Circular received from Rod Stradling on Wednesday 23/10/13:-

Dear Friends, Musical Traditions Records new release:

The Willett Family : Adieu to Old England

Topic Records released their first ever LP of English traditional singers in 1963 - The Willett Family: A Roving Jouneyman. They acknowledged the help of Ken Stubbs, who first located and recorded the Willetts.

Musical Traditions Records are now - 50 years later - very pleased to be able to present those first 31 Ken Stubbs recordings of Tom, Chris and Ben Willett, plus 4 tracks from elsewhere, making this the complete recorded repertoire of the Willett Family ... generally accepted as amongst the finest English Gypsy singers ever recorded.

2 CDs - 35 tracks, 101 minutes, MTCD361-2 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case.

Available from the MT Records website at £16.00

Rod Stradling
Musical Traditions Records
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