World Library of Folk & Primitive Music, Volume 1: England

Compilation by Alan Lomax

Released 1998

Tracklist

  • 1
    Haul on the Bowlin'
    Stanley Slade with Male Chorus
    0:53
  • 2
    A' Roving
    Stanley Slade with Male Chorus
    1:34
  • 3
    Earsdon Sword Dancers
    Royal Earsdon Team with Jimmy McCae
    0:57
  • 4
    My Bonny Lad
    Isla Cameron
    0:33
  • 5
    The Contended Country Lad
    Jim and Bob Copper
    1:32
  • 6
    The Turmut Hoer's Song
    Fred Perrier with Villagers
    1:38
  • 7
    Up the Sides and Down the Middle
    Burt Pidgeon and Alfie Tuck
    0:31
  • 8
    The Threshing Machine
    Jim Copper
    1:14
  • 9
    Quarrymen's Chant and Song
    Tom Tewkesbury and Quarrymen
    1:11
  • 10
    The Four-Loom Weaver
    Ewan MacColl
    1:37
  • 11
    Fourpence a Day
    Ewan MacColl
    0:50
  • 12
    The Rigs of the Time
    “Charger” Salmons and Friends
    1:40
  • 13
    The Redesdale Hornpipe
    Jack Armstrong
    0:38
  • 14
    Corn Rigs
    Jack Armstrong's Barnstormer's Band
    1:15
  • 15
    The Wassail Song
    Phil Tanner
    2:32
  • 16
    The Symondsbury & Eype Mummer's Play & The Singing of the Travels
    [unknown]
    5:51
  • 17
    The Padstow May Day Song
    [unknown]
    1:52
  • 18
    The Seven-Step Polka
    The Haymakers Village Barn Dance Band
    0:49
  • 19
    Brigg Fair
    Isla Cameron
    1:11
  • 20
    The Sweet Prim-E-Roses
    Phil Tanner
    2:26
  • 21
    Died for Love
    Isla Cameron
    1:11
  • 22
    Country Gardens
    William Kimber
    0:47
  • 23
    Polly Vaughn
    A. L. Lloyd
    1:54
  • 24
    Singing Games and Rhymes
    Group of Sidbury Children
    2:27
  • 25
    The Prickle Holly Bush
    Walter Lucas and Villagers
    1:49
  • 26
    Richard of Taunton Dean
    Mrs. Rumble
    2:11
  • 27
    The Mallard
    Bunny Palmer
    1:53
  • 28
    The False-Hearted Knight
    Jumbo Brightwell
    2:27
  • 29
    Old Daddy Fox
    Cyril Biddick with Chorus
    1:59
  • 30
    The Gower Reel
    Phil Tanner
    1:13

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