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Anne Briggs

Chris Coe

Shirley Collins

Christine Collister

Sarah Grey

Kirsty McGee

Sandra Kerr

Anne Lennox Martin

Kate Rusby

Maddie Southorn

June Tabor

Linda Thompson

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FECD144 Track List

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FECD151 Track List

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TSCD504  Track List

A Collection
Anne Briggs, a free spirit of the '60s, was also one of the most distinctive and influential singers on the folk scene. 'If I hadn't heard her,' says June Tabor, 'I'd have probably done something entirely different.'
'She was,' writes Colin Harper in his accompanying biographical essay, 'as the best of the music itself was, sexy, wild, mysterious, otherworldly and vulnerable all at the same time.'

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Fled 3008 Track List

Sing a Song For You
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Chris Coe

Bash CD51 Track List

A Wiser Fool

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See also The New Victory Band

TSCD476 Track List

The Sweet Primroses

Shirley Collins's sweet, self-effacing singing keeps her closer to the core of traditional song than many a more histrionic singer. Yet her work has been extraordinarily diverse: she has collaborated with the guitarist Davy Graham, the Incredible String Band, the Albion Country Band and her sister Dolly.

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TSCD1002 Track List

Into the Light
Christine’s second solo album for Topic finds her great voice in even better form, if that is possible. Into the Light is the closest thing yet to capturing the live quality and personality of this outstanding singer. Its style is more acoustic than "An Equal Love" and again, it features her unique songwriting skills alongside a selection of specially chosen covers of classic contemporary song.

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TSCD1001 Track List

An Equal Love
Quite simply: one of England's greatest voices has now made the ultimate recording. An Equal Love demonstrates Christine's growth as both a singer and a songwriter - half the album is written by her. "Collister's effect is transfixing" -

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Sara Grey

Kirsty McGee

Sandra Kerr

COF 015 Track List

Anne Lennox-Martin: Originally from London and now living in Shropshire, Anne Lennox-Martin is once more active on the UK folk scene. Despite only re-emerging early this year her reputation is such that she has immediately been booked at high profile festival and clubs. with Bill Caddick: 12 string and slide guitars, vocals Flos Headford: fiddle, vocals, Vince Neads: acoustic and slide guitars, mandolin, vocals Chris Bartram: percussion, harmonica, vocals, Ray Archer: bass guitars, Elayna Martin and Genevieve Tudor: vocals

PRCD017 Track List

The Girl Who Couldn't Fly

Kate’s new CD comprises 11 tracks plus a bonus track, (Jack Frost – written for CBBC animation of same name Christmas 2004).

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PRCD12 Track List

Underneath the Stars

Kate's 2003 CD consists of a mixture of traditional and new songs . It features her usual "boys", Ian Carr, Andy Cutting, Ewan Vernal, Andy Seward, John McCusker, James MacKintosh and Michael McGoldrick. Kate is also joined by Eddi Reader and Simon Fowler from the band Ocean Colour Scene and the fantastic Grimethorpe colliery brass band

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PRCD10 Track List

10

Kate's CD 'TEN', a retrospective CD celebrating ten years of Kate's career and consisting of new recordings of many of the songs that have made her so popular plus some live recordings and some brand new songs.

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PRCD07 Track List

Little Lights

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PRCD11 Track List

Heartlands

Heartlands is a mixture of Kate's and John McCusker¹s music as used in the film. John's music on Heartlands is new material but Kate's tracks on Heartlands are on previous recordings.

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PRCD06 Track List

Sleepless

Musicians include John McCusker, Andy Cutting, Ian Carr, Roger Wilson, Conrad Ivitsky, Andy Seward, Michael McGoldrick, Donald Hay, Darrel Scott and Francis Macdonald. Guest vocals from Dave Burland, Tim O'Brien,and Roger Wilson .
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PRCD04 Track List

Cow Song

"Cowsong"- produced by John McCusker with musicians Michael McGoldrick, Ian Carr, Conrad Ivitsky, Andy Cutting and James Macintosh

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PRCD02 Track List

Hourglass

Although this is Kate's solo album, she is not alone! Joining her, with the album's multitalented producer John McCusker on fiddles, are: Michael McGoldrick on flute and whistles; Ian Carr on guitar; Andy Cutting on diatonic accordion; Tony McManus on guitars; Alison Kinnaird on'cello; Donald Hay on percussion; Conrad Ivitsky on double bass; Alan Reid and Davy Steele on harmony vocals; and "Braveheart's" Eric Rigler on uillean pipes.
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Maddie Southorn

FECD193 Track List

Pilgrim Soul

A talented new voice on the scene, Maddie does a selection of her own songs plus some traditional material. Accompanying musicians include Nancy Kerr, Karen Tweed and Steve Lawrence. Decode magazine described her as having "a voice that could melt glass".

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June Tabor

From her first recording June Tabor demonstrated a mature command of traditional and contemporary songs alike, singing them, often unaccompanied, with remarkable individuality and expressiveness. The emotions and meanings she uncovers in the old songs give them a new resonance that has caught the imagination of audiences far beyond the folk scene.

TSFCD4003 Track List

Always

June Tabor’s remarkable career to date is comprehensively chronicled here, in a gorgeous 4 CD box (6” x 12”) with many rare, live and previously unreleased recordings and a 48 page booklet with many historical photographs, a lengthy biographical essay with many quotations and observations from June herself and extensive notes on each song from June and others. Very careful attention has been paid to the re-mastering which has brought new life to the recordings.

