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Gary & Vera Aspey‘s very popular, highly enjoyable (and often hilarious) stage act captured on a 1976 live album.
Recorded in performance at the Scotgate Folk Club, Scotgate Inn, Stamford, Lincs, March 1976; the Chipping Sodbury Folk Club, The George, Chipping Sodbury, Glos, March 1976; and the Lord Coniers, Kiveton, Yorks, May 1976.
1Â The Eekdale And Ennerdale Hunt Song
2 Weepin’ An’ Wailin’ Away
3Â The Shuttle Kissing Song
4Â Foddered Me Yowes
5Â The Nightingale
6  Don’t Married Girls
7  Kids’ Songs
8Â Â The Coal Hole Cavalry
9Â Â Morning Stands On Tiptoe
Recorded and produced by Tony Engle
First published by TOPIC 1976
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An anthology from Gypsy singers recorded in Southern England by Mike Yates. Music of English travellers, ranging from broadside ballads to mouth-organ tunes, and including examples of the gypsy mouth-music called ‘tuning’ – all performed by members of the great Smith clan, from Surrey, Kent and Suffolk.
1   The Small Birds Whistle Jasper Smith
2   The Sheepfold Phoebe Smith
3   One Penny Levy Smith
4   The Basket of Eggs Minty Smith
5   The Pony March / Whistling Rufus / Tuning Jasper
6   Green Bushe Phoebe
7   Raking the Hay Phoebe
8   The Moon Shines Bright Jasper
9Â Â Â Father Had a Knife Jasper
10 The Jew’s Garden Minty
11  Step Dance Tunes Jasper Tuning Minty
12  Sweet William Phoebe
13  Johnny Abourne Phoebe
14  Died for Love Jasper
15  The Irish Girl Levy
16  Captain Thunderbold Phoebe
17  Jigs & Polkas including: Cock of the North / Flowers of Edinburgh / The Girl l left Behind Me / Tuning  Jasper & Levy
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An Antholoqy from Traditional Singers from Devon with Amy Birch, Phoebe Birch, Avice Clarke, Nobby Clarke, Joe Davies, Harold Gill, Charlie Hill, Brian Holland, Sophie Isaacs, Henry Mitchemore, Tom Orchard snr, Tom Orchard jnr, Bill Parnell, Bob Penfold, Nelson Penfold, George Roberts, Jim Sanders and Bob Small.
The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, who collected folksongs in the West country during the 1880s, wrote in his reminiscences that “the old fellows who had these songs were fast dying off, and their sons and grandsons despised the ballads and the tunes in the Gregorian modes and sang only the last vulgar music-hall ditties.” Many song hunters from that day to this have thought the same. Are they right? Well, this record of pieces recently collected in Baring-Gould’s own county of Devon gives some answers.
1 The Exmoor Ram Nobby Clarke
2 The Molecatcher Amy Birch
3 When I Was a Young Man Bob Small
4 Tuning Brian Holland (melodeon), Tom Orchard snr (vocal), Tom Orchard jnr (dancing) and Bob Penfold (vocal)
5 Barbara Allen George Roberts
6 Head-a-nodding Avice Clarke
7 The Thrashing Machine Joe Davies
8 Sweet Willie Sophie Isaacs
9 Navvy Boots Bill Parnell
10 The Leg o’ the Mallard Henry Mitchemore
11 Royal Comrade Amy Birch
12 Three Men Went a-Hunting Charlie Hill
13 The Farmer in Leicester Nelson Penfold
14 Tuning Tom Orchard snr (vocal & melodeon) and Tom Orchard jnr (melodeon)
15 Seven Nights Drunk Harold Gill
16 The Fremington Great Meat Pie Phoebe Birch
17 Up the Green Meadows Amy Birch
18 Rattling Irish Boy Bob Penfold
19 Mortal Unlucky Old Chap Jim Sanders
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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.
1Â Gillian Apples / The Prize Jig – John Doonan & John Wright
2Â The Shaskeen Reel – John Wright
3Â The Coolin – Noel Pepper
4Â Boys of the Laugh / The Trip to Durrow – Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
5Â Give Me Your Hand – John Doonan
6Â Banish Misfortune – The Wrights
7Â 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
10Â The Blackbird – John Doonan
11 The Spalpeen’s Lament – John Doonan
12Â Miss McLeod / The Flowers of Edinburgh – John Doonan & John Wright
13 The Foxhunters’ Jig – The Wrights
14Â The Skylark / Tie the Bonnet – John Wright
15 Clancy’s Fancy – John Wright
16Â The Lark in the Clear Air – Noel Pepper
17Â Unnamed Jig – Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
18 Cherish the Ladles / Father O’Flynn – John Doonan, John Wright, Noel Pepper & Paddy Moran
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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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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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Genuine folk music as part of an old and lively national culture is still flourishing in Norway, a country with a wild nature, numerous valleys, snow-covered mountains, lakes, deep forests, glorious fjords, remote communities, dark and long winters and shining summer nights. Norway has a long and rich tradition of musical expression. Norwegian folk music has survived through many generations and historical changes. Old folk tunes have kept surprisingly well, better than in the neighbouring lands and in some of the other industrial countries. The selection on this record represents some of the main types and styles of living folk-playing and singing, with their special sound and moods, from south west and central parts of Norway. The players and singers are some of the most outstanding folk musicians of the younger generation who carry on the folk traditions of their districts.
1 Fanitullen (The Devil’s Tune) Knut Buen Hardanger fiddle
2 Kjerringa med staven (The Old Wife with the Staff) Hanne Kiersti Buen singing with Knut Buen Hardanger fiddle
3 Rotnheimsknut (hailing)
4 Gangar etter Myllarguten (walking dance) Knut Buen Hardanger fiddle
5 Moykjaeringsvise (spinster’s song)
6 Three stev about the hulder (cattle songs)
7 So er drengjen i uppvokstre (Boys in Their Youth)
8 BÃ¥nsu|ler (three lullabies) Hanne Kjersti Buen singing
9 Katt-Ola-Visa Edvard Ruud singing
10 Nordfjordingen (springar)
11 Ramsen (springar) Hauk Buen Hardanger fiddle
12 Bruremarsj (wedding march) Knut and Hauk Buen Hardanger fiddles
13 Hamburger-polka fra Hardanger
14 Springleik fra Jostedalen Vestlandsgruppa band
15 Springar fra Hardanger fiddlers of Vestlandsgruppa
16 Slåttestev (dance songs)
17 Haugebonden (ballad) Agnes Buen Garnås singing
18 Fanteladda (dance tune)
19 I Oletiadden (pastoral melody) Elizabeth Kvaerne langeleik
20 NÃ¥r mitt pie, trett av moie (When My Eye, Tired of Troubles) (hymn)
21 Store Store Gud (Great Great God) (hymn) Sondre Bratland singing
22 Myllarguten bruremarsj (bridal march by Myllarguten)
23 Fanitullen (The Devil’s Tune) (second version) Knut Buen Hardanger fiddle
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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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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.
