A L LLOYD First Person TSDL118

A L Lloyd occupied a unique position in the British folksong revival. Much-loved father-figure and mentor to many younger singers, he was a performer of persuasive charm, as well as an international authority on folklore and a frequent broadcaster. Lloyd was for a while artistic director of Topic Records and encouraged the early recordings of many of the folk scene's finest performers. 'First Person' is a remarkable selection of his own favourite English folk songs. Lloyd is accompanied by Alf Edwards - concertina and Dave Swarbrick - fiddle.

1 Four Drunken Maidens
2 St. James’ Hospital
3 Kelly Gang
4 I Wish My Love
5 Jack Orion
6 Lover’s Ghost
7 Rocking the Cradle
8 Drover’s Dream
9 Short Jacket and White Trousers
10 Sovay, the Female Highwayman
11 Reynardine
12 Farewell Nancy
13 Fanny Blair
14 Shickered As He Could Be

EWAN MacCOLL Bundook Ballads TSDL130

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.

1 Any Complaints
2 The Fortress Songs
3 Farewell to Sicily
4 The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla
5 The Dying Soldier
6 The Ghost Army of Korea
7 Browned Off
8 When this Ruddy War is Over
9 Join the British Army
10 On the Move Tonight
11 The Second Front Song
12 Seven Years in the Sand
13 Hand Me Down Me Petticoat
14 The Young Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
15 Bless ‘Em All

BOB CANN West Country Melodeon TSDL275

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
2 Hot Punch / Uncle's Jig
3 Uncle George's Waltz / Uncle Jim's Waltz
4 The Primrose Polka
5 Dorsetshire Hornpipe
6 The Kester Rocky Waltz
7 Family Jig / Uncle George's
8 Woodland Flowers / Uncle Jim's
9 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
12 Lyrinka
13 Schottische Hornpipe / Cokey Hornpipe

JIMMY POWER Irish Fiddle Player TSDL306

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.

1 Tommy Potts' Rambling Pitchfork / The Strayaway Child
2 The Chorus / McKenna's
3 Jockey to the Fair / Miss Brown's Fancy
4 Coleman's Favourite / The Promenade
5 Dwyer's / The Harvest Home
6 Jackie Coleman's / The Castle
7 The Nine Points of Roguery / The Crib of Perches
8 Whelan's / The Old Lark in the Morning
9 The Mountain Road
10 Follow Me Down to Limerick / Hardiman the Fiddler
11 Youghal Harbour
12 The Walls of Liscarrol
13 The Jug of Punch / The Moving Bogs of Powelsborough
14 Statia Donnelly's

ROSE MURPHY Milltown Lass TSDL316

The captivating fiddle and accordion player, Rose Murphy, was born in 1900 into an intensely musical family in Milltown, County Galway. She spent much of her adult life living around Rotherham in South Yorkshire, and was 76 years young when this recording was made. The album delightfully recaptures the dancing repertoire styles of her youth in the West of Ireland.

1 Reel: Salamanca / The Milltown Lasses
2 Trim the Velvet
3 Jig: The Silver Tip / The Frog in the Well
4 The Lark in the Clear Air
5 Polkas: The First of May / The Last of June (Jenny Lind)
6 Jigs: Paddy in London / Over the Garden Wall
7 Hornpipe: Road to Ballysodare
8 Reels: The Teetotaller / The Bunch of Keys
9 Reel: The Whistler and His Dog
10 Reels: The Flax in Bloom / The College Grove / The Maid on the Mountain
11 Reel: Ladybower’s Reel / The Sister Reel
12 Reel: Drowsy Maggie
13 Hornpipes: The Harvest Home / The Londonderry
14 Jigs: The Frost Is All Over / The Goose in the Bog
15 Reel: The Lonely Maid
16 Air: The Coolin
17 Barn Dance: Turkey in the Straw
18 Slip Jig: Mother I’m Up In the Roost (What Are You Doing, You Divil You!)
19 Miss Monahan's / Miss Gallagher's
20 Reel: Rakish Paddy
21 Hornpipe The Belfast (or Sweep’s) Hornpipe

TOMMY HEALY & JOHN DUFFY Memories Of Sligo TSDL335

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
2 Jigs: The Wandering Minstrel / Fasten the Legging / The Smash
3 Hornpipes: The Rights of Man / The Honeysuckle
4 Reels: The Boys at the Lough / The Merry Blacksmith
5 Jigs: The Scotsman Over the Border / Tell Her I Am
6 Reels: The Montua / The Happy Days of Youth
7 Reel: Fred Finn’s Reel
8 Reel; The First Part of the Lancers
9 Jigs: The Gold Ring / Richard Brennan’s Favourite
10 Reels: Miss McLeod / The Wild Irishman
11 Jig: The Grey Goose
12 Reels: The Humours of Lissadel / Sweeney’s Dream
13 Jigs: Cavan Lasses / Rose of the Heather
14 Reels: The Enchanted Lady / The Holy Land
15 Waltz: Mrs Kenney
16 Reels: Martin Wynne's No.1 & No.2

BOB ROBERTS Songs From The Sailing Barges TSDL361

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.

1 The Candlelight Fisherman
2 The Grey Hawk
3 Stormy Weather Boys
4 Waltz with Me
5 Haul Away Joe
6 The Oily Rig (recitation)
7 The Little Ball of Yarn
8 The Single Sailor
9 Young Collins
10 The Fish and Chip Ship
11 While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
12 Windy Old Weather
13 The London Waterman
14 Bob Robert’s Waltz
15 Whiskey Johnny
16 The Foggy Dew
17 Bell Bottom Trousers
18 The Black Shawl
19 Little Boy Billee
20 The Collier Brig
21 Leave Her, Johnny

MARY ANN CAROLAN Songs From The Irish Tradition TSDL362

Coming from a family of singers and musicians, of whom her father in particular was a well-known songster, Mary Ann Carolan was a splendid performer of ballads and songs in the style and tradition of County Louth, Eire. Mary had a repertoire of over sixty songs when this fine recording was made in 1978.

1 Bold Doherty
2 The Maid of Ballymore
3 Bob Riddley
4 The Old Oak Tree
5 The Tinker’s Old Budget
6 The Bonny Light Horseman
7 In London So Fair
8 My Father’s a Hedger and a Ditcher
9 Highland Mary
10 The Wedding at Baltray

DAN SULLIVAN’S SHAMROCK BAND TSDL366

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.

1 Irish Dance Set - Figure No.2
2 Dan Sullivan’s Favourite
3 Tickling Mary Jane
4 The Rabbit Catcher
5 Londonderry Hornpipe
6 Miller’s Reel / Duffy the Dancer
7 Bantry Bay
8 Billy Hanafin’s Reel
9 Green Grow the Rushes-O
10 Versouviana Dance
11 Boil the Kettle Early
12 Groves Hornpipe
13 Johnny Will You Marry Me?
14 Lord Longon's Reel
15 Lanigan's Ball
16 Blackberry Blossom / Bonnie Kate
17 I’m Leaving Tipperary
18 Silver Slipper / Jerry Daly’s Hornpipe

WALTER PARDON A Country Life TSDL392

Walter Pardon (1914 - 1996) was one of the best singers of traditional folk-song in England, yet, outside his family, no one knew of his singing until he was 59 years old. Born in Knapton, near North Walsham in Norfolk, in a cottage where he lived for the rest of his life, Pardon finally came to national prominence in the folk-song world in the 1970s through a cassette tape passed to Peter Bellamy. The folklorist Mike Yates began a project to record and document Walter's repertoire of over 150 songs. These recordings from the late 1970s capture a beautiful, gentle singer at the height of his powers.

1 Raggle Taggle Gypsies
2 Peggy Bawn
3 Bold Princess Royal
4 One Cold Morning in December
5 The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
6 An Old Man’s Advice
7 Uncle Walter’s Tune
8 A Country Life
9 Cupid the Ploughboy
10 The Dandy Man
11 Jack Hall
12 I Wish, I Wish
13 Broomfiled Hill
14 The Hungry Army

ANDREW CRONSHAW The Language Of Snakes TSDL1050

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.

