PLAYLIST TECHNICAL INFORMATION NOTES

GHM-303
John Roberts and Tony Barrand

Live at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

January 21, 1978

Playlist | Technical Info | Song Notes | Order

PLAYLIST
Note: Missing numbers in the track listings represent introductions to the following song.
CD 1
1. Set 1 Intro / Garners Gay
3. The Brisk Young Tailor
4. Peter Street
6. William Taylor
7. Mister Fox (story)
8. Reynardine
9. The Gas Man Cometh (Flanders & Swann)
10. Good Ale
12. Herrin's Hed
14. The Two Magicians
15. Whiskey Before Breakfast / Bay of Fundy
16. Intro to Clog Dancing
17. Off to California / Brown Coffin / Navvy on the Line (clog)
CD 2
1. The Painful Plough
3. We'll Rant and We'll Roar
5. Lady Franklin's Lament
7. The Derby Ram
9. Ballad of the Cowpuncher (Genny Haley)
10. Set 2 Intro / I Wish They'd Do It Now
11. The Cheerful Horn
12. The Maid on the Shore
13. The Cluster of Nuts
14. Farewell She
15. The Shoemaker's Kiss
CD 3
2. The Bitter Withy
3. Albert and the Lion (monolog) (Marriott Edgar)
4. Henery the Eighth (Fred Murray & R.P.Weston)
6. Down Below (Sydney Carter)
7. Come Day, Go Day (Glyn Hughes)
8. Country Gardens / Maid of the Mill / Glorisher
10. The Nutting Girl
11. The Baffled Knight
12. Barbara Allen
14. Congleton Bear (John Tams)
16. The Barley Mow
17. Thyme

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Recorded by Rich Warren.
Re-mastered by Rob van Sante.

Š2019 Golden Hind Music

SONG NOTES

In September 1969, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, graduate students at Cornell University, performed their first concert together as folk musicians. Singing informally at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival earlier that summer, they had met the redoutable Maggi Peirce who hired them for her coffeehouse concert series, the Tryworks in New Bedford. With friend and supporter Mark Phillips (who owned the car!) they mad the trek from Ithaca to New Bedford, marking the beginning of a long career.

In the following decades John and Tony played all the major folk festivals and venues, and became recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the leading ambassadors of traditional English folksong in the USA, releasing over a dozen CDs, plus a half-dozen more with the quartet Nowell Sing We Clear.

This CD set, a live recording of one of their classic concerts, is released on the occasion of their 50th anniversary concert, September 2019, kindly hosted by the Battleboro Music Center, www.bmcvt.org.