FTX-229 - THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE

Songs of Political Point & Protest

Graeme Miles -9- Another selection from one of England's most outstanding song- makers. This album contains some of his best-known Protest Songs concerned with a wide variety of important issues: Conservation, Flood Defence, Nuclear Disarmament, Pollution, Railway Closures, Wild Life etc. The Teesside Fettlers, Liverpool Spinners, Vin Garbutt, Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger are among those who have performed Graeme's compositions.

1. DO YOU REMEMBER? (Railways, Iron Ships, Aeroplanes, Battlefield) (unacc) - (1960) - 1'20"

2. THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE (with banjo) - (CND 1963) - 4'19"

3. THE THREE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS (unacc) - 1'44"

4. I DREAMED IT EVERY DAY (with guitar) - (1956) - 2'51"

5. BEHIND THE CONCRETE FACE (unacc) - 1'37"

6. STRANGE TOWN (with banjo) - 3'32"

7. THE TRAGEDY OF CANVEY ISLAND 1953 (unacc) - 10'55"

8. THE MAN WHO TOOK THE TRAINS AWAY or DOCTOR BEECHING'S LONG AXE (with banjo) - 2'43"

9. SONG OF BELFAST (unacc) - (1973) - 2'02"

10. ALL IN A DREAM (with banjo) - (1962) - 1'51"

11. HURRAH FOR OUR HEROES (unacc) - 2'46"

12. TEMPUS HORO (with banjo & clock) - (1972) - 4'14"

13. THE CRYING CRAKES ARE CALLING (with guitar) - 4'31"

14. BADGER, OTTER AND FOX (unacc) - (1976) - 1'02"

15. BALLAD TO EVERYMAN (unacc & with banjo) - 3'16"

16. LAMENT TO THE DODO (unacc) - 1'22"

17. THE LETTER FROM IRELAND or SMOKE OVER BELFAST (unacc, with whistling & banjo) - 6'32"

Recorded & edited by Peter Kennedy & first published on Folktrax cassettes 1977.

GRAEME MILES first had his interest in folk music kindled by the "As I roved out" radio programmes in the fifties, introduced by Peter Kennedy & Seamus Ennis, when he was living at Billingham and attending West Hartlepool Art School. To obtain authentic background for his song-making, he worked as a moulder's labourer, deck-hand, railwayman, docker and quarryman.

Then in 1955 came National Service. mainly in Germany with the Royal West Kents, and, after demobilisation, the "Skiffle Craze" with guitars and banjo. In he mid 60's he was living and working in the Cleveland hills and it was then that he developed skills in shaping the more rural type of songs. Inspired then by the work of Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger, he became interested in writing songs for documentaries. Graeme has recorded more than 200 of his songs for FOLKTRAX:-

221 THE GREEN BANKS OF GRAIN - First album from the Teeside & Cleveland area, containing some of his best rural songs.

222 THE SMOKESTACK LAND - A Second album from the area, but containing rural, but also urban & industrial songs.

223 THE SEA'S THEIR BREAD - Songs & Shanties of Fisherfolk & Sailors

224 THE SQUADDIE'S DREAM - Soldier Songs: Conscripts, regulars, deserters etc.

225 THE IRONMASTERS - Miners, moulders, foundrymen & others.

226 THE ENTERTAINERS - Miscellaneous Songs & Contemporary Ballads.

227 HERE'S TO THE LADS - About all kinds of sport and play.

228 THE RING OF IRON - Outstanding songs of the local industries.

230 THE LYKE WAKE - More songs about the North Yorkshire moors.

231 THE WEALDEN FOLK - Songs about Kent, "the Garden of England".