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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 (Roud 2146)
  2. Euabalong Ball
  3. The Lime-Juice Tub
  4. Van Diemen's Land (Roud 519; Laws L18)
  5. Jim Jones at Botany Bay (Roud 5478)

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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 (Roud 8393) (2.07)
  2. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20) (4.12)
  3. Flash Jack from Gundagai (1.55)
  4. The Banks of the Condamine (Roud 8224) (3.22)
  5. Brisbane Ladies (Roud 21114) (3.27)
  1. The Overlander (Roud 9107) (2.54)
  2. The Cockies of Bungaree (Roud 20415) (5.52)
  3. The Derby Ram (Roud 126) (3.11)
  4. Bold Jack Donahue (Roud 611) (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.

Musicians

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

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Flash Stockman (Roud 22616) (2.27)
  2. Click Go the Shears (Roud 8398) (4.10)
  3. One of the Has-Beens (2.04)
  4. The Road to Gundagai (Roud 10209) (3.04)
  5. The Maryborough Miner (3.46)
  6. South Australia (Roud 325) (3.48)
  1. Lachlan Tigers (2.05)
  2. The Shearer's Dream (3.39)
  3. Wallaby Stew (Roud 8242) (2.17)
  4. The Wild Rover (Roud 1173) (3.14)
  5. Bluey Brink (Roud 3317) (3.01)
  6. Across the Western Plains (Roud 475) (4.13)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 Robert Stewart;
Track 8 Henry Lawson / A.L. Lloyd;
Track 9 Cecil Poole

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)
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 (Roud 20415) (5.52)
  4. South Australia (Roud 325) (3.48)
  5. The Banks of the Condamine (Roud 8224) (3.22)
  6. Bluey Brink (Roud 3317) (3.10)
  7. The Overlander (Roud 9107) (2.54)
  1. A Thousand Miles Away (Roud 8393) (2.07)
  2. The Flash Stockman (Roud 22616) (2.27)
  3. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20) (4.12)
  4. Brisbane Ladies (Roud 21114) (3.27)
  5. Bold Jack Donahue (Roud 611) (3.48)
  6. The Shearer's Dream (3.39)
  7. The Derby Ram (Roud 126) (3.11)

All tracks trad. except
Track 13 Henry Lawson / A.L. Lloyd

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 on 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.