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The Best of British Folk

The Best of British Folk
Various Artists

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Dirty Old Town - Campbell, Ian Folk Group
  2. Join Us In Our Game - Mr. Fox (1)
  3. Crossing The Stiles - Gryphon
  4. Mary of The Mountains - Humblebums
  5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Renbourn, John & Bert Jansch
  6. Lover For All Seasons - Sallyangie
  7. Foggy Dew - Imlach, Hamish
  8. Courting Blues - Jansch, Bert
  9. Ungodly - Decameron (1)
  10. Streets Of London - Johnstons
  11. Spiral Staircase - McTell, Ralph
  12. Bruton Town - Pentangle
  13. Mary Skeffington - Rafferty, Gerry
  14. Mouse And Crow - Pegg, Carolanne
  15. Back On The Road Again - Renbourn, John
  16. I'm A Rover - Campbell, Alex
  17. Easy Street - James, John & Pete Berryman
  18. Byker Hill - Swarbrick, Dave
  19. Blacksmith - Dransfields
  20. My Friend Upon The Road - Digance, Richard

Disc 2:

  1. Ginger Bread Man/Over The Hills - Storyteller
  2. William Taplin - Giltrap, Gordon
  3. Kemp's Jig - Gryphon
  4. Round Cape Horn - Campbell, Alex
  5. Maid That's Deep In Love - Pentangle
  6. Boxing Match - Black Country Three
  7. Close Your Eyes - Humblebums
  8. If It Wasn't For The Unions - Imlach, Hamish
  9. Red's Favourite - Renbourn, John & Bert Jansch
  10. Can I Have My Money Back - Rafferty, Gerry
  11. Barleycorn - Johnstons
  12. Lady Mary - Sallyangie
  13. Dear River Thames - Digance, Richard
  14. Flowers O' The Forest - McCalmans
  15. Kew Gardens - McTell, Ralph
  16. Liverpool Lullaby - Campbell, Ian Folk Group
  17. Sir Gavin Grimbold - Gryphon
  18. Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice - Imlach, Hamish
  19. Drag Queen Blues - Digance, Richard
  20. All In A Dream - Tilston, Steve

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #113703 in Music
  • Released on: 1997-09-01
  • Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

The Best of British Folk5
At £2-98, how can one go wrong with this? It is my favourite CD to play on my computer as I work. There are so many great tracks with a few I often skip. My favourites are the Alchemist and the Pedlar (I often play that over again - a really great song!) The streets of London, Matty Groves, and the Needle of Death, to name the very very best, but this CD will not, in my view, disappoint at all!

Reasonably good snapshot and introduction to British Folk4
Quite a variety of tunes on this from "Streets of London" through to "Colours" and "Matty Groves". No surprises- most folk acts you can think of are represented although some like Billy Bragg are notable by their absence. The chances are this would suffice as a good introduction to folk, since most people into the genre will have nealry all of these tracks in some form or another.

Very good but not what I expected4
This album should be retitled:60's British Folk. Rather than meeting expectations, this album presents the listener with sounds that often bridged the gap between folk and rock. Because I am quite elitist with music,I felt that anything electric or synthesised was out of place within authentic folk. Due to such a presence, I have had to come up with a new way of appreciating this album. Without the bounds of classification this is very good! hamish imlach- very good. Saw both pentangle and bert jansch in colchester UK last month- spoilt, arent i?