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Lemmie Brazil

2007-06-01T12:12:39Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Lemmie Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  They travelled in Southern England and Lemmie was born "outside Southampton in Devonshire", following...

'''Lemmie Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  They travelled in Southern England and Lemmie was born "outside Southampton in Devonshire", following which the family moved over to Ireland where they travelled for 27 years.

When the family returned to England, they came to Gloucester.  Their father sold all his horses at Gloucester market, after which they dealt in rags and scrap iron, whilst the children made a living with cars and trucks.  Lemmie had a second-hand shop in Gloucester's Westgate Street.

Lemmie said "I've been to every town in Ireland.  We used to stop for a week, sometimes two, then move on." The family lived in two horse-drawn wagons, with the parents in one and the children in the other.  Lemmie and her seven sisters used to ride the horses to the fairs, and then hold them while they were being sold.  "Over there we used to go down the pub, have a sing, get drunk and sing down the road on the way home.  They don't do that round here.  They don't know how to enjoy themselves."

Lemmie had some unusual songs - songs which the others in the family didn't sing - ''The Cruel Mother'' was one of hers, as well as ''Bonny Black Hare'', ''Little Sir Hugh'' and ''Shot Like a Bird on a Tree''.  She was also a great melodeon player.

The use of the first few bars of a familiar tune as the launching pad for something quite different is typical of Lemmie's approach to her material, but unlike many other fine traditional English musicians she doesn't make do with repetitive rhythmic phrases when she doesn't have part of a tune, but extrapolates new melodic phrases.  Thanks to her natural musicality, her innate understanding of her repertoire and genre, and her preference for certain intervals these are often more interesting than the 'missing' phrases.  Although a free treatment of melody is common among traditional musicians in England, it is usually the product of rhythmic invention or dittography, and genuine melodic invention like Lemmie's is rare.

She was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of her songs and tunes can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 13:12, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Debbie and Pennie Davies

2007-06-01T11:59:37Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Debbie and Pennie Davies:''' are the daughters of Doris Davies.  They were recorded by Mike Yates singing ''Barbara Allen'' for Topic 12TS395, issued in 1985. This song can be...

'''Debbie and Pennie Davies:''' are the daughters of [[Doris Davies]].  They were recorded by Mike Yates singing ''Barbara Allen'' for Topic 12TS395, issued in 1985.

This song can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:59, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Joan Taylor

2007-06-01T11:54:40Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Joan Taylor:''' daughter of Hyram Brazil.  She was born in Swindon in 1933, lived in Gloucester in a caravan, and travelled in the summer.  In about 1969 she and her husba...

'''Joan Taylor:''' daughter of [[Hyram Brazil]].  She was born in Swindon in 1933, lived in Gloucester in a caravan, and travelled in the summer.  In about 1969 she and her husband, another traveller, settled into a house in Gloucester.  She remembers well her father singing the old traditional repertoire, but she did not learn any of those songs from him.  When younger, she did a variety of different jobs around the Evesham area; fruit picking, hop picking, selling pegs from door to door, and so on.  She even worked on a threshing machine at one time.  She has fond memories of the family and their singing and step dancing.  She sometimes used to provide the mouth music, or 'tuning' as she calls it, for her uncles [[Danny Brazil]] and [[Harry Brazil]] to dance to.

One of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:54, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Doris Davies

2007-06-01T11:50:43Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Doris Davies:''' daughter of Harry Brazil.  Doris was married into the Davies family and it was she who Peter Shepheard first met at Eastington where they were on a site alongs...

'''Doris Davies:''' daughter of [[Harry Brazil]].  Doris was married into the Davies family and it was she who Peter Shepheard first met at Eastington where they were on a site alongside varous members of the Davies, Penfold and Bridges families.  Her singing ''The Old Riverside'' was amongst the first recordings Peter Shepheard made of any of the Brazil family - and it was Doris who pointed him to her father Harry.  Her version of the song was fairly complete, and it then became a challenge to try and get the complete Brazil Family version of the song by recording it from as many of the family as possible.

Some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:50, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Weenie Brazil

2007-06-01T11:43:52Z

RodStradling:

'''Weenie Brazil:''' Selphinus 'Weenie' Brazil was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the July/August berrypcking season of 1955, when both he and his daughter [[Angela Brazil]] were recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies.

Some of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:43, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Weenie Brazil

2007-06-01T11:43:28Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Weenie Brazil:''' Selphinus 'Weenie' Brazil was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the Ju...

'''Weenie Brazil:''' Selphinus 'Weenie' Brazil was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the July/August berrypcking season of 1955, when both he and his daughter [[Angela Brazil]]were recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies.

Some of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:43, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Alice Webb

2007-06-01T11:41:25Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Alice Webb:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  She was recorded by Peter Shepheard, and some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD s...

'''Alice Webb:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  She was recorded by Peter Shepheard, and some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:41, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Hyram Brazil

2007-06-01T11:39:00Z

RodStradling:

'''Hyram Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Although he was a fine singer, he seemed more reluctant to be recorded than his brothers and sisters.

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, and one of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:39, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Tom Brazil

2007-06-01T11:38:16Z

RodStradling:

'''Tom Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Although he was a fine singer, he seemed more reluctant to be recorded than his brothers and sisters.

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, and one of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:37, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Tom Brazil

2007-06-01T11:37:54Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Tom Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Although he was a fine singer, he seemed more reluctant to be recorded than his brothers and sisters. ...

Hyram Brazil

2007-06-01T11:32:29Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Hyram Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Although he was a fine singer, he seemed more reluctant to be recorded than his brothers and sisters. ...

Harry Brazil

2007-06-01T11:29:06Z

RodStradling:

'''Harry Brazil:'''was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Harry had a fine tenor voice and his songs were often carried by some luxurious modal tunes, although over the years he had sometimes telescoped the words to produce more compact versions than those sung by his brothers and sisters.  He suffered from angina and this prompted him to give up singing several years before his death.  His singing was obviously popular with his grandchildren, as on one of the recording ''The Blacksmith'', they can be heard at the end reminding and urging him to sing one of the verses which he had omitted.  Paul Burgess thought of him as 'the cricketing singer', due to his habit of firing the question "'Owzat?" at the end of a performance!  Like [[Danny Brazil]], Harry was pleased that people should take an interest in his songs and his singing.

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:28, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Harry Brazil

2007-06-01T11:28:37Z

RodStradling:

'''Harry Brazil:'''was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Harry had a fine tenor voice and his songs were often carried by some luxurious modal tunes, although over the years he had sometimes telescoped the words to produce more compact versions than those sung by his brothers and sisters.  He suffered from angina and this prompted him to give up singing several years before his death.  His singing was obviously popular with his grandchildren, as on one of the recording ''The Blacksmith'', they can be heard at the end reminding and urging him to sing one of the verses which he had omitted.  Paul Burgess thought of him as 'the cricketing singer', due to his habit of firing the question "'Owzat?" at the end of a performance!  Like [[Danny Brazil]], Harry was pleased that people should take an interest in his songs and his singing

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:28, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Harry Brazil

2007-06-01T11:28:10Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Harry Brazil:'''was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Harry had a fine tenor voice and his songs were often carried by some luxurious modal tunes, although o...

'''Harry Brazil:'''was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Harry had a fine tenor voice and his songs were often carried by some luxurious modal tunes, although over the years he had sometimes telescoped the words to produce more compact versions than those sung by his brothers and sisters.  He suffered from angina and this prompted him to give up singing several years before his death.  His singing was obviously popular with his grandchildren, as on one of the recording '''The Blacksmith''', they can be heard at the end reminding and urging him to sing one of the verses which he had omitted.  Paul Burgess thought of him as 'the cricketing singer', due to his habit of firing the question "'Owzat?" at the end of a performance!  Like [[Danny Brazil]], Harry was pleased that people should take an interest in his songs and his singing

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:28, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Angela Brazil

2007-06-01T11:22:56Z

RodStradling:

'''Angela Brazil:''' is the daughter of [[Weenie Brazil]], one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the July/August berrypicking season of 1955, when both he and his daughter were recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies.

