Format: Vinyl Record LP, Imminent Records. USA release from 1987. Very rare private press LP release from actress, singer and writer Annie Lore, the female Highway Man. Comes with the original inner lyric sleeve. Includes the 13 minute epic The Grey Cocked Hat. Annie sings and plays the gitterne and 12-string guitar. Other musicians play Northumbrian pipes, harpsichord, fiddle, bodhran etc. 8 tracks including: How To Gain A Husband; Muckin' The Byre; The Grey Cocked Hat; As Sylvie Was Walking; Cap'n Collins And The Mermaid; The Roving Repairman-o; Eppie Morrie; Over The Green. Noticeable scratch on side one track one, but no skips, otherwise a lovely fresh and clean copy of an unusual and very rare LP. Jacket has a little wear to edges. Record label: Imminent Records. USA Grade: Vinyl VG+, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1278swm03 ---L
Folk Music LP
Ashley Hutchings - By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept A Love Story (PAT1)
GBP 11.95
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Paradise-and-Thorns Records. UK release from 1987. 1st pressing with 1 A1 and 1 B1 in run out grooves. Bassist, vocalist and songwriter Ashley Hutchings was a founder member of three of the most noteworthy English psych folk rock bands in England; Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. Comes with the original lyric sheet. 19 tracks. Record label: Paradise-and-Thorns Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1272pat1 ---H
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Charisma Records. UK release from 1980. Gatefold LP release. From Keith Dewhurst's National Theatre adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic trilogy of hamlet life in the 1880's and early 1900's, this LP features: Ashley Hutchings, The Albion Band, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, John Kirkpatrick, John Tams and Martin Simpson and others. Record label: Charisma Records. UK Grade: Vinyl VG+, Jacket VG+ Stock: 1. Item: RM1271cds4020 ---A
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Free-Reed Records. UK release from 1972. Traditional English folk music compiled and arranged by John Kirkpatrick. John Kirkpatrick with Sue Harris, Martin Carthy, Martin Brinsford and Fi Fraser with a collection of acoustic and traditional Morris dance tunes from the Cotswolds. Comes with original the 6 page booklet with extensive notes on the music. Ashley Hutchings was a founder member of three of the most noteworthy English psych folk rock bands in England; Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. 15 tracks. Record label: Free-Reed Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1183frr010 ---K
Folk Music LP
Various - Duchas Chiarrai Presents The Champions of Kerry in Music and Song (DB 1003)
GBP 42.95
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Duchas Records. Irish release from 1978. Rare, privately pressed 1st pressing, LP celebrating the traditional folk music of Kerry, Ireland. Artists featured include: Desmond Ceili Band; Kathleen O'Keeffe; Rosaleen Collins; John Brosnan, Jerry Keane, John Lucid, Anne And Nicholas Mcauliffe, Patrick O'Connor and others. 15 tracks. Lovely fresh and clean copy. Record label: Duchas Records. Ireland Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1182db1003 ---V
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Green-Linnet Records. USA release from 1986. LP release of Scottish traditional folk music played on fiddle, cittern, pipes etc. Comes with the original lyric sheet. Musicians include: Roy Gullane - guitar, banjo, vocals; Phil Smillie - whistles, flutes, bodhran, vocals; Ian MacInnes - bagpipes, whistles, vocals; Ross Kennedy - bouzouki, fiddle, bass, vocals. 10 tracks. Lovely fresh and clean copy. Record label: Green-Linnet Records. USA Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket NM Stock: 1. Item: RM1137sif1067 ---T
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Temple Records. UK release from 1986. Scottish folk music linked with the National Trust of Scotland's properties. Performed by the Battlefield Band with Alison Kinnaird on the Scottish harp (the Clarsach). 13 tracks. Record label: Temple Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket NM Stock: 1. Item: RM1133tp022 ---B
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Temple Records. UK release from 1986. Scottish folk music from top band. Comes with original inner lyric sheet. 11 tracks. Record label: Temple Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket NM Stock: 1. Item: RM1132tp021 ---B
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Lismor Records. UK release from 1989. Scottish Gaelic folk songs from singer Mairi MacInnes. 1st pressing. Musicians include: Mairi MacInnes - vocals; Phil Cunningham - keyboards, accordion, whistles, guitars; Malcolm Jones - electric guitar; Rod Paterson - acoustic guitar; Martin O'Connor - button key accordion; Andy Munro - drums; Jim Sutherland - percussion. 13 tracks. Record label: Lismor Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1129lidl6026 ---M
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Topic Records. UK release from 1974. Songs and ballads of South Lancashire sung by The Oldham Tinkers. Textured jacket. 15 tracks including: The Rochdale Mashers; Seeing Double; The Pennine Rangers; The Two Jews; A Piecer's Tale; Best o't' Bunch; The Lancashire Toreador; A Cob-Coaling Medley; The Four-Loom Weaver; John Willie's Ragtime Band; Platt's; Good Time Coming; I Mean to Wait for Jack; Skiing Owdham Style; A Mon Like Thee. Record label: Topic Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM112312ts237 ---O
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Autogram Records. German release no date. 1st pressing with 1A and 1B in run out grooves. From sleeve notes: The Hollow Rock String Band has been playing old-time string band music in the Durham, North Carolina area since 1966. Its repertory consists of tunes learned from old fiddlers' conventions in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, and adapted to the old-time string band style which has long enlivened country-dances in the upper South. Comes with original inner sheet in German. Jacket has notes in English. 15 tracks including: Kitchen Girl; Clog; Waltz; Dinah; Richmond Cotillion; Hog-Eyed Man; Medley: John Brown's March, Green Fields Of America, Hop Light Ladies; Jawbones; Betty Likens; Cabin Creek; Folding Down The Sheets; Money Musk; Over The Waterfall; Devil On A Stomp; Fiddler's Drunk And The Fun's All Over. Lovely fresh and clean copy. Record label: Autogram Records. Germany Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket NM Stock: 1. Item: RM1043allp240 ---H
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Gael-Linn Records. Irish release from 1975. Gatefold jacket release of traditional Irish folk music and songs from accordionist Eamon De Buitlear and the group Ceoltoiri Laighean. Musicians include: Sean O Liathain, Diarmuid O Suilleabhain - vocals; Paddy Glackin, John Kelly, James Kelly - fiddle; Peter Phelan - Uillean pipes; Mary Bergin, Michael O Halmhain - flute, whistle; Aileen McCrann - harp; Paddy O'Brien - accordion; Eamon De Buitlear - bodhran, accordion. 12 tracks. Lovely fresh and clean copy. The Irish record label Gael Linn, established in 1956, specialises in traditional Irish folk music and, in particular, the sean-nos style of singing. Sean-nos translates as 'old style' and can also be used to describe dance music as well as singing. The Gael Linn name has now become synonymous with quality folk music. Record label: Gael-Linn Records. Ireland Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1026cef047 ---B