The re-mastered, tidied up versions of the Peter Kennedy recordings that are being prepared for release by Topic in the Voice of the People 2 series are sounding really wonderful. I have been given access to them by Shirley Collins who has prepared the following three albums for the series:-

TSCD671 "You Never Heard So Sweet" - Traditional Singers of South-East England (Recordings by Peter Kennedy & Bob Copper)
TSCD672A Gypsy Singers of South-East England
TSCD672B Queen Carolyn Hughes and her family

I have been given access to them because I will be working with Shirley on her new multi-media show, "You Never Heard So Sweet". This was given its first abridged performance at the Stowmarket Traditional Music Day earlier this month, but its first full performance will be on Friday 7th October at Lewes Folk Festival (See http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ )

If you have heard these songs, as I have on the Folktrax cassettes and CDrs, you will probably be as delighted as I am to hear these important recordings in their cleaned up form with proper booklet notebook etc.