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 Tim Van Eyken Stiffs Lovers Holymen Theives Tim Van Eyken is one of the outstanding members of the newgeneration who have taken the folk tradition as inspiration. A member of the English band, Waterson:Carthy, he has also made his name in solo and duo projects in the last few years. fRoots says: An album full of thought, variety and surprises ... but a real sense of history and tradition is its essential heartbeat.
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 Bellowhead Burlesque I have tried to tone down the prose to write this description, but what can I do? This is a remarkable recording, a shock to the sytem. fROOTS' Colin Erwin calls it "Astonishing!" It's Brecht meets Childe in Copeland's backyard, chats with Coltrane and dances with brass monkeys. This 11 piece band of notorious trad-arr hipsters (including Spiers and Boden and Benji Kirkpatrick) plays accordions, fiddles and such, punched into high gear by brass band and strings, and all manner of exceptional strangeness ensues. It's all traditional, in a sense, but like nothing you have heard before. Bonus: the package is a small, lovely hardcover book with lyrics, photos (wild!) and more.
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Live at the Davy Lamp (2 CD set) - Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
- 19.99
Recorded live in Washington, England on May 13, 2000. In addition to Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, consisting of Billy Surgeoner, Judy Dinning and Simon Haworth, special guest, hurdy-gurdy player, Jake Walton, appears. Jez performs solo on some of the tracks and with some or all of the band on other tracks.
The Parish Notices (The Art Edition) - Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
- 14.99
The 1988 classic has been reissued with three bonus tracks and special artwork by Wolfgang Wolff. Considered by many to be Jez's best recording, it displays prominent rock and world beat influences in addition to traditional folk influences.
Two a Roue - Jez Lowe and Jake Walton
- 14.99
About this 1986 recording, fRoots wrote: ''There are so many catch tunes on this album, that it is almost an epidemic, and each is performed with such care and attention, you'll find the entire contents of 'Two a Roue' singing around your head for ages.' The new release includes 3 unreleased tunes. Jez plays guitar, cittern, whistle, banjo, harmonica and keyboards and Jake plays hurdy gurdy, dulcimer and guitar. Guests include Jo Partridge and Paul Reeve.
Honesty Box - Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
- 14.99
12 songs featuring Jez with Bad Pennies: Judy Dinning, Simon Haworth and Kate Bramley as well as special guests: Sam Pirt, Andy May and Jeff Armstrong. All of the songs are Jez Lowe originals with Track 1, Skin Too Thin, a co-wrrite with former Bad Penny, Bev Sanders. Jez Lowe is one of England's finest writers, an artist with the rare talent to write songs about specific Northeast English characters and situations, while applying universal truths which strike chords of familiarity the world over.
Doolally - Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
- 15.99
studio album from Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, released July 2004. It features 12 new Jez Lowe songs, arranged by the band, Jez Lowe, Kate Bramley, Andy May and Sean Taylor.
Black Mountains Revisited - Julie Murphy
- 17.99
1999 solo album with accompaniment by some of the finest acoustic players of the present-day. Featured artists include slide guitar wizard Martin Simpson and the legendary double bassist Danny Thompson as well as hurdy-gurdy maestro Nigel Eaton.
Færd - Lüders, Urhbrand, Romme, Tweed and Carr - Faerd
- 16.99
Færd is a UK-Nordic fusion featuring Ian Carr (Guitar) and Karen Tweed (accordion), Peter Urhbrand (violin/viola), Nanna Luders (vocals) and Eskil Romme (saxophone). Fans of ULC and Swäp are already well acquainted with the commonality of Danish and British folk music. Færd finds these same musicians tackling the music of the Faroe Islands.
Paris to Kyiv - Paris to Kyiv
- 16.99
Released in 1994, this recording can be described as Ukrainian soul music, Canadian Prairie style. It features Ukrainian jazz musician Sasha Boychouk, Carpathian Mountain violinist, Petro Iurashchuk and Canadian accordionist Nestor Budyk.
Variances - Paris to Kyiv
- 16.99
Released in 1996, this is music from the deepest layers of an ancient culture with a strikingly contemporary edge. Kochan collaborates with premier bandura player Julian Kytasty; they are joined by jazz violist Richard Moody, West African percussionist Evans Coffie and his protegé Henry Zacharias and multi-instrumentalist Martin Colledge (including Northumbrian pipes and cittern).
Encouragement - Frankie Armstrong
- 18.99
2007 release by this wonderful English singer. 13 tracks featuring Bob Evans on crwth, Anthony Ingle on piano, accordion and vocals, and Sarah Harman on vocals. Songs include "Effects of Love," "Fair Annie," "Parting," "Demon Lover," "Holy Thursday," more.
Guzulka - Vladimir Denissenkov
- 17.99
The amazing accordion playing of this Ulkrainian musician is legendary, and here he is backed by a large band of guitar, bass, horns, percussion, voices and cimbalom.
Wager - Dr Faustus
- 17.99
Tim Van Eyken (Waterson-Carthy), Benji Kirkpatrick (Bellowhead, Oyster Band Big Session, Magpie Lane), Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzer's Feast) come together for a second album from inside (and inside-out of) the tradition, with a strong emphasis on vocal arrangements.
Garden of Love - Frankie Armstrong
- 17.99
With vocal and instrumental accompaniment by John Kirkpatrick, Joan Mills, Brian Pearson and Leon Rosselson
Fully Rigged - Aly Bain and Ale Moller
- 11.99
Shetland Islands meet Malmo, Sweden in a fully satisfying merger of genius.
Astrakan Cafe (ECM) - Anouar Brahem
- 16.99
Astrakan Café, Azarbeidjan, Turkmenistan, Turkhestan, Tanzania Gypsy fronds avant
Moonshout - Trans-Global Underground
- coming soon-temp out of stock-14.99
The 2007 release by this uncategorizable British globalpop band pushes yet more buttons and borders.
Six for Gold - Magpie Lane
- 17.99
The sixth album by Oxfordshire six-piece band is a journey through the English folk tradition. Founder members Ian Giles, Mat Green and Andy Turner are joined now by Marguerite Hutchinson, Sophie Polhill and Benji Kirkpatrick.
Not Fooling Anyone - Pegleg Ferret
- 14.99
Singers Benny Graham, Keith Pollard and Geoff Anderson are the ferrets, and they present the English song tradition a capella. They have a bias towards industrial songs from the North-East of England but also perform a number of humorous songs from outside of that tradition.
Darkest Before the Dawn - Frankie Armstrong, Sarah Harman and Shanee Taylor
- 14.99
Three great English singers take the songs of some of contemporary folk music's best sources and makes them her own, including songs by Pete Seeger, Leon Rosselson, Judy Small, Sandra Kerr, Ron Kavana and many others. Powerful social and political messages are delivered by the sheer strength of their voices.
Swarthmoor - Pete Morton
- 14.99
All original material, just Pete's vocal and guitar as you hear him in concert.
Ways of Seeing - Frankie Armstrong
- 13.99
A powerful set of live concert recordings featuring Frankie singing on her own, in duets and with up to ten other women.
Bright Shining Morning? - Janet Russell
- 13.99
Janet Russell's second solo album with some help from Mary MacMaster, Tom McConville and Sara Grey (amongst others). Once again a mixture of traditional and contemporary songs.
