rpm discs / mono
7 The Laird o' Drumblair (1683e) (Zonophone X-47905)
(The Laird o' Drumblair/The Baker Reel/Will ye no come back Again?)
8 The Freebooter (Is Your War Pipe asleep) (26746) (Rena Double Face 1285) (MacPherson's Rant/Tullochgorum & variations/The East Neuk of Fife & variations)
9 Birlin Reels (26749) (Rena Double Face 1283)
(The Auld Wheel/Spinning Wheel/Bride's Reel/MacKenzie Frazer/Fairy Dance)
10 German Schottische (26760) (Rena Double Face 1286)
(Bohemian Melodies)
11 (a) Goodbye Gramin (b) Johnny Steele (strathspey) (c) James Hardie (reel) (73072) (Regal G8021)
12 Highland Schottische (26761) (Regal Zonophone G6617
Maggie Cameron/Athole Brose/The Devil in the Kitchen/Forbes Morrison
13 Sean Trews and Whistle o'er the Lave O't, and Wha widna Fecht for Charlie? (Antique Dance) (26764) (Regal G6625)
Recorded and produced by Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic 1975.
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The Breeze From Erin
Irish Folk Music on Wind Instruments
A splendid collection of Irish instrumental music recorded by several generations of musicians.
"Vital recordings, real examples of a live, healthy tradition."
Willie Clancy : bagpipes and whistle
Festy Conlan : whistle
Eddie Corcoran : whistle
Tim Lyons : accordion
Tony McMahon : accordion
Seamus Tansey : flute, whistle and tambourine
with Reg Hall : piano
1 Â The Choice Wife (slip jig) Clancy, bagpipes
2Â Banish Misfortune (jig) Conlan, whistle
3Â The Bag of Potatoes : Sligo Maid (reels) Conlan. whistle, Lyons, accordion
4 Róisin Dubh (air) Tansey, flute, Dublin Reel : The Steampacket (reels) Tansey, flute, Hall, piano
5Â Boil the Breakfast Early (reel) Tansey and Corcoran, whistle
6Â Bean Dubh an Ghleanna (air) : The Ewe (reel) McMahon, accordion
7Â The Morning Dew : The Woman of the House (reels) Clancy, whistle
8 The Queen of the Rushes (jig) Conlan, whistle Lyons, accordion
9Â Paddy Ryan's Dream : Mamma's Pet (reels) Tansey, flute, Hall, piano
10  An Raibh Tú Ar an gCarraig (air) Conlan, whistle
11 The First House in Connacht : Miss McLeod (reels) Conlan, whistle
12 Bonny Kate : Jenny's Chickens (reels) Corcoran, whistle, Tansey, tambourine
13 Taimse im Chodladh (air) Clancy, bagpipes
Recorded by Bill Leader
First issued by Topic Records 1969
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'… and there would be calls for old David's 'Outlandish Knight'; not because they wanted particularly to hear it – indeed, they had heard it so often they all knew it by heart – but because, as they said, 'Poor old feller be eighty-three. Let 'un sing while he can'.'
Flora Thompson perfectly described a village singsong of the 1880s when she wrote of her childhood in the book Lark Rise (1939). The village stood among wheatfields in a north east corner of Oxfordshire and Miss Thompson felt that she was describing a way of life that had passed for ever.
But certain values have remained, as the singers on this record attest, and in their own way these singers are the direct descendants and carriers of 'old David's' past.
1 The Fox and the Grey Goose – Freda Palmer, Witney, Oxfordshire
2 The Wandering Girl – Freda Palmer
3 All For the Grog – George 'Tom' Newman, Clanfield, Oxfordshire
4 The Broken Down Gentleman – Bill Whiting, Longcot, Oxfordshire
5 I'm Going to the Woods – Bill Whiting
6 Sing Ovy and Sing Ivy – George 'Tom' Newman
7 The Warwickshire R.H.A. – Freda Palmer
8 Oxford City – Freda Palmer
9 The Galloway Man – Wisdom Smith, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
10 When Sheepshearing's Done – Bob Blake, Horsham, Sussex
11 As I Was A-Walking – Freda Palmer
12 Up in the North – Freda Palmer
13 (a) The Life of a Man – Harry Holman, Copthorne, Sussex and
(b) Toast – Harry Holman
14 The Thrashing Machine – George Spicer, West Hoathly, Sussex
15 The Lily White Hand – George Spicer
16 The Grey Hawk – Bob Blake
17 The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington – Freda Palmer
18 William and Mary – Freda Palmer
19 Maria Marten – Freda Palmer
20 Jolly Jarge – Bill Dore, Leafield, Oxfordshire
Produced by Mike Yates and Tony Engle
First issued by Topic Records 1975
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The selections on this record reflect a certain affinity between Norwegian and Shetland musical traditions: a kind of musical bridge over the North Sea. These are conventional recordings, without gimmicks, intended to deepen the appreciation of this unique fiddle music from Northern Europe. This fiddling style is rich in tone-colours, original sounds and lively rhythms. Listeners with a good will and a sense of exploration will come across many fascinating finds.
1Â Â Â Â HAUGELATTEN (The Tune from the Hills) Hauk and Knut Buen
2Â Â Â Â SELJORD BRIDAL MARCH Tom Anderson with Hauk and Knut Buen
3Â Â Â Â GRAVBAKKEN (The Grave Yard) Vidar Lande
4Â Â Â Â FILLE-VERN (Ragged-Vern) – walking dance Vidar Lande
5Â Â Â Â SORDALEN (Setesdalgangar) Vidar Lande
6    MAGGIE O'HAM (Foula Shaalds Dance) Tom Anderson and Knut Buen with Debbie Scott and Catriona MacDonald
7    PRESTEGANGAREN (The Parson's Dance) Hauk Buen
8Â Â Â Â FYKERUDEN (Homage to Fykerud) Hauk Buen
9Â Â Â Â MARKENSMANDAGEN (The Market-Monday) Hauk Buen
10Â Â KNUT LURASEN I (Hjerki Haukeland) Knut Buen
11Â Â MARGIT HJUKSE (Listening Tune) Knut Buen
12  SIRI RUKAREN (Fiddler's Wife) Hauk Buen
13Â Â BOKKOEN (Dance tune by Bokko) Hauk Buen
14  UNST BRIDAL MARCH/DA BRIDE'S A BOANNIE TING Tom Anderson and Knut Buen
15Â Â HOMSLIEN (Tune of the Goblins) Vidar Lande
16Â Â SKRUBBEN (The Wolf) Vidar Lande
17Â Â NORAFJELLS (North of the Mountains) Vidar Lande
Recorded in Edinburgh, Jondalen and Oslo
First issued by Topic Records 1983
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JOHN LYONS of Crussa, County Clare, lived amidst the traditional music of his area of Ireland all of his life and was a very fine singer and melodeon player. This recording from 1974 manages to capture both the nuances and strengths of his music.
"The fervour and humour of these performances make attractive listening." Ballymena Guardian.
1 Â The Maid on the Shore
2 Â The May Morning Dew
3 Â Morrison's Jig / The Pipe on the Hob
4 Â The Tailor Bawn
5 Â After Aughrim
6 Â The Boys of Barna-shraide
7 Â Erin's Lovely Lea
8 Â The Blackthorn / Unnamed reel
9 Â Farmer Michael Hayes
10 Â The Lambs on the Green Hills
11 Â Fiac an Madrarua
12  Kitty's Wedding
13 Â Farewell, Lovely Mary
First published by Topic 1974
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A man who did not read or write but who was one of the most learned men to grace the roads of Ireland. John Reilly now lies with his mother in an un-marked grave in the cemetery of Ballaghadereen. But he has here a memorial more fitting than stone. The songs he loved and which were part of the very fabric of his existence still live on.
1. Adieu Unto All True Lovers
2. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
3. The Well Below the Valley
4. Tippin' lt Up to Nancy
5. Lord Baker
6. Old Caravee
7. The Bonny Green Tree
8. Once There Lived a Captain
9. Peter Heany
10. What Put the Blood?
11. Rozzin Box
12. The Braes of Strawblane
13. One Morning I Rambled from Glasgow
14. The Pride of Cloonkeen
Produced by Tom Munnelly, Roly Brown and Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic Records 1978.
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The first album recorded for Topic by the reknowned Dick Gaughan, 'Coppers & Brass' is an impressive instrumental set from one of Scotland's finest folk musicians. Dick Gaughan performs a collection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and marches, learned from pipers and fiddlers and skilfully transferred to the guitar.
1Â Coppers and Brass / Gander in the Pratie Hole
2 O'Keefe's / The Foxhunter's
3Â The Flowing Tide / The Fairies' Hornpipe
4Â The Oak Tree / The Music in the Glen
5Â Planxty Johnson
6 Gurty's Frolics
7Â The Spey in Spate / The Hurricane
8Â Alan McPherson of Mosspark / The Jig of Slurs
9Â The Thrush in the Storm / The Flogging Reel
10Â Ask My Father / Lads of Laoise / The Connaught Heifers
11 The Bird in the Bush / The Boy in the Gap / MacMahon's Reel
12Â Strike the Gay Harp / Shores of Lough Gowna
13 Jack Broke the Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha'll Dance wi' Wattie
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The last Topic album recorded by The House Band, by this time (1988) a three-piece after the departure of Brian Brooks; 'Word of Mouth' was recorded at Ideal Sound in London.
3 LADY MARY HAY'S FAVOURITE SCOTCH MEASURE/TRITI PUTI
5 AN DRO D'OGHAM/AN DRO/AU PLACE DE SERBIE
Produced by The House Band and David Kenny
First issued by Topic Records 1988
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Until Topic Records featured Harry Boardman singing six Lancashire songs on the 1965 LP 'New Voices', available recordings of songs with their roots in the North West of England were scarce. The growing demand for such material led to the release of 'Deep Lancashire' in 1968 and then, in 1970, 'Owdham Edge', featuring Harry Boardman once again, as well as the first recordings by one Mike Harding.
- Sam Shuttle and Betty Reedhook sung by Harry Boardman (banjo), acc. Lesley Boardman (mandolin) & Bob Diehl (fiddle)
- Owdham Edge sung by John Howarth and The Oldham Tinkers (with banjo, mandolin and guitar)
- Our Sarah's Getten' A Chap sung by John Howarth and The Oldham Tinkers (with banjo, mandolin and guitar)
- The Miners' Lock-Out sung by Harry Boardman (banjo); acc. Lesley Boardman (tenor banjo) & Mike Harding (Jews Harp)
- Street Scene recited by Harvey Kershaw
- Pounds, Shillings and Pence sung by Tim and Robin Boardman, leading into Down at our School sung by The Oldham Tinkers (with banjo, mandolin and guitar)
- The Little Piecer sung by Dave Brooks (concertina)
- Sammy Shuttleworth sung by Mike Harding (concertina), acc. Bernard Wrigley (bass concertina) & John Tenent (tenor horn)
- Bowton's Yard sung by Harry Boardman (banjo) acc. Lesley Boardman (tenor banjo) & Bob Diehl (fiddle)
- Toddlin' Whoam sung by Larry Kearns (guitar)
- The Bard's Reformation sung by Harry Boardman (banjo), acc. Lesley Boardman (tenor banjo) & Bob Diehl (fiddle)
- Schoolyard Song sung by Harry Ogden (guitar), acc. Ian Hope (fiddle)
- Nobbut a Cockstride Away sung by Mary Kershaw acc. Harvey Kershaw (piano)
- Billy Suet's Song sung by Harry Boardman (concertina)
- Canute sung by The Oldham Tinkers (with banjo, tin whistle and guitar)
- Our Bill sung by Bernard Wrigley (guitar)
Recorded by Sean Davies
First issued by Topic Records 1970
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A remarkable historical set, this record documents the recordings of a splendid early Irish-American dance band from Boston. Dan Sullivan was renowned in Boston as one of the finest fiddlers in the traditional style. The exhilarating ensemble that he led were in demand for dances in the area around Boston and made many recordings between 1926 and the mid-'thirties. This collection includes some of their finest sides and recordings by individual members of the ensemble.
1Â Irish Dance Set – Figure No.2
2 Dan Sullivan's Favourite
3Â Tickling Mary Jane
4Â The Rabbit Catcher
5Â Londonderry Hornpipe
6 Miller's Reel / Duffy the Dancer
7Â Bantry Bay
8 Billy Hanafin's Reel
9Â Green Grow the Rushes-O
10Â Versouviana Dance
11Â Boil the Kettle Early
12Â Groves Hornpipe
13Â Johnny Will You Marry Me?
14Â Lord Longon's Reel
15Â Lanigan's Ball
16Â Blackberry Blossom / Bonnie Kate
17 I'm Leaving Tipperary
18 Silver Slipper / Jerry Daly's Hornpipe
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Peter Bellamy (1944 – 1991) was one of the most distinctive voices of the British folk revival, a singer who made the traditional songs and ballads of England vital, exciting and entertaining. As a member of the powerful acapella group the Young Tradition, he helped reawaken an interest in the traditional songs of England. Bellamy's influences drew on a wide musical world; he was as passionate about the singing of the Copper Family, Ewan MacColl, Harry Cox and the prisoners of Parchman Farm as he was the music of the Rolling Stones. Bellamy's recordings continue to inspire musicians around the world.
