The fiddle occupies pride of place within Irish traditional music and this collection features the great players from the golden age of recording between 1922 and 1951. These virtuoso stylists are featured in solo, small group and various band combinations performing both [...]
An outstanding and remarkable collection of Irish traditional music edited by Reg Hall. Round the House and Mind the Dresser could almost be described as "The other side of Irish traditional music" in that much of the recording of the music over [...]
Billy Cooper (1883), Walter Bulwer (1888) and Daisy Bulwer (c.1892) were active musicians in rural Norfolk for over half a century. These recordings, made together with visiting friends in the Bulwers' cottage in the village of Shipdham, capture the style, vitality and [...]
THREE SCORE AND TEN is seven CDs in a ten by ten inch hardback book, with dust jacket containing 108 profusely illustrated, full colour pages with a narrative portrait of Topic from 1939 to the present day. Also included separately is a [...]
Sea songs and shanties A treasure-chest of seafaring songs delivered by such fine inter-preters as Louis Killen, The Watersons, Bob Davenport, Ian Campbell and Cyril Tawney. The two dozen performances include some of the best-known of all British sea songs and shanties, [...]
The folk ballad,' wrote A.L.Lloyd, 'is a folk tale put into verse and set to music. Among British ballads are some of the oldest as well as greatest folksongs we have.' His claim is trenchantly justified by this exceptional collection, as dramas [...]
SONGS BY THE GREAT BALLADEER OF THE COALFIELDS The remarkable writings of Tyneside 'pit poet' Tommy Armstrong (1848-1919), one of the finest of all working class song-makers are celebrated in a recording by some of the North East's finest folk musicians. 1 [...]
Folk music from industrial NW England from the Oldham Tinkers, Harry Boardman, Mike Harding etc. 1 Harry Boardman : The Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament 2 The Oldham Tinkers : Hop Hop Hop 3 Pete Smith : Beg Your Leave 4 Mike Harding : [...]
Gamblers and sporting blades These songs of sport and betting evoke a packed landscape of hunts and racecourses, boxing rings and football pitches, cockfighting pits, card tables and poolrooms, in boisterous renditions by Ewan MacColl, A.L.Lloyd and Roy Harris. 1 Ewan MacColl [...]
A L 'Bert' Lloyd occupied a unique position in the folksong revival of the 1950s and '60s. He was a musicologist with an international reputation, who wrote on the social history of British folk music and broadcast many series on traditional musics [...]
Volume 1 of The Voice of The People. Songs of courtship and marriage. An anthology edited by REG HALL. 1 SARAH MAKEM voice: I Courted A Wee Girl 2 GEOFF LING voice: The Green Bushe 3 MARY ANN HAYNES voice: Lovely Johnny [...]
Volume 2 of The Voice of The People. Songs of tempest & sea battles, sailor lads and fishermen. An anthology edited by REG HALL. 1 CYRIL POACHER voice: A Broadside 2 PADDY TUNNEY voice: The Lowlands Of Holland 3 TOM WILLETT voice: [...]