1Â John Locke’s Polka / Three Jolly Sheepskins
2Â Kettle Drum
3Â Trip to the Cottage / Hunting the Squirrel / Jack of the Green
4Â A Shelter in the Time of Storm / We Shall be Happy
5Â Millfield / Saturday Night and Sunday Morn
6Â Garrick’s Delight / The Flaxley Green Dance
7Â Crocker’s Reel
8Â Roast Beef / All Flowers in Broome
9Â The Rope Waltz
10Â A Cheshire’s Hornpipe / Black Mary’s Hornpipe
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Onetime member of the esteemed High Level Ranters, Johnny Handle is also a solo performer of great charm, humour and a wonderful songwriter. The Collier Lad mirrors many aspects of life in the North-east, from the lore of the miner to the lure of the Geordie streets.
Johnny Handle guitar, accordeon & piano with Alistair Anderson English concertina, Tommy Gilfellon Guitar and Colin Ross fiddle.
In Bye
1 Â The Collier Lad *
2Â Â Dust
3  The Durham Big Meetin’ Day
4Â Â The Old Man of the Village
5Â Â The New Spotlight
6Â Â Farewell to the Monty
7  Stottin’ Doon the Waal *
On Bank
8Â Â The Day we went to the Coast
9Â Â Schooldays
10Â Is there Owt Secure?
11 The Old Pubs ±
12Â Decorating
13Â The Fearless Mariner
14 Danny’s *
* ably assisted by the rest of the High Level Ranters
± with Alistair Anderson, chorus
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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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A collection of instrumental country dance music from the North-east of Scotland, played by solos or duets rather than in the ubiquitous country dance-band style.
1   Lady Madeline Sinclair Strathspey / The High Road to Linton reel Alex Green – whistle
2   The White Cockade / Niel Gow‘s Farewell to Whiskey / Miss Jean Milligan – reels Willie Fraser – mouth-organ
3   Jig Selection – The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre / Kinnegad Slashers / The Bugle Horn / The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre Charlie Bremner – fiddle
4   The Brig o’ Perth / The Reel o’ Tulloch John Grant – fiddle
5   Strathspey & Reel: Forbes Morrison / The Ten Pound Fiddle Alex Green -whistle
6   Pipe-Marches: MacLean of Pennycross / The Midlothian Pipe Band Alex Green – whistle
7   Strathspey & Reel: The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman / Jenny Dang the Weaver Willie Fraser – diddling
8   Reels: John McFadden / Timour the Tartar Charlie Bremner – fiddle
9   March: The 79th‘s Farewell to Gibralter Willie Fraser – mouth-organ
10  Jig Selection: Bonnie Dundee / Hot Punch / Kenmuir’s on an’ awa’ Willie Fraser – mouth-organ
11  J B Milne/The Lovat Scouts / The Breakdown / Caddam Woods Charlie Bremner – fiddle
12  Polka Charlie Bremner – fiddle
13  The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman / Soldier’s Joy John Grant – fiddle
14  The Kirrie Kebbuck / Sir David Davidson of Cantray – strathspey & reel Alex Green – whistle
15  Marches: Tam Bain’s Lum / The Blue Bonnets Alex Green – whistle
16  Strathspey and Reel: Far Frae Scotia‘s Shores / Ally Crocker (The New Brig o’ Ayr) Willie Fraser – mouth-organ
17  Strathspey and Reel: Orange and Blue / Mrs MacLeod of Rothesay Willie Fraser – diddling
18  March: Highland Wedding Willie Fraser – mouth-organ
19  Dr MacDonald – reel Charlie Bremner – fiddle
20 Lady Charlotte Campbell – slow strathspey & reel Alex Green – whistle
21  Reels: High Road to Linton / The Mason’s Apron / The De’il Among the Tailors / Timour the Tartar Charlie Bremner – fiddle
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A former fisherman from Brighton, Johnny Doughty was discovered in his early seventies and recorded for Topic records. His songs, delivered with a vigorous sincerity that belied his age, ranged from classic Elizabethan ballads to locally composed ditties, as well as reflecting his extrovert personality.
1Â Â Â Herring Heads
2Â Â Â The Wreck of the Northfleet
3Â Â Â When I was Single
4Â Â Â The Golden Vanity
5Â Â Â The Saucy Sailor
6Â Â Â Baltimore
7Â Â Â While Going Round the Cape/Round Rye bay for More
8Â Â Â Spanish Ladies
9Â Â Â The Sailor’s Alphabet
10Â Â The Mermaid
11Â Â Marry Me
12Â Â I’m Going to be Mother Today
13Â Â Barbar Allen
14Â Â My Boy Billy
15Â Â Dick Turpin/Let Her Go Back
16Â Â Rye Harbour Girl
17Â Â The Streets of Port Arthur
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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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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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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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‘Few singers have such a vigorous, broad-ranging and fresh-sounding song repertoire as Nottingham’s Roy Harris, and none can handle it more convincingly. With Roy Harris at the helm the revival is in safe hands.’ Melody Maker 1973
On The Bitter & The Sweet Roy is accompanied by Notts Alliance – Ian Stewart, Roger Grimes & Laurence Platt, and Muckram Wakes – Roger Watson, Helen Wainwright & John Tams.
1Â Â Â Turpin Hero (with Notts Alliance)
2 Â Â The Bonny Green Woods (with Muckram Wakes)
3Â Â Â The Death Of Bill Brown
4Â Â Â The Three Butchers (self-accompanied on guitar)
5Â Â Â The Ullswater Pack (with chorus)
6   Poor Owd ‘Oss (with Notts Alliance)
7   General Ludd’s Triumph (with Muckram Wakes)
8Â Â Â Poverty Knock (with combined groups)
9Â Â Â The Streams Of Lovely Nancy
10Â Â Robin Hood and The Tanner (with Notts Alliance and Roger Watson, dulcimer)
11  The ‘Royal Oak’
12Â Â Strike The Bell (with Notts Alliance)
13Â Â McCafferty
14Â Â All Through The Ale (with Roger Watson, concertina)
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Scottish fiddle music arrived in Cape Breton Island with the Highland settlers over a century and a half ago, and the strongly Highland character of this region of Nova Scotia, in the Canadian Maritimes, remains to this day. Cape Breton with its harbours, heavily forested mountains and fertile valleys provided the Highlander with ample opportunity to exercise his old country skills in fishing, hunting and farming: the rural way of life of the Western Highland Gaels, together with their highly evolved oral and musical traditions, adapted easily to the new setting.