The Fair Moon Rejoices - Frankie Armstrong
- 13.99
A collection of very powerful, mostly contemporary material sung by one of England's renowned voicalists, acompanied by Joan Mills, Biddy Wells, Peter Stacey, Ben Lawrence, Geoff Haynes and Darien Pritchard
After the Brawl - Stocai
- 13.99
Stocai is a six piece English Dance Band combining bagpipes, bassoon, concertina, flute, guitar, keyboards, mandola, mandolin, melodeon, percussion, violin and whistle. Stocai brings together six musicians with a rare understanding of dance music who draw on English, French, Scandinavian, Quebecois, Old Time American dance music traditions. This is their second recording.
Prime - Meridian
- 13.99
Meridian produces innovative and wonderful folk music focused on driving chordal work of Richard Jones (accordion), the intricate melodic lines of Chris Walshaw (pipes/whistles/flutes) and the rhythm 'n' groove harmonies of Anna Tabbush (fiddle/flute). Anna, raised in the tradition, also sings and adds vocal lines. Meridian play arrangements of tunes and songs for concerts and Euro-dances and provide the glorious sound of raw folk energy, laced with finesse.
Burlesque - Bellowhead
- 17.99
I have tried to tone down the prose to write this description, but what can I do? This is a remarkable recording, a shock to the sytem. fROOTS' Colin Erwin calls it "Astonishing!" It's Brecht meets Childe in Copeland's backyard, chats with Coltrane and dances with brass monkeys. This 11 piece band of notorious trad-arr hipsters (including Spiers and Boden and Benji Kirkpatrick) plays accordions, fiddles and such, punched into high gear by brass band and strings, and all manner of exceptional strangeness ensues. It's all traditional, in a sense, but like nothing you have heard before. Bonus: the package is a small, lovely hardcover book with lyrics, photos (wild!) and more.
Holy Heathens and The Old Green Man - Waterson:Carthy
- 19.99
In 1965 The Watersons released the landmark album Frost and Fire - A Calendar of Ritual Magical Songs. This new recording returns to the themes, with resonant ensemble singing bolstered by The Devil’s Interval, a young and exciting new vocal trio of Lauren McCormick, Emily Portman and Jim Causely, and accompanied by guitar, fiddle, mandolin, brass and percussion. Superb!
Knock at the Knocker, Ring at the Bell - Magpie Lane
- 17.99
As in theor previous holiday recording, Wassail! A Country Christmas (1995), this CD features traditional carols, along with secular songs and dance tunes appropriate for Christmas and the Winter season. Many of the carols were collected from rural singers roughly one hundred years ago; the songs themselves were even then somewhat archaic, and had been left behind by changing popular taste. However some of the songs here, although they date back a couple of centuries, are still sung today, as part of vigorous community carolling traditions.
Tjo - Orust
- 16.99
Orust is Göran Premberg on fiddle, Tomas Larsson on mandola and Johan Kullberg on the accordion. They took their name from the island of the same name on Sweden's west coast, which has been much influenced by the music of England and Scotland. There you will find lots of tunes called Engelska (English) and the rhythms and sounds will be familiar to any fan of traditional English music, yet strangely foreign. It's lively and unique, a refreshing change from either style, and another revelation of how close we all really are once we ignore the little blue borderlines on the maps!
Borrowed Moments - Bob Fox
- 17.99
Described by Ralph McTell as one of England’s best voices,' Bob Fox makes his first recording for Topic. His voice and guitar have a lightness of touch and a sureness of purpose that go straight to the heart of the song, be it traditional or contemporary. Bob's guitar and bouzouki is accompanied by an ensemble of acoustic bass, accordion, trumpet, whistle, flute and viola.
A Trip to The Lakes - The Boat Band
- 14.99
Traditional Cumbrian tunes played straight, no chaser by this quartet of vocals, guitar, three melodeons, percussion, guitar, fiddle and banjo. No funk, no flash, just solid, exhuberant performances of great old tunes. Highly recommended for fans of Brit folk traditions, and accordion lovers in any tradition.
Rough Music - Eliza Carthy
- 18.99
A powerful, vital, multi-layered collection full of dark rhythms in Eliza's vision of English Traditional Music for the new millennium. Her backing band, The Ratcatchers, includes her long time collaborator Ben Ivitsky, and two of the fastest rising stars of the folk scene, Jon Boden and John Spiers. The album features dense arrangements of traditional songs as well as spirited, highly original performances of English instrumental music. Billy Bragg's 'King James Version' and Eliza's own 'Mohair 'complete the unique blend of old and new.
Come Dancing - Climax Ceilidh Band
- 17.99
The band says: "The band started when two trios, Meridian and Pesky, decided to play together in one band and Climax was born. The band prides itself on its fine mixture of self-penned tunes with traditional material and playing 'live' is as exciting for them as for the dancers.... a group of highly skilled musicians who are musically responsive to each other and are able to trust the spontaneity within each of them to take ceilidh music into new dimensions. The driving rhythms of the accordion and guitar, the sweet sound of the dancing fiddles, the swift trill of the flute and the power of the pipes makes the Climax Ceilidh Band experience truly orgasmic." - Anna Tabbush (fiddle), Holly Sheldrake (fiddle), Richard Jones (accordion), Mark 'Swerve' Weaver (guitar) and Chris Walshaw (pipes and whistles)
The Dawn Songs - Vivien Ellis
- 17.99
Well known for her work with Alva, Sinfonye and The Dufay Collective, she is equally at ease with world music, mediaeval songs and contemporary ballads she interprets an astonishing range of material in her new, multi-genre CD. The album encompasses the English tradition, Brazilian samba; Appalachian spiritual; troubadour song in Occitan; Irish, Scots/Gaelic and Bulgarian folk music, as well as new dawn songs by contemporary writers. With instrumentation that includes fiddle, accordion, guitars, drums and electric bass, lute and viol, loops and effects – this is a richly varied album that embraces both the spare beauty of ancient song and full-on 21st century soundscapes.
Na Pradle - Fernhill
- 17.99
Na prádle is the 2006 concert recording by this important European ensemble, a reworking and reinventing of songs from their long time together, looking at the songs in a new ways. For old friends of the band, this is essential.
Ca Nos - Fernhill
- 17.99
Llatai - Fernhill
- 17.99
One Sunday Afternoon - Tim van Eyken and Robert Harbron
- 17.99
Two rising stars of the acoustic music scene come together in an album that combines consummate musicianship with an instinctive feel for traditional material. The deftly-played instrumental sets draw on English, French and Swedish roots, while the songs are enriched by Tim's voice - warm, assured and full of character.
Fortune My Foe - The York Waits
- 17.99
Popular music from the period of the Gunpowder Plot is an album of instrumental music from the Jacobean period, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1605 event, played on period instruments including shawms (ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family), and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600, cornett, saggbut, and curtal, flutes, recorders, crumhorns, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, lute and cittern.
Pastorela - Sue Harris
- 17.99
Sue Harris is one of Britain's foremost dulcimer players. She was in one of the early line-ups of Ashley Hutchings's Albion Country Band, and has played with Richard and Linda Thompson, and John Kirkpatrick.
The Bells of Paradise - Alva
- 17.99
Vivien Ellis (vice) and Giles Lewin (violin) offer their unique interpretations of traditional English folk music
English Country Garden - Jenny McCormick
- 15.99
This young folk singer from Manchester, England is delicate and honest, and this collection of traditional folk songs and her own trad-inspired originals is a cut above the usual folk-fare. There is nothing startling or avant about this recording, save for the startling realization that simplicity pays off so handsomely. Accompanied primarily by guitar and a marvelously woody acoustic bass, with touches of other instruments sparsely scattered about.