1 Through Moorfields
2 Kindness For Ever More
3 MacDonnel's March / Kilcoy's March
4 Baile de Procesión
5 Cronnan na Caillach a bhan sa Bhein Bhreic
6 Marcha Procesional do San Benito
7 Apple Praities
8 Ailean Duinn
9 A Maruxa
10 The Waterford Waltz
11 Tupakkarulla / Tuuti Hussaa Ja Lullaa / The Other Boot Dance
12 Hithil Ùil Agus Ò, Hithil O Hòrino
13 Tha Mi Sgith 'm Ònaran
14 An Gille Donn / Vaskilinun Vaikerrus

EWAN MacCOLL Chorus From The Gallows TSDL502

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.

1 Derek Bentley
2 The Black Velvet Band
3 Jamie Raeburn's Farewell
4 Johnny O
5 Hughie The Graeme
6 Minorie
7 The Treadmill Song
8 Turpin Hero
9 The Crafty Farmer
10 McKaffery
11 Jimmy Wilson
12 The Lag's Song
13 Van Dieman's Land
14 Go Down Ye Murderers

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS Stolen Ground TSDL453

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.

1 Arthur McBride
2 The Juggler
3 Clee Hill Tunes
4 Mother Earth
5 Black Deer
6 Must I Be Bound / Mrs Saggs
7 The Chickens They Are Crowing
8 Shepherd's Branle
9 The Old Miner

ANDREW CRONSHAW Till The Beasts' Returning TSDL447

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.

1 The Dark-Haired Youth / Taladh ar Slanair
2 Freumh as Craobh Taigh Challadair (The Hawthorn Tree of Cawdor)
3 Wasps In The Woodpile
4 Turning The Tide
5 Alala de Castro / Ronda de Cuestacion
6 Seana Mhellan
7 Giullan nam Bo (The Cow Boy)
8 Our Captain Cried
9 Ho Ho Nighean Donn (Ho Ho, Brown Maid) / The First of May / The Prince of Wales' Jig
10 The Saratoga Hornpipe
11 An Old Highland Air

MARTIN & JESSICA SIMPSON True, Dare or Promise TSCD446D

A remarkable album from Martin Simpson and his then wife, Jessica, with the band Flash Company. 'True, Dare or Promise' features some of Martin Simpson's most imaginative guitar playing through a remarkable series of arrangements that stretch British folk-rock towards the avant garde! The ensemble also features the fine (and much lamented) songwriter John B Spencer. Although they only performed a handful of gigs this album captures all the early promise of a fine ensemble.

1 Doney Girl
2 Past Caring
3 Not the Whiskey Talking
4 Young Man
5 Bedlam Boys
6 Wholly in my Keeping
7 Rising of the Woman
8 Man Smart, Woman Smarter
9 Essequibo River
10 The Keel Row

BILL CADDICK The Wild West Show TSDL441

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'.

1 Superman
2 Spanish Nights
3 Fork-lift Truck
4 Moses (Smooth Talking)
5 Two-Fisted Heroes
6 Forgotten The Blues
7 Dance To The Music Of Time
8 Stay On The Line
9 Eights And Aces
10 The Wild West Show

MARTIN SIMPSON Sad or High Kicking! TSCD438D

Martin Simpson has spoken of his early studio recordings as "scrapbooks of the millions of things that I was into at that time." For most fans this 1986 album displays a young master developing a remarkable relationship with his guitar.

1 Jazzman
2 Shawnee Town
3 Moth
4 Living Without You
5 For Jessica, Sad or High Kicking / My Dearest Dear
6 Icarus
7 No Depression in Heaven
8 Let It Be Me
9 Stillness in Company
10 The Lakes of Ponchartrain

CURLEW Fiddle Music of Shetland & Beyond TSDL435

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.

1 Shetland Reels: Tilley Plump / Auld Foula Reel / Oot and in da Harbour
2 Air & Hornpipe: Grenadier and his Lady / Eunyssagh Vana
3 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
6 Janne's Reinlander / The Cambridge
7 Shetland Reels: Da Cauld Nights of Winter / Square da Mizzen / Da Ness of Sound
8 C'raad T'ou Goll my Veg Dhone / Ta Dick Veg Er Yannoo Mie / Nancy
9 Shetland Reels: Ramna Stacks / Da Spirit of Whisky / Gold for da Boannie Lasses
10 Two Norwegian Reinlanders
11 Alvadansur
12 Shetland Reels: Da Road to Houll / John Pottinger's Compliments to Ronnie Cooper / Simon's Wart

MARTIN SIMPSON Grinning In Your Face TSCD430D

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
2 Little Birdie
3 The First Cut is the Deepest
4 Roving Gambler
5 This War May Last for Years
6 Masters of War
7 Reuben’s Train
8 Your Cheatin’ Heart
9 Handsome Molly
10 Townships - Biko
11 Moonshine
12 Green Linnet / Grinning in your Face

UMPS AND DUMPS The Moon's In A Fit TSDL416

Umps and Dumps were an exuberant dance band led by John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris. The ensemble's sole recording is a splendid example of the energy typical of the English country dance scene of the early 1980s.

1 Up Sides
2 After You’ve Got
3 Woodland Voices
4 The Watercress Girl
5 Maybe She’ll Write Me
6 Rogue’s March / Dashing White Sergeant
7 Marmalade Polka
8 Underneath Her Apron
9 Lichfield Tattoo
10 The Willow Tree
11 Donkey, Jack Donkey / Here it Comes Again
12 Dark Town Strutter’s Ball / Cajun Two Step

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS Facing The Music TSDL408

John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris were a duo which achieved an enviable reputation in the British folk scene of the 1970s. Their repertoire focussed on English country music and songs. John recorded 'Morris On' with Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson and Barry Dransfield ushering a new appreciation of Morris music. The purely instrumental 'Facing The Music' was the duo's fourth record for the Topic label and represents a high point of their recording career. The splendid tunes are drawn from a bewildering variety of sources; from rural musicians and from published tune books, from the Bahamas, from the Appalachians and from Orkney.

1 John Locke's Polka / Three Jolly Sheepskins
2 Kettle Drum
3 Trip to the Cottage / Hunting the Squirrel / Jack of the Green
4 A Shelter in the Time of Storm / We Shall be Happy
5 Millfield / Saturday Night and Sunday Morn
6 Garrick's Delight / The Flaxley Green Dance
7 Crocker's Reel
8 Roast Beef / All Flowers in Broome
9 The Rope Waltz
10 A Cheshire's Hornpipe / Black Mary's Hornpipe

CILLA FISHER & ARTIE TREZISE Cilla & Artie TSDL405

'Cilla & Artie' is a splendid album from Cilla Fisher (a member of the influential Fisher Family) and her husband Artie Tresize. 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".

1 Norland Wind
2 The Beggar Man
3 What Can A Young Lassie
4 Fisher Lassies
5 Generations of Change
6 Fair Maid of London Town
7 The Wicked Wife
8 The Gypsie Laddies
9 Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk
10 John Grumlie
11 The Jeannie C

ALISON McMORLAND & PETE WEBB Cilla & Artie TSDL403

"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.

1 Two Pretty Boys
2 What Can A Young Lassie?
3 Jogging Up To Claudy
4 In London So Fair
5 The Convict's Song
6 Sailing's A Weary Life
7 The Factory Girl
8 The May Morning Dew
9 The Green Banks Of Yarrow
10 The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
11 Our Ship Is Ready

THE OLDHAM TINKERS That Lancashire Band TSDL399

The Oldham Tinkers from South Lancashire made their recording debut on the best selling 'Deep Lancashire' collection in 1968. Throughout the next decade they took their music to a wide international audience. Their fifth 'solo' album for the Topic label is another powerful mixture of Lancashire humour and pathos. Their beguiling songs are derived from the poems of local dialect writers, from Music Hall entertainers and from the traditional music of the North West of England.