1   Strathspey, Hornpipe & Reel: The Sow’s Tail / Londonderry Hornpipe / Duncan on the Plainstones THERESA MacLELLAN (acc Marie MacLeIIan)
2Â Â Â Strathspeys & Reels: The WarIock’s Strathspey/ Bog an Lochain (Athole Cummers) / The Nine Pint Coggie / Calum Fhionnlaidh / Prince Charlie / Tarbolton Lodge MIKE MacDOUGALL (acc Mary Jessie MacDonald)
3   March, Strathspeys & Reel: Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban / Cairistiona Chaimbeul (Christy Campbell) / Port ‘ic Artair (MacArthur’s Tune / Untitled JOHN WILLIE CAMPBELL (acc Kevin McCormick)
4   Strathspeys & Reels: Lucy Campbell / Calum Crùbach (Miss Drummond of Perth) / Untitled / Cota Mór Ealasaid (Elizabeth’s Big Coat) / Untitled MARY MacDONALD (acc Mary Jessie McDonald)
5   Slow Air, Strathspeys & Reels: Niel Gow’s Lamentation for Abercairney / Johnnie Pringle / Munlochie Bridge / The Duke of Gordon’s Birthday / Perrie Werrie / Peggie    Menzies / West Mabou Reel ALEX FRANCIS MacKAY (acc Fr John Angus Rankin)
6Â Â Â Jigs: The Black Sporran / WaIking the Floor JOHN NEIL MacLEAN (acc Phyllis MacLeod)
7Â Â Â March & Strathspey: A Sheana-bhean Bhochd (Glengarry’s March) / Donald MacMaster’s Strathspe DAN JOE and GEORGE MaclNNIS (acc Marie MacLe|Ian)
8   Strathspey & Reel: J Scott Skinner Strathspey / GiIlian’s Reel (Muir o’ Gellan) JOHN NEIL MacLEAN (acc Phyllis MacLeod)
9   Strathspeys & Reels: Unidentified / Calum Breugach / The Duke of Athole / George the IV / The King’s / Miss Lyle’s Reel ALEX FRANCIS MacKAY (acc Fr John Angus Rankin)
10Â Â Â Strathspey & Reels: Alex MacEachern’s Strathspey / Fear nan Casan Caola (The Rejected Suitor) / Untitled JOHN WILLIE CAMPBELL (acc Kevin McCormick)
11Â Â Â Strathspeys & Reels: Miss Lyle’s Strathspey / The Highlanders’ Farewell to Ireland / King George / Tulloch Gorm (old setting with variations) / Lord MacDonald / Miss Johnstone MARY MacDONALD (acc Mary Jessie MacDonald)
12Â Â Â Jigs: Untitled / Untitled / Dan the Cobbler JOE MacLEAN (acc Mary Jessie MacDonald)
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Few could match the assurance and intensity of Frankie Armstrong’s singing. A committed feminist and radical, Frankie brought a refreshing energy to her performance of traditional and contemporary song. Songs and Ballads her debut album dates from 1975.
Frankie Armstrong vocals with Andrew Brown fiddle, Graham Goffee guitar, Susie Rothfield Appalachian dulcimer and voice, Heather Wood voice and Brian Pearson voice.
1   Little Duke Arthur’s Nurse (acc. fiddle, guitar, dulcimer)
2   The Pitmen’s Union (acc. guitar)
3Â Â Â Lady Diamond (unacc.)
4Â Â Â Lament for the Hull Trawlers (acc. fiddle and guitar)
5Â Â Â The Month of January (duet with Heather Wood)
6Â Â Â Three Drunken Maidens (vocal trio with Heather Wood and Susie Rothfield)
7Â Â Â Jack the Lad (acc. fiddle and guitar)
8Â Â Â The Whore’s Lament (acc. fiddle, with chorus)
9Â Â Â Little Musgrave (acc. dulcimer)
10Â Â The Collier Lass (unacc.)
11Â Â The Female Drummer (acc. fiddle, guitar, dulcimer, with chorus)
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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.
1Â Â Eightsome reel Part 1 (Fairy Dance / The Breakdown / De’il Among The Tailors)
2 Ashcroft’s Reel / Londonderry Air / Breakdown
3Â Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
4Â Liverpool and Highland Hornpipes (inc. Down Home Rag)
5Â The International
6Â 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)
7Â 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)
8Â La Varsovienne
9Â Big Reason Blues
10Â The Boston Two-step
11Â Horseguards Blue
12Â Happy Hours
13Â Woodland Voices
14Â Eightsome reel Part 2 (Kate Dalrymple / Wind That Shakes The Barley / Soldier’s Joy / Miss MacLeod)
15Â Ideal One-Step
16Â The Middy March
17Â Empress Tango
18Â 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)
20Â Medley of Irish Waltzes: The Irish Jaunting Car / Come Back To Erin / Eileen Alannah)
21Â 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)
23Â I Still Love You / Waltz Hesitation
24Â The Call of the Pipes Part 1
25Â Why Worry
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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 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.
1Â Whinham’s Jig / Billy’s Jig
2Â Chips and Shavings / Jack’s Alive / Dear Tobacco
3Â Town Green Polka / Jenny Bell Polka
4Â The Biddlestone Hornpipe / The Last of the Twins
5Â The Ruby / The Quarrelsome Piper
6Â Rowly Burn / Coates’s Hornpipe
7Â La Russe / The Winshield’s Hornpipe / Jane’s Fancy / Da Road to Houll
8Â Blinkin’ Tibbie / The Pear Tree
9Â Swalwell Lasses / South Shields Lasses
10Â Moonshine Polka
11Â The Quayside / Miss Ward’s Reel
12Â The Butterclout / Such a Wife as Willie Had / Willy is a Bonny Lad
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This is the second Topic LP of the music of Tommy McMahon and Bernard O’Sullivan. Like the first record it illustrates the richness, depth and variety of Clare concertina music. The selection here is very varied and includes reels, jigs, hornpipes, set dances, polkas and waltzes. Anyone in search of good concertina music may find it in West Clare. This is really concertina country. Every village has a traditional musician and in many cases it is a concertina player. The concertina as a traditional instrument has been in Clare for well over a hundred years. With the decline of the pipes and fiddle the concertina was a practical replacement. It was ideal for playing the newly composed sets of the last century. Though it was not capable of the embellishments or expressiveness of the pipes it was nevertheless an excellent little reed instrument for playing for country dances.
1 Polkas: I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue, The Rakes of Mallow Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
2 Reels: Farmer Moroney’s and Mulvihill’s reel Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
3 Reels: Maud Millar’s and Morrison’s Tommy McMahon
4 Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore Bernard O’Sullivan
5 Waltzes: My Heart’s in the Highlands and The Dewdrop Bernard O’Sullivan
6 Jigs: The Blooming Meadows, Mullagh Jig, Ballinakill Jig Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
7 Reels: The Merry Sisters, Quilty Reel Tommy McMahon
8 Hornpipes: The Cliff, The Derry Hornpipe Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
9 Jigs: The Rose in the Heather selection Tommy McMahon
10 Reels: Flowery Mountains, Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel, The Milliner’s Daughter Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
11 Reel: A Trip to Durrow  Tommy McMahon
12 Polka: Stack Ryan’s Polka Bernard O’Sullivan
13 Set Dance: The Garden of Daisies Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
14 Jigs: Andy Keone’s, Saddle the Pony, Tulla Jig Tommy McMahon
15 Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains Tommy McMahon
16 Reels: The Boys of Ballysadare, The Five Mile Chase Tommy McMahon & Bernard O’Sullivan
Produced by Tony Engle, John Tams and Neil Wayne
First issued by Topic Records 1976.
