St Margarets, Manchester, April 30 

It was a scene that I'll cherish: Evan Parker standing outside the porch of St Margarets church looking for all the world like a priest of hip welcoming his flock, with chirruping birds adding to the bucolic charm. His flock, in this case, included the best improvisers from this generation and the one before, who had gathered under the banner of Mopomoso. This lovely parish church in the Manchester suburb of Whalley Range was the surreal venue of the last date of a national tour. 

The warm-up act, special to Manchester, were the Matt Wand Trio, comprising Wand himself, poised over a table-top of electronics like a boffin over his test-tubes, David Birchall, playing guitar in a refreshingly un-guitar-like way, and Richard Harrison, diamond hard on assorted percussion. It was the most convulsive and edgy music of the evening. Whatever else they were about, the Mopomoso musicians were not convulsive and edgy. Evan Parker, up next, has arrived via an unprecedentedly radical route to the stage of development that comes to great saxophonists in their maturity: he has become a fantastic balladeer, with a full, beautiful tone capable of conveying and inspiring deep emotion. This, without compromising any of the freshness and surprise of free jazz. John Edwards and John Russell provided a backdrop of strings: with Edwards' muscular bass giving momentum and propulsion to Russell's random scatterings and atonal scrapings on guitar. The music was more organic than chaotic, always with Evan Parker at the centre, still making discoveries and still inducing goosebumps with his circular fire-breathing. 

And that was only the first half in this feast of free, as rich in rampant creativity as Derek Bailey's Company gatherings, or those LMC weeks at Conway Hall I used to attend, or even the late lamented On the Outside festival in Newcastle. Clarinet and voice duo Alex Ward and Kay Grant embodied virtues supposedly banished from free jazz, such as subtlety, charm, and melodicism, weaving lines together in perfect tunefulness. The conventional classical maestro was consigned to the past by the string trio of Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor and David Leahy, who thrive on instant, instinctive composing. This approach is much more open to the moment, as when double bassist David Leahy, on guard against conventional string trio harmonies, suddenly let rip with a bass flurry, and set the violin and viola scampering like agitated tadpoles. 

After so much pure pleasure, it was left to Pat Thomas to restore the reputation of free jazz for searching rigour. He was 'inside' in more senses than one, leaning into the piano frame and plucking the bass strings of adjacent notes, creating a dissonant rumblings. Harsh? Difficult? Not when the search resulted in low register cascades that emulated the electronica of drum 'n' bass by pure acoustic means. 

All the musicians (barring Matt Wand's trio and John Edwards) came together for the finale, and the greater size of the aggregation, if anything, made the music slightly more structured and well-calibrated. It was string-driven, with violin, viola, guitar and string bass to the fore, with a wordless voice and a clarinet pitching in, and Pat Thomas, still buried under the piano-lid, adding to the texture with scrapers and wood-blocks. Above all, and in a different tonal register from anyone, Evan Parker was more lyrical than less fearsome. 

The awareness that this beauty was only of the moment, or perhaps, more prosaically, that it was the last night of the tour, made for an almost tearful parting. I left with a very full heart, ready to embrace everyone in sight, musician and patron alike. 

A package of seven - seven! - CDs from cutting-edge label Babel arrived for review the other morning. I shall try to honour my side of the contract, and endeavour to play them all and pass on my impressions… 

Eyes of a Blue Dog 

Rise 

(Babel) 

Eyes of a Blue Dog are Rory Simmons (trumpet/guitar/electrons), Terje Evensen (trumpet/electronics) and Elisabeth Nygard (voice). The off-the-wall exoticism recalls Bjork, but the playfulness and charm of the original, alas, is replaced by unappealing earnestness which could become known as Eyes-of-a-Blue-Dogmatism. 

ACV

Busk 

(Babel) 

ACV take some of the uglier features of fusion - the shrill guitar, disassociated funk rhythms etc - rein in the excesses and somehow rearrange into beguiling shapes and novel structures. They turn on a hair between rarified and pell-mell and constantly dash the listeners' expectations. Bassist Andy Champion is a musical magpie and innovator all at once. His compositions - he wrote all but one of the compositions - are unpredictable and oddly beguiling. Those who only know Chris Sharkey through his work with trioVD may be surprised at the restraint of his production here. I shall be replaying to this one. 

Human 

Being Human 

(Babel) 

Tracks 2 and 4 ('Being Human' and 'I Am A Planet'} are credited as group improvisations, whereas the other four tracks are compositions by drummer Stephen Davis. It says much for the spontaneity and freshness of the playing that you can't tell them apart. The album rests on the chalk and cheese qualities of the violin and trumpet combination, as performed by Dylan Bates and Alex Bonney respectively. Pianist Alexander Hawkins surrenders his virtuosity to the demands of the free. I was reminded of the New York Eye and Ear Control experimentalism of Albert Ayler. Fifty years on, we might almost be ready for it. 

Tatterdemalion 

Tatterdemalion 

(Babel) 

Tatterdemalion are a trio comprising Rachel Musson on saxophone, Liam Noble on keyboards (more electric and electronica than acoustic piano) and Mark Sanders on drums. All the tunes are completely improvised, played with the authority of experienced spontaneous composers. Not for Tatterdemalion the reticence of the polite and green free jazzer: the "I'm not ready for this yet" approach that has given British free such a bad name. Some exploratory noodling is inescapable in these conditions, but what there is is soon jettisoned in favour of full force blowing. Musson's convulsive sax and Sanders' galvanic pulsing, not to mention Noble's twittering eccentric keys, are as exciting as free jazz gets.  

Bruno Heinen Sextet 

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tierkreis 

(Babel) 

Not what I was expecting. Mention of the name Karlheinz Stockhausen is apt to give rise to mixed feelings. The heart leaps at the thought of all those expanding boundaries, and simultaneously sinks at what this might entail in practise. In fact, Tiekreis contains some of the most accessible and attractive music in this batch of Babel. It starts with a beautiful solo piano piece,'Aries', and proceeds with the positively groovy 'Taurus', where the oblique melody is adorned with gospel cadences, with distant echoes of township jazz. Things began tinkly, and get even more tinkly by the end, but there is a rational explanation: Stockhausen's Tierkreis was originally composed for twelve musical boxes. These tunes, based on tone rows and named after the signs of the Zodiac, have been variously re-arranged and re-harmonised by Bruno Heinen for combinations of his Sextet, notably Fulvio Sigurta on trumpet and Tom Challenger on tenor sax. 'Virgo' is Sigurta's set-piece, and this distillation to the essence of trumpet, piano and music-box sores on both sensitivity and economy. Challenger most obviously affirms traditional jazz values, and 'Gemini' is as lush and moody as anything by Stan Getz: 'Scorpio' even manages to fit a Blue Note square into a Stockhausen circle. Overall, Tiekreis points the way out of the cul-de-sac of head-solo-solo-head of jazz orthodoxy. The tunes might have been composed according to a rigid theory but they supply rich emotional fuel for these great players: I might also mention James Allopp on bass clarinet, Andrea Di Biase on bass and Jon Scott on drums, who gets to duet with a music-box on 'Libra'. 