1 Old May Song
2 John Willie's Performing Newt
3 Nowt About Owt
4 Children's Chants & Songs - Captain's Medley
5 Eawr House - As Was
6 Oh! That Lancashire Jazz Band
7 The Lark
8 John Willie's Grand-Dad
9 Tribute to Owd Paddy
10 Old King Coal
11 Steeple Jack
12 The Crime Lake Boggart
13 An Oldham Rugby Medley
14 McCarthy's Party

JOHN DOHERTY Bundle And Go TSDL398

The late John Doherty, the travelling virtuoso fiddler from Donegal, was an important link in the Gaelic tradition of rural Ireland. He was one of the greatest Irish master musicians, yet for most of his life he never owned a fiddle. At the time of these historic recordings he was 83 years old.

1 Hudie Gallagher's March / Untitled Reel
2 The Black Mare of Fanad
3 The March of the Meena Toiten Bull
4 Kiss the Maid Behind the Bier / The Bargain is Over
5 The 21 Highland
6 Untitled March
7 Untitled Reel
8 The Paps of Glencoe
9 The Hare in the Corn
10 Untitled March
11 The Knights of St Patrick
12 The Dispute at the Crossroads
13 Roaring Mary / Stormy Weather
14 Miss Patterson's Slippers
15 The Cat that Kittled in Jamie's Wig
16 Welcome Home Royal Charlie
17 Darby Gallagher
18 Untitled Mazurka
19 Untitled Reel
20 The Teelin Highland
21 Untitled March
22 The Heathery Breeze
23 Untitled Highland Reel
24 The Monaghan Switch
25 Untitled Highland Reel
26 The Black Haired Lass
27 Paddy's Rambles Through the Park

THE HIGH LEVEL RANTERS Four In A Bar TSDL388

The High Level Ranters were one of the longest-established and most popular bands in Britain. A rare combination of individual talents, the group play the music of their native Northumbria with a command born of skill and understanding. 'Four In A Bar' is an all-instrumental collection, typical of the repertoire they played at regular sessions in Newcastle's weekly 'Folksong & Ballad' club.

1 Whinham's Jig / Billy's Jig
2 Chips and Shavings / Jack's Alive / Dear Tobacco
3 Town Green Polka / Jenny Bell Polka
4 The Biddlestone Hornpipe / The Last of the Twins
5 The Ruby / The Quarrelsome Piper
6 Rowly Burn / Coates's Hornpipe
7 La Russe / The Winshield's Hornpipe / Jane's Fancy / Da Road to Houll
8 Blinkin' Tibbie / The Pear Tree
9 Swalwell Lasses / South Shields Lasses
10 Moonshine Polka
11 The Quayside / Miss Ward's Reel
12 The Butterclout / Such a Wife as Willie Had / Willy is a Bonny Lad

VIN GARBUTT Tossing A Wobbler TSDL385

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.

1 Man of the Earth
2 Legend of Roseberry
3 Long Note / Lads of Laois / Le Reel Jeune Marie
4 Photographic Memory
5 Yorkshire Volunteer's Farewell to the Good Folks of Stockton / Push About the Jorum
6 St. Helena's March
7 Carrigdhoun
8 The Freemantle Doctor
9 One-Legged Beggar
10 They Don't Write 'Em Like That Any More

THE NEW VICTORY BAND One More Dance And Then TSDL382

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.

1 Polkas - Harper's Frolick / Bonny Kate
2 Schottische - The Mountain Belle
3 You Can't Take That on the Train
4 Waltzes - Charles Lynch's / Cajun Waltz / The Banks of the Dee
5 Pretty Little Girl from Nowhere
6 Nellie's First Rag
7 Polkas - Robbie Hobkirk's / Father's
8 Jigs - Mrs Grace Bowie / The Hogmanay
9 Mamie May
10 Polkas - (I'm Going To Get My) Moustache (Blacked As Soon As I Get There) / Corn Riggs
11 One More Dance and Then
12 Long, Long Trail

SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS For As Many As Will TSDL380

'For As Many As Will' dates from 1978 and was the last studio recording by Shirley & Dolly Collins. The sisters were brought up on the Sussex coast with a strong intuitive for English traditional song. Through a remarkable series of landmark recordings during the 1960s and '70s they helped define the possibilities of the English folksong revival. 'For As Many As Will' includes a stunning reading of Richard Thompson's 'Never Again', alongside fine traditional material like 'Lord Allenwater', 'Gilderoy', 'The Moon Shines Bright' and a medley from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'.

1 Lancashire Lass
2 Never Again
3 Lord Allenwater
4 The Blacksmith Courted Me
5 Beggar’s Opera Medley - Can Love Be Control’d by Advice? / O Polly You Might Have Toy’d and Kist / Oh What Pain it is to Part / The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees / Youth’s the Season Made For Joys / Hither Dear Husband, Turn your Eyes; Lumps of Pudding
6 Gilderoy
7 Rockley Firs / Sweet Jenny Jones
8 German Tune
9 The Moon Shines Bright
10 Harvest Home Medley - Peas, Beans, Oats and the Barley / The Mistress’s Health / Poor Tom

VIN GARBUTT Eston California TSDL378

A singer of extraordinary power, a gifted guitarist and whistle-player, Vin Garbutt has been one of the most popular performers on the folk scene for nearly forty years. This, his first album recorded for Topic records is a career highlight.

1 Bantry Bay / Den Toppede Høne
2 The Land of Three Rivers
3 Gentle Annie
4 Hornpipes - The Belfast / The Japanese
5 The Hartlepool Monkey
6 Tonto McGuire
7 The Ring of Iron
8 Skibbereen
9 Their Ulster Peace
10 Reels - Tear the Calico / The Providence
11 The Waters Of Tyne

ALISTAIR ANDERSON Corby Crag TSDL371

Solo recording from one of the leading figures in music from the North East of England and inded in the English folksong revival of the late twentieth century. English concertina and smallpipe maestro Alistair Anderson has been at the forefront of the performance of traditional music for over four decades. An internationally recognised ambassador for the music of Northumberland, between 1968 and 1979 he toured the world as a member of the High Level Ranters. He has an enviable reputation as a solo performer and an enthusiastic educator and folk activist. In 2006 he was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

1 The Hawk Polka / Thrunton Woods
2 The Keelman’s Petition / The Tipp Staff
3 La Fille de Lyon / Cotillion des Marionettes
4 Blake’s Hornpipe / President Garfield’s Hornpipe / Bonny Broom Hill
5 Felton Ionnin
6 Kriden Fair / Tich Richardson’s Favourite / Hey to the Camp / Brosehill
7 Alistair Anderson’s Favourite / Old French
8 The Belfast Hornpipe / The Prize Potato
9 The Trip to Carlisle / Corby Crag
10 Ali Anderson / Henry Atkinson
11 Blaydon Flats / Whittingham Games / James Brown
12 Derwent Water’s Bonnie Lord / The Bride’s Favourite
13 Remember Me / The Left Handed Fiddler
14 Geld Him Lasses, Geld Him / Uncle John
15 The Darkening

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS Shreds And Patches TSDL355

John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris play a beautiful blend of Kirkpatrick's morris dance based accordion-driven music and Sue's classically trained oboe arrangements. 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. 'Shreds and Patches' is regarded by many aficionados as one of their finest.

1 Waterman's Dance
2 The Gipsy Laddie
3 Apple Core / Nipper
4 The Tailor and the Louse
5 Peg Huglestone's Hornpipe
6 Little Sir William
7 The Game of All Fours
8 Penny For Them
9 Whitefryer's Hornpipe / Shreds and Patches
10 Johnny Sands
11 Oakham Poachers
12 Bread and Jam Waltzer / Mr Gubbin's Bicycle

BOB DAVENPORT AND THE RAKES 1977 TSDL350

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.

1 Waltzes: With my Love on the Road / Wild Colonial Boy
2 The Ploughboy Lad
3 Single Jigs: Patsy Geary’s / The Peeler and the Goat
4 Princess Royal
5 Lake of Coolfin
6 The Man in the Moon / The Jealous Sailor / Jealous Heart
7 Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie
8 Three Men Went A-Hunting
9 Country Dance: Three Around Three
10 The Dowie Dens ofYarrow
11 Polkas: McCusker’s No. 1 / McCusker’s No. 2 / Jenny Lind
12 Slieve Gallion Braes
13 The Star of the County Down
14 Old Green River

JACK AND CHARLIE COEN The Branch Line TSDL337

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.

