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Thread #65745   Message #1086497
Posted By: Bearheart
05-Jan-04 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: Top Ten Old Ballads
Subject: RE: Top Ten Old Ballads
Found the album I was referring to in previous post.

Royal Forester,recorded John Stachan, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Vol 5 The Folksongs of Britain (Vol 2 of the Child Ballads) collected by Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson.

Also includes a version of the Farmer's Curst Wife (Thomas Moran)

And 3 versions of Our Goodman (Harry Cox-Norfolk, Mary Conners- Irish tinker, and Colm Keane- a Gaelic version)

It's my understanding from other Mudcat threads that these have been re-issued?

Davy Stewart was the other singer I was thinking of.

You know, these old albums are worth owning-- the folks who are recorded on them are the greats who influenced the new wave of singers in the 60's and 70's. Why not go straight to the source. Pretty much all the songs you mention in your original post plus a whole lot more are on them.

Bekki