Lacuna 

Talk on the Step 

(Babel) 

A fresh sound in the whole, comprised of fresh individual voices such as Steve Waterman's trumpet, which sometimes evokes Miles but also casts back to the burnished grace of Clifford Brown, and mult-instrumentalist Les Goodall, delightfully flitting in a jazzy way on flute and more imploring on alto. The language is bop in essence but some subtle de-contextualism is going on by Dan Messore, who brings a flamenco tinge with his compositions and languid, liquid guitar. At times the interaction errs on the cluttered, as in the ensemble bits of 'Mariposa', the opening track, but then the music calms and opens up to space and light (one of the best pieces is called 'A Bit of Light', shows musicians A joy, and not difficult either. Aidan Thorne and Ollie Howell are a rhythm team (bass and drums respectively) in full command of their powers. 

Vole 

The Hillside Mechanisms 

(Babel) 

Trumpet, drums and guitar trio (Roland Ramanan, Roberto Sassi and Javier Carmona respectively) Vole operate in the two accepted jazz modes - improvisation and composition. Practically, this breaks down into 1) urgent scrabbling in a sub-trioVD style, and 2) self-conscious squeaking and blurting. Or both at once, as when a hesitant squeak provokes a violent reaction with a drum volley and screams.  This gives a bit of a stop-start quality to proceedings, until Vole finally settle for an atmospheric soundscape that expands and expands. Alas, the free and the structured cancel each other out and the atmospheric drift just drags. This kind of viscera tends to work better in the flesh anyway.

Mike Butler 

www.babellabel.co.uk 

Sun Radar EP 

(ELECTRIC BRASS RECORDS) www.electricbrass.com 

Freedom is a word whose meaning changes depending on the context. In the musical sense, 'free' is applied to an open-ended kind of improvised jazz, where musicians play without foreknowledge, without the safety-net of strict time or pre-set chord changes. In the political sense, it means a state of liberty, where the citizen is unbound by rules. A few potent pop songs from the sixties evoke that sense of living without limits which is the promise of freedom. I might mention 'Georgy Girl' by the Seekers, 'Ticket to Ride' by the Beatles and 'Summer Holiday' by Cliff Richard.

Spaceheads, the duo comprised of Andy Diagram and Richard Harrison, are very much part of the international free jazz  community, yet their stuff is very structured, bound by the technology of loops and harmonisers and effects that transforms Diagram's single trumpet into a complete orchestra. And Harrison is the funkiest of all improvising drummers, as much Pretty Purdie as Andrew Cyrille. Sun Radar, the title-track of this 4-track EP, is Bonkers Blaxploitation with gurgling electronica taking the role of wah-wah guitar. The funk of 'Atomic Clock' is urgent and implacable with a touch of dread. So far, so Spaceheads. 

But I was really hooked by 'Miles to Go', where Harrison's hammering tirade is allied to a melody that could be Neal Hefti or Burt Bacharach. In other words, a throwback to the limitless promise of the sixties, as in definition three above. The fourth cut 'North of the Border' uses drifting chords and echoing beats to set up a sense of expectation, which it then realises with a tune of, well, words are inadequate to describe… Ninja triumphalism? (It sounds vaguely oriental anyway.) In short, it's fab! 

I love the playfulness of Spaceheads, the way they integrate pop culture into their artful constructions (lots of wide-screen cinema on this one) and the way the transcend the clatter and clutter with the direct simplicity of melody. I love them for the unabashed sense of pleasure they communicate. Their longevity (Diagram has quit and rejoined James a few times during their lifespan) means that the technology they use has passed from novelty to common currency. It doesn't matter; it's what they do with it. Spaceheads, a small and flexible unit, delineate the possibilities of trumpet, percussion and electronica with an endless, inexhaustible imagination. 

And could the title, Sun Radar be a nod to the gentle genius of avant-garde jazz? Almost certainly. The EP comes in vinyl and CD format; I would plump for the 180 gram sonic majesty of the former.    

Mike Butler 

Unfurl 

Arcadia  

(LOVE LABEL RECORDS) www.unfurl.me.uk 

Supple bass, slinky violin, intricate jazz guitar, deployed on uncommonly melodic tunes, with the added exoticism of a tabla. The beauty of Unfurl is the way in which the band creates a distinct identity from diverse cultural reference-points. Sometimes Olivia Moore's violin promises full gypsy abandonment, or, alternately, it may adopt a keening eastern tone.  It's characteristic quality is elegance, manifest in the plangent tenderness of tunes like her own 'Other'. Guitarist Jim Faulkner provides counterpoint with diamond lines and fluid licks, and the rhythm team - Gavin Barras on upright bass, Adam Warne on percussion and John Ball on tabla and santoor - provide a luxurious backdrop to the chief soloists. As we all know, the charms of Arcadia are rarified and refined. It may be that the desire to retreat to Arcadia is pure musical escapism, and the memory of Arcadia is as nebulous as a dream. But, hey, it's vasty enjoyable while it lasts. 

Mike Butler  

Band on the Wall, Manchester, March 15, 2013 

Good music is not enough: Gilad Atzmon has always favoured high concepts to help convey his message. This gets him into trouble when the high concepts are overtly political. Atzmon must be the only jazzman whose merchandise contains the last half dozen CDs and a book of polemic entitled The Wandering Who? "Stick to the music," has been the refrain of conservatives since the radical anti-Zionist arrived from Israel in 1994. Except that his world view is evident in every note of the music: variously etched with white-hot passion or withering scorn and brimming with controlled anger or raucous glee. 

His latest CD, Songs of the Metropolis, contains pieces inspired by cities and locales. What could be more harmless? 

The focus here is on his composing as much as his playing. 'Moscow' is an iron romance held together by rolling Borodin chords, shifting between severity and prettiness, and 'Berlin' invokes the shade of Kurt Weil with a spot of Weimar-style decadence. 'Tel Aviv' begins with an urgent clamour before the soprano digs into some deep blues, coloured by Arab modes, and rapidly gains in intensity. The power and bite of Atzmon full-on is breathtaking. A mighty handful, indeed. 

