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Title: The Essential Guide To Folk (3CD)

Label: Essential Guides

Cat No:ESGCD313
Format:CD

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Discovery Records
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When Cecil Sharp cycled around England in the early 1900s collecting old folk songs because he thought they’d soon be lost forever, and Texan John Lomax and his teenage son Alan trawled the southern states of America making field recordings of a buried tradition in the 1930s, they couldn’t have imagined the treasure chests they were opening.

A new century finds us in a world of fast food, reality TV and instant celebrity, but the values of the music they, and others, uncovered are more precious than ever. Our ‘Roots’ CD1 features the artists and songs that laid the paving stones for the modern day folk stars. On ‘Folk Rocks!” our CD2 reveals what started in the 1960s and continued beyond as young musicians strove to extend the reach of folk song, embracing rock styles and electric instruments and fusing the music with other genres in thrilling fashion. On CD3, ‘New Routes’ we show how the baton has been passed on and a new generation has emerged to preserve the tradition while taking folk music into ever more exciting new directions.

an extraordinary 3CD collection of key songs and artists, each CD individually themed to help tell the story of Folk

a perfect introduction to music that, for a modern world, becomes more important and relevant every day

slim-line 3CD box of excellent value and beautifully packaged with notes on each track, the music and artists

Track Listing for The Essential Guide To Folk (3CD)
CD1: Roots
Copper Family - Spencer The Rover
Big Bill Broonzy - Glory Of Love
Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town
Martin Carthy - Heartbreak Hotel
Jimmy Power, Lucy Farr & Andy Boyle - Dr O’Neill / The Battering Ram
Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi
Anne Briggs - The Doffing Mistress
Sweeney’s Men - Tom Dooley
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Brownie’s Blues
Davy Graham & Alexis Korner - 3/4 AD
Sheila Stewart - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
Pete Seeger - Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Dominic Behan - The Patriot Game
Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes
Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line
Margaret Barry - Wild Colonial Boy
Leadbelly – Irene (Goodnight Irene)

CD2 : Folk Rocks!
Bob Dylan - It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
Incredible String Band - First Girl I Loved
Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne
Finbar & Eddie Furey - Curragh Of Kildare
Dick Gaughan - The World Turned Upside Down
Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Old Man’s Song
Bert Jansch - Angie
Steeleye Span - The Female Drummer
Humblebums - Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway
Nic Jones - Canadee-I-O
Pentangle - Light Flight
Ralph McTell: Hesitation Blues
Five Hand Reel - A Man’s A Man For A’that
June Tabor - The Cloud Factory
Mr Fox – Mr. Fox
Linda Thompson - Banks Of The Clyde
Dransfield - Up To Now

CD3: New Routes
Waterson:Carthy - New Year Carol: Residue
Pete Morton - Damn The Day
Bert Jansch featuring Beth Orton & Devendra Banhart - Katie Cruel
Tim Van Eyken - Gypsy Maid
Shooglenifty - The Point Road
Cassie Franklin With Southern Brew - Barbara Allen
Benji Kirkpatrick - Draggle-Tail Gypsies-O
John Spiers & Jon Boden - Innocent When You Dream
Mouth Music - Seafaring Man
Kieron Means - The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More
Eliza Carthy - Mohair
Andrew Cronshaw & Sanna Kurki-Suonio - An Gille Donn / Vaskilinnun Valkerrus
Dr Faustus - The Lincolnshire Poacher
Oliver Knight - South Sea’s
Salsa Celtica - Auld Lang Syne
The Copper Family - Babes In The Wood

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