Some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:22, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Danny Brazil

2007-06-01T11:22:16Z

RodStradling:

'''Danny Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Danny and his brother [[Harry Brazil]] had fallen out during strawberry picking, and during the ensuing scrap, a blow to Danny's throat ruptured his voice box, and left him with a harsh, croaking voice which continued throughout his life - although a tune could be made out at the core of his singing.  Danny, however, appeared to be regarded as one of the most talented - both as a stepdancer, whose reputation was still strong, although he had not danced for many years, and a singer, despite his ruined voice.  He described himself as a "light tenor" and the loss of his "instrument" obviously affected him strongly.

Danny died in Gloucester, in September 2003.

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 12:22, 1 June 2007 (BST)

Danny Brazil

2007-06-01T11:19:52Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Danny Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Danny and his brother Harry Brazil had fallen out during strawberry picking, and during the ensuin...

'''Danny Brazil:''' was one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Danny and his brother [[Harry Brazil]] had fallen out during strawberry picking, and during the ensuing scrap, a blow to Danny's throat ruptured his voice box, and left him with a harsh, croaking voice which continued throughout his life - although a tune could be made out at the core of his singing.  Danny, however, appeared to be regarded as one of the most talented - both as a stepdancer, whose reputation was still strong, although he had not danced for many years, and a singer, despite his ruined voice.  He described himself as a "light tenor" and the loss of his "instrument" obviously affected him strongly.

He was recorded by Peter Shepheard, Mike Yates, and Gwilym Davies, and many of his songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

Angela Brazil

2007-06-01T11:18:27Z

RodStradling:

Angela Brazil

2007-06-01T11:17:24Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Angela Brazil:''' is the daughter of Weenie Brazil, one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during th...

'''Angela Brazil:''' is the daughter of Weenie Brazil, one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the July/August berrypicking season of 1955, when both he and his daughter were recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies.

Some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set '''The Brazil Family: ''Down by the Old Riverside''''' (MTCD345-7).

George Dunn

2007-06-01T10:58:39Z

RodStradling:

'''George Dunn:''' (1887-1975) was born in the Black Country village of Quarry Bank, then in Staffordshire, some eight miles west of Birmingham, and spent most of his long life there.  Both his grandfather, Benjamin, and his father, Sampson, worked in the iron trade, as did George himself, unitl he retired at the age of 72 after 59 years, mainly as a chainmaker.

He was brought up in Sheffield Street, in whose hundred houses not a single adult at that time could read or write.  If they passed the Labour Examination, children were allowed to start working half-time at the age of eleven.  George continued full-time at school until he was thirteen, his parents having been impressed by his progress in reading and writing.  Long before he left school, though, he contributed to the family budget by working for half of his two-hour school lunch break “a-blowin’” - that is, pumping the bellows in one of the backyard chainshops which abounded in the village.  His wage was a penny a week, and he also earned a few coppers in the evenings by acting as a barber’s lather boy.

George’s first full-time job was as a blower at a wage of 3s.6d. for a 59-hour week - less than a penny an hour, since the working day ran from 6 am to 6 pm.  In 1904 he moved to the newly established chainmaking factory of Noah Bloomer and Sons.  His wage rose to 10s.  a week.  By 1913 this had become 18s.  but he judged this too small to marry on, and gave notice.  The firm raised his wage to £1 a week, and he stayed for a further 46 years, the last ten as the superintendent of the proof house.  Spells of hop-picking in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, hard though they were, provided welcome relief as well as supplementary income.

Again and again, he mentions singing; in the fields, at home, in the pubs - hymns, operatic arias, music hall items, and above all, the traditional songs learned from his father (who was also a champion whistler).  Much of the learning was done literally at his father’s knee.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Roy Palmer, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs George Dunn: Chainmaker(MTCD317-8)''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 17:37, 26 March 2007 (BST)

George Dunn

2007-06-01T10:57:41Z

RodStradling:

'''George Dunn:''' (1887-1975) was born in the Black Country village of Quarry Bank, then in Staffordshire, some eight miles west of Birmingham, and spent most of his long life there.  Both his grandfather, Benjamin, and his father, Sampson, worked in the iron trade, as did George himself, unitl he retired at the age of 72 after 59 years, mainly as a chainmaker.

He was brought up in Sheffield Street, in whose hundred houses not a single adult at that time could read or write.  If they passed the Labour Examination, children were allowed to start working half-time at the age of eleven.  George continued full-time at school until he was thirteen, his parents having been impressed by his progress in reading and writing.  Long before he left school, though, he contributed to the family budget by working for half of his two-hour school lunch break “a-blowin’” - that is, pumping the bellows in one of the backyard chainshops which abounded in the village.  His wage was a penny a week, and he also earned a few coppers in the evenings by acting as a barber’s lather boy.

George’s first full-time job was as a blower at a wage of 3s.  6d.  for a 59-hour week - less than a penny an hour, since the working day ran from 6 am to 6 pm.  In 1904 he moved to the newly established chainmaking factory of Noah Bloomer and Sons.  His wage rose to 10s.  a week.  By 1913 this had become 18s.  but he judged this too small to marry on, and gave notice.  The firm raised his wage to £1 a week, and he stayed for a further 46 years, the last ten as the superintendent of the proof house.  Spells of hop-picking in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, hard though they were, provided welcome relief as well as supplementary income.

Again and again, he mentions singing; in the fields, at home, in the pubs - hymns, operatic arias, music hall items, and above all, the traditional songs learned from his father (who was also a champion whistler).  Much of the learning was done literally at his father’s knee.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Roy Palmer, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs George Dunn: Chainmaker(MTCD317-8)''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 17:37, 26 March 2007 (BST)

George Dunn

2007-06-01T10:57:09Z

RodStradling:

'''George Dunn:''' (1887-1975) was born in the Black Country village of Quarry Bank, then in Staffordshire, some eight miles west of Birmingham, and spent most of his long life there.  Both his grandfather, Benjamin, and his father, Sampson, worked in the iron trade, as did George himself, unitl he retired at the age of 72 after 59 years, mainly as a chainmaker.

He was brought up in Sheffield Street, in whose hundred houses not a single adult at that time could read or write.  If they passed the Labour Examination, children were allowed to start working half-time at the age of eleven.  George continued full-time at school until he was thirteen, his parents having been impressed by his progress in reading and writing.  Long before he left school, though, he contributed to the family budget by working for half of his two-hour school lunch break “a-blowin’” - that is, pumping the bellows in one of the backyard chainshops which abounded in the village.  His wage was a penny a week, and he also earned a few coppers in the evenings by acting as a barber’s lather boy.

George’s first full-time job was as a blower at a wage of 3s.  6d.  for a 59-hour week - less than a penny an hour, since the working day ran from 6 am to 6 pm.  In 1904 he moved to the newly established chainmaking factory of Noah Bloomer and Sons.  His wage rose to 10s.  a week.  By 1913 this had become 18s.  but he judged this too small to marry on, and gave notice.  The firm raised his wage to £1 a week, and he stayed for a further 46 years, the last ten as the superintendent of the proof house.  Spells of hop-picking in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, hard though they were, provided welcome relief as well as supplementary income.