1 Scatter the Mud / Larry Redican's Jig
2 The Sailor's Cravat / Repeal of the Union
3 John Conroy's Jig / Jim Conroy's Jig
4 The Peach Blossom / The Fiddler's Contest
5 Jim Conroy's Reel / The Pullet
6 Redican's Mother / The Humours of Kilkenny
7 Mike Coen's Polka / The Branch Line
8 Have a Drink with Me / The Blarney Pilgrim
9 Two Woodford Flings
10 The Waddling Gander / O'Connell's Jig on Top of Mount Everest
11 Lads of Laois / Green Groves of Erin
12 The Tongs by the Fire / The Spinning Wheel
13 Whelan's Reel / Jenny Dang the Weaver
14 Jack Coen's Jig / Paddy O'Brien's Jig

THE OLDHAM TINKERS Sit Thee Down TSDL323

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.

1 The Maid in the Calico Dress
2 Elsie Bell
3 Pity Me My Darling
4 The Talking Dog
5 To Sarah
6 Tall Tales Medley
7 Sit Thee Down
8 John Willie's Ferret
9 The Deserter
10 Poor Little Hauve-Timer
11 Dad's Medals
12 Fishing
13 Jumping Jack
14 Jim's Medley

BOB SMITH'S IDEAL BAND Ideal Music TSDL319

Bob Smith's Ideal Band was the cente of a group of Glasgow musicians, singers and omedians, who played dance music, sang popular songs and enacted sketches on the Beltona label in the 1930s. Their colourful and entertaining music is the sound not of a folklorist's collection but of a genuinely popular regional idiom as it was recorded in its day. This 1977 collection was lovingly compiled from their finest 78rpm recordings.

1 Eightsome reel Part 1 (Fairy Dance / The Breakdown / De'il Among The Tailors)
2 Ashcroft’s Reel / Londonderry Air / Breakdown
3 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
4 Liverpool and Highland Hornpipes (inc. Down Home Rag)
5 The International
6 Medley of Popular Waltzes (Let Me Call You Sweetheart / Smile Awhile / Down At The Old Bull and Bush / By The Side of the Zuyder Zee / Let Me Call You Sweetheart)
7 The Canal Cruise Parts 1 & 2 (incs. Life On The Ocean Wave / The Drunken Sailor / Miss MacLeod / A Man's A Man for All That)
8 La Varsovienne
9 Big Reason Blues
10 The Boston Two-step
11 Horseguards Blue
12 Happy Hours
13 Woodland Voices
14 Eightsome reel Part 2 (Kate Dalrymple / Wind That Shakes The Barley / Soldier's Joy / Miss MacLeod)
15 Ideal One-Step
16 The Middy March
17 Empress Tango
18 The Red Flag
19 Wull’s Wireless Wails Parts 1 & 2 (Flowers of Edinburgh / When You and I were Young, Maggie / Highland Laddie / Orange and Blue / Kafoozalum)
20 Medley of Irish Waltzes: The Irish Jaunting Car / Come Back To Erin / Eileen Alannah)
21 The Ideal Lancers: 1st. Fig: (Rakes of Mallow / My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose / The Girl I Left Behind Me) 2nd. Fig: (Lass of Gowrie / Kate Dalrymple / Loch Lomond) 3rd. Fig: (Blackthorn Stick / Irish Washerwoman) 4th Fig: (The Alma /Atholl Highlanders / Bonny Dundee) 5th Fig: (unidentified / Atholl Highlanders / Nora Creina / Biddy the Bowl Wife / Rakes of Kildare / Barren Rocks of Aden)
22 Dulcimer Tunes from An Old ‘National Hall’ Favourite parts 1 & 2: (The Favourite Hornpipe / Unidentified Barn Dance)
23 I Still Love You / Waltz Hesitation
24 The Call of the Pipes Part 1
25 Why Worry

BOB DAVENPORT Postcards Home TSDL318

Bob Davenport has one of the most distinctive styles and one of the widest repertoires among singers on the folkclub scene. A favourite performer at festivals and a regular guest at folk clubs throughout Britain, he is a staunch supporter of traditional music.

His 1977 record 'Postcards Home' examines hard times and war times through a powerful mix of song, music and speech. Songs by Richard Thompson and Bob Marley are interwoven with traditional music, poetry and music hall songs. As a contemporary Daily Telegraph review noted: "An impressive and timely achievment, full of poetry, irony and lively music."

1 Byker Hill / Blackleg Miner
2 Durham Gaol Selection: Gypsy Poacher / Durham Gaol / First Time I Saw Durham City / Ball of Yarn / Breaking Sticks
3 Wait Till the Work Comes Round
4 The Winter Time is Coming In / Old Changing Way
5 When a Man Looks Pale / There's Nae Much Luck About the House
6 We Plough and Sow / Get Up, Stand Up
7 Once I Had A True Love / Lowlands / My Bonnie Lad
8 Great Little Army March
9 Unemployed Men Stand on the Corner / McCafferty / I Don't Want to Join the Army
10 The House is Crammed / Good Morning Good Morning / Our Soldiers Went to War / If I Was Fierce / If You Want to Find the Colonel / They Didn't Believe Me
11 Have You Forgotten Yet / When this Bloody War is Over

DICK GAUGHAN Coppers & Brass TSDL315

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.

1 Coppers and Brass / Gander in the Pratie Hole
2 O’Keefe’s / The Foxhunter’s
3 The Flowing Tide / The Fairies' Hornpipe
4 The Oak Tree / The Music in the Glen
5 Planxty Johnson
6 Gurty’s Frolics
7 The Spey in Spate / The Hurricane
8 Alan McPherson of Mosspark / The Jig of Slurs
9 The Thrush in the Storm / The Flogging Reel
10 Ask My Father / Lads of Laoise / The Connaught Heifers
11 The Bird in the Bush / The Boy in the Gap / MacMahon’s Reel
12 Strike the Gay Harp / Shores of Lough Gowna
13 Jack Broke the Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha’ll Dance wi’ Wattie

BELLE STEWART Queen Among The Heather TSDL307

The Stewarts are a family of Scots travellers who claimed descent from the Royal House of Stewart and have traditional music in their bones. Belle Stewart, a proud, dignified and a distinguished maintainer of noble traditions, ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers. 'Queen Among the Heather' is the only full album of her work.

1 Queen Among the Heather
2 Here’s a Health to all True Lovers
3 Betsy Belle
4 The Berryfields of Blair
5 The Soft Country Chiel (The Toon o’ Dalry)
6 Whistlin’ at the Ploo'
7 The Bonnie Wee Lassie frae Gourock
8 The Overgate
9 Blooming Caroline o’ Edinburgh Toon
10 Busk, Busk, Bonnie Lassie
11 Late Last Night
12 The Twa Brothers
13 Leezie Lindsay

THE O'HALLORAN BROTHERS The Men of the Island TSDL305

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.

1 Reels: The Music in the Glen / The Green Fields of America
2 Jigs: The Lark in the Morning / The Connaughtman’s Rambles
3 The Lowlands of Holland
4 Barn Dances: Stack of Barley / Johnny, Will You Marry Me?
5 Jigs: Pat Burke's / Fraher's
6 Sweet Inniscarra
7 Waltz and Jigs: Martin Byrne’s Waltz / A Hundred Pipers / Dingle Regatta
8 Granuaile
9 Reels: The Sailor on the Rock / The Maid I Ne’er Forgot
10 Reel: The Limerick Lasses
11 Jig: The Lake Shore / The Exile’s Return
12 Reels: The Eel in the Sink / Larry Redigan’s
13 Moorlough Mary
14 The Bucks of Oranmore / The Wind that Shakes the Barley

THE HIGH LEVEL RANTERS Ranting Lads TSDL297

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.