The Ballads of…. - John Jacob Niles
- 15.99
The American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads, often called the "Dean of American Balladeers" in a 2 CD setof 24 trakcs of southern gothic ballads.
Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
- 16.99
The Brit guitar hero and cynical songwriter returns with a full blown electric album, finally. Nothing new under the sun, RT just simply continues to pour forth with dark wit and solid music. What else can I say? I am addicted.
Apples - June Tabor
- 17.99
A 2007 release by Tabor focuses on the traditions again, with Andy Cutting, Mark Emerson and Tim Harries providing a slender, beautiful backing. fRoots says: 'Every bit as mouth-watering as you hoped it would be. June sounds transformed and there’s a lightness in her touch we haven’t heard for a long time. 'The Dancing' is a stunning opening which immediately grabs you and keeps you there throughout the rest of the album. Her understated performance of Lester Simpson’s shudderingly powerful anti-war song 'Standing in Line' merits comparison with her classic recording of 'No Man’s Land'……at her simmering best on another great traditional song, The 'Rigs of Rye.' Ultimately she re-emerges as one of the great song interpreters on an album that puts her squarely back in the folk field.'
The Carthy Chronicles (US shipment only) - Martin Carthy
- 69.99
Epic 4 CD set. Click to read more. For shipment outside of US, please contact me before ordering
Bellow - Spiers and Boden
- 17.99
John Spiers (melodeon) and Jon Boden (fiddle) present their 2003 release and it does not get much better than this for fans of English folk music. The tradition is strong, the musicianship is exceptional and the energy and verve bring it all to life. In all but a few cases it's all delivered as duets, no overdubs... Benji Kirkpatrick adds a bit of bouzouki on a few tracks.
Fragmenti - Paris to Kyiv
- 16.99
The 2005 release by this Canadian based, Ukraine inspired global music ensemble. Marvelous music, a first rate ensemble of Julian Kytasty, Richard Moody, Paul Yee, Christian Dugas, Alan Schroeder and Rodrigo Muñoz and of course, the voice of Alexis Kochan.
Rock On! - The Bunch
- 16.99
File under: Guilty Pleasure: Sandy Denny, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pat Donaldson, Ashley Hutchings, Gerry Conway, Dave Mattacks and Trevor Lucas perform their favorites from Chuck Berry, Elvis, Dion and Buddy Holly in the way only the Brits can, both praising and tormenting the American songbook. Fully annotated with three previously unreleased bonus tracks. It really is a priceless piece of nostalgia for UK music buffs.
Carolling and Crumpets - John Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
Midwinter song celebration from the accordion master. 11 tracks including "The Jovial Tinker," "The Boar's Head Carol," "The Wassail Cup Carol" and more.
Songs - Spiers and Boden
- 16.99
2005 - the third and final part of the 2005 cycle of works by fiddle accordion duo Jon Boden and John Spiers, this one, obviously, focusing on the songs, including 'Bold Sir Rylas,' 'Old Maui,' 'Innocent When You Dream'
Midwinter - various
- 54.99
A Celebration Of The Folk Music And Traditions Of Christmas and The Turning Of The Year - Another Free Reed Records box set extravaganza: 4 CDs in a longbox, over 155 rare, unreleased and newly-recorded tracks from a mighty roster of the world's great names of folk and folk-rock from Europs and America, with a 136 page book. Includes Phil Tanner, Robert Frost (himself!), John Fahey, various Albions, Watersons and Carthys, Ledbelly, Ian Campbell, Richard Thompson, etc etc.
Game Set Match - Nic Jones
- 17.99
Live recordings from the late 1970s. 15 remastered tracks, including Bonny Light Horseman," "Billy Don't Weep For Me," "Seven Yellow Gypsies," "Master Kilby," " and more.
Straws In The Wind - Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
- 17.99
Their 2006 recording (how many is this now!?) features 17 traditional songs and instrumentals, including "Jacky Tar," "Death of Queen Jane." Kevin Dempsey guests on fiddle on "My Heart's In New South Wales."
1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CDs, 1 DVD) - Richard Thompson
- 28.99
Thompson presents what he considers the great songs of the millennium, from 'Summer is icumen in' and 'King Henry' to 'Cry Me A River' and "Oops I Did It Again.' An acoustic pleasure, with Thomson on guitar and vocals, Michael Jerome on percussion and Judith Owen on vocals. 2 CDs and DVD (NTSC - North American format)
White Bicycles: Making Music in the1960s - various (Joe Boyd)
- 15.99
23-track companion CD to producer Joe Boyd's autobiography 'White Bicycles,' a history of his production company Witchseason. Rare and previously unreleased tracks, with sleeve notes and previously unpublished photos: Shirley Collins' "Seven Yellow Gypsies," Fotheringay's "The Sea," Fairport Convention's "The Deserter" and a lot more obscure recordings from the Boyd stable.
Stiffs Lovers Holymen Theives - Tim Van Eyken
- 17.99
Tim Van Eyken is one of the outstanding members of the newgeneration who have taken the folk tradition as inspiration. A member of the English band, Waterson:Carthy, he has also made his name in solo and duo projects in the last few years. fRoots says: An album full of thought, variety and surprises ... but a real sense of history and tradition is its essential heartbeat.
Scotland: The Music And The Song, A 20-Year Profile Of Greentrax - various
- 29.99
3 CDs, 59 tracks from two decades of this venerable Scottish label's output. Disc 1 represents the best from the first decade, while disc 2 covers the 'cutting-edge' artists, and disc 3 features the highlights of the last ten years. Fiddler's Bid, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Malinky, Dick Gaughan, Shooglenifty, Chris Stout and obviously, many others.
UnConventionAl - Fairport Convention
- 74.99
Back in stock: The 35th Anniversary 4 CD Box Set of music by Fairport Convention. Four themed CDs, a 148 Page Book, a definitive Fairport Family Tree, the Cropredy Souvenir Booklet. Includes 75 digitally-remastered tracks (over 95% previously unavailable) for more than 5 hours of music.
The 18th Day of May - The Eighteenth Day of May
- 14.99
A five-piece, London based group, originally an acoustic trio comprising American singer and flautist Alison Brice, Swedish-born Richard Olson (acoustic guitar, harmonica and sitar) and Oxfordshire-based guitarist and mandolin player Ben Phillipson, they went electric early in 2004, adding rhythm section Mark Nicholas (bass), Karl Sabino (drums,autoharp) and Alison Cotton (viola). The group combines elements of traditional and contemporary msuci with what they describe as "a psychedelic underground rock sound." They are pretty much a one-of-a-kind experiment.
Stepping Up - various
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A history of the new wave of English Country Dance Music - 23 of the most exciting English roots dance bands with 44 tunes drawn from the English tradition. Compiled and annotated by Ian Anderson, the editor of fRoots magazine, this is both a great listening album and also a definitive anthology and history of the English folk musical movement. All the great artists and legendary players of the New Wave Of English Country Music from its very beginnings to the present day in 23 tracks.
The Reckoning - John Tams
- 15.99
The noted British songwriter returns, accompanied by Andy Seward, Steve Dawson, Roger Wilson, Barry Coope, Graeme Taylor and Keith Angel.
Waiting for Angels - Martin Carthy
- 17.99
The 2004 recording by one of Britain's most important singers, and it is everything a six year wait would make you hope it would be. Produced by Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky, with four solo tracks and the others backed up by a marvelous bunch of friends. A must have for Brit folk fans.