Again and again, he mentions singing; in the fields, at home, in the pubs - hymns, operatic arias, music hall items, and above all, the traditional songs learned from his father (who was also a champion whistler).  Much of the learning was done literally at his father’s knee.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs George Dunn: Chainmaker(MTCD317-8)''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 17:37, 26 March 2007 (BST)

English Source Singers

2007-06-01T10:53:18Z

RodStradling:

[[Singers by County]]

'''An Alphabetical List'''

* [[Jack Arnoll]]
* [[Bob Blake]]
* [[Angela Brazil]]
* [[Danny Brazil]]
* [[Harry Brazil]]
* [[Hyram Brazil]]
* [[Lemmie Brazil]]
* [[Tom Brazil]]
* [[Weenie Brazil]]
* [[Charlie Bridger]]
* [[Henry Burstow]]
* [[The Copper Family]]
* [[Debbie and Pennie Davies]]
* [[Doris Davies]]
* [[Bill Dore]]
* [[Johnny Doughty]]
* [[Ray Driscoll]]
* [[George Dunn]]
* [[Jack Elliott]]
* [[George Fradley]]
* [[Alice Francombe]]
* [[Jacquey Gabriel]]
* [[Jack Goodban]]
* [[Archer Goode]]
* [[Jim 'Brick' Harber]]
* [[Bob Hart]]
* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]
* [[Ivor Hill]]
* [[Frank Hinchliffe]]
* [[Harry Holman]]
* [[Joe Jones]]
* [[Joe Jones|Lena Jones]]
* [[Fred Jordan]]
* [[George 'Pop' Maynard]]
* [[Tom Newman]]
* [[Freda Palmer]]
* [[Walter Pardon]]
* [[Alice Penfold]]
* [[Cyril Philips]]
* [[Cyril Poacher]]
* [[Sarah Porter]]
* [[Bill Porter]]
* [[Ted and Bet Porter]]
* [[Louie Saunders]]
* [[John Short]] '' aka Yankee Jack''
* [[Biggun Smith]]
* [[Denny Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Derby Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Jasper Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Minty Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Levi Smith]]
* [[Wiggy Smith]]
* [[Wisdom Smith]]
* [[George Spicer]]
* [[Joan Taylor]]
* [[Henry Tidball]]
* [[George Townshend]]
* [[Harry Upton]]
* [[Alice Webb]]
* [[Bill Whiting]]
* [[Chris Willett]]
* [[Jim Wilson]]

English Traditional Players

2007-06-01T10:46:24Z

RodStradling:

* [[Bill Agate]]
* [[Ray Andrews]]
* [[Will Atkinson]]
* [[Stephen Baldwin]]
* [[Billy Ballantine]]
* [[‘Rabbity’ Baxter]]
* [[Billy Bennington]]
* [[Lemmie Brazil]]
* [[Walter Bulwer]]
* [[Bob Cann]]
* [[Bertie Clark]]
* [[Harry Cockerill]]
* [[Billy Cooper]]
* [[Bill Ellson]]
* [[Septimus Fawcett]]
* [[Billy Harrison]]
* [[Joe Hutton]]
* [[Bill Kimber]]
* [[Arthur Marshall]]
* [[Ned Pearson]]
* [[Fred Pigeon]]
* [[Jim Rutherford]]
* [[Willy Taylor]]
* [[Scan Tester]]
* [[Jinky Wells]]
* [[Font Whatling]]
* [[Fred Whiting]]
* [[Arnold Woodley]]
* [[Oscar Woods]]

MTCD345-7 The Brazil Family: Down by the Old Riverside

2007-06-01T10:40:00Z

RodStradling:

To see the full CD details, go to the ''MT Records'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/mt_rec.htm#braz]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Doris Davies]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[God Killed the Devil O]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[Limpy Jack]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 222]] 
''[[Game of All Fours]]'', [[Hyram Brazil]], [[Roud 232]] 
''[[Sally Monroe]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 526]] 
''[[Sally Monroe]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 526]] 
''[[Young Man Cut Down]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 2]] 
''[[Betsy the Milkmaid]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 559]] 
''[[Hornpipe 1]]'', [[Danny Brazil & Denny Smith]] 
''[[Bold Fishing Man]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 291]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Weenie Brazil]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Son Webb]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[The Crabfish]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Green Grow the Laurels]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 279]] 
''[[The Bonnie Black Hare]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 1656]] 
''[[Barbara Allen]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 54]] 
''[[Barbara Allen]]'', [[Debbie & Pennie Davies]], [[Roud 54]] 
''[[Rambling Irishman]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 360]] 
''[[Stepdance No 2]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[Jack and the Robber]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 2637]] 
''[[If I Were a Blackbird]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 387]] 
''[[The Golden Glove]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 141]] 
''[[The Watercrease Girl]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 1541]] 
''[[Dear Old Erin's Shore]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 3068]] 
''[[The Croppy Tailor]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 311]] 
''[[The Bitter Willow]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 452]] 
''[[The Bitter Willow]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 452]] 
''[[My Schoolmaster's Son]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 13267]] 
''[[The Cruel Ship Carpenter]]'', [[Weenie Brazil]], [[Roud 15]] 
''[[The Cruel Ship Carpenter]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 15]] 
''[[Once I Courted a Damsel]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 405]] 
''[[Irish Jig]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[A Group of Young Squaddies]]'', [[Joan Taylor]], [[Roud 1783]] 
''[[McCaffery]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1148]] 
''[['Tis My Delight]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Shake Hands and be Brothers Again]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21545]] 
''[[The Pretty Ploughing Boy]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 186]] 
''[[The Pretty Ploughing Boy]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 186]] 
''[[Hornpipe 2]]'', [[Danny Brazil & Denny Smith ]] 
''[[My Love Willie]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 273]] 
''[[Nobody's Child]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 10718]] 
''[[Bold Keeper]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 321]] 
''[[Bold Keeper]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 321]] 
''[[Down in the Coalmines]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21550]] 
''[[Three Charming Black Boys]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 21547]] 
''[[Three Brothers in Fair Warwickshire]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 3207]] 
''[[The Folkestone Murder]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 897]] 
''[[Dance Tunes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[The Mossy Green Banks of the Lea]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 987]] 
''[[The Mossy Green Banks of the Lea]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 987]] 
''[[Rock All Our Babies to Sleep]]'', [[Doris Davies]], [[Roud 4378]] 
''[[Underneath Her Apron]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[Long A-Growing]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 31]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[Smile A While / Little Luck Jig]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Brandon on the Moor]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 476]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Tom Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[Died For Love]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 60]] 
''[[A Bold Fisherman Courted Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 60]] 
''[[The Poor Smugglers Boy]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 618]] 
''[[The Flower Show]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 5213]] 
''[[The Banks of Sweet Dundee]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 148]] 
''[[Stepdances Nos 1 and 2]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[I Wonder if the Old Folks Think of Me?]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 21546]] 
''[[An Old Man Come Courting Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 210]] 
''[[I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 975]] 
''[[The Salisbury Ram]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 126]] 
''[[Three Tunes]]'', [[Danny Brazil]] 
''[[Rolling in the Dew]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 298]] 
''[[Little Sir Hugh]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 73]] 
''[[I Met A Maid]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21549]] 
''[[The False Bride]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 154]] 
''[[Three Tunes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]] 
''[[Poison in a Glass of Wine]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 218]] 
''[[Shot Like a Bird on a Tree]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 916]] 
''[[The Little Ball of Yarn]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1404]] 
''[[Henry Martin]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 104]] 
''[[The Irish Girl]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 308]] 
''[[Lord Bakeman]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 40]]

MTCD345-7 The Brazil Family: Down by the Old Riverside

2007-06-01T10:37:49Z

RodStradling: New page: To see the full CD details, go to the ''MT Records'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/mt_rec.htm#braz] '''Tracklist:''' ''[[The Old R...

