In Search of a Song

picture by William Ellis 

Where do the songs come from? It's the eternal question, the one most asked of someone from the circle of performers at Oddfellows at the close of a song. Who wrote 'If I Had a Boat?' (I knew that one: Lyle Lovett.) Who wrote 'Killing the Blues'? (I'd forgotten that: Roly Salley.)

Ian Reynolds, impressed by the heart-breaking emigrant song 'Sailing Off to the Yankee Land', asked Donal Maguire if it was one of his own. "I've never written a song in my life," Donal replied. "No, it's…" (exaggerating the mouth shapes to make his point) "...a-non!" 

It was a good night at Oddfellows. John Ellis and Kirsty Almeida dropped by with Tom Davies, and some other musician friends. Usually this means that some recording has been going on at Ellis' home studio down the road, which often results in an impromptu post-studio performance at Oddfellows from unknown and unsuspected talents. In this case an Australian couple - Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson. He a wild man from the mountains (or the outback, I suppose); shaggy with a guitar. She with the strongest, purest voice this side of Hedy West. Cara and Kirsty duetted on 'Down to the River to Pray' from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, and it was a spine-tingling experience. 

Then Helen Howard, whose turn was next, spoke of being in a parallel Oddfellows in Cumbria last week, again with a folk session going on, and she would like to sing a song by one of the artistes who was there. She proceeded with 'A Thousand  Years Today' by Paul Metsers, whose best-known song is 'Farewell to the Gold', as heard on Penguin Eggs by Nic Jones. Actually, 'A Thousand  Years Today', on consideration, might be one of my least favourite songs of all time. It aims for the sublime - dissolving the barriers of time, and all that - and settles for the banal. It's a National Trust song at the end of the day. (Metsers comes from New Zealand, which is telling: New Zealanders tend to be disproportionately impressed by the sense of history embodied in stately homes.) 

And then John Howarth sang 'They Don't Write 'Em Like That Anymore'. A song where the deprived past comes to the aid of the deprived present, ‘They Don't Write 'Em Like That Anymore’ mourns the passing of the communal singsong of old by re-staging one in the here and now. And who wrote ‘They Don't Write 'Em Like That Anymore’? His name is Pete Betts, and I was surprised when one of my oldest and dearest friends, Mick McElvaney, currently resident in China, told me that Betts was  the brother of his ex-wife. One degree of separation, eh? 

Actually, you can tell it's a Middlesbrough song. The first verse is preoccupied with booze, the second gets scatological and is innocently racist (Jack, in a desperate bid to get to the toilet in time, falls in the coalhole and emerges in black face, singing 'Mammy'). All of these traits I associate with the seventies and Middlesbrough. 

The North West equivalent is another of Howarth's standbys, 'Ee, When I Were a Lad', which taps the same rich seam of working-class nostalgia. And who wrote 'Ee, When I Were a Lad'? Keith Hancock, who emigrated to the Far East and now lives in Saigon.

This quest for the song and the person behind the song is endless, inevitably involving a story behind the song, and then another song, or a person behind the person behind the song. Me, I would like to track down Stan Ellison to ask him about 'July Wakes'. Paul Graney - the subject of a projected article for Rock 'n' Reel - enters the story, but as a fixer or catalyst, an impresario almost, who matched author (Richard Pomfret) with composer Ellison. And Bill Leader wants to track down Stan Ellison to pay the royalties owed to him from the first Oddfellows album, which contains 'July Wakes' as sung by Ian Sidebotham. And who is Richard Pomfret? A little-known Lancashire dialect poet whose poem, 'July Wakes' Graney found in an anthology called My North Countrie, edited by Wilfred Pickles. And who is Wilfred Pickles? What, you mean you've never seen Billy Liar?   

Mopomoso: Evan Parker, Johns Russell and Edwards, Pat Thomas, Alison Blunt, Kay Grant, Alex Ward, Matt Wand and all

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 Rare Batch of Babel

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 

Spaceheads - Sun Radar EP (Electric Brass Records)

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)

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  

Gilad Atzmon &The Orient House Ensemble

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. 

Bill Leader Discography

Key

∆ - producer

∂ - co-producer

Ω - recording engineer 

ø - assisted at session(s) 

† - collections with Bill Leader-produced tracks 

∑ - executive capacity
≠ - supervisory capacity 

◊ - misattribution
º - original recordings from the collection of Bill Leader
÷ - sleeve notes by Bill Leader
√ - cover art by Gloria Leader
∫∫ - cover art by James Boswell
ƒ - cover design and/or photo by Brian Shuel 

V - cover art/photo by Sal Shuel
# - cover photo by Bill Leader
~ - cover photo by John Harrison
§ - cover art/design by Janet Kerr
π - reissued on the Highway label, circa 1979
¡ - reissued by the graces of Dave Bulmer

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

1956 

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

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 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 ∆ 

T5 Jack Elliott, Woody Guthrie’s Blues [Topic, 8” LP] ø √

10T6 Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, Street Songs & Fiddle Tunes of Ireland [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆ ÷ √

10T6 Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, Street Songs & Fiddle Tunes of Ireland [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆ ÷ 

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

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] ≠ √

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

10T9 Peggy Seeger, Peggy Seeger [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆ 

7T10 Nancy Whiskey, Nancy Whiskey Sings [Topic, 7” LP] Ω ∆

10T11 John Gibbon, John Gibbon’s Disc [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆

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 ∆

Fred and Betty Dallas at Cecil Sharp House 

digital album, available at http://karldallas.bandcamp.com/album/fred-betty-dallas-at-cecil-sharp-house

10T14 Jack Elliott & Derroll Adams, The Rambling Boys [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆  √

10T14 Jack Elliott & Derroll Adams, The Rambling Boys [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆  ∫∫

10T15 Jack Elliott, Jack Takes the Floor [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆  ∫∫