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‘Whether he is singing in Irish or English, Heaney is a remarkably discreet singer, not given to dramatic or comic effect, with an uneventful surface to his songs, but a world of secrets underneath. Outside a few settlements in his native West, it would be hard to find his equal.’
From the original sleevenotes by A. L. Lloyd
1 THE ROCKS OF BAWN
2 ONE MORNING IN JUNE
3 CASADH AN t-SUGAINÂ Â The Twisting of the Rope
4 THE WIFE OF THE BOLD TENANT FARMER
5 THE TREES THEY GROW TALL
6 PEIGIN IS PEADARÂ Â Peggy and Peter
7 CUNNLA
8 CAOINEADH NA TRI MHUIREÂ Â The Lament of the Three Marys
9 AN TIGHEARNA RANDALÂ Â Lord Randal
10 BEAN AN LEANNAÂ Â The Woman with the Beer
11 JOHN MITCHEL
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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.
1Â Navvy Boots
2Â Down the Long Road
3Â The Rambling Man
4 Barn Dance Selection: Louis James’ Quadrille / The Dancing Dustman
5Â 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
8Â Wild Wild Whiskey
9Â Whiskey in the Jar
10Â Reels: The Steam Packet / The Sligo Maid
11 Herbert Smith’s Polka
12Â One Day While in the North Country
13Â A-Begging I Will Go
14Â The Wealthy Squire
15 By Tyne’s Bonny Banks
16Â Once I Had an Old Hen
17Â Polka Medley: Jenny Lind / J B Milne / The Girl With the Blue Dress On
18 Bogie’s Bonnie Belle
19Â Irish Molly Barn Dance
20Â Toast / The Blarney Stone
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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.
1Â The Edgmond Men’s Souling Song
2Â Artichokes and Cauliflowers
3Â The Bricklayers / Double Change Sides
4Â The Cherry Tree Carol
5Â John of the Greeney Cheshire Way
6Â A Shropshire Lad
7Â I Wish, I Wish
8Â Old Sir Simon the King
9Â Adieu to Old England
10Â The Blue Eyed Stranger / The Winster Morris Reel
11Â Jim Jones
12Â Blacksmith’s Morris / Charles’s Hornpipe
13Â Cold Blows the Wind
14Â Wilson’s Favourite / Shrewsbury Wakes
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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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“In a form of music that is mainly about continuity and convention, it is a rarity to come across an innovator, a rule-breaker; Davie Stewart was just such a character. He deserves the overused word, ‘unique’; they made Davie and then they broke the mould. His song accompaniments on melodeon or piano accordion have a peculiar otherworldly effect. It is weird and wonderful stuff.” Vic Smith
1 MacPherson’s Rant
2 The Jolly Beggar
3 Cantering: The 74th Highlanders’ Farewell to Edinburgh/The Piper’s Bonnet/Mrs
MacLeod of Raasay
4 I’m Often Drunk and I’m Seldom Sober
5 Jigs: Taghter Jack Walsh/The Connaughtman’s Ramble
6 The Overgate
7 The Merchant’s Son
8 The Daft Piper
9 Boolavogue
10 Hornpipe: Harvest Home
11 The Dowie Dens o’Yarrow
Production for Topic by Tony Engle
First issued by Topic Records 1978
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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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Peta Webb’s 1973 LP for Topic came after great interest in her work with Oak; this album showcases her individual vocal style, with songs learned from some of the great Irish traditional singers, Brigid Tunney, Winnie Ryan and John Docherty among them.
- I have wandered in exile  with Lucy Farr, fiddle
- Oxford City
- The Moorlough Shore
- The Blackbird of Avondale with Lucy Farr, fiddle; Reg Hall, melodeon
- Blackwater Side
- The Pride of Glencoe with Michael Plunkett, fiddle
- I am a poor girl
- Moorlough Mary
- The Lovely Banks of Lea with Lucy Farr, fiddle
Recorded by Tony Engle
First issued by Topic Records 1973
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John Doonan was born and bred in Newcastle of an Irish father and mother and brought up in an atmosphere strictly Irish. His father was a well respected traditional fiddle player in the Newcastle area and it was through his strong influence that John inherited his fine style of flute-playing.
Irish Traditional Dance Music In Strict Tempo
1 Reels: Jackie Coleman’s / Paddy Cavanagh’s / John Brennan’s
2 Slip jigs: Any Old Jig Will Do / The Butterfly
3 Set Dance: Rodney’s Glory
4 Slow jigs: The Idle Road / The Frost is All Over / The Black Rogue
5 Air: The Spalpeen’s Lament
6 Jigs: The Kesh / Morrison’s / Old Joe’s
7 Reels: The Shannon Breeze / Heathery Breeze / The Green Fields of America
8 Set Dance: The Blackthorn Stick
9 Set Dance: Hurry the Dance
10 Set Dance: Rub the Bag
11 Air & Set Dance: The Blackbird
12 Hornpipes: Spellan the Fiddler / The Rights of Man
13 Jigs: The Irish Washerwoman / Father O’Flynn / The Lilting Fisherman
John Doonan is accompanied by Malcolm Armstrong on tracks 1,6,7 and 13
and Brian Pandrich on piano tracks 3, 8, 9, and 10
First published by Topic Records 1978
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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.
1Â Come All Ye Fisher Lassies – The Fisher Family
2Â Schooldays Over – Ray & Archie Fisher
3 The Rigs O’Rye – Archie Fisher
4Â Donal Ogue – Joyce Fisher
5Â For Our Lang Biding Here – Archie Fisher
6Â Joy of My Heart – The Fisher Family
7Â Hey Ca Through – Ray, Joyce, Audrey & Priscilla Fisher
8 What’s Poor Mary Weeping For? / Bonnie Lass O’Ballochmyle – Ray & Archie Fisher
9 Â Am A Miller Tae Ma Trade – Cindy & Joyce Fisher
10Â I Am A Freeborn Man – Archie Fisher
11Â The Birkin Tree – Joyce & Cindy Fisher
12Â Aince Upon a Time – Ray & Archie Fisher
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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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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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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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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
2Â The Heather Breeze / The Traveller
3Â St. Kevin of Glendalough
4 The Potlick / The Peeler’s Jacket
5Â The Five Mile Chase
6 Russell’s Hornpipe / Fisher’s Hornpipe
7Â The Poor Little Fisher Boy
8Â The Walls of Liscarroll / The Battering Ram
9 Garret Barry’s Reel
10 Tommy Glenny’s Reel
11Â The Connemara Stockings / The Westmeath Hunt
12Â When Musheen Went to Bunnan
13Â Tatter Jack Walsh
14 The De’il Among the Tailors
15Â The Roscrea Cows
16Â Fair Haired Boy / The Black Haired Lass
17Â Off to California
18Â Give the Girl her Fourpence
19Â Nora Daly
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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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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.
