The Ballads of Peter Bellamy: Big, Broadside & Barrack Room

Peter Bellamy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Free Reed
• ASIN: B0018OAOM6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Old Songs: from Vaulted Echoes , with the Copper Family

2. Young Roger, Esq: from the live recording, Sydney Opera House

3. Gunga Din: from the Schofield Archive (unreleased)

4. Sir Andrew Barton: from Vaulted Echoes

5. Lord Randall: from the EFDSS CD Second Wind

6. Mandalay: from the Schofield Archive (unreleased)

7. Slip Jigs and Reels: from the Schofield Archive (unreleased)

8. Fair Annie: from the Fellside CD Fair Annie

9. Danny Deever: from the Schofield Archive, also on Vaulted Echoes

10. Tyne of Harrow: from the Schofield Archive (unreleased)

11. Cholera Camp: from the Schofield Archive

12. The Bitter Withy: Live Recording

13. The Trees they do Grow High: Live Recording

14. Way Down Town: from the Schofield Archive

15. The Black and Bitter Night: from the EFDSS CD Second Wind , also on Vaulted Echoes

16. The Exile s Song: from the EFDSS CD Second Wind

17. Shallow Brown: with The Watersons, from Vaulted Echoes

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice overview of a great, obscure British singer, June 21, 2008

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ballads of Peter Bellamy: Big, Broadside & Barrack Room (Audio CD)

This is an fine single-CD overview of English folksinger Peter Bellamy, who made his mark in the 1960s trio called Young Tradition, then found infamy and obscurity in his solo career, which he pursued with devotion against steep odds. Bellamy was ostracized from the Left-leaning British folk scene when he began to delve into the works of Rudyard Kipling, an author who many saw as an exemplar of English imperialism. Bellamy, however, concentrated on Kipling's artistry, and found a rich (and largely untapped) wellspring of well-wrought poetry, material he turned into songs that were often performed a capella, or with minimal accompaniment. He sang songs from many other sources as well, and this collection shows strengths as a folklorist, as well as the power of his deep, gruff vocals. It's powerful stuff. If, after you give this set a good, attentive listening and emerge a devoted fan, you might also want to track down the even more comprehensive 3-CD set, "Wake the Vaulted Echoes," which gathers even more of Bellamy's rare, hard-to-find, deeply rewarding material. This is a good place to start, though! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue music guide)

4.0 out of 5 stars Peter Bellamy Ballads from Amazon, October 29, 2011

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Dwight Allbee (WAVERLY, IOWA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ballads of Peter Bellamy: Big, Broadside & Barrack Room (Audio CD)

Accompanied by Peter Bellamy's excellent concertina playing and vocals, this CD presents a wide selection of old English Ballads along with Bellamy's musical intepretation of some of Rudyard Kipling Barrack Room Ballads. I thoroughly enjoy the CD and the quality of the recording is very good except that there is about a six-minute period of silence following the last ballad and then a bit of a song not listed with the other cuts. I do not know if this period of silence was a recording error that occurred during the pressing of the CD or if it is just a problem with my particular copy. I like the CD very much so I did not return it with a "complaint." However, if it is an error that occurs with all of the copies, some buyers may not want to keep their copy and might return it. Also, I have an LP of Bellamy's Barrack Room Ballads of Kipling set to music and I would like to have a copy of that album on CD but I have not found that such a CD exists. Perhaps that will occur sometime in the future.