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Thread #164280   Message #4013795
Posted By: Kevin Werner
15-Oct-19 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: Child 68 Field Recording with bugle horn
Subject: RE: Child 68 Field Recording with bugle horn
I have John Reilly's Topic album "The Bonny Green Tree".
And I also have the songs on "The Voice of the People" CD series, but those are the same recordings, if I remember correctly.

As far as Child Ballads go, I should have all the ones he sang.

I keep discovering more recordings of Child Ballads from source singers all the time.
I've been building my own little collection of ballad recordings since a few years.
When I started with it I never expected there to be so many of the ballads alive in oral tradition well into the days of sound recordings.

It is almost funny how for the last 400 years folksong collectors kept saying that these were the very final days of traditional song and that it would all be gone in a matter of years.
And yet ballads were recorded from traveller singers even in the 2000s that had not been discovered before.