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TSCD557 Track List

At the Wood's Heart

This is 'the' June Tabor album, from the opening track, a magisterial reading of The Banks of Sweet Primeroses, through Anna McGarrigle’s Heart Like A Wheel and her in-concert showstopper, Duke Ellington’s Do Nothing ‘Till You Hear From Me. June has also chosen a new song from the pen of one of her favourite English songwriters Bill Caddick’s The Cloud Factory.

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TSCD543 Track List

An Echo of Hooves
June Tabor makes the ultimate album, featuring a programme made up exclusively of the great traditional folk ballads – story telling at its dark, urgent best. June’s regular trio of accompanists (Huw Warren - piano, cello; Mark Emerson – violin, viola; Tim Harries – double bass) is joined by Martin Simpson, guitar and Kathryn Tickell, Northumbrian pipes).

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TSCD532 Track List

Rosa Mundi
Any new album from a performer described by The Guardian as "one of the great singers of any genre" is an event in itself, but this time, June has chosen a programme of material reflecting her two great passions - music and the land. The material is drawn from an extraordinarily varied range of sources ranging from Tchaikovsky to Les Barker, from the 15th Century to the present day, from the esoteric to the beautifully simple. All centre on tales of the rose; whether sacred, secular or as a symbol of love.
    Rosa Mundi re-enforces June Tabor's standing as a singer of considerable importance with a startling ability to imbue material with clarity and exquisite beauty, using a voice that, over a thirty year period, has won her world-wide admiration and acclaim. Rosa Mundi is June Tabor's celebration of the rose.

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TSCD510  Track List

A Quiet Eye 
The album features June backed by members of the Creative Jazz Orchestra. Not a jazz album this, however, but June in her finest voice with a selection of predominantly English material from both traditional and contemporary sources in settings ranging from solo to full ensemble with brass, reeds and strings.
    Huw Warren piano, Mark Bassey trombone, Liam Kirkman trombone, Richard Iles trumpet, Jim Rattigan French horn, Richard Bolton cello, Richard Fox tuba, Dudley Philips double bass, Andy Schofield clarinet, alto saxophone, Iain Dixon bass clarinet, clarinet, Mark Emerson viola, violin, Roy Dodds percussion, Mark Lockheart clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophones.

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TSCD490 Track List

Aleyn 
Tabor's characteristic choice and blend of traditional songs and compositions by Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell and other contemporary songwriters are enhanced by sensitive arrangements.
    Mark Emerson violin, viola, Mark Lockheart clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophones, Dudley Phillips double bass, Huw Warren piano, piano accordion.

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TSCD449 Track List

Aqaba 
Another collaboration of Tabor and producer Andrew Cronshaw, Aqaba contains the Jewish lament Mayn Rue Plats, more pieces by Bill Caddick and Dave Goulder and the noble cadences of the traditional songs Searching for Lambs and Bogie's Bonnie Belle.

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TSCD432 Track List

Abyssinians
Tabor's vocal artistry is especially vividly captured in this album, produced by Andrew Cronshaw. It opens with a song by Lal & Mike Waterson, closes with one by Joni Mitchell and takes in on the way the African-American spiritual Lay This Body Down.

Martin Simpson guitar, Ric Saunders violin.

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TSCD410 Track List

A Cut Above

with Martin Simpson 
This album glows with the special energy of a natural musical partnership, as Tabor's bold steps are faultlessly tracked by guitarist Martin Simpson. As well as compositions by Richard Thompson, Bill Caddick and other contemporary writers, Tabor offers a song in French, Le Roi Renaud. Martin Simpson guitar, Ric Saunders violin, Dave Bristow keyboards, Jon Davie bass.

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TSCD360 Track List

Ashes & Diamonds 
Accompanied, as on Airs and Graces, by Nic Jones (guitar), Tony Hall (melodeon) and other notable players, Tabor again blends striking revisions of traditional songs with new pieces by Eric Bogle (No Man's Land, Now I'm Easy) and Dave Goulder (The Easter Tree).
    Tony Hall melodeon, Nic Jones guitar & fiddle, Jon Gillaspie keyboard, Nigel Pegrum drums, Doug Morter electric guitar.

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TSCD298 Track List

Airs & Graces
In this impressive debut Tabor tackles not only the traditional stories of Reynardine and the Plains of Waterloo but the harrowing narrative of Eric Bogle's World War I song The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, in what is now recognised as its definitive version.
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See also The Silly Sisters

Linda Thompson

TSCD821 Track List

Fashionably Late

Time Magazine has said "Linda Thompson may be rock's best woman singer", and anybody with an interest in contemporary music would expect that description to be expanded to include folk music. Although Linda hasn't made a recording for seventeen years, the pure, fragile beauty of her voice hasn't deserted her - indeed, time has only increased the emotional quality of her performance. This is a remarkable comeback, featuring nine songs either written or co-written by Linda. The tenth, Evona Darling, is from the pen and free spirit of Lal Waterson.
    Teddy Thompson guitars & vocals, Richard Greene fiddle, Van Dyke Parks accordion & Hammond B-3 organ, Kate Rusby acoustic guitar & vocals, Kathryn Tickell Northumbrian pipes, Eliza Carthy fiddle & vocals, Chris Cutler drums, Rufus Wainwright vocals Kamila Thompson vocals
Richard Thompson electric guitar and vocals, John Doyle acoustic guitar, Danny Thompson double bass, Martin Carthy acoustic guitar, Jerry Donohue electric guitar, Geraint Watkins Hammond B-3 organ, Dave Mattacks drums, Edward Haber production, John Wood mix, Teddy Thompson production assistance.

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