If the records are powerful, they only hint at the unfettered force of Atzmon in the flesh. But raw emotion is always mitigated by tenderness, by his gift for melody and an awareness of light and shade. 'Burning Bush', a statement of raw anger, is thrown into relief by the interruption of a plaintive 'Nature Boy'. The decidedly non-metropolitan 'Scarborough' was approached from an oblique angle - Atzmon placed the bell of his horn in the interior of the piano, and produced serpentine coils from which the simple beauty of 'Scarborough Fair' emerged. The pace accelerated and the beloved folk song was subjected to a modal work-out, à la 'My Favourite Things'.  

The closest he came to orthodox jazz was an elegant 'Autumn in New York' (maintaining the geographic theme), which managed the trick of being virtuoso, lyrical and straightahead all at once. 

Actually all the guys in the band disconnected, and were only reluctantly dragged into proceedings when Atzmon summoned them by name. This, I hasten to add, only during Atzmon's sardonically comic introductions. Musically, they were splendid. The youthful Eddie Hick, plucked from Leeds College of Music with the tough task of following Asaf Sirkis, confidently functioned at the twin extremes of finesse and aggression. Yaron Stavi is a bassist who plays in tune (a basic requirement, but harder to fulfil than might be expected), centres the beat with stable precision and adds depth when wielding a bow. Best of all was pianist Frank Harrison. Atzmon and Harrison reaffirmed demonstrated their affinity by recently touring as a duo, and twice the other musicians dropped out for piano and horn to push the music into fresh realms of harmonious abstraction. 

And the book? The Wandering Who? is subtitled 'A Study of Jewish Identity Politics' and it's intellectual bona fides are endorsed by James Petras and Karl Sabbagh on the back cover. The suspicion lingers however, that the last word on Jewish identity in politics and culture might have been provided by Atzmon's rendering of 'Nature Boy' earlier in the evening. 

∆ - producer

∂ - co-producer

Ω - recording engineer 

ø - assisted at session(s) 

† - collections with Bill Leader-produced tracks 

∑ - executive capacity
≠ - supervisory capacity 

◊ - misattribution 

(Discs in the Discography are 12” LPs, unless otherwise stated.) 

1956 

RLP 12-618 A. L. Lloyd, English Drinking Songs [Riverside, US]  Ω ∆ 

TRC98 Jack Elliott, Talking Miner Blues b/w Pretty Boy Floyd [Topic, 10” 78] ø 

TRC99 Margaret Barry, The Blarney Stone b/w If You Ever Go Over to Ireland [Topic, 10” 78] Ω ∆

TRC100 John Hasted, The Bridge Below the Town b/w Al Jeffery and Ted Andrews Keep Talking [Topic, 10” 78] Ω ∆ 

TRC101 Hylda Sims & the City Ramblers, Round and Round the Picket Line b/w Nine Hundred Miles [Topic, 10” 78] Ω/∆ 

1957 

TRC103 Jack Elliott, Old Blue b/w Rambling Blues [Topic, 10” 78] ø

TRC104 Jack Elliott, Streets of Laredo b/w Boll Weevil [Topic, 10” 78] ø 

TRC105 Wendy Corum with Elsie Bracher, Villikins and His Dinah b/w Wendy Corum with John Hasted, The Coachman [Topic, 10” 78] Ω ∆ 

T7 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Row, Bullies, Row [Topic, 8" LP] ≠




T8 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, The Black Ball Line [Topic, 8" LP] ≠

RLP 12-642 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, Bless 'Em All & Other British Army Songs [Riverside, USA] Ω †

1958 

TRC106 Alex Eaton with John Hasted, The Collier’s Rant b/w The Row Between the Cages [Topic, 10” 78] Ω ∆ 

TRC107 Peggy Seeger, Freight Train b/w Cumberland Gap [Topic, 10” 78] Ω ∆



12T16 Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, Chorus From the Gallows [Topic] Ω ∆ 

10T17 Paul Robeson (w Winifred Harrison), Paul Robeson's Transatlantic Concert [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆ (A side only) 

10T21 Zimra Ornatt w Leon Rosselson, Israeli Songs [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆







10T26 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, Barrack Room Ballads [Topic, 10” LP] Ω †

TOP27 Stan Kelly w Leon Rosselson and Geoff Rose, Liverpool Packet [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆  

10T28 Dominic Behan w John Hasted, Irish Songs Recalled [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆



RLP 12-652 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Champions & Sporting Blades: British Songs of Sporting and Gambling [Riverside, US LP] Ω

1959 

10T36 Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd w Steve Benbow, Peggy Seeger & John Cole,  Bold Sportsmen All [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆

10T49 Pieris Zarmas w Margaret Humphreys & Peter Ramm, Songs From the Aegean [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆

1960

10T50 Ewan MacColl & Isla Cameron, And Still I Love Him [Topic, 10" LP] Ω






TOP56 Perry Friedman, Vive La Canadienne [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ 

1961 







TOP60 Stan Kelly, Songs for Swinging Landlords To [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

TOP64 The Tine Rozanc Ensemble, Yugoslav Dances [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ 

TOP66 A.L. Lloyd, All For Me Grog [Topic, EP] Ω

1962 




TOP67 Ray & Archie Fisher, Far Over the Forth [Topic, EP] Ω ∆

TOP68 Dolina MacLennan & Robin Gray, By Mormond Braes [Topic, EP] Ω ∆



TOP69 The Liverpool Spinners, Songs Spun in Liverpool (Live) [Topic, 7" EP] Ω ∆

TOP70 Davy Graham & Alexis Korner, 3/4 AD [Topic, 7" EP] Ω ∆

TOP74 Louis Killen Johnny Handle w Colin Ross, The Collier’s Rant [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ 

TOP75 Louis Killen Johnny Handle w Colin Ross, Northumbrian Garland [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

TOP76 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Ceilidh at the Crown [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

TOP77 Leon Rosselson, Songs for City Squares [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

TOP78 Johnny Handle, Stottin Doon the Waall [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ 

TOP82 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Songs of Protest [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

TOP83 Bob Davenport and The Rakes, Wor Geordie [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ 

TRA 106 Sydney Carter & Sheila Hancock, Putting Out the Dustbin [Transatlantic] ø

TRA 108 Cy Grant, Folk Songs & Cool Songs [Transatlantic] ø

TRA EP 114 Adrian Mitchell, Poems [Transatlantic EP] Ω ∆ 

1963

TOP89 Margaret Barry, Willie Clancy, Michael Gorman, Irish Pipe and Fiddle Tunes [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∂

