Artist: Various-folk
Genre: Folk Compilation
Folk music compilations gather traditional and contemporary folk recordings, documenting the genre's evolution from traditional ballads through the folk revival and modern developments. Such collections preserve traditional music while showcasing contemporary interpreters. Folk anthologies serve important cultural preservation functions. From field recordings to professional productions, folk compilations capture music's oral traditions. They represent the continued vitality of acoustic, story-driven music.
Various-folk vinyl records (52)
VARIOUS Club Folk (Volumes 1 & 2 1972 UK 24-track 2-LP set introducing early recordings by some of the brightest talents in British Folk featuring Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick the great Shelagh McDonald Robin Scott Andy Roberts & more both parts housed in their respective textured sleeves
£50.00 used
VARIOUS Square Roots (1987 UK 14-track LP compilation featuring an unlikely selection from the pages of Folk Root magazine. Includes Billy Braggs performance of Hold The Fort - Billy learned this 19th Century Agricultural Union song whichhe sings here with Robert Handley from a recording by the Norfolk traditional singer Walter Pardon
£17.00 used
VARIOUS Club Folk Volume 2 (Rare 1972 UK 12-track vinyl compilation LP featuring twelve superb tracks by such people as Martin Carthy Robin Scott Andy Roberts Shelagh McDonald & more great textured picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimalwear and the vinyl looks barely played PS3) Track Listing: 01
£23.00 used
VARIOUS Clogs (1972 UK 13-track LP sampler that reads as a whos who of sixties/seventies folk music - Steeleye Span Martin Carthy Dave Swarbrick Tim Hart the impossibly great & much missed Shelagh McDonald Andy Roberts Keith Christmas &Shirley Collins picture sleeve with textured fold-out catalogue insert that shows the album artwork for each artist
£23.00 used
VARIOUS English Garland (1972 UK 15-track stereo vinyl LP issued as Label Sampler No. 8 by Topic & including such sought after artists as Anne Briggs Dave & Toni Arthur Oak & more. The picture sleeve shows some lightwear with a little fading and the edges & the vinyl appears seldom played TPSS221) Track Listing: Roy Harris with Notts Alliance - Robin Hood and the Tanner The High Level Ranters - The Breakdown / Blanchland Races Dave and Toni Arthur - Six Jolly Miners Anne Briggs - The Snow It Melts the Soonest Peter Bellamy - The Fox Jumps over the Parsons Gate Bernard Wrigley - The Molecatcher Oak - Thousands or More Peter Bellamy with Barry Dransfield - The Barley and the Rye Anne Briggs - The Cuckoo Dave and Toni Arthur with Barry Dransfield - The Lark in the Morning Bernard Wrigley & Wilf Darlington - Gee Whoa Dobbin / Jack the Horse Courser Pete Webb (of Oak) - Roving Round the County Tyrone Roy Harris with Muckram Rakes - The Bonny Green Woods Tom Gilfellon & The High Level Ranters - The Hexhamshire Lass Oak - Scans Polkas
£23.00 used
VARIOUS Folk Music Of Norway (1977 UK 23-track LP recorded in Norway & making particular emphasis of the unique sound of the Hardanger Fiddle. This fiddle with an extra four sympathetic strings under the more conventional four gives a verydistinctive sound to the accompanied tunes. It is to the Norwegians what the bagpipes are to Scotland
£23.00 used
VARIOUS-FOLK The Big Folk (1969 UK 10-track LP compilation starring Martin Carthy Derek Brimstone The Spinners & more fully laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve has some minor wear and aside from a few very light paper scuffs the vinyl isin excellent condition SFXL55) Track Listing: A1 Wally Whyton – Gentle On My Mind A2 Noel Murphy – Irish Rover A3 Corries – October Song A4 Derek Brimstone – She Loved A Portuguese A5 Tinkers – Gambling Child B1 Martin Carthy – Scarborough Fair B2 Stefan Grossman – Religious Trainfare Blues B3 Jeremy Taylor – Nasty Spider B4 Spinners – Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening Of Roses) B5 Dundonald – Scots What Hae Nae
£17.00 used
VARIOUS Owdham Edge (1970 UK 16-track compilation LP focussing on popular song & verse from Lancashire starring Harry Boardman John Howarth & The Oldham Tinkers Harvey & Mary Kershaw Mike Harding Harry Ogden Dave Brooks Bernard Wrigley Tim & Robin Boardman front laminated picture sleeve
£12.00 used
VARIOUS The Iron Muse (1969 UK issue of the classic 1963 11-track mono vinyl compilation LP on the blue Topic label offering a panorama of Industrial Folk Song arranged by A.L. Lloyd recorded by Bill Leader & Paul Carter featuring a panorama of industrial folksong with Anne Briggs Bob Davenport Ray Fisher Louis Killen A
£34.00 used
VARIOUS The Tale Of Ale (1977 UK double LP containing fifty fantastic songs & readings for many a drunken night that were written over no less than 500 years performed by Peter Bellamy Robin Dransfield John Foreman & more. Includes tankardswinging classic folk jigs such as Bring Us In Good Ale Come Drink To Me Of Honest Malt liqour & many more
£34.00 used