Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by Hedy West and A. L. Lloyd;
Photograph by Friedel

Folk-Legacy album booklet

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, 5-string banjo

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Wife Wrapt in Wether’s Skin (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282) (2.36)
2. Fair Rosamund (Roud 3729) (1.34)
3. Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236) (5.25)
4. Old Joe Clark (Roud 3594) (3.00)
5. The Coal Miner’s Child (Roud 457) (1.41)
6. Gambling Man (Roud 498; Laws H4) (2.56)

Side 2

7. Brother Ephus (2.16)
8. Polly (Roud 195; Laws O14; G/D 2:226) (1.35)
9. The Davison-Wilder Blues (3.53)
10. Lament for Barney Graham (1.17)
11. The Rich Irish Lady (Roud 180; Laws P9; G/D 6:1219; Henry H72) (3.03)
12. Shut Up in the Mines at Coal Creek (Roud 844; Laws G9) (1.28)
13. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (3.48)

Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by Hedy West;
Photograph by George Scott

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, banjo

Tracks

Side 1

1. The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332) (3.02)
2. Pretty Saro (Roud 417) (3.37)
3. Old Smokey (Roud 414) (1.24)
4. Blow Ye Gentle Winds (Roud 1422; Henry H7) (2.16)
5. My Soul’s Full of Glory (Roud 27574) (2.38)
6. Promised Land (Roud 11897) (0.52)
7. Over There (0.59)
8. Little Matty Groves (Roud 52; Child 81) (5.34)

Side 2

9. Rake and Rambling Boy (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260; Henry H691) (1.45)
10. Joe Bowers (Roud 2806; Laws B14) (2.37)
11. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334) (0.50)
12. I’m an Old Bachelor (1.38)
13. Johnny Sands (Roud 184; Laws Q3; G/D 2:319) (1.18)
14. My Good Old Man (Roud 240) (2.21)
15. Frankie Silvers (Roud 783; Laws E13) (5.14)
16. Lee Tharin’s Bar Room (The Cowboy’s Lament) (Roud 2; Laws B1) (2.59)

Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by Hedy West and A.L. Lloyd;
Photo by Janet Kerr

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, banjo, guitar;
Bill Clifton: guitar [1, 6-7, 12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495) (1.56)
2. The Girl I Left in Danville (Roud 7046) (2.10)
3. The Unquiet Grave (Roud 51; Child 78) (1.31)
4. Beaulampkin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735) (2.42)
5. Down in Adairsville (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1170; Henry H683) (1.51)
6. The Sheffield Apprentice (Roud 399; Laws O39; G/D 5:998; Henry H31; TYG 71) (3.53)

Side 2

7. Lucy Wan (Roud 234; Child 51) (2.07)
8. Little Sadie (Roud 780; Laws I8) (2.47)
9. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (2.07)
10. Love Henry (Roud 47; Child 68) (3.39)
11. The Texan Rangers (Roud 480; Laws A8) (2.07)
12. George Collins (Roud 147; Child 85) (2.34)

All tracks trad.

This is Hedy West performing Little Sadie on Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest:

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, banjo;
Martin Carthy: guitar;
Bill Clifton: guitar;
Tom Paley: banjo;
Danny Thompson: bass

Tracks

Side 1

1. Little Birdie
2. Gypsy Davy (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
3. Willie Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757)
4. All In, Down and Out Blues (Roud 17520)
5. Serves ’Em Fine
6. Dark as a Dungeon (Roud 6392)
7. Buddy, Won’t You Roll
8. The Lark

Side 2

9. Pale Green Disease
10. The New Restaurant
11. Greedy Old Daddy Not-Quite-Blues
12. It Ain’t Me Babe
13. Anger in the Land
14. I’m a Roving Grave Digger
15. Suddenly Afraid
16. Soldat
17. I Ain’t Marching Anymore

Track 1 Hobert Bailey;
Track 2 trad. collected by Maud Karpeles;
Track 3 trad. collected by Vance Randolph, publ. in Ozark Folksongs, Vol. I, No. 67
Track 4 trad. collected by Dave Macon;
Track 5 Dave McCarn;
Track 6 Merle Travis;
Track 7 Darling, Bennetts;
Tracks 8-9, 11 Hedy West;
Track 10 Malvina Reynolds;
Track 12 Bob Dylan;
Track 13 words Don West, music Hedy West;
Track 14 Julos Beaucarne, transl. Ingo Weihe, arr. Hedy West;
Track 15 A.L. Lloyd;
Track 16 Wolf Biermann, Hedy West;
Track 17 Phil Ochs

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alistair Banfield who provided me with the record information and cover picture before I found a copy of my own.