TOP92 The McPeake Family, Wild Mountain Thyme [Topic, 7" EP] Ω ∆ 

12T93 Jack Elliott,  Talking Woody Guthrie [Topic] ∆

12T96 Jeannie Robertson, The Great Scots Traditional Ballad Singer [Topic] Ω ∆

TOP97 Judith Silver, The Summertime is Over [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆





TOP101 Dominic Behan, Dominic Takes the Floor [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

F.11618 Sheila Hancock, My Last Cigarette b/w Landlord and Tenant [Decca, 45] Ω ∂

TRA 107 Annie Ross & Tony Kinsey, Loguerhythms: Songs From The Establishment  [Transatlantic] ø

TRA EP 112 Annie Ross & Tony Kinsey, Go to the Wall [Transatlantic EP] ø

LK 4546 Various: Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol.1 [Decca] Ω

1964 

TRA 110 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, This Is The Ian Campbell Folk Group [Transatlantic] ∂

LK 4563 Various: Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol.2 [Decca] Ω



TOP112 The Tine Rozanc Ensemble, Macedonian & Albanian Dances [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆

12T110 Various: Farewell Nancy [Topic] Ω/∆

TRA 116 The Dubliners, The Dubliners [Transatlantic] Ω



SP 1 The Dubliners, The Wild Rover b/w Rocky Road to Dublin [Transatlantic 45] Ω

TRA 117 Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, Red Hot From Alex [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

TRA 118 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Across the Hills  [Transatlantic] ≠

TRA 120 Leon Rosselson, Vote For Us [Transatlantic] Ω

LK 4633 Various: Irish Folk Night [Decca] ∆ 

12T113 Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger, Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? [Topic] Ω ∆

EKL 295 Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger, Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? [Elektra, US issue of 12T113] Ω ∆

TPS114 Various: Topic Sampler No.1 Folk Songs - An Anthology [Topic] † 

1965 

12T117 Hedy West, Old Times & Hard Times [Topic] Ω ∆

TRA 111 Jean Hart, My Name Is Jean Hart And I Sing [Transatlantic] ø

[Record No.1] Billy Cooper, Walter Bulwer, Reg Hall, Daisy Bulwer, Mervyn Plunkett, Russell Wortley English Country Music [private pressing] Ω


LK 4683 Various: Folk Now [Decca] † 

TRA 125 Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch [Transatlantic] Ω ∆ 

12T120 The Campbell Family, The Singing Campbells [Topic] Ω ∆

12T122 Lou Killen, Tom Gilfellon, Johnny Handle, Maureen Craik, Colin Ross, Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T123 Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman, Her Mantle So Green [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T125 Harry Boardman, Maureen Craik, The Waterson Family, New Voices  [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T126 Louis Killen, Ballads and Broadsides [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T128 Archie Fisher, Ray Fisher, Robin Gray, Enoch Kent, Dolina MacLennan, Bonny Lass Come O’er the Burn [Topic] Ω ∆




12T130 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, Bundook Ballads [Topic, expanded reiss. of 10T26] Ω †

12T133 Gordeanna McCulloch, Norman Kennedy, The Exiles, New Voices from Scotland [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T134 Jesse Fuller, Move On Down the Line [Topic] ø (side 1 only)




1966

12T136 The Watersons, Frost and Fire [Topic] Ω ∆

12T142 The Watersons, The Watersons [Topic] Ω ∆

TRA 142 The Young Tradition, The Young Tradition [Transatlantic] Ω

VRS 9246/VSD-79246 The Young Tradition, The Young Tradition (Vanguard, US issue) Ω

TRA 143 Bert Jansch, Jack Orion [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

12T146 Hedy West, Pretty Saro [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T147 Ewan MacColl, The Manchester Angel [Topic] Ω ∆

12T151 Isabel Sutherland, Vagrant Songs of Scotland [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T153 Paddy Tunney, Arthur Kearney, Frank Kelly, Joe Tunney, Ireland Her Own [Topic] Ω ∆ 

BY 6029 Leon Rosselson, Songs for Sceptical Circles [Bounty] Ω ∆ 

TRA EP 109 Isla Cameron, Lost Love [Transatlantic, 7" EP] ø

12T165 Paddy Tunney, The Irish Edge [Topic] Ω ∆

TPS166 Various: Topic Sampler No.3 Men At Work [Topic] † 

12T167 The Watersons, A Yorkshire Garland [Topic] Ω ∆

TPS 168 Various: Topic Sampler No.4 From Erin’s Green Shore [Topic] † 




TRA SP 7 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Guantanamera b/w Mary Anne [Transatlantic, 7”] ∂

TRA 144 Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, Bert and John [Transatlantic] Ω ∆ 

TRA 149 John Renbourn, Another Monday [Transatlantic]  Ω

TRA EP 145 Bert Jansch, Needle of Death [Transatlantic, 7" EP] †



TRA EP 146 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Four Highland Songs [Transatlantic, 7” EP] ∂

XTRA 1042 Tony Britton & Isla Cameron, Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living [Xtra, reissue] ø

XTRA 1047 Various: The Mike Raven Blues Show [Xtra] ≠

XTRA 1049 Annie Ross, With the Tony Kinsey Quartet [Xtra] ø

WLP 711 Ewan MacColl, British Army Songs [Washington, USA, reiss. of RLP 12-642] Ω †

1967 






233 003 Jimmy Power, Irish Dances [Clan] Ω

BY 604 Jimmy Power, Irish Dances [Bounty, reiss. of Clan 233 003] Ω

TRA EP 166  The Young Tradition, Chicken On a Raft [Transatlantic EP] Ω ∆

12T164 The Exiles, The Hale & The Hanged [Topic] Ω ∆ 

TRA 154 Dave & Toni Arthur, Morning Stands on Tiptoe [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

TRA 155 The Young Tradition, So Cheerfully Round [Transatlantic] Ω

TRA 159 The Glenside Ceili Band, All-Ireland Champions, Fleadh Ceoil, 1966 [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 160 The Grehan Sisters, On the Galtymore Mountains  [Transatlantic] Ω

TRA SP 14 The Grehan Sisters, Save the Old Home b/w Victoria [Transatlantic, 45] Ω



7N 17251 The Tinkers, Carrickfergus b/w Sean South (of Garryowen) [Pye, 45] ø

12T170 Shirley Collins, The Sweet Primeroses [Topic] Ω ∆

12T172 Frank Harte, Dublin Street Songs [Topic] Ω ∆

BY-6030 Dave Swarbrick, Rags, Reels & Airs [Bounty] Ω

XTRA 1058 Frank Shaw & Dick Williams, Gospels in Scouse [Xtra] Ω ∆ 

BIG 103 Ian Campbell Folk Group, Private Harold Harris b/w Lover Let Me In [Big T 45] ∆

