Format: Vinyl Record LP, Polydor Records. UK release from 1976. LP release of Scottish country dance music LP played on accordion, piano, fiddle, bass and drums. First pressing with A and B in run out grooves. Jacket laminated. 17 tracks. Record label: Polydor Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM14032384361 ---E
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Lismor Records. UK release from 1982. LP release of Scottish country dance music LP played on accordion, piano, fiddle, bass and drums. First pressing with A and B in run out grooves. 18 tracks. Record label: Lismor Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1402lilp5120 ---E
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Caledonian Records. UK release no date. Very rare 1960s LP release from influential Scottish Gaelic folk singer Flora MacNeill. Mainly Scottish Gaelic folk songs from Barra. Extensive notes by John MacInnes. Laminated flipback jacket. 12 tracks. Small light scratch one side 2 track one for about half of song, otherwise the record is excellent. Record label: Caledonian Records. UK Grade: Vinyl VG+, Jacket VG+ Stock: 1. Item: RM1373glc2003 ---M
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
Folk Music LP
Martin Carthy - The Bonny Black Hare and other Songs (6382022)
GBP 9.95
Format: Vinyl Record LP, Philips Records. UK release from 1968. Solo LP release from legendary folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy who is accompanied by Dave Swarbrick on fiddle. 12 tracks including: The Fowler; Brigg Fair; The Barley Straw; Byker Hill; John Barleycorn; The Bonny Black Hare; Ship in Distress; Jack Orion; White Hare; Lord of the Dance; Poor Murdered Woman; Streets of Forbes. Lovely fresh and clean copy. Record label: Philips Records. UK Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM11856382022 ---C
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, Klub Records. UK release from 1978. Scottish folk songs with a socialist message, released in conjunction with the 1978 STUC (Scottish Trades Union Congress). Comes with 4 page lyric sheet. Musicians include: Arthur Johnstone - vocals; John McDermott - banjo, harmonica; Tony Paton - guitar, mandolin, harmonica, vocals; Billy Paton - fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, vocals. 12 tracks. Record label: Klub Records. UK Grade: Vinyl VG+, Jacket VG+ Stock: 1. Item: RM1149klp16 ---L
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, Front-Hall Records. USA release from 1981. Multi-instrumentalist John McCutheon and folk ensemble with special guest Paul Van Arsdale on hammer dulcimer. Missing song notes insert. 14 tracks including: Loggerman's Breakdown: Dulcimer Reel; Barefoot Boy With Boots On; Little Pink; Laurel Branch: Ways Of The World: Sugar In The Gourd; Pay Day; Deep Settled Peace; Under The Double Eagle; Forked Deer; Unst Wedding March: Fanny Poer: Planxty Irwin; Little Moses; Free Little Bird; West Virginia Mining Disaster: Which Side Are You On?; Peekaboo Waltz; Ninety Years Old. Record label: Front-Hall Records. USA Grade: Vinyl EX, Jacket EX Stock: 1. Item: RM1044fhr021 ---M
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