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  1. Bonny May]
  2. Auretti's Dutch Skipper/An Adventure at Margate/The Spirit of the ...]
  3. Fisher Boy]
  4. Somewhere the Sun Is Shining/Hold Back the Tide
  5. Fine Horseman
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  1. Bonny May]
  2. Auretti's Dutch Skipper/An Adventure at Margate/The Spirit of the ...]
  3. Fisher Boy]
  4. Somewhere the Sun Is Shining/Hold Back the Tide
  5. Fine Horseman
  6. The Barley & The Rye]
  7. Rising
  8. Workers' Song
  9. Rackabello]
  10. Carthy's Reel/The Return to Camden Town]
  11. Courting Is a Pleasure]
  12. The Weary Whaling Grounds]
  13. The Saucy Bold Robber
  14. Moonshine
  15. The Lady Leroy]
  16. Blind Fiddler]
  17. The TWA Corbies
  18. Sir Partick Spens]
  19. Angi
  20. Horizonto
  21. When First I Came to Caledonia]
  22. The Snow It Melts the Soonest
  23. Old Grenadier]
  24. Blood & Gold/Mohacs
  25. Both Sides the Tweed
  26. Da Fields O'Foula/My Love Is a Fair Lad]
  27. Columbine
  28. Go Down Ye Murderers
  29. The Sun Is Burning
  30. Cold, Wet & Rainy Night/The Grand Hornpipe]
  31. The Verdant Braes of Skreen
  32. The Skewbald]
  33. The Hewer
  34. Soldier's Joy]
  35. TWA Recruiting Sergeants
  36. Down by the Seaside]
  37. Train to Bay
  38. Apple Tree Wassail]
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This two-disc collection focuses on traditional folk music. The songs are the stars here, but the performances shine as well. Most feature the simple style of people who play for the love of it, but sprinkled throughout is an unusually lively fiddle or whistle, and more than one bell-clear voice. A wide variety of artists are featured performing traditional songs, as well as more modern works in the traditional style. A fine collection for folk fans, especially for devotees of the folk styles of the British Isles, this ...

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The Folk Collection 2000, Topic Records

UPC: 714822707824

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