Landfall - Martin Carthy
- 14.99
1971 recording by the great English singer and guitarist, reissued on Topic in 1996
Scottish Tradition Vol. 3: Waulking Songs from Barra - various
- 17.99
Distinctive 'waulking' songs of the Western Isles, featuring Mary Morrison, Calum Johnston, Kate Buchanan and Flora Boyd.
Round Cape Horn - various - sea songs
- 17.99
Traditional Songs of Sailors, Ships and The Sea' - Not shanties but sailors' ballads and forebitters, the songs sung when off-duty to entertain fellow seamen. , in renditions by Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Frankie Armstrong, Roy Harris, Lou Killen, Peter Bellamy, Cyril Tawney and various Watersons, all outstanding interpreters of sailors' songs.
The Silver Bow - Tom Anderson and Aly Bain
- 17.99
Tom Anderson, fiddler, composer, folklorist and teacher, was a profoundly influential figure in Shetland music. He and Aly Bain, with Trevor Hunter and Davie Tulloch, spanning three generations of music-making in the islands, play fiddle duets and quartets in the distinctive Shetland idiom.
Snapshots - Shirley and Dolly Collins
- 16.99
22 unreleased tracks from 1960s and concert recordings from the '70s: "Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear," "The Bonny Bunch Of Roses," "The Bonny Labouring Boy" and more. Nice packaging includes informative booklet, previously unpublished photographs, and sleevenotes by Shirley
At The Wood's Heart - June Tabor
- 17.99
2005 release is mostly traditional songs, featuring Martin Simpson on guitar, Andy Cutting on accordion, pianist Huw Warren and others.
Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson
- 16.99
This 1972 recording, Thompson's first solo album after leaving Fairport Convention, is a wonderful guilty pleasure. This remastered, slipcase edition from Fledgling has restored the original artwork, included song lyrics and added several previously unpublished photos. Caustic, heartbreaking, funny and above all, masterly performed by one of my all time favorite artists.
True Dare or Promise - Martin and Jessica Simpson
- 16.99
One of my personal favorites from the British guitar and vocal duo, with great songs (Shawnee Town, Esequibo River, The Keel Row and the Nic Jones inspired Bedlam Boys are just the top of the list) and a fine supportign cast of musicians.
The Arms Dealer's Daughter - Shooglenifty
- 16.99
fRoots says: 'Something of a watershed album for the splendid Scots band as they unveil their new line-up with their fifth album...If the huge range of styles and influences brand it as experimental then that's merely because so little has been done with sound in this area and their vision and appetite for risk never gets in the way of the basic precepts of the album - to have fun. It's a good-time dance album that clambers effortlessly across continents and traditions to get there.' - Colin Erwin
The Sultans Of Squeeze - John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson
- 16.99
Two of the masters of the accordion collude and collide in a mix of trad and not-so-trad tunes and songs. 15 tracks, solos and duets including 'Under Paris Skies,' 'The Rambling Sailor,' 'Liberty Bell March,' Pete Townsend's 'Squeeze Box,' Clifton Chenier's 'I'm a Hog For You Baby' and 'African Waltz.'
RT - The life and music of Richard Thompson - Richard Thompson
- 70.99
5 CD set features the classic Richard Thompson songs, as well as recordings never heard before by even the most devoted of fans, and is made up entirely of previously-unreleased and extremely hard-to-find recordings.
Invisible Fields - Iarla O Lionaird
- 15.99
Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird says of his 2006 release: 'It's in part about the triumph of the natural world over religion. I've written new work for it, so there's a pushing forward. But there's also an archaeological aspect to it, a recovery of songs I'd long wanted to sing. It's more bespoke, more personal than other things I've done. I conceived it, wrote the new material, played on it, produced it.'
Empires and Us - Steve Skaith
- 17.99
Former Latin Quarter frontman Steve Skaith leads a politically charged folk-rock ensemble with Javier Gámiz - Lead guitar and backing vocals, Beto Tenorio - Bass, and Ricardo Serrano - Drums.
Return to the Woods - Joe Townsend and Martin Green
- 16.99
Joe Townsend and Martin Green have recorded an album that walks through the hinterland of jazz, folk, and contemporary music on violin, guitar, accordion, and an array of other instruments such as Mongolian cello, octave violin, musical saw and Fender Rhodes piano. They move from the inspiration of Duke Ellington and Romanian Gypsy music, through the minimalism of Adams and Reich and into the darker regions of English folk music. Through imaginative recording techniques such as the placing of tiny microphones inside instruments, playing the accordion through rotating speakers and using vintage keyboards they have produced a unique voice which is constantly changing yet somehow familiar. There's no explaining it; you simply have to listen.
Nordic Initiative - Royst
- 17.99
Røyst is a vocal quartet established in Leeds, England by four Norwegian singers - Kari Nergaard Bleivik, Therese Ulvan, Cecilie Giskemo and Maria Jardardottir - who perform original music written and arranged by the members of the group. The repetoire includes a wide-ranging group of styles - traditional Norwegian folk music, vocal jazz, improvisation in a traditional folk vein as well as avant garde free improv, interpretations of ethnic music from around the world and classical art music. The cohesion lies in the unique quality of the voices together, their interest in both tradition and experimentation, and their simple, joyous exhuberance.
Haven - Flook
- 17.99
2005 release, their third, is a 10th anniversary celebration. Colin Irwin in fRoots says 'No flies on Flook whose own flute protagonists Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen drive their own album with tireless flair and constant ingenuity. It's an album so caringly recorded and produced (by themselves and Mark Tucker) you can hear their gulps of air on what has a very live feel, with all the excitement that implies.'
The Holly Bears the Crown - The Young Tradition, Shirley and Dolly Collins
- 16.99
The Young Tradition, joined by Shirley and Dolly Collins. Legendary, long lost recordings from 1969. A collection of seasonal songs from some of the finest voices of the 1960's English folk revival.
Mul Sheshe - Fantazia
- 17.99
fRoots says: 'A bi-cultural nine-piece mix of musicians from both the UK and the London-based Algerian diaspora... Add the very welcome top layer of dark chocolatey vocals from Mourad Simba who joined the band in 2002, and you end up with the rich, satisfying texture of their current sound. Fuelled by a base of Maghrebi musical traditions - and with multi-cultural guest performers aplenty - the classy, jazzy brass of Rachel Bartlett on saxes and Bellowhead's Andy Mellon on trumpet give the album a funky party spirit, but without compromising the rai, cha'abi, Berber and Gnawa roots and rhythms of dazzlingly skilful oud player Yazid Fentazi's compositions and the cracking percussion of Karim Dellali.'
Major Third - 422
- 16.99
The third release by this clever and eclectic English folk-prog band.
Midnight Man - Davy Graham
- 16.99
Graham's 1966 rythmn'n'blues tinged collection. For this carefullly remastered edition Fledg’ling have restored all the elements of the original artwork and added new sleevenotes and several previously unpublished photographs.
Watch the Stars - Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn
- 16.99
First released in 1967, a remarkable long-lost gem from the mid-'sixties British folk revival. A beautiful collection of folk, blues and haikus, the album melds a folk-boom topicality with a fine 'beat' sensibility; uniting the Afro-American West Coast with suburban London. Long out-of-print, the record is an early milestone in the careers of Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn. Contains two songs written by Anne Briggs and an early cover of Arthur Lee’s 'Message To Pretty'
TransAtlantic Folk Box Set - various
- 27.99
3 CD set, 70 track collection from one of the great British folk labels. Wellknown artists like Pentagle, Ralph McTell, Ian Campbell Group, Andrew Cronshaw, Bert Jansch, John Renborn, Finbar and amp; Eddie Furey, Sweeney's Men and Dubliners are well-augmented by many lesser known and obscure artists.
