| Variant title |
Subtitle on slipcase: Four decades of the very best acoustic folk music from the British Isles |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Jack o'diamonds / Lonnie Donegan -- 3/4 AD / Davy Graham & Alexis Korner -- Macpherson's rant / Galliards -- Twa corbies / Ray & Archie Fisher -- Tramps and hawkers / Bob Davenport -- Rocky road to Dublin / Dubliners -- Song of the iron road / Ewan MacColl -- She moves through the fair / Anne Briggs -- Times they are a changin' / Ian Campbell Folk Group -- Across the hills / Three City Four -- Joy of my heart / Fisher Family -- Angi / Bert Jansch -- Reynardine / Shirley Collins & Davy Graham -- Geordie / Julie Felix -- Dido bendigo / Watersons -- Two magicians / AL Lloyd -- Moving on song / Exiles -- Sovay / Martin Carthy -- First girl I loved / Incredible String Band -- Lyke wake dirge / Young Tradition -- Transfusion / John Renbourn -- You never wanted me / Sandy Denny -- Cuckoo's nest / Dave Swarbrick -- House carpenter / Sweeney's Men -- Spiral staircase / Ralph McTell. |
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Disc 2: Let no man steal your thyme / Pentangle -- Bonnie boy / Shirley Collins -- Rout of the blues / Robin & Barry Dransfield -- Bright phoebus / Lal & Mike Waterson -- Sorry the day I was married / Tim Hart & Maddy Prior -- Scan's polkas / Oak -- Rattlin' roarin' Willie ; Friar's Britches / Dick Gaughan -- Crafty maid's policy / Frankie Armstrong -- Billy don't you weep for me / Nic Jones -- Rose of Britain's isle ; Glorishears / John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris -- Hard times of old England / Etchingham Steam Band -- Kesh jig ; Give us a drink of water ; Flower of the flock ; Famous Ballymore / Bothy Band -- Ant & the grasshopper / Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey -- Methody parson / Roy Harris -- John o'dreams / Bill Caddick -- Rose of Allandale / Bandoggs -- Shepherd of the downs / Peter Bellamy -- Brighton camp ; March Past / John Kirkpatrick & Chums -- Harper's frolick ; Bonny Kate / New Victory Band -- Once in a while / Steve Ashley. |
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Disc 3: Miss Drummond of Perth ; Fiddler's Joy ; Traditional reel ; Shetland Fiddler / Battlefield Band -- Farewell welfare / Rory McLeod -- Erin-go-bragh / Dick Gaughan -- Rockin' in rhythm / Richard Thompson -- Stephen Baldwin's schottisches nos. 1 & 2 ; Kennet jig / Old Swan Band -- In trim ; Mount Hooley ; Lemington Bank / Alistair Anderson -- Lay this body down / June Tabor -- First cut is the deepest / Martin Simpson -- Handsome Johnny / English Country Blues Band -- If / Vin Garbutt -- Maid & the palmer / Brass Monkey -- Shave the monkey ; Boys of the mill / Blowzabella -- A b hornpipe ; Mrs Bolowski's / Kathryn Tickell -- Another train / Pete Morton -- Coal not dole / Swan Arcade -- Blood and gold ; Mohacs / Silly Sisters -- Wasps in the woodpile / Andrew Cronshaw -- Patrick street ; Carraroe Jig / Patrick Street -- A bhean udai thall / Altan -- Fraoch a ronaigh / Mouth Music. |
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Disc 4. The grey funnel line -- A call for the north country -- Reconciliation -- Pharoah -- Out come the freaks -- Moving the goalposts -- When first I came to Caledonia -- Beeswing -- Molly & Johnny -- Venus in tweeds -- The graf spey ; The boys of Balisodare -- Jerusalem revisited -- How can I leave -- A place called England -- Reel du pendu -- Twankydillo -- Llatai -- The cobbler's daughter -- From where I lie ; Sheepcounting -- 10,000 miles. |
| Bibliography note | Book includes discography (p. 42-54). |
| Performer |
Various artists. |
| Technical details | Compact discs. |
| Publisher number | TSFCD4001 Topic Records |
| Publisher number | TSCD4001 Topic Records |