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

7T19 The Jeffersons, Round and Round With The Jeffersons [Topic, 7” LP] Ω ∆

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

10T24 Guy Carawan, Mountain Songs and Banjo Tunes [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆

10T25 Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger, Second Shift: Industrial Ballads [Topic, 10” LP] Ω

10T26 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, Barrack Room Ballads [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

10T30 Sonny Terry, Harmonica Blues [Topic, 10” LP] ∑

12T30 Sonny Terry, Harmonica Blues [Topic] ∑

1959 

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

12T39 Fisk Jubilee Singers, Spirituals [Topic] ∑

12T41 Ewan MacColl & Dominic Behan, Streets of Song [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T44 Dominic Behan w John Hasted, Easter Week and After [Topic] Ω ∆ 

RLP 12-820 Dominic Behan, Easter Monday, 1916: Songs of the Republican Army [Riverside, USA issue of 12T44 with some additions and some omissions] Ω ∆ 

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

1960

12T35 Dominic Behan w Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson & Ralph Rinzler, Down By the Liffeyside [Topic] Ω ∆  ∫∫

12T35 Dominic Behan w Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson & Ralph Rinzler, Down By the Liffeyside [Topic] Ω ∆  ƒ

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

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

12T51 A.L. Lloyd, Outback Ballads [Topic] Ω ∆ ∫∫

10T52 Jeannie Robertson, Jeannie Robertson [Topic, 10” LP] Ω ∆ √

12T53 Various: The Music of New Orleans, Vol. 1 [Topic] ∑

12T55 Various: The Music of New Orleans, Vol. 3 [Topic] ∑

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

GLP-604 Paul Robeson (w Winifred Harrison), Paul Robeson's Transatlantic Concert [La Gloria, New Zealand, 12” LP issue of 10T17] Ω ∆ (A side only)

GEP 305 Paul Robeson, The Best Of [La Gloria, EP, NZ; contains selections from GLP-604] Ω ∆  

12001Various: Songs Against the Bomb [Topic] Ω ∆ √

STOP101 The Galliards, Black and White b/w Bahnuah [Topic, 7"] Ω ∆

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

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

1961 

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

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, 7" EP] Ω ø  ∫∫

1962 

TOP67 Ray & Archie Fisher, Far Over the Forth [Topic, 7" EP] Ω ∆  ∫∫

TOP68 Dolina MacLennan & Robin Gray, By Mormond Braes [Topic, 7" EP] Ω ∆  ∫∫

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

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

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

TOP71 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Gamblers & Sporting Blades [Topic, 7" EP] Ω

TOP72 Peggy Seeger, Troubled Love [Topic, 7" EP] Ω

TOP73 Peggy Seeger, Early in the Spring [Topic, 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 ∆ ƒ

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

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

12T79 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, The Jacobite Rebellions [Topic] Ω ∆

TOP81 Enoch Kent, The Butcher Boy [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 ∆ ƒ

12T84 The Willett Family, The Roving Journeymen [Topic] Ω ∂ ƒ

TRA 105 Tony Britton & Isla Cameron, Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living [Transatlantic] ø

5808 Tony Britton & Isla Cameron, Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living [London, US issue] ø

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

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

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

1963

TOP85 Dominic Behan, Peelers and Prisoners [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ ƒ

WMA 101 The Massed Choirs of the Glasgow Socialist Singers and the Glasgow Y.C.L. Choir, The Internationale, The Red Flag b/w The Red Flag, England Arise [WMA, 7” EP] Ω ∆  ∫∫

12T86 Various: The Iron Muse [Topic] Ω ∆ ƒ

EKL 279 Various: The Iron Muse [Elektra, US issue] Ω

12T86 Various: The Iron Muse [Topic, reissue] Ω ∆

12T87 The McPeake Family, Irish Traditional Folk Songs & Music [Topic] Ω ∆ ƒ

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

12T91 Joe Heaney, Irish Traditional Songs in Gaelic & English [Topic] ∆ ƒ

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

12T93 Jack Elliott,  Talking Woody Guthrie [Topic, reiss. of T5, together with TRC98 and one side of TRC103] ∆  ∫∫

TOP94 Anne Briggs, The Hazards of Love [Topic, 7” EP] ∆ ƒ

TOP95 Shirley Collins, Heroes in Love [Topic, 7” EP] Ω ∆ ƒ

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

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

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

TOP 98 A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl & Harry H. Corbett, Blow the Man Down [Topic, 7" EP]  ≠ ◊ 

TOP 99 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, A Hundred Years Ago [Topic, 7" EP]  ≠ ◊

TOP 100 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, The Coast of Peru [Topic, 7" EP]  ≠ ◊

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

F.11618 Sheila Hancock, My Last Cigarette b/w Landlord and Tenant [Decca, 7"] 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, 7" EP] ø

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

STOP 102 The Ian Campbell Group, The Sun is Burning b/w The Crow and the Cradle [Topic, 7”] Ω ∆

1964 

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

EKL 268/EKS 7268 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, The Ian Campbell Folk Group [Elektra, US issue of TRA 110 with two songs omitted] ∂

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

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

12T103 A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl, English and Scottish Folk Ballads [Topic] Ω ∆

12T104 Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger, Steam Whistle Ballads [Topic] (contains selections from 10T13 and 10T25) † ƒ

12T105 Jack Elliott and Derroll Adams, Roll On Buddy [Topic] Ω ∆  ∫∫

12T106 Jack Elliott, Muleskinner [Topic] Ω ∆  ∫∫

FW 8501 Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan, The Singing Streets [Folkways, US issue of 12T41] Ω ∆

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

TRA 116 The Dubliners, The Dubliners [Transatlantic] Ω ƒ

SP 1 The Dubliners, The Wild Rover b/w Rocky Road to Dublin [Transatlantic, 7"] Ω