To see the full CD details, go to the ''MT Records'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/mt_rec.htm#braz]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Doris Davies]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[The Old Riverside]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 564]] 
''[[God Killed the Devil O]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Limpy Jack]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 222]] 
''[[Game of All Fours]]'', [[Hyram Brazil]], [[Roud 232]] 
''[[Sally Monroe]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 526]] 
''[[Sally Monroe]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 526]] 
''[[Young Man Cut Down]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 2]] 
''[[Betsy the Milkmaid]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 559]] 
''[[Hornpipe 1]]'', [[Danny Brazil & Denny Smith]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Bold Fishing Man]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 291]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Weenie Brazil]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[Son Come Tell it Unto Me]]'', [[Son Webb]], [[Roud 200]] 
''[[The Crabfish]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Green Grow the Laurels]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 279]] 
''[[The Bonnie Black Hare]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 1656]] 
''[[Barbara Allen]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 54]] 
''[[Barbara Allen]]'', [[Debbie & Pennie Davies]], [[Roud 54]] 
''[[Rambling Irishman]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 360]] 
''[[Stepdance No 2]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Jack and the Robber]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 2637]] 
''[[If I Were a Blackbird]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 387]] 
''[[The Golden Glove]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 141]] 
''[[The Watercrease Girl]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 1541]] 
''[[Dear Old Erin's Shore]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 3068]] 
''[[The Croppy Tailor]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 311]] 
''[[The Bitter Willow]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 452]] 
''[[The Bitter Willow]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 452]] 
''[[My Schoolmaster's Son]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 13267]] 
''[[The Cruel Ship Carpenter]]'', [[Weenie Brazil]], [[Roud 15]] 
''[[The Cruel Ship Carpenter]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 15]] 
''[[Once I Courted a Damsel]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 405]] 
''[[Irish Jig]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[A Group of Young Squaddies]]'', [[Joan Taylor]], [[Roud 1783]] 
''[[McCaffery]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1148]] 
''[['Tis My Delight]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Shake Hands and be Brothers Again]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21545]] 
''[[The Pretty Ploughing Boy]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 186]] 
''[[The Pretty Ploughing Boy]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 186]] 
''[[Hornpipe 2]]'', [[Danny Brazil & Denny Smith ]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[My Love Willie]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 273]] 
''[[Nobody's Child]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 10718]] 
''[[Bold Keeper]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 321]] 
''[[Bold Keeper]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 321]] 
''[[Down in the Coalmines]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21550]] 
''[[Three Charming Black Boys]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 21547]] 
''[[Three Brothers in Fair Warwickshire]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 3207]] 
''[[The Folkestone Murder]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 897]] 
''[[Dance Tunes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[The Mossy Green Banks of the Lea]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 987]] 
''[[The Mossy Green Banks of the Lea]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 987]] 
''[[Rock All Our Babies to Sleep]]'', [[Doris Davies]], [[Roud 4378]] 
''[[Underneath Her Apron]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[Long A-Growing]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 31]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[The Gown So Green]]'', [[Alice Webb]], [[Roud 1085]] 
''[[Smile A While / Little Luck Jig]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Brandon on the Moor]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 476]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[A Blacksmith Courted Me]]'', [[Tom Brazil]], [[Roud 816]] 
''[[Died For Love]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 60]] 
''[[A Bold Fisherman Courted Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 60]] 
''[[The Poor Smugglers Boy]]'', [[Angela Brazil]], [[Roud 618]] 
''[[The Flower Show]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 5213]] 
''[[The Banks of Sweet Dundee]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 148]] 
''[[Stepdances Nos 1 and 2]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[I Wonder if the Old Folks Think of Me?]]'', [[Harry Brazil]], [[Roud 21546]] 
''[[An Old Man Come Courting Me]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 210]] 
''[[I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 975]] 
''[[The Salisbury Ram]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 126]] 
''[[Three Tunes]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Rolling in the Dew]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 298]] 
''[[Little Sir Hugh]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 73]] 
''[[I Met A Maid]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 21549]] 
''[[The False Bride]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 154]] 
''[[Three Tunes]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud ]] 
''[[Poison in a Glass of Wine]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 218]] 
''[[Shot Like a Bird on a Tree]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 916]] 
''[[The Little Ball of Yarn]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 1404]] 
''[[Henry Martin]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 104]] 
''[[The Irish Girl]]'', [[Lemmie Brazil]], [[Roud 308]] 
''[[Lord Bakeman]]'', [[Danny Brazil]], [[Roud 40]]

Musical Traditions Records

2007-06-01T09:55:44Z

RodStradling:

http://www.mtrecords.co.uk

'''Musical Traditions Records'''

Musical Traditions Records produces CD-Rs of important music which is not commercially available.  All are accompanied by a substantial booklet giving as much information as we can find about the performers, their lives and their music.  Wherever possible, the complete recorded repertoire is made available, usually for the first time - thus many of our productions are actually double CD-Rs.

''This small but very valuable catalogue - Vic Smith in fRoots''

''A very significant contribution to folk-song scholarship - Dave Atkinson in Folk Music Journal''

''Some of the best collections available of traditional music - Steve Winnick in Dirty Linen''

'''The current cataloge is as follows:''' [[Image:mt_rec.jpg|right]]

'300 Series' CD-Rs in DVD cases with integral booklet:

* [[MTCD301-2 A Broadside: Bob Hart]]

* [[MTCD303 Plenty of Thyme: Cyril Poacher]]

* [[MTCD304 Come Hand to me the Glass: George Townshend]]

* [[MTCD305-6 Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father: Walter Pardon]]

* [[MTCD307 Band of Gold: Wiggy Smith and other Smith family members]]

* [[MTCD308 Ythanside: Daisy Chapman]]

* [[MTCD309-10 Just Another Saturday Night]]

* [[MTCD311-2 Up in the North and Down in the South]]

* [[MTCD313 The Broom Blooms Bonny: Joe Rae]]

* [[MTCD314 Classic English Banjo: Ray Andrews]]

* [[MTCD315-6 Have a Drop Mair: Kevin and Ellen Mitchell]]

* [[MTCD317-8 Chainmaker: George Dunn]]

* [[MTCD319 A Catalogue Sampler]]

* [[MTCD320 Here's Luck to a Man]]

* [[MTCD321-2 Far in the Mountains Vols 1 and 2]]

* [[MTCD323-4 Far in the Mountains Vols 3 and 4]]

* [[MTCD325-6 From Puck to Appleby]]

* [[MTCD327-8 Country Songs and Music: Oak]]

* [[MTCD329-30 The Hardy Sons of Dan]]

* [[MTCD331-2 Around the Hills of Clare]]

* [[MTCD333 The Birds Upon the Tree]]

* [[MTCD334 Here's One You'll Like, I Think: Stephen Balwin]]

* [[MTCD335-6 Songs from the Golden Fleece]]

* [[MTCD337-8 Lizzie Higgins - in memory of: Lizzie Higgins]]

* [[MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9]]

* [[MTCD341-2 Meeting's a Pleasure: Folksongs of the Upper South Vols 1 and 2]]

* [[MTCD343-4 Meeting's a Pleasure: Folksongs of the Upper South Vols 3 and 4]]

* [[MTCD345-7 The Brazil Family: Down by the Old Riverside]]

* [[MTCD401-2 Down the Cherry Tree: George 'Pop' Maynard]]

* [[MTCD403-4 Martin Carthy at Ruskin Mill: Martin Carthy]]

* [[Topic TSCD518D The Road from Connemara: Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí)]]

'200 Series' CD-Rs in jewel cases with insert notes:

* [[MTCD200 Live!: Freddy McKay]]