1Â The Spotted Cow
2Â Two Pretty Boys (The Two Brothers)
3Â The Female Drummer
4 Here's Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
5Â The Ghost Song (The Cruel Ships Carpenter)
6Â The Carnal and Crane
7Â The Little Black Horse (The Penny Wager)
8Â The Barley and the Rye
9Â The Turkish Lady
10Â The Warlike Seaman (The Irish Captain)
11Â The Blackberry Fold
12Â Saint Stephen
13Â The Rigs of London Town
14 The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate
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Paddy Tunney of Donegal is a supremely gifted lyrical singer and a master of intricate vocal ornament. The songs he sings are as deeply and genuinely romantic as the green countryside and dark mountains of his native country. A Wild Bees' Nest is one of his finest records.
1Â The Rollicking Boys Around Tandaragee
2Â The Colleen Rue
3Â The Flower of Sweet Strabane
4Â The Waterford Boys
5Â Easter Snow
6Â I Once Had a True Love
7 Sheela Nee Eyre
8 When a Man's In Love
9Â The Banks of Dunmore
10Â Bonny Tavern Green
11Â Castlehyde
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The High Level Ranters were among the liveliest folk music groups in Britain, one of the longest-established and most popular bands. The incredible instrumental versatilty of the four piece – Alistair Anderson, Tom Gilfellon, Johnny Handle and Colin Ross – took the music of their native Northumberland around the world. The group researched much of their repertoire from 19th century tune books, helping to revive and bring before a new audience a vast repertory of local traditional music. All members of the group recorded solo records, but their most powerful recordings were undoubtedly made as an ensemble.
1Â Fairly Shot of Her / A Wife of My Own
2Â Dance to Yer Daddy
3Â The Lass Doon On The Quay
4Â The Kielder Hunt
5Â Hornpipes – Alston Flower Show / Jane of Biddlestone
6Â Fortune Turns The Wheel
7Â Fenwick of Bywell
8Â Elsie Marley / Hoop Her And Gird Her
9Â Captain Bover / Here's The Tender Comin' / Success To The Fleet
10Â Proudlock's Hornpipe / The Hesleyside Reel
11Â Stanley Market
12Â Hornpipes – The Marquis of Waterford / Bottle Bank / The Hawk
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Gary and Vera Aspey from Atherton, near Manchester.
"If they find a rare and singable set of words with out a tune, then in the true spirit of the folk revival they make a melody for it, and a convincing one at that. Recently they have been seeking songs from the Lake District, an area rather neglected by the great song collectors of the past. Gary and Vera have a lively following in their beloved North, but already their reputation is spreading far out of their native territory."
1 From the North Gary and Vera vocal
2 The Parting Vera vocal and concertina
3 Coal Picking Gary vocal
4 The Three Foot Seam Gary and Vera vocal, Vera and Bernard Wrigley, concertinas
5 Mill Girl's Lullaby Vera vocal and guitar, Wilf Darlington mandolin
6 King Cotton Gary and Vera vocal and concertina
7 Auntie Ketyll Vera vocal and guitar
8 Cum t' thi Tay Vera vocal and guitar
9  The Cradle Song Gary and Vera vocal and guitar
10 The Roving Navvy Gary and Vera vocal and concertina, Bernard Wrigley and Wilf Darlington, chorus
11 The Ship Canal Song Gary and Vera vocal
12 Hailey-Go Gary and Vera vocal and guitar
13 Tuppence on the Rope Gary and Vera vocal and concertina, Bernard Wrigley bass concertina
14 A Bit of a Sing Gary and Vera, Bernard Wrigley, Will Darlington
First published by Topic 1975
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'Together, they form a team, sometimes a little ragged, but never lacking in the fire which is essential to success. Their joint travels around Europe taught them a great deal which home life could not have done and they came back to Britain, better than when they had first left it. For a short time I was privileged to work with them on mandolin. We had a ball as a trio and I learned more in a few weeks, more of the sheer pleasure of playing music, than I had done in several years of more serious attempts to progress.'
From the original sleevenotes by Alexis Korner
1         Rich and Rambling Boys 1,2
2         Buffalo Skinner 1
3         I wish I was a Rock 2
4         It's Hard ain't it Hard 1
5         All Around the Water Tank 1
6         Mother's not Dead 1,2
7         East Virginia Blues 1,2
8         The Old Bachelor 2
9         Danville Girl 1
10      The State of Arkansas 1
11      The Death of Mr Garfield 2
12      Roll on Buddy 1,2
1Â Jack Elliott
2Â Derroll Adams
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The debut album from the mighty HIGH LEVEL RANTERS is a tremendous collection of dance and song from the North East of England. The Ranters were a group of Northeastern musicians whose regular meeting-place was the Bridge Inn under the shadow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's High Level Bridge (hence their, conceivably punning, name). They comprise Johnny Handle (accordion and sundry other sonorous engines), Colin Ross and Foster Charlton (both fiddlers doubling on small-pipes), Alistair Anderson (concertina), Tom Gilfellon (guitar);
1 Shew's the way to Wallington /The Peacock Followed the Hen Band
2 The Sandgate Girl's Lament / Elsie Marley Johnny Handle acc Band
3 Bellingham Boat / Lambskinnet Band
4 Adam Buckham Johnny Handle acc Band
5 Meggy's Foot Concertina Guitar Jews Harp
6 The Lads of North Tyne / The Redesdale Hornpipe Band
7 The Hexhamshire Lass Tom Gilfellon acc Band
8 The Breakdown / Blanchland Races Band
9 The Lads of Alnwick / Lamshaw's Fancy Band
10 Byker Hill Tom Gilfellon acc Band
11 Whinham's Reel / Nancy Band
12 Because he was a Bonny Lad / Salmon Tails up the Water /
Sweet Hesleyside Small-pipe Duet
13 Dance to Your Daddy Band featuring fiddle duet
14 Billy Boy Tom Gilfellon acc Band
15 Nae Guid Luck Aboot the Hoose Concertina solo
16 Mi' Laddie sits ower late up Johnny Handle acc Jews Harp
17 The Keel Row / Kafoozalum / The Washing Day Band
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I'm a stranger in this country,
From America I came.
Chris Willett
Well, not quite from America! But gypsies, or travellers to use a preferred term, were strangers when they first set foot in the British Isles over 400 years ago.  To this day many have remained apart from the rest of society. And yet, as this album attests, they have integrated sufficiently to pick up and retain much of the musical heritage that was once common to all. Paradoxically, much of the music performed here was originally the creation of the non-gypsy community. Today this music is often best remembered by the gypsies.
1 The American Stranger – CHRIS WILLETT
2 Bold Keeper – HARRY BRAZIL
3 Go From My Window – WISDOM SMITH
4 Little Footman Boy – ALICE PENFOLD
5 God Killed the Devil-O/Meeting the Devil/Yonder Comes the Devil – LEMMIE BRAZIL/JASPER SMITH/JOE JONES
6 Sally Monroe – HARRY BRAZIL
7 Pepper and Salt – JASPER SMITH
8 Lovely Johnny – MARY ANN HAYNES
9 The Loyal Lover – HARRY BRAZIL
10 Climbing Up the Apple Tree/Tuning/Bird Scaring Cry/Hacking Clover – JASPER SMITH
11 Step Dance Tune – BILL ELSON
12 Barbara Allen – DEBBIE & PENNY HARRIS
13 Hares in the Old Plantation – WIGGY SMITH
14 Rambling Irishman – HARRY BRAZIL
15 Down in the Meadow/Love is Pleasing – JASPER SMITH/BILL ELSON
16 A Blacksmith Courted Me – HARRY BRAZIL
17 Once I Was a Servant – CHRIS WILLETT
18 The Gown So Green – HARRY BRAZIL
19 The Flower Show – HARRY BRAZIL
20 Waxey Candles – JASPER SMITH
21 The Coachman/Bonny Black Hare/The Cuckoo's Nest – JASPER SMITH/LEMMIE BRAZIL/JOE JONES
22 Hopping Down in Kent/My Lovely Hops – MARY ANN HAYNES
23 Swinging Down the Lane – CHRIS WILLETT
24 Will There Be Any Travellers In Heaven – DERBY SMITH
Production by Mike Yates and Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic 1985.
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Frank Harte (1933-2005) was a traditional Irish singer, song collector, architect and lecturer; a great exponent of the Dublin street ballad and widely known for his distinctive singing, his Dublin accent having a rich nasal quality complementing his often high register.
From the original LP notes:
The material is all his own, gathered from the abundant cornucopia of traditional Anglo-Irish folksong. He has been collecting since he was twelve years of age and his infallible ear and prodigious memory have recorded nearly a thousand songs, most of them unpublished, though many of the songs on this disc are in Colm O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads 1939 (C.O'L.,1) and More Irish Street Ballads 1965 (C.O'L.,2).
To explain in detail the history, the language, the music of these songs would require not a note which would fit on a record sleeve but a small book; but these are ballads of the Dublin streets, commonplace once, now remembered by a few. They were not all made in Dublin, but Dublin preserved their life.
1 The Traveller all over the World
2 The Shamrock Shore  acc
3 The Rag Man's Ball  acc
4 Henry My Son  acc
5 The Bold Belfast Shoemaker
6 The Night That Larry was Stretched
7 The Twang Man  acc
8 The Finding of Moses
9 Father Murphy
Recorded by Bill Leader
First issued by Topic Records 1967
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Green Grow the Laurels is a representative anthology of songs from southern England. Some of these songs stem from long blackletter broadsides of the 16th and 17th centuries, whilst others are of very recent origin, reflecting the cosmopolitan taste of folksingers throughout the ages. Personal preference obviously plays its part in
the transmission of folksongs, but other factors are also involved. Recorded by Mike Yates between 1972-75.
1Â Â Â Â Green Grow the Laurels Louise Fuller, Lingfield, Surrey
2Â Â Â The Rich Lady Gay Harry Upton, Balcombe, Sussex
3Â Â Â Wexford Town Mary Ann Haynes, Brighton, Sussex
4Â Â Â The Aylesbury Girl Jack Goodban, St Margarets-at-Cliffe, Kent
5   The Tree in the Wood George 'Tom' Newman, Clanfield, Oxford Oxfordshire
6Â Â Â I Am a Donkey Driver Harry Upton
7Â Â Â The Molecatcher Louise Fuller
8Â Â Â Hopping Down in Kent Louise Fuller
9Â Â Â 'The Shannon' Frigate Jack Goodban
10Â Â Young Maria Louise Fuller
11Â Â The Colour of Amber Mary Ann Haynes
12Â Â The Banks of the Sweet Dundee Harry Upton
13Â Â A Single Life Harry Upton
14 Â A Woman's Work is Never Done Harry Upton
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An anthology of soldiers songs, ribald, cynical and occasionally sentimental. Performed in his inimitable style by Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger, Jimmy MacGregor and John Cole.
1Â Any Complaints
2Â The Fortress Songs
3Â Farewell to Sicily
4Â The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla
5Â The Dying Soldier
6Â The Ghost Army of Korea
7Â Browned Off
8Â When this Ruddy War is Over
9Â Join the British Army
10Â On the Move Tonight
11Â The Second Front Song
12Â Seven Years in the Sand
13Â Hand Me Down Me Petticoat
14Â The Young Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
15 Bless 'Em All
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John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris play and sing English country music with a rare authority. John is a well known session musician, recording with Richard and Linda Thompson, Gerry Rafferty, Pere Ubu, Roy Bailey and many others. John and Sue were founder members of the Albion Country Band, and John has been a member of Steeleye Span and Brass Monkey. 'The Rose Of Britain's Isle' was voted the record of the year 1974 by Folk Review.
1 The Rose of Britain's Isle / Glorishears
2Â Up in the North
3Â Hunsden House and Whimbleton House
4Â Queen of the May
5Â Old Man Jones
6Â Not for Joe
7Â Weyhill Fair
8 The Milkmaid's Song
9Â Rising Sun and the Crown
10Â Sweet Swansea
11Â The Yellow Joak and The White Joak
12Â The Lady and the Soldier
13Â Fireside Polka / Down Sides and up the Middle
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Most of the people in Blaxhall will tell you that there are two big families in the village, the Smiths and the Lings. The Smiths are known as good stepdancers and the Lings as good singers. lntermarriage and the relatively stable population of the village, now altered by an influx of newcomers, has made a complex web of relationships which are very difficult to disentangle. It seems, however, that most of the population are related in some degree, and that people define their own relationships with each other broadly on the basis of a "close" relationship or a "back" relationship. Close relatives are mothers, fathers, siblings, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and cousins; all others are "back†relatives. Confusions arise through marriage when names are changed, but awareness of family is strong and identity is kept. Lings can be traced in the genealogies of every other local family. The Lings split into factions whereby some Lings say that they are not related to other Lings because they have different historical or geographic origins. Ruby Ling in Snape, Percy Ling's wife's family, who were also Lings, and George and Basil Bennett whose mother was a Ling, all say that they are not related to the Blaxhall Lings. The Lings identify themselves into family groups, and it is in one of these particular groups that several singers are found.
