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The Watersons ??/??/1986

SHOWID 231829

Set I

Brewery Folk Club,Rochester,Kent 1982:
The Hare's Dream
Swarthfell Rocks
The Whitby Lad

Whitby Folk Festival 1984:
Young Banker
A Country Life
Jolly Wassail/Street Cries

Fylde Folk Festival 1986:
Isle Of Man Hymn
Prickle Holly Bush
Fun At The Ball
Flowers Of The Forest
I Went To Market

Folk Union 1, Hull 1986:
Treat Me Daughter Decent
Carhampton Apple Tree Wassail
Dido,Bendigo
General Wolfe
Shepherds Are The Cleverest Lads
Hal-An-Tow
Jolly Waggoner

Blue Murder - Oakengates Town Hall,Shropshire 1987:
The White Cockade
The Derby Ram
Down In The Valley
The Land Where You Never Grow Old
Rollin' Home
Mole In A Hole

Set II

 

Set III

 

Comment

As far as I know the line-up of the Watersons for all these recordings was the same -

Martin Carthy, Lal,Mike & Norma Waterson.

The last set is by Blue Murder, the folk harmony supergroup. This is the original group, which never recorded and was made up of the Watersons and Swan Arcade (Jim Boyes, Dave & Heather Brady).

The quality of these recordings is a little variable, as they were made in a number of different locations,with different eqiupment over a number of years. Blemishes which you might not notice on a rock recording tend to stand out far more with unaccompanied singing!

For more information and further listening you can do worse than check out the recent Watersons boxset "Mighty River of Song" (Topic TSFCD4002)
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/records/mightyriverofsong.html

Enjoy!