1Â Up Sides
2 After You’ve Got
3Â Woodland Voices
4Â The Watercress Girl
5 Maybe She’ll Write Me
6 Rogue’s March / Dashing White Sergeant
7Â Marmalade Polka
8Â Underneath Her Apron
9Â Lichfield Tattoo
10Â The Willow Tree
11Â Donkey, Jack Donkey / Here it Comes Again
12 Dark Town Strutter’s Ball / Cajun Two Step
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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.
1Â Reel: Salamanca / The Milltown Lasses
2Â Trim the Velvet
3Â Jig: The Silver Tip / The Frog in the Well
4Â The Lark in the Clear Air
5Â Polkas: The First of May / The Last of June (Jenny Lind)
6Â Jigs: Paddy in London / Over the Garden Wall
7Â Hornpipe: Road to Ballysodare
8Â Reels: The Teetotaller / The Bunch of Keys
9Â Reel: The Whistler and His Dog
10Â Reels: The Flax in Bloom / The College Grove / The Maid on the Mountain
11 Reel: Ladybower’s Reel / The Sister Reel
12Â Reel: Drowsy Maggie
13Â Hornpipes: The Harvest Home / The Londonderry
14Â Jigs: The Frost Is All Over / The Goose in the Bog
15Â Reel: The Lonely Maid
16Â Air: The Coolin
17Â Barn Dance: Turkey in the Straw
18 Slip Jig: Mother I’m Up In the Roost (What Are You Doing, You Divil You!)
19Â Miss Monahan’s / Miss Gallagher’s
20Â Reel: Rakish Paddy
21 Hornpipe The Belfast (or Sweep’s) Hornpipe
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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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When Chesterton wrote of the Irish ‘All their wars were merry and all their songs are sad’ he was sacrificing accuracy for the sake of a paradox. The wars themselves were ruthless savage campaigns of destruction on the one hand and desperate struggles for existence on the other. The British fought as conquerors with scant regard for the rules of war, the Irish fought for something ancient and good, and they fought as crusaders. Their songs reflected their attitude, full of sadness for previous defeats, but convinced of the justice of their cause and confident that the final battle would be won.
Tudors, Stuarts, Commonwealth and After
1. Follow me up to Carlow Arthur Kearney
2. Sean O’Dwyer a Gleanna Paddy Tunney
3. Jackets Green Arthur Kearney
4. The Battle of Aughrim Frank Kelly – violin, Joe Tunney– melodeon
The United Irishmen and the Rebellion of 1798
5. The Ribbon Blade Paddy Tunney
6. General Munro Arthur Kearney
7. The Memory of the Dead Frank Kelly – violin, Joe Tunney – melodeon
The Young Ireland Movement and the Fenians
8. The Bold Fenian Men Paddy Tunney
9. John Mitchel Paddy Tunney
10. The Felons of our Land Arthur Kearney
The Sinn Fein and the War of Independence
11. The Dawning of the Day Frank Kelly – violin, Joe Tunney – melodeon
12. The Song of the Dawn Arthur Kearney
13. The Valley of Knockanure Paddy Tunney
14. The Grand Oul’ Dame Britannia Paddy Tunney
15. Kevin Barry Paddy Tunney
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This collection is drawn from the first three albums recorded by the Battlefield Band for Topic Records in 1977, ’78 and ’79.
Tracks 1-3 come from The Battlefield Band (12TS313), 4-12 from At the Front (12TS381) and 13-17 from Stand Easy (12TS404)
The Battlefield Band were made up of core members Brian MacNeill and Alan Reid with Jamie McMenemy and John Gahagan. For the second album, John was replaced by Pat Kilbride and, for Stand Easy, Pat and Jamie had left, and the new members were Duncan MacGillivray and Jenny Clark. Since making these recordings the band has gone on to become one of the mainstays of the progressive folk music scene in Scotland.
1Â Silver Spear / Humours of Tulla
2Â The Shipyard Apprentice
3Â The Cruel Brother
4 Ge Do Theid Mi Do M’Leabaidh
5Â The Battle of Harlaw
6Â Jenny Nettles / The Grays of Tongside
7 Tae The Beggin’
8Â The Tamosher
9Â The Blackbird & the Thrush / The Moray Club
10Â Lang Johnnie Moir
11Â The Brown Milkmaid / Dunnottar Castle / Maid of Glengarrysdale / Disused Railway
12Â The Lady Leroy
13 Miss Drummond of Perth / Fiddler’s Joy / Traditional Reel / The Shetland Fiddler
14  My Last Farewell to Stirling / Cuidich’n Righ
15  I Hae Laid a Herrin’ in Salt / My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing / The Banks of the Allan
16 Â The Battle of Falkirk Muir
17 Joe McGann’s Fiddle / Center’s Bonnet
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Peggy Seeger performs eight songs for children from the American tradition, accompanied by her sisters Penny and Barbara. First released in 1958.
1Â Â Â All Around The Kitchen
2Â Â Come Along John
3Â Â Billy Barlow
4Â Â Old Aunt Kate
5Â Â Little Bird, Little Bird, Go Through My Window
6Â Â Lula Gal
7Â Â Rissolty, Rossolty
8Â Â The Derby Ram
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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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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.
- PACIFIC
- DIAMANTINA DROVER
- JOY AFTER SORROW
- IN AT THE DEEP END
- OLD MAN RIVER
- THE PIT STANDS IDLE
- GOING PLACES
- FOR THE SAKE OF EXAMPLE
- BLAZING RUSE
Produced by The House Band and David Kenny
First issued by Topic Records 1987
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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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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.
1Â Jazzman
2Â Shawnee Town
3Â Moth
4Â Living Without You
5Â For Jessica, Sad or High Kicking / My Dearest Dear
6Â Icarus
7Â No Depression in Heaven
8Â Let It Be Me
9Â Stillness in Company
10Â The Lakes of Ponchartrain
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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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A collection of Country Singers from Hampshire and Sussex recorded by Bob Copper
In the summer of 1954, the singer and folksong collector Bob Copper went recording in the countryside of Sussex and Hampshire. He collected numerous fine songs from old country singers. This 1977 collection made those important recordings accessible for the first time.
1Â Â The Bonny Bunch of Roses Noah Gillette
2Â Â Epsom Races George Attrill
3Â Â The Banks of The Mossem Jim Swain
4Â Â False Lanky George Fosbury
5Â Â Cruel Lincoln Ben Butcher
6Â Â The Silver Pin Mrs Chapman
7  The ’Chiner’s Song Frank Bond
8Â Â God Bless the Master Frank Bond
9Â Â The Prickle-Holly Bush Fred Hewett
10Â Three Maidens a-Milking Did Go Fred Hewett
11Â Â Her Servant Man Gladys Stone
12Â Â Rolling in the Dew Leslie Johnson
13Â Â George Collins Enos White
14Â Â In Sheffield Park Ben Butcher
15  The Streams of Lovely Nancy Victor ‘Turp’ Brown
16  As Broad As I Was Walking Victor ‘Turp’ Brown
17  Six Jolly Miners Victor ‘Turp’ Brown
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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.
