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Folk Songs and Ballads(Cheapolata LATA 574)

Folk Songs and Ballads
Woody Guthrie, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Margaret Barry, Susan Reid

Cheapolata LATA 574 (5 CD, Netherlands, 2007)

This is a compilation of recordings from the 1940's and 1950's. There are no sleeve notes and no sources mentioned; the sources listed at the end are educated guesses.

Musicians

Woody Guthrie [CD 1; CD 2 tracks 1-5, 7, 9-12, 14];
A.L. Lloyd [CD 2 tracks 6, 8; CD 3, tracks 3, 8-10];
Ewan MacColl [CD 2 track 13; CD 3 tracks 1-2, 4-7, 11-14; CD 4 tracks 1, 3-4, 6, 9-10, 12-13];
Margaret Barry [CD 4 tracks 2, 5, 7-8, 11; CD 5 tracks 2, 5-7, 9, 12, 14];
Susan Reid [CD 5 tracks 1, 3-4, 8, 10-11, 13]

Tracks

CD 1: Woody GuthrieCD 2: Woody Guthrie, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl
  1. Dust Cain't Kill Me (2.56)
  2. Columbus Stockade (2.29)
  3. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore (2.47)
  4. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2.16)
  5. Bury Me Beneath the Willow (2.50)
  6. Foggy Mountain Top (2.54)
  7. Dust Pneumonia Blues (2.43)
  8. Blowin' Down This Road (3.01)
  9. Dust Bowl Blues (3.28)
  10. Johnny Hard (2.20)
  11. Dust Bowl Refugee (3.07)
  12. Do Re Mi (2.35)
  13. Bad Lee Brown (2.15)
  14. Dusty Old Dust (3.06)
  1. [WG] Vigilante Man (3.26)
  2. [WG] Talkin's Dust Bowl Blues (2.43)
  3. [WG] Tom Joad - Part 2 (3.30)
  4. [WG] The Golden Vanity (2.36)
  5. [WG] Take a Whife on Me (2.42)
  6. [ALL] Down in Yon Forest (2.46)
  7. [WG] The Great Dust Storm (3.22)
  8. [ALL] Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (2.48)
  9. [WG] Old Time Religion (2.36)
  10. [WG] Sourwood Mountain (3.01)
  11. [WG] Pretty Boy Floyd (3.10)
  12. [WG] Tom Joad - Part 2 (3.27)
  13. [EM] Lang A-Growing (4.54)
  14. [WG] Skip to My Lou (2.52)
CD 3: A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacCollCD 4: Margaret Barry, Ewan MacColl
  1. [EM] Kissin's No Sin (0.55)
  2. [EM] Maggie Lauder (1.35)
  3. [ALL] The Bold Fisherman (3.44)
  4. [EM] The Holy Well (4.57)
  5. [EM] Johnnie Cope (2.48)
  6. [EM] Charlie, O Charlie (2.34)
  7. [EM] The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green (4.45)
  8. [ALL] The Bramble Briar (5.13)
  9. [ALL] The Bitter Withy (2.14)
  10. [ALL] The Shooting of His Dear (3.37)
  11. [EM] The Seven Virgins (4.38)
  12. [EM] Lassie wi' the Yellow Coatie (2.59)
  13. [EM] Johnny Lad (3.02)
  14. [EM] Davie Faa (3.46)
  1. [EM] The Highland Muster Roll (1.51)
  2. [MB] She Moves Through the Fair (3.32)
  3. [EM] Nicky Tams (2.20)
  4. [EM] Tail Toddle (0.52)
  5. [MB] Belfast Hornpipe (1.34)
  6. [EM] Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch (1.20)
  7. [MB] Moses Ritoorel-I-Ay (2.32)
  8. [MB] The Bold Fenian Men (4.04)
  9. [EM] The Wars o' Germany (2.43)
  10. [EM] The Barnyards o' Delgaty (Roud 2136) (2.26)
  11. [MB] My Lagan Love (Roud 1418) (3.48)
  12. [EM] The Wee, Wee German Lairdie (1.52)
  13. [EM] The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (4.45)
  14. [EM] The Reel o' Stumpie, O (1.09)
CD 5: Margaret Barry, Susan Reid
  1. [SR] I Know My Love (1.29)
  2. [MB] The Flower of Sweet Strabane (2.34)
  3. [SR] Go Tell Aunt Rhody (1.42)
  4. [SR] Irish Famine Song (2.02)
  5. [MB] The Cycling Champion of Ulster (3.21)
  6. [MB] The Turfman from Ardee (3.07)
  7. [MB] The Galway Shawl (3.07)
  8. [SR] Come Follow (0.54)
  9. [MB] The Factory Girl (2.25)
  10. [SR] He Moved Through the Fair (2.07)
  11. [SR] At the Foot of Yonders Mountain (2.01)
  12. [MB] The Cottage with the Horseshoe o'er the Door (1.00)
  13. [SR] Bendemeer's Stream (1.07)
  14. [MB] The Hills of Donegal (2.43)

All tracks trad. except
CD 1 tracks 1, 3, 7-9, 11-12, 14; CD 2 tracks 1-3, 7, 11-12 Woody Guthrie

CD1 tracks 1, 3, 7-9, 11-12, 14 and CD 2 tracks 1-3, 7, 11-12 are from Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads (RCA Victor, 1940);
CD 2 tracks 6, 8, 13 and CD 3 tracks 3-4, 7-11 are from Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd: Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection (Riverside RLP 12-629, 1956);
CD 3 tracks 1-2, 5-6, 12-13 and CD 4 tracks 1, 3-4, 6, 9-10, 13-14 are from Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger: Popular Scottish Songs (Folkways FW08757, 1960);
CD 4 tracks 2, 5, 7-8, 11 and CD 5 tracks 2, 5-7, 9, 12, 14 are from Margaret Barry: Songs of an Irish Tinker Lady (Riverside RLP 12-602, 1956);
CD 5 tracks 1, 3-4, 8, 10-11, 13 are from Susan Reid: Susan Reid Sings Old Airs (Elektra EKL 126, 1954)