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Ballads & Broadsides

Ballads & Broadsides Louis Killen Topic Records 12T126 (LP, UK, 1965) Topic Records TSCD126 (CD, UK, 26 October 2009)

Recorded by Bill Leader in 1964/65;
Production for CD release Tony Engle;
Notes by Angela Carter;
All photographs by Brian Shuel;
The woodcut of the cock on the LP sleeve is from a broadsheet of The Miraculous Hen from the collection of Leslie Shepard;
CD package designed by David Suff

Musicians

Louis Killen: vocals, concertina

Tracks

Side 1

1. Young Edwin in the Lowlands (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (3.15)
2. As We Were A-Sailing (Roud 492; Laws N4; G/D 1:180) (3.30)
3. The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28; G/D 1:44) (7.14)
4. All Things Are Quite Silent (Roud 2532) (2.52)

Side 2

5. One May Morning (Roud 1003; G/D 7:1311) (2.13)
6. The Cock (Roud 21234) (3.07)
7. The Bramble Briar (Roud 18; Laws M32) (5.07)
8. Thorneymoor Woods (Roud 222) (3.57)
9. The Banks of Sweet Primroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841) (2.18)

All tracks trad.

Tracks 1 and 7 were included on English & Scottish Folk Ballads (TSCD480, 1996);
Track 1 was included on English Originals (TSCD706, 1999);
Track 2 was included on Round Cape Horn (TSCD499, 1998);
Track 3 was included on Blow the Man Down (TSCD464, 1993);
Tracks 5-6 and 9 were included on The Bird in the Bush (TSCD479, 1996)