FTX 425 - BONNY TYNESIDE

AN ANTHOLOGY OF NORTHUMBRIAN SONG

Star of the show must be the shepherd, Jimmy White, recorded shearing his sheep at Whittingham, who has equal fame at Folktrax for his dialect speech. Other singers are local farmers in the country supplemented with city concert singers: Fred Lawson with guitar and some of the most popular Tyneside songs and folklorist, Sylvia Moore, playing guitar accompanied by her Dutch husband, Bernard Broere on oboe and harpsichord.

1. THE CANNIE SHEPHERD LADDIES O' THE HILLS (John .S.Mowat) Jimmy White, Whittingham (talk before) - 5'20"

2. DANCE TO TH' DADDY Fred Lawson (with guitar) - 1'47"

3. POOR WEE JOHNNY CLARKE Bob Clarke, Powburn - 1'28"

4. THE CLAGGY DANDY John Dodd and his wife, Bellingham - 1'22"

5. NICKY TAMS Jimmy White (tb) - 4'15"

6. BAIRNIES CUDDLE DOON Adam Jackson, Wark (tb) - 3'48"

7. BONNY TYNESIDE (Robert Chatt of Wark) Fred Lawson (with gtr) - 2'52"

8. THE DOSIN' O' THE HOGS Adam Jackson (tb) - 3'17"

9. MA BONNY LAD Sylvia Moore (with African thumb piano) - 1'16"

10. JIM THE CARTER LAD Jack Goodfellow, Rennington (tb) - 3'49"

11. NEWCASTLE RACE WEEK (FL) Fred Lawson (with gtr) - 1'02"

12. THE DEVIL Jimmy White (tb) - 2'56"

13. CA' HAWKIE Sylvia Moore (with guitar) - 1'40"

14. LADS THAT WERE REARED AMONG HEATHER Adam Jackson (tb) - 3'12"

15. BONNY AT MORN Sylvia Moore (with sansa & oboe) - 2'30"

16. THE MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE Jimmy White (tb) - 3'22"

17. THE NEI'BOORS DOON BELAA Fred Lawson (with gtr) - 1'37"

18. THE WEST PERCY HUNT Jimmy White (tb) - 4'45"

19. THE FOLKS AT SHIELDS Fred Lawson (with gtr) - 2'16"

20. Talk by Jack Goodfellow (tb) - 3'49"

21. THE BONNY WEE WINDOW - 4'04"

22. THE BROWNDEAN LAWS Johnny Dodd (tb) - 4'43"

23. THE WATER IS WIDE (with harpsichord & gtr) Sylvia Moore - 2'54"

24. THE LAMBTON WORM Fred Lawson (with gtr) - 2'46"

Recorded and edited by Peter Kennedy 1954. First published Folktracks 2002.

FRED LAWSON was born 6 June 1914. He married Margaret Halcrow 9 June 1946
who still lives half a mile away in Cleadon Village. Fred worked for
Reyrolles 1940 until 1978. He continued to sing around the North East
until he was about 70. He died in 1996 aged 82.