Portraits: Harry Cox

Harry Cox | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 15, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B00004D3DL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,591 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant English Folk Music, December 25, 2000

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Jay Immel (Otley, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portraits: Harry Cox (Audio CD)

Harry Cox (1885-1971) was one of the twentieth century's finest interpreters of traditional English folk music. In 1953, archivists Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy interviewed Cox and taped him performing over two dozen songs. "What Will Become of England?" is a marvelous anthology of these recordings. In the interviews the album includes, Cox engagingly discussed his childhood, his life as a farm laborer in Norfolk, and his musical repertoire. The songs in the anthology feature his powerful unaccompanied vocals. The album includes ribald tales ("The Farmer's Servant") and tender love songs ("The Spotted Cow"). Cox also sang about fishing ("Barton Broad Babbling Ballad") and sailing ("The Yarmouth Fisherman's Song"). Regardless of the subject matter, all of the music is excellent. "What Will Become of England?" wonderfully chronicles the life and singing of an English legend.