12T175 Willie Clancy, The Minstrel From Clare [Topic] Ω ∆

1968 

XTRA 1056 John Pearse, John Pearse [Xtra] Ω ∆

XTRA 1061 Ian & Lorna Campbell, The Cock Doth Craw [Xtra] ∆

12T176 Various: Paddy in the Smoke [Topic] Ω

12T177 Seán Mac Donnchadha, Pádraic Catháin, Tomás O Neachtain Feichín O Connluain, Grand Airs of Connemara [Topic] Ω ∆ 

XTRA 1060 Peter Bellamy, Mainly Norfolk [Xtra] Ω ∆

12T179 The Stewart Family, The Travelling Stewarts [Topic] Ω ∆ 

XTRA 1070 Archie Fisher, Archie Fisher [Xtra] ∆ 

TRA SP 20 The Grehan Sisters, Cricklewood b/w God Save Ireland [Transatlantic, 45] Ω

TRA SAM 1 Various: Here’s to the Irish Vol.1 [Transatlantic] †

12T180 Various: Back O’ Benachie - Songs and Ballads from the Lowlands of Scotland [Topic] Ω ∆

12T183 Willie Scott, The Shepherd’s Song [Topic] Ω ∆

12T184 Various: The Breeze From Erin [Topic] Ω ∆

12T186 The High Level Ranters, Northumberland For Ever [Topic] Ω ∆

TRA SP 18 Matt McGinn, I Have Seen the Highlands b/w I’ll Be Coming Home to Glasgow [Transatlantic 45] Ω ∆   

XTRA 1073 Watt Nicoll, Watt is a Four Letter Word [Xtra] Ω ∆

SFL 13061 Roy & Val Bailey w Leon Rosselson, Oats & Beans & Kangaroos [Fontana] ∆

SFJL 971 The Dundonald, Scots Wha Hae Nae [Fontana] Ω ∆

TRA 168 Finbar & Eddie Furey, Finbar & Eddie Furey [Transatlantic] ∆ 

TRA 170 Sweeney’s Men, Sweeney’s Men [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 171 Adrian Mitchell & Leon Rosselson, A Laugh, A Song and a Hand-Grenade [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

SFXL55 Various: The Big Folk [Fontana] †

TRA 172 The Young Tradition, Galleries [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 175 Gordon Giltrap, Gordon Giltrap [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

12T188 Harry Boardman, Harvey Kershaw, The Oldham Tinkers, Mike Harding, Pete Smith, Lea Nicholson, Deep Lancashire [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T189 Louis Killen, Johnny Handle & Colin Ross, Along the Coaly Tyne [Topic] Ω ∆

12T190 Dave & Toni Arthur, The Lark in the Morning [Topic] Ω

1969 

TRA SP 19 Sweeney’s Men, Sullivan’s John b/w Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willy [Transatlantic 45]∆ 

12T185 Lizzie Higgins, Princess of the Thistle [Topic] Ω ∆

12T191 The Batish Family, North Indian Folk and Classical Music [Topic] ∆

12T192 The Valley Folk, All Bells in Paradise [Topic] Ω ∆ 

XTRA 1075 Peter Bellamy, Fair England’s Shore [Xtra] Ω ∆

XTRA 1077 Finbar Furey, Traditional Irish Pipe Music [Xtra] ∆

XTRA 1076 Stan Kelly,  Oh Liverpool We Love You [Xtra] Ω ∆

XTRA 1078 Matt McGinn, Little Ticks of Time [Xtra] ∆ ◊

TRA SAM 4 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Sampler [Transatlantic] †



TRA SAM 5 Various: The Milke Raven Blues Sampler [Transatlantic] ≠

SING 1001 Terry Gould, Several Kinds of Loving [Sing] ∆

XTRA 1084 Don Bilston, Farewell to Steam [Xtra] Ω ∆ 

TRA 186 The Humblebums, First Collection of Merry Melodies [Transatlantic] ∆

BIG 122 The Humblebums, Saturday Roundabout Sunday b/w Bed of Mossy Green [Big T 45] ∆ 

XTRA 1094 Hamish Imlach, Ballads of Booze [Xtra] ∆

TRA 191 Finbar & Eddie Furey, The Lonesome Boatman [Transatlantic] ∆ 

TRA 202 Gordon Giltrap, Portrait [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

H-2016 The Westland Steel Band, The Sound of the Sun [Nonesuch] ∆

TRA SAM 7 Alexis Korner’s All Stars, Blues Incorporated [Transatlantic] (reissue of TRA 117) Ω/∆ 

TRA SAM 10 Bert Jansch, The Bert Jansch Sampler [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 11 Various: Here’s to the Irish Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 12 Ian Campbell Folk Group, Sampler Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 13 The Young Tradition, Sampler [Transatlantic] (contains the whole of TRAEP 164) Ω

TRA SAM 14 Various: The Contemporary Guitar Sampler Vol.1 [Transatlantic] †

LEA 4001 Jack Elliott, Jack Elliott of Birtley [Leader] ∆

LER 3002 Archie Fisher and Barbara Dickson, The Fate O’ Charlie [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2007 The High Level Ranters, The Lads of Northumbria [Trailer] Ω ∆

LEA 2003 Seamus Ennis, Seamus Ennis [Leader] Ω ∆

LEA 2004 Martin Byrnes, Martin Byrnes [Leader] Ω ∂

TRA 200 Sweeney’s Men, The Tracks of Sweeney [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 201 The Humblebums, The New Humblebums [Transatlantic] ∆ 

BIG 127 The Humblebums, Coconut Tree b/w Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway [Big T 45] ∆ 

1970 

TRA SAM 15 Various: The Contemporary Guitar Sampler Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 17 Various: The Great Scots Sampler Vol.1 [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 20 John Renbourn, Sampler [Transatlantic] †

LEA 2005 Seamus Tansey, Seamus Tansey [Leader] Ω ∂

LEA 4006 Billy Pigg, The Border Minstrel [Leader] Ω ∆

LER 3008 Bob Davenport and the Marsden Rattlers, Bob Davenport and the Marsden Rattlers [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2009 Martyn Wyndham-Read, Ned Kelly & That Gang [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2011 Robin and Barry Dransfield, The Rout of the Blues [Trailer] Ω ∆ 

LER 1 Dave and Toni Arthur, Bushes and Briars b/w Laszlo Feher [Trailer, 45] Ω ∆

TRA SP 21 Stan Kelly,  Ballad of Armagh Jail b/w Kelly From Killane [Transatlantic, 45] ◊

 2870 314 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, This Is The Ian Campbell Folk Group[Contour] (reissue of TRA 110) ø

