The Essential Guide to Folk

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Tracklist

1▼CD: Roots
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Spencer the Rover
recording of:
Spencer the Rover
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 1115)
The Copper Family3:26
2Glory of Love
Big Bill Broonzy2:42
3Dirty Old Town
Ewan MacColl1:06
4Heartbreak Hotel
producer:
Martin Carthy and Oliver Knight (folk singer)
recorded at:
Panda Sound in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Heartbreak Hotel
writer:
Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley (“The King of Rock and Roll”)
publisher:
Belwin Mills Music Ltd., Durden Breyer Publishing, EMI Harmonies Limited, EMI Mills Music Limited (PRS for Music-affiliated), Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Sony/ATV Tree Publishing and Unichappell Music
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (Consortium Music Publishing, CF Division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
Martin Carthy2:43
5Dr O'Neill / The Battering Ram
recording engineer:
Bill Leader (on 1967-03-12)
fiddle:
Andy Boyle (fiddler), Lucy Farr (fiddler) and Jimmy Power
piano:
Reg Hall (Irish traditional pianist)
Jimmy Power, Lucy Farr & Andy Boyle4:19
6Do-Re-Mi
Woody Guthrie2:38
7The Doffing Mistress
Anne Briggs1:25
8Tom Dooley
Sweeney’s Men2:33
9Brownie's Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee5:27
103/4 AD
Davy Graham & Alexis Korner4:40
11Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
recording of:
Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
lyricist and composer:
Sheila Stewart (folk singer)
Sheila Stewart1:32
12Where Have All the Flowers Gone
recording of:
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
additional lyricist:
Joe Hickerson (in 1960-05)
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger (in 1955-10)
publisher:
Sanga Music, Inc. and The Bicycle Music Company (part of Concord Bicycle Music since 2015/04/01, overseeing publishing and rights management) (in 1961)
Pete Seeger31:57
13The Patriot Game
recording of:
The Patriot Game
lyricist:
Dominic Behan (in 1957)
additional composer:
Dominic Behan (in 1957)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
version of:
The Nightingale
Dominic Behan4:01
14Little Boxes
recording of:
Little Boxes
lyricist and composer:
Malvina Reynolds
publisher:
Schroder Music Company
Malvina Reynolds1:40
15Rock Island Line
recording of:
Rock Island Line
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
publisher:
Folkways Music Publishers Inc.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 15211)
Lonnie Donegan3:24
16Wild Colonial Boy
Margaret Barry3:07
17Goodnight Irene
recording of:
Goodnight Irene
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ledbetter and John A. Lomax
publisher:
Lodlow Music, Spencer Music Corp., TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. and Tyler Music Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11681)
translated version of:
Godnatt Irene
Lead Belly1:53
2▶CD: Folk Rocks!
3▶CD: New Routes