The Folk Collection

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: November 29, 1995
• Total Time: 141:30
• Type: Collection (various artists)
• Genre: Folk

Review

This two-disc collection focuses on traditional folk music. The songs are the stars here, but the performances shine as well. Most feature the simple style of people who play for the love of it, but sprinkled throughout is an unusually lively fiddle or whistle, and more than one bell-clear voice. A wide variety of artists are featured performing traditional songs, as well as more modern works in the traditional style. A fine collection for folk fans, especially for devotees of the folk styles of the British Isles, this collection is solid throughout. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Bonny May	Traditional	June Tabor	(5:01)
Auretti's Dutch Skipper/An Adventure at Margate/The Spirit of the ...	Traditional	Brass Monkey	(5:17)
Fisher Boy	Traditional	Eliza Carthy	(3:30)
Somewhere the Sun Is Shining/Hold Back the Tide	John Tams	John Tams, Linda Thompson	(7:03)
Fine Horseman	Lal Waterson	Silly Sisters	(4:53)
The Barley & The Rye	Traditional	Robin Dransfield	(2:46)
Rising	Tarras	Tarras	(4:40)
Workers' Song		Dick Gaughan	(3:04)
Rackabello	Traditional	Martin Carthy, The Waterson	(3:52)
Carthy's Reel/The Return to Camden Town	Traditional	Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick	(2:32)
Courting Is a Pleasure	Traditional	Nic Jones	(5:21)
The Weary Whaling Grounds	Traditional	A.L. Lloyd	(2:38)
The Saucy Bold Robber		Roy Harris	(2:28)
Moonshine	Martin Simpson	Martin Simpson	(2:15)
The Lady Leroy	Traditional	The Battlefield Band	(4:04)
Blind Fiddler	Traditional	Eliza Carthy	(2:58)
The TWA Corbies		Archie Fisher	(2:09)
Sir Partick Spens	Traditional	Martin Carthy	(5:40)
Angi	Davy Graham	Davy Graham	(2:26)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Horizonto	Paul James	Blowzabella	(3:47)
When First I Came to Caledonia	Traditional	The Waterson, Waterson:Carthy	(5:18)
The Snow It Melts the Soonest		Anne Briggs	(2:23)
Old Grenadier	Traditional	Brass Monkey	(3:35)
Blood & Gold/Mohacs	Jane Cassidy	Silly Sisters	(3:51)
Both Sides the Tweed	Dick Gaughan	Dick Gaughan	(3:43)
Da Fields O'Foula/My Love Is a Fair Lad	Traditional	Tarras	(5:19)
Columbine	Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight	Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight	(4:13)
Go Down Ye Murderers	Ewan MacColl	Ewan MacColl	(3:28)
The Sun Is Burning	Ian Campbell	Ian Campbell Folk Group	(2:25)
Cold, Wet & Rainy Night/The Grand Hornpipe	Traditional	Eliza Carthy	(6:21)
The Verdant Braes of Skreen		McPeake Family	(3:39)
The Skewbald	Traditional	Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick	(2:54)
The Hewer		The High Level Ranters	(2:54)
Soldier's Joy	Traditional	Aly Bain, Tom Anderson, Dave Tulloch, Trevor Hunter	(2:24)
TWA Recruiting Sergeants			(3:01)
Down by the Seaside	Traditional	Shirley Collins	(2:47)
Train to Bay	Oliver Knight	Oliver Knight	(4:10)
Apple Tree Wassail	Traditional	The Watersons	(2:41)

Credits

Clive Gregson (Performer), Lal Waterson (Arranger), Martin Simpson (Performer), Tony Engle (Producer), Davy Graham (Performer), Laurence Aston (Compilation), Tarras (Arranger), Kilbride (Arranger), Waterson:Carthy (Performer), Nic Jones (Performer), The Albion Band (Performer), Robert Earl Keen, Jr. (Arranger), Dave Swarbrick (Arranger), Tom Anderson (Performer), John Tams (Performer), Anne Briggs (Performer), June Tabor (Performer), Andrew Cronshaw (Arranger), Bill Whelan (Arranger), McPeake Family (Performer), A.L. Lloyd (Arranger), Silly Sisters (Performer), Dave Tulloch (Performer), Nic Jones (Arranger), Christine Collister (Performer), Aly Bain (Performer), The Watersons (Performer), Robin Dransfield (Arranger), D. Collins (Arranger), John Kirkpatrick (Performer), Martin Carthy (Performer), Andrew Cronshaw (Performer), Four Men & A Dog (Performer), Eliza Carthy (Arranger), Ewan MacColl (Performer), Trevor Hunter (Performer), Dave Swarbrick (Performer), June Tabor (Arranger), Martin Simpson (Arranger), Robert Earl Keen, Jr. (Performer), Maddy Prior (Performer), Shirley Collins (Arranger), Brass Monkey (Performer), Simon Geal (Compilation Producer), The Watersons (Group), Ian Campbell Folk Group (Performer), Oliver Knight (Performer), Richard Thompson (Performer), The Watersons (Arranger), Martin Carthy (Arranger), Laurence Aston (Liner Notes), Patrick Street (Arranger), Linda Thompson (Performer), Ron Kavana (Performer), Anderson & Bain (Arranger), The Battlefield Band (Performer), Patrick Street (Performer), Dick Gaughan (Arranger), Dick Gaughan (Performer), Roy Harris (Performer), Blowzabella (Performer), The Waterson (Performer), The High Level Ranters (Performer), Clark (Arranger), John Kirkpatrick (Arranger)