Disc One 1) My Bonny Boy Was Young 2) West of Ireland 3) Skibbereen 4) Paidin's Wife 5) The Song of the Eel 6) As I Roved Out 7) The Brown Blackthorn 8) Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold 9) Fishing in Connemara10) Song of the Drowning11) Singing in Connemara12) The Jug of Punch13) The Ferocious O'Flahertys14) The Widow From Mayo15) The Harp Without the Crown16) Sunntrai17) Advice tp Young Singers18) The Valley of Knockanure19) The Valley of Knockanure20) Whiskey O' Roudeldum-Row21) Barbary EllenDisc Two 1) The Two Greyhounds 2) The Old Woman of Wexford 3) The Banks of Claudy 4) Eamonn an Chnoic 5) My Boy Willie 6) Patsy McCann 7) Fair Una 8) The Hag With the Money 9) The Lonely Woods of Upton10) O'Brien From Tipperary11) Erin Gra mo Chroi12) Cunnla13) The Tennis Right14) Eanach Cuain15) There Is A Fair Tomorrow In the County Clare - The Shoemaker16) The Glen of Aherlow17) Farewell To the Worries of Life18) The Old Man Rocking the Cradle
A very first release for these 'live' recordings collected and recorded by McColl and Seeger in 1964.There is a little narrative and story on some tracks and what you don't learn from that you will learn from the 60-page boklet, which contains great in-depth notes and lyrics.A collectors 'must have.
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Oral tradition folk singing - unaccompanied.