1   Green Bushes Geoff Ling
2   On Board the Leicester Castle George Ling
3   The Lobster Percy Ling
4   Died for Love Geoff Ling
5   Little Ball of Yarn Geoff Ling
6   The Lakes of Coolfin George Ling
7   The Deserter George Ling
8   Little Sweetheart Percy Ling
9   Jolly Jack the Sailor George Ling
10  A Group of Young Squaddies Geoff Ling
11  On the Banks of the Clyde Geoff Ling
12  Underneath Your Apron Percy Ling
13  The Bonny Bunch of Roses George Ling
14  Nancy of Yarmouth George Ling
15  The Man all Tattered and Torn Percy Ling
16  Fagin the Cobbler Percy Ling
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Bill Caddick has an enviable reputation – sometime member of the Albion Band, Home Service and songwriter of choice for June Tabor. He has recorded few albums during his long performing career; many fans regard The Wild West Show as one of this finest recordings. The album was recorded by Andrew Cronshaw and sees a crack team of close friends and former Home Service colleagues accompany Caddick, including June Tabor who adds sublime duet vocals to 'Eights And Aces'.
1Â Superman
2Â Spanish Nights
3Â Fork-lift Truck
4Â Moses (Smooth Talking)
5Â Two-Fisted Heroes
6Â Forgotten The Blues
7Â Dance To The Music Of Time
8Â Stay On The Line
9Â Eights And Aces
10Â The Wild West Show
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Irish traditional song runs the gamut between heroic and lyric. The great Donegal singer Paddy Tunney was a supremely lyrical singer and a master of intricate vocal ornament. The Flowery Vale was recorded in London in February 1975.
1Â Â Â Tis Pretty to be in Ballinderry
2Â Â Â Captain Coulson
3Â Â Â Ta Me Mo Shui
4Â Â Â What Brought the Blood
5Â Â Â The Blighted Lover
6Â Â Â The Twisting of the Rope
7Â Â Â The Blackbird
8Â Â Â Old Ardboe
9Â Â Â The Old Man Rocking the Cradle
10Â Â Siubhan Ni Dhuibhir
11  Dobbin's Flowery Vale
12Â Â Going to Mass Last Sunday
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Terry Teahan, of Kerry and Chicago, and Gene Kelly, of Kilkenny and Washington DC, were old-style Irish musicians in their 70s when this album was recorded. Both had been resident in the Us since the 1920s. Gene Kelly plays accordion, Terry Teahan melodeon and concertina. Though each had worked extensively in band settings, this record of solo performances concentrates on old-fashioned dance music.
1 Reels The Corner House / The Broomstlck Gene Kelly
2 Slide Tom Looney's Terry Teahan
3 Slide Reagan's Terry Teahan
4 Hornpipes The Sweep's / Hennessey's Gene Kelly
5 Barn Dance The Kerry Mills Terry Teahan
6 Polka Mike Howard's Terry Teahan
7 Hornpipe The Bird's Terry Teahan
8 Air Blind Mary Gene Kelly
9 Slide The Barrel Organ Terry Teahan
10 Slide The Evening I Spent With Mick Terry Teahan
11 Slide The Paper Plate Terry Teahan
12 Jigs Fahey's / Gerry's Beaver Hat Gene Kelly
13 Slide The Lonesome Road to Dingle Terry Teahan
14 Polka Mickey Chewing Bubble Gum Terry Teahan
15 Barn Dances Sean Hayes / If There Were't Any Women In The World Gene Kelly
16 Hornplpe Tadgh's Ailment Terry Teahan
17 Slide Going for Water Terry Teahan
18 Story and Air The Old Caubeen Gene Kelly
19 Waltz Tadgh and Buddy Terry Teahan
20 Fling Poll Hapenny Terry Teahan
21 Polka Paddy Kenny's Terry Teahan
22 Jigs Father O Flynn's / The Connaught Man's Rambles Gene Kelly
23 Polka Jack Mitchell's Terry Teahan
24 Sword Dance No Name Terry Teahan
25 Fling The Road to Glauntane Terry Teahan
26 Reels The Swallow's Tail / Miss McLeod's Gene Kelly
First published by Topic 1977
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A smile, a tear, a tapping foot – the New Victory Band can evoke them all with an enviable expertise. Old-time dances, music hall songs, even a ragtime tune on the harmonium was within their scope. Their sole album stands as an important example of the new movement in English country dance music that developed during the 1970s. 'One More Dance and Then…' is stuffed full of variety, humour, pathos, fine music and fun.
1Â Polkas – Harper's Frolick / Bonny Kate
2Â Schottische – The Mountain Belle
3Â You Can't Take That on the Train
4Â Waltzes – Charles Lynch's / Cajun Waltz / The Banks of the Dee
5Â Pretty Little Girl from Nowhere
6Â Nellie's First Rag
7Â Polkas – Robbie Hobkirk's / Father's
8Â Jigs – Mrs Grace Bowie / The Hogmanay
9Â Mamie May
10Â Polkas – (I'm Going To Get My) Moustache (Blacked As Soon As I Get There) / Corn Riggs
11Â One More Dance and Then
12Â Long, Long Trail
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Blowzabella is a genuinely unique band that makes an inimitable, driving, drone-based sound played with a fabulous sense of melody, rhythmic expertise and sheer feeling. They compose their own music which is influenced by English and European traditional dance music. Vanilla, first released on the Topic Special Delivery label in 1990, is one of their finest recordings.
Andy Cutting : melodeons, percussion
Nigel Eaton : hurdy gurdies, 'cello, percussion
Jo Freya : Voclas, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Paul James : soprano saxophone, bagpipes, rauschfeife, percussion
Ian Luff : bass guitars, cittern, guitar, percussion
Jon Swayne : alto & soprano saxophones, bagpipes
1Â Â Spaghetti Panic (A Cutting)
2  La Belle C'est Endormir / Famous Wolf (trad. N Eaton)
3Â Â Jan Mijne Man / Go Mauve (trad. I Luff)
4Â Â Fulmine (R Tesi arr A Cutting)
5  Beanfield / Monster Café (J Swayne/N Eaton)
6Â Â I Wish, I Wish (trad. arr Freya)
7  Down Side / Solveig's Song / Doctor Feg (P James/Greig:Ibsen/N Eaton)
8Â Â Horizonto (P James)
9Â Â In Continental Mood / The Old Queen / Flatworld (A Cutting/I Luff/A Cutting)
10 The Lover's Ghost (trad. arr Freya)
11Â The R.S.B. & the Hobb (A Cutting/I Luff)
12Â Spaghetti Panic (Live) (A Cutting)
First issued as Special Delivery SPDCD1028 / 1990
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Sarah Makem was one of the finest singers of Ulster singers. This recording made in 1967 is a fine portrait of the traditional Ulster repertoire – an area where Irish, English and Scots traditions to some extent converge. Sarah learnt her songs in the traditional way – "When I was young we used to have dances in the street to the music of a mouth organ, or if the mouth organ wasn't available then someone had to lilt. Well, at these street dances anyone was likely to be asked for a song, so I always tried to have one or two ready and I kept learning as many as I could from my mother singing around the house."
1Â Farewell My Love, Remember Me
2Â The Banks of Red Roses
3Â It was in the Month of January
4Â Robert Burns and His Highland Mary
5Â The Factory Girl
6Â The Jolly Thresher
7Â Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
8Â The Wind that Shakes the Barley
9Â I Courted A Wee Girl
10 A Servant Maid in Her Father's Garden
11Â Barbara Allen
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Classic recordings of Traditional Music from the North-East of England
This record serves as a documentary of the thriving North-Eastern country music tradition in the second half of the 20th century. A tradition that continues to this day. Holey Ha'Penny is chiefly drawn from the 1954 field recordings by Peter Kennedy, with the addition of the only known record of the famous Northumbrian piper Tom Clough.
Tom Clough – Northumbrian Pipes      4.1.29
Jake Hutton – Fiddle, Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland 30.6.54
Tom Hunter – Fiddle, Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland 30.6.54
Billy Ballantine – Piccolo, Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland 30.6.54, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland 6.7.54 and Wark, Northumberland 29.6.54
Jimmy Hunter – Mouth organ, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland 6.7.54
Jim Rutherford – Fiddle, Otterburn, Northumberland 8.7.54
Ned Pearson – Fiddle, Cambo, Morpeth 16.6.54
Joe Hutton – Pipes, Stuart Shields, Otterburn, Northumberland 11.7.54
Adam Gray – Fiddle, Barden Mill, Northumberland 1.7.54
Willy Taylor – Melodeon, Warenford, Northumberland 7.6.54, Fiddle, Warenford, Northumberland 7.6.54
Bob Clark – Jews harp, Wltittingham, Northumberland 9.6.54
John Hepple – Pipes, Haltwhistle, Northumberland 1.7.54
George Hepple – Fiddle, Haltwhistle, Northumberland 1.7.54
1   Ho'ley Ha'Penny/Elsie Marley Tom Clough
2Â Â Â The Gilsland Hornpipe Tom Hunter, Billy Ballantine
3Â Â Â Morpeth Rant Jim Rutherford
4Â Â Â Proudlocks Hompipe Billy Ballantine
5   Billy Ballantine's Reel Billy Ballantine
6   Father's Polka Ned Pearson
7Â Â Â Schottische Ned Pearson
8Â Â Â Varsoviana (Old and New) Ned Pearson
9   Highland Laddie Ned Pearson
10Â Â My Lodging is on Cold Ground/Bonnie Dundee Joe Hutton
11Â Â Roxburgh Castle/Devil among the Tailors Joe Hutton
12Â Â The Roman Wall Adam Gray
13  Tom Hepple's Polka (The Girl with the Blue Dress On) Adam Gray
14Â Â The Tow House Polka Adam Gray
15Â Â The Kielder Schottische Jake Hutton, Tom Hunter, Billy Ballantine
16Â Â The Keel Row (with variations) Tom Clough
17Â Â Schottische Billy Ballantine, Jimmy Hunter
18Â Â My Lodging's on Cold Ground/Blow the Wind Southerly Billy Ballantine, Jimmy Hunter
19Â Â Corn Rigs/The Manchester Hornpipe Bob Clark
20Â Â The Linehope Lope Willy Taylor
21Â Â Willy Taylor's Polka Willy Taylor
22Â Â Nae Good Luck – jig Willy Taylor
23Â Â Whittingham Green Lane/Ward's Brae John Hepple, George Hepple
24Â Â Bonny North Tyne Billy Ballantine
25Â Â Mosstrooper's Polka Billy Ballantine
26Â Â The Coquet Reel Billy Ballantine
27Â Â Heel and Toe Polka Ned Pearson
28Â Â The Pin Reel – jig Ned Pearson
29Â Â Cambo March Ned Pearson
30Â Â The Ferry Boat George Hepple
31Â Â Malorca/Herd on the Hill/Devil among the Tailors John Hepple, George Hepple
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After a long European and New Zealand tour in 1985/6, the original line-up of The House Band disbanded, and Chris Parkinson and Ged Foley formed a new group with Brian Brooks and John Skelton. This line-up recorded 'Pacific' for Topic in 1987, with the band touring America extensively in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Produced by The House Band and David Kenny
First issued by Topic Records 1987
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County Clare has long been known as one of the richest areas for music and song throughout Ireland. Petrie, writing in his 'Ancient Music of Ireland', published in 1855, was enthusiastic about the tunes he heard. His remarks spring from his travels through Clare during the early 1820s and throw into relief musical traditions that clearly go back deeply into the eighteenth century at least. Even if it's felt that Petrie's enthusiasm may have run away with him we can't doubt the more recent, towering figures of Garrett Barry, George Whelan (Kerry born), or Willie Clancy, and the Bobby Caseys, Miko Russells and John Kellys of today; all of whom testify to the strength of the musical heritage of the people of the Dal Cais.
1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Bold Trooper – Nora Cleary
2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Grey Mare – Ollie Conway
3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Farewell to Lissycasey – Siney Crotty
4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â An CailÃn Deas – Siney Crotty
5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Lambs on the Green Hills – Mick Flynn
6Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lovely Mary to the Sea Do Not Go – Siney Crotty
7         Pat O'Donnell – Mick Flynn
8         Stór Mo Chroi – Mick Flynn
9Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Bessie of Ballantown Brae – Nora Cleary
10Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Farewell to Milltown – Nora Cleary
Recorded and produced by Roly Brown.
Editing and mastering by Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic Records 1978.
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Martin Simpson is justifiably regarded as one of the finest finger-style guitarists to have emerged from the British Isles. 'Grinning In Your Face' (1983) captures him at an early stage in his recording career, and is a remarkably assured and exuberant recording.