Positivity - Orkestina
- 17.99
This is the 4th release by these musicians from Bulgaria, Spain, Ireland and the UK. More sacred and profane music from the Gypsy and Jewish communities of Romania, Bulgaria and Poland is played by a raucous band of accordions, violins and bass, Bulgarian gadulkas, clarinets and percussion.
Anglophilia - Brian Peters
- 16.99
2005 solo release by the Anglo concertina master in a set of 17 mostly-traditional tunes. He accompanies himself on guitar or percussion on some tracks, sings on a few, and is joined on two tracks by Paul Walker on treble and baritone concertina. Excellent, as always.
Large as life and twice as natural - Davey Graham
- 16.99
His 1968 recording featured Harold McNair on flute, Jon Hiseman on drums, Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophone, and Pentangle's Danny Thompson on double bass in one of the early explorations of merging acoustic blues, folk and jazz. Includes additional unpublished photographs, original artwork. Essential.
'Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn: Ballads - Frankie Armstrong
- 16.99
A collection of Englsh ballads by one of the form's great singers, with guests John Kirkpatrick (melodeon, accordion) and Maddy Prior (vocals)
Pack of Jokers - Whapweasel
- 17.99
The 2005 edition of English folk-rock dance band Whapweasel is as good as the last, a stacked deck of guitars, horns, melodeons, keyboards, fiddles, cittern, bass and drums. Again produced by Steeleye-er Rick Kemp (whose guitar is also in the mix), the 'weasels deal a trump hand that will get your feet moving and your head spinning.
Lovely on the Water - Frankie Armstrong
- 16.99
A reissue of the classic 1972 Topic LP plus selections from 'The Valiant Sailor' and 'Room for Company.'
Up to Now - Robin and Barry Dransfield
- 29.99
The 1996 release of a 39-track 2 CD set includes 11 new and un-issued tracks from long-lost BBC John Peel Shows and 'In Concert' sessions from the 1970s, as a duo, as soloists, and many rare recordings of theirelectric band 'Dransfield'. There are nine tracks from their first Free Reed album 'Popular to Contrary Belief' and two tracks from the classic1976 electric album 'The Fiddler's Dream'. There is also a wealth of rare and lost tracks: from their 1970 'Folk on Friday' debut recording; from Robin and from Barry's solo albums and performances from ' Tale of Ale' and 'Morris On.'
Radical Mestizo - Live - Shooglenifty
- 16.99
A live one from this 'radical' Scotland-based band, recorded the Teatro de La Cuidad in Mexico City, Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow, The Second Story Nightclub in Bloomington Indiana, and Glenuig Hall in Scotland.
Hat - Davy Graham
- 16.99
First released in 1969, Hat has not previously appeared on compact disc. The album is a rounded portrait of Davy Graham's remarkable style - drawing together Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, The Beatles, Henry Purcell and Indian raga on one splendid record. Fledg'ling have carefully remastered this album from the original master tapes, added new sleeve-notes and previously unpublished photographs. Ralph McTell said: 'All of us guitarists - Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jimmy Page, myself - owe it all to this wonderful musician. Davy never runs out of ideas, and there has not been anyone who has come close.'
Folk, Blues and Beyond... - Davy Graham
- 16.99
Folk, Blues and Beyond... was first released in 1965. The recording established Davy Graham's reputation, influenced a whole generation of acoustic guitarists and was one of the first steps towards British folk-rock. Fledg’ling Records are very proud to reisue one on the most important recordings from the 1960’s Folk Revival. For this carefully remastered, slipcased edition we have restored all the elements of the original artwork and added five very rare bonus tracks, new sleeve-notes and previously unpublished photographs.
Folk Roots, New Routes - Shirley Collins and Davy Graham
- 16.99
Another classic record from 1965. An experimental recording conceived by Austin John Marshall bringing together Shirley's haunting traditional song with Davy's guitar improvisations. Folk Roots, New Routes opened the door for Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief and Pentangle's debut. For this carefully remastered, slipcased edition Fledg'ling have restored the original artwork, added a new sleeve-note essay and previously unpublished photographs.
Tunes - Spiers and Boden
- 16.99
The third album from the fiddle-accordion duo of Spiers and Boden is devoted almost exclusively to tunes from the English tradition.
Songlinks 2 - Various artists
- 22.99
2-CD set of English traditional songs and their American variants. One CD highlights the English singers, The Copper Family, Martyn Wyndham-Read and others. The sister set features the American conterparts: Bruce Molsky, Jean Ritchie, Jody Stecher, and others. Packaged in an 80-page hardback book written by Shirley Collins.
Rising For The Moon - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Angel Delight - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
The North Star Grassman And The Ravens - Denny, Sandy
- 17.99
2005 digital remaster with 4 bonus tracks, sleevenotes and enhanced packaging. Originally released in 1971 on Islandf following the breakup of the short-lived Fotheringay. Features former members of Fotheringay, Richard Thompson and Barry Dransfield. Bonus tracks: Late November (El Pea version), Walking The Floor Over You, 'Losing Game, and Next Time Around (no strings).
Sandy - Denny, Sandy
- 17.99
2005 digital remastering with 5 bonus tracks, sleevenotes, and enhanced packaging. Originally released in 1972 on AM. Sandy Denny's quintessential solo effort, the follow up to the Island LP The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, which was her first post-Fairport Convention release. Features covers of Bob Dylan and Richard Farina as well as eight originals. Trevor Lucas produces a sometimes lush, always pefect ensemble. Bonus Tracks: Here in Silence, Man of Iron, Sweet Rosemary, Ecoute, Ecoute, and It'll Take a Long Time, (Live with Fairport Convention).
Like An Old Fashioned Waltz - Denny, Sandy
- 17.99
2005 digital remastering with 4 bonus tracks, sleevenotes and enhanced packaging. Originally issued on Island in 1973. For her third solo album Sandy was increasingly sure of herself as a songwriter. The gently poignant songs on Like An Old Fashioned Waltz are minor masterpieces. Several of the albums' best songs - including 'Solo,' 'Friends' and the heavily orchestrated 'Carnival' - tap a reflective, confessional mood. Vocally the album captures some beautifully embroidered singing, full of subtle inflections and emotional nuances. The recording and arrangements display a growing assurance that belies the oft-repeated tales of Sandy's nervousness in the studio...Like an Old Fashioned Waltz captures a remarkable artist at the top of her game. - from the liner notes. Bonus Tracks: At the End of the Day, King and Queen of England, Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (unreleased Fairports track from '74), and No End.
Rendezvous - Denny, Sandy
- 17.99
2005 digital remastering with 5 bonus tracks, sleevenotes and enhanced packaging. Originally released on Island in 1977. Rendezvous is a majestic, dignified production, occasionally let down by some over-ripe arrangements. Much of the album was cut with the orchestra and backing band playing together in the studio with guest musicians on the sessions including many long-time Fairport / Fotheringay colleagues and several fellow Island artists who were also recording during the same period, including Steve Winwood of Traffic, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick of Free and Bronco's Jess Roden. Like so many of Sandy's best songs 'All Our Days' has a haunting, melancholy quality; the remarkable seven-and-a-half minute performance on Rendezvous was recorded live with the full orchestra in CBS' expansive Whitfield Street Studios. -from the liner notes. Bonus tracks: Still Waters Run Deep, Full Moon, I'm A Dreamer, Easy To Slip, Moments.