* [[MTCD201 Yorkshire Fiddle Tunes Songs and Carols: Billy Harrison and Jim Eldon]]

* [[MTCD202 The Magpie's Nest: Peta Webb]]

'100 Series' Old Time Music CD-Rs in jewel cases with insert notes:

* [[MTCD101 Push Them Clouds Away: Old time country music 1924-38]]

* [[MTCD102 Old Ship Sailing for the Promised Land: White Gospel music 1926-38]]

* [[MTCD103 Yearlings in the Canebreak: Texas fiddle music 1924-30]]

* [[MTCD104 Where the Southern Crosses the Dog: Mississippi fiddle music 1928-35]]

* [[MTCD105 Georgia Bust Down 1930: John 'Seven Foot Dilly' Dilleshaw]]

Musical Traditions CD-ROMs:

* [[The Complete Musical Traditions]]

* [[Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands 1660-1900]]

And - just to complete the picture:

* [[Songs noted as having been 'in the repertoire of' various singers]]

MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9

2007-05-23T16:52:50Z

RodStradling:

To see the full CD details, go to the ''MT Records'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/mt_rec.htm#sum]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Doing My Duty]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]], [[Roud 21227]] 
''[[Abie My Boy]]'', [[Ted Cobbin and Peter Plant]] 
''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 368]] 
''[[Highwayman and the Farmer's Daughter]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 2638]] 
''[[Coal-Black Mammy]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about learning songs]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[Three Jolly Sportsmen]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 17]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Maggie May]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1757]] 
''[[Mary Anne]]'', [[Arthur 'Spanker' Austin]], [[Roud 21228]] 
''[[Soldier's Joy]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[All Tattered and Torn]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 1407]] 
''[[The Nutting Girl]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 509]] 
''[[The Kildare Fancy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]] 
''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]] 
''[[The Parson's Creed]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]] 
''[[Cock of the North / Pop Goes the Weasel]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[The Seeds of Love]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[The Drowned Lover]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 185]] 
''[[The Lincolnshire Poacher]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Talking about his grandfather]]'', [[George Ling]] 
''[[Fairy's Hornpipe and dancing doll]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting and Cecil Fisk]] 
''[[You Can Look but you Mustn't Touch!]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21238]] 
''[[Wild Flowers]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]] 
''[[The Yellow Handkerchief]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 954]] 
''[[Poem]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Rakes of Mallow]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Baby's Name]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]], [[Roud 21229]] 
''[[The Flowers of Edinburgh]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Roving Gypsy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 21230]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Harkie Nesling and Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[Polka(Jingle Bells)]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[Australia]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1488]] 
''[[The Female Drummer]]'', [[Bill 'Dodger' Brabbing]], [[Roud 226]] 
''[[The Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[The Peacock Band]] 
''[[Truly Fair]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Recruiting Sergeant]]'', [[George Ling]], [[Roud 493]] 
''[[Strolling down to Hastings]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 364]] 
''[[Chinaman]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 1850]] 
''[[Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Lobster]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Old General Wolfe]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 624]] 
''[[A Broadside]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 492]] 
''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[The Flower of London]]'', [[George Dow]], [[Roud 548]] 
''[[The Indian Lass]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 2326]] 
''[[Oscar's Waltz / Charlie Philpott's Waltz]]'', [[Reg Reeder]] 
''[[Out with my Gun in the Morning]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 1847]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Duckfoot Sue]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 9553]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Wormwood Scrubs]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21231]] 
''[[Phil the Fluter]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[Paddy and the Rope]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 2037]] 
''[[The Oak and the Ash]]'', [[Charlie Whiting]], [[Roud 269]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[Lamplighting Time in the Valley]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 13304]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Oscar Woods]] 
''[[Pretty Little Mary]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[The Next Song in the Programme]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe / Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Old Brown sat in the Rose and Crown]]'', [[ Albert Smith]] 
''[[Cock of the North]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about The Ship]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[The Burden of the Spray]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 21232]] 
''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1532]] 
''[[Red Sails in the Sunset]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[Unidentified Tunes]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[The False Hearted Knight]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 21]] 
''[[Young George Oxbury]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 90]] 
''[[The Barndance]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[The Morals]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 21233]] 
''[[Jim the Carter's Lad]]'', [[Ted Cobbin with Peter Plant]], [[Roud 1080]]

MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9

2007-05-23T16:51:49Z

To see the full CD details, go to the ''MT Records'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/mt_rec.htm#sum]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Doing My Duty]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]], [[Roud 21227]] 
''[[Abie My Boy]]'', [[Ted Cobbin and Peter Plant]] 
''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 368]] 
''[[Highwayman and the Farmer's Daughter]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 2638]] 
''[[Coal-Black Mammy]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about learning songs]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[Three Jolly Sportsmen]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 17]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Maggie May]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1757]] 
''[[Mary Anne ]]'', [[Arthur 'Spanker' Austin]], [[Roud 21228]] 
''[[Soldier's Joy]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[All Tattered and Torn]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 1407]] 
''[[The Nutting Girl]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 509]] 
''[[The Kildare Fancy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]] 
''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]] 
''[[The Parson's Creed]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]] 
''[[Cock of the North / Pop Goes the Weasel]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[The Seeds of Love]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[The Drowned Lover]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 185]] 
''[[The Lincolnshire Poacher]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Talking about his grandfather]]'', [[George Ling]] 
''[[Fairy's Hornpipe and dancing doll]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting and Cecil Fisk]] 
''[[You Can Look but you Mustn't Touch!]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21238]] 
''[[Wild Flowers]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]] 
''[[The Yellow Handkerchief]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 954]] 
''[[Poem]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Rakes of Mallow]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Baby's Name]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]], [[Roud 21229]] 
''[[The Flowers of Edinburgh]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Roving Gypsy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 21230]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Harkie Nesling and Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[Polka(Jingle Bells)]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[Australia]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1488]] 
''[[The Female Drummer]]'', [[Bill 'Dodger' Brabbing]], [[Roud 226]] 
''[[The Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[The Peacock Band]] 
''[[Truly Fair]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Recruiting Sergeant]]'', [[George Ling]], [[Roud 493]] 
''[[Strolling down to Hastings]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 364]] 
''[[Chinaman]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 1850]] 
''[[Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Lobster]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Old General Wolfe]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 624]] 
''[[A Broadside]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 492]] 
''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[The Flower of London]]'', [[George Dow]], [[Roud 548]] 
''[[The Indian Lass]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 2326]] 
''[[Oscar's Waltz / Charlie Philpott's Waltz]]'', [[Reg Reeder]] 
''[[Out with my Gun in the Morning]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 1847]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Duckfoot Sue]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 9553]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Wormwood Scrubs]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21231]] 
''[[Phil the Fluter]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[Paddy and the Rope]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 2037]] 
''[[The Oak and the Ash]]'', [[Charlie Whiting]], [[Roud 269]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[Lamplighting Time in the Valley]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 13304]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Oscar Woods]] 
''[[Pretty Little Mary]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[The Next Song in the Programme]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe / Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Old Brown sat in the Rose and Crown]]'', [[ Albert Smith]] 
''[[Cock of the North]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about The Ship]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[The Burden of the Spray]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 21232]] 
''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1532]] 
''[[Red Sails in the Sunset]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[Unidentified Tunes]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[The False Hearted Knight]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 21]] 
''[[Young George Oxbury]]'', [[[[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 90]] 
''[[The Barndance]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[The Morals]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 21233]] 
''[[Jim the Carter's Lad]]'', [[Ted Cobbin with Peter Plant]], [[Roud 1080]]

Musical Traditions Records

2007-05-23T16:51:01Z

RodStradling:

http://www.mtrecords.co.uk

'''Musical Traditions Records'''

Musical Traditions Records produces CD-Rs of important music which is not commercially available.  All are accompanied by a substantial booklet giving as much information as we can find about the performers, their lives and their music.  Wherever possible, the complete recorded repertoire is made available, usually for the first time - thus many of our productions are actually double CD-Rs.