1 It Doesn't Matter Anymore
2Â Little Birdie
3Â The First Cut is the Deepest
4Â Roving Gambler
5Â This War May Last for Years
6Â Masters of War
7 Reuben's Train
8 Your Cheatin' Heart
9Â Handsome Molly
10Â Townships – Biko
11Â Moonshine
12Â Green Linnet / Grinning in your Face
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Séamus Ennis was an inspiration to countless musicians around the world. He is numbered amongst the greatest Irish pipers of the twentieth century (as well as a tremendous storyteller and an inveterate folksong collector). His sole album for Topic records captured his pipe playing during a highpoint of his career and is regarded by many afficionados as one of his finest recordings.
1 The Wandering Minstrel / Jackson's Morning Brush
2 The Boys of Bluehill / Dunphy's Hornpipe
3Â The Glen-Nephin Cuckoo / The Little Fair Cannavans
4Â The Frieze Britches
5Â The Flags of Dublin / The Wind that Shakes the Barley
6 The Little Stack of Barley / Cronin's Horpipe
7Â The New Demesne
8Â The Blackbird
9 Gillan's Apples / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Stone in the Field
10 Molly O'Malone
11Â Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel
12Â Happy to Meet & Sorry to Part
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Bob Davenport has one of the most distinctive styles and one of the widest repertoires among singers on the folkclub scene. A favourite at festivals and a regular guest at folk clubs throughout Britain, he is a staunch supporter of the traditional music of the working people. He is at his finest when accompanied by the Rakes, surely the best English country ensemble of them all.
1Â Waltzes: With my Love on the Road / Wild Colonial Boy
2Â The Ploughboy Lad
3 Single Jigs: Patsy Geary's / The Peeler and the Goat
4Â Princess Royal
5Â Lake of Coolfin
6Â The Man in the Moon / The Jealous Sailor / Jealous Heart
7Â Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie
8Â Three Men Went A-Hunting
9Â Country Dance: Three Around Three
10Â The Dowie Dens ofYarrow
11 Polkas: McCusker's No. 1 / McCusker's No. 2 / Jenny Lind
12Â Slieve Gallion Braes
13Â The Star of the County Down
14 Old Green River
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Accordion maestro John Kirkpatrick and the classically-trained oboist Sue Harris created a beautiful blend of English country dance tunes and songs with influences from Music Hall, Flaco Jimenez and Ry Cooder. Throughout the 1970s they were a sought after act on the UK folk scene and recorded a number of fine albums for the Topic label. 1989's Stolen Ground, the duo's final album for the Topic label, is undobtedly one of their finest records.
1Â Arthur McBride
2Â The Juggler
3Â Clee Hill Tunes
4Â Mother Earth
5Â Black Deer
6Â Must I Be Bound / Mrs Saggs
7Â The Chickens They Are Crowing
8Â Shepherd's Branle
9Â The Old Miner
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A very important recording of three members of a Southern English family of travellers – Tom, Chris and Ben Willett, showing their distinctive style of singing and a repertoire of fine country songs. Recorded on location in Middlesex and Kent, the record was the first album of English gypsy music to be released commercially.
1Â Lord Bateman – Tom Willett
2Â The Blacksmith Courted Me – Tom Willett
3Â The Little Ball of Yarn – Ben Willett
4Â Died For Love – Tom Willett
5Â The Rambling Sailor – Chris Willett
6Â Riding Down to Portsmouth – Tom Willett
7Â As I Was Going to Salisbury – Chris Willett
8Â The Roving Journeyman – Tom Willett
9Â The Roving Journeyman – Chris Willett
10Â While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping – Tom Willett
11Â The Old Miser – Chris Willett
12Â The Game of Cards – Tom Willett
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Bob Cann is an exceptional melodeon player from the south edge of Dartmoor in Devon. As a young man he played for hours-long step-dancing competitions; in middle-age he won an all-England folk instrumentalist trophy (beating the renowned piper Billy Pigg) from the English Folk Dance and Song Society. His repertoire is typical of the finest country dance musician but his playing is of the highest order – exciting and eminently danceable.
1 Uncle George's Hornpipe (The Cliff) / Tommy Roberts' Hornpipe
2Â Hot Punch / Uncle's Jig
3Â Uncle George's Waltz / Uncle Jim's Waltz
4Â The Primrose Polka
5Â Dorsetshire Hornpipe
6Â The Kester Rocky Waltz
7Â Family Jig / Uncle George's
8Â Woodland Flowers / Uncle Jim's
9Â Ford Farm Reel / Cornish Quickstep
10 Harry Gidley's Waltz
11 When its Nightime in Italy (It's Wednesday Over Here) / Climbn' Up de Golden Stairs
12Â Lyrinka
13Â Schottische Hornpipe / Cokey Hornpipe
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A chance meeting with the Boys of the Lough in California led to Vincent Griffin making his first solo record in 1977. His playing has plenty of character and his repertoire is full of grand fiddle tunes.
*1 Reels: Fahey's 1 & 2
*2 Jigs: Paddy Fahey's / The Cliffs of Moher
3 Reels: Paddy Ryan's Dream / Mammy's Pet
*4 Reels: Martin Rocheford's / The Sligo Maid
*5 Hornpipes: The New Century / The Cuckoo
6 Jigs: Coleman's
7 Reels: Lord McDonaId's / Ballinasloe Fair
*8 Reels: The Reefs/McFadden's Favourite
*9 Reels: The New Year's In / Youghal Quay
10 Air: Se Bhfath mo Bhfuartha (The Cause of my Sorrow)
11 Reel: Lord Gordon's
*12 Reels: Dr. Gilbert / The Queen of May
*13 Jigs: The Trip to Sligo / Garrett Barry's
14 Reels: The Night in Ennis / The Maid Behind the Bar
*15 Reels: Crow|ey's
*16 Reels: Lady Anne Montgomery / Down the Broom /T he Gatehouse Maid
On tracks marked * Vincent is accompanied on piano and ** on harp by Geraldine Carrig.
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Des and Vince O'Halloran are from the tiny Inishbofin Island, off the coast of Connemara. Though relatively young when these recordings were made and from a region not noted for a strongly maintained musical tradition, they play wonderfully close-knit and exciting music.
1Â Reels: The Music in the Glen / The Green Fields of America
2 Jigs: The Lark in the Morning / The Connaughtman's Rambles
3Â The Lowlands of Holland
4Â Barn Dances: Stack of Barley / Johnny, Will You Marry Me?
5Â Jigs: Pat Burke's / Fraher's
6Â Sweet Inniscarra
7 Waltz and Jigs: Martin Byrne's Waltz / A Hundred Pipers / Dingle Regatta
8Â Granuaile
9 Reels: The Sailor on the Rock / The Maid I Ne'er Forgot
10Â Reel: The Limerick Lasses
11 Jig: The Lake Shore / The Exile's Return
12 Reels: The Eel in the Sink / Larry Redigan's
13Â Moorlough Mary
14Â The Bucks of Oranmore / The Wind that Shakes the Barley
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The House Band's first album, and the first of three for Topic, this was recorded in January 1985, just before a long European tour for the band that year, and a tour of New Zealand at the end of the year and into 1986. Â They played original and traditional compositions in a Celtic/British folk style, with influences from reggae, country, pop, jazz and world music.
1 The Tornado Two-Step – The Cooper – The Woodpecker
2 Here's The Tender Coming
3 Major Harrison's Fedora
4 War Party – Lost Night
5 An Erminig Hag An Greskenn – The Anti-Social Worker
6 The Pitman's Grievance
7 E I Ah Could Hew
8 Green Fields of Canada –The Amalgamation
9 Cawsand Bay
10 The Swallowstail – Lady Charlotte Campbell's – Gordon Campbell's "Messâ€
First issued by Topic Records 1985
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One generation thinks of the Ramblin' Jack Elliott who brought the image and songs of Woody Guthrie to an eager Europe in the 1950s. Another knows him as a guiding hand behind Bob Dylan and all the singers after him. To others, again, he is a travelling songster in the great American tradition.
1Â Talking Columbia Blues
2Â Pretty Boy Floyd
3Â Ludlow Massacre
4Â Talking Miner Blues
5Â Hard Travelling
6Â So Long its Been Good to Know You
7Â Talking Dustbowl Blues
8Â 1913 Massacre
9 Rambling Boys
10Â Talking Sailor Blues
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The Cheviot Ranters were the most distinguished and authentic of English country dance bands from England's North-East. Darlings of the late John Peel on his early 1970s' BBC radio shows, their fine recordings for the Topic label satisfying both the dancer and the armchair listener.
1Â Circassian Circle – part 1 Original / Rugley Ford / Hesleyside Reel
2Â Redesdale Hornpipe / King of the Fairies / The Lads of Whickham
3 Washington Quick Step – Bugle Horn / Farewell / Jackson's Morning Brush
4Â Northumbrian Waltz – Berwick Fair / Ma Bonnie Lad / Keach in the Creel
5 Morpeth Rant – Banks of Coquet / Rob Roy's Cave / Kirk's Hornpipe
6 Cumberland Reel – Quayside Shaver / Geordie's Jig
7Â Corn Rigs tunes – Dunstanburgh Castle / Goodnight and Joy Be Wi' Ye
8Â Waltz tunes – Bonnie Tyneside / Whittingham Green Lane / The Banks of Coquet
9Â Drops of Brandy – The Moorbridge Hornpipe / Goswick Kirn / The Old Drove Road
10 Circassian Circle – part 2 The Three Sea Captains / Lannigan's Ball / Ellingham Hall
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Vera Aspey's 1977 solo LP garnered lavish praise on release, Maurice Rosenbaum of the Daily Telegraph declaring it one of his albums of the year. A selection of mostly traditional material, with one Gary and Vera Aspey original and an Alfred Noyes poem set to the music of Phil Ochs, this album showcased Vera's range and talent to stunning effect.
1. The Blackbird
2. Owd Betty Barlow
3. Ladybird
4. The Maypole Inn
5. The Pit Brow Lassies
6. My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
7. Coal Black Faces
8. The Highwayman
9. Shule Agra
10. Aggie Bell
11. The Sprig of Thyme
Produced by Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic Records 1977.
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First released in 1966, this collection by the great lyrical Donegal singer is one of his finest. The songs he sings are as deeply and genuinely romantic as the green countryside and dark mountains of his native country.
1Â Â Â Craighie Hill
2Â Â Â The Lark In The Morning
3Â Â Â Johnny, Lovely Johnny
4Â Â Â The Cow That Drank The Poteen
5Â Â Â Blackwater Side
6Â Â Â Out of The Window
7Â Â Â The Month of January
8Â Â Â The Rambling Boys of Pleasure
9Â Â Â The Lowlands of Holland
10Â The Wearing Of The Britches
11Â The Old Man Rocking The Cradle
12Â She's A Gay Old Hag
13Â St Peter's Day Was a-Dawning
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Uniting Davy Tulloch's Shetland Reels and Veronique Nelson's Wessex airs – with their differing techniques and oral traditions – provide dynamic two-part fiddle playing which combines with the jazzy ensembles of Dave Jackson's guitar to create an exciting and original new sound. Curlew's two fiddles adapt dance rhythms and songs, many from Shetland, Scandinavia and Galicia, with guitar and occasional string bass accompaniment. In some pieces a two-part invention or rhythmic counterpart is clearly discernible, making for an invigorating and distinctive style.
1Â Shetland Reels: Tilley Plump / Auld Foula Reel / Oot and in da Harbour
2Â Air & Hornpipe: Grenadier and his Lady / Eunyssagh Vana
3Â Shetland Reels: Da Oyster / Yonder Hills / Fit da Gutter
4 Childgrove / Muiñeira de Cabanas
5 Hornpipe & Reels: Father Tom / Véronique's Reel / Hamish's Reel
6Â Janne's Reinlander / The Cambridge
7Â Shetland Reels: Da Cauld Nights of Winter / Square da Mizzen / Da Ness of Sound
8Â C'raad T'ou Goll my Veg Dhone / Ta Dick Veg Er Yannoo Mie / Nancy
9Â Shetland Reels: Ramna Stacks / Da Spirit of Whisky / Gold for da Boannie Lasses
10Â Two Norwegian Reinlanders
11Â Alvadansur
12Â Shetland Reels: Da Road to Houll / John Pottinger's Compliments to Ronnie Cooper / Simon's Wart
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Bob Hart, born 1892, belongs to the same grand company of East Anglian traditional singers as Harry Cox and Sam Larner, Jumbo Brightwell of Eastbridge and Bob Scarce of Blaxhall. Schooled in Southwold, Bob started farm work after a move to Trentham, but quickly left to work on a sailing trawler out of Lowestoft:
'We used to travel as far as the Shetland Islands, from May to November, and work back to Grimsby. It was at Grimsby where I learned some of my songs, and where I first heard The Banks of Sweet Primroses. I learned As I Strolled out to Aylesbury from a man called Jack Harling, of Snape. Funny Little Place to Have One, Underneath her Apron, and The Female Cabin Boy are songs I seem to have always known. Broadside I learned from Bob Scarce of Blaxhall.'