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

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

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

LK 4633 Various: Irish Folk Night [Decca] ∆

LL 3414 (mono), PS 414 (stereo) Various: Irish Folk Night [London, USA issue of LK 4633] ∆

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

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

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

STOP 115 Dominic Behan, The Patriot Game b/w Erin Go Brath [Topic, 7"] Ω ∆ 

1965 

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

12T118 A.L. Lloyd, First Person [Topic] Ω ∆ ƒ

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

[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 EP 128 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, A Sample of... [Transatlantic, 7” EP] †

TRA SP 5 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, The Times They Are A Changin' b/w Across the Hills [Transatlantic, 7”] ∂

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

XTRA 1001 New Lost City Ramblers, New Lost City Ramblers [Xtra] ÷

XTRA 1004 Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee [Xtra] ÷  

XTRA 1006 Pete Seeger & Big Bill Broony, In Concert [Xtra] ÷

XTRA 1007 Art Tatum, Art Tatum [Xtra] ÷

XTRA 1008 Memphis Slim, Memphis Slim [Xtra] ÷

TRA SP 6 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Come Kiss Me Love b/w The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Transatlantic, 7”] ≠ 

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 ∆ ƒ

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

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

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, gathers TOP67 and TOP81 with other material of Scottish origin] Ω ∆ ƒ

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 ∆ ƒ

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

12T138 The Stewart Family, The Stewarts of Blair [Topic] Ω ∆ 

12T139 Paddy Tunney, A Wild Bee’s Nest [Topic] Ω ∆ ƒ

TRA EP 128 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, A Sample Of [Transatlantic, 7” EP] †

TRA EP 129 The Dubliners, A Sample of The Dubliners [Transatlantic, 7" EP] Ω † ƒ

1966

12T135 A.L. Lloyd, Anne Briggs, Frankie Armstrong, Bird in the Bush [Topic] Ω ∆ 

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

EKS-7321 The Watersons, Frost and Fire [Elektra, US issue] Ω ∆

12T137 The Fisher Family, The Fisher Family [Topic] Ω ∆ 

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

12T143 The Exiles, Freedom, Come All Ye [Topic] Ω ∆  

TPS145 Various: Topic Sampler No.2 Folk Songs - An Anthology [Topic] † ÷

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

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

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

12T147 Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger, The Manchester Angel [Topic] Ω ∆  ∫∫

12T150 Fred Jordan, Songs of a Shropshire Farmworker [Topic] Ω ∆

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

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

BY 6029 Leon Rosselson, Songs for Sceptical Circles [Bounty] (re-recorded and issued under the same title in 1970 on Acorn CF 206) Ω ∆

TRA EP 109 Isla Cameron, Lost Love [Transatlantic, 7" EP] (extracted from TRA 105) ø

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

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] † 

XTRA 1031 Various: The Best of British Folk [Xtra] † 

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 ∆ ƒ

TRA 149 John Renbourn, Another Monday [Transatlantic]  Ω ƒ

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

VSD 79212 Bert Jansch, Lucky Thirteen [Vanguard, US issue] †

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 of TRA 105] ø

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

XTRA 1049 Annie Ross, With the Tony Kinsey Quartet [Xtra, reissue of TRA 107] ø ƒ

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

1967 

TPS 169 Various: Topic Sampler No.5 A Prospect of Scotland [Topic] †

12T163 Hedy West, Ballads [Topic] Ω ∆ §

BY 6040 Jimmy Power, Irish Dances [Bounty] Ω

233 003 Jimmy Power, Irish Dances [Clan, reiss, of Bounty BY 6040] Ω

VRS 9246/VSD-79246 The Young Tradition, The Young Tradition [Vanguard, US, a compilation of TRA 142 and TRA 155] Ω ƒ † 

XTRA 1053 Various: The Best of Scottish Folk Music  [Xtra] †

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

FSA-32 Hedy West, Old Times & Hard Times [Folk-Legacy, US issue of 12T117] Ω ∆

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

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

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

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

TRA SP 14 The Grehan Sisters, Save the Old Home b/w Victoria [Transatlantic, 7"] Ω

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

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

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

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

236514 Dave Swarbrick, Rags, Reels & Airs [Polydor, reiss of BY-6030] Ω

583 009 Javier Márquez, Variations in Classic Flamenco [Polydor] Ω

236 541/2/3 Various: The Soul of Spain [Polydor, 3 LP box set contains reissue of 583 009] Ω †

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

TRA SP 13 John Pearse, Guitar Train (Theme from 'Hold Down a Chord') b/w You Were On My Mind [Transatlantic, 45] Ω ∆

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

BIG 103 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Private Harold Harris b/w Lover Let Me In [Big T, 7"] ∆

TRS 2 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Private Harold Harris b/w Lover Let Me In [Transatlantic, Rhodesia, 7"] ∆

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

TRA158 The Dubliners, The Best of The Dubliners [Transatlantic] †

1968

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

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

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 ∆ ƒ

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

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

XTRA 1070 Archie Fisher, Archie Fisher [Xtra] ∆ ƒ

FW 8756 Ewan MacColl, Songs of Two Rebellions [Folkways, US issue of 12T79, replacing 'Maclean's Welcome' with 'The Wee, Wee German Lairdie'] Ω

TRA SP 20 The Grehan Sisters, Cricklewood b/w God Save Ireland [Transatlantic, 7"] 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 ∆ ƒ

12T181 Various: Festival at Blairgowrie [Topic] Ω ∆ 

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

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

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

TLP 2059 Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger, The Manchester Angel [Tradition, USA issue of 12T147] Ω ∆  ∫∫

VSD 6506 Bert Jansch & John Renbourn, Stepping Stones [Vanguard, US issue of TRA 144] Ω ∆ 

TRA SP 18 Matt McGinn, I Have Seen the Highlands b/w I’ll Be Coming Home to Glasgow [Transatlantic, 7"] ◊ ("Never heard it before.")  

