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Three Score & Ten: A Voice to the People

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Three Score & Ten: A Voice to the People Various Artists CD
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  • Artist: Various Artists
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 7
  • UPC: 714822007085
  • Item Number: BGO200708
  • Release date: 10/20/2009
  • 1. The Humpback Whale
  • 2. Angi
  • 3. The Shaskeen Reel
  • 4. The Lancashire Toreadors
  • 5. Sullivan's March
  • 6. San Francisco Bay Blues
  • 7. Country Gardens
  • 8. Tamlyn
  • 9. The Air for Maurice Ogg/Jumping Jack/The Air for Maurice Ogg
  • 10. Creeping Jane
  • 11. Wasps in the Woodpile
  • 12. Prince Heathen
  • 13. The Bonny Labouring Boy
  • 14. Rawtenstall Annual Fair
  • 15. Music for a Found Harmonium
  • 16. Bitter Sweet
  • 1. The Nut Dance [Excerpt]
  • 2. Spencer the Rover
  • 3. All Things Are Quite Silent
  • 4. Blackwater Side
  • 5. The Two Magicians
  • 6. Scan's Polkas
  • 7. The Crafty Maid's Policy
  • 8. A Place Called England
  • 9. When in Die
  • 10. The Bold Princess Royal
  • 11. Hal-An-Tow
  • 12. We Shepherds Are the Best of Men
  • 13. The Rose of Britain's Isle/Glorishears
  • 14. Riding Down to Portsmouth
  • 15. Higher Germany
  • 16. The Ideal Schottische
  • 17. The Methody Parson
  • 18. The Maid and the Palmer
  • 19. Hopping Down in Kent
  • 20. The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
  • 1. The Rising Sun/The Pope's Toe
  • 2. The Waterford Boys
  • 3. The Banks of Red Roses
  • 4. Gillan's Apples/The Prize Jig
  • 5. Slieve Gallon Brae
  • 6. Paddy Ryan's Dream/Mamma's Pet
  • 7. My Irish Molly O
  • 8. The Blackbird
  • 9. The Factory Girl
  • 10. Roaring Mary/The Old Torn Petticoat
  • 11. Spailpina Run
  • 12. The Choice Wife
  • 13. The Tinker's Old Budget
  • 14. Padraig O'Keefe's/Con Cassidy's
  • 15. Dowd's Favourite
  • 16. Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer
  • 17. The Music in the Glen/The Greenfields of America
  • 18. The Knight Templar's Dream
  • 19. The Yellow Tinker/The Humours of Scarriff
  • 20. He Rolled Her to the Wall
  • 21. The Heather Breeze/The Traveller
  • 22. The Patriot Game
  • 23. The Belfast Hornpipe/The Rights of Man
  • 24. Bridie Morley/Duignan's Favourite
  • 1. Miss Drummond of Perth/Fiddler's Joy/Traditional Reel
  • 2. Come All Ye Fisher Lasses
  • 3. Queen Among the Heather
  • 4. Cullen Bay/Jig O'Slurs/Seagull
  • 5. Wi My Roving Eye
  • 6. Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk
  • 7. Soldier's Joy
  • 8. The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  • 9. Erin Go Bragh
  • 10. Young Jimmy Foyers
  • 11. Kempy Kaye
  • 12. Lady Eliza
  • 13. Tilley Plump/Auld Foula Reel/Oot and in Da Harbour
  • 14. Herd Laddie O' the Glen
  • 15. The Fireman's Not for Me
  • 16. Dance with Me, Morag
  • 17. The Wind That Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
  • 18. MacCrimmon's Lament
  • 19. The Gallant Forty Twa
  • 20. The Twa Corbies
  • 21. Boulavogue
  • 22. The Wandering Piper
  • 1. Unity (Raise Your Banners High)
  • 2. The Dominion of the Sword
  • 3. The Sun Is Burning
  • 4. Go Down Ye Murderers
  • 5. Police Patrol
  • 6. Two Tears
  • 7. Never Any Good
  • 8. Both Sides of the Tweed
  • 9. Georg's Son
  • 10. Reconciliation
  • 11. Stumbling On
  • 12. Acceptable Losses
  • 13. Ships of Shame
  • 14. The Land of Three Rivers
  • 15. No Telling
  • 16. Dust
  • 17. Two-Fisted Heroes
  • 1. The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer
  • 2. Taking Union Blues
  • 3. Joe Hill
  • 4. Masters of War
  • 5. The Red Flag
  • 6. The Blackleg Miners
  • 7. No Power on Earth
  • 8. The Internationale
  • 9. To the Begging I Will Go
  • 10. The Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament
  • 11. The Rigs of the Time
  • 12. Greedy Landlord
  • 13. Time to Ring Some Changes
  • 14. Sixteen Tons
  • 15. The Peat-Bog Soldiers
  • 16. Aa'm Glad the Strike's Done
  • 17. Three Score and Ten
  • 18. Dirty Old Town
  • 19. The Liverpool Barrow Boys
  • 20. The Weaver's March
  • 21. We Poor Labouring Men
  • 22. Perfumes of Arabia
  • 23. Hot Asphalt
  • 1. Skye Crofter's/The Swallow Tail
  • 2. While Gamekeeper's Lie Sleeping
  • 3. Boi Se Otvori
  • 4. Barleycorn
  • 5. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore
  • 6. The Happy One-Step/Green Willis
  • 7. Clyde Water
  • 8. Baranca
  • 9. Georgie
  • 10. Jenny Lind
  • 11. Worcester City
  • 12. Talking Dustbowl Blues
  • 13. Kaba Vence
  • 14. The Green Banks of Yarrow
  • 15. Johnny, Will You Marry Me?
  • 16. Hamburger - Polka Fra Hardanger
  • 17. Hedger and Ditcher
  • 18. Burren No. 1/Chris Droney's Favourite
  • 19. Nna Hamu
  • 20. Little Sadie
  • 21. Fulmine
  • 22. No One Stands Alone
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Three Score & Ten: A Voice to the People by Various Artists on CD


