The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94126   Message #1819242
Posted By: GUEST
26-Aug-06 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Travel the Road, Who Cares?
Subject: RE: A wonderer am I details of song required
Erinmaiden
There's a double CD we issued called 'From Puck To Appleby' (40 odd songs) available from Musical Traditions website.
Tom Munnelly put together an excellent cassette of his recordings 'Songs of the Irish Travellers', which is now unobtainable unfortunately, as is his John Reilly LP 'Bonny Green Tree'.
'Wisht' - a folklore Dept/ Pavee Point co-operation is mainly stories from the Cassidy family, with a few tracks of songs - beautiful.
Topic issued some English Traveller recordings from Mike Yates' collection, but I don't know if they have been reissued on CD.
There are some Scots ones available, Elizabeth Stewart, Sheila Stewart, etc. - well worth searching for.
The English/Welsh Gypsy one on Voice of the People is available, but it's a mystery to me why they didn't do an Irish and Scots one while they were at it - there's plenty of excellent material lying around unpublished.
We have earmarked a couple of hundred songs for publication, but they are a long way down the list.
Jim Carroll
PS Tops'l Shantyman
If you draw a blank on Cavan O'Connor, try Arthur Tracey.