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

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] ∆ ƒ ÷ 

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

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

SFXL55 Various: The Big Folk [Fontana] †

TRA 172 The Young Tradition, Galleries [Transatlantic] ∆

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

TRA EP 164  The Young Tradition, Chicken On a Raft [Transatlantic, 7" EP] Ω ∆ ƒ

201028 John Pearse, Guitar Train [Metronome, German issue of TRA 1056] Ω ∆

12T188 Various: Deep Lancashire [Topic] Ω ∆ 

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

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

1969 

TRA SP 19 Sweeney’s Men, Sullivan’s John b/w Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willy [Transatlantic, 7"] ∆ 

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

XTRA 1072 John Pearse & Dick Poons, One More City [Xtra] ∆ ƒ÷ 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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] ∆ ƒ

BIG 122 The Humblebums, Saturday Roundabout Sunday b/w Bed of Mossy Green [Big T, 7"] ∆ 

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

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

TRA 202 Gordon Giltrap, Portrait [Transatlantic] Ω ∆ ƒ

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 ƒ

201.007 Alexis Korner, This Is Alexis Korner [Metronome, German issue of TRA 117) Ω

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

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

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

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

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 ∆ ÷ 

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

TRA 201 The Humblebums, The Humblebums [Transatlantic] ∆

LST-7636 The Humblebums, The Humblebums [Liberty, US issue of TRA 201] ∆

BIG 127 The Humblebums, Coconut Tree b/w Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway [Big T, 7"] ∆ 

LEA 2003 Seamus Heaney, Seaumus Heaney [Leader]  Ω ∆ 

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

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

1970 

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

TRA SAM 14/15 Various: Superb Super Guitar Session [Transatlantic, Fr., 2 LP issue of TRA SAM 14 & TRA SAM 15] †

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

TRA SAM 20 John Renbourn, Sampler [Transatlantic] † ƒ

TRA SAM 21 Various: The Great Scots Sampler Vol.2 [Transatlantic] †

VSD-6544 Bert Jansch, Jack Orion [Vanguard, USA issue of TRA 143] Ω ∆ 

LEA 2005 Seamus Tansey, Seamus Tansey [Leader] 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, 7"] Ω ∆

TRA SP 21 Stan Kelly,  Ballad of Armagh Jail b/w Kelly From Killane [Transatlantic, 7"] ◊ (produced by Nathan Joseph and not Bill Leader, despite the label credit)

 2870 314 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Presenting the Ian Campbell Folk Group[Contour] (reissue of TRA 110) ø ƒ

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

LST-7656 The Humblebums, Open Up The Door [Liberty, USA issue] ∆ ƒ

BIG 130 The Humblebums, Shoeshine Boy b/w My Apartment [Big T, 7"] ∆

ST 6195 The Humblebums, Shoeshine Boy b/w My Apartment [Start Records, Belgium, 7"] ∆

5C 006-91384 M The Humblebums, Shoeshine Boy b/w My Apartment [Stateside, Netherlands, 7"] ∆

A 7167 The Humblebums, Shoeshine Boy b/w My Apartment [Astor, Australia, 7"] ∆

UAST 7216 The Humblebums,  I Can't Stop Now (mono) b/w I Can't Stop Now (stereo) [United Artists, 7"] Ω

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

BIG 133 Stefan Grossman, A Pretty Little Tune b/w Little Sally Walker [Big T, 7"] ∆

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, 7"] ∆ 

TRA 228 Pentangle, Cruel Sister [Transatlantic] ∆ 

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

 CL 3 Various: Fleadh Cheoil NahÉireann Lios Tuathail 1970 [Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann] †

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 ∆  § π

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

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

1971 

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

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

LER 3010 Lea Nicholson, Horsemusic [Trailer] Ω ∆ # §

LER 3015 Leon Rosselson with Martin Carthy & Roy Bailey, The Word is Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga

Humbugga Boom Chit [Trailer] ∑ §

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

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

LER 3018 Rosemary Hardman & Bob Axford, Second Season Came [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 ∆ ƒ

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

TRA 236 Mr Fox, The Gipsy [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] ∆

XTRA 1121 Hamish Imlach, Old Rarity [Xtra] ∆   

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 ∆  § π

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 ∆  §

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

H7-11 Various: The Nonesuch Explorer – Music from Distant Corners of the World [Nonesuch, 2 LPs] † 

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

1972 

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

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

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

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

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

LER 2039 Mike Harding, A Lancashire Lad [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 2043 John Doonan, Flute for the Feis [Leader] Ω ∆ § 

2383 160  Barry Dransfield, Barry Dransfield [Polydor] Ω ∆

LEA 2044 The Coleman Country Traditional Society, Music from The Coleman County [Leader] ∑ §

ZFB 37 Peter Bellamy with Louis Killen, Won't You Go My Way [Argo] # (back cover photo)

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

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

TRA SAM 23 Pentangle, History Book [Transatlantic] † ƒ

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

2870 313 Various: Best of British Folk [Contour] † ◊ (erroneously gives Leader credit for 'History of Football', by Hamish Imlach)

2870 315 Various: The Exciting World of Transatlantic [Contour] †

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

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

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] ∆  § π

BIG 507 Mike & Lal Waterson, Rubber Band b/w Red Wine & Promises [Transatlantic, 7"] ∆ 

LER 2077 Pete & Chris Coe, Open the Door & Let Us In [Trailer] ≠ §

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

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

LER 2082 Dave Burland, Dave Burland [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 

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

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

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

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

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

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 31 Hamish Imlach, All Round Entertainer [Transatlantic] †

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

LER 2080 The Taverners, Blowing Sands [Trailer] ∑

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

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

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

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

LER 2081 Vin Garbutt, The Young Tin Whistle Pest [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 ∆