''This small but very valuable catalogue - Vic Smith in fRoots''

''A very significant contribution to folk-song scholarship - Dave Atkinson in Folk Music Journal''

''Some of the best collections available of traditional music - Steve Winnick in Dirty Linen''

'''The current cataloge is as follows:''' [[Image:mt_rec.jpg|right]]

'300 Series' CD-Rs in DVD cases with integral booklet:

* [[MTCD301-2 A Broadside: Bob Hart]]

* [[MTCD303 Plenty of Thyme: Cyril Poacher]]

* [[MTCD304 Come Hand to me the Glass: George Townshend]]

* [[MTCD305-6 Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father: Walter Pardon]]

* [[MTCD307 Band of Gold: Wiggy Smith and other Smith family members]]

* [[MTCD308 Ythanside: Daisy Chapman]]

* [[MTCD309-10 Just Another Saturday Night]]

* [[MTCD311-2 Up in the North and Down in the South]]

* [[MTCD313 The Broom Blooms Bonny: Joe Rae]]

* [[MTCD314 Classic English Banjo: Ray Andrews]]

* [[MTCD315-6 Have a Drop Mair: Kevin and Ellen Mitchell]]

* [[MTCD317-8 Chainmaker: George Dunn]]

* [[MTCD319 A Catalogue Sampler]]

* [[MTCD320 Here's Luck to a Man]]

* [[MTCD321-2 Far in the Mountains Vols 1 and 2]]

* [[MTCD323-4 Far in the Mountains Vols 3 and 4]]

* [[MTCD325-6 From Puck to Appleby]]

* [[MTCD327-8 Country Songs and Music: Oak]]

* [[MTCD329-30 The Hardy Sons of Dan]]

* [[MTCD331-2 Around the Hills of Clare]]

* [[MTCD333 The Birds Upon the Tree]]

* [[MTCD334 Here's One You'll Like, I Think: Stephen Balwin]]

* [[MTCD335-6 Songs from the Golden Fleece]]

* [[MTCD337-8 Lizzie Higgins - in memory of: Lizzie Higgins]]

* [[MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9]]

* [[MTCD341-2 Meeting's a Pleasure: Folksongs of the Upper South Vols 1 and 2]]

* [[MTCD343-4 Meeting's a Pleasure: Folksongs of the Upper South Vols 3 and 4]]

* [[MTCD401-2 Down the Cherry Tree: George 'Pop' Maynard]]

* [[MTCD403-4 Martin Carthy at Ruskin Mill: Martin Carthy]]

* [[Topic TSCD518D The Road from Connemara: Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí)]]

'200 Series' CD-Rs in jewel cases with insert notes:

* [[MTCD200 Live!: Freddy McKay]]

* [[MTCD201 Yorkshire Fiddle Tunes Songs and Carols: Billy Harrison and Jim Eldon]]

* [[MTCD202 The Magpie's Nest: Peta Webb]]

'100 Series' Old Time Music CD-Rs in jewel cases with insert notes:

* [[MTCD101 Push Them Clouds Away: Old time country music 1924-38]]

* [[MTCD102 Old Ship Sailing for the Promised Land: White Gospel music 1926-38]]

* [[MTCD103 Yearlings in the Canebreak: Texas fiddle music 1924-30]]

* [[MTCD104 Where the Southern Crosses the Dog: Mississippi fiddle music 1928-35]]

* [[MTCD105 Georgia Bust Down 1930: John 'Seven Foot Dilly' Dilleshaw]]

Musical Traditions CD-ROMs:

* [[The Complete Musical Traditions]]

* [[Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands 1660-1900]]

And - just to complete the picture:

* [[Songs noted as having been 'in the repertoire of' various singers]]

Talk:Song

2007-04-04T18:01:34Z

RodStradling:

Being new to all this as well, I don't understand why Andy's Songs Scheme states:
Roud 363 ... search VWML for Roud 878.

Roud 878 is ''The Echoing Horn'', not ''Gamekeepers ...''

Also: I have already posted several hundred song titles - ''all of them italicised!''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 18:46, 4 April 2007 (BST)

My comments, typically, are quite long. Might it be useful to have a bit of a debate via the discussion list, or shall I inflict them on you here?

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 23:29, 3 April 2007 (BST)

I think either 1 or 2 would fit the bill at the moment. Do we have a view on how many songs, details, texts, versions, etc the site will contain?

Pete Wood

Andy Turner has been looking at how song information might be organised. He has produced 4 schemes which are viewable [[Image:Songs_scheme.pdf|Songs Scheme]]

Comments welcome.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:28, 3 April 2007 (BST)

Johnny has now changed the heading to 'Books since 1900', which works better, I think.
Usual (though not invariable) practice is to italicize book titles and enclose song titles in single quotes.

Malcolm Douglas--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 02:31, 2 April 2007 (BST)

I think we may need to look at these section soon anyway. If we have "last century" and "song books", where to we put the book?
On another point, I am sailing on using italics for both book titles and song titles. Do we need to use different formats for these two perhaps?

Pete Wood--[[User:PeteWood|PeteWood]] 22:44, 1 April 2007 (BST)

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Talk:Song

2007-04-04T18:00:36Z

RodStradling:

Being new to all this as well, I don't understand why Andy's Songs Scheme states:
Roud 363 ... search VWML for Roud 878.

Roud 878 is ''The Echoing Horn'', not ''Gamekeepers ...''

Also: I have already posted several hundred song titles - '''all of them italicised!'''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 18:46, 4 April 2007 (BST)

My comments, typically, are quite long. Might it be useful to have a bit of a debate via the discussion list, or shall I inflict them on you here?

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 23:29, 3 April 2007 (BST)

I think either 1 or 2 would fit the bill at the moment. Do we have a view on how many songs, details, texts, versions, etc the site will contain?

Pete Wood

Andy Turner has been looking at how song information might be organised. He has produced 4 schemes which are viewable [[Image:Songs_scheme.pdf|Songs Scheme]]

Comments welcome.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:28, 3 April 2007 (BST)

Johnny has now changed the heading to 'Books since 1900', which works better, I think.
Usual (though not invariable) practice is to italicize book titles and enclose song titles in single quotes.

Malcolm Douglas--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 02:31, 2 April 2007 (BST)

I think we may need to look at these section soon anyway. If we have "last century" and "song books", where to we put the book?
On another point, I am sailing on using italics for both book titles and song titles. Do we need to use different formats for these two perhaps?

Pete Wood--[[User:PeteWood|PeteWood]] 22:44, 1 April 2007 (BST)

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Ballads

2007-04-04T17:51:43Z

RodStradling:

The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, rarely in the first person, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and probably the best known, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).

Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.

Talk:Song

2007-04-04T17:46:14Z

RodStradling:

Being new to all this as well, I don't understand why Andy's Songs Scheme states:
Roud 363 ... search VWML for Roud 878.

Roud 878 is ''The Echoing Horn'', not ''Gamekeepers ...''

--[[User:RodStradling|RodStradling]] 18:46, 4 April 2007 (BST)

My comments, typically, are quite long. Might it be useful to have a bit of a debate via the discussion list, or shall I inflict them on you here?

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 23:29, 3 April 2007 (BST)

I think either 1 or 2 would fit the bill at the moment. Do we have a view on how many songs, details, texts, versions, etc the site will contain?

