This powerful compilation from MacColl’s many recordings made for the Topic label during the 1950s and ’60s gathers ballads and songs of nationhood, crime and punishment, mining and weaving. Many are traditional, but some are MacColl’s own compositions and include such widely known pieces as Dirty Old Town and The Gresford Disaster.
Ewan MacColl vocals
Peggy Seeger accompaniments
1 Ye Jacobites By Name
2 Johnny Cope
3 Cam Ye O’er Fra France
4 Haughs O’Cromdale
5 Such a Parcel o’Rogues in a Nation
6 Farewell to Sicily
7 Derek Bentley
8 Johnny O’Breadiesley
9 Go Down Ye Murderers
10 Van Diemen’s Land
11 Minorie
12 Sheep Crook & Black Dog
13 The Bramble Briar
14 One Night As I Lay on My Bed
15 The Grey Cock
16 The Blantyre Explosion
17 The Gresford Disaster
18 Four Loom Weaver
19 Song of the Iron Road
20 Dirty Old Town