1 Cod Banging
2 Australia
3 A Broadside
4 The Banks of Sweet Primroses
5 What a Funny Little Place to Have One
6 Bold General Wolfe
7 The Female Cabin Boy
8 As I Strolled out to Aylesbury
9 The Scarlet and the Blue
10 John Barleycorn
11 The Miner's Dream of Home
12 The Young Sailor Cut Down
13 All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough
14 Underneath her Apron
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Jesse Fuller, "The Lone Cat" (1896 – 1976) was one of the great blues troubadours. A remarkably expressive singer and fine 12-string guitarist, Fuller developed his unique one-man-band style around his fotdella (foot-operated bass) and harmonica/kazoo rig. This collection includes his earliest recordings, including the original version of his classic San Francisco Bay Blues, together with a session taped in London in 1965 for Topic Records.
This album is available on CD from Fledg'ling Records www.thebeesknees.com
1Â Move On Down The Line
2Â Stealing
3Â Ninety-nine Years and One Dark Day
4Â Animal Fair
5Â Sleeping in the Midnight Cold
6Â Stackolee
7Â John Henry
8Â Railroad Worksong
9Â Lining up the Track
10Â Hangin' Round a Skin Game
11Â Railroad Blues
12Â San Francisco Bay Blues
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Muliti-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw variously draws upon the traditional music of the Scottish Highlands, Northern Spain, Finnland and his native England to weave a music of great beauty and originality. 1993's The Language of Snakes was his sixth solo album. Working with a close band of musical collaborators, Cronshaw magically transforms his disparate source material with a series of unexpected textures and arrangements.
1Â Through Moorfields
2Â Kindness For Ever More
3Â MacDonnel's March / Kilcoy's March
4 Baile de Procesión
5Â Cronnan na Caillach a bhan sa Bhein Bhreic
6Â Marcha Procesional do San Benito
7Â Apple Praities
8Â Ailean Duinn
9Â A Maruxa
10Â The Waterford Waltz
11Â Tupakkarulla / Tuuti Hussaa Ja Lullaa / The Other Boot Dance
12 Hithil Ùil Agus Ò, Hithil O Hòrino
13Â Tha Mi Sgith 'm Ã'naran
14Â An Gille Donn / Vaskilinun Vaikerrus
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The recordings of Hugh Gillespie have a quite different 'feel' from other American-Irish fiddle music of the late 1930s period. The somewhat unusual choice of guitar rather than piano for accompaniment certainly contributes to this distinctiveness, but probably the decisive factors are Gillespie's 'singing' style and highly personal technique. He learned from Coleman a device he calls 'back trebling', and also uses drones and fractional flattening or sharpening of notes to great effect. Such techniques are by no means peculiar to Coleman or Gillespie – indeed, most Irish musicians use them in some degree – but every musician stamps them with his own particular emphases. In these recordings of Hugh Gillespie at his peak, between 1937 and 1939, the sum of these various elements is a unique and outstanding series of performances.
- Reel: Dowd's Favorite
- Hornpipes: McKenna's Farewell (The Liverpool/Hennessey's)
- Reels: Master Crowley's Reels
- The Irish Mazurka
- Reel: Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
- Jigs:  Master Crowley's Favourites
- Highland Flings: Finnea Lassies/Gurren's Castle
- Reels: The Girl that Broke my Heart/Dick Cosgrove's Reel
- Reels: Farewell to Leitrim/Tom Steele
- Jigs: Jackson's Favorite/Kips
- Reels: Paddy Finley's Fancy/Joe O'Connell's Dream
- Waltz: Versevanna
- Reels: The Donegal Traveler/Miss Montgomery
- Hornpipes: Mountain Stream/Parker's Fancy
- Jigs: Contentment is Wealth/Finley's Jig
- Reels: Dowd's Number Nine/Jackson's
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One of Scotland's best known traditional singers, a former farm servant and traveller from Banffshire, the late Jimmy McBeath sang bothy ballads and other songs in a direct and authoritative style.
1Â Â Â Bound To Be A Row
2Â Â Â The Banks of Inverurie
3Â Â Â Ythanside
4Â Â Â Erin Go Bragh
5   Bogie's Bonnie Belle
6   The Cow Wi' The Iron Tail
7   Arlin's Fine Braes
8   The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie
9Â Â Â Pittenweem Jo
10Â Ye Canna Pit It On Tae Sandy
11Â The Boston Smuggler
12 Hielan' Rory
13Â The Magdalen Green
14 Marnin' Fair
15Â The Feeing Time
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Born in Middlesborough of Anglo-Irish descent, Vin Garbutt has an enviable reputation as a singer and songwriter of fine socially conscious, and environmentally aware songs. 'Tossin' A Wobbler' from 1978 is regarded as one of his finest recordings.
1Â Man of the Earth
2Â Legend of Roseberry
3Â Long Note / Lads of Laois / Le Reel Jeune Marie
4Â Photographic Memory
5Â Yorkshire Volunteer's Farewell to the Good Folks of Stockton / Push About the Jorum
6Â St. Helena's March
7Â Carrigdhoun
8Â The Freemantle Doctor
9Â One-Legged Beggar
10Â They Don't Write 'Em Like That Any More
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Long the enfant terrible of the folk revival, Dominic Behan – poet, patriot, playwright and rebel – spills over with outrageous talent. This archive recording from 1960 shows him as a powerful and honest singer, a worthy heir of the great Dublin heritage of song and ballad. Behan is accompanied by Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson and Ralph Rinzler.
1Â Get Me Down Me Filling Knife
2Â The Saint
3Â Down By the Liffeyside
4 Ross' Farewell to Dublin
5Â Waxy Dargell
6Â Red Roses For Me
7Â Thank You Mam, Said Dan
8Â John Mitchell
9Â The Finding of Moses
10Â Master McGrath
11Â Dicey Riley
12 Finnegan's Wake
13Â The Women are Worse that the Men
14Â Easy and Slow
15Â The Spanish Lady
16Â The Twang Man
17Â Bold Robert Emmett
18Â Biddy Mulligan
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The second of Chris Foster's highly regarded Topic albums. Chris Foster is a master of his trade. Alongside Nic Jones, Dick Gaughan and June Tabor, he established himself in the 1970s as one of the finest interpreters of the traditional ballads of the British Isles with tales of romance, magic, murder, liquor, love, adultery and cross dressing.
'As one who has witnessed the development of 'English' guitar accompaniment to traditional songs, I have always ranked Chris as one of our most exciting interpreters…. My old vinyl copies of his 2 Topic albums remain precious. Chris remains a consummate artist.'  Graham Lobb – The Living Tradition.
- Black Fox
- Low Down in the Broom
- Grey Cock
- Pigeon on the Gate
- Unicorns
- King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
- Jump at the Sun
- The Working Chap
- When This Old Hat Was New
- The World Turned Upside Down
Record produced by Tony Engle
First issued by Topic Records 1979
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The Oldham Tinkers specialise in the local songs and ballads of their native South Lancashire, and have an immense following. All the salt and savour of Lancashire song and humour is to be enjoyed in their records. 'For Old Time's Sake' their third album for the Topic record label was popular with the late John Peel. He played their material often on his BBC radio programme, especially the tall tale of 'John Willie's Horse'.
1Â Signora
2Â Eaur Joe's Lad
3Â John Willie's Horse
4Â Barefoot Days Medley
5Â Lancashire Witches
6Â Come Whoam to Thi Childer an' Me
7Â Johnny Bugger
8Â Billy Winker
9Â Bits O' Bromley Street
10Â The Condemned Cell
11Â The Maypole
12Â For Old Time's Sake
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Two generations of the Campbell family and their lodger recorded during a family get-together. The older Campbells recalled songs from their youth in Scotland; Bob Cooney, the lodger, remembered children's rhymes from childhood; Ian and Lorna (from the influential Ian Campbell Folk Group) and their sister Winnie sand ancient songs freshly learned through the folk revival.
1Â Faur does Bonnie Lorna Lie / Sleep Till Yer Mammy – Betty Campbell
2Â Nicky Tams – Dave Campbell
3Â The Road and the Miles to Dundee – Betty Campbell
4Â Drumdelgie / I Ken Fur I'm Gaun – Dave Campbell & Bob Cooney
5Â My Wee Man's a Miner / Fa, Fa, Fa wid be a Bobby / Foul Friday / Me an' Mi Mither / We Three Kings – The Campbell Family
6Â Bogie's Bonnie Belle – Winnie Campbell
7Â The Cruel Mother – Ian Campbell
8Â Lang a'Growin' – Lorna Campbell
9Â Lady Eliza – Winnie Campbell
10Â Will Ye Gang Love – Ian Campbell
11Â I Wish, I Wish – Lorna Campbell
12Â McGinty's Meal and Ale – Bob Cooney and the family
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Chris Foster was born in Somerset. It is there that he first heard and started singing traditional songs. He trained as an artist at the Norwich, then Chelsea Schools of Art. His professional "break" came in the early 1970s when a music agent spotted him singing at Dingles Folk Club in London. This led to eight years as a professional solo folk singer/guitarist.
He recorded two, highly regarded albums in the late 1970s: "Layers" (1977) and "All Things in Common" (1979), both on Topic Records. Both featured mainly traditional songs with often complex fingerstyle accompaniments on a Fylde acoustic guitar.
- The Ranter
- The Coast of Peru
- Worcester City
- Glastonbury Town
- Lady Maisry
- Jack the Sailor
- The Golden Glove
- When a Man's in Love
- The Buxom Lass
- The Flower of Serving Men
- The Banks of Newfoundland
Recorded and produced by Tony Engle
First issued by Topic Records 1977
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The several strands that make up Pat Mitchell's piping are none of them especially unusual, but cumulatively interesting in the way they reveal how Pat's music has evolved without what has always been held to be the massive benefit of an immediate environment in which traditional music is alive and esteemed. Pat, like many other people who might be classed as urban, twentieth century – some would say, disinherited – has gone looking for his music, and it's important to document his case for an understanding of how such a person fares, and for some insight into the state of traditional music in Ireland today.
1    Reels: Garrett Barry's / The Virginia Â
2Â Â Â Â March: Sullivan's MarchÂ
3    Reel: Concertina Reel Â
4Â Â Â Â Air: Lord MayoÂ
5Â Â Â Â Reel: College Groves
6    Double Jigs: Port Liadroma / Sean Tiobraid Arann Â
7Â Â Â Â Reel: Star of Munster
8Â Â Â Â Single Jig and Double Jig: Frieze Breeches
9    Descriptive Piece: Máirseáil Alasdruim
10   Single Jig: Willie's Single
11   Hompipe and Reels: Kildare Hornpipe / Castle Kelly / Sailor's Bonnet
12   Marching tune: Eagle's Whistle
13Â Â Â Double Jig: The Maiden That Jigged it in Style
14Â Â Â Air: An Draighnean Donn
15Â Â Â Double Jig: The Old Hag in the Kiln
16Â Â Â Reel: Galtee Reel
17Â Â Â Double Jigs: The Lark in the Morning
18   Reels: Patsy Tuohey's Reel/The Green Fields of Rossbeigh
19Â Â Â Piece: Nora Criona
20Â Â Â Reel: Flogging Reel
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Few singers have such a vigorous, broad-ranging, fresh-sounding repertoire as Roy Harris from Nottingham, and none can handle it more convincingly. Guest musicians include Martin Carthy (guitar, mandola), Bobby Campbell (fiddle) and Vic Gammon (melodeon).
1Â The Saucy Bold Robber
2Â Bold Lovell
3Â Steepleford Town
4Â Captain Ward
5Â The Methody Parson
6Â Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
7 The Beggar's Song
8Â When I was A Little Boy
9 The Dragoon's Ride
10Â Cropper Lads
11Â The 'Royal Charter'
12Â The Topman and the Afterguard
13Â The Jovial Hunter
14Â Hard Times of Old England
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A wonderfully gifted and delicate singer, Frank Hinchliffe of Sheffield was also the possessor of numerous fine traditional songs, many in uncommon versions. He was undoubtedly one of the major traditional singers to come to public notice in the 1970s.
Traditional Songs from South Yorkshire
1 The Pear Tree
2 The Golden Glove
3 The Spotted Cow
4 Mary Across the Wild Moor
5 The Nobleman and Thrasherman
6 Wilkins and Dinah
7 The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea
8 Wild and Wicked Youths
9 Sheffield Park
10 Hear the Nightingales Sing
11 The Poor Old Weaver's Daughter
12 It Hails, It Rains
13 Nothing Else to Do
14 Edward
15 We've Been a While a-Wassailing
First published by Topic 1977
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Few singers match the assurance and intensity of Frankie' Armstrong's singing. Born in Cumberland, Frankie typically came to folk song as a teenager and member of an amateur skiffle group. She was a member of the influential Critics Group led by Ewan MacColl and first recorded on A L Lloyd's 'The Bird In The Bush' project. In Lloyd's memorable phrase "she can sing to pull down the stars". Armstrong is an important interpreter of ballads, often approaching her material from a feminist perspective.
