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
For some reason, I’ve never had a version of Roud number 1 in my repertoire, despite having been familiar with the song for many many years – from the classic Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick LP Prince Heathen, the first Planxty album, and John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris’s excellent version on the...
Andy Turner
I would have first heard this song in the late 1970s on the Leader LP Our Side of the Baulk, which alongside the first Walter Pardon LP A Proper Sort, was included in the stock of the record section of Ashford public library. I was very attracted to Walter’s gentle singing style, and even more so...