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Our complete catalogue now extends to over 20 CDs, grouped into various themes. Follow these links for more albums

Scots Songs and Ballads series (LTCD1001 -)

Bob Blair

Reaching for the High High Lands
Scots songs and ballads by Bob Blair - LTCD1001
The first in the series and fittingly by one of Scotland's finest traditional singers. a review of this CD
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Tracks: Kissin's Nae Sin, Cairn o' Mount, Bonny Peggy, A Wee Drappie O't Waly, Waly, Duncan Gray, It Was in the Toon o' Kelso, O Gin My Love Were a Pickle o' Wheat, The Collier Laddie, The Grey Silkie of Sule Skerry, Johnny Lad, Ye Hae Lien Wrang, The Bonnie Lassie o' the Mornin'

Jimmy Hutchison

Corachree
Scots songs and ballads by Jimmy Hutchison - LTCD1002
The second in the series by one another of Scotland's fine traditional singers. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Erin go Bragh, She Was a Rum One, Matty Groves, The Overgate, The Beggerman, I'll Lay Ye Doon Love, Phiege a Grath, Corachree, False Lover Won Back, The Spanish Lady, Lord Donald, D Day Dodgers.

Alison McMorland

Cloudberry Day
Scots songs and ballads by Alison McMorland- LTCD1003
Alison has a great reputation as a singer. This is her first solo album since Belt Wi Colours Three was released on LP back in the '70s.
a review of this CD

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Tracks: Traiveller's Joy, Sailing's a weary life, Edom o' Gordon, Be Good Tae Me, The Twa Sisters (The Swan Swim's Sae Bonnie), Twa Years Ower Young, Happen Row The Flyting o' Life and Death, The American Stranger, Skippin' Bar'foot Through the Heather, The Belt wi Colours Three, Rowin Hard Against the Stream, Cloudberry Day

Maureen Jelks

Eence Upon a Time
Scots songs and ballads by Maureen Jelks- LTCD1004
Maureen comes from Dundee. She is devoting a lot of time to her singing and her reputation is growing radidly.
a review of this CD

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Tracks: Eence Upon a Time (When I Wis Young and Bonny), Mary Mild, Black Waterside, The Bonnie Hoose 0' Airlie, Fair Rosie-Anne, The Wimmen O' Dundee, Why Should I, Johnnie My Man, Donal Ogg, Silken Snood, The Cruel Mother, Eh'm A Dundee Lassie, Rue and Thyme, The Rantin' Laddie,

Tom Spiers

Allan Water
Scots songs and ballads by Tom Spiers- LTCD1005
Tom is from Aberdeenshire. He has recorded extensively with The Gaugers.

a review of this CD

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Tracks: Rhynie, Pills of White Mercury , The Sailor Deceived, I'm A Workin Chap, Depression, Binnorie, Rollin in The Dew, Ythanside, The Wedding of Lachie McGraw, The Jauntin Car, Aqua vitae, Absence, He'll Nae Tak Liver, Bonnie Udny, Allan Water

Jack Beck

Half Ower Half Ower tae Aberdour
Scots songs and ballads by Jack Beck - LTCD1006
From Fife, Jack is held in high regard by all the singers in Scotland. He was a member of the Scots group Heritage. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Band o' Shearers, Dunfermline Feein' Mercat, Tattie Time, Fordell Ball, The Plaidie Awa, Sir Patrick Spens, The Gypsy Laddies, The Pills of Mercury, Willie's Fatal Visit, New Broken Token, Have you seen my Sister Mary?, The Twa Sisters, Tramps and Hawkers, Tattie Jock, The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster,

Lasses Fair and Laddies Braw

Lasses Fair and Laddies Braw
Scots songs and ballads by Heather Heywood - LTCD1007
Since the 1988 release of her debut album "Some Kind of Love", Heather's voice has reached all parts of the World many people now regard her as one of Scotland's finest female singers.
a review of this CD

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Tracks: Up and Awa' Wi' the Laverock, Two Bonny Boys, Logie o' Buchan, The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No, Queen Among the Heather, Birnie Bouzle, Jamie Raeburn, The Auchengeich Disaster, The Lowlands of Holland, The Baron o' Brackley, The Terror Time, The Lichtbob's Lassie, Farewell to Whisky.

Ellen Mitchell

On Yonder Lea
Scots songs and ballads by Ellen Mitchell - LTCD1008

Ellen is from Glasgow, this is her first solo recording. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut, Clyde's Waters, Bonny Boy, Mary Mild, The Ewe Bughts, The Feein' Time, Waes Me for Prince Charlie, Far Over the Forth, Lady Mary Anne, Rue and Thyme, The Birken Tree, Aince Upon a Time, The Twa Brithers, O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast

 

Ballad Tree (LTCD1051 -)

Ballad Trree

Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre
Ballad Tree
- LTCD1051
Ballads from two of Scotland's most passionate singers, whose wealth of knowledge and experience of traditional song is legendary.

