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Hold Down a Chord Book 2: Finger Picking Folk Guitar Styles (BBC Publications, 1969) Saturday Night: Twenty Tabulated Folk Songs for the Guitar (BBC Publications, 1969) The John Pearse single string melody method for folk guitarists (Feldman, 1969) 1st Guide To Guitar – a Simple Course Providing the Basics (Amsco Music Pub., 1970) The John ...
Shady Grove" (Roud 4456) [1] is a traditional Appalachian folk song, [2] believed to have originated in eastern Kentucky around the beginning the 20th century. [3] The song was popular among old-time musicians of the Cumberlands before being widely adopted in the bluegrass repertoire. [4]
A.L. Lloyd on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume IV (1956) Alfred Deller on Western Wind and Other English Folk Songs (1958) [5] Joan Baez on Joan Baez (1960) A.L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards on English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Topic 1964, 1996) [4] Bert Jansch on Jack Orion (1966) Donovan on H.M.S. Donovan (1971) Figgy Duff on ...
Beautiful Sunday (song) Beer, Beer, Beer; A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs; Bingo (folk song) The Birthday Party (song) The Bishoprick Garland; The Bitter Withy; Blackbird (Beatles song) Blackleg Miner; Blacksmith (song) Blaydon Races; Blow the Man Down; Blow the Wind Southerly; Blyth and Tyneside Poems & Songs; Boar's Head Carol; Bob Cranky's Adieu ...
Folk singer and scholar Fay Hield was commissioned by the EFDSS to create new musical arrangements, drawing on the archive material, to accompany the project. [4] She assembled a collective of musicians to perform at the launch party in June 2013, but after creating a set the musicians decided to extend the collaboration by producing an album and touring under The Full English name in order to ...
Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), [1] also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk song of a wife's attempted murder of her husband. Of unknown origins, there are multiple variations. [2] The most well known variations are "The Old Woman From Boston" [3] and "The Rich Old Lady". [4]
Blow the Wind Southerly" is a traditional English folk song from Northumbria. It tells of a woman desperately hoping for a southerly wind to blow her lover back home over the sea to her. It is Roud number 2619. [1]
The Roud Folk Song Index contains 329 examples (though the same version may be reprinted or distributed in more than one publication or recording and therefore generate more than one entry in the index). 92 examples were collected in England, largely in Southern England (17 versions collected in Sussex in contrast with 2 in Yorkshire). 2 were collected from singers in Wales, 2 from Scotland ...