1Â The Wild Goose – Louis Killen
2Â Lovely Nancy – Ian Campbell
3Â The Nightingale – Cyril Tawney
4Â Heave Away My Johnny – Louis Killen
5Â Row Bullies Row – Ian Campbell Group
6Â The Fireship – Cyril Tawney
7 Tom’s Gone To Hilo – Bob Davenport
8Â Ship in Distress – Louis Killen
9Â Lowlands Low – Ian Campbell Group
10Â One Morning In Spring – Cyril Tawney
11Â Hilo Johnny Brown – Louis Killen
12Â Poor Old Horse – Ian Campbell Group
13Â Bold Princess Royal – Louis Killen
14Â Billy Boy – Bob Davenport
15Â Bold Benjamin – Cyril Tawney
16Â The Hog Eye Man – Ian Campbell Group
17Â Goodbye, Fare Thee Well – Louis Killen
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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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The British Labour Movement has a rich heritage of songs – songs that convey a sense of history, as well as imagery and emotion for present day industrial workers and their friends.
The force and tang of these songs proves irresistible to modern tastes, and many talented song-makers outside of industry as well as within it have been fired to imitate this kind of do-it-yourself workers’ song. Among the best of these is Ewan MacColl, who presents here a number of songs created by industrial workers, interspersed with songs on industrial themes made by himself.
1 The Wark of the Weavers
2 Droylsden Wakes
3 The Four Loom Weaver
4 The Calton Weaver
5 Oh, Dear Me
6 The Coal-Owner and the Pitman’s Wife
7 Fourpence a Day
8 The Gresford Disaster
9 Will Caird
10 The Iron Horse
11 Poor Paddy works on the Railway
12 Cannily Cannily
13 The Song of the Iron Road
14 The Blantyre Explosion
15 The Collier Laddie
16 Moses of the Mail
Recording by Bill Leader.
First issued by Topic Records 1964.
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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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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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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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J SCOTT SKINNER (1843 – 1927) was in his time the chief composer and exponent of Scots violin music. His own pieces no less than his versions of traditional tunes became settled in the tradition, and a command of the Skinner repertoire and, equally important, the master’s style is among the most respected attainments of a Scots fiddler.
1Â Â Â The President – Air and Variations
2 Â Â Â Lucania Polka
3    The Freebooter / Tullochgorum / The East Neuk o’ Fife
4    Allegory / The Miller o’ Hirn / Mackenzie Frazer / The Auld Wheel
5    Bagpipe Marches – Athole Highlanders’ Farewell to Loch Katrine / Cameron Highlanders / The Inverness Gathering
6 Â Â Â Celebrated Hornpipes – Arthur Seat / Eugene Stratton / The Banks
7    Highland Reels – Laird o’ Thrums / Gavin M’Millan / Laird o’ Drumblair / Gladstone’s Reel
8   Medley No. 2 – Bonnie Lass o’ Bon Accord / Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell / The Ten Pound Fiddle
9    Highland Schottische No. 2 – Sandy Cameron / Miller o’ Hirn / The Glenlivet
10  Triumph Country Dance – Triumph / Timour the Tartar / The Left Handed Fiddler / Speed the Plough / De’il Among the Tailors
11Â Â Â Home Sweet Home / The Iron Man Strathspey / The Bungalow Reel
12   Cradle Song – Cradle Song / The Braes of Auchtertyre / The Athole Highlanders’ Farewell to Loch Katrine
13 Â Â Glengrant / Tulchan Lodge / The Parrot – Humorous Pizzicato
14   Mrs. Scott Skinner / Mackenzie Hay / The Devil’s Elbow
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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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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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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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Harry Boardman sang both unaccompanied and accompanying himself on the anglo-concertina or banjo. He wasactive as a folk singer and collector of Lancashire folklore from the late 1950s with some collaboration from his wife Lesley. Dave Hillery appeared regularly with Harry at the Pack Horse Hotel in Bridge Street, Manchester in the early 1960s, developing his interest in Yorkshire regional material through their association.
Although most of the songs in this album represent well the character of their respective counties, there has been no attempt to create a definitive programme – they are simply the personal choice of two men from either side of the ‘backbone of England’.
- Scarborough Sands
- I’ll have a Collier for my Sweetheart
- Forty Miles
- Tommy Stroo’s Ghost
- Cowd Stringy Pie
- Tha’s Welcome, Little Bonny Brid
- Nellie o’ Bob’s o’t’ Crowtrees
- Weaver’s Song
- Happy Sam
- The Manchester CanalÂ
- Instrumental Dance-Tunes T-auld Wife of Coverdill/Lass O’ Dallogil/My Love, My Love
- The Cockfight
- Haley Paley
- With Henry Hunt We’ll Go
- The Ensilver Song
Recorded by Dick Swettenham in Manchester
First issued by Topic Records 1971
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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 IRISH COUNTRY FOUR from Belfast had a wonderfully original take on traditional repertoire from Ulster. Their sole recording was reviewed at the time as ‘an excellent records… they sing the songs and play the tunes of their homeland with an involvement that is quick to rub off on the listener.
1Â Â Â Â Reels: Roaring Mary and The Old Torn Petticoat
played by the group (union pipes, whistle, guitar and bones)
2Â Â Â Â The Cotton-mill Song
sung by Jess Harpur (w. guitar) and chorus
3Â Â Â The Granemore Hare
sung by Jess Harpur, acc. Brian Bailie (flute) and Valerie Bailie (guitar)
4Â Â Â Â The boys of Mullaghbawn
sung by the group (unaccompanied)
5Â Â Â Â Pulling the Lint
sung by Trevor Stewart (unaccompanied)
6Â Â Â Â Â Air: The Melodious Little Fort of Bruff
played by Brian Bailie (whistle)
7Â Â Â Â General Munro
sung by Jess Harpur and Valerie Bailie, with Brian Bailie (flute)
8Â Â Â Â The Load of Kale Plants
sung by Trevor Stewart, with Brian Bailie (flute)
9    O’Meally’s Hornpipe
played by the group (union pipes, whistle and guitar)
10  Jigs: Kitty’s Bonnet and The Flax-dresser
played by the group (union pipes, whistle, flute, bodhran)
11Â Â The Doffing Mistress
sung by Valerie Bailie, Jess Harpur, Trevor Stewart (w. guitar and mandoline)
12Â Â The Maid of Ballydoo
sung by Jess Harpur (w. guitar) and chorus
13Â Â Air: Blind Mary
played by Trevor Stewart (union pipes)
14Â Â Magherafelt Hiring Fair
sung by Valerie Bailie and Trevor Stewart (w. guitar)
15 Â The Heights of Alma
sung by Trevor Stewart and Jess Harpur (unaccompanied)
16Â Â P for Paddy
sung by Trevor Stewart, acc. Brian Bailie (flute) and chorus
17  Reels: Martin Mulhaire’s no. 1 / Kitty goes a-milking and Pigeon on the gate
played by the group (whistle, union pipes, bodhran and bones)
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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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Like other folksingers, her repertoire encompasses a variety of emotions: anger at needless poverty and exploitation, affirmation of self-help as a way of life, pleasure in love, solace in religion, peace in death. Sarah’s prodigious talent has permitted her to fuse disparate radical elements with traditional forms to create a handful of significant songs beyond the legacy of well-known material left to her by her family.