1Â Tarry Trousers
2Â The Green Valley
3Â Low Down in the Broom
4Â The Cruel Mother
5 The Crafty Maid's Policy
6Â The Maid on the Shore
7Â The Frog and the Mouse
8Â Lovely on the Water
9Â The Brown Girl
10Â The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime
11Â The Saucy Sailor
12Â The Two Sisters
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Gypsies and travellers have preserved a wealth of English traditional song, which has been rarely collected. This splendid and influential collection of English traditional song performed by some of the finest Gypsy singers of Southern England, draws upon the diligent field recordings of the collector Mike Yates.
1Â You Subjects of England – Jasper Smith
2Â Little Dun Dee – Mrs Haynes
3Â Hartlake Bridge – Jasper Smith
4Â The Young Officer – Mrs Haynes
5Â All Through Mi Rakli – Mrs Haynes
6Â At the Atchin Tan – Mrs Haynes
7Â The Oakham Poachers – Wiggy Smith
8Â Thorneymoor Park – Jasper Smith
9Â The Farmer of Chester – Joe Jones
10Â The King and the Keeper – Joe Jones
11Â Georgie – Levi Smith
12Â The Haymakers – Levi Smith
13Â The Broomdasher – Levi Smith
14Â Barbara Allen – Phoebe Smith
15Â Lavender – Bill Ellson
16Â The Squire and the Gypsy – Jasper Smith
17Â Erin's Lovely Home – Mrs Haynes
18 The Game of Cards – Levi Smith
19Â While the Yogger Mush Lays Sleeping – Jasper Smith
20Â The Deserter – Wiggy Smith
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Irish music in the old 'Sligo Style' was carried far and wide by such migrant sons as Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran and Michael Gorman. It was the tradition that two London based musicians – Tommy Healy (flute) and Johnny Duffy (fiddle) – grew up in. They continued adhering to the style playing at home in Ireland and later in London. Accompanied by pianist Reg Hall the two are beautifully captured on this intimate recording from the mid-1970s.
1 Reels: Tarbolton / The Longford Collector / The Sailor's Bonnet
2Â Jigs: The Wandering Minstrel / Fasten the Legging / The Smash
3Â Hornpipes: The Rights of Man / The Honeysuckle
4Â Reels: The Boys at the Lough / The Merry Blacksmith
5Â Jigs: The Scotsman Over the Border / Tell Her I Am
6Â Reels: The Montua / The Happy Days of Youth
7 Reel: Fred Finn's Reel
8Â Reel; The First Part of the Lancers
9 Jigs: The Gold Ring / Richard Brennan's Favourite
10Â Reels: Miss McLeod / The Wild Irishman
11Â Jig: The Grey Goose
12 Reels: The Humours of Lissadel / Sweeney's Dream
13Â Jigs: Cavan Lasses / Rose of the Heather
14Â Reels: The Enchanted Lady / The Holy Land
15Â Waltz: Mrs Kenney
16Â Reels: Martin Wynne's No.1 & No.2
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SEAN McALOON from Co. Fermanagh and JOHN REA from Co. Antrim, were traditional musicians of choice quality. McAloon was a master of the fiddle and uilleann pipes, Rea the hammer dulcimer, and their duets on the latter two instruments are rare delights. These magnificent performances were recorded by Robin Morton (of the Boys of the Lough).
Sean McAloon Uillean Pipes & Fiddle
John Rea Dulcimer
1Â Jigs: The Maid in the Meadow (dulcimer) / The Castlebar Races / Trip to the Cottage (dulcimer and concert pipes)
2Â Reels: The Mountain Lark / Crooked Road to Dublin (concert pipes)
3 Jigs: Jackson's Drum / Jackson's Mistake / Jackson's Coagy (dulcimer)
4Â Air: Blind Mary (flat pipes)
5 Hornpipes: Madame Bonaparte / O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (dulcimer)
6 Reels: Crowley's No. 1 / Crowley's No. 2 (fiddle)
7 Jigs: Moloney's / Paddy O'Brien's (concert pipes)
8Â Reels: First House in Connaught (concert pipes ) / The Copperplate (dulcimer and concert pipes)
9Â Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh (The Dark Slender Boy) /Â Slip Jig: Drops of Brandy (flat pipes)
10 Reels: Coil the Hawser / Lord McDonald's (dulcimer)
11 Hornpipes: Alexandria's / Higgin's (flat pipes)
12 Reels: The Sligo Maid (fiddle) / Sheehan's (fiddle and dulcimer)
13Â Jigs: Wandering Minstrel / Katy is Waiting / The Basket of Shamrocks (dulcimer)
14Â Hornpipes: Tim the Turncoat / The Quarrelsome Piper (concert pipes and dulcimer)
15Â Jigs: The Old Siege of Valencia (dulcimer) / The Lark in the Morning (dulcimer, fiddle and bodhran)
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JEANNIE ROBERTSON comes of roving stock – on both her father's and mother's side, her ancestors belonged to the travelling clans (Stewarts and Robertsons) who roamed the North-East of Scotland. Jeannie herself, although born in the city, spent much of her youth travelling "up the Dee and down the Don" with her people, and learned many of her songs at their campfires.
1 The Bonny Wee Lassie Who Never Said No
2 What a Voice
3 My PIaidie's Awa'
4 The Gipsy Laddies
5 When I Was No but Sweet Sixteen
6 MacCrimmon's Lament
7 Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch
8 Lord Lovat
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A colourful collection of ballads and songs from Australia. A L (Bert) Lloyd was a leading architect of the British folk song revival and spent an early part of his life working in the Australian outback. Lloyd learnt these songs in the usual manner of folk singers; that is by picking them up from the singing of his workmates – sheep shearers, cattle drovers, farm hands and so on – in the bush. He is accompanied by three fine instrumentalists – Peggy Seeger, Ralph Rinzler and John Cole.
1Â Flash Jack From Gundagai
2Â Lachlan Tigers
3Â The Cockies Of Bungaree
4Â South Australia
5Â Banks Of The Condamine
6Â Bluey Brink
7Â The Overlanders
8Â 1,000 Miles Away
9Â The Flash Stockman
10Â The Wild Colonial Boy
11Â Brisbane Ladies
12Â Bold Jack Donahue
13Â The Shearer's Dream
14Â The Derby Ram
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The Stewarts are a proud family of Scots travellers who claim descent from the Royal House of Stewart and who have music in their bones. Belle Stewart was one of the great traditional ballad singers and her daughters, Sheila and Cathie, inherited the family talent in full measure. Belle's husband Alex Stewart was a fine exponent of the Highland warpipes. For The Travelling Stewarts album the family were joined by many of their relatives, including Jeannie Robertson, Lizzie Higgins and Davy Stewart.
'You'll never see me laughing or shouting at a Pakistani or anybody like that; no, never… Long, long years ago when I was a wee boy. My auld mother told me that all travellers came from the same place as these people. and so I never do anything that might offend them. Anyway, they`re having a hard time of it. just like the travellers…'
Davy Stewart, itinerant singer.
1   Johnnie, My Man Lizzie Higgins
2   Willie's Fatal Visit Jeannie Robertson
3   The Battle's O'er; Scotland the Brave; The 51st Division in Egypt Played by Donald and Isaac Higgins, pipes
4   Bogie's Bonnie Belle Jane Stewart
5   McGinty's Meal and Ale Davy Stewart
6   My Bonnie Tammy Christina Stewart
7   MacPherson's Lament Maggie McPhee
8   The Drunken Piper; Brig o' Perth; Reel o' Tulloch Played by Alex Stewart, pipes
9   Loch Dhui Belle Stewart acc. Alex Stewart, goose
10  The Dawning of the Day Cathie Stewart, acc. Alex Stewart, goose
11  Donald's Return to Glencoe Sheila Stewart
Recorded in Scotland by Bill Leader, 1967
First Issued by Topic 1968
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Bernard O'Sullivan was a farmer and concertina player of Country Clare, with an extensive repertoire of traditional tunes, when these recordings were made in 1975 by John Tams and Neil Wayne. His companion Tommy McMahon, a generation younger, learnt both from Bernard an from his wide contest experience, which included All-Ireland senior championship prizes in 1971, '72 and '73.
1  Polkas: The Babes in the Wood / Cooraclare Polka / Clare Dragoons Bernard O'Sullivan / Tommy McMahon
2  Jigs: The Shady Groves of Piedmont / The Humours of Ennistymon Bernard O'Sullivan / Tommy McMahon
3  Reels: The Old Torn Petticoat / Tommy People's Favourite Tommy McMahon
4  Set dance: Mount Fabus Hunt Bernard O'Sullivan / Tommy McMahon
5  Reels: Ollie Conway's Selection Tommy McMahon
6  Reels: Kilrush Races / The Clogher Reel / Burren Reel Tommy McMahon / Bernard O'Sullivan
7  Set dance: Bonaparte's Retreat Tommy McMahon / Bernard O'Sullivan
8  March: Bonaparte's March Bernard O'Sullivan
9  Jigs: Barron's / Jackson's / The Milltown Jig Tommy McMahon
10 Set dance: Rodney's Glory Tommy McMahon / Bernard O'Sullivan
11 Reel: Tommy McMahon's Reel Tommy McMahon
12 Waltz: Over The Waves Bernard O'Sullivan / Tommy McMahon
13 Polkas: Girl I Left Behind / Maggie in the Wood Bernard O'Sullivan
14 Jigs: Martin Talty's / Thomas Friel's / Joe Cunnean's Tommy McMahon
15 Hornpipes: Sean Ryan's / Danganella hornpipe Tommy McMahon
16 Set dance: Job O' Journeywork Tommy McMahon / Bernard O'Sullivan
17 Reels: The Ash Plant / The Maid of Mount Cisco Bernard O'Sullivan / Tommy McMahon
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The Wide Midlands: Songs, stories and tunes from the central Counties.
'Birmingham, the Midland metropolis, was an important centre for the printing of broadsides and it is inevitable that this selection should lean towards the West Midlands. As well as broadsides, a number of industrial songs and fragments have been included, which have survived in oral tradition. The final song was written as lately as 1970. The toughness, the resilience, the humour and pride of the urban Midlander, both in hard times and in easier days, are the qualities which emerge from these songs and stories. They are as much 'in the idiom of the people' as their cousins from the country.'
1 The Dudley Boys Sung by Peter Coe, Chris Richards, Mick Bramwich and Les Ivall, acc. Adrian Morris (whistle), Jim Haywood (tabor) & Helena Ivall (tenor drum)
2 When shall we get married, John? sung by Julie West & Roy Palmer, acc. Martyn Briggs (banjo) & Mick Nash (guitar)
3 The slap-bum tailor sung by Roy Palmer and chorus
4 Swaggering Boney/The black joke played by John Rose (fiddle) & Paul Hooke (guitar)
5 Stop that clock/Early in the morning/When you get up in the morning sung by Graham Langley, Doreen Davis, Pam Bishop & Steve Lynn
6 Jolly Joe the collier's son sung by The Singing Tradition (Julie West, Martyn Briggs, Bob Lapworth & Mick Nash)
7 Owd never could told by Tom Langley
8 I can't find Brummagem sung by Richard Hamilton, acc. Pam Bishop (guitar) & John Wrench (mouth organ)
9 The Birmingham Jack of all trades sung by Dave Rogers & chorus, acc. John Wrench (guitar) & Pam Bishop (concertina)
10 The nailmakers' strike sung by Chris Rogers & Pam Bishop
11 The old miner sung by The Singing Tradition
12 Birmingham Sally sung by Chris Richards
13 Buffoon/Staffordshire Hornpipe played by John Rose (fiddle) & Paul Hooke (guitar)
14 Aye for Saturday Night sung by Joan Smith, acc. Pam Bishop (whistle)
15 The Aston Villa Supporter told by Tom Langley
16 Motor Trade Workers sung by Graham Langley and Bob Etheridge, acc. John Wrench (guitar)
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PACKIE BYRNE was born in Co. Donegal in 1917 into a community where traditional music and song were deeply imbedded, Packie could not help but continue this tradition. Throughout his life he was a notable singer, also becoming very well-known in the London area as a whistle player of great skill. This album shows a less well-known side of Packie – a carrier of fine traditional ballads, some of which were quite rare.
1Â Â John and the Farmer
2  The Rich Man's Daughter
3Â Â The Holland Handkerchief
4Â Â Molly Bawn
5Â Â The Jolly Ploughboy
6Â Â Young Alvin
7  Johnny o' Hazelgreen
8Â Â Lament to the Moon
9Â Â The Creel
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Peggy Seeger and Tom Paley, both New York, are brilliant exponents of American instrumental traditions. Guitar, banjo, autoharp and dulcimer weave a delicate majesty on a great selection of traditional material. This stunning collection, recorded in London in 1964 by Bill Leader, is a powerful example of their musical accuity and has been an influence on many younger performers.
