Rough Guide: English Roots Music

Rough Guide (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: World Music Network
• ASIN: B000009Q7I
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #33 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > Europe
  • #60 in Music > Folk > British & Celtic Folk > British Folk

Track Listings

1. Lucky Break - Hank Dogs

2. Trip - Eliza Carthy & The Kings Of Calicutt

3. Sail On By - Oysterband

4. Claudy Banks - Waterson/Carthy

5. Be My Rambling Woman - Rory McLeod

6. Gypsy's Lullaby/The Hawk/Memories/Coates Hall - Billy Pigg

7. The Begging Song - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick

8. A Lord Of Steam And Iron - John Kirkpatrick

9. Falling Slowly - Coope, Boyes & Simpson

10. Hopping Down In Kent - Louise Fuller

11. Country Life - The Watersons

12. Byker Hill - Barely Works

13. Brilliant Pebbles - Edward II

14. Yellow Dress - Albion Band

15. Red Wing Polka - Walter Bulwer/Billy Cooper/Daisy Bulwer/Reg Hall/Mervin Plunkett/Russell Wortley

16. Bold Fisherman - Harry Cox

17. The Baker - Savourna Stevenson/June Tabor/Danny Thompson

18. A New England - Billy Bragg

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quirky, July 28, 2007

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Mike (Arlington, VA. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rough Guide: English Roots Music (Audio CD)

This quirky CD of English "roots" music is an odd assortment of different styles of influence on the various artists presented here. There's the raw folksiness of "Claudy Banks", the old-timey Victorian feel of "A Lord Of Steam and Iron", but the best song of the bunch is a pleasant and breezy folk-pop number "Sail On By" by Oysterband, which owes a nod to Steeleye Span's more upbeat tunes. Said song makes the whole album worth it for just that song alone.

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely cd, October 28, 2009

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Dominic M. Troughton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rough Guide: English Roots Music (Audio CD)

there is some truly beautifal folk music on this cd ... from june tabor to john kirkpatrick ... it is one of the most lovely collections of english folk music that I own ...