Pete Wood

Andy Turner has been looking at how song information might be organised. He has produced 4 schemes which are viewable [[Image:Songs_scheme.pdf|Songs Scheme]]

Comments welcome.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:28, 3 April 2007 (BST)

Johnny has now changed the heading to 'Books since 1900', which works better, I think.
Usual (though not invariable) practice is to italicize book titles and enclose song titles in single quotes.

Malcolm Douglas--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 02:31, 2 April 2007 (BST)

I think we may need to look at these section soon anyway. If we have "last century" and "song books", where to we put the book?
On another point, I am sailing on using italics for both book titles and song titles. Do we need to use different formats for these two perhaps?

Pete Wood--[[User:PeteWood|PeteWood]] 22:44, 1 April 2007 (BST)

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Nimrod Workman

2007-04-02T13:17:19Z

RodStradling:

'''Nimrod Workman:''' became familiar to the outside world through his involvement with the struggle to obtain better benefits for Black Lung victims in 1970s (Nimrod had the disease himself, as did most of the other former coal miners I knew).  His son-in-law was, in fact, an important labor lawyer with the UMWA.  Nimrod had composed a few pertinent songs and Ken Irwin of Rounder Records wished to make a second LP recording of Nimrod (an album for June Appal had already appeared).  Ken asked me to supervise the session which was mainly devoted to Nimrod's quite extensive knowledge of traditional material.  I have been lately preparing that Rounder LP (''Mother Jones' Will'', Rdr 0051) for reissue and extension within Rounder's Archive Series.  Because so much fine material was recorded, I thought we might include a few additional items here.  The Rounder set includes a fascinating autobiographical statement drawn from our interviews with Nimrod.

When we were recording, Nimrod asked his wife Molly to join in on several charming religious numbers and, as stated above, I hope to release more of these in the future.  On Nimrod's earlier LP (JA 0001), he had recorded similar duets with his daughter Phyllis.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting's a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)''

North American Source Singers

2007-04-02T13:11:22Z

RodStradling:

* [[Garrett Arwood]]
* [[Garrett Arwood|Norah Arwood]]
* [[Gracie Baker]]
* [[Lavonne Baker]]
* [[Nova Baker]]
* [[Earl Barnes]]
* [[Ethel Birchfield]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Dellie Norton|Inez Chandler]]
* [[Calvin Cole|Viola Cole]]
* [[Calvin Cole]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Dixon Sisters, The]]
* [[Carol Foster]]
* [[Annadeene Fraley]]
* [[Danielle Fraley]]
* [[Jim Garland]]
* [[Michael Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[Lulabelle Greene]]
* [[Jim Garland|Sarah Gunning]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Stanley Hicks]]
* [[Roscoe Holcomb]]
* [[Buell Kazee]]
* [[Abe Keibler]]
* [[Pearl Richardson|Stella Kimble]]
* [[Mary Lozier]]
* [[Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander]]
* [[Wash Nelson]]
* [[Dellie Norton]]
* [[Morris Norton]]
* [[Hattie Presnell]]
* [[Emma Pruitt]]
* [[Evelyn Ramsey|Douston Ramsey]]
* [[Evelyn Ramsey]]
* [[Pearl Richardson]]
* [[Perry Riley]]
* [[Hobert Stallard]]
* [[Dan Tate]]
* [[Mildred Tucker]]
* [[Nova Baker|Elsie Vanover]]
* [[Doug Wallin|Berzilla Wallin]]
* [[Cas Wallin]]
* [[Doug Wallin]]
* [[Vergie Wallin]]
* [[Dent Wimmer]]
* [[Nimrod Workman|Mollie Workman]]
* [[Nimrod Workman]]
* [[Margie York|Gene York]]
* [[Margie York]]

American Traditional Players

2007-04-02T13:07:39Z

RodStradling:

* [[Pug Allen]]
* [[Hobert Bowling]]
* [[Ted Boyd]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Manon Campbell]]
* [[Snake Chapman]]
* [[Blanche Coldiron]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Roger Cooper]]
* [[Walt Davis]]
* [[Benton Flippen]]
* [[Annadeene Fraley|JP Fraley]]
* [[Keith Garvin]]
* [[Bert Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[William Marshall|Howard Hall]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Ray Hilt]]
* [[John Hobson]]
* [[Mitchel Hopson]]
* [[Henry Hurley]]
* [[Tommy Jarrell]]
* [[Vernon Judd|Zora Judd]]
* [[Vernon Judd]]
* [[Van Kidwell]]
* [[Mary Lozier|John Lozier]]
* [[William Marshall]]
* [[Asa Martin]]
* [[Walt Davis|Jay C McCool]]
* [[Billy Stamper]]
* [[Robert Sykes]]
* [[Rob Tate]]
* [[Earl Thomas]]
* [[Sherman Wimmer]]
* [[Charlie Woods]]

Jacquey Gabriel

2007-04-02T12:56:09Z

RodStradling:

'''Jacquey Gabriel:''' was active in the Cotswold folk circuit when we met.  As a girl in Suffolk she had learnt a number of songs from her father who would encourage her to sing in local pubs to raise a bit of cash.  Jacquey can be heard singing another of her father’s songs, ''Giles Collins'', on MTCD311-2.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs The Birds Upon the Tree (MTCD333)''

Archer Goode

2007-04-02T12:54:33Z

RodStradling:

'''Archer Goode:''' - ‘Goode by name and good by nature’ - was originally from Abergavenny, where he had worked with horses on rural farms.  He had befriended the Warwickshire Morris dancer Sam Bennett in the 1930s when Sam would go to Wales on holiday.  Sam taught Archer quite a number of songs which I recorded from him in Cheltenham where he was then living.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs The Birds Upon the Tree (MTCD333)''

‘Rabbity’ Baxter

2007-04-02T12:52:59Z

RodStradling:

'''Ernest Edward ‘Rabbity’ Baxter'''.  Scan Tester had first met Rabbity at ''The Stone Quarry'' at Chelwood Gate c.1930 and the pair had played together ever since.  Like many of the older Sussex players, Rabbity was adept at using all parts of the tambourine (drum, rim etc.) when he played.  Two further tracks by Scan and Rabbity, also recorded in the Balcombe ''Half-Moon'', can be heard on the Topic CD ''Rig-a-Jig-Jig. Dance Music of the South of England'' (TSCD659).

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs The Birds Upon the Tree (MTCD333)''

‘Rabbity’ Baxter

2007-04-02T12:52:40Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Ernest Edward ‘Rabbity’ Baxter'''.  Scan had first met Rabbity at ''The Stone Quarry'' at Chelwood Gate c.1930 and the pair had played together ever since.  Like many of t...

'''Ernest Edward ‘Rabbity’ Baxter'''.  Scan had first met Rabbity at ''The Stone Quarry'' at Chelwood Gate c.1930 and the pair had played together ever since.  Like many of the older Sussex players, Rabbity was adept at using all parts of the tambourine (drum, rim etc.) when he played.  Two further tracks by Scan and Rabbity, also recorded in the Balcombe ''Half-Moon'', can be heard on the Topic CD ''Rig-a-Jig-Jig. Dance Music of the South of England'' (TSCD659).