This album was planned for but never released on the Topic label. It was offered in 2000 as a bootleg CD on Larkspur.

Musicians

Hedy West, Ian Manuel: vocals

Tracks

1. [HW] Young Emily and Edmund (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (2.42)
2. [IM] Young Emily and Edmund (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (2.39)
3. [HW] John Murphy (2.07)
4. [IM] John Murphy (2.05)
5. [IM] Eamon (2.58)
6. [HW] Rosanna (4.35)
7. [IM] The Soldier’s Lament (2.07)
8. [HW] The Whore’s Lament (Roud 8153) (2.56)
9. [IM] Waterloo (4.06)
10. [HW] Waterloo (2.15)

Recorded at Audio International Studios, London, August 1972

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals [1-2, 4-7, 10-11], chorus [12], banjo [1, 4, 6-7, 9, 12], guitar [2-3, 5, 10-11];
Bill Clifton: vocals [3, 8], harmony vocals [5, 10], chorus [12], guitar [3, 6-9, 12], autoharp [5, 10];
Andrew Townend: mandolin [7, 9-10, 12], guitar [8, 11];
Sarah Lee Clifton: vocals [12];
Angel Band (Leelee, Chandler and Camie Clifton), chorus [12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Free Little Bird (Roud 7690) (3.00)
2. The Maid on the Shore (Roud 181; Laws K27) (2.57)
3. White House Blues (Roud 787) (2.46)
4. Little Sadie (Roud 780; Laws I8) (2.55)
5. Blow Ye Gentle Winds (Roud 1422; Henry H7) (2.48)
6. Curley Headed Baby (Roud 12151) (2.32)

Side 1

7. S-A-V-E-D (Roud 9539) (2.37)
8. Mary of the Wild Moor (Roud 155; Laws P21; G/D 6:1175) (3.57)
9. Mississippi Sawyer tune (1.47)
10. Pictures from Life’s Other Side (Roud 3527) (4.38)
11. Pity Me All Day (1.41)
12. Angel Band (Roud 4268) (3.20)

All tracks trad. except
Track 6 Callahan Brothers;
Track 7 Karl Davis, Harty Taylor;
Track 11 Dorsey Dixon

This album seems to have been published under two names, Love, Hell and Biscuits and Whores, Hell, and Biscuits. I don’t know which title was the original one.

Produced by Richard Weize;
Recorded by Joe Allison, Jürgen Feuß and Rolf Simson in November 1974, November 1975 and January 1976 in USA and Germany;
Liner notes and transcriptions by Hedy West;
Cover photos by Hermann Knülle;
Cover design by Richard Weize

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, banjo, guitar;
Tracy Schwarz: fiddle

Tracks

Side 1

1. Shady Grove (Roud 4456)
2. Erin’s Green Shore (Roud 280; Laws Q27)
3. Molly Bawn (Roud 166; Laws O36; Henry H114)
4. Single Girl (Roud 436)
5. Whore’s Lament (Roud 8153)
6. Devil Perceived
7. When I Lay My Burdens Down (Roud 17355)

Side 2

8. Pans of Biscuits (Roud 15738)
9. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Roud 18867)
10. Little Lump of Coal (Roud 8602)
11. Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia
12. Come All Ye Lewiston Factory Girls (Roud 19465)
13. Babies in the Mill
14. Red River Valley / Rio Jarama
15. Roll On Weary River Roll On

Tracks 1-2, 4, 6, 8, 15 L. West arr. Hedy West;
Tracks 3, 10, 12, 14a trad.;
Track 5 trad. arr. Hedy West;
Track 7 Adas Harrison arr. Hedy West;
Track 9 Blind Alfred Reed;
Track 11 Bruce Philips;
Track 13 Dorsey Dixon;
Track 14b Ernst Busch

