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FTX-123 - HARD TIMES

THE TRADITIONAL ROOTS OF FOLK ROCK

The Beginnings of Folk Rock - 14 Folksongs of Britain and Ireland - the originals from unaccompanied country singers recorded on location - compared with extracts of the same songs commercially recorded and arranged (without acknowledgement of source) by Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span - includes Cadgwith Fishermen (Cornwall), Ron Copper (Sussex), Harry Cox (Norfolk), Elizabeth Cronin (Co Cork), Mary Doran (Irish tinker), Peter Jones (Gloucestershire Forest of Dean), John McLaverty (Belfast), Frank Quinn (Co Tyrone), Phil Tanner (Gower, S Wales), John Strachan (Aberdeenshire), The Symondsbury & Eype Christmas Mummers (Dorset) & Brigid Tunney (Co Fermanagh)
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The Symondsbury & Eype Christmas Mummers in 1954

THE KNIGHT ON THE ROAD - WHEN I WAS IN HORSEBACK - PRINCE CHARLIE STUART - GOWER WASSAIL - ROYAL FORESTER - SPOTTED COW - CADGWITH ANTHEM - WEE WEAVER - CAPTAIN COLSTON - LORD GREGORY - DOFFIN MISTRESS - SINGING OF THE TRAVELS - HOLLY AND THE IVY - HARD TIMES OF OLD ENGLAND

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