TRA 218 The Humblebums, Open Up The Door [Transatlantic] ∆

BIG 130 The Humblebums, Shoeshine Boy b/w My Apartment [Big T 45] ∆

TRA 223 Stefan Grossman, The Ragtime Cowboy Jew [2 LP, Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 224 John Renbourn, The Lady and the Unicorn [Transatlantic] ∆

RS 6407 John Renbourn, The Lady and the Unicorn [Reprise] ∆ (US issue) 

TRA 226 Mr Fox, Mr Fox [Transatlantic] ∆

BIG 135 Mr Fox, Little Woman b/w Join Us in Our Game [Big T 45] ∆ 

RS 6430  Pentangle, Cruel Sister [Reprise] ∆ (US issue)

LEA 4012 Various: Blue Ridge Mountain Field Trip [Leader] ∑

LER 2013 Tony Rose, Young Hunting [Trailer] Ω ∆ 

LER 2014 Nic Jones, Ballads and Songs [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2020 The High Level Ranters, Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie [Trailer] Ω ∆ 

LER 2019 Various: The Folk Trailer [Trailer] Ω ∆ 

1971 

LER 3016 Bob & Carole Pegg, He Came From the Mountains [Trailer] Ω ∆

TPS201 Various: Topic Sampler No.6 Ballads & Broadsides [Topic] † (8/12)

12T202 Seán Mac Donnchadha, Pádraic Catháin, Tomás O Neachtain, Feichín O Connluain, More Grand Airs From Connemara [Topic] Ω ∆ 

TPS205 Various: Topic Sampler No.7 Sea Songs & Shanties [Topic] † 

TRA 236 Mr Fox, The Gypsy [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 240 Pentangle, Reflection [Transatlantic] ∆

TRA 247 John Renbourn, Faro Annie [Transatlantic] ∆ 

TRA 235 Bert Jansch, Rosemary Lane [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

ILPS 9153 Tír Na nÓg, Tír Na nÓg [Chrysalis] ∆

LER 3015 Leon Rosselson with Martin Carthy & Roy Bailey, The Word is Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga
Humbugga Boom Chit [Trailer] ∑ 

XTRA 1121 Hamish Imlach, Old Rarity [Xtra] ∆   

LER 2017 Dave and Toni Arthur, Hearken to the Witches Rune [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3018 Rosemary Hardman & Bob Axford, Second Season Came [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3021 Roy Bailey, Roy Bailey [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3022 Aly Bain & Mike Whellans, Aly Bain - Mike Whellans [Trailer] Ω/∆

LER 2024 Tony Rose, Under the Greenwood Tree [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2025 Pisces, Pisces [Trailer] ∑

LER 2026 Robin and Barry Dransfield, Lord Of All I Behold [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2027 Nic Jones, Nic Jones [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2028 Martyn Wyndham-Read, Martyn Wyndham-Read [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2029 Dave Burland, A Dalesman’s Litany [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2030 The High Level Ranters, High Level [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3010 Lea Nicholson, Horsemusic [Trailer] Ω ∆

LEAB 404 The Copper Family, A Song For Every Season [Trailer, box set] Ω ∆

LED 2067 The Copper Family, A Song For Every Season [Trailer, sampler] Ω ∆

IDLP-1-1/1-2 Various: El Pea [2 LP, Island] † 

1972 

LER 2023 Derek & Dorothy Elliott, Derek & Dorothy Elliott [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3031 Keith Roberts, Pier of the Realm [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3032 Swan Arcade, Swan Arcade [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2033 John Kirkpatrick, Jump at the Sun [Trailer] Ω ∆

LEA 4040 Tex Isley, Ray Craig & The North Carolina Ramblers North Carolina Boys [Leader] ∑

LEA 4041 Charlie Wills, Charlie Wills [Leader] Ω ∆

LEA 4042 George Dunn, George Dunn [Leader] Ω ∆

LEA 2043 John Doonan, Flute for the Feis [Leader] Ω ∆

2383 160  Barry Dransfield, Barry Dransfield [Polydor] Ω 

LEA 4050 Joseph Taylor, Unto Brigg Fair [Leader] ∑

LER 2038 Ray Fisher, The Bonny Bird [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2039 Mike Harding, A Lancashire Lad [Trailer] Ω ∆

TRA SAM 23 Pentangle, History Book [Transatlantic] † 

LER 2072 Dick Gaughan, No More Forever [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2073 Al O’Donnell, Al O’Donnell [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2074 Alistair Anderson, Plays English Concertina [Trailer] Ω ∂

LER 2075 Rosie Hardman, Firebird [Trailer] Ω ∆

LES 2076 Mike and Lal Waterson, Bright Phoebus [Trailer] ∆

BIG 507 Mike & Lal Waterson, Rubber Band b/w Red Wine & Promises [Transatlantic 45] ∆ 

LER 2078 Vin Garbutt, The Valley of Tees [Trailer] Ω ∆

TRA/SAD 18/19 Various: Heads & Tales [2 LP, Transatlantic] †

LER 2082 Dave Burland, Dave Burland [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3034 Roger Nicholson, Nonesuch for Dulcimer [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 3035 Christy Moore, Prosperous [Trailer] Ω ∆




TARA 1000 Christy Moore, Prosperous [Tara Records, Irish issue] Ω ∆

LER 3036 Tim Lyons, The Green Linnet [Trailer] Ω ∆

TRA SAM 27 Bert Jansch, Box of Love: Sampler Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

1973 

TRA SAM 28 John Renbourn, So Clear: Sampler Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 29 Pentangle, Pentangling [Transatlantic] †

TRA SAM 30 The Young Tradition, Galleries Revisited [Transatlantic] (reissue of TRA 172) ∆

TRA SAM 32 Billy Connolly, Words and Music [Transatlantic] †

LER 2037 The High Level Ranters, A Mile to Ride [Trailer] Ω ∆

12T218 Frank Harte, Through Dublin City [Topic] Ω ∆

TPSS221 Various: Topic Sampler No. 8 English Garland [Topic] † (4/15)

LEE 4062 John Maguire, Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday [Leader] ∑

LER 2080 The Taverners, Blowing Sands [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2083 Jon Raven, Tony Rose, Nic Jones, Songs of a Changing World [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2084 Marie Little, Marie Little [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2085 Muckram Wakes, Map of Derbyshire [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2086 The Boys of the Lough, The Boys of the Lough  [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2088 Bob Davenport, Pal of My Cradle Days [Trailer] Ω ∆

1974 

LER 2090 The Boys of The Lough, Second Album [Trailer] ∆

LEE 4065 Various: A People’s Carol [Leader] Ω

H-72048 Finbar Furey, The Irish Pipes of Finbar Furey [Nonesuch] ∆ (US issue of XTRA 1077)