This is a reissue of Hedy West’s three Topic Records albums, Old Times & Hard Times, Pretty Saro and Ballads

CD notes by Ken Hunt

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, 5-string banjo;
Bill Clifton: guitar [30, 35-36, 41]

Tracks

CD 1

Old Times & Hard Times

1. Gambling Man (Roud 498; Laws H4) (2.56)
2. Fair Rosamund (Roud 3729) (1.34)
3. Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236) (5.25)
4. Old Joe Clark (Roud 3594) (3.00)
5. The Coal Miner’s Child (Roud 457) (1.41)
6. The Wife Wrapt in Wether’s Skin (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282) (2.36)
7. Brother Ephus (2.16)
8. Polly (Roud 195; Laws O14; G/D 2:226) (1.35)
9. The Davison-Wilder Blues (3.53)
10. Lament for Barney Graham (1.17)
11. The Rich Irish Lady (Roud 180; Laws P9; G/D 6:1219; Henry H72) (3.03)
12. Shut Up in the Mines at Coal Creek (Roud 844; Laws G9) (1.28)
13. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (3.48)

Pretty Saro

14. The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332) (3.02)
15. Pretty Saro (Roud 417) (3.37)
16. Old Smokey (Roud 414) (1.24)
17. Blow Ye Gentle Winds (Roud 1422; Henry H7) (2.16)
18. My Soul’s Full of Glory (2.38)
19. Promised Land (Roud 11897) (0.52)
20. Over There (0.59)
21. Little Matty Groves (Roud 52; Child 81) (5.34)

CD 2

22. Rake and Rambling Boy (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260; Henry H691) (1.45)
23. Joe Bowers (Roud 2806; Laws B14) (2.37)
24. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334) (0.50)
25. I’m an Old Bachelor (1.38)
26. Johnny Sands (Roud 184; Laws Q3; G/D 2:319) (1.18)
27. My Good Old Man (Roud 240) (2.21)
28. Frankie Silvers (Roud 783; Laws E13) (5.14)
29. Lee Tharin’s Bar Room (The Cowboy’s Lament) (Roud 2; Laws B1) (2.59)

Ballads

30. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495) (1.56)
31. The Girl I Left in Danville (Roud 7046) (2.10)
32. The Unquiet Grave (Roud 51; Child 78) (1.31)
33. Beaulampkin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735) (2.42)
34. Down in Adairsville (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1170; Henry H683) (1.51)
35. The Sheffield Apprentice (Roud 399; Laws O39; G/D 5:998; Henry H31; TYG 71) (3.53)
36. Lucy Wan (Roud 234; Child 51) (2.07)
37. Little Sadie (Roud 780; Laws I8) (2.47)
38. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (2.07)
39. Love Henry (Roud 47; Child 68) (3.39)
40. The Texan Rangers (Roud 480; Laws A8) (2.07)
41. George Collins (Roud 147; Child 85) (2.34)

This is a reissue of Hedy West’s two Vanguard Records albums, Hedy West (Vanguard LP VRS 9124, 1963) and Hedy West Volume 2 (Vanguard LP VRS 9162, 1964).

CD notes and bonus track selection by Ken Hunt

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, 5-string banjo

Tracks

From Hedy West

1. Drowsy Sleeper (Roud 22621; Laws M4) (1.32)
2. Cotton Mill Girls (Roud 11548) (2.23)
3. Erin’s Green Shore (Roud 280; Laws Q27) (4.05)
4. Shady Grove (Roud 4456) (1.56)
5. Single Girl (Roud 436) (3.32)
6. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (Roud 631; Laws B2) (2.47)
7. Five Hundred Miles (Roud 4959) (2.55)
8. The Brown Girl (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212) (5.12)
9. Letter from Down the Road (2.36)
10. Little Willie (Roud 3538) (2.02)
11. Sweet Jane (Roud 3243; Laws B22) (3.14)
12. Miner’s Farewell (Poor Hardworking Miners) (Roud 2197; Laws G33) (2.08)
13. Fragments (2.32)
14. Fare Thee Well (1.47)