1Â Who's That Knocking at My Window
2Â Love Henry
3Â The Lass of Roch Royal
4 Who's Going to Shoe your Pretty Little Foot?
5Â Pretty Polly
6Â Englewood Mine
7 Buck Dancer's Choice
8Â Just as the Tide Was Flowing
9Â The Kicking Mule
10Â The Heartless Lady
11Â The Fiddling Soldier
12Â Tittery Nan
13Â Loving Reilly
14Â The Cuckoo
15 If He'd Be a Buckaroo
16Â The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore
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"In the course of singing these songs over the years I've probably altered them hugely from the way they came to me but I hope my informants won't think them too much harmed. My thanks to them all anyway. However, dear listener, don't run away with the idea that I spend my time singing nothing but songs such as these. After all, I have always loved singing and sung all the songs that were available to me. So, off-duty at least, these songs mix with the songs of Crosby, Jolson, Paul Robeson and Hank Williams, to name only four of my favourite singers. The real gift that the folk revival has given me is the knowledge of these traditional songs so that they can share a place in my affections with the radio songs I had known for years. I hope you will enjoy the songs here; if you want to learn any to sing yourself – go ahead!" Roy Harris from the original album sleevenotes.
1Â Â As I Was Going to Banbury
2  The Knight and the Shepherd 's Daughter
3Â Â The Baker of Colebrook
4Â Â The 23rd of March
5Â Â Go from My Window
6Â Â Think on This (When You Smoke Tobacco)
7Â Â The Dockyard Gate
8Â Â The Lady of Carlisle
9Â Â Robin Hood and Little John
10Â Sandbank Fields
11Â The Spithead Sailor
12Â The Unhappy Parting
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From the original LP notes by Neil Wayne:
In this, the sixth Topic/Free Reed release, we present a sample of the playing of eight musicians from various parts of Ireland who play the Anglo concertina.
Today, the richest store of traditional concertina playing is to be found in County Clare, and indeed five of these musicians live and work in that county. However, the instrument's popularity has been more widespread and Mrs. O'Dwyer, who learnt to play in County Limerick as a young girl, tells of many players in that county.
Also, the instrument is regaining popularity amongst the newer generation of musicians, and we feature on the recording items from two younger Dublin concertina players.
This record, then, surveys the Irish traditional concertina styles that can be heard in and around County Clare today, and includes selections from younger musicians, as well as some of the finest traditional players of the concertina in Ireland.
1 reel King of the Clans Sonny Murray
2 set tunes No Title/Behind the Bush in Parkhanna Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
3 jig Kit O'Mahoney's Paddy Murphy
4 reel The Mountain Road Gerald Haugh
5 Reels Solus Lillis/Tom Carey
6 slow air The Fairy Child Michael MacAogain
7 set dance The Argrume Set Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
8 barn dance The Barn Dance Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
9 reels Chancy Cheory/West along the Road Sonny Murray
10 reel The Morning Dew Sonny Murray
11 reel Spike Island Lasses Sean O'Dwyer
12 jigs Jigs incl. Jenny's Beaver Hat Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
13 reels Toss the Feathers/Drowsy Maggie Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
14 reel The Mason's Apron Paddy Murphy
15 flings Sean O'Dwyer's Fling/The Kerry Hornpipe Sean O'Dwyer
16 jig Kesh Jig Gerald Haugh
17 jig The Clare Jig (Stack's Favourite) Solus Lillis/Tom Carey
18 air Air from Thomas Moor Solus Lillis
19 hornpipe The Fairy Hornpipe Michael MacAogain
20 March Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
21 set dance Mrs O'Dwyer's Fancy Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer
22 jigs Apples in Winter Solus Lillis/Tom Carey
Produced by John Tams, Neil Wayne and Tony Engle.
First issued by Topic Records 1977.
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Andrew Cronshaw – musical explorer and enthusiast – recorded several fine albums for Topic records during the 1980s and '90s. Till The Beasts' Returning is undoubtedly the finest – a magical collection of tunes from the far north of Scotland, from the pen of Mr Cronshaw plus a delightful solo reading of 'Our Captain Cried' by the incomparable June Tabor.
1Â The Dark-Haired Youth / Taladh ar Slanair
2Â Freumh as Craobh Taigh Challadair (The Hawthorn Tree of Cawdor)
3Â Wasps In The Woodpile
4Â Turning The Tide
5Â Alala de Castro / Ronda de Cuestacion
6Â Seana Mhellan
7Â Giullan nam Bo (The Cow Boy)
8Â Our Captain Cried
9Â Ho Ho Nighean Donn (Ho Ho, Brown Maid) / The First of May / The Prince of Wales' Jig
10Â The Saratoga Hornpipe
11Â An Old Highland Air
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Lizzie Higgins was born in the centre of Aberdeen in 1929, the daughter of Jeannie Robertson the world-renowned ballad singer and the great piper Donald Higgins. Her forbears on both sides were travellers and she inherited a rich heritage of traditional music. At the time of these recordings Lizzie was regarded as the finest living interpreter of Scots traditional song.
1 Wha's at the Windy
2Â Lovely Molly
3Â The Fair of Ballnafannin
4Â Young Emsley
5Â Bonnie Udny
6Â Far Over the Forth
7Â Laird of the Dainty Doonby
8Â The Seasons
9Â Davy Faa
10Â The Banks of Red Roses
11Â The Maid of Glenshea
12Â The College Boy
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Many of the finest traditional ballads from the British Isles were preserved by the families of settlers in the American South, where they existed alongside native American balladry. Hedy West, a native of North Georgia in the Appalachians, was one of the very few performers who were at home with the various manners of performing these ballad traditions. 'Ballads' is a splendid recording from 1967 which continues to influence contemporary musicians like Martin Simpson, three decades later.
1Â The Foggy Dew
2Â Girl I Left In Danville
3Â The Unquiet Grave
4Â Beaulampkin
5Â Down In Adairsville
6Â The Sheffield Apprentice
7Â Lucy Wan
8Â Little Sadie
9Â The Cruel Mother
10Â Love Henry
11Â The Texan Rangers
12Â George Collins
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The Oldham Tinkers from Oldham in South Lancashire made their debut on the best selling 'Deep Lancashire' collection in 1968. Throughout the next decade they took their music to a wide international audience. Their fourth 'solo' album for the Topic label was a powerful mixture of Lancashire humour and pathos. Their songs are derived from the poems of local dialect writers, from Music Hall entertainers and from the traditional music of the North West.
1Â The Maid in the Calico Dress
2Â Elsie Bell
3Â Pity Me My Darling
4Â The Talking Dog
5Â To Sarah
6Â Tall Tales Medley
7Â Sit Thee Down
8Â John Willie's Ferret
9Â The Deserter
10Â Poor Little Hauve-Timer
11Â Dad's Medals
12Â Fishing
13Â Jumping Jack
14Â Jim's Medley
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TRADITIONAL SONGS OF LOVE & LUST – A collection of erotic folk song.
These songs were made by men and women in close touch with nature, in tune with the run of the seasons, the growthy of crops, the increase of stock, the fruitfulness of their own kind. They are mainly concerned with the great clean truths of desire and fulfilment, love and fruitfulness.
1  The Two Magicians — AL Lloyd (with Dave Swarbrick)
2  The Old man From Over the Sea — Frankie Armstrong
3  The Wanton Seed — AL Lloyd
4  Gathering Rushes in the Month of May — Anne Briggs
5  The Banks of Sweet Primroses — Louis Killen (acc. concertina)
6  The Maid on the Shore — Frankie Armstrong
7  The Bonny Black Hare — AL Lloyd (with Dave Swarbrick)
8  The Whirly Whorl — Anne Briggs
9  Pretty Polly — AL Lloyd
10 The Night Visiting Song — Norman Kenneddy
11 The Old Bachelor — AL Lloyd (with Dave Swarbrick & Alf Edwards)
12 The Cock — Louis Killen
13 The Stonecutter Boy — Anne Briggs
14 The Mower — AL Lloyd
15 The Bird in the Bush — Frankie Armstrong
16 The Pegging Awl — AL Lloyd (with Alf Edwards)
17 One May Morning — Louis Killen
18 Martinmas Time — Anne Briggs
19  The Widow of Westmorland's Daughter — AL Lloyd (with Dave Swarbrick & Alf Edwards
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Willie Scott, recorded in his 70s, came from a long line of singing Scots, bred to the trade of shepherd in the rolling Border country where the North of England and the South of Scotland march together.
1 The Shepherd's Song
2Â Piper MacNeil
3Â The Kielder Hunt
4Â Jamie Reaburn
5 Bonnie Wee Trampin' Lass
6Â Bloody Waterloo
7Â Jock Geddes
8Â The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
9 Herd Laddie o' the Glen
10Â The Lads That Were Reared Among Heather
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The traditional folk music of East Suffolk has probably been the best documented regional style in England over the past thirty years. Whereas much of the music and singing recorded in this period would appear to be indigenous to a general 'East Anglian style'. It is possible. even within such a relatively small area. to detect various distinctive traditions often revolving around either a particular pub, village or influential musician. Basically during this period, there were four such quite separate local groupings in this area, with of course some interaction between them (primarily in the case of the travelling pub musician).
The best known of these was undoubtedly that centred around the singing pubs along the Aldeburgh coastal district, such as Blaxhall 'Ship' and the 'Eel Foot Inn' at Eastbridge. Here the music and singing was highly organised. generally as a Saturday night's entertainment with chairmen introducing the singers and maintaining order. Secondly the nearby towns of Woodbridge and Wickham Market boasted a fair number of dance and string bands led by men such as Walter CIow, Fred Whent, Billy Hall and Lennie Pearce. A third tradition was active around the pubs in Halesworth and Yoxford area, revolving around the charismatic Seaman Family from Darsham. Finally_ the small villages between Framlingham and Debenham sported a great musical tradition dominated by melodeon players Walter Read and Alf Peachey and fiddlers Walter Gyford and Harkie Nesling. It is from the last two traditions and through four generations that this recording is drawn.
Harkie Nesling Fiddle
Reg Reeder Dulcimer
Font Whatling Melodeon
Fred Whiting Fiddle
1Â Â Â Polkas (Harkie's Polkas) Fred Whiting
2Â Â Â Cat Among the Tails / Rakes of Mallow Reg Reeder
3Â Â Â The Earl Soham Slog / Flowers of Edinburgh Fred Whiting
4Â Â Â Mick's Tune / Pigeon on the Gate Font Whatling
5Â Â Â The Sultan's Polka / Untitled Polka Harkie Nesling
6   Waltz Medley: Oscar Woods' / Charlie Philpotts Reg Reeder
7Â Â Â Jigs: The Maid at the Well / The Old Kerry Fiddler / The Priest and His Boots Fred Whiting
8Â Â Â Come and Be My Little Teddy Bear Harkie Nesling
9Â Â Â Polkas Font Whatling
10 Hornpipes: The Weaver's / The Bristol Sailorman / Ballinalig in the Morning Fred Whiting
11Â Imprudence Schottische / Rakes of Mallow Harkie Nesling
12 Polka Medley : 1,2,3,4 5 / Jenny Lind / Joe, the Boat is Going Over Reg Reeder
13 The Hurling Boys ('Old Country Dance')/ Jack Tar Hornpipe Fred Whiting
14Â Untitled Tunes Font Whatling
15Â The Barn Dance Harkie Nesling
16Â Off to California / Will the Waggoner (Gypsy Hornpipe ) Fred Whiting
17 Â Pigeon on the Gate Font Whatling
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'Cilla & Artie' is a splendid album from Cilla Fisher (a member of the influential Fisher Family) and her husband Artie Trezise. The record was 'The Melody Maker Folk Album of the Year – 1979′. Joining Cilla and Artie is an international collection of "session" musicians including Alistair Anderson, Johnny & Phil Cunningham, Rick Lee, Brian McNeill and Bob Zentz. The songs are mostly from the tradition with, "Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk" and "The Gypsy Laddies" but also include a grand version of Stan Rodgers' "The Jeanie C" and the wildest ever arrangement of Ewan MacColl's "Fisher Lassies".
1Â Norland Wind
2Â The Beggar Man
3Â What Can A Young Lassie
4Â Fisher Lassies
5Â Generations of Change
6Â Fair Maid of London Town
7Â The Wicked Wife
8Â The Gypsie Laddies
9 Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk
10Â John Grumlie
11Â The Jeannie C
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Once a traveller, Phoebe Smith was settled in her East Anglian home at the time of these recordings. She sings in the distinctive, highly dramatic style of the travellers, and excels in traditional ballads. "One of the finest performers."
