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
Ten and a half years ago I posted a recording of the song ‘The Gentleman Soldier’ which had been collected by Anne Gilchrist from a Mr Thomas Coomber, at Blackham in Sussex. At the time I failed to register that, although he lived in Sussex, Thomas Coomber had been born at Penshurst, in Kent....
Andy Turner
Following on from yesterdays’ post about KentTrad.org, here’s a song which you’ll find on the site: ‘Bold Fisherman’, collected by Cecil Sharp at Warehorne, Kent, on 23rd September 1908. Unsurprisingly, it was not the only time this song was collected by the early 20th century collectors in Kent:...
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...