Andy Turner
Here’s a fine carol from George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordshire. It was recorded in 1971 by Roy Palmer, and included by him in an article entitled ‘George Dunn. Twenty-one Songs and Fragments’, in the 1973 Folk Music Journal. Some of George Dunn’s songs – recorded by Bill Leader with Roy Palmer...
Andy Turner
The title track from the 1974 Topic LP, featuring Mike Yates’ recordings of George Spicer, and one of several songs which I learned when I first heard the record, circa 1979 (had it not been for this version, I’d have almost certainly learned the Harry Cox version, which I’d heard on the Peter...
Andy Turner
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently looking at songs collected in my native county of Kent. This song was mentioned by Anne Gilchrist in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol. 5, No. 1 (December 1946). Her source was a letter in Notes and Queries, Series 3 Volume 3, No...