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MTCD304-5 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £16.00
53 tracks, 154 minutes
The new double CD version. All the songs he recorded for Brian Matthews in 1960/61. The 24 full-length songs appearing in full in the single CD version, plus the 5 songs not included in full there, plus 5 more not included at all ... and now, plus all the 19 songs he recorded for Ken Stubbs.
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| | [Contents] Digital book with embedded audio files, by Dan Worrall
MTCD251 £12.00
The heyday of the Anglo-German concertina (1860s to World War I) coincided with a time when social dances in houses, barns, woolsheds and community halls were all the rage in working class urban and rural areas. Here are 172 archival recordings of 36 early concertina players performing schottisches, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, barn dances, mazurkas, and varsovianas from Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa. The digital book explores such topics as:
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Nineteenth century social dances; Global sources of the house dance repertoire; Old-style octave playing on the concertina; The banning of house dances in early twentieth century Ireland; Biographies and playing styles of early concertina players (with recordings); Modern players in the old octave style (with recordings); A tutorial in octave playing (with recordings, walking you through playing in octaves and across the rows); Discography. Includes more than 150 photos and graphics, and more than 200 sound files in MP3 format.
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| Harry Langston
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| | [Review] [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] Dear Gladys, Dear Gertie ...
MTCD352 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
18 tracks, 74 minutes
Harry Langston has selected his favourite Lancashire dialect poems, written some glorious tunes for them, and sings them superbly. If you like traditional songs, you'll love these 'new' ones you've never heard before.
Humour, power and passion - just listen to the sound clips in the Booklet Notes.
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| Bill Smith
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MTCD351 + 36 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
65 tracks, 79 mins.
The recordings of Bill Smith were all made by his son, Andrew, over the period 1979 - 1983. They are, most importantly, perhaps the only available example of the completely unmediated repertoire of an ordinary countryman, from the centre of England, in the middle of the 20th century. Andrew wasn't a song collector, and didn't choose what to record and what to omit - he just recorded what Bill remembered … songs, recitations, stories, jokes.
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| Fred 'Pip' Whiting
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| | [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] [Review] Old-time hornpipes, polkas and jigs
MTCD350 + 16 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
42 tracks, 69 mins.
A representative selection of fiddle tunes from Fred 'Pip' Whiting, of Suffolk. This CD may be seen as a companion-piece to our earlier Stephen Baldwin CD (MTCD334).
Keith Summers wrote: Fred Whiting's exploitation of his exposure to traditional musicians and music outside his immediate milieu made him that rare thing, a modern traditional musician - of the kind which was common in Ireland and Irish communities elsewhere, but almost completely unheard of in England outside the northeast. His neglect is also in part due to that uniqueness.
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| Nimrod Workman
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MTCD512 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
26 tracks, 80 mins This production by Mark Wilson of the North American Traditions Series.
One of Appalachia's most celebrated traditional singers and symbolically linked the region's idealized past with the reality of its ongoing political struggles. (Journal of American Folklore)
Our fourth '500 series' publication. A selection of songs and ballads from this great West Virginia singer, including three of his own Union and mining songs. Tracks 1 - 18 originally appeared on Rounder LP 0076 in 1976, a further 8 have been added to this 2011 production.
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| Morgan MacQuarrie
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| | [Review] [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] Over the Cabot Trail
MTCD511 + 20 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
12 tracks, 55 tunes, 69 mins
The third of our new '500 series' publications. A selection of fiddle tunes from Morgan MacQuarrie of Inverness County, Cape Breton, accompanied by Gordon MacLean, piano.
A compilation of 12 tracks of typical Cape Breton medleys, totalling 55 tunes in all.
Produced and annotated by Mark Wilson of the North American Traditions Series.
Recorded by Mark Wilson with the assistance of Paul MacDonald.
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| Roger Cooper
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MTCD510 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
34 tracks, 71 mins This production by Mark Wilson of the North American Traditions Series.
Our second '500 series' publication. A selection of fiddle tunes from Roger Cooper, of Lewis County, Kentucky, accompanied by Robin Kessinger, guitar, and Michael Garvin, bass and occasional guitar. A compilation of the 34 tunes on the original Rounder CD, no longer available.
Roger Cooper was the particular protege of the wonderful Buddy Thomas - who, tragically, died at the age of only 38. Out of the 34 tunes, eleven came to Roger from Buddy and a further fourteen from other local musicians, such as Abe Keiber, Bob Prater, Morris Allen, Jimmy Wheeler and George Hawkins.
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| Art Galbraith
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| | [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] [Review] Dixie Blossoms
MTCD509 + 16 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00
33 tracks, 72 mins
Our first all-new '500 series' publication. A selection of fiddle tunes from Art Galbraith of Springfield, Missouri, accompanied by Gordon McCann, guitar. A compilation of the 16 tunes on the original Rounder LP, plus 17 more, recorded specially for the purpose in 1984, but never published.
Renowned collector, Vance Randolph, said: "Art Galbraith is the best Ozarks fiddler I have ever heard." This new production by Gordon McCann and Mark Wilson of the North American Traditions Series.
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| May Bradley
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MTCD349 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case 39 tracks, 80 minutes £12.00
For the first time, the complete recorded repertoire of this great Gypsy singer, as collected by Fred Hamer. Includes Sweet Swansea, Long a-Growing, McCaffery, My Blue Eyed Lover, The Leaves of Life, On Christmas Day, The Outlandish Knight and 19 other songs.
An absolute 'must' for lovers of English traditional song.
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