The Travelling People
Various Artists - Folk Song
Celtic International
Topic Records
Released: 6th October 2009
Catalogue Number: TSCD808
Barcode: 714822080828
Running Time: 58mins
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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Lots of songs interspersed between narrative taken from field recordings.
Some pieces are also field recordings but the main songs are studio, probably BBC, often with hearty chorus inclusion.
Maybe more of an historic 'time piece' than a folk song album, but serious collectors might disagree.
1) My Mother Said I Never Should...
2) I Am Tired of Always Having to Shift....
3) Born In the Middle of the Afternoon...
4) If You Took A Traveller.....
5) Don't I Wish the Old Times Would Come Back Again...
6) I Like To Settle in the Wintertime
7) We Never Did Travel Much In the Wintertime...
8) The Auld WAys Are Changing...
9) These Days Have Gone...
10) I Mean, We're Fed Up with Gypsies Living In Our Area....
11) People Get the Impression, o Those Gypsies They're Rogues....
12) They Can't Read or Write.....
13) Bloody Isn't It.....
14) Can't See No Way Out.....
Lots of songs interspersed between narrative taken from field recordings.
Some pieces are also field recordings but the main songs are studio, probably BBC, often with hearty chorus inclusion.
Maybe more of an historic 'time piece' than a folk song album, but serious collectors might disagree.
Lineup
Singers:
John Faulkner, Joe Heaney, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Belle Stewart & Jane Stewart.
Instrumentalists:
Jim Bray - Bass
Brian Daly - Guitar
Dinah Demuth - Oboe
Alf Edwards - Concertina
Alfie Kahn - Harmonica, Clarinet, Flute & Piccolo
Peggy Seeger - Guitar & Banjo
Dave Swarbrick - Fiddle
Bruce Turner - Clarinet & Sax