VTS 21 Chris Thompson, Chris Thompson [Village Thing] †

SPA 307 Various: The World of Folk Vol.2 [Argo] †

1974 

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

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

JSS-13 Alexis Korner's All Stars, Blues Incorporated [Just Sunshine, US issue of TRA 117] 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, US compilation of TRA 168 and TRA 191] ∆ ÷

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

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

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

XTRA 1144 Various: If It Was'nae For Your Wellies [Xtra] †

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

1975 

LET SAM 2087 Various: Our Folk Music Heritage [Trailer] Ω

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

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

LEE 4054 Cecilia Costello, Cecilia Costello [Leader] ∑ §

FOLK 1001 Various: Electric Muse - The Story of Folk Into Rock [Island/Transatlantic, 4 LPs] † 

TRA 303 Mr Fox, The Complete Mr Fox [Transatlantic, 2 LP reissue of TRA 226 and TRA 236] ∆

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

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

CF 249 Leon Rosselson, Palaces of Gold [Acorn Records; reiss. on Fuse Records CF 249 in 1979] ÷ 

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

LEE 4057 Various: Far Canadian Fields [Leader] ∑ §

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

1976

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

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

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

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

12T44 Dominic Behan w John Hasted, Easter Week and After [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 ∆  §

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

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

9286 143 Mike Harding, One Man Show [2 LPs, Philips] Ω

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

TRA324 Various: Folk Festival [Transatlantic, 2LP] †

1977 

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

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

MU 7428 Swan Arcade, Matchless [Stoof Records] ø

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

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

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

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

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

LER 2105 Various: Fylde Acoustic [Trailer] Ω ∆  §

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

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

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

12T319 Bob Smith's Ideal Band, Ideal Music [Topic] º

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 ∂

TS-38005 Christopher Jones, Sin Campos Que Cabalgar [Transatlantic, Sp. issue of LTRA 503] Ω ∂ 

LTRA 504 Bandoggs, Bandoggs [Transatlantic] Ω ∆  § π

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 ∆ § π

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

6641 798 Mike Harding, Captain Paralytic & The Brown Ale Cowboy [dbl, 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)

MOGO 4002 Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty [Logo] (collects the Gerry Rafferty tracks from The New Humblebums and Open Up the Door) ∆ †

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

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

HD 002 Gordon Tyrrall, Farewell to Foggy Hills [Hill & Dale] Ω ∆

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

MTRA 2001 Various: Transatlantic - The Vintage Years Vol.1 [Transatlantic] †

MTRA 2003 Various: Transatlantic - The Vintage Years Vol.3: Best of Scottish Folk [Transatlantic] †

MTRA 2004 Various: Transatlantic - The Vintage Years Vol.4: Best of The Blues [Transatlantic] †

MTRA 2005 Various: Transatlantic - The Vintage Years Vol.5: Best of English Folk [Transatlantic] †

MTRA 2006 The Humblebums, The Humblebums [Transatlantic, reissue of TRA 201] ∆

MTRA 2007 Bert Jansch, Anthology [Transatlantic] †

1979 

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

SHY 7007 Pete and Chris Coe, Game of All Fours [Highway] # (back cover photo)

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

6625 041 Mike Harding, Komic Kutz [dbl, Philips] ≠

MTRA 2010 The Dubliners, Anthology [Transatlantic] †

LER 3002 Archie Fisher and Barbara Dickson, The Fate O’ Charlie [Highway/Trailer, reiss. of LER 3002 with new sleeve design] Ω ∆ π

KM/TRA 334 Bert Jansch, Best Of [Kicking Mule/Transatlantic, USA] †

MTRA 2015 Stefan Grossman, Anthology [Transatlantic] † ◊

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

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

1980 

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

GVR 209 The McCalmans, The Ettrick Shepherd [Greenwich Village] Ω

TPL 0001 Frankie Armstrong, Kathy Henderson, Sandra Kerr, Alison McMorland, My Song Is My Own [The Plane Label] Ω

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

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

0044.014 Alexis Korner, The Original [Transatlantic, reissue of TRA 117] 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

GVR 223 The Wilson Family, Jim & Anni Mageean, Alan Fitzsimmons, Benny Graham, Aall Tegithor Like the Foaks O'Shields [Greenwich Village] Ω

DIN 312 Pyewackett, Pyewackett [Dingle’s] Ω

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

HD 009 Bluewater Folk, Waiting For One b/w Lancashire Wakes [Hill & Dale, 7"] ∑

RCM 001 Members of the Royal College of Midwives (Leeds & District Branch), Vita Donum Dei b/w The Holy Infant - Jesus [RCM, 7"] Ω

1982

HD 101 Kings Korner Band, March Past [private pressing] Ω

B004D88UAC Robert Graves I, Claudius read by Derek Jacobi [Argo, 2 cassettes] 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

CR 052 Various: Best of British Folk [Cambra, 2 LP compilation of Transatlantic recordings] †

CR 055 Various: Contemporary Folk Guitar [Cambra, 2LP compilation of Transatlantic recordings] †

CR 056 Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, Renbourn and Jansch [Cambra, 2LP compilation of Transatlantic recordings] †

CM007 Archie Fisher, Archie Fisher [Celtic Music, reissue of XTRA 1070] ∆ ƒ ¡

1983

CRO 205 Allan Taylor, Circle Round Again [Black Crow] Ω 

HD 012 The Slaughterhouse Seven/Wet Look String Vest Band, By Popular Request [private pressing] Ω 

1984

SCM 005 Various – Chants de Marins IV: Ballads, Complaintes et Shanties des Matelots Anglais [Le Chasse-Marée, France, 2 LPs] †

1985

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

1986 

LEA 2006 Billy Pigg, The Border Minstrel [Highway Records, mysterious reissue of LEA 4006]  ∆ ≠ §

