Irish Folk Ballads

1. Lough Sheelin Side

2. Poor Scholar

3. Ireland Won't Leave You

4. Raders Song

5. Tonight Is Our Last Night Together

6. Crooked Jack

7. Liselton

8. I Just Can't Believe

9. A.L.O.N.E.

10. Centenary Tribute

11. Rose of Tralee

12. Caroline

13. Kerry Dances

14. Song for Ireland

15. Road to Dundee

16. My Lovely Rose of Clare

17. Ramblin Man

18. Journey Lost

19. Taoseach's Hooley

20. Love Your Child

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson
My Son John - John C. Reilly
Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
Bully In The Alley - The Old Prunes
The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry
Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
Spansih Ladies - Bill Frisell
High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
Dan Dan - David Thomas
Blood Red Roses - Sting
Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
Rolling Sea - Eliza McCarthy
Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group
Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit
The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara

Tracks:

Boney - Jack Shit
Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
Long Time Ago -White Magic
Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/Antony
One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & Family
The Fiddler/A Drop Of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly
Drunken Sailor - Dave Thomas
Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps
Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks
Shallow Brown - Sting
The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman

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Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski hatched the idea for Rogue's Gallery while filming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"--that idea being to cast genteel rock superstars like Bono, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Andre Corr, and Sting to reinterpret gritty seafaring standards for an exhaustive 43-track double-disc set produced by Hal Wilner. Throw in a bunch of credible folk stars (Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson), their offspring (Rufus, Teddy) and a string of other curious characters (Jarvis Cocker, Antony) and what results is one of the strangest compilations in recent memory, if not exactly the most historically authentic or, well, digestible. Nick Cave embraces the role just a little too hard on "Fire Down Below," while Ferry can't help but sound like he's singing for the cast of "The Love Boat," but cut through the chaff and there is some real bootie here: Bono's "Dying Sailor to His Shipmates," Jolie Holland's "The Grey Funnel Line" and "Boney" by a mysterious tramp called Jack Sh**, which must be some kind of anagram for Johnny Depp. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description

While working on the two "Pirates Of The Carribean" films, Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski became fascinated with the lore and fable of the pirates and sailors who ran the high seas. Enter legendary producer Hal Wilner, who brings his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. Artists on this double disc set include Bono, Sting, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, and many more. "Rogue's Gallery" offers a look at the hardships, the horrors, the lusts and lurid depths, and the crystal beauty that led men to the sea in ships for hundreds of years.

Customer Reviews:

Fun--but not great.......2007-07-03

What a concept--a pirate song co-produced by Verbinski and Depp inspired by the "Pirates of the Carribean" series. It should be great and in places, it is. The big question I came away with is--who is Jack Sh**? That one definitely has me guessing.

I won't belabor the song content or the production value. I think the most notable reviews have got that down pat, although I'm not marking down as far as they have because I'm giving points for originality being a fan of Spike Jones and some other truly demented people.

One thing to note: this is not a CD you'd buy if you were looking for something to amuse your kids. Some of the content is very bawdy and Mom and Dad would have some serious 'splaining to do to the little pirates. There's both some language and some situations that are more twisted than a Hangman's knot.

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh!.......2007-06-09

Some of the songs are quite good(mellow)others a little odd. Its what I expected, but not what you would expect.

Disappointment would be an understatement.......2007-06-04

It is not unusual to find sea shanties performed by not the greatest musicians or singers in the world. It is not unusual to find shanties sung by people who have difficulty keeping perfect pitch, or tempo. But at least they understand what the music is about, and sing it with heart and enthusiasm and a love for the genre.

Hal Wilner should stick to whatever genre it is that made him know enough to be approached by labels, because he clearly has no understanding, and less enthusiasm for *this* genre.

If you love lively music from the maritime era, you can only be bitterly disappointed by this collection. Out of 43 tracks, I found 15 that were salvageable. Sort of.

I've already tossed this onto the pile to go to the resale shop. It wasn't worthy the cost of shipping.