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs The Birds Upon the Tree (MTCD333)''

English Traditional Players

2007-04-02T12:51:49Z

RodStradling:

* [[Bill Agate]]
* [[Ray Andrews]]
* [[Will Atkinson]]
* [[Stephen Baldwin]]
* [[Billy Ballantine]]
* [[‘Rabbity’ Baxter]]
* [[Billy Bennington]]
* [[Walter Bulwer]]
* [[Bob Cann]]
* [[Bertie Clark]]
* [[Harry Cockerill]]
* [[Billy Cooper]]
* [[Bill Ellson]]
* [[Septimus Fawcett]]
* [[Billy Harrison]]
* [[Joe Hutton]]
* [[Bill Kimber]]
* [[Arthur Marshall]]
* [[Ned Pearson]]
* [[Fred Pigeon]]
* [[Jim Rutherford]]
* [[Willy Taylor]]
* [[Scan Tester]]
* [[Jinky Wells]]
* [[Font Whatling]]
* [[Fred Whiting]]
* [[Arnold Woodley]]
* [[Oscar Woods]]

American Traditional Players

2007-04-02T12:50:01Z

RodStradling:

* [[Pug Allen]]
* [[Hobert Bowling]]
* [[Ted Boyd]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Manon Campbell]]
* [[Snake Chapman]]
* [[Blanche Coldiron]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Roger Cooper]]
* [[Walt Davis]]
* [[Benton Flippen]]
* [[Annadeene Fraley|JP Fraley]]
* [[Keith Garvin]]
* [[Bert Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[William Marshall|Howard Hall]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Ray Hilt]]
* [[John Hobson]]
* [[Mitchel Hopson]]
* [[Henry Hurley]]
* [[Tommy Jarrell]]
* [[Vernon Judd|Zora Judd]]
* [[Vernon Judd]]
* [[Van Kidwell]]
* [[John Lozier]]
* [[William Marshall]]
* [[Asa Martin]]
* [[Walt Davis|Jay C McCool]]
* [[Billy Stamper]]
* [[Robert Sykes]]
* [[Rob Tate]]
* [[Earl Thomas]]
* [[Sherman Wimmer]]
* [[Charlie Woods]]

George Hawkins

2007-04-02T12:49:19Z

RodStradling: New page: '''George Hawkins:''' A true instrumental virtuoso, fiddler George represented one of our most important informants (Rdr 0376; we are planning to issue more in the future).  Although ...

'''George Hawkins:''' A true instrumental virtuoso, fiddler George represented one of our most important informants (Rdr 0376; we are planning to issue more in the future).  Although the topic only came up at the end of our last recording session, George knew various little snatches of ballad and song from early in the twentieth century (his wife, who died very young, was reportedly a good singer).  George mainly worked as a hired hand, although he ran a radio show for a brief period and developed his technical skills on the violin to a very high degree (he was briefly recorded for the Library of Congress in the late 1940's by Artus Moser).

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting's a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)''

Hobert Bowling

2007-04-02T12:48:41Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Hobert Bowling:''' moved from southeastern Kentucky to the outskirts of Covington for the sake of its employment opportunities.  Other selections by Hobert on banjo and fiddle can ...

'''Hobert Bowling:''' moved from southeastern Kentucky to the outskirts of Covington for the sake of its employment opportunities.  Other selections by Hobert on banjo and fiddle can be found on Rdr 0394 and 0544.  It was once common in old Kentucky to perform songs and hymns as slower airs on the fiddle.  Here Hobert arranges a popular song melody in the same DDAD crosstuning that J P utilizes on volume 2's Cruel Willie

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting's a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)''

American Traditional Players

2007-04-02T12:48:18Z

RodStradling:

* [[Pug Allen]]
* [[Hobert Bowling]]
* [[Ted Boyd]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Manon Campbell]]
* [[Snake Chapman]]
* [[Blanche Coldiron]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Roger Cooper]]
* [[Walt Davis]]
* [[Benton Flippen]]
* [[JP Fraley]]
* [[Keith Garvin]]
* [[Bert Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[William Marshall|Howard Hall]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Ray Hilt]]
* [[John Hobson]]
* [[Mitchel Hopson]]
* [[Henry Hurley]]
* [[Tommy Jarrell]]
* [[Vernon Judd|Zora Judd]]
* [[Vernon Judd]]
* [[Van Kidwell]]
* [[John Lozier]]
* [[William Marshall]]
* [[Asa Martin]]
* [[Walt Davis|Jay C McCool]]
* [[Billy Stamper]]
* [[Robert Sykes]]
* [[Rob Tate]]
* [[Earl Thomas]]
* [[Sherman Wimmer]]
* [[Charlie Woods]]

Alva Greene

2007-04-02T12:46:38Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Alva Greene:''' fiddle.  Here we hear Alva and Francis playing an old parlor tune ''I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets'' utilizing the old-fashioned technique of “beating straws.”&nb...

'''Alva Greene:''' fiddle.  Here we hear Alva and Francis playing an old parlor tune ''I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets'' utilizing the old-fashioned technique of “beating straws.”  Usually the beater will play on the same instrument as the fiddle, taking care to strike on the strings upon which the fiddler is not noting, but Francis found it easier to tune his own fiddle to Alva's and play independently.  Alva had been a good friend of J P's father, but had left the region to work in a shoe factory in Portsmouth and raise his family there.  J P was fishing one morning below Sandy Hook and heard the sound of old-fashioned mountain fiddling.  He followed the sound and soon encountered Alva, who had returned to Sandy Hook and was practicing n his porch.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting's a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)''

Francis Gillum

2007-04-02T12:46:02Z

RodStradling: New page: '''Francis Gillum:''' was in his late eighties and had formerly played the fiddle.  He had met Alva Greene at a county senior citizen recreational center and liked to beat straws for ...

'''Francis Gillum:''' was in his late eighties and had formerly played the fiddle.  He had met Alva Greene at a county senior citizen recreational center and liked to beat straws for Alva's fiddle in the old-fashioned manner.  Although Francis was rather short of breath, he also played a few tunes on the mouth organ for us, including this prototypical eastern Kentucky dance tune.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting's a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)''

American Traditional Players

2007-04-02T12:45:49Z

RodStradling:

* [[Pug Allen]]
* [[Ted Boyd]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Manon Campbell]]
* [[Snake Chapman]]
* [[Blanche Coldiron]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Roger Cooper]]
* [[Walt Davis]]
* [[Benton Flippen]]
* [[JP Fraley]]
* [[Keith Garvin]]
* [[Bert Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[William Marshall|Howard Hall]]
* [[Ray Hilt]]
* [[John Hobson]]
* [[Mitchel Hopson]]
* [[Henry Hurley]]
* [[Tommy Jarrell]]
* [[Vernon Judd|Zora Judd]]
* [[Vernon Judd]]
* [[Van Kidwell]]
* [[John Lozier]]
* [[William Marshall]]
* [[Asa Martin]]
* [[Walt Davis|Jay C McCool]]
* [[Billy Stamper]]
* [[Robert Sykes]]
* [[Rob Tate]]
* [[Earl Thomas]]
* [[Sherman Wimmer]]
* [[Charlie Woods]]

American Traditional Players

2007-04-02T12:45:24Z

RodStradling:

* [[Pug Allen]]
* [[Ted Boyd]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Manon Campbell]]
* [[Snake Chapman]]
* [[Blanche Coldiron]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Roger Cooper]]
* [[Walt Davis]]
* [[Benton Flippen]]
* [[JP Fraley]]
* [[Keith Garvin]]
* [[Bert Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Francis Gillum|Alva Greene]]
* [[William Marshall|Howard Hall]]
* [[Ray Hilt]]
* [[John Hobson]]
* [[Mitchel Hopson]]
* [[Henry Hurley]]
* [[Tommy Jarrell]]
* [[Vernon Judd|Zora Judd]]
* [[Vernon Judd]]
* [[Van Kidwell]]
* [[John Lozier]]
* [[William Marshall]]
* [[Asa Martin]]
* [[Walt Davis|Jay C McCool]]
* [[Billy Stamper]]
* [[Robert Sykes]]
* [[Rob Tate]]
* [[Earl Thomas]]
* [[Sherman Wimmer]]
* [[Charlie Woods]]