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

0886909945 Robert Graves I, Claudius read by Derek Jacobi [Newman Communications, 2 cassettes, reissue of B004D88UAC] Ω

1987 

TRA 602 Pentangle, Essential Pantangle Vol.1: Let No Man Steal Your Thyme [Transatlantic] † 

CCSLP 165 Finbar & Eddie Furey, The Collection [Castle Communications, 2 LP compilation culled from XTRA 1077, TRA 168 and TRA 191] †

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

IT47 Various: Just a Mish Mash [In Tape: including Implied Consent, ‘Resident Rat’] †

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) Ω ƒ

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

1989 

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

TRANDEM 6 John Renbourn, A Mediaeval Almanack [Demon]  Ω † ƒ

Freak Beat #6 [psychedelic fanzine, contains free flexi-disc including Bargepole, ‘Can You Hear Me, Mother?’] † 

1990

FECD78 Anne Briggs, Classic Anne Briggs: The Complete Topic Recordings [Fellside, CD] † ƒ

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

TSCD136 The Watersons, Frost and Fire [Topic CD, reissue of 12T136] Ω ∆ 

KTSC136 The Watersons, Frost and Fire [Topic cassette, reissue of 12T136] Ω ∆

1992 

010CD Shirley Collins, Fountain of Snow [Durtro, CD] †

1993 

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

TSCD464 Various: Blow the Man Down: A Collection of Sea Songs and Shanties  [Topic, CD]  Ω †

TSCD465 The Iron Muse: A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music  [Topic CD, reissue of 12T86] Ω ∆ 

1994

TSCD472 The Watersons, Early Days [Topic CD, gathers Watersons tracks from 12T125, and most of 12T142 and 12T167 plus an unreleased track] Ω ∆ † ƒ

522 176 4 Robert Graves I, Claudius read by Derek Jacobi [Argo, 2 cassettes,  reissue of B004D88UAC] Ω

OSS CD 103 Ewan MacColl, The Jacobite Rebellions [Ossian CD, reissue of 12T79] Ω ∆

TSCD474 Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman, Her Mantle So Green [Topic CD, reiss. of 12T123 with extra tracks]  
Ω ∆ ƒ

048248309127 Willie Clancy, The Minstrel From Clare [Green Linnet CD, US issue of 12T175]  Ω ∆ 

1995

TSCD476 Shirley Collins, The Sweet Primeroses [Topic CD, reissue of 12T170, with additional tracks sourced from TOP95] Ω †

R2 72160 Various: Troubadours of British Folk Vol.1: Unearthing the Tradition [Rhino, US CD] †

R2 72161 Various: Troubadours of British Folk Vol.2: Folk into Rock [Rhino, US CD] †

TBX CD 531 Various: The Folk Box [Kaz Records, 3 CDs] †

TSCD481 Various: The Folk Collection 2 [Topic, CD] †

TSCD701 Various: Celtic Voices [Topic, CD] †

1996

TSCD479 A.L. Lloyd, Anne Briggs, Frankie Armstrong, The Bird in the Bush [Topic CD, reissue of 12T135, with additional selections from 12T126, 12T178 & 12TS216] Ω ∆ 

TSCD702 Various: Irish Voices [Topic, CD] †

TSCD703 Various: Scottish Voices [Topic, CD] †

TSCD704 Various: Ancient Celtic Roots [Topic, CD] †

TSCD480 Various: English and Scottish Folk Ballads [Topic, CD] †  

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

ESMCD 409 The Young Tradition, The Young Tradition/So Cheerfully Round [Castle, CD reissue of TRA 142 and TRA 155]  Ω ƒ

ESBCD 416 Various: New Electric Muse - The Story of Folk into Rock [Castle, 3 CDs, expands FOLK 1001] †

ESMCD 437 Stefan Grossman, The Best of the Transatlantic Years [Essential/Castle CD] †

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

TSCD600 Various: Hidden English [Topic, CD] †

TSCD705 Various: The Voice of Folk [Topic, CD] †

1997

FECD122 Bob Davenport and The Rakes, The Red Haired Lad [Fellside, CD] ø 

ESMCD 524 Finbar and Eddie Furey, Finbar and Eddie Furey/The Lonesome Boatman [Castle, CD reissue of TRA 168 and TRA 191]  Ω †

HILLCD 17 Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, Red Hot From Alex [Wooded Hill, CD reiss of TRA 117] Ω

TSCD483 The High Level Ranters, Northumberland Forever [Topic CD, reissue of 12T186] Ω ∆  

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

TSCD 603 Various: Paddy in the Smoke [Topic CD, reissue of 12T176] Ω ~

LEAC 4001 Jack Elliott, Jack Elliott of Birtley [Leader, cassette reissue of LEA 4001] ¡

TSCD484 Lou Killen, Tom Gilfellon, Johnny Handle, Maureen Craik, Colin Ross, Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside [Topic CD, reissue of 12T122] Ω ∆

ESMCD 461 The Young Tradition / Royston & Heather Wood, Galleries / No Relation [Castle, reissue of TRA 172 with the non-Leader produced TRA 342] Ω †

B000005936 Hamish Imlach, The Definitive Transatlantic Collection [Essential, CD] † 

ESBCD 517 Various: New Electric Muse II - The Continuing Story of Folk into Rock [Castle, 3 CDs] †

1998 

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

TSCD495 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers & Sporting Blades [Topic, CD, gathers 10T36 and TOP71 plus additional material w Roy Harris] Ω †

TSCD 496 A. L. Lloyd, English Drinking Songs [Topic, CD, reissue of RLP 12-618]  Ω ∆ 

TSCD498 Louis Killen, Johnny Handle & Colin Ross, Along the Coaly Tyne [Topic CD, reissue of 12T189] Ω ∆ 

TSCD502 Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, Chorus From the Gallows [Topic CD, reissue of 12T16] Ω ∆