Zzz..........2007-04-04

I have to admit that I have no idea what kinds of music the pirates sang aboard their ships. I know it probably wasn't "yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me," but I expected something different than this. I think my expectations have been colored by groups like The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, and the Real McKenzies. I have an annual Pirate Party and I was hoping to find some good music here to get people in the mood for a treasure hunt or pirate liar's dice, but instead, the music on this CD is something I'd put on if the party went on too long and I wanted to encourage people to leave. Some of it is actually awful and the rest is too slow and plodding to inject much energy into any situation.

I appreciate what was attempted here (contemporary artists paying homage to sea chanteys in the spirit of our romanticized version of the pirate era) but it just doesn't really work. The effect is similar to what would be achieved if the London Philharmonic Orchestra attempted to play rap "music" with Luciano Pavarotti rhymin' while flashing gang signs.

another set of hopes are smashed.......2007-03-29

the selection of titles attracted me. The quality of the arrangements, the voices, and the music---are all quite bad.

It is VERY sad that these same titles, could not have been produced for quality. They sound like a nightmare.

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5 Stars Is Not Enough
The Borders of Heaven
Dances with Wolves
Beautiful Renditions of Traditional American Songs
Connie's renditions set a standard which is hard to match.

The Border of Heaven
Connie Dover
Manufacturer: Taylor Park
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If Ever I Return
Wishing Well
Somebody
Daughter Of Lir
Heart Of The Celts: Songs Of Love

ASIN: B00004SUM0
Release Date: 2000-03-28

Tracks:

The Blessing
Sweet Betsy From Pike
I Am Going To The West
The Streets Of Laredo (The Sailor Cut Down In His Prime)
Lord Franklin
An Spailpin Fanach
Last Night By The River
The Water Is Wide
Wondrous Love
Winter's Night
My Dearest Dear
Brother Green

Customer Reviews:

5 Stars Is Not Enough.......2005-11-15

I have exposed a number of people to Connie Dover, young and old, and have yet to find anyone who doesn't immediately fall in love with her. Let's put it in a nutshell: If you listen to Connie and don't become instantly hooked, by all means have your head examined!
However if I have already conviced you and you want to know which of her titles to purchase, sorry, I can't recommend just one. Stick a crowbar in your wallet and get all 4! It will be the best $60+/- you've ever spent. Now stop reading these reviews and place your order!

The Borders of Heaven.......2005-08-12

Connie Dover's latest, "The Borders of Heaven", is an apt this for this CD. Her vocals are crisp and clear as ever.
The accompanying musicians are the cream of the crop. They include Phil Cunningham and John Hartford. It's another production triumph for Phil Cunningham. All in all a beautiful set of tunes.
I have all of Connie's recordings and I believe that this is the best to date.

Dances with Wolves.......2004-11-30

This is a great CD, I love Connie Dover, and anything she sings is always beautiful. I am writing this particular review for any of those folks who are looking for the name of the song (or the song itself) that Kevin Costner sings in the wonderful movie Dances with Wolves. Connie actually sings this old folk song here, it is track #10, "Winter's Night". Why it is called that is beyond me, but there ya go. Song titles....go figure. Connie sings many wonderful old folk songs on this CD, but she makes them her own, and that is her talent. This is a great CD. Period.

Beautiful Renditions of Traditional American Songs.......2004-06-26

It's hard not to fall in love with Connie Dover, who looks and sings like an angel. She has cited Steeleye Span and its lead singer, Maddy Pryor, as an early influence. That makes sense, because she is perhaps the purest soprano folk singer I have heard since Maddy Pryor. Before I acquired this CD, my only exposure to Ms. Dover was several songs here and there on various Celtic music collections, but on each and every one, her voice always stopped me in my tracks. So when I saw this collection of early American folk tunes (and the songs that inspired them), I thought it was a bit of a departure for her. But these arrangements strikingly emphasize the Scots-Irish influence on American folk music. Even old chestnuts like "Sweet Betsy from Pike" and "Streets of Laredo" can be heard in a new light. Ms. Dover gets expert assistance, too, from familiar names like Phil Cunningham (who also produced), Jerry Douglas and John Hartford. This is an impressive effort from one of the most beautiful voices in traditional music.