House Full - Live at the LA Troubadour - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Heyday (The BBC Sessions) - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue,
I Want To See The Bright Lights - Thompson, Richard And Linda
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Hokey Pokey - Thompson, Richard And Linda
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Pour Down Like - Thompson, Richard And Linda
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Babbacome Lee - Fairport Convention
- 17.99
New Island reissue
Always - June Tabor
- 63.95
Topic records presents a 4-CD box set with 67 tracks from one of England's most revered singers. It includes many rare, live, and previously unreleased recordings, plus a 48-page booklet with historical photos, an extensive biographical essay with many quotations and notes on each song from Tabor herself.
Burning Bright (box set) - Ashley Hutchings
- 75.99
The godfather of English folk-rock is boxed as only Free Reed can, with 4 CDs covering his entire history as solist, band leader and founder, theatrical empressario, producer and explorer. Includes a hefty 156 page book, plus bonuses and surprises.
The 25th Anniversary Concert (NTSC - DVD) - Oysterband
- 27.99
Taped in December 2003 at 'The Forum' in London with special guests June Tabor, Chumbawamba (an acoustic assemblege) and James O'Grady. 18 live performances plus bonus material including their brilliant B and W video of NY Girls recorded on the Staten Island ferry. This is the NTSC edition for North American and other regions
Hutsulshchyna No 1 - Tafiychuk Family
- 18.99
With a family line from the Hutsul village of Bukovets, between Kosiv and Verkhovyna in the Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Mountains, this family has been cultivating local music traditions for decades. Their repertoire is recognized as a canon of Hutsul folklore. This first CD consists of ritual wedding music - kolo-myikas and ritual games and spontaneous, archaic dances sung and performed on violin and instruments such as sopilka, floiara, telenka among others. All Koka Records are beautifully packaged.
Songs From Ukraine 2 - Drevo
- 18.99
Led by Yevhen Yefremov, this ensemble was formed in 1979. Its repertoire consists of material collected by its members during ethnographic expeditions, and with special attention and care they have recovered traditional songs of central and eastern Ukraine, discovering and preserving their original charm and power. Lyrical and ritual songs from the Poltava, Rivne, Tcherkasy and Kyiv regions are performed mainly a capella, or with minimal accompaniment. As with all Koka Records, this is beautifully packaged.
...and friends - Wu Man
- 16.99
..and the friends are a pretty interesting group - the Chinese pipa master and singer is joined by American Lee Knight (banjo, dulcimer, mouth bow, voice), Ukrainian Julian Kytasty (bandura, sopilka, voice) and Bugandan harpist James Makubuya (endongo, adungu, voice) in a global song circle that includes traditional folks songs from each region.
2 CDs - Ochre/Great Bear - Andrew Cronshaw
- 31.99
A special price on a pair of CDs by Andrew Cronshaw: Ochre (2004) and On The Shoulders of the Great Bear (2000).
The 25th Anniversary Concert (PAL - DVD) - Oysterband
- 28.99
Taped in December 2003 at 'The Forum' in London with special guests June Tabor, Chumbawamba (an acoustic assemblege) and James O'Grady. 18 live performances plus bonus material including their brilliant B and W video of NY Girls recorded on the Staten Island ferry. PAL (European) format only
For As Many As Will - Shirley and Dolly Collins
- no longer available
Their last studio album, recorded in 1978.
Wild Life - Home Service
- 16.99
The live recording from 1992 by 'The greatest British rock'n'folk band of them all' with brass blazing, lead guitar screaming and a rock solid rhythm section.
Three in a Row: The English Melodeon - John Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
1984 solo album featuring one and two row melodeons and three row chromatic button box
Welcome to Hell - John Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
One of the leading revivalists and inventive players of melodeon, concertina and chromatic accordion plays traditional, original and remarkable tunes and songs with full band and a lot of attitude. Alongside arrangements of traditional material like 'Lovely Nancy' and 'Step Dance Tunes', the band tackle Sting's 'Fields Of Gold' and 'Accordion Joe' - from the repertoire of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Traditionalists beware!
Voyage - Eel Grinders
- 17.99
From the south west of England, this quartet presents a personal and original music, using traditional instruments to create contemporary art music that is both visceral and elegant. Using bagpipes, whistles, trumpet, violin, accordion and voice, usually in 'live' settings with no overdubs, Eel Grinders create new music from their old roots.
Aquamarine - Eel Grinders
- 17.99
The first release by this marvelous English quartet of bagpipes, whistles, trumpet, violin, percussion, accordion and voice. All original tunes driven by a deep understanding of the tradition.
English and Border music for Pipes - David Faulkner and Steve Turner
- 17.99
Traditional Engish folk music performed on Border pipes, whistle (David Faulkner) and accordion (Steve Turner) and nothing else. Eliza Carthy's review in Musical Traditions said, Turner has a lovely touch and great instincts... David Faulkner is also an expert musician with fantastic tone... totally engrossing and certainly made me want to play along.
Sideways Air - Helena Torpy and Steve Turner
- 17.99
Music for accordion and fiddle from deep-English tradition
Yule Riding - The York Waits
- 17.99
A celebration of a traditional holiday from York, England in the years before 1570. With instruments that include shawms, sackbut, recorders, flute, harp, lute, guitar, cittern and hurdy gurdy gurdy the album also features the glorious vocals of soprano Deborah Catterall.
The Big Session Volume 1 - Oysterband and friends
- 17.99
In May of 2004 Oysterband were joined for live sessions in London, in front of a small audience by a mighty cast - June Tabor, Phil Beer and Steve Knightley, Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky, Jim Moray, James O'Grady and visiting American-gothick originals The Handsome Family, and they performed all sorts of familiar and unfamiliar material together over the three nights. These 15 tracks are from those concerts.
A Boxful of Treasures - Sandy Denny
- 78.99
It's been done before, but this 5 CD set is pretty close to the definitive overview of this legendary English singer's work and includes a lot of material unavailable to the compilers of the Hannibal set from a few decades back. Long-form box with the 5 CDs, a 52 page full colour booklet - foreword by Richard Thompson, biographical essay by Jim Irvin, and coda by Dick Gaughan. The booklet is lavishly illustrated with reproductions from Sandy's original lyric notebooks, plus rare and previously unpublished photographs. The booklet concludes with a full discographical track listing.
Fair Annie / Peter Bellamy - Peter Bellamy
- 16.99
The first CD release of two of Bellamy's earlier recordings, Fair Annie and the self titled Peter Bellamy. The complete editions are included on this single CD.
Another Musical Interlude (DVD) - Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham
- 21.99
On the last night of Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham’s 12th annual tour of Scotland, they played a storming concert at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scotland. This is a video of that concert. The accompanying documentary shows behind the scenes footage and gives an insight in the relationship between Aly and Phil. The multi-region NTSC-DVD includes the concert, documentaries, extra songs, biographies, discographies and weblinks
Ochre - Andrew Cronshaw
- 17.99
The English composer and musician player turns 'world music' around by inviting an international roster of artists to help him reinterpret his own traditions. At a studio in south-west Wales, he recorded with Syrian qanun and oudist Abdullah Chhadeh, Welsh triple-harpist Llio Rhydderch, Arabic vocalist Natacha Atlas, Pontic/Greek lyra player Matthaios Tsahourides, Australia-resident Brit Ian Blake on bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano sax and prepared piano, Irish double bassist Bernard O'Neill, and himself on electric zither, the 6 foot long Slovakian flute fujara, Chinese brass-reeded ba-wu and other instruments not usually associated with English music.