1 Fairly Shot of Her / A Wife of My Own
2 Dance to Yer Daddy
3 The Lass Doon On The Quay
4 The Kielder Hunt
5 Hornpipes - Alston Flower Show / Jane of Biddlestone
6 Fortune Turns The Wheel
7 Fenwick of Bywell
8 Elsie Marley / Hoop Her And Gird Her
9 Captain Bover / Here's The Tender Comin' / Success To The Fleet
10 Proudlock's Hornpipe / The Hesleyside Reel
11 Stanley Market
12 Hornpipes - The Marquis of Waterford / Bottle Bank / The Hawk

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS Among The Many Attractions At The Show Will Be A Really High Class Band TSDL295

A hugely popular act on the British folk scene, John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris, made a series of fine records for the Topic label. John had also recorded with Ashley Hutchings' Morris On band and with Richard Thompson; both were founder members of the Albion Country Band and John would later join Steeleye Span. Their duo records are cherished by aficionados of the finest English country music from the mid-20th century revival.

1 The Edgmond Men's Souling Song
2 Artichokes and Cauliflowers
3 The Bricklayers / Double Change Sides
4 The Cherry Tree Carol
5 John of the Greeney Cheshire Way
6 A Shropshire Lad
7 I Wish, I Wish
8 Old Sir Simon the King
9 Adieu to Old England
10 The Blue Eyed Stranger / The Winster Morris Reel
11 Jim Jones
12 Blacksmith's Morris / Charles's Hornpipe
13 Cold Blows the Wind
14 Wilson's Favourite / Shrewsbury Wakes

GEORGE MAYNARD Ye Subjects Of England TSDL286

One of the greatest English traditional singers - George 'Pop' Maynard from Sussex recorded rarely. This splendid album showcases his majestic and powerful style.

1 Polly on the Shore
2 The Sweet Nightingale (The Birds In The Spring)
3 Locks and Bolts
4 Down by the Seaside
5 Jack the Jolly Tar-O
6 The Seeds of Love
7 Shooting Goshen's Cocks Up
8 William Taylor
9 Rolling in the Dew
10 A Sailor in the North Country
11 The Banks of Claudy
12 Three Sons of Rogues
13 The Weaver's Daughter
14 A Wager, A Wager
15 The Sun Being Set

ARCHIE FISHER Will Ye Gang, Love TSDL277

Archie Fisher's is a multifaceted talent. He is simultaneously a singer with great interpretive flair, a songwriter whose compositions have been taken up by many leading singers, a musician of outstanding ability and a skilled raconteur. Above all else he is a man of influence, whose taste and style have shown the way for many artists. 'Will Ye Gang, Love' was recorded in 1976 and captures a musician at the height of his powers.

1 O Charlie, O Charlie
2 Lindsay
3 The Broom a’ the Cowdenknowes
4 Mally Lee
5 Will Ye Gang, Love
6 The Flower of France and England, O
7 The Laird o’ Windy Wa’s
8 Men O’ Worth
9 Looly, Looly
10 Dreg Song
11 Adam Cameron
12 Blackbirds and Thrushes
13 The Gallant Ninety Two
14 The Rovin’ Ploughboy

THE OLDHAM TINKERS For Old Time's Sake TSDL276

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'.

1 Signora
2 Eaur Joe's Lad
3 John Willie's Horse
4 Barefoot Days Medley
5 Lancashire Witches
6 Come Whoam to Thi Childer an' Me
7 Johnny Bugger
8 Billy Winker
9 Bits O' Bromley Street
10 The Condemned Cell
11 The Maypole
12 For Old Time's Sake

BOB DAVENPORT Down The Long Road TSDL274

Bob Davenport has one of the most distinctive styles and one of the widest repertoires of any singer performing in folk clubs. From the North East of England, he relished singing in the pubs of North London frequented by musicians from the Irish community - the Bedford Arms, The Laurel Tree and the Camden Stores. 'Down The Long Road' draws upon these two important strands in Bob's repertoire, as well as the country music of Southern England. Mr. Davenport is variously accompanied by notable Irish musicians - Lucy Farr, Jimmy Power, Johnny Gorman, and by members of Webb's Wonders, The Rakes and the Leeds Band.

1 Navvy Boots
2 Down the Long Road
3 The Rambling Man
4 Barn Dance Selection: Louis James’ Quadrille / The Dancing Dustman
5 When I Was Single
6 I’m a Poor Unhappy Married Man
7 Jig Selection: When There Isn’t a Girl About / Peggy Wood / Looking for a Partner
8 Wild Wild Whiskey
9 Whiskey in the Jar
10 Reels: The Steam Packet / The Sligo Maid
11 Herbert Smith’s Polka
12 One Day While in the North Country
13 A-Begging I Will Go
14 The WealthySquire
15 By Tyne’s Bonny Banks
16 Once I Had an Old Hen
17 Polka Medley: Jenny Lind / J B Milne / The Girl With the Blue Dress On
18 Bogie’s Bonnie Belle
19 Irish Molly Barn Dance
20 Toast / The Blarney Stone

ROY HARRIS Champions Of Folly TSDL256

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).

1 The Saucy Bold Robber
2 Bold Lovell
3 Steepleford Town
4 Captain Ward
5 The Methody Parson
6 Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
7 The Beggar’s Song
8 When I was A Little Boy
9 The Dragoon’s Ride
10 Cropper Lads
11 The 'Royal Charter'
12 The Topman and the Afterguard
13 The Jovial Hunter
14 Hard Times of Old England

VARIOUS ARTISTS Songs Of The Open Road TSDL253

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.

1 You Subjects of England - Jasper Smith
2 Little Dun Dee - Mrs Haynes
3 Hartlake Bridge - Jasper Smith
4 The Young Officer - Mrs Haynes
5 All Through Mi Rakli - Mrs Haynes
6 At the Atchin Tan - Mrs Haynes
7 The Oakham Poachers - Wiggy Smith
8 Thorneymoor Park - Jasper Smith
9 The Farmer of Chester - Joe Jones
10 The King and the Keeper - Joe Jones
11 Georgie - Levi Smith
12 The Haymakers - Levi Smith
13 The Broomdasher - Levi Smith
14 Barbara Allen - Phoebe Smith
15 Lavender - Bill Ellson
16 The Squire and the Gypsy - Jasper Smith
17 Erin's Lovely Home - Mrs Haynes
18 The Game of Cards - Levi Smith
19 While the Yogger Mush Lays Sleeping - Jasper Smith
20 The Deserter - Wiggy Smith

The RUSSELL FAMILY of Doolin, County Clare TSDL251

Miko, Pakie and Gussie Russell of Dolin, Co Clare, were an Irish musical family of singular attractiveness and interest, with aremarkably rich store of local Clare music. This record was recorded on location by John Tams and Neil Wayne in 1977, and is an exceptional document of the traditional music making still to be heard in the Irish countryside during the mid-1970s.

1 Campbell’s Reel
2 The Heather Breeze / The Traveller
3 St. Kevin of Glendalough
4 The Potlick / The Peeler’s Jacket
5 The Five Mile Chase
6 Russell’s Hornpipe / Fisher’s Hornpipe
7 The Poor Little Fisher Boy
8 The Walls of Liscarroll / The Battering Ram
9 Garret Barry’s Reel
10 Tommy Glenny’s Reel
11 The Connemara Stockings / The Westmeath Hunt
12 When Musheen Went to Bunnan
13 Tatter Jack Walsh
14 The De’il Among the Tailors
15 The Roscrea Cows
16 Fair Haired Boy / The Black Haired Lass
17 Off to California
18 Give the Girl her Fourpence
19 Nora Daly

SEAMUS ENNIS The Wandering Minstrel TSDL250

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
3 The Glen-Nephin Cuckoo / The Little Fair Cannavans
4 The Frieze Britches
5 The Flags of Dublin / The Wind that Shakes the Barley
6 The Little Stack of Barley / Cronin’s Horpipe
7 The New Demesne
8 The Blackbird
9 Gillan’s Apples / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Stone in the Field
10 Molly O’Malone
11 Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel
12 Happy to Meet & Sorry to Part

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS The Rose Of Britain's Isle TSDL247

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
2 Up in the North
3 Hunsden House and Whimbleton House
4 Queen of the May
5 Old Man Jones
6 Not for Joe
7 Weyhill Fair
8 The Milkmaid’s Song
9 Rising Sun and the Crown
10 Sweet Swansea
11 The Yellow Joak and The White Joak
12 The Lady and the Soldier
13 Fireside Polka / Down Sides and up the Middle

SCAN TESTER, WALTER & DAISY BULWER, BILLY COOPER AND OTHERS Boscastle Breakdown TSDL240

An important collection of field recordings made between 1940 and the late 1960s, which focus upon the traditional instrumental music of rural England. Most of the musicians featured were born towards the end of the 19th century and developed their musical skills in the years before the Great War. The carnage of World War 1, the movement towards towns in search of employment and the influence of mass media, all served to bring about a decline in country music. This recording captures some of the finest surviving performers and the repertoire they played for social dancing in country pubs and village halls.

