> Folk Music > Records > John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Dark Ships in the Forest

John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Dark Ships in the Forest

Dark Ships in the Forest Ballads of the Supernatural John Roberts & Tony Barrand Folk-Legacy Records FSI-65 (cass., USA, 1977) Folk-Legacy Records CD-65 (CD, USA, 1997)

See also Tony Barrand's Dark Ships in the Forest webpage with notes and song lyrics.

Tracks

1. Oak, Ash and Thorn (2.36)
2. Broomfield Wager (Roud 34; Child 43) (4.11)
3. The Wife of Usher's Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (2.43)
4. Tom of Bedlam (3.57)
5. The Dreadful Ghost (Roud 568; Laws P34A) (4.18)
6. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3) (5.06)
7. The Derby Ram (Roud 126) (3.27)
8. The Maid on the Shore (Roud 181; Laws K27) (3.41)
9. Reynardine (Roud 397; Laws P15) (3.01)
10. The False Lady (Roud 47; Child 68) (3.21)
11. Polly Vaughn (Roud 166; Laws O36) (3.18)
12. The Two Magicians (Roud 1350; Child 44) (5.19)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1 Rudyard Kipling, Peter Bellamy

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> Folk Music > Records > John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Heartoutbursts

John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Heartoutbursts

Heartoutbursts English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger John Roberts & Tony Barrand Golden Hind Music GHM-103 (CD, USA, 1998)

See also Tony Barrand's Heartoutbursts webpage with notes and song lyrics. Compare to this Unto Brigg Fair, an LP with Joseph Taylor and other traditional Lincolnshire singers recorded in 1908 by Percy Grainger.

Tracks

1. Brigg Fair (Roud 1083) (1.27)
2. Seventeen Come Sunday (Roud 277; Laws O17) (2.58)
3. Creeping Jane (Roud 1012; Laws Q23) (3.36)
4. Turpin Hero (Roud 621; Laws L10) (3.02)
5. The White Hare (Roud 1110) (2.23)
6. Rufford Park Poachers (Roud 1759) (5.23)
7. Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L) (6.19)
8. The Gipsy's Wedding Day (Roud 229; Laws O4) (1.51)
9. A Fair Maid Walking (Roud 264; Laws N42) (2.48)
10. The Lost Lady Found (Roud 901; Laws Q31) (3.11)
11. Sprig of Thyme (Roud 3) (2.00)
12. Riding Down to Portsmouth (Roud 1534) (2.55)
13. Horkstow Grange (Roud 1760) (2.53)
14. The “Rainbow” (Roud 492; Laws N4) (2.37)
15. William Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11) (4.24)
16. Lord Melbourne (Roud 233) (3.05)
17. Lisbon (Roud 551; Laws N8) (3.24)
18. Died for Love (Roud 60; Laws P25) (0.58)

All tracks trad.

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> Folk Music > Records > John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Naulakha Redux

John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Naulakha Redux

Naulakha Redux Songs of Rudyard Kipling John Roberts & Tony Barrand Golden Hind Music GHM-104 (CD, USA, 1998)

See also Tony Barrand's Naulakha Redux webpage with notes and song lyrics..

Musicians

Tony Barrand, vocals, jew's harp;
John Roberts, vocals, concertinas, banjo

Tracks 1, 8, 14, 16 with
Fred Breunig, vocals, fiddle, button accordion;
Andy Davis, vocals, piano acordion

Tracks

1. Ford o' Kabul River (3.16)
2. Tommy (4.36)
3. Sir Richard's Song (4.49)
4. The Land (4.49)
5. Philadelphia (4.11)
6. Cells (4.50)
7. Mandalay (5.39)
8. An Astrologer's Song (3.16)
9. 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)

All tracks words Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy except
Tracks 7, 15 words Rudyard Kipling, music trad. arr. Peter Bellamy;
Track 14 words Rudyard Kipling, music trad.

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> Folk Music > Records > John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Across the Western Ocean

John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Across the Western Ocean

Across the Western Ocean Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets John Roberts & Tony Barrand Swallowtail Records ST-0004 (CD, USA, 2000)

See also Tony Barrand's Across the Western Ocean webpage with notes and song lyrics.

Musicians

John Roberts, Tony Barrand
with David Jones, Gerret Warner, Jeff Warner;
Narration by Gerret Warner, Jeff Warner, and Susan Warner

Tracks

1. Introduction /
   New York Girls (Roud 486) (4.37)
2. Captain Samuels on his sailors (0.36)
3. Blow the Man Down (Roud 2624) (3.33)
4. Impressions of a first voyage /
   The Crayfish (Roud 149) (2.18)
5. The Black Cook (Roud 2310) (4.06)
6. The Lime-Juice Ship (Roud 8341) (2.26)
7. The Wreck of the Staffordshire (1.17)
8. The Flying Dutchman (Roud 1897; Laws K23) (2.46)
9. Get Up Jack, John Sit Down (Roud 2807) (3.35)
10. The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28) (4.13)
11. Immigration conditions (1.20)
12. Heave Away My Johnnies (Roud 616) (3.53)
13. Perils of transatlantic dalliance (0.47)
14. Maggie May (Roud 1757) (2.48)
15. Peter Street (Roud 1902; Laws K42) (4.22)
16. The Seamen's Hymn (1.29)

Sleeve Notes

The songs sung on board the packet ships can be roughly divided into the categories of shanty and forebitter. The shanty was a work song used exclusively to provide the rhythm for the crew working on deck or up in the rigging. Some jobs were long, slow and arduous but maintained an even rhythm. Here the shantyman would set the tempo with a fairly long shanty, usually telling a coherent story. The shantyman's art was a delicate one: he had to draw the line between the pace the men wanted to work and the speed the mate required.

The forebitters were sung in a more relaxed athmosphere, in off-duty hours in the crew's cramped quarters beneath the forecastle head. These were often popular ballads from the shore, and many would have been accompanied with fiddle, banjo or other portable instrument.

Our selection includes both kind of song, though the shanties are not sung exactly as they would have been rendered on deck. The sets have been chosen as both typical of the period and relevant to the conditions of the time.