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Tracks: The Wife Of Ushers Well, Lamkin, The Two Brothers, May Colvin, Braes O' Yarrow, Lover's Ghost, The Wee Toon Clerk, Tam Lin, Clerk Saunders, The Daemon Lover, King Orfeo.

 

'Made in England' (LTCD1101 -)

Tery Yarnell - A Bonny Bunch, CD sleeve

Terry Yarnell
A Bonny Bunch - LTCD1101
Songs & Ballads from Terry Yarnell, a member of Ewan MacColl's 'London Critics Group'.

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Tracks: The Bonny Bunch of Roses, The Trees Grow High, Mr. Fox, The Seeds of Love, The Flying Cloud, Foggy Dew, Banks of the Nile, The Wedding Song, Clerk Saunders, Hopping Down in Kent, As I Roved Out, Sweet Thames.

Chris Foster - Jewels, CD cover

Chris Foster
Jewles - LTCD1102
The album comprises of a mixture of traditional songs learnt from traditional singers and various archive sources. Some have been in Chris's repertoire for many years while others have been added in the last year or so.
a review of this CD

Tracks: The Banks Of Newfoundland, The New York, Trader , The Grey Cock, The Cobbler And The Butcher, The Herring's, Head, Georgie, Rufford Park Poachers, The False Hearted Knight, Gypsy Countess, Lady Maisry, Australia, The Golden Glove.

Steve Turner, Whirligig of Time, CD cover

Steve Turner
Whirligig of Time - LTCD1103
This is the first album recorded for CD by Steve.
This CD has been hailed as ‘the best ever’ from Steve, regarded as one of England’s major singers of the folk revival.  The supporting musicians include Martin Carthy and Oliver Knight on guitar, Kevin Brown on slide guitar, Miranda Sykes on double bass, Gill Redmond and Riki Gerardy on cello and Nancy Kerr on fiddle and harmony vocal.  James Fagan adds harmony vocal and Pete Flood drums.

Tracks: The Isle of St Helena, The Dry Cardrona, The Poor and Single Sailor, Bonnie George Campbell, The Rambling Beauty, The Glendy Burke, Young Waters, The Gold Watch, Sir Colvin, The Brave Dudley Boys, Where e'er you Walk.

 

American Songs and Ballads series (LTCD1301 -)

Sara Grey - Boy She's A Daisy

Boy She's A Daisy
American songs and ballads by Sara Grey - with Kieron Means & Kate Lissauer LTCD1301

The first in our American songs series and fittingly, by Sara Grey, a singer with an enormous knowledge and understanding of the linked traditions of the British Isles and North America.a review of this CD

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Tracks: Rosianne Meet Her When the Sun Goes Down Hop High My Lulu Girl Blue Mountain Lake The House Carpenter Songs of War: Dear Honey, Poor Soldier, The Southern Girl's Reply, The Dying Legionnaire Bucking Bronco The Silk Merchants Daughter Say, Darling Say The Little Carpenter The Scow on Cowden's Shore Parting Hand Gone, Solid Gone

 

'Magic of Live' series (LTCD2001 -)
A series of live recordings, to capture some of the magic of live performance that can sometimes be difficult to capture in a studio.

Walt Michael & Company

Walt Michael & Company
Legacy - Live at Dean Castle
- LTCD2001

The first in a 'live in concert' series by a wonderful old time string band from the USA. a review of this CD

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Tracks: The Montreal Reel / The Bay of Fundy, The March of St. Timothy / Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, Stepstone, Chinqui Pin Hunting / Rock the Cradle Joe, Early, My Dixie Darling, Legacy, The Ashland Breakdown, Blackbird, Planxty Fanny Power, Da Slockit Light, Hawks & Eagles/ Gray Cat on the Tennessee Farm / Rockingham Cindy/Golden Slippers, Ashokan Farewell.

Norman Kennedy

Norman Kennedy
Live in Scotand
- LTCD2002

A hugely influential singer - oft quoted as a source of songs and inspiration by others in The Tradition Bearers series a review of this CD

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Tracks: Nancy Whisky, Johnnie O Brime, The Earl O Cassillis Lady (The Gypsie Laddies),Lord Donald, The Ale Wife, The Auld Beggar Man, Molly Baun, The Tinklers Waddin, The Lassie Gaitherin Nuts, The Beggar’s Daughty, The Cruel Mother, The Band O Shearers, She’s Only My Auld Sheen, The Rigs O Rye, The Laird O Drum

 

Our '3000' series

Exactly what comes into this series of recordings may appear a little hazy at this point - but we have a plan and a better series name will appear! We could easily argue the fact that John Watt is a traditional singer - but this album doesn't really fit into our Scots Songs & Ballads series. John is a writer of songs some of which have entered the tradition. Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre have produced an album of songs using the theme - 'Love, Land and Nature'. Some songs are traditional but most have been written within the revival.