False True Lovers - Shirley Collins
- 16.99
Probably her rarest album, first released in 1959 on the prestigious Folkways label. With the help of Washington's Smithsonian Institute Fledgling was able to return to the original Alan Lomax produced tapes to produce this sparkling transfer to CD. Recorded when Shirley was just eighteen, 'False True Lovers' is a stunning collection of British and American traditional song, capturing a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950's.
The Compleat Dancing Master - Hutchings and Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
A reissue of a pioneering 1974 recording, a sequence of music and readings connected with English country dance music throughout the centuries. Ashley Hutchings and John Kirkpatrick lead Peter Knight, Sue Harris, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks and an big cast of actors and musicians through one of their finest albums. New sleevenotes from Huthchings.
Morris On - Kirkpatrick, Thompson et al
- 16.99
30th anniversary reissue of this folk-rock classic from 1972; one of the eccentric masterpieces of British electric folk. With Richard Thompson, Barry Dransfield, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks -- new sleevenotes by Hutchings. Carefully remastered from the original master tapes.
Cropredy Capers - Various artists, Fairport, et al
- 74.99
In the Freereed Records tradition, another bang-up box set, this time of live music from the Fairport Convention gathering at Cropedy each year for the last 25. 4 CDs, a big book and lots of extras, as always.
Fotheringay - Fotheringay
- 16.99
This is one of the gem's of the Sandy Denny discography, and often hailed as one of the best of the 70's folk-pop recordings from England. Joined by Trevor Lucas, Jerry Donahue, Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway, Denny created a magical ensemble sound. For this carefully remastered edition Fledg'ing has restored all of the original artwork and added four bonus tracks: performances recorded at the 1970 Rotterdam Festival.
Rise Up Like The Sun - The Albion Band
- 16.99
The classic folk-rock album by Hutchings, Thomspon, Mattacks, Nicol, Sanders, Taylor, Bullock, Pickett, Gregory and Tams, reissued on CD by Fledg'ling.
Dark Was The Night: A Tribute To The Music Of Blind Willie Johnson - Various Artists
- 16.99
An unusual tribute to the great bluesman, with Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin, Mike Seeger and Alexia Smith, Martin Simpson, The Henrys, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, others.
Introducing Sukke - Sukke
- 11.99
A nicely priced introduction to the klezmer music of Dutch accordionist Sanne Möricke, English clarinetist Merlin Shepherd, and German bassist Heiko Lehmann. Solid playing, no surprises and a traditionalist presentation.
Pod (CD/DVD) - Afrocelts
- 16.99
Interesting remixes of previous tracks include 'Johnny At Sea' (previously only on the band's website), and 'Full Moon Low Tide,' (with some dire sounding bagipes bits), as well as more familiar fare given radical rewrites. 2-disc package includes a DVD with some videos some moments from their 2001 appearance at WOMAD USA.
Fire of Flame - Brass Monkey
- 17.99
More Deep English Folk from the quintet. Is there ever too much of this stuff? I think not! Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Howard Evans, Richard Cheetham and Martin Brinsford continue the tradition.
Half a Fruit Pie - Benji Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
Songs and tunes both original and traditional by the guitarist and bouzuki player. Guest musicans include John Kirkpatrick on melodeon and vocals, Richard Adams on drums and Seth Lakeman on fiddle and viola. Both traditional acoustic and folk rock sounds.
Unearthed (2 CD set) - Nic Jones
- special order - 33.99
A great singer, a revered guitarist, Jones has started gathering old tapes and releasing them on his own label. This two-CD collection of concert recordings, studio outtakes, and other rarities gives a fine sampling of Nic in his prime. Over 30 songs and guitar tunes including 'Ten Thousand Miles,' 'Clyde Water,' 'Warlike Lads of Russia,' 'Annachie Gordon,' many others.
The Duck Race - John Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
Morris Dance Tunes from Shropshire presented by the one of the UKs most respected accordion players and musical explorers. This is just John, on various boxes including single and 2 row melodeons, treble, bass and baritone concertinas, occasionally overdubbed in self-duets. Tunes are traditional, or original tunes 'in the tradition.' (2004 release)
Prairie Nights and Peacock Feathers - Paris to Kyiv
- 16.99
ukraine europe russia
Cosmic Sounds Remixed - Various
- 16.99
Artists from around the world join forces to pay tribute to the Cosmic Sounds label (Italy, Austria, Croatia, England, Hungary, Australia, Japan and Serbia). Each of them chose one track from the CS catalogue and gave it a fresh touch. 8 remixes of tracks by Arkestra One, SHQ, Jerome Richardson, Dusko Gojkovic and others by DJs from across Europe and Asia.
On The Shoulders of the Great Bear - Cronshaw, Andrew
- 16.99
British zither player with a wonderful cast of Nordic musicians produces sometimes ethereal, sometimes raw new acoustic music.
Fastland - Sula
- 13.99
The music is from the whole north Atlantic area… reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, hopsas and powerful songs. Rod Sinclair (Scotland) sings and plays guitar and 5-string banjo. Eskil Romme (Denmark) plays accordion, saxophone and pipes. Erling Olsen (Denmark) is a fiddler in the traditional Nordic style.
Switter Swatter - Oxford Waits
- 17.99
Superb singing voices are matched by instrumentation that includes lute, fiddle, smallpipes, pipe and tabor, shawm, orpharion and hurdy-gurdy. Here is early music played with all the zest of a contemporary folk band, with 29 tracks and over 60 minutes of playing time.
The Transports - Silver Edition - Peter Bellamy
- 59.99
The classic recording of Bellamy's 'folk opera' plus a whole new edition recorded in his memory by his friends and admirers in 2003. Packaged in the usual Free Reed elegance of a large presentation box, informative booklet and various extras.
Broadway Goes Latin/Hollywood Cha Cha Cha - Edmundo Ros
- 17.99
The Trouble With Happiness - John Greaves
- 16.99
Greaves is a multi-talented artist, known to some as the virtuoso bass player in some of the more interesting progressive groups of the 1970s - Henry Cow, National Health - and to others as a singer/songwriter, and crafter of sophisticated, witty and beautiful songs. This distinction may mislead one into thinking that there have been two (or more) very distinct phases in his career, yet John Greaves has always stood at the crossroads of several musical traditions, which he has fused into a highly distinctive body of work. He has released a number of solo albums and has appeared on albums by Peter Blegvad, Slapp Happy, Soft Heap, Michael Mantler, Michael Nyman, Pip Pyle and Robert Wyatt. Greaves was a key contributor to a musical movement that attempted to break away from the limitations of the rock format, by integrating elements of classical conceptualization as well as totally free improvisation, a dimension that set Henry Cow apart and firmly established the band's place in rock history.
Different Tongues - Brian Peters
- 16.99
A recording filled with old songs and new, songs of sailors, poachers, highwaymen, sinister strangers, deserted lovers, and supernatural revelations, and a cover of Richard Thompson's 'Watlzing For Dreamers.' Some nice melodeon tunes, as always. Accompaniment from Jeff Davis, Gordon Tyrral, Dave Pope and Chris Peters.
