The High Level Ranters were one of the longest-established and most popular bands in Britain. A rare combination of individual talents, the group play the music of their native Northumbria with a command born of skill and understanding. ‘Four In A Bar’ is an all-instrumental collection, typical of the repertoire they played at regular sessions in Newcastle’s weekly ‘Folksong & Ballad’ club.
1 Whinham’s Jig / Billy’s Jig
2 Chips and Shavings / Jack’s Alive / Dear Tobacco
3 Town Green Polka / Jenny Bell Polka
4 The Biddlestone Hornpipe / The Last of the Twins
5 The Ruby / The Quarrelsome Piper
6 Rowly Burn / Coates’s Hornpipe
7 La Russe / The Winshield’s Hornpipe / Jane’s Fancy / Da Road to Houll
8 Blinkin’ Tibbie / The Pear Tree
9 Swalwell Lasses / South Shields Lasses
10 Moonshine Polka
11 The Quayside / Miss Ward’s Reel
12 The Butterclout / Such a Wife as Willie Had / Willy is a Bonny Lad
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