1 Jenny Lind / Untitled Polka - Scan Tester and Rabbidy Baxter
2 The Irish Washerwoman / Garryowen / Rory O'More / St Patrick's Day - Billy Cooper
3 The Boscastle Breakdown - The Tintagel and Boscatle Players
4 The Boscastle Breakdown (six hornpipes) - William Hocken
5 The Helston Furry Dance - Mr Dangar's Trio
6 Lady Evesham's Jig - Mr Dangar's Trio
7 Untitled Polka - Walter and Daisy Bulwer and Reg Hall
8 The Yarmouth Hornpipe introducing The Four Hand Reel / The Sailor's Hornpipe - Billy Cooper
9 Dulcie Bell - Billy Cooper
10 The Breakdown / The Flowers of Edinburgh - Harry Lee
11 The Italian Schottische - The Dorset Trio
12 The Lass of Dalogil - The Dorset Trio
13 Bonfire Tune / Untitled Polka - Albert Farmer
14 Untitled Waltz / The Cuckoo Waltz - Albert Farmer
15 Unidentified Tune - Harry Lee
16 The Sailor's Hornpipe / The Shipdham Hornpipe / Untitled Polka / The White Cockade / Untitled Polka - Walter and Daisy Bulwer

THE OLDHAM TINKERS Best O'T' Bunch TSDL237

The Oldham Tinkers specialise in the local songs and ballads of South Lancashire, and have an immense following their. Their debut album soon caught the attention of John Peel and brought their music to a much wider audience.

1 The Rochdale Mashers
2 Seeing Double
3 The Pennine Rangers
4 The Two Jews
5 A Piecer’s Tale
6 Best o’t’ Bunch
7 The Lancashire Toreador
8 A Cob-Coaling Medley
9 The Four-Loom Weaver
10 John Willie’s Ragtime Band
11 Platt’s
12 Good Time Coming
13 I Mean to Wait for Jack
14 Skiing Owdham Style
15 A Mon Like Thee

VARIOUS ARTISTS The Lark In The Clear Air TSDL230

An important and influential record of song airs and dance tunes played on modest instruments such as would fit in your pocket, played by some of the finest London-based Irish musicians. "The expertise of the performers is to be admired for its own sake... a delightful disc." New Statesman.

1 Gillian Apples / The Prize Jig - John Doonan & John Wright
2 The Shaskeen Reel - John Wright
3 The Coolin - Noel Pepper
4 Boys of the Laugh / The Trip to Durrow - Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
5 Give Me Your Hand - John Doonan
6 Banish Misfortune - The Wrights
7 The Maid Behind the Bar - The Wrights with Paddy Neylan
8 Dunphy’s Hornpipe / The Derry Hornplpe - John Doonan
9 St Anne’s Reel - Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
10 The Blackbird - John Doonan
11 The Spalpeen’s Lament - John Doonan
12 Miss McLeod / The Flowers of Edinburgh - John Doonan & John Wright
13 The Foxhunters’ Jig - The Wrights
14 The Skylark / Tie the Bonnet - John Wright
15 Clancy’s Fancy - John Wright
16 The Lark in the Clear Air - Noel Pepper
17 Unnamed Jig - Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
18 Cherish the Ladles / Father O’Flynn - John Doonan, John Wright, Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran

BILLY BENNINGTON , PERCY BROWN, OSCAR WOODS, HAROLD COLVILL English Country Music From East Anglia TSDL229

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).

1 Jig - Oscar Woods
2 Gay Ladies - Billy Bennington
3 Old Joe, the Boat is Going Over / Untitled Polka - Percy Brown
4 Step dance tune (The Sailor's Hornpipe) - Oscar Woods
5 Waltz: Dulcie Belle - Billy Bennington
6 Step Dance: Yarmouth Breakdown - Percy Brown
7 Italian' Waltz - Oscar Woods
8 Untitled Polka - Oscar Woods
9 Step Dance: Yarmouth Hornpipe - Billy Bennington
10 Polka: On the Green - Billy Bennington
11 The Oyster Girl - Harold Covill
12 March: On Parade - Billy Bennington
13 Waltz for the Veleta - Percy Brown
14 Step Dance Tune - Oscar Woods
15 Slow Step Dance Tune - Billy Bennington
16 Oh, Joe the Boat is Going Over - Oscar Woods
17 Barn Dance Tune - Percy Brown
18 Sheringham Breakdown - Percy Brown
19 The Nutting Girl - Harold Covill
20 Jack's the Lad (The Sailor's Hornpipe) - Billy Bennington
21 Red Wing - Billy Bennington
22 Heel and Toe Polka - Percy Brown

THE CHEVIOT RANTERS The Cheviot Hills TSDL222

The Cheviot Hills' was the second album by the acclaimed Cheviot Ranters' Country Dance Band for Topic records, it is a wonderful programme of old time and country dances ideal for the dancer and the listener alike. The Cheviot Ranters were arguably the the most distinguished and 'authentic' of the English folk dance bands, and grew out of the monthly meetings of the Northumbrian Pipers' Society. Formed in 1955 the band played for local social dances in Northumberland and Durham. Within a year they had established themselves as a prominent dance band on radio and television. Their early 1970s recordings for the Topic label reached a wide audience, including the enthusiastic patronage of the radio dj John Peel.

1 Cumberland Square Eight: My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet / Caddam Woods / Rose Tree
2 The Sylph: Hermitage / Bryce Anderson
3 Roxburgh Castle: Roxburgh Castle / Sheffield Hornpipe / Storers Hornpipe
4 Northumberland Waltz: Mallorca / The Cheviot Hills / I Have Seen the Roses Blow
5 Winster Gallop: Winster Gallop / Teribus / Jimmy Allen
6 Ideal Schottische: Jack Thompson’s Fancy
7 Newcastle: Newcastle / Nancy / Molly’s Fancy
8 Norfolk Long Dance: The Perfect Cure / Stool of Repentence / Linton Jig
9 Barn Dance: Road to the Isles / Roamin’ in the Gloamin’ / Show Me the Way to go Home
10 Danish Double Quadrille
11 Blaydon Races: Blaydon Races / Keep You Feet Still Geordie Hinny / Wherever Ye Can Yer Sure tae Find a Geordie

FRANKIE ARMSTRONG Lovely On The Water TSDL216

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.

1 Tarry Trousers
2 The Green Valley
3 Low Down in the Broom
4 The Cruel Mother
5 The Crafty Maid’s Policy
6 The Maid on the Shore
7 The Frog and the Mouse
8 Lovely on the Water
9 The Brown Girl
10 The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime
11 The Saucy Sailor
12 The Two Sisters

THE CHEVIOT RANTERS The Sound of the Cheviots TSDL214

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.

1 Circassian Circle - part 1 Original / Rugley Ford / Hesleyside Reel
2 Redesdale Hornpipe / King of the Fairies / The Lads of Whickham
3 Washington Quick Step - Bugle Horn / Farewell / Jackson’s Morning Brush
4 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
7 Corn Rigs tunes - Dunstanburgh Castle / Goodnight and Joy Be Wi' Ye
8 Waltz tunes - Bonnie Tyneside / Whittingham Green Lane / The Banks of Coquet
9 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

OAK Welcome To Our Fair TSDL212

The four piece ensemble Oak were the leading lights of a movement to rediscover English country music in the early 1970s. The group comprised Rod and Danny Stradling, Peta Webb and Tony Engle. Their songs, music and style were derived from traditional country performers. Their sole album - 'Welcome To Our Fair' - has been an tremendously influential recording for a whole generation of British folk musicians.