RGNET 1018 CD Various: The Rough Guide to English Roots Music [World Music Network CD] †  

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 657 Various: The Voice of the People Vol. 7 - First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty [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] †

TSCD706 Various: English Originals: A Defining Collection of English Folk Song [Topic, CD] †

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

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

72140 John Renbourn, The Transatlantic Anthology [Castle Music, USA, 2CDs] †

RGNET 1018 CD Various: The Rough Guide to English Roots Music [World Music Network, CD] †

1999

0015707654425 Bert Jansch, Jack Orion [Vanguard, CD reissue of VSD-6544, USA] Ω ∆ 

FRTCD 14 Peter Bellamy, Wake the Vaulted Echoes [Free Reed, 3 CDs] †

TSCD504 Anne Briggs, A Collection [Topic CD] † 

TSCD517 Dave Swarbrick w Martin Carthy & Diz Disley, Rags, Reels and Airs [Topic CD, reissue of BY-6030] Ω

TSCD818 Davy Graham, Fire in the Soul [Topic CD] † Ω

TSCD707/8 Various: The Folk Collection [Topic, 2CDs] †

2000

TSCD514 Walter Pardon, A World Without Horses: A Portrait of a Traditional Singer [Topic CD] †  

TSCD607 Billy Cooper, Walter Bulwer, Reg Hall, Daisy Bulwer, Mervyn Plunkett, Russell Wortley, English Country Music [Topic CD, reissue of Record No.1/ 12T296] Ω

LESCD 2076 Mike and Lal Waterson, Bright Phoebus [Trailer, CD reissue of LES 2076] ∆ ¡

LERCD 2038 Ray Fisher, The Bonny Birdy [Trailer/Leader, CD reissue of LER 2038] Ω ∆  ¡

CMEDD009 Bert Jansch, Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology [Castle, 2 CDs] † 

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

R2CD 40-106 Various: And We'll Have Tea... English Folk Anthology [Proper/Retro, 2 CDs] †

2001 

CRESTCD 068 Z-UK Al Jones, Alun Ashworth-Jones [Mooncrest, CD reissue of Parlophone PMC 7081 with extra tracks from an unreleased Leader session in 1971] † Ω ∆

TSCD505D Michael Gorman, The Sligo Champion [Topic, 2 CDs) † 

MACCD 001 Tony MacMahon, MacMahon from Clare †

[?] Bob Davenport with Roger Digby, Send Your Best Men Forward [private pressing, CD] †

TSCD521 Various: A Woman's Voice: First Person Singular [Topic, CD) †

TSCD606 Various: Round the House and Mind the Dresser [Topic, CD) †

2002

823107214220 John Renbourn, The Definitive Transatlantic Collection [Castle, USA, CD] †

TSFCD 4001 Various: The Acoustic Folk Box [Topic, 4 CDs) †

NEST 5001 Shirley Collins, Within Sound [Fledg'ling, 4 CDs] †

SPINNEY003 Barry Dransfield, Barry Dransfield [Spinney, vinyl reissue of 2383 160] Ω ∆

SPINNEY003CD Barry Dransfield, Barry Dransfield [Spinney, CD reissue of 2383 160] Ω ∆

2003

VTD148CD Fred Jordan, A Shropshire Lad [Veteran, 2 CDs] †

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

CMRCD 293 Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, Red Hot From Alex [Sanctuary, CD reissue of TRA 117] Ω  

79726 Westland Steel Band, Trinidad: The Sound of the Sun [Nonesuch, CD reissue of H-72016] Ω 

2004 

TSFCD4002 The Watersons, Mighty River of Song [Topic 4 CD box set] †

B00063ZQ1Y Mr Fox, Join Us In Our Game [Sanctuary, CD, gathers TRA 226 and TRA 236] Ω ∆

? Frank Harte, Dublin Street Songs/Through Dublin City [Hummingbird, CD, gathers 12T172 and 12T218] Ω

HPO6008 Shirley Collins, The Classic Collection [Highpoint, CD] †  

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

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

CMDD932 Sweeney's Men, The Legend Of Sweeney's Men [Castle Music, 2 CDs] Ω †

CD-32 Hedy West, Old Times & Hard Times [Folk-Legacy, CD reissue of FSA-32] Ω ∆

2005 

LEACD 2044 The Coleman Country Traditional Society, Music from The Coleman County Revisited [Leader, CD reissue of LEA 2044, augmented with commentary from Seamus Tansey and some overdubbing] ∑ § ¡

LEACD 2004 Martin Byrnes, Martin Byrnes [Leader, reissue of LEA 2004] Ω ∂ ¡ 

CMDDD1038 Stefan Grossman, Those Pleasant Days: Anthology [Castle Music, 2 CDs] † 

CDDDD1072 The Ian Campbell Folk Group, The Times They Are A-Changin' [Castle Music, 2 CDs] †

CMDDD1211 The Humblebums, Please Sing A Song For Us: The Complete Humblebums [Castle Music, 2 CDs] Ω †

TSCD477 Ramblin' Jack Eliott, Ramblin' Jack [Topic CD, reissue of 12T93, with selections from 12T106 and 12T105] Ω †

HJRCD19 Various: Never the Same - Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-77 [CD, Honest Jons Records] Ω † ƒ

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

2006 

CMDDD1387 Bob Pegg, Keeper of the Fire - The Anthology [Castle Music, 2CDs] †

CMXBX1030 Various: Anthems in Eden [Castle, 3 CD box set] †

2007 

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

TSCD563 The Watersons, Frost and Fire [Topic CD, reissue of 12T136, with extra photos] Ω ∆ 

TREDD 404 John Renbourn, Nobody's Fault But Mine: The John Renbourn Anthology 1966-2005 [Sanctuary, 2 CDs] †