Topic Records is truly one of the world's musical treasures -- a company that has, for 70 years now, gathered, organized, described, and distributed recordings of folk singers, instrumentalists, ensembles, and songwriters from across the British Isles and beyond into Europe. If you've heard the music of the Watersons, Ewan MacColl, Martin Simpson, June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, Dick Gaughan, the Battlefield Band, or Shirley Collins, it's in large part due to the efforts of Topic's small but dedicated staff. Three Score & Ten compiles seven discs of material taken almost (but, weirdly, not entirely) from the Topic catalog and sticks them into the inside front and back covers of a handsome coffee-table book filled with priceless photos and a comprehensive label history. To listen through the whole set is to be both entranced and surprised: those who know the label mainly as a source of traditional English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes may be a bit startled by the material from its earlier, radical period, and perhaps discomforted by some of that material as well. You don't have to be a card-carrying socialist to sympathize with Pete Seeger's call to union solidarity against fiendish bosses, but given what we know about the realities of the Soviet system it's a bit harder to sit through lusty renditions of "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag" without squirming. Also surprising to some listeners may be the occasional incursions of Eastern European folk melodies into what is largely a program of traditional fiddle tunes, ballads, and music hall fare. But that's a more salutary kind of surprise, and those whose tastes don't run to such foreign exotica will still find an almost overwhelming wealth of what they came to hear: Ewan MacColl making "Sixteen Tons" sound like it was written in Wales during the Thatcher administration (though he recorded it in 1956); piper Seamus Ennis keening his way thrillingly through "The Blackbird"; Brass Monkey reclaiming the village brass band tradition on "The Maid and the Palmer"; and, of course, the Watersons' heartbreaking rendition of the maritime tragedy "Three Score & Ten." Read along in the book while you listen and you'll come away, nearly eight hours later, with both a deeper understanding of the rich and varied folk traditions that Topic is dedicated to preserving and an almost awestruck appreciation for both the breadth and the quality of the label's work over the past seven decades. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi
  • Artist: Various Artists
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 7
  • UPC: 714822007085
  • Item Number: BGO200708
  • Release date: 10/20/2009
  • Label: Topic Records
  • Genre: Blues, Folk
  • Style: Folk-Blues, Sea Shanties, Field Recordings
  • Album Time: 475:52

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