Name: The Folk Collection
Brand: Topic Records
SKU: 759295
Price: 33.97 USD
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The Folk Collection

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Album: The Folk Collection
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Bonny May - June Tabor
2)	Auretti's Dutch Skipper / An Adventure At Margate / The Spirit Of The Dance - Brass Monkey
3)	Fisher Boy - Eliza Carthy & The Kings Of Calicutt
4)	Somewhere The Sun Is Shining / Hold Back The Tide - John Tams/Linda Thompson
5)	Fine Horseman - Silly Sisters
6)	Barley & The Rye, The - Robin Dransfield
7)	Rising - Tarras
8)	Worker's Song - Dick Gaughan
9)	Rackabello - Waterson:Carthy
10)	Carthy's Reel / The Return To Camden Town - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick
11)	Courting Is a Pleasure - Nic Jones
12)	Weary Whaling Grounds, The - A.L. Lloyd
13)	Saucy Bold Robber, The - Roy Harris
14)	Moonshine - Martin Simpson
15)	Lady Leroy, The - The Battlefield Band
16)	Blind Fiddler - Eliza Carthy
17)	TWA Corbies, The - Ray & Archie Fisher
18)	Sir Patrick Spens - Martin Carthy
19)	Angi - Davy Graham
1)	Horizonto - Blowzabella
2)	When First I Came to Caledonia - Waterson:Carthy
3)	Snow It Melts the Soonest, The - Anne Briggs
4)	Old Grenadier - Brass Monkey
5)	Blood & Gold / Mohacs - Silly Sisters
6)	Both Sides the Tweed - Dick Gaughan
7)	Da Fields o'Foula / My Love Is A Fair Lad - Tarras
8)	Columbine - Lal Waterson/Oliver Knight
9)	Go Down Ye Murderers - Ewan MacColl
10)	Sun Is Burning, The - Ian Campbell Folk Group
11)	Cold, Wet & Rainy Night / The Grand Hornpipe - Eliza Carthy
12)	Verdant Braes of Skreen, The - McPeake Family
13)	Skewbald, The - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick
14)	Hewer, The - The High Level Ranters
15)	Soldier's Joy - Aly Bain/Tom Anderson
16)	TWA Recruiting Sergeants - The Exiles
17)	Down by the Seaside - Shirley Collins
18)	Train to Bay - Oliver Knight
19)	Apple Tree Wassail - The Watersons

Album: The Folk Collection
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Bonny May - June Tabor
2)	Auretti's Dutch Skipper / An Adventure At Margate / The Spirit Of The Dance - Brass Monkey
3)	Fisher Boy - Eliza Carthy & The Kings Of Calicutt
4)	Somewhere The Sun Is Shining / Hold Back The Tide - John Tams/Linda Thompson
5)	Fine Horseman - Silly Sisters
6)	Barley & The Rye, The - Robin Dransfield
7)	Rising - Tarras
8)	Worker's Song - Dick Gaughan
9)	Rackabello - Waterson:Carthy
10)	Carthy's Reel / The Return To Camden Town - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick
11)	Courting Is a Pleasure - Nic Jones
12)	Weary Whaling Grounds, The - A.L. Lloyd
13)	Saucy Bold Robber, The - Roy Harris
14)	Moonshine - Martin Simpson
15)	Lady Leroy, The - The Battlefield Band
16)	Blind Fiddler - Eliza Carthy
17)	TWA Corbies, The - Ray & Archie Fisher
18)	Sir Patrick Spens - Martin Carthy
19)	Angi - Davy Graham
1)	Horizonto - Blowzabella
2)	When First I Came to Caledonia - Waterson:Carthy
3)	Snow It Melts the Soonest, The - Anne Briggs
4)	Old Grenadier - Brass Monkey
5)	Blood & Gold / Mohacs - Silly Sisters
6)	Both Sides the Tweed - Dick Gaughan
7)	Da Fields o'Foula / My Love Is A Fair Lad - Tarras
8)	Columbine - Lal Waterson/Oliver Knight
9)	Go Down Ye Murderers - Ewan MacColl
10)	Sun Is Burning, The - Ian Campbell Folk Group
11)	Cold, Wet & Rainy Night / The Grand Hornpipe - Eliza Carthy
12)	Verdant Braes of Skreen, The - McPeake Family
13)	Skewbald, The - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick
14)	Hewer, The - The High Level Ranters
15)	Soldier's Joy - Aly Bain/Tom Anderson
16)	TWA Recruiting Sergeants - The Exiles
17)	Down by the Seaside - Shirley Collins
18)	Train to Bay - Oliver Knight
19)	Apple Tree Wassail - The Watersons

Performer Notes

This two-disc collection focuses on traditional folk music. The songs are the stars here, but the performances shine as well. Most feature the simple style of people who play for the love of it, but sprinkled throughout is an unusually lively fiddle or whistle, and more than one bell-clear voice. A wide variety of artists are featured performing traditional songs, as well as more modern works in the traditional style. A fine collection for folk fans, especially for devotees of the folk styles of the British Isles, this collection is solid throughout. ~ Stacia Proefrock

Professional Reviews

NME (Magazine) (11/6/99, p.38) - 8 out of 10 - "...a 38-track assault on the history of British traditional music from the world's oldest indie label...which mixes the pleasantly modern with the eerie old stuff by The Watersons, Shirley Collins and the godlike mystic Anne Briggs, to startling effect..."