2008 

5016073054227 Billy Connolly & Gerry Rafferty, Best of The Humblebums [Sanctuary, 2 CDs] ∆ †

FECD 216 Peter Bellamy, Fair England’s Shore [Fellside, 2 CD reissue of XTRA 1060, XTRA 1075 and 12T200] Ω ∆ †

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

531 276-9 Various: The All New Electric Muse - The Story of Folk into Rock [Universal, 3 CDs] †

NOT2CD264 Various: The Best of British Folk [Not Now Music, 2 CDs] †

2009

TOPIC70 Various: Three Score & Ten [Topic story & catalogue w 7 themed CDs]  † ƒ

TSCD126 Louis Killen, Ballads and Broadsides [Topic CD, reissue of 12T126] Ω ∆ 

TSCD581D Scan Tester, I Never Played to Many Posh Dances [Topic CD, reiss. of 2-12T455/6] Ω † 

TSCD583 The McPeake Family, Wild Mountain Thyme [Topic CD, reiss. of 12T87 and TOP92] Ω ∆ ƒ

2010

GUESS 031/GUPEN 012 Barry Dransfield, Barry Dransfield [Guerssen, Spanish vinyl reissue of 2383 160] Ω ∆

B0045NC9IE Stefan Grossman, The Best of The Transatlantic Years [Sanctuary, CD] † 

NOT2CD332 Ewan MacColl, The Anthology [Not Now Music, 2 CDs, contains reissue of 10T50]  Ω †

2011

LFCD 0088 Oddfellows, Oddfellows [Limefield, CD] ∆

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

M60 06 Picnic Area, You Know You Want It [M60 Recordings, CD] ∆

FECD 241 Hedy West, Ballads and Songs from the Appalachians [Fellside, 2 CDs comprising 12T117, 12T146, 12T163]  Ω ∆

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

2776140 Bert Jansch, Angie: The Collection [Spectrum Music, CD] †

ESF CD 654 Various: The Transatlantic Story [Sanctuary Records, 4 CDs] † 

LFCD012 Ian Reynolds, Shreds [Limefield, CD] ∂

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

2012

? Dead Belgian, Love and Death: The Songs of Jacques Brel [Limefield, CD] ∂

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

EDEN1 Various: Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music [Umc, 2 CDs] †

2013

0602517734227 Pentangle, The Time Has Come 1967-73 [Sanctuary Records, 4 CDs] † 

CMRCD206 Pentangle, Cruel Sister [Sanctuary, CD reiss. of TRA 228] ∆ 

STOP2013 Davy Graham & Alexis Korner, 3/4 AD [Topic, EP, reissue of TOP70 on Record Store Day, 20 April] Ω ∆  ƒ

? Hunter Muskett, That Was Then, This Is Now [Limefield, CD] ∂

5017261211033  The Young Tradition, The Young Tradition/So Cheerfully Round/Galleries + Chicken on a Raft [Beat Goes On, 2 CDs] ∆, ç Ω †

STOP2095 Shirley Collins, Heroes in Love [Topic, 7” EP: vinyl reissue of TOP95 as part of Topic Records' 75th anniversary] Ω ∆ ƒ

2014

ACMEM274CD Annie Ross & Tony Kinsey, Loguerhythms: Songs From The Establishment [Él, CD, reissue of TRA 107 with extra tracks] ø

2015

? Trevor Hyett, Eager & Anxious [Limefield, CD] ∆

PWCD 80007 Micho Russell, Rarities & Old Favourites [The Pennywhistler's Press, 2 CDs] †

AMU 0007 Matt Owens, The Aviators' Ball [All Made Up Records, CD] ø   

                                                                                            

                                                                                           2016

TSCD 679T Various: The Voice of the People - "It Was Mighty!": The Early Days of Irish Music in London [Topic, 3 CDs] †

TSCD 680T Various: The Voice of the People - "It Was Great Altogether!": The Continuing Tradition of Irish Music in London [Topic, 3 CDs] †

CRTREEBOX16 The Ian Campbell Folk Group The Complete Transatlantic Recordings [Cherry Red, 4 CDs] †

2017

5056083200085  Archie Fisher, Archie Fisher [Chariot Records, CD, reissue of XTRA 1070] ∆ ƒ

0887830010214  Mike and Lal Waterson, Bright Phoebus [Domino, single LP reissue of LES 2076] ∆  § 

0887830010238 Mike and Lal Waterson, Bright Phoebus [Domino, deluxe edition with extra LP of LES 2076] ∆  § 

0887830010207 Mike and Lal Waterson, Bright Phoebus [Domino, 2 CD set of LES 2076] ∆  §



Finally, some European compilations with an uncertain date of issue – 

BYG 25 Various Artists: John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Pentangle [BYG, 2 LPs, Fr.: side 2 comes from TRA 125 (Leader); side 1 and record 2 come from TRA 135 and TRA 162 respectively (non-Leader)] †  

TRA 89503/4 The Pentangle, The Pentangle [Transatlantic, 2 LPs, Fr.] †

TRA 89505/6 Various: Contemporary Guitar [Transatlantic, 2 LPs, Fr. issue of TRA SAM 14 & TRA SAM 15] †

TRA 89507/8 John Renbourn, John Renbourn [Transatlantic, 2 LPs, Fr.] †

TRA 89509/10 Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch [Transatlantic, 2 LPs, Fr.] †

TRA 89511/12 Various: Acoustic Garden [Transatlantic, 2LPs, Fr.] †

200.168 Various: Here’s to the Irish [2001? Transatlantic, Gmn issue of TRA SAM 1] †

200.197 Various: Here’s to the Irish Vol.2 [2001? Transatlantic, Gmn issue of TRA SAM 11] †

The compiler is indebted to Alistair Banfield for guidance and loyal support, Reinhard Zierke of the excellent Mainly Norfolk website (https://mainlynorfolk.info/), an invaluable resource, and to Bill Leader, the man himself.