John Roberts & Tony Barrand

Mellow with Ale from the Horn

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Year: 1975
Label: Front Hall
Review by Steve Winick

A mixed bag of songs is performed by Roberts and Barrand, this time accompanying themselves on a few instruments. Material ranges from the tragic to the wacky.


Tracks:

01 Save Your Money While You're Young - 2:29
02 Staines Morris - 4:33
03 Barbara Allen - 3:35
04 Salt River/Colored Aristocracy - 2:14
05 Oats and Beans and Barley Grows - 1:32
06 Kate and Her Horns - 3:16
07 Come Day, Go Day - Hughes - 3:21
08 The Albatross - Reynolds - 2:59
09 The Wings of a Goney - 2:48
10 The Handsome Cabin Boy - 2:28
11 Five Foot Flirt - Tawney - 3:10
12 Our Bill - Wrigley - 1:45
13 Albert and the Lion - Edgar - 3:31
14 Salvation Band - Watson - 3:46

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Dark Ships in the Forest

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Ballads of the Supernatural
Year: 1977
Label: Folk-Legacy
Review by Rick Anderson

This disc is a reissue of an LP which originally came out who-knows-when (Folk Legacy's insert copy is typically reticent on that score), and consists of one well-known old ballad ("The Foggy Dew"), several songs from the Child collection, and a number of other, more obscure tunes, all chosen for their supernatural themes (though, as the artists acknowledge in the liner notes, "The Foggy Dew" is something of a stretch in that regard). Roberts and Barrand are accompanied by Fred Breunig and Steve Woodruff, both of whom play fiddle and button accordion. As one might imagine, the resulting sound is stark and, it must be said, haunting; the subject matter of the songs, all of which deal with such topics as magical flora, woodland enchanters, and the ghosts of dead children and lovers, only adds to the eerie tone of the proceedings. These two really are remarkable singers; I've never been able to figure out which one sings which part, but whoever sings tenor has a sound that cuts like a reed whizzing through the air, while the baritone singer moans with a plaintive, almost nasal sound. Description doesn't work, obviously these two must be heard to be appreciated.


Tracks:

01 Oak, Ash, and Thorn - 2:43
02 The Broomfield Wager - 4:12
03 The Wife of Usher's Well - 2:45
04 Tom of Bedlam - 3:57
05 The Dreadful Ghost - 4:22
06 The Foggy Dew - 5:07
07 The Derby Ram - 3:31
08 The Maid on the Shore - 3:45
09 Reynardine - 3:03
10 The False Lady - 3:21
11 Polly Vaughn - 3:18
12 The Two Magicians - 5:19

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Naulakha Redux
Songs of Rudyard Kipling

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Year: 1997
Label: Golden Hind GHM-104

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Tracks:

01. Ford o' Kabul River* 3:20
02. Tommy 4:36
03. Sir Richard's Song 4:49
04. The Land 6:18
05. Philadelphia 4:11
06. Cells 4:50
07. Mandalay 5:39
08. An Astrologer's Song* 3:16
09. The Ballad of Minepit Shaw 3:19
10. Song of the Men's Side 2:34
11. The Liner She's a Lady 5:34
12. Frankie's Trade 3:28
13. We Have Fed Our Sea 3:23
14. A Carol* 1:53
15. Danny Deever 4:53
16. Follow Me 'Ome* 4:52

Total Time 67:17
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Heartoutbursts
English Folksongs Collected in Lincolnshire by Percy Grainger

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Year: 1998
Label: Golden Hind GHM-103


Tracks:

01. Brigg Fair 1:27
02. Seventeen Come Sunday 2:58
03. Creeping Jane 3:36
04. Turpin Hero 3:02
05. The White Hare 2:23
06. Rufford Park Poachers 5:23
07. Lord Bateman 6:19
08. The Gypsy's Wedding Day 1:51
09. A Fair Maid Walking 2:48
10. The Lost Lady Found 3:11
11. Sprig of Thyme 2:00
12. Riding Down to Portsmouth 2:55
13. Horkstow Grange 2:53
14. The "Rainbow" 2:37
15. William Taylor 4:24
16. Lord Melbourne 3:05
17. Lisbon 3:24
18. Died for Love 0:58

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A Present from the Gentlemen
A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs

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Year: 1992
Label: Golden Hind GHM-101


Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy comes from the long-standing harmony-singing tradition of the Copper family of Rottingdean, in Sussex. Their version was published in the first issue of the Journal of the Folk Song Society, Vol.1, No.1, in 1899.
We learned Jackie Munro and Nine Times a Night from the singing of A.L. Lloyd, who reworked and reintroduced a large number of traditional songs into the repertoire.
A Smugglers' Song is from Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. Kipling lived for a while in Brattleboro, VT, which Tony now calls home. This setting is by our good friend, the late Peter Bellamy. Our Hamlet is by Adam MacNaughtan, a Glasgow singer and teacher, who crafted it to impress some of the finer points of English Literature on inner-city schoolchildren. John learned this Anglicized version from Martin Carthy.
Sam Hall is one of the classics of the early Music Hall, though it came to the stage from the folk tradition. W.G. Ross sang it to great acclaim in the 1850's. The Fellow that Played the Trombone is also a Music Hall piece; we have it from the Suffolk singer Jimmy Knights, whose rendition may be heard on the Topic recording, Sing, Say & Play.
The Three Butchers is from the singing of Henry Burstow. Lucy Broadwood noted it down from him in 1894, and included it in her English Traditional Songs and Carols. Cecil Sharp (C#, as he styled himself) collected Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford, and published it in the Journal. The Outlandish Knight is a Lincolnshire variant, found more recently, in 1957. It is in Patrick O'Shaughnessy's More Folk Songs from Lincolnshire. The Painful Plough is from William Barrett's English Folk Songs.
Draggletail Gypsy was collected by C# from Shepherd Haden, of Bampton, Oxfordshire. The air is a variant of the first part of The Princess Royal, an ancient tune which has sometimes been attributed to the Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan. We give the tune as it is used in Bampton for a morris jig. We got Dog and Gun from the Derbyshire group Muckram Wakes; many traditional versions are remarkably similar. One closely-related set of verses was written down by Tim Connor, an American sailor who compiled a notebook of songs when imprisoned in England during the Revolutionary War.
Our World War I Trilogy includes The Old Barbed Wire, a soldier's view of life at the front; There's a Long, Long Trail, a marching song composed in 1913 by Zo Elliott and Stoddard King; and Valley of The Shadow, written by Paul Clark for a play called Days of Pride, produced at Stantonbury Theatre in 1981. This last is based on Hawtin Mundy's recollections of the Battle of Arras.


TrackList:

01. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
02. Jackie Munro
03. Nine Times a Night
04. A Smuggler's Song
05. The Three Butchers
06. The Painful Plough
07. Dog and Gun
08. The Draggletail Gypsy/The Princess Royal
09. The Outlandish Knight
10. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
11. Our Hamlet
12. Sam Hall
13. The Fellow that Played the Trombone
14. Great War Trilogy:
The Old Barbed Wire
Long, Long Trail
The Valley of the Shadow

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Twiddlum Twaddlum

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Year: 2007
Label: Golden Hind

Join John Roberts & Tony Barrand as they celebrate 35 years of performing the songs, recitations, dances and plays of the English folk tradition. This recording, from two concerts in September 2003, looks back at a range of their repertoire from ancient ballads to music hall ditties, from Mother Goose to Kipling.


TrackList:

01. Anchor Song 2:32
02. The Golden Vanity 2:57
03. High Barbary 3:28
04. Jonah and the Grampus 3:46
05. A Pilgrim¹s Way 5:37
06. Old Bangum 3:17
07. Who Killed Cock Robin? 4:53
08. Two Foxes 2:23
09. All Through The Ale 3:15
10. The Rawtenstall Annual Fair 3:16
11. Nell 3:25
12. The Nutting Girl 4:21
13. Claudy Banks 2:55
14. The Week Before Easter 4:53
15. The Cockerham Devil 4:16
16. Row on 4:25

Total Running Time 60:15
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Spencer The Rover is Alive and Well




Tracks:

01. Spencer The Rover
02. Creeping Jane
03. I Wish They'd Do It Now
04. Rambleaway
05. What A Mouth!
06. The Knight And The Shepherd's Daughter
07. Silicosis
08. The Coachman
09. The Lincolnshire Poacher
10. Warlike Seamen
11. Dahn The Plughole
12. Shine Your Buttons With Brasso
13. Martin Said To His Man
14. Fanny Blair
15. So Green As The Leaves
16. Babylon Is Fallen
17. Thyme

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Across The Western Ocean




Tracks:

01. Introduction - New York Girls
02. Captain Samuels on his Sailors
03. Blow the Man Down
04. Impressions of the first voyage - The Crayfish
05. The Black Cook
06. The Limejuice Ship
07. The wreck of the Staffordshire
08. The Flying Dutchman
09. Get Up Jack, John Sit Down
10. The Flying Cloud
11. Immigration conditions
12. Heave Away My Johnnies
13. Perils of transatlantic dalliance
14. Maggie May
15. Peter Street
16. The Seamen's Hymn

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Ye Mariners All - Songs of the Sea

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Year: 2003
Label: Golden Hind


Tracks:

01. The 'Fame' of Salem 3:03
02. Marcherot 1:48
03. The Steam Packet 5:22
04. Wings of a Goney 4:00
05. Pique la Baleine 4:16
06. Three Jolly Fishermen 3:28
07. Jack Robinson 3:36
08. Old Billy Riley-O 1:23
09. Hourra les Filles 3:01
10. Serafina 2:37
11. Rolling Down to Old Maui 4:04
12. Yangtse River Chantey 3:23
13. The 'Balaena' 3:14
14. Hullabaloo Belay 1:13
15. You Gentlemen of Boston 3:36
16. Nantucket Point/Off She Goes 3:55
17. Noah's Ark Chantey 1:57
18. The 'Jamestown' Homeward Bound 3:14

Total Duration 58:00
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John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff - To Welcome In The Spring

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Year: 1980
Label: Golden Hind


Tracks:

01. Candlemas Eve 2:18
02. Mothering Sunday 1:56
03. Gabriel's Message 1:30
04. All In The Morning 2:15
05. The Merchant's Carol 2:21
06. The Leaves of Life (or The Seven Virgins) 2:15
07. The Lamb of God 4:30
08. My Dancing Day 2:52
09. The Sound Of The Drum/Ninety-Five 2:52
10. The Month Of May 1:43
11. Country Dance Medley: Trip to Paris/Knole Park 2:52
12. The Moon Shines Bright (or The Bellman's Song) 1:46
13. The Football Match 3:28
14. The Whitsun Song 2:57
15. Come Lasses And Lads/Packington's Pound 3:28
16. Northhill May Song 1:13





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