Connie's renditions set a standard which is hard to match........2002-05-25

'The Border of Heaven' is aptly named, for many of the songs on this - Connie Dover's fourth solo CD - have a dreamy, angelic feel to them. Of course there are more upbeat numbers too, but then that is typical of this singer's records - a bold but effective mix of gentle Celtic ballads, 18th and 19th century American folk songs, a spiritual piece or two, and a smattering of Connie Dover's own compositions, which on this CD include the intriguingly original 'Last Night by the River', complete with the sound of an eagle wing-bone whistle!

As is usual with this artist, all the songs are very very good. Several of the tracks may be familiar to lovers of traditional music, but Connie Dover's versions invariably set a standard which is hard to match. Her rendition of the sad but true story of 'LORD FRANKLIN' and his ill-fated crew of adventurers is simply the best I have heard. 'THE WATER IS WIDE' is also performed beautifully. And as for 'THE SAILOR CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME', I think Connie's version of this familiar melody is perfection itself, although the style in which guest artist Skip Gorman sings the companion piece 'The Streets of Laredo', is not to my own personal taste. The up-tempo songs include the jolly 'SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE' and 'WINTERS NIGHT', whilst 'I AM GOING TO THE WEST' is another of Connie Dover's own compositions - and yet it sounds just as 'traditional', and every bit as good, as the old, tried and tested standards. The spiritual song on this CD is the hymn 'WONDROUS LOVE' - wondrous indeed! The CD closes with two more lovely tracks, the achingly sentimental 'MY DEAREST DEAR', and finally 'BROTHER GREEN', a melody, not so much from the border, as from the very heart, of Heaven.

The standard of this artist has been well maintained in this, her most recent CD to date - happily Connie Dover is seemingly still singing, and writing, the most charming of songs. Less happily, Connie Dover CDs seem to come out rather sparsely, at three year intervals - so here's hoping we don't have to wait yet another three years for the next one. It pains me to say this as a Brit living in the land where so much of Connie's inspiration comes from, but there's nobody better in the world at singing this kind of material than this American. Certainly nobody I know of in my country. And there's still a huge wealth of beautiful material out there just awaiting her attention; so come on Connie - get recording again! In the meantime, just enjoy this, her latest contribution to the world of tradional folk. She is, as I say, the best in the business.

Black and White: The Definitive Collection
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Excellent material, but...

A Great Social Injustice

distilled experience

Rough-edged, wide-ranging, and essential

Brilliant

Black and White: The Definitive Collection
Ewan MacColl
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The Definitive Collection

Classic Scots Ballads: Tradition Years

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Blow Boys Blow: The Tradition Years

ASIN: B0000001ZU
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

Ballad Of Accounting
The Driver's Song
My Old Man
Dirty Old Town
Black And White
Brother Did You Weep
The Press Gang
The Shoals Of Herring
The Manchester Rambler
Sheath And Knife
Highland Muster Roll
Cam Ye O'er Frae France
The Maid Gaed Tae The Mill
The Moving On Song
Nobody Knew She Was There
Looking For A Job
Kilroy Was Here
The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
The Foggy Dew
The Joy Of Living

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MacColl was a renaissance man of folk music, not as well known as Seeger or Guthrie, but in many ways just as important. Born in Scotland in 1915, MacColl knew and recorded thousands of traditional British and Celtic songs, a generous sampling of which is here offered. His voice can be a bit of a shock--wild and rustic and thick with dialect--but matched with original and traditional material like "Dirty Old Town" (made infamous by the Pogues), "Driver's Song," "Looking for a Job," and "Joy of Living," MacColl's art has vigor and immediacy. --Roy Francis Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Excellent material, but..........2006-11-27

...hardly 'definitive'. Probably best to seek out source material for this artist until a truly 'definitive' collection comes out...

A Great Social Injustice .......2005-11-30

Ewan MacColl does a great job with these songs of injustice. The music on this CD reminds me of Pete Seeger - was Pete influenced by Ewan? These songs give you lots to think about the injustices of this world - a woman "lies dead in the ditch fed on by hungry flies" and no one seems to notice, his father loses his job to new and improved means (robots, most likely), being born of the wrong class therefore "you can't stay here ... you'll drive down the price of property", begging for work - anything - even cleaning up after animals that unload on the street, slave labor that picks the fruit that we put on our table, etc. These are the types of people we tend to ignore when we see them on the street begging for a "dollar". Will we think twice the next time we see these types of people? I hope that I do, for some day I could end up like them.

