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Convicts and Currency Lads

Convicts and Currency Lads (Wattle B2)

Convicts and Currency Lads
A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl

Wattle B2 (7" EP, Australia, 1957)

Musicians

Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, vocals;
Peggy Seeger, guitar, banjo;
John Cole, harmonica or mouth organ

Tracks

  1. Black Velvet Band
  2. Euabalong Ball
  3. The Lime-Juice Tub
  4. Van Diemen's Land
  5. Jim Jones at Botany Bay

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The Banks of the Condamine and Other Bush Songs

The Banks of the Condamine (Wattle C4)

The Banks of the Condamine and Other Bush Songs
A.L. Lloyd

Wattle C4 (10" LP, Australia, 1957)

Cover photograph by courtesy of the Melbourne “Age”.

Musicians

A.L. Lloyd, vocals;
Peggy Seeger, guitar, banjo;
John Cole, mouth organ

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. A Thousand Miles Away (2.07)
  2. The Wild Colonial Boy (4.12)
  3. Flash Jack from Gundagai (1.55)
  4. The Banks of the Condamine (3.22)
  5. Brisbane Ladies (3.27)
  1. The Overlander (2.54)
  2. The Cockies of Bungaree (5.52)
  3. The Derby Ram (3.11)
  4. Bold Jack Donahue (3.48)

All tracks were reissued in 1960 on the Topic LP Outback Ballads and in 2008 on the Fellside A.L. Lloyd anthology Ten Thousand Miles Away. Tracks 5 and 7-9 are also on the Larrikin CD The Old Bush Songs.

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Across the Western Plains

Across the Western Plains (Wattle D1)

Across the Western Plains
A.L. Lloyd

Wattle D1 (LP, Australia, 1958)

A selection of Australian folk songs collected and presented by A.L. Lloyd.
Cover picture: Drovers on the stock route on the Old Man Plain near Hay, New South Wales. Photograph by Jeff Carter, 1968.

Musicians

A.L. Lloyd, vocals;
Peggy Seeger, banjo, guitar;
Ralph Rinzler, mandolin
John Cole, mouth organ

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Flash Stockman (2.27)
  2. Click Go the Shears (4.10)
  3. One of the Has-Beens (2.04)
  4. The Road to Gundagai (3.04)
  5. The Maryborough Miner (3.46)
  6. South Australia (3.48)
  1. Lachlan Tigers (2.05)
  2. The Shearer's Dream (3.39)
  3. Wallaby Stew (2.17)
  4. The Wild Rover (3.14)
  5. Bluey Brink (3.01)
  6. Across the Western Plains (4.13)

Tracks 1, 6-8 and 11 were reissued in 1960 on the Topic LP Outback Ballads and in 2008 on the Fellside A.L. Lloyd anthology Ten Thousand Miles Away. Tracks 7 and 11 are also on the Larrikin CD The Old Bush Songs.

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Outback Ballads

Outback Ballads (Topic 12T51)

Outback Ballads
Songs from the Australian Bush and Outback
A.L. Lloyd

Topic Records 12T51 (LP, UK, 1960)
Topic Records TSDL051 (digital download, UK, January 2010)

 Outback Ballads (Topic 12T51)

This is a compilation of songs from the Wattle albums The Banks of the Condamine and Other Bush Songs (1957) and Across the Western Plains (1958).

Musicians

A.L. Lloyd, vocals;
Peggy Seeger, guitar, banjo;
John Cole, harmonica;
Ralph Rinzler, mandolin

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. Flash Jack from Gundagai (1.55)
  2. Lachlan Tigers (2.29)
  3. The Cockies of Bungaree (5.52)
  4. South Australia (3.48)
  5. The Banks of the Condamine (3.22)
  6. Bluey Brink (3.10)
  7. The Overlander (2.54)
  1. A Thousand Miles Away (2.07)
  2. The Flash Stockman (2.27)
  3. The Wild Colonial Boy (4.12)
  4. Brisbane Ladies (3.27)
  5. Bold Jack Donahue (3.48)
  6. The Shearer's Dream (3.39)
  7. The Derby Ram (3.11)

Tracks 1-3, 6, 11-12 and 14 were reissued in 1994 on the Larrikin CD The Old Bush Songs. In 2008, the whole album was included in the A.L. Lloyd anthology Ten Thousand Miles Away.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alistair Banfield for the LP cover picture; thanks to Alistair Banfield, Richard Healy and Donald McPherson for the track lists.