Peg said:

Ewan MacColl has a great 3-CD set on Smithsonian- Folkways, called English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Volume One is Folkways F-3509, and contains "The Dowie [sic] Dens of Yarrow." I don't know, but assume the other two CDs are consecutive numbers to that, and can't look at them at the moment to check.

Many years ago, in the early to middle 50s, Folkways had a set of LPs, with Ewan MacColl and (Andrew??) Lloyd singing 7 hours of unaccompanied Child Ballads, under the same title as this set. I borrowed it from a friend at the time, and salivated over it for a long, long time, but couldn't afford it. When I learned about two years ago that Smithsonian had absorbed Folkways and was going to issue CDs of the whole Folkways catalog I lept into the breach, only to find that for some reason they no longer have the whole 7-hour set, but had only McColl's portion. I ordered it immediately, and it's great.

Note that spelling: It's "Dowie" not "Dewy", and has nothing to do with moisture. It means "melancholy" or "sad".

Dave Oesterreich