Walter Pardon was one of England's great traditional singers. He lived all his life in the cottage where he was born in 1914 in the village of Knapton, Norfolk and spent all his working life as a carpenter.
In 1974, a tape of his singing was received by the singer Peter Bellamy and this led to him being recognised as an outstanding singer of remarkable style and repertory. He was subsequently recorded extensively for a number of LPs on the Leader, Topic and Home Made Music labels and appeared in folk-clubs and festivals including the one held at the Smithsonian Institute of Folklife in Washington, DC in 1976.
He appears in the series The Voice Of The People but this is the first full length CD to be made available and features classic traditional repertoire from one of the true masters of the craft.

WALTER PARDON A WORLD WITHOUT HORSES TSCD514

The Rambling Blade
The Lawyer
The Bold Fisherman
The Dark Eyed Sailor
The Bush of Australia
The Female Drummer
The Bold Princess Royal
The Banks of Sweet Dundee
The Deserter
The Trees They Do Grow High
Two Jolly Butchers
The Loss of the Ramillies
The Handsome Cabin Boy
The Pretty Ploughboy
The Cunning Cobbler
The Devil & the Farmer's Wife
The British Man o'War
The Jolly Waggoner
The Rakish Young Fellow