H-72059 Finbar & Eddie Furey, Irish Pipe Music [Nonesuch] ∆ 

EC001 Various: North By North East [Evening Chronicle] †

LEA 2052 Da Forty Fiddlers, Cullivoe Traditional Players, Tom Anderson, Aly Bain, Shetland Fiddlers [Leader] Ω ∆

LED 2053 Various: Virginia Reel - Fiddle & Banjo Tunes [Leader] ∑

LEE 4057 Various: Far Canadian Fields [Leader] ∑

12TS227 Various: Wild Hills O’ Wannie - The Small Pipes of Northumbria [Topic] Ω †

12TS240 Various: Boscastle Breakdown - Southern English Country Music [Topic] Ω †

DALP 2/1958 Various: Irish Folk Scene [2 LP, Gmny, Transatlantic] † 

1975 

LEA 2044 Various: Music from the Coleman County [Leader] ∑

LEA 4045 Lonnie Austin & Norman Woodlieff, Lonnie Austin & Norman Woodlieff [Leader] ∑

LED 2051 Jimmy Power, Tony Ledwith, Tom Power, Paul Gross, Reg Hall, Irish Music from The Favourite [Leader] Ω ∆ 

LEE 4054 Cecilia Costello, Cecilia Costello [Leader] ∑

LEA 4055 Various: Folk Ballads from Donegal and Derry [Leader] ∑

LEE 4056 The Holme Valley Beagles, A Fine Hunting Day [Leader] Ω ∆

LER 2079 Tom Gilfellon, Loving Mad Tom [Trailer] ∆

LER 2081 Vin Garbutt, The Young Tin Whistle Pest [Trailer] Ω

LER 2089 Peter Bellamy, Tell It Like It Was [Trailer] Ω ∆

FOLK 1001 Various: Electric Muse - The Story of Folk Into Rock [Island/Transatlantic] † 

TRA 303 Mr Fox, The Complete Mr Fox [Transatlantic] (reissue of Mr Fox and The Gypsy) ∆

LED 2063 Walter Pardon, A Proper Sort [Leader] Ω ∆

LETSAM 2087 Various: Our Folk Music Heritage [Trailer] Ω

LER 2092 Martyn Wyndham-Read, Maypoles to Mistletoe [Trailer] Ω ∆

1976

12T296 Billy Cooper, Walter Bulwer, Reg Hall, et al. English Country Music (Topic, reissue] Ω

LER 2094 Roger Nicholson, Jake Walton & Andrew Cronshaw, Times and Traditions for Dulcimer [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2095 Cyril Tawney, Down Among the Barley Straw [Trailer] ∑

LER 2096 Tommy Dempsey & John Swift, Green Grow the Laurel [Trailer] ∑

LER 2098 Pete and Chris Coe, Out of Season, Out of Rhyme [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2099 Martin Simpson, Golden Vanity [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2100 Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise, Balcanquhal [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2101 Tony Rose, Banks of Green Willow [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2102 Vin Garbutt, King Gooden [Trailer] Ω ∆

LED 2068 Stephen Baldwin, English Village Fiddler [Leader] ∑

FS 107 Various: The Second Folk Review Record [Folksound] Ω

LER 2106 Jean Redpath, There Were Minstrels [Trailer] Ω ∆

LED 2070 Eddie Butcher, Shamrock, Rose & Thistle [Leader] ∑

LED 2071 The Rakes, The Rakes [Leader] Ω ∆

LER 2093 Muckram Wakes, Muckram Wakes [Trailer] Ω ∆

9286 143 Mike Harding, One Man Show [Philips] Ω

SIF 1002 Peter Bellamy, The Barrack Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling  [Green Linnet] Ω

1977 

FRR 014 Peter Bellamy, The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling [Free Reed] Ω

LED 2060 John J. Kimmel, Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Dance Music[Leader] ∑

LEA 2069 The Beresford Band, Yorkshire Dales Dance Night [Leader] Ω ∆

LER 2091 Nic Jones, The Noah’s Ark Trap [Trailer] Ω ∆

MU 7428 Swan Arcade, Matchless [Stoof Records] ø

LER 2097 Bill Caddick, Sunny Memories [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2103 Dick Gaughan, Kist of Gold [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2105 Various: Fylde Acoustic [Trailer] Ω ∆

LER 2104 Andrew Cronshaw, Earthed in Cloud Valley [Trailer] Ω ∆

LREP 1 Andrew Cronshaw, Cloud Valley [Trailer, 7" EP] Ω

LER 2108 Peter Bond, It’s All Right for Some [Trailer] Ω ∆

LED 2111 Walter Pardon, Our Side of the Baulk [Leader] Ω ∆

XTRA 1171 Various: Rosin The Bow [Xtra] †

TRA SAM 37 Sweeney’s Men, Sweeney’s Men [Transatlantic] (reissue) ∆

TRA SAM 40 Sweeney’s Men, The Tracks of Sweeney [Transatlantic] (reissue) ∆

1978 

LTRA 501 Al O’Donnell, Vol.2 [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 502 Various: The Dulcimer Players [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 503 Christopher Jones, No More Range to Roam [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 504 Bandoggs, Bandoggs [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 505 Various: First o’ t’ sort [Transatlantic] ∑

LTRA 506 Mick Ryan and Jon Burge, Fair Was the City [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 507 Nic Jones, From the Devil to a Stranger [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

LTRA 508 Andrew Cronshaw, Wade in the Flood [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

6641 798 Mike Harding, Captain Paralytic & The Brown Ale Cowboy [Philips] ≠



FMP 1 Bob Pegg, The Werewolf of Old Chapeltown b/w The Chapeltown Hawk [Full Moon Records, 7"] Ω ∆ 

LTRA 511 Mick Linnard & David Hughes, Russell Square [Transatlantic] Ω ∆

SRCR 101 Various: Mrs Casey’s Choice [Rocking Chair Records] †

TRS 107 The Humblebums, The Humblebums [Transatlantic] (reissue. of TRA 201) ∆

TRA T 288  The Humblebums, The Humblebums Complete [Transatlantic] (3 LP reissue. of TRA186, TRA  201, TRA
218)

VISA 7006 Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty [Visa] (US issue of MOGO 4002) ∆ †

HD001 Landini Consort, Nowell Nowell [Hill and Dale] Ω ∆

12TS368 John Doonan, At the Feis [Topic] Ω ∆

1979 

SHY 7006 Bill Caddick, Reasons Briefely Set Downe by th’ Author, to Perswade Every One to Sing [Highway Records] Ω ∆