1 Thousands or More
2 New Rigged Ship / Rig-a-jig-jig
3 The Lakes of Cool Flynn
4 The Nutley Waltz / The Faithful Sailor Boy
5 Roving Round the County Tyrone
6 The Scarlet and the Blue
7 Shepherds Arise
8 Scan’s Polka
9 Australia
10 Cupid’s Garden
11 False, False
12 Our Good Ship Lies in Harbour
13 The Bunch of Thyme / The Perfect Cure / The Sweets of May

The OLDHAM TINKERS Owdham's Burning Sands TSDL206

The mighty Oldham Tinkers specialise in the local songs and ballads of their native South Lancashire. True inheritors of the spirit of great Lancashire mucial comics like George Formby. "All the salt and savour of Lancashire song and humour is to be enjoyed in their records." 'Oldham's Burning Sands' was the group's first recording for Topic Records and a perennial favourite with the late John Peel.

1 Success to the Weavers
2 The Lancashire Miller
3 Charlie Chaplin
4 Eawr Market Neet
5 The Owdam Chap's Visit to Th' Queen
6 In Our Town
7 Oldham's Burning Sands
8 A Fine Old English Gentleman
9 Peterloo
10 We're Off In A Motor Car
11 The Oldham Pensioner
12 The Stockport Strike
13 Th' Childer's Holiday

A L LLOYD The Great Australian Legend TSDL203

This album offers a collection of traditional song from Australia. The great folksong collector and singer, A L Lloyd is accompanied by Trevor Lucas, Martyn Wyndham-Reade, Dave Swarbrick & Alf Edwards.

1 Waltzing Matilda - A L Lloyd
2 Jim Jones at Botany Bay - A L Lloyd
3 The Wild Colonial Boy - A L Lloyd
4 The Streets of Forbes - Trevor Lucas
5 The Hold-up at Eugowra Rocks - A L Lloyd
6 The Flash Stockman - Martyn Wyndham-Reade
7 Five Miles from Gungadai - Trevor Lucas
8 The Lime Juice Tub - A L Lloyd & Martyn Wyndham-Reade
9 Euabalong Ball - A L Lloyd
10 Banks of the Condamine - Trevor Lucas
11 Click Go the Shears - Martyn Wyndham-Reade
12 Flash Jack from Gungadai - A L Lloyd
13 The Road to Gungadai - Martyn Wyndham-Reade
14 Hard Tack - Martyn Wyndham-Reade
15 On the Road with Liddy - A L Lloyd

PETER BELLAMY The Fox Jumps Over The Parson's Gate TSDL200

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.

1 The Spotted Cow
2 Two Pretty Boys (The Two Brothers)
3 The Female Drummer
4 Here’s Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
5 The Ghost Song (The Cruel Ships Carpenter)
6 The Carnal and Crane
7 The Little Black Horse (The Penny Wager)
8 The Barley and the Rye
9 The Turkish Lady
10 The Warlike Seaman (The Irish Captain)
11 The Blackberry Fold
12 Saint Stephen
13 The Rigs of London Town
14 The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate

PHOEBE SMITH Once I Had A True Love TSDL193

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."

1 Once I Had A True Love
2 A Blacksmith Courted Me
3 Young Ellender
4 Higher Germany
5 Molly Vaughan
6 The Tanyard Side
7 The Yellow Handkerchief
8 The Wexport Girl
9 The Dear Little Maiden

DAVE AND TONI ARTHUR The Lark In The Morning TSDL190

The debut recording from Dave and Toni Arthur has become a much sought after recording amongst collectors of the finest British folk music. The Arthurs were an influential pair on the club scene, particularly admired for their powerful harmony singing.

1 All Frolicking I’ll Give Over
2 The Death of Queen Jane
3 Creeping Jane
4 The Merchant’s Daughter of Bristol
5 The Bold Dragoon
6 Cold Blows the Winter’s Wind
7 The Lark in the Morning
8 Poor Old Horse
9 Hey John Barleycorn
10 Bedlam
11 Admiral Benbow
12 Father, Father Build Me A Boat
13 The Press Gang
14 Six Jolly Miners

LIZZIE HIGGINS Princess of the Thistle TSDL185

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
2 Lovely Molly
3 The Fair of Ballnafannin
4 Young Emsley
5 Bonnie Udny
6 Far Over the Forth
7 Laird of the Dainty Doonby
8 The Seasons
9 Davy Faa
10 The Banks of Red Roses
11 The Maid of Glenshea
12 The College Boy

WILLIE SCOTT The Shepherd's Song TSDL183

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
2 Piper MacNeil
3 The Kielder Hunt
4 Jamie Reaburn
5 Bonnie Wee Trampin’ Lass
6 Bloody Waterloo
7 Jock Geddes
8 The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
9 Herd Laddie o’ the Glen
10 The Lads That Were Reared Among Heather

Mrs SARAH MAKEM Ulster Ballad Singer TSDL182

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."

1 Farewell My Love, Remember Me
2 The Banks of Red Roses
3 It was in the Month of January
4 Robert Burns and His Highland Mary
5 The Factory Girl
6 The Jolly Thresher
7 Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
8 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
9 I Courted a Wee Girl
10 A Servant Maid in Her Father’s Garden
11 Barbara Allen

WILLIE CLANCY The Minstrel From Clare TSDL175

The musicians who have truly influenced Irish music in this century have not been many. Willie Clancy, piper, whistle-player and singer of Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, was indisputably one of them. He belonged to a strong tradition and left one after him.

1 Langstern Pony
2 The Templehouse / Over the Moor to Maggie
3 Bruachna Carraige Báine (The Brink of the White Rock)
4 Erin's Lovely Lea
5 The Killavel Fancy / The Dogs Among the Bushes
6 The Family Ointment
7 The Dear Irish Boy
8 Caoineadh an Spailpín (The Spalpeen's Lament)
9 The Pipe on the Hob
10 The Gander
11 The Legacy Jig
12 The Flogging Reel
13 The Song of the Riddles
14 Spailpín a Rúin (Spalpeen, my love)

HEDY WEST Ballads TSDL163

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.

1 The Foggy Dew
2 Girl I Left In Danville
3 The Unquiet Grave
4 Beaulampkin
5 Down In Adairsville
6 The Sheffield Apprentice
7 Lucy Wan
8 Little Sadie
9 The Cruel Mother
10 Love Henry
11 The Texan Rangers
12 George Collins

EWAN MACCOLL The Manchester Angel TSDL147

Ewan MacColl was one of the architects of the mid twentieth century British folk revival. A polemicst, writer and a singer of extraordinary dramatic power. His influence on the whole movement has been of the utmost importance. MacColl's singing brings both the past alive and expresses the mood of his own times.

1 We Poor Labouring Men
2 Georgie
3 Barbara Allen
4 Sheepcrook and Black Dog
5 Bramble Briar (Strawberry Town)
6 One Night As I Lay On My Bed
7 The Grey Cock
8 To the Begging I Will Go
9 The Sheep-Stealer
10 The Manchester Angel
11 The Bold Richard
12 The Press Gang
13 Round Cape Horn
14 Through Moorfields
15 Homeward Bound

PADDY TUNNEY A Wild Bees' Nest TSDL139

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.

1 The Rollicking Boys Around Tandaragee
2 The Colleen Rue
3 The Flower of Sweet Strabane
4 The Waterford Boys
5 Easter Snow
6 I Once Had a True Love
7 Sheela Nee Eyre
8 When a Man’s In Love
9 The Banks of Dunmore
10 Bonny Tavern Green
11 Castlehyde

THE FISHER FAMILY Traditional & New Songs From Scotland TSDL137

The Fisher family - stalwarts of the folk song revival - captured at a family get-together; a series of magical recordings by Bill Leader devoted to the family's younger generation. Ray and Archie Fisher together with their sisters come into their own on this delightful anthology of Scots songs old and new.