distilled experience.......2001-10-01

This album is an antidote to all forms of fashionable 'arty' popular music (from Maccoll's original 'bete noir' Bob Dylan onwards). Maccoll's language is so spare and precise that it cuts right to the essence of the emotions and experiences he describes. The poetry of `Nobody Knew She Was There' is almost like Auden. But Maccoll is most powerful for the ethical force of his songs, and the charismatic control of rhythm with which he performs them. The lyrics of these songs are like a history of left-politics in Britain during the twentieth century, culminating in its defeat at the hands of Mrs Thatcher during the 80s. She is the `lady' of `Looking for a Job', a painful song to listen to because its raw power seems now to come from desperation - the failure of the traditional Communist values which Maccoll supported throughout his life. In the end all he seems able to offer is resentful resistance to change (`My Old Man'). This is sad, and depressing to experience, but it is also, in a way, unimportant. What we have here is a real sense of continuity - from the 1930s to the 60s to the 80s, but also stretching back to the 17th and 18th century. It's intensely moving to feel this sense of continuity and communality so consistently affirmed in these wonderful songs. This is an album that cares about life: past, present and future. The final song 'The Joy of Living' can make you cry.

Rough-edged, wide-ranging, and essential.......1998-10-02

Black and White includes a song whose cover version hit the Top 40 (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), songs that couldn't be sung by anyone else (Looking For a Job), songs that have entered the folk canon (Shoals of Herring, which is often assumed to be by 'trad.arr.', and Manchester Rambler) and songs that really are traditional (Sheath and Knife). When MacColl has a message it's blunt as can be, as in Dirty Old Town and the despairing Looking For a Job (skip this song if you're really out of work!). There is no danger of overproduction here; there are only a few musicians on the album besides MacColl himself and Peggy Seeger, his wife (I think) and life partner. MacColl's singing suits his music; Seeger's is definitely an acquired taste, and their harmonies are raw, with the almost Appalachian sound characteristic of theeraly folk revival. The crowning jewel is the last song on the album, the beautiful Joy of Living, a farewell to MacColl's life that will leave you with a greater appreciation of your own.

Brilliant.......1998-08-21

Every song and performance on this album is pure genius. The problem really is that Ewan Maccoll's career has such breadth that it is difficult for this type of 1 disc compilation to provide a full overview. Still, it's the best that's out there, though missing a number of key tracks.

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A lost classic. Finally released with the original art....

Classic Scots Ballads: Tradition Years
Ewan MacColl , and Peggy Seeger
Manufacturer: Empire Musicwerks
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Three Score and Ten

ASIN: B000BRD73O
Release Date: 2005-11-22

Tracks:

Johnny Lad
The False Lover Won Black
Aikendrum
The Gairdener Chyld
The Maid Gaed To The Hill
The Elfin Knight
The Banks Of The Nile
Hughie Grame
Mormond Braes
Glasgow Peggy
The Monymusk Lads
The Trooper And The Maid
I Loved A Lass
Lord Thomas And Fair Annie

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A lost classic. Finally released with the original art...........2006-12-27

A stunningly soulful collection of classic Scottish ballads performed by two folk music legends, in their very first of what would be many collaborations. Recorded in 1959 finally issued on CD with the original artwork.
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When the folk music revival hit the UK, the great Scottish singer Ewan MacColl sought out instrumental backing for the ballads he had been singing his whole life. In 1956 MacColl met Peggy Seeger, the daughter of two leading American ethnomusicologists and the sister of folk musicians Pete & Mike Seeger. Seeger's scholarly folk music accompaniment was a welcome change from the local jazz and classical players with whom he had been associating. Their collaboration was most fruitful and harmonious. As a bonus they fell in love.

Classic Scots Ballads, was the first of many recorded collaborations between Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger. At the time of these recordings, precious few of these ballads had been heard in America in their beautiful and expressive Scottish lowlands dialect or even in song form at all. The more common of these ballads having evolved into American English or spoken as poetry. This collection of 14 songs, songs of work and love and war, found Ms. Seeger adding supporting vocals, guitar and banjo to MacColl's usually unaccompanied traditional ballads.