1Â Once I Had A True Love
2Â A Blacksmith Courted Me
3Â Young Ellender
4Â Higher Germany
5Â Molly Vaughan
6Â The Tanyard Side
7Â The Yellow Handkerchief
8Â The Wexport Girl
9Â The Dear Little Maiden
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The brother and sister team of Ray and Archie Fisher first became known to a wider audience in 1961 when they appeared for a long run in the Scottish Television documentary 'Here and Now', and as regular guests on B.B.C. 'Hootenanny' and 'Singalong'. But they were already well established among Scottish folk-enthusiasts.
Dolina Maclennan is a native of the island of Lewis. English is in fact her second language, although she makes light of its difficulties. Her Gaelic songs have been passed down to her through her family.
Robin Gray is of mixed Lewis and Shetland descent, but has lived most of his life in Edinburgh. His maternal grandmother was a well known Gaelic bard.
In Enoch Kent you will find a living synopsis of most of the best characteristics of the folk-song revival. He was ready and eager to learn from the great ethnic singers of Scotland like Jeannie Robertson and Jimmy Macbeath.
1. The Twa Corbies – Ray Fisher acc. Archie Fisher (guitar)
2. Fil U O Ru Hu OÂ – Dolina Maclennan unacc.
3. Gypsy Laddie – Robin Gray acc. himself (guitar)
4. Beggar Man – Enoch Kent unacc.
5. Hug O Ran O Ru – Dolina Maclennan unacc.
6. Donal Don – Enoch Kent acc. himself (guitar)
7. Kilbogie – Ray & Archie Fisher acc. Archie Fisher (guitar)
8. The Night Visiting Song – Ray & Archie Fisher acc. Archie Fisher (guitar)
9. Bonny Lass Come O'er the Burn – Enoch Kent unacc.
10. Far Over the Forth – Ray Fisher unacc.
11. The Butcher Boy – Enoch Kent acc. himself (guitar)
12. Port a Beul – Dolina Maclennan unacc.
13. Erin Go Brath – Enoch Kent unacc.
14. Bratach Bana – Dolina Maclennan acc. Robin Gray (guitar)
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'In 1956 skiffle was going strong in London and Jack began to sing in pubs and create something of a name for himself. In 1957 he sent for his buddy Derroll Adams, banjo-picker from Portland, Oregon and together the two sang and made a Topic album billed as the Rambling Boys. This record is a release of material on JACK TAKES THE FLOOR, Topic 10T15, with additional songs.'
From the original sleevenotes
1 San Fancisco Bay Blues
2 Ol' Riley
3 The Boll Weevil
4 Bed Bug Blues
5 New York Town
6 Old Blue
7 Grey Goose
8 Mule Skinner's Blues
9 East Texas Talking Blues
10 Cocaine
11 Dink's Song
12 Black Baby
13 Salty Dog
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The Coen brothers, Galwaymen by birth, were both resident in New York when this fine location recording was taped. Jack played the flute and Charlie the concertina, both were distinguished members of the New York Irish community when the folklorist Mick Moloney encouraged them to make this album.
1Â Scatter the Mud / Larry Redican's Jig
2Â The Sailor's Cravat / Repeal of the Union
3Â John Conroy's Jig / Jim Conroy's Jig
4Â The Peach Blossom / The Fiddler's Contest
5Â Jim Conroy's Reel / The Pullet
6Â Redican's Mother / The Humours of Kilkenny
7Â Mike Coen's Polka / The Branch Line
8Â Have a Drink with Me / The Blarney Pilgrim
9Â Two Woodford Flings
10Â The Waddling Gander / O'Connell's Jig on Top of Mount Everest
11Â Lads of Laois / Green Groves of Erin
12Â The Tongs by the Fire / The Spinning Wheel
13Â Whelan's Reel / Jenny Dang the Weaver
14Â Jack Coen's Jig / Paddy O'Brien's Jig
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There is a Scots saying that a Stewart is 'either a tinker or sib to the King'. Nobody who knows the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, who spring from a long and famous line of Scots travelling folk, will feel like arguing the toss as to which of these possibilities confers the higher status. By general consent the Stewarts rank high among the singing 'folk' families of Europe and the world, and (as Robert Burns would have agreed) this and similar considerations of sense and merit confer the only patent of nobility worth a docken. The descendants of 'auld Jimmy Stewart of Struan', who crossed from Perthshire into Aberdeenshire via Glenshee and the Devil's Elbow about the middle of the last century, are now scattered up and down the high roads and the low roads of Scotland, and there is a flourishing colony of them in Canada. There can be few more musically gifted clans or families in all Europe. Pipers, Fiddlers, melodeon players, tin whistlers can be counted among them in dozens, and you practically never encounter an indifferent performer. Alex's father, old John Stewart, was one of the finest pipers in Scotland.
Alex, Belle, Cathie and Sheila Stewart recorded in 1965 by Bill Leader
1Â Â Â Huntingtower
2Â Â Â Caroline of Edinburgh Town
3   In London's Fair City
4Â Â Â Queen Amang the Heather
5   Dowie Dens o' Yarrow
6   The Lakes o' Shillin
7Â Â Â Ower Yon Hill There Lives a Lassie
8   The Convict's Song
9Â Â Â Young Jamie Foyers
10Â Â Â The Corncrake amang the Whinny Knowes
11Â Â Â Busk, Busk, Bonnie Lassie
12Â Â Â March; Strathspey; Reel
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As at many local pubs, Saturday nights were for singing and the Eel's Foot was no exception, having a Chairman – Philip Lumpton – who would keep the tiny bar in order with a gavel or the cribbage board and the ruling was that everyone had 'to sing, say or pay'. Jumbo however remembers one chap, a steamroller driver, who 'whenever it was his turn to sing someone would generally pay him a tanner not to – he wasn't all that good.' The money went into a kitty to supply the singers with beer which had to be brought by hand from the cellar to the bar, one pint at a time.
1 The Flower of London
2 The Derby Miller
3 The Loss of the Ramillies
4 The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea
5 Blow the Candle Out
6 The Bold Princess Royal
7 Newry Town
8 The Indian Lass
9 Muddley Barracks
10 The False Hearted Knight
11 The Lost Heiress
12 Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Grow
13 Rambleaway
14 The Life of a Man
Produced by Tony Engle and Keith Summers
First issued by Topic Records 1975
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"Alison McMorland and Peta Webb are two ladies of immense talent and can be counted among the handful, of either sex, who are supreme in their art. Individually they are well respected; together they make that rare blend that is only to be found in singing of this quality, complementing each other perfectly and, even more rare, each somehow adding to the other to come up with something which is more than the combination of two voices. It is only after listening to the whole record that one becomes aware that there is no instrumental accompaniment." Dick Gaughan from the original 1980 sleeve notes.
1Â Two Pretty Boys
2Â What Can A Young Lassie?
3Â Jogging Up To Claudy
4Â In London So Fair
5Â The Convict's Song
6Â Sailing's A Weary Life
7Â The Factory Girl
8Â The May Morning Dew
9Â The Green Banks Of Yarrow
10Â The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
11Â Our Ship Is Ready
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Flute player Packie Duignan was a fine musician who had many of the tunes of the Leitrim player John McKenna, a distinguished and prolific figure in Irish-American recording circles of the 1920s and '30s. He is joined on this splendid record by another Leitrim musician, fiddler Seamus Horan.
1 Jigs: The Shores of Lough Gowna / The Rose and the Heather (flute/fiddle)
2 Slip Jigs: Devero the Dancer / Connie the Soldier (flute)
3 Reels: The Tailor's Thimble / The Red-haired Lass (flute/fiddle)
4 Hornpipe/Reel: Sean Ryan's Hornpipe / The New Found Out Reel (fiddle)
5 Reels: Sporting Paddy / Packie Duignan's Reel (flute/fiddle/whistle)
6 Jigs: The Trip To Athlone / The Hag with the Money / The Castlebar Jig (flute/fiddle)
7 Reels: Crowley's (fiddle)
8 Reels: Jackie Coleman's / The Sailor on the Rock (flute/fiddle)
9 Reels: Bridie Morley / Duignan's Favourite (fiddle/flute)
10 Slip Jig: The Kid on the Mountain (flute/fiddle)
11 Highland Fling/Reel: Monymusk / Mrs. Smollen's Reel (fiddle/flute)
12 Reel: The House On The Hill (flute)
13 Reel: The Duke of Leinster (flute/whistle)
14 Reels: Dinny Ryan's Reels (fiddle)
15 Reels: Tom Ward's Downfall / The Mullaghnavat Reel (flute/fiddle)
16 Jigs: The Geese in the Bog / Your Jig (fiddle)
Sean Wynne plays whistle on tracks 5 and 10.
Robin Morton plays bodhran on tracks 2, 9, 11, 12 & 13
First published by Topic 1978
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One of the greatest English traditional singers – George 'Pop' Maynard from Sussex recorded rarely. This splendid album showcases his majestic and powerful style.
1Â Polly on the Shore
2Â The Sweet Nightingale (The Birds In The Spring)
3Â Locks and Bolts
4Â Down by the Seaside
5Â Jack the Jolly Tar-O
6Â The Seeds of Love
7Â Shooting Goshen's Cocks Up
8Â William Taylor
9Â Rolling in the Dew
10Â A Sailor in the North Country
11Â The Banks of Claudy
12Â Three Sons of Rogues
13Â The Weaver's Daughter
14Â A Wager, A Wager
15Â The Sun Being Set
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Jimmy Power was one of the finest Irish traditional fiddle players. He was also one of the most familiar and best-respected figures on the London-Irish music scene of the 1970s. His exceptional repertoire was developed playing for dancing in English pubs and at the grueling feisanna competitions. Power was a very individual player with a unique style embracing short, sharp bowing and plenty of trebling. He is accompanied by pianist Reg Hall on this fine album.
1Â Tommy Potts' Rambling Pitchfork / The Strayaway Child
2Â The Chorus / McKenna's
3Â Jockey to the Fair / Miss Brown's Fancy
4Â Coleman's Favourite / The Promenade
5Â Dwyer's / The Harvest Home
6Â Jackie Coleman's / The Castle
7Â The Nine Points of Roguery / The Crib of Perches
8Â Whelan's / The Old Lark in the Morning
9Â The Mountain Road
10Â Follow Me Down to Limerick / Hardiman the Fiddler
11Â Youghal Harbour
12Â The Walls of Liscarrol
13Â The Jug of Punch / The Moving Bogs of Powelsborough
14Â Statia Donnelly's
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A pioneering record of traditional East Anglian musicians playing functional music for dancing. This is the music of the rural public house tap room – step dances, polkas and waltzes. The exemplary location recordings capture "relaxed, unspectacular and homely but often highly skilled performances" from four of the finest country musicians – Billy Bennington (hammer dulcimer), Percy Brown (melodeon), Harold Colvill (mouth organ) and Oscar Woods (melodeon).
1Â Jig – Oscar Woods
2Â Gay Ladies – Billy Bennington
3Â Old Joe, the Boat is Going Over / Untitled Polka – Percy Brown
4Â Step dance tune (The Sailor's Hornpipe) – Oscar Woods
5Â Waltz: Dulcie Belle – Billy Bennington
6Â Step Dance: Yarmouth Breakdown – Percy Brown
7Â Italian' Waltz – Oscar Woods
8Â Untitled Polka – Oscar Woods
9Â Step Dance: Yarmouth Hornpipe – Billy Bennington
10Â Polka: On the Green – Billy Bennington
11Â The Oyster Girl – Harold Covill
12Â March: On Parade – Billy Bennington
13Â Waltz for the Veleta – Percy Brown
14Â Step Dance Tune – Oscar Woods
15Â Slow Step Dance Tune – Billy Bennington
16Â Oh, Joe the Boat is Going Over – Oscar Woods
17Â Barn Dance Tune – Percy Brown
18Â Sheringham Breakdown – Percy Brown
19Â The Nutting Girl – Harold Covill
20Â Jack's the Lad (The Sailor's Hornpipe) – Billy Bennington
21Â Red Wing – Billy Bennington
22Â Heel and Toe Polka – Percy Brown
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A fine traditional singer from a bygone world. Bob Roberts was Dorset-born but grew up in Suffolk. He spent most of his working life on sailing barges carrying cargo round Britain or across the Channel to Europe. His repertoire was a treasury of bargemen's songs, which he sang with a mellow grace to his own melodeon accompaniment. Roberts was active on the folk scene during the 1950s and 60s, but was seldom heard before these recordings made in 1977 returned him to clubs and festivals.
1Â The Candlelight Fisherman
2Â The Grey Hawk
3Â Stormy Weather Boys
4Â Waltz with Me
5Â Haul Away Joe
6Â The Oily Rig (recitation)
7Â Â The Little Ball of Yarn
8Â Â The Single Sailor
9Â Â Young Collins
10Â The Fish and Chip Ship
11Â While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
12Â Windy Old Weather
13Â The London Waterman
14 Bob Robert's Waltz
15Â Whiskey Johnny
16Â The Foggy Dew
17Â Bell Bottom Trousers
18Â The Black Shawl
19Â Little Boy Billee
20Â The Collier Brig
21Â Leave Her, Johnny