The Essential Guide to Folk

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Tracklist

1CD: Roots
#TitleArtistLength
1Spencer the Rover
recording of:
Spencer the Rover
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 1115)
The Copper Family3:26
2Glory of Love
Big Bill Broonzy2:42
3Dirty Old Town
Ewan MacColl1:06
4Heartbreak HotelMartin Carthy2:43
5Dr O'Neill / The Battering Ram
recording engineer:
Bill Leader (on 1967-03-12)
fiddle:
Andy Boyle, Lucy Farr and Jimmy Power
piano:
Reg Hall
Jimmy Power, Lucy Farr & Andy Boyle4:19
6Do-Re-Mi
Woody Guthrie2:38
7The Doffing Mistress
Anne Briggs1:25
8Tom Dooley
Sweeney’s Men2:33
9Brownie's Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee5:27
103/4 AD
Davy Graham & Alexis Korner4:40
11Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
recording of:
Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
lyricist and composer:
Sheila Stewart
Sheila Stewart1:32
12Where Have All the Flowers Gone
recording of:
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
additional lyricist:
Joe Hickerson (in 1960-05)
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger (in 1955-10)
publisher:
The Bicycle Music Company (in 1961)
Pete Seeger1:57
13The Patriot Game
recording of:
The Patriot Game
lyricist:
Dominic Behan (in 1957)
additional composer:
Dominic Behan (in 1957)
composer:
[traditional]
version of:
The Nightingale
Dominic Behan4:01
14Little Boxes
recording of:
Little Boxes
lyricist and composer:
Malvina Reynolds
publisher:
Schroder Music Company
Malvina Reynolds1:40
15Rock Island Line
recording of:
Rock Island Line
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
publisher:
Folkways Music Publishers Inc.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 15211)
Lonnie Donegan3:24
16Wild Colonial Boy
Margaret Barry3:07
17Goodnight Irene
recording of:
Goodnight Irene
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
arranger:
Ledbetter and John A. Lomax
publisher:
Lodlow Music, Spencer Music Corp., TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. and Tyler Music Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11681)
translated version of:
Godnatt Irene
Lead Belly1:53
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