In the notes provided by Peggy Seeger on the occasion of a previous reissue she somewhat apologetically states that their attempt to marry these traditionally unaccompanied ballads with popular guitar and banjo was a nieve and ill fated experiment. She complains that these recordings, which were made when they "were deeply in love and embarking on a partnership in music and in life" caused them to "wander into a cultural minefield", and "did not present the songs in an authentic setting".

That is precisely why this record is has such lasting power. You can here these lovers hearts groan as they harmonize and learn each others ways on this record. While an American ear may not understand MacColl's Scots lowland dialect, the soulful "dark chocolate" way the love songs are sung make them all heartbreaker's in the most joyous sense of the word. Peggy Seeger's embarrassment over her attempted Scottish accent and folk music rhythms are unnecessarily academic in light of the obvious delight they take in singing together, and the spirit it brings to these songs. No sweeter harmony is sung than by two people in love..

Classic Scots Ballads was recorded in 1959 by folk singer Robin Roberts for Tradition Records, the American record label started in 1955 by Diane Hamilton, that The Clancy Brothers were running in New York City before they hit the big time. The label was sold in the early sixties and was stripped of any credibility, with fake stereo versions of the LP's being issued without original artwork or liner notes and often the artists going uncredited. With the compact disc resurrection of the Tradition label in 2002, Rykodisc went a long way towards righting the tragedy of this great folk music label, which in it's time was a contemporary of, and comparable to the Elektra or Folkways record labels. Classic Scots Ballads was then reissued with the original notes to the songs by Ewan MacColl and new notes by Peggy Seeger. Unfortunately, for continuity, the Tradition label's beautiful original album covers were replaced by (sometimes absurd) photographs for the series from Rykodisc. Luckily, in this new reissue series of the Tradition catalogue through Empire Musicwerks the beautiful original artwork has been restored.

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A Must Have!
Top-notch songs of the sea from a great label.

Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea
Dan Milner
Manufacturer: Folk Legacy
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Shanties & Songs of the Sea
Songs of the Tall Ships/Cruising 'Round Yardmouth
Sailors' Songs & Sea Shanties

ASIN: B00000I6KS
Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

Paddy West
The Banks Of Newfounland
Billy O'shea
The Loss Of The Ship Jane Maria
The Harp Without The Crown
The Nightingale
Rosemary Lane
Poor Old Horse
Lovely Ann
Row, Bullies, Row
Yellow Meal
Lord Bateman
The Girls Of Valparaiso
The Lily Of The West
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her

Customer Reviews:

A Must Have!.......2002-06-21

Thanks Dan for preserving these songs! The album is fantastic! As you are listening, you can just imagine men on a ship a "hundred years ago" working the sails and ropes...you just want to sing along with every song! I gave my first album away to someone in Salem, MA celebrating Nathaniel Bowditch's anniversary. (Nathaniel invented the sextant and was author of "The New American Practical Navigator.")Now I must buy a second!

Top-notch songs of the sea from a great label........1999-05-18

Renowned New York Irish instrumentalists Billy McComiskey and Brian Conway, 1986 All-Ireland Champions on accordion and fiddle, respectively, joind with Dan, Lou Killin, Andy O'Brien, and a group of veterna performers from the South Street Seaport.

Tracks:

Song Of Songs
Absent
A Dream
O Dry Those Tears
Forgotten
Old Folks At Home
Beautiful Dreamer
My Old Kentucky Home
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Oh Susanah
Old Black Joe
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
Ah May The Red Rose Live Always
Camptown Races
L' Adieu De Matin
A Dream
Ser, D.957, No.4
Have You Seen But A Whyte Lillie Grow
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Mother O' Mine
For You Alone
The Irish Love Song

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Just beautiful
Haunting folk melodies...
With this album, Larue proves she is one of the best around.