1 I AM A GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW
2 LOVING NANCY
3 OLD JACK FROST
4 MAY I GO WITH YOU JOHNNY?
5 THE HAND OF GOD ON THE WALL
6 DOWN ON THE PICKET LINE
7 I HATE THE COMPANY BOSSES
8 I’M GOING TO ORGANIZE
9 CHRIST WAS A WAYWORN TRAVELER
10 WHY DO YOU STAND THERE IN THE RAIN?
11 DREADFUL MEMORIES
12 OLD SOUTHERN TOWN
13 I HAVE LETTERS FROM MY FATHER
14 CAPTAIN DEVIN
15 GEE WHIZ WHAT THEY DONE TO ME
16 DAVY CROCKETT
17 BATTLE OF MILL SPRING
18 JUST THE SAME TODAY
19 SALLY
20 OH DEATH
First issued by Topic Records 1967.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.”
1Â Byker Hill / Blackleg Miner
2Â Durham Gaol Selection: Gypsy Poacher / Durham Gaol / First Time I Saw Durham City / Ball of Yarn / Breaking Sticks
3Â Wait Till the Work Comes Round
4Â The Winter Time is Coming In / Old Changing Way
5Â When a Man Looks Pale / There’s Nae Much Luck About the House
6Â We Plough and Sow / Get Up, Stand Up
7Â Once I Had A True Love / Lowlands / My Bonnie Lad
8Â Great Little Army March
9Â Unemployed Men Stand on the Corner / McCafferty / I Don’t Want to Join the Army
10Â 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
11Â Have You Forgotten Yet / When this Bloody War is Over
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HEDY WEST from North Georgia, at the southern end of the Appalachians. A L Lloyd regarded her as ‘far and away the of American girl singers in the revival.’ A sensitive and vibrant singer who accompanied herself in a distinctive style on the five-string banjo, her early recordings for the Topic label have had a remarkable influence on the folk song revival.
1Â Â Â The House Carpenter
2Â Â Â Pretty Saro
3Â Â Â Old Smokey
4Â Â Â Blow Ye Gentle Winds
5Â Â Â My Soul’s Full Of Glory
6Â Â Â Promised Land
7Â Â Â Over There
8Â Â Â Little Matty Groves
9Â Â Â Rake And Rambling Boy
10Â Joe Bowers
11Â Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
12Â I’m An Old Bachelor
13Â Johnny Sands
14Â My Good Old Man
15Â Frankie Silvers
16Â Lee Tharin’s Bar Room
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Together with his younger brother Barry, Robin Dransfield had a successful career as the leading young duo on the British folk scene during the late 1970s. They took the folk clubs by storm and recorded the seminal ‘Rout Of The Blues’ album. His solitary solo album, from 1980, is held in high regard by all aficionados of the finest English revival folk music.
1Â The Cutty Wren
2Â The Barley & The Rye
3Â Fair Maids Of February
4 When It’s Night-time In Italy It’s Wednesday Over Here
5 The Rigs O’RyeÂ
6Â Spencer The Rover
7Â Tidewave
8 The Cadgwith Anthem     Â
9 I Once Had A Dog    Â
10Â The Three Muscadets
11Â Mother Nature
Robin Dransfield vocals, guitar
with
Hurdy Gurdy – Christian “Le Roi†Gourhan
Concertina – Lea Nicholson
Brass – The White Shield Brass Ensemble
(Bob White: trumpet, Chris Stearn: bass trombone, euphonium)
Bass Guitar – Nick Greenwood
Piano – Chris Copping
Cello – Barry Dransfield
Recorded at Livingston Studios, Barnet, 1979/80
Produced by Nic Kinsey
First released by Topic Records 1980
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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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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.
1Â The Rochdale Mashers
2Â Seeing Double
3Â The Pennine Rangers
4Â The Two Jews
5 A Piecer’s Tale
6 Best o’t’ Bunch
7Â The Lancashire Toreador
8Â A Cob-Coaling Medley
9Â The Four-Loom Weaver
10 John Willie’s Ragtime Band
11 Platt’s
12Â Good Time Coming
13Â I Mean to Wait for Jack
14Â Skiing Owdham Style
15Â A Mon Like Thee
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This record is a partial musical portrait of Glasgow, the city that more than any other in these islands, arouses shame, admiration and very real fear – the Glasgow of the old tradition, half-pastoral, half-urban, and nothing at all to do with the haggis or saffron kilts or tongued brogues; the Glasgow where the bewildered newcomer from the Highlands faces the line of a hundred grimy tenements; the Glasgow of the Hampden roar, of the bitter snarl of Orange against Green, of the shrill ironies of tough ten-year-olds of the courts of Govan and the concrete wastes of Easterhouse; the Glasgow of the factory gate demo, the Social Security queue, and the UCS work-in.
The Clutha, Terry Dick, Flora MacNeill, Geordie McIntyre, Freddie Anderson, Mick Broderick, Gordeanna McCulloch, Duncan Cameron, John Cameron, children from Barmulloch Primary School
1. DANCE TUNE MEDLEY played by The
Clutha (Calum Allan & Erlend Voy – fiddles; Ron
Alexander – guitar; John Eaglesham – concertina)
2. FOOTBALL SONGS Sung by Terry Dick with
chorus
3. MACDONALD’S FIRST VISIT TO GLASGOW
sung by Flora MacNeill
4. THE SPORTS O’ GLASGOW GREEN sung by
Geordie McIntyre
5. LET GLASGOW FLOURISH recited by
Freddy Anderson
6. THE COLLIER’S EIGHT HOUR DAY sung by
John Eaglesham acc The Clutha
7. THE WEEKEND SONG sung by Gordeanna
McCulloch
8. O’REILLY AND THE BIG MACNEILL sung by
Geordie McIntyre acc. Duncan Cameron – banjo;
Johnny Cameron – guitar
9. BOTTLING SONGS sung by Gordeanna
McCulloch, Sheila Christie with chorus, acc. The
Clutha
10. THE BLEACHER LASSIE O’ KELVINHAUGH
sung by Gordeanna McCulloch
11. THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY DOUBLE
TIME sung by Geordie McIntyre acc. Johnny
Cameron – acoustic guitar; Duncan Cameron –
bass guitar
12. CHILDREN’S STREET & PLAYGROUND
SONGS sung by children of Barmulloch Primary
School
13. THE BALLAD OF THE Q4 sung by Mick
Broderick acc. Johnny Cameron – acoustic guitar;
Duncan Cameron – bass guitar
14. THE WORKS OUTING sung by Geordie
McIntyre acc. Erlend Voy & John Eaglesham –
concertinas
15. MARCH TUNE MEDLEY played by The
Clutha
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
1Â Old May Song
2Â John Willie’s Performing Newt
3Â Nowt About Owt
4Â Children’s Chants & Songs – Captain’s Medley
5Â Eawr House – As Was
6Â Oh! That Lancashire Jazz Band
7Â The Lark
8Â John Willie’s Grand-Dad
9Â Tribute to Owd Paddy
10Â Old King Coal
11Â Steeple Jack
12Â The Crime Lake Boggart
13Â An Oldham Rugby Medley
14Â McCarthy’s Party
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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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‘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’.