1 Come All Ye Fisher Lassies - The Fisher Family
2 Schooldays Over - Ray & Archie Fisher
3 The Rigs O’Rye - Archie Fisher
4 Donal Ogue - Joyce Fisher
5 For Our Lang Biding Here - Archie Fisher
6 Joy of My Heart - The Fisher Family
7 Hey Ca Through - Ray, Joyce, Audrey & Priscilla Fisher
8 What’s Poor Mary Weeping For? / Bonnie Lass O’Ballochmyle - Ray & Archie Fisher
9 I Am A Miller Tae Ma Trade - Cindy & Joyce Fisher
10 I Am A Freeborn Man - Archie Fisher
11 The Birkin Tree - Joyce & Cindy Fisher
12 Aince Upon a Time - Ray & Archie Fisher

JESSE FULLER Move on down the line TSCD134D

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.

1 Move On Down The Line
2 Stealing
3 Ninety-nine Years and One Dark Day
4 Animal Fair
5 Sleeping in the Midnight Cold
6 Stackolee
7 John Henry
8 Railroad Worksong
9 Lining up the Track
10 Hangin' Round a Skin Game
11 Railroad Blues
12 San Francisco Bay Blues

THE WATERSONS, HARRY BOARDMAN & MAUREEN CRAIK New Voices TSDL125

'New Voices' was a ground-breaking collection, one of the first albums to feature the younger generation singers of the mid 20th century British folk revival. The record featured the recording debuts of Maureen Craik and Harry Boardman alongside the Watersons' first recordings for Topic records. Boardman was an important agent in the later 'Deep Lancashire' and 'The Wide Midlands' projects and made several solo albums for the label. The Watersons career has gone from strength to strength, at the time of writing the various members of the family have continued their recording relationship with Topic for over forty years.

1 Boston Harbour -The Watersons
2 To The Begging - Harry Boardman
3 The White Cockade - Maureen Craik
4 Owdham - Harry Boardman
5 The Greenland Whale Fishery - The Watersons
6 Hard Times - Harry Boardman
7 The Sandgate Girl's Lament - Maureen Craik
8 Three Score And Ten - The Watersons
9 The Broom of Cowdenknowes - The Watersons
10 Bonny At Morn - Maureen Craik
11 The Hand-Loom Versus The Power-Loom - Harry Boardman
12 A U Hinny Burd - Maureen Craik
13 The Shurat Weaver - Harry Boardman
14 King Arthur's Servants - The Watersons
15 The Weaver of Wellbrook - Harry Boardman

THE CAMPBELL FAMILY The Singing Campbells TSDL120

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.

1 Faur does Bonnie Lorna Lie / Sleep Till Yer Mammy - Betty Campbell
2 Nicky Tams - Dave Campbell
3 The Road and the Miles to Dundee - Betty Campbell
4 Drumdelgie / I Ken Fur I'm Gaun - Dave Campbell & Bob Cooney
5 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
6 Bogie's Bonnie Belle - Winnie Campbell
7 The Cruel Mother - Ian Campbell
8 Lang a'Growin' - Lorna Campbell
9 Lady Eliza - Winnie Campbell
10 Will Ye Gang Love - Ian Campbell
11 I Wish, I Wish - Lorna Campbell
12 McGinty's Meal and Ale - Bob Cooney and the family

HEDY WEST Old Times And Hard Times TSDL117

Hedy West comes from North Georgia, at the southern end of the Appalachians. A sensitive and vibrant singer, she accompanies herself in a distinctive style on 5-string banjo. A L Lloyd though her 'far and away the best of American girl singers in the revival'.

1 The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
2 Fair Rosamund
3 Barbara Allen
4 Old Joe Clark
5 The Coalminer’s Child
6 Gambling Man
7 Brother Ephus
8 Polly
9 The Davidson-Wilder Blues
10 The Rich Irish Lady
11 Shut Up in the Mines at Coal Creek
12 The Wife of Usher’s Well
13 Lament for Barney Graham

PEGGY SEEGER, TOM PALEY & CLAUDIA PALEY Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? TSDL113

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.

1 Who's That Knocking at My Window
2 Love Henry
3 The Lass of Roch Royal
4 Who’s Going to Shoe your Pretty Little Foot?
5 Pretty Polly
6 Englewood Mine
7 Buck Dancer’s Choice
8 Just as the Tide Was Flowing
9 The Kicking Mule
10 The Heartless Lady
11 The Fiddling Soldier
12 Tittery Nan
13 Loving Reilly
14 The Cuckoo
15 If He’d Be a Buckaroo
16 The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore

VARIOUS ARTSTS Farewell Nancy TSDL110

Shanties and forebitters sung with zest and a feeling for authenticity. Ballads of shipwreck and disaster, songs of humour and love performed by a 'who's who' of the English folk song revival - Louis Killen, Cyril Tawney and Ian Campbell, accompanied by master-fiddler Dave Swarbrick.

1 The Wild Goose - Louis Killen
2 Lovely Nancy - Ian Campbell
3 The Nightingale - Cyril Tawney
4 Heave Away My Johnny - Louis Killen
5 Row Bullies Row - Ian Campbell Group
6 The Fireship - Cyril Tawney
7 Tom’s Gone To Hilo - Bob Davenport
8 Ship in Distress - Louis Killen
9 Lowlands Low - Ian Campbell Group
10 One Morning In Spring - Cyril Tawney
11 Hilo Johnny Brown - Louis Killen
12 Poor Old Horse - Ian Campbell Group
13 Bold Princess Royal - Louis Killen
14 Billy Boy - Bob Davenport
15 Bold Benjamin - Cyril Tawney
16 The Hog Eye Man - Ian Campbell Group
17 Goodbye, Fare Thee Well - Louis Killen

RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT Talking Woody Guthrie TSDL093

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.

1 Talking Columbia Blues
2 Pretty Boy Floyd
3 Ludlow Massacre
4 Talking Miner Blues
5 Hard Travelling
6 So Long its Been Good to Know You
7 Talking Dustbowl Blues
8 1913 Massacre
9 Rambling Boys
10 Talking Sailor Blues

The WILLETT FAMILY The Roving Journeymen TSDL084

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.

1 Lord Bateman - Tom Willett
2 The Blacksmith Courted Me - Tom Willett
3 The Little Ball of Yarn - Ben Willett
4 Died For Love - Tom Willett
5 The Rambling Sailor - Chris Willett
6 Riding Down to Portsmouth - Tom Willett
7 As I Was Going to Salisbury - Chris Willett
8 The Roving Journeyman - Tom Willett
9 The Roving Journeyman - Chris Willett
10 While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping - Tom Willett
11 The Old Miser - Chris Willett
12 The Game of Cards - Tom Willett

DAVY GRAHAM 3/4 AD TSDL070

The whole guitar-based section of the late twentieth century British folk revival owes an enormous debt to Davy Graham. The ideas explored across his earliest recordings have had a huge impact and continue to resound through the work of succeeding generations of musicians. For innumerable young guitarists, Davy Graham was the undisputed guitar hero of the British folk-blues clubs in the early and mid-1960s: a remarkable and wildly inventive musician.

1 Angi
2 Davy’s Train Blues
3 3/4 AD

A.L. LLOYD Outback Ballads TSDL051

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.

1 Flash Jack From Gundagai
2 Lachlan Tigers
3 The Cockies Of Bungaree
4 South Australia
5 Banks Of The Condamine
6 Bluey Brink
7 The Overlanders
8 1,000 Miles Away
9 The Flash Stockman
10 The Wild Colonial Boy
11 Brisbane Ladies
12 Bold Jack Donahue
13 The Shearer's Dream
14 The Derby Ram

DOMINIC BEHAN Down By the Liffeyside: Irish Street BalladsTSDL035

Long the enfant terrible of the folk revival, Dominic Behan - poet, patriot, playwright, rebel - spills over with outrageous talent. This recording shows him as a powerful and honest singer, a worthy heir of the great Dublin heritage of song and ballad.

1 Get Me Down Me Filling Knife
2 The Saint
3 Down By the Liffeyside
4 Ross’ Farewell to Dublin
5 Waxy Dargell
6 Red Roses For Me
7 Thank You Mam, Said Dan
8 John Mitchell
9 The Finding of Moses
10 Master McGrath
11 Dicey Riley
12 Finnegan’s Wake
13 The Women are Worse that the Men
14 Easy and Slow
15 The Spanish Lady
16 The Twang Man
17 Bold Robert Emmett
18 Biddy Mulligan