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This Northumbrian quartet has been one of the most enduring and popular groups in British folk music. Each of its members is an artist of the first rank.


HIGH LEVEL RANTERS THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE TSCD486  link to shop

Subtitled 'A Miner's Life in Music & Song', this is a pageant of songs illustrating a history of hard times and high times, oppression and stubborn pride. The Ranters are joined in this treasury of industrial folksong by Dick Gaughan and the Lancashire singer Harry Boardman.

A Landmark Recording of British Folk Music.

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1 The Hewer
2 Doon the Wagon Way
3 A Miner's Life
4 I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come
5 The Auchengeich Disaster
6 The Collier's Rant
7 Farewell to the Monty
8 The Putter
9 Little Chance
10 My Gaffer's Bait
11 The Coal Owner & the Pitman's Wife
12 The Blacking Miners

See also TSCD498 "Along The Coaly Tyne":
Old & New Northumbrian Songs sung by Louis Killen, Johnny Handle & Tom Gilfellon, accompanied by themselves and fellow High Level Ranters Colin Ross and Alistair Anderson.

See also TSCD484"Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside"
In this classic collection Armstrong's work is celebrated by leading singers of the region such as Louis Killen, Johnny Handle and Tom Gilfellon.

13 The Miner's Lockout
14 The South Medomsley Strike
15 The Durham Lockout
16 Aa'm Glad the Strike's Done
17 The Collier's Pay Week / Cut & Dry Dolly / Success to the Coal Trade / My Lad is O'er Bonny for the Coal Trade
18 I'll Have a Collier
19 The Stoneman's Song
20 The Hartley Calamity
21 Bonnie Woodha'
22 The Banks of the Dee
23 The Bonny Pit Laddie
24 The Bonny Pit Laddie
Alastair Anderson English concertina, vocals
Johnny Handle vocals, melodeon, guitar, accordion
Tommy Gilfellon vocals, guitar
Colin Ross fiddle, whistle, jew's harp, mouth organ, Northumbrian small-pipes
Harry Boardman vocals, Anglo concertina
Dick Gaughan vocals