Bonus track

15. Cotton Mill Girls (Roud 11548) (alternative version) (1.09)

From Hedy West Volume 2

16. Boston Burglar (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691) (2.00)
17. Moonshiner’s Lament (Roud 11729) (1.45)
18. Lady Beauty Bright (Roud 405; Laws M3) (2.59)
19. Pans of Biscuits (Roud 15738) (2.33)
20. The Little Carpenter (Roud 1594) (2.17)
21. Lewiston Factory Mill Girls (Roud 19465) (3.11)
22. Little Margaret (Roud 253; Child 74; G/D 2:337) (3.15)
23. Don’t Go Down the Lonesome Road (Roud 824) (1.31)
24. Little Old Man Lived Out West (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282) (2.20)
25. Fair and Tender Ladies (Roud 451) (2.34)
26. William Hall (Roud 400; Laws N30) (1.31)
27. Poor Little Lost Baby (1.23)
28. Anger in the Land (3.29)
29. Run Slave, Run (1.31)
30. Hubbard (Roud 2208; Laws A20) (1.24)
31. Farther Along (Roud 18084) (3.06)

Bonus track

32. Who’s Going to Shoe (Them Pretty Little Feet) (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (2.13)

All tracks trad. arr. Hedy West except
Track 7 Hedy West;
Track 28 Don & Hedy West

A previously unreleased album from the late Hedy West. It draws upon material learned from Hedy’s maternal Grandmother, Lillie West, songs that had migrated from Britain to the USA during the 17^th to 19^th century.

Produced by Hedy West;
Project supervision for Fledg’ing by Tai West and David Suff;
Mastering by Denis Blackham at Skye Masters;
Photographs from the West family archive;
CD notes by Ken Hunt;
Design by Louise Dawson at Moonpie

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals [1-3, 5-9, 11], guitar [1, 3, 6, 8], banjo [2, 5, 7, 9, 11];
Lillie Etta Mulkey West (Hedy’s granmaw): voice [1, 4, 10];
David Qualley: guitar [1, 6];
Tracy Schwarz: fiddle [1-2, 5-6, 9], guitar [11], vocals [8];
Eloise Schwarz: vocals [8, 11]

Tracks

1. Lil’ Old Mountain Shack (2.29)
2. Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (Roud 3442) (2.55)
3. Blockader Mama (Roud 6633) (3.12)
4. Ollie and Rillie Seay (story) (0.42)
5. Two Sisters (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (2.25)
6. Jack and Joe (Give My Love to Nell) (Roud 782) (4.02)
7. Sally Carter (Roud V619) (2.11)
8. I’ll Never Get Drunk Anymore (Roud 4625) (3.44)
9. Frog Went Courting (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669) (3.31)
10. Granmaw’s Frog Story (story) (0.55)
11. The Uncloudy Day (Roud 17614) (3.54)

All songs trad. except
Track 1 words Don West, music Hedy West

Produced by Hedy West;
Recorded by Gerd Leienbach in Bühlertal, Germany, in c. 1979;
Project supervision for Fledg’ling by Tai West and David Suff;
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering;
Photographs from Brian Shuel and the West family archive;
Design by David Suff

Musicians

Hedy West: vocals, banjo, guitar;
Eloise Schwarz: vocals;
Tracy Schwarz: fiddle, banjo, vocals

Tracks

1. Bush Whacker (Roud 11751) (2.41)
2. Plains of Waterloo (Roud 1922; Laws J3; G/D 1:152) (2.01)
3. Born in North Carolina (Roud 11755) (1.21)
4. Der Graben (3.18)
5. I’ll Sing a Song (3.35)
6. The Three Friends (3.35)
7. Young Edmund (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (3.19)
8. Queen Jane (Roud 39; Child 52; G/D 7:1395) (8.46)
9. On the Rim of the World (2.48)
10. Hobo’s Lullaby (Roud 16629) (3.58)
11. There’ll Be No Distinction (Roud 11883) (2.27)

All songs trad. except
Track 4 Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935);
Track 6 Leslie Haworth (1902–1971);
Track 9 Malvina Reynolds;
Track 10 Goebel Reeves;
Track 11 Blind Alfred Reed of West Virginia, 1929