SHY 7008 Peter Bond, See Me Up, See Me Down  [Highway] Ω ∆

HD 003 The Aire Valley Singers, Out of the Aire [Hill and Dale] Ω ∆

HD 004 Plexus, Life Up the Creek [Hill and Dale] Ω ∆

1980 

HD 004 Tony & Jenny Reavill, Revelation [Hill & Dale] Ω ∆

HD 009 Bluewater Folk, Waiting For One b/w Lancashire Wakes [Hill & Dale 45] ∑

GVR 20 The McCalmans, The Ettrick Shepherd [Greenwich Village] Ω

GEB 8751 Gill Burns, A Loan At Last [Nosuch] Ω ∆

ESL 1 Ecclesfield School Concert Band, Overture For Band [Ecclesfeldian] Ω

1981 

CF381 Leon Rosselson, For the Good of the Nation [Fuse] Ω ∆

HD 006 Arthur Howard, Merry Mountain Child [Hill & Dale] ∑

SFA 106 Dick & Sue Miles, The Dunmow Flitch [Sweet Folk & Country] Ω

DIN 316 Carolyn Robson, Banks of Tyne [Dingle’s] Ω

DIN 312 Pyewackett, Pyewackett [Dingle’s] Ω

HD 008 Bluewater Folk, A Lancashire Life [Hill & Dale] ∑




RCM 001 Members of the Royal College of Midwives (Leeds & District Branch), Vita Donum Dei b/w The Holy Infant - Jesus [RCM, 45]


1982



HD 101 Kings Korner Band, March Past [no label, private pressing?] Ω

GVR 211 Jim Couza, Brightest & Best [Greenwich Village] Ω

GVR 218 Tundra, Songs From Greenwich [Greenwich Village] Ω

ESL 2 Various: High Spirits - Music at Ecclesfield School [Ecclesfeldian] Ω

SHY 7020 Kitsyke Will, Devil’s Ride [Highway] Ω ∆



DEROY 1462 Mike Slater, I’m In a Dancing Mood [Deroy] Ω

CF 382 Roy Bailey, Hard Times [Fuse Records] Ω

CM007 Archie Fisher, Archie Fisher [Celtic Music] ∆ (reissue of XTRA 1070)

1985

HD 851 Holme Valley Tradition, Bright Rosy Morning [Hill & Dale] Ω ∆

1986 (?)


ORL 8654 John Renbourn, The Lady and the Unicorn [Transatlantic] ∆ (reissue of TRA 224)

1987 

BRAD 001 Various: We Singers Make Bold [RSLJ] Ω ∆

TRA 603 John Renbourn, Essential Vol. 1: The Soho Years [Transatlantic, LP & CD] † 

TRA 604 Bert Jansch, Essential Vol. 1: Strolling Down the Highway [Transatlantic, LP & CD] † 

1988

TRANDEM 1 Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch [Demon] Ω ∆ (reissue of TRA 125)

TRANDEM 4 Sweeney's Men, The Legend Of Sweeney's Men [Transatlantic] Ω †

1989 

TRANDEM 5 Young Tradition, Young Tradition [Demon, compilation]  Ω † 

1990

2-12T455/6 Scan Tester, I Never Played to Many Posh Dances [Topic] Ω †

1993 



 TSCD463 Ewan MacColl, The Real MacColl [Topic, CD]  Ω †


1996 

ESM CD 357 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, This Is The Ian Campbell Folk Group/Across the Hills  [Transatlantic, CD reissue of TRA 110 and TRA 118]  ∂ ≠



FECD105 Peggy Seeger, Classic Peggy Seeger [Fellside, CD]  † 

1997



HILL CD 18 Dave & Toni Arthur, Morning Stands on Tiptoe [Wooded Hill Recordings CD, reiss of TRA 154] Ω ∆



12T176 Various: Paddy in the Smoke [Topic CD, reissue of 12T176] Ω


1998 

MT CD 301-2 Bob Hart, A Broadside [Musical Traditions, 2 CD] Ω

TSCD 651 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 1 - Come Let Us Buy the Licence [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 652 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 2 - My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 653 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 3 - O’er His Grave the Grass Grew Green [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 654 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 4 - Farewell My Own Dear Land [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 655 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 5 - Come All My Lads That Follow the Plough [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 656 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 6 - Tonight I’ll Make You My Bride  [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 658 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 8 - A Story I’m Just About to Tell[Topic, CD] †

TSCD 659 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 9 - Rig-a-jig-jig [Topic, CD] † 

TSCD 660 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 10 - Who’s That At My Bed Window [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 662 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 12 - We’ve Received Order to Sail [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 663 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 13 - They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry [Topic, CD] †

  

TSCD 664 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 14 - Troubles They Are But Few  [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 665 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 15 - As Me and My Love Sat Courting [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 666 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 16 - You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 667 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 17 - It Fell On A Day, A Bonny Summer Day [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 668 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 18 - To Catch a Fine Buck Was My Delight [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 670 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 20 - There is a Man Upon the Farm [Topic, CD] †

TSCD 751 Various: The Voice of the People - A Selection [Topic, CD] †

2000

VAMP1 Rosie Hardman, The Lost Leader [private pressing, CD] Ω

2003



HPO6006 Ewan MacColl, The Definitive Collection [Highpoint, CD]  Ω †


2004 

HCD8175 Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 [Hightone Records, CD] Ω

HCD8176 Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 [Hightone Records, CD] Ω

2005 

Ω †
2006 

HJRLP19 Various: Never the Same - Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-77 [2 LP, Honest Jons Records] Ω †

2007 

BOW HAND 003 Bobby Casey, The Spirit of West Clare [Bow Hand] Ω

2008 

CDLF001 Oddfellows, Monday Night at Nine [Limefield, CD] ∆

2009



TOPIC70 Various: Three Score & Ten [Topic History & Catalogue w 7 themed CDs]  †


2011

LFCD 0088 Oddfellows, Oddfellows [Limefield, CD] ∆

0004 The Woodbine & Ivy Band, The Woodbine & Ivy Band [Folk Police, CD] ø


PMA 014-2/CFCD077 Leon Rosselson, Rosselsongs 1960-2010: The World Turned Upside Down [PM Press/Fuse Records, 4 CD] †

LFCD012 Ian Reynolds, Shreds [Limefield, CD] ∂

? Desi Friel, The Knowing of You [Limefield, CD] ∂

2012

? Rioghnach Connolly, Black Lung [Limefield, CD] ∂

Thanks to Alistair Banfield, Reinhard Zierke of the excellent Mainly Norfolk website (https://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/), and Bill Leader for help in compiling the Discography.