1Â Lancashire Lass
2Â Never Again
3Â Lord Allenwater
4Â 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
6Â Gilderoy
7Â Rockley Firs / Sweet Jenny Jones
8Â German Tune
9Â The Moon Shines Bright
10 Harvest Home Medley – Peas, Beans, Oats and the Barley / The Mistress’s Health / Poor Tom
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Debut recording from the LIVERPOOL SPINNERS (soon to be well-known internationally as the Spinners). This spirited collection was recorded by Bill Leader live at the folk club run by the group at Samson and Barlow’s on London Road Liverpool in 1961. Tony Davis, Mick Groves, Cliff Hall, Hughie Jones and Jacqueline Macdonald.
Songs Spun in Liverpool was first released by Topic Records in 1962.
- Whip Jamboree
- The Liverpool Barrow Boy
- Hayarden
- The Champion of the Seas
- Judy Drownded
- John Peel
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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
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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 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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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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Cheviot Barn Dance is the third recording of The Cheviot Ranters Country Dance Band on Topic. As with their previous records The Sound of the Cheviots (12TS214) and The Cheviot Hills (12TS222) it is a programme of old time and country dances. Formed in 1955, the Cheviot Ranters were arguably the most distinguished and authentic of the English folk dance bands and grew out of the monthly meetings of the Northumbrian Pipers’ Society.
- DASHING WHITE SERGEANT: Original; Rakes of Mallow; Catherine’s Reel
- CALL OF THE PIPES: Barren Rocks of Aden; Sweet Maid of Glendaruch; The Earl of Mansfield
- NOTTINGHAM SWING: Marquis o’ Lorne; Showman’s Fancy; Beggar Boy
- MILITARY TWO STEP: I do like to be beside the seaside; Here we are again; Mademoiselle from Armentieres; Hello, hello, who’s your lady friend
- SWEDISH MASQUERADE: Original
- LUCKY SEVEN: Davy Davy Knick Knack; Toland Dance; Aiken Drum
- LA RUSSE: Original; Good Humour; Come let us dance and sing
- KEEL ROW: Original; There’s nae luck aboot the hoose; Castles in the Air
- BRIDGE OF ATHLONE: The frost is all over; Pet of the Pipers; Smash the Windows
- CIRCLE WALTZ: We parted on the shore; I belong to Glasgow; Oh Oh Antonio; Peggy O’Neill
- CHEVIOT RANT: Original; Cloudy Crags; Traditional Air
- POLKA: The Brownieside Polka
First issued by Topic Records 1974
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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 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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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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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.
1Â Waterman’s Dance
2Â The Gipsy Laddie
3Â Apple Core / Nipper
4Â The Tailor and the Louse
5Â Peg Huglestone’s Hornpipe
6Â Little Sir William
7Â The Game of All Fours
8Â Penny For Them
9Â Whitefryer’s Hornpipe / Shreds and Patches
10Â Johnny Sands
11Â Oakham Poachers
12Â Bread and Jam Waltzer / Mr Gubbin’s Bicycle
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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.
1Â The Hawk Polka / Thrunton Woods
2 The Keelman’s Petition / The Tipp Staff
3Â La Fille de Lyon / Cotillion des Marionettes
4 Blake’s Hornpipe / President Garfield’s Hornpipe / Bonny Broom Hill
5Â Felton Ionnin
6 Kriden Fair / Tich Richardson’s Favourite / Hey to the Camp / Brosehill
7 Alistair Anderson’s Favourite / Old French
8Â The Belfast Hornpipe / The Prize Potato
9Â The Trip to Carlisle / Corby Crag
10Â Ali Anderson / Henry Atkinson
11Â Blaydon Flats / Whittingham Games / James Brown
12 Derwent Water’s Bonnie Lord / The Bride’s Favourite
13Â Remember Me / The Left Handed Fiddler
14Â Geld Him Lasses, Geld Him / Uncle John
15Â The Darkening
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A founder member of the High Level Ranters, Tom Gilfellon emerged occasionally with an inimitable collection of songs and tunes evoking the North-Eastern and the Irish strains of his background. Tom Gilfellon vocals, guitar, cittern with Martin Carthy guitar, Johnny Handle vocal, accordian, piano and Liz Sobell dulcimer, harmonium and Stefan Sobell cittern, concertina
1    The Banks of Red Roses / The Boys of Ballysadare Tom vocal/cittern; Stefan cittern; Liz dulcimer
2    The Workers’ Song Tom vocal; Liz harmonium
3a  The Celebrated Working Man Tom vocal; Johnny accordeon/chorus
3b  Uncle Albert’s last heroic farewell to the world Tom recitation
4    Reels; Lady Ann Montgomery / The Wind that Shakes the Barley / The Foxhunter’s Reel Tom cittern; Martin guitar
5    The Snow it Melts the Soonest Tom vocal
6   The Bonny Gateshead Lass Tom vocal; Stefan English concertina
7   Jigs: Thomas Friel’s/ The Battering Ram Tom cittern; Martin guitar
8   The Two Sisters Tom vocal
9   The Row in the Gutter Tom vocal; Johnny piano
10  The Fiery Clockface Tom vocal/guitar
11  Johnny Miner Tom vocal
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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.
1Â Thousands or More
2Â New Rigged Ship / Rig-a-jig-jig
3Â The Lakes of Cool Flynn
4Â The Nutley Waltz / The Faithful Sailor Boy
5Â Roving Round the County Tyrone
6Â The Scarlet and the Blue
7Â Shepherds Arise
8 Scan’s Polka
9Â Australia
10 Cupid’s Garden
11Â False, False
12Â Our Good Ship Lies in Harbour
13Â The Bunch of Thyme / The Perfect Cure / The Sweets of May
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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 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.
1 WALLS OF TROY
2 THE DUSTY MILLER/THE COUNTY GROUND
3 LADY MARY HAY’S FAVOURITE SCOTCH MEASURE/TRITI PUTI
4 WILD ROVING
5 AN DRO D’OGHAM/AN DRO/AU PLACE DE SERBIE
6 THE HAPPY ONE STEP/GREEN WILLIS
7 FROM A DISTANCE
8 THE PEACOCK/MOLDAVIAN SONG
9 THE BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN/THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT MAGERSFONTEIN
Produced by The House Band and David Kenny
First issued by Topic Records 1988