Concert Program - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- 17.99
2 CD concert recorded in Wool Hall, Somerset, UK, in July of 1994
Yggdrasil (Tree of Life) - Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil
- 16.99
Faoroese composer and musician Kristian Blak with the Nordic ensemble Yggdrasil and Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir.
Music of Eastern Europe - Harmonia
- 16.99
Two generations of musicians celebrated for their performances of the music of their Eastern European homelands join forces to explore the shared musical roots of the culturally rich territories east of the Danube, from Hungary and Romania to Croatia, Slovakia and western Ukraine.
An Echo of Hooves - June Tabor
- 17.99
2003 release by this English singer, featuring Huw Warren on piano and cello, Mark Emerson on violin and viola, Tim Harries on double bass, Martin Simpson on guitar and Kathryn Tickell, Northumbrian pipes
Migrant - Shoormal
- 16.99
Contemporary folk music from Shetland. Freda Leask, Joyce McDill and Donna Smith joined forces in 1997 to create a three-part harmony sound accompanied by Trevor Smith on guitar, Gregg Arthur on piano and accordion, May Gair on double bass and Christopher Anderson on percussion.
Out of Bed - The Witches of Elswick
- 16.99
Becky Stockwell, Gillian Tolfrey, Byony Griffith and Fay Hield, four women from the northeast of England, sing unaccompanied songs, including classics like Sovai; Lord Randal; Two Sisters; The Blue Cockade; I Once Lived In Service; The Scarecrow; Maids At 18; The Tree In The Wood; Soldier, Soldier; Honey For The Bee.
Grit - Martyn Bennett
- 16.99
Scotland's innovative producer and electronic experimenter brings together old folk sounds with modern rechnology and ideas.
Smiling Men with Bad Reputations - Mike Heron
- 16.99
One of my guilty pleasures: the reissue of a bizarre, quirky and often quite funnny 1971 'solo' recording by Incredible String Bander Mike Heron includes The Who's Townsend and Moon, Richard Thompson, Jimmy Page, Dudu Pukwana, Elton John, various Fairporters and Dr Strangely Strange. Pop-powered flower-power folk-rock-jazz-silliness. Irresistible!
Hynt - Fernhill
- 17.99
The 2003 recording by this remarkable band that mixes Welsh, English, French and other music in an all acoustic mix. Julie Murphy on vocals, Ceri Rhys Matthews on guitar, Tomos Williams on trumpet, Cass Meurig on fiddle and crwth and Tim Harries on double bass.
Pibau - Ceri Rhys Matthews and Jonathan Shorland
- 17.99
Traditional Welsh piping. Another ground breaking album, which is making significant inroads in the traditional music scene. This CD's swirling pipe music marks a new dawn in traditional Welsh piping, and Ceri and Jonathan are at the forefront of this revival.
Transilvania Express - Orkestina
- 16.99
Musicians from Bulgaria,Spain,Ireland and the UK formed the to provide an outlet for their shared love of the musical treasures of Eastern Europe.The band ’s repertoire includes sacred and profane music from the Gypsy and Jewish communities of Romania,Bulgaria and Poland.Their sound is an effervescent mix of cheery accordions, lilting violins and driving bass paired with Bulgarian gadulkas (lutes), clarinets and percussion. The band has been a sensation in Spain, where they are based, and with Transilvania Express ,their debut album, they are set to wow American fans with Gypsy music.
FolkESTRA North! - FolkESTRA North!
- 17.99
A group of northern England’s extraordinary young performers (all age 13-18), inspired by Kathryn Tickell's artistic leadership create a powerful recording, full of energy and well... youthfulness!
Wired Up - Alistair McCulloch
- 17.99
The respected Scots fiddler's 2nd solo outing, supported by bouzouki, guitar, bodhan, recorder, accordion, piano, cello and bass.
Festival in the Desert (CD) - Various Artists
- 15.99
A unique celebration of the music and culture of the Tuareg people, this live recording of performances from the three-day festival held in January, 2003, includes tracks by Lo'Jo, Oumou Sangaré, Ali Farka Touré, Blackfire, Tartit, Afel Boucoum, ballake Sissoko, Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Justin Adams and many others.
Swarb! - Dave Swarbrick
- 64.99
4 CD box set by the renowned folk and rock fiddler.
Vol. I- Traditional songs from the Ukraine - Ensemble Khreshchaty Yar
- temp out of stock-17.99
Traditional songs from the Ukraine
Traditional songs from the Ukraine Vol. 2 - Ensemble Khreshchaty Yar
- 17.99
Armenia folk music ensemble.
One - 422
- 16.99
A tight and expressive band of young musicians playing Celtic, Shetland, Swedish and North American tunes on fiddles, whistle, accordion, guitar, bass and foot percussion. Led by accordionist Sam Pirt, this band was one of the stars of the RootsWorld Free Reed Festival in 2001.
New Numbers - 422
- 16.99
The second helping from this wonderful young Brit band is as full of energy and ideas as the first. Accordions, fiddles, guitars and whistles.
Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling and the tradition - Peter Bellamy
- 18.99
2 CD set of two Bellamy classics: 'Keep on Kiplin'g' and 'Songs an rummy conjuring tricks'
Between the Dark and Light - Fagan and Kerr
- 16.99
The Yellow Haired Laddie - Andy May
- 16.99
Music for the Northumbrian smallpipes, solo and accompanied. Features Kathryn Tickell on fiddle and viola.
Through and Through - John Spiers and Jon Boden
- 16.99
John Spiers (melodeon) and Jon Boden (fiddle) present an excellent set of tunes and songs from the tradition.
Wassail! - Celebration of an English Midwinter - Various
- 17.99
Performances of seasonal songs with John Kirkpatrick, Rosie Cross, Georgina Le Faux, Michael Gregory, Jane Threlfall and Carl Hogsden. (Fellside Records)
Mazurka Berserker - John Kirkpatrick
- 16.99
A stunning series of duets with some of John's favourite musicians was the inspiration for this great new album. Recorded by Oliver Knight in Robin Hood's Bay and then added to at studios as far apart as London, Los Angeles and Sydney! Collaborating musicians include Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Bob Johnson, Ray Fisher, Alistair Anderson, Kevin Dempsey, Ben Mandelson, James Fagan and Nancy Kerr. 'Mazurka Berserker' contains some of the finest (and most complicated) music JK has ever recorded.
Love, Death and the Lady - Shirley and Dolly Collins
- 17.99
One of the most powerfully moving records to emerge from the English folk revival of the 1960s - Love, Death and the Lady captures Shirley and Dolly Collins at the peak of their form. Originally released on the Harvest label in 1970, this new edition is remastered with four bonus tracks and extensive sleevenotes.
Rubai - Flook
- 17.99
The 2002 recording from one of Celtic music's great acoustic bands
Desert Road - Justin Adams
- 16.99
Two musical paths crossed when Justin Adams went to Mali. There he made the connection between the Arabic music that surrounded his youth (he lived in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt) and the Blues, Reggae, and Rock, all with origins in Africa. Suddenly, he knew why some music swings. After years of performing with Jah Wobble, Sinead O‚Connor, Natacha Atlas, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Billy Bragg, and Robert Plant, Justin Adams releases his first solo album. (2002, press from the record label)
Brotherhood of Brass - Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
- 17.99
feat. Boban Markovic Orkestar and Hasaballa Brass Band
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