Festival and Anthology recordings
The Essential Guide To Folk
2007 - Essential Guides ESGCD313 (3CD)
CD1: Roots
Spencer The Rover - Copper Family
Glory Of Love - Big Bill Broonzy
Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl
Heartbreak Hotel - Martin Carthy
Dr. O'Neill/The Battering Ram - Jimmy Power, Lucy Farr & Andy Boyle
Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
The Doffing Mistress - Anne Briggs
Tom Dooley - Sweeney's Men
Brownie's Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
3/4 AD - Davy Graham & Alexis Korner
Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk - Sheila Stewart
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? - Pete Seeger
The Patriot Game - Dominic Behan
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
Wild Colonial Boy - Margaret Barry
Irene (Goodnight Irene) - Leadbelly
CD2: Folk Rocks!
It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Bob Dylan
First Girl I Loved - Incredible String Band
Fog On The Tyne - Lindisfarne
Curragh Of Kildare - Finbar & Eddie Furey
The World Turned Upside Down - Dick Gaughan
The Old Man's Song - Ian Campbell Folk Group
Angie - Bert Jansch
The Female Drummer - Steeleye Span
Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway - Humblebums
Canadee-I-O - Nic Jones
Light Flight - Pentangle
Ralph McTell - Hesitation Blues
A Man's A Man For A'that - Five Hand Reel
The Cloud Factory - June Tabor
Mr. Fox - Mr. Fox
Banks Of The Clyde - Linda Thompson
Up To Now - Dransfield
CD3: New Routes
New Year Carol: Residue - Waterson/Carthy
Damn The Day - Pete Morton
Katie Cruel - Bert Jansch featuring Beth Orton & Devendra Banhart
Gypsy Maid - Tim Van Eyken
The Point Road - Shooglenifty
Barbara Allen - Cassie Franklin With Southern Brew
Draggle-Tail Gypsies-O - Benji Kirkpatrick
Innocent When You Dream - John Spiers & Jon Boden
Seafaring Man - Mouth Music
The L&N Don't Stop Here Any More - Kieron Means
Mohair - Eliza Carthy
Suonio-An Gille Donn/Vaskilinnun Valkerrus - Andrew Cronshaw & Sanna Kurki
The Lincolnshire Poacher - Dr Faustus
South Sea's - Oliver Knight
Auld Lang Syne - Salsa Celtica
Babes In The Wood - The Copper Family
Notes
When Cecil Sharp cycled around England in the early 1900s collecting old folk songs because he thought they'd soon be lost forever, and Texan John Lomax and his teenage son Alan trawled the southern states of America making field recordings of a buried tradition in the 1930s, they couldn't have imagined the treasure chests they were opening.
A new century finds us in a world of fast food, reality TV and instant celebrity, but the values of the music they, and others, uncovered are more precious than ever. Our 'Roots' CD1 features the artists and songs that laid the paving stones for the modern day folk stars. On 'Folk Rocks!' our CD2 reveals what started in the 1960s and continued beyond as young musicians strove to extend the reach of folk song, embracing rock styles and electric instruments and fusing the music with other genres in thrilling fashion. On CD3, 'New Routes' we show how the baton has been passed on and a new generation has emerged to preserve the tradition while taking folk music into ever more exciting new directions.