Ballads

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Custer LaRue Sing The Daemon Lover
The True Lover's Farewell - Appalachian Folk Ballads
Amazing Grace
On the Banks of Helicon: Early Music of Scotland
Tunes From the Attic

ASIN: B00000INW6
Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

Soldier Boy For Me
The True Lover's Farewell
Il a tout dit
Marlbru s'en va t'en guerre
Geordie
The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night
Edward
In A Garden So Green
My Heartly Service
Yonder Comes A Courteous Knight
Le matin en me levant
Aupres de ma blonde
Charlie's Sweet
The Rebel Soldier
Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'
Jenny, My Blithest Maid
J'ai vu le loup
Has tu point veu
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
The Wren Song
Barbara Allen

Customer Reviews:

Just beautiful.......2003-10-02

This is the second album I purchased by Custer LaRue and I love it. Her voice is as sweetly melodious as ever and the songs, haunting at times, uplifting at others, are memorable. I am especially fond of some of the traditional French songs. My French is shaky, so if anyone can provide a translation it would be greatly appreciated!

Anyway, buy the album. If you are a fan of traditional folk music you won't be disappointed.

Haunting folk melodies..........2002-09-15

This is a wonderful CD, a compilation of other Custer LaRue albums. As an introduction to her style of folk, this CD would be an excellent choice.

In many ways, I was reminded of Loreena McKennett's work, except that this was not a Celtic album. However, LaRue's high, haunting voice creates a somewhat similar soundscape.

A cross between lullabies and traditional folk tunes, both in French and English, the "Ballads" album is a fine sampling of tunes from early America that have all but passed into oblivion.

I highly recommend this album if you'd like a different kind of folk sound, or if you like McKennett's Celtic work and would like a to sample similar style or artist.

With this album, Larue proves she is one of the best around........1999-09-19

Fan of the Baltimore Consort have long appreciated Custer Larue's talent. This collection of ballads will delight these followers and win her new listeners. The selection of material is well-considered and the delivery is flawless.

Love's Old Sweet Song: Twenty Five Singers in Popular Ballads

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Remember-Mckinley was president when these tunes were new
Loves Old Sweet Song Leaves a Bitter Taste

Love's Old Sweet Song: Twenty Five Singers in Popular Ballads

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ASIN: B000001HHT
Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

The Last Rose Of Summer - Landon Ronald
For You Alone - Enrico Caruso
By The Waters Of Minnetonka (An Indian Love Song) - Landon Ronald
The Green Hills O' Somerset - Peter Dawson
She Wandered Down The Mountainside - Rosina Buckman
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise - Charles Hackett
By The Bend Of The River - Grace Moore
I Know Of Two Bright Eyes (Myrrha) - Walter Widdop
A Fairy Went A-Marketing - Clara Butt
Myself When Young (In A Persian Garden) - Norman Allin
Love's Old Sweet Song - Amelita Galli-Curci
Bird Songs At Eventide - John McCormack
Ciribiribin - Lucrezia Bori
The Song Of Songs - Richard Crooks
Homing - Percy B. Kahn
The Blind Ploughman - Fyodor Chaliapin
The Fairytales Of Ireland - Florence Austral/Hils Nelson
Ich Liebe Dich, My Dear - Armand Crabbe
I Love You Truly - Dusolina Giannini
Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses - Gerald Moore
Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) - Dora Labette
Kashmiri Song (Pale Hands I Loved) - Richard Tauber
Deep River - Marian Anderson
Leanin' - Harold Williams
A Perfect Day - Rosa Ponselle

Customer Reviews:

Remember-Mckinley was president when these tunes were new.......2007-03-10

In the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century sound recordings were very new and very fascinating to the population at large..Being able to hear a recording of a popular song,or listen to a piano roll transcription was,at the time,considered something of a miracle...Alas,since the technology was new the recording process was primitive...VERY primitive...often entire orchestras played into a recording horn,and the resulting sound reminds one of listening to something in a tunnel...very little could be done to make the sound pristine,and because of it the recordings from that period all have an antique and primitive atmosphere to them...recordings that old,and not saved upon tape,or disc,often poorly kept and poorly maintained,tend to deteriorate ,and,in many cases with regard to the items presented upon this album,the original"master"recording is lost,and only a copy remains,often a badly deteriorated,commercial copy..scratches,recording anaolomies,as well as warpage and general age have taken thier toll..Some would think,rather foolishly as it turns out,that such modern restorative processes such as"Cedar" might erase the imperfections,the scratches,the warpage,the cracks and hisses,but this is just not so...
For those of you old enough to have had long-playing records,45s,or 78s,just imagine that the ONLY copy of a particular album or song title is your old,scratched,worn disc...not some master tape or disc held in a vault somewhere,but your old beat up copy...Imagine further that you submit this old beat up copy for restoration...Sure,it may sound better afterwards than it did before,but,all in all,it still sounds pretty bad,at least by modern standards...
This is the sort of sound reproduction one gets on this album...Efforts were made to restore these sides(contrary to the opinion of another review found here about this album)but when one is dealing with recordings 100 or so years old,made when recording tecniques were primitive,and ,in some cases,having to attempt restoration on a used COPY sold to and played by someone like you and I way back when,restoration to a"perfect" sense is just not possible..Indeed,even if "perfection"could be achieved,the original sound of some of these old sides never was too good to begin with..
Be this as it may,the sides presented here are historic,to say the very least,and representative of what the public of the 1890s liked to hear...Listening to these sides,imperfections and all,gives one a sense of that time,a sense of the enormous technological gulf between these recordings and the ones available today,and,perhaps most importantly,gives us an overview of the sort of entertainment that drove our great great grandparents wild...
If you can get over the primitive sound of these recordings,or get yourself used to it,then give this album a try...

Loves Old Sweet Song Leaves a Bitter Taste.......2003-04-27

While the performances on this CD are great the transfers from the original recordings are about the worst i have ever heard. No care whatever was spent in dubbing these records to Cd. The originals in my collection sound many times better than these. I bought this for convenience but find it too terrible to listen

Average customer rating:

Interesting, though not always melodic...

English & Scottish Folk Ballads
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Topic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Revival | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music

Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00000591A
Release Date: 1996-08-06

Tracks:

Henry Martin - A.L. Lloyd
THe Baron Of Brackley - Ewan MacColl
Reynardine - Anne Briggs
The Bramble Briar - Louis Killen
Jack Orion - A.L. Lloyd
The Cruel Ship's Carpenter - Mike Waterson
The Cruel Mother - A.L. Lloyd
Lord Randal - Ewan MacColl
The Bitter Withy - A.L. Lloyd
The Forester - Norman Kennedy
Willie O Winsbury - Anne Briggs
The 'Sweet Kumadie' - Ewan MacColl
The Demon Lover - A.L. Lloyd
Young Edwin In The Lowlands - Louis Killen
Hughie The Graeme - Ewan MacColl
Drumadelgie - Norman Kennedy
The Prickly Bush - A.L. Lloyd
The Beggar Man - Ewan MacColl

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, though not always melodic..........2002-06-13

I love traditional music and would recommend this album to anybody who feels the same way. The songs all tell stories and compel you to listen again. This is an album that really grows on you.

Tracks:

Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps,
Mingualy Boat Song - Richard Thompson
My Son John - John C. Reilly
Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
Bully in the Alley - Three Pruned Men
Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry
Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
Spanish Ladies - Bill Frisell
Coast of High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
Dan Dan - David Thomas
Blood Red Roses - Sting
Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
Lowlands Away - Kate McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright
Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
Rolling Sea - Eliza Carthy
Mermaid - Martin Carthy, UK Group
Haul on the Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
Shenandoah - Richard Greene, Jack Shit
Cry of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara

Tracks:

Boney Was a Warrior - Jack Shit
Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
Long Time Ago - White Magic
Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
Lowlands Low - Antony, Bryan Ferry
One Spring Morning - Akron/Family,
Hog-Eye Man - Martin Carthy, Martin Carthy & Family,
Fiddler - Richard Greene, Ricky Jay
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
Fathom the Bowl - John C. Reilly
What Do We Do with a Drunken Sailor - David Thomas
Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
Old Man of the Sea - Baby Gramps,
Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks,
Shallow Brown - Sting
Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
Little Boy Billee - Ralph Steadman

Customer Reviews:

A Pirate's Life Soundtrack.......2006-12-29

This two-disc set is really quite a great example of pirate songs from the 19th century and more. Some artists are famous, others are not so much. All the songs are good, and the liner notes gives a little background on all the songs, which is nice. As a notice, there are a few very, very, Bawdy songs included, so if thinking of buying this for someone under 18, think again.

Also, Johnny Depp is only a backer, not a singer or contributor, as many were claiming.
Still excellent though.

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