John Watt - Heroes

John Watt
Heroes -
LTCD3001
"John Watt is one of the Scottish folk scenes best, and best loved songwriters. a review of this CD

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Tracks: The day that Billy Cody played the Auld Grey Toon, Big Neil, Pittenweem Jo, Charlie Dickson, Herzogin Cecile, Kentucky Saturday Night, It's fine to keep in wi' the Gaffer / Bonnie Dundee, Ode to Joe Corrie, I don't like Dundee, The Kelty Clippie, John Thomson / Flooers o' the Forest, Set of Tunes, Jocky's Incredible Flight, Owt for Nowt, No Snow Falls Today, Wild West Show.

Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre - Rowan in the Rock

Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre
Rowan in the Rock
- LTCD3002

An album of traditional and newly written songs on the subject of Love, The Land and Nature a review of this CD

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Tracks: The A83,  Wild Geese/Norland Wind,  Backies,  Inveroran,  Seven Men of Knoydart,  Westlin’ Winds,  The Silkie of Sule Skerry,  Joy of Living,  Another Valley,  Braes o’Balquidder,  Quiet River,  Mother Earth,  John Muir,  Rowan in the Rock

Chris Foster - Traces

Chris Foster
Traces
- LTCD3003

A welcome release from one of the leading figures of the folk revival. a review of this CD

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Tracks: The Bold Princess Royal, Arthur McBride, When a Man's in Love, Jack Barleycorn, The Flower of Serving Men, Barney's Epic Homer, The Coast of Peru, The Fowler, The Ranter, The Flying Cloud, Flying High - Flying Free, Raggle Taggle Gypsies

Kieron Means - Run Mountain

Kieron Means
Run Mountain
- LTCD3004

A welcome release from one of the leading figures of the folk revival. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Run Mountain, John Lover, Deep Ellum Blues, Hard Killing Floor, Sandy Grove, Red Rocking Chair, Mountain Fields, The Shark Song, Boll Weevil, Rain & Snow, Edward, I Never Cried, Lonesome Robin, Heartaching Blues.

 

Borders Traditions series (LTCD4001 -)
Recordings featuring the various regional traditions within 'the tradition'.

Borders Fiddles

Borders Fiddles
Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders - LTCD4001

Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders past and present. Produced and compiled by Dr Fred Freeman as part of the 'Borders Tradition' project of the Scottish Borders Council.

a review of this CD

Musicians: Bob Hopkirk, Jimmy Nagle, Ian Anderson, Andrew Harvey, Will Renwick, Wattie Robson, James Wilkie

Borders Sangsters

Borders Sangsters
Songs of the Scottish Borders - LTCD4001

Singers and songs from the Scottish Borders past and present. Produced and compiled by Dr Fred Freeman as part of the 'Borders Tradition' project of the Scottish Borders Council.

a review of this CD

Singers: Willie Scott, John Nichol, Gordon Kelly, Ian Anderson, James Wilson, Henry Douglas, Elsa LeMaitre, Pat Douglas, Tommy WIlson

 

The Old and New Tradition
This series of recordings have been produced by our partner organisation - The Old and New Tradition. Most are English in content, many have a seafaring link, and some, particularly those by Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman, feature new songs written in the tradition.

Brian Watson

Brian Watson - 'Where Ivvor Heh Thi Gone' Songs of the Northern Bards
Classic Album of songs never heard, by a wonderful singer and interpreter of the Northumbrian dialect
.Accompainied by a 40 page booklet which incorporates a biography of Brain himself written be Peter Wood. Biographies of all the poets, the words to the songs and a glossary of words used in the songs. A must for every collector.

Tracks: Borth O' The Lad, Sooth Medomsley Strike, Row Between the Cages, Colliers Pay Week, Weshin Day, Aw Wish Pay Friday Wad Come, Quayside Shaver, Hawk Hope Hill, Stanle Market, The Rrow in the Gutter, Nee Work, The Lass the Sells Grosers, Cat Gut Jim, Paanshops Bleezin', School Board Man, The Row upon the Stairs, Where Ivvor Heh Thi Gone, Kielder Hunt

Louis Killen

Louis Killen - The Rose in June
This is a re release of an album only available on tape in the past. Recorded by Louis in 1990 it contains some of the best songs he has ever recorded
. There are two tracks added to the original making this CD a wonderful example of wonderful singing from the master himself

Tracks: One night as I lay on my bed. One April Morning, Friendless Mary, The Banks of Sweet Dundee, Bay of Fundy, A Grand Conversation on Napoleon, The last Leviathon, Barbara Allan, Patrick Spens, Bogies Bonny Belle, The Jute Mill Song, The Cock, Bruton Town, The Shellback's Song, The Rose in June.

Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman

Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman - Together Solo
Dragon Records - 1993
This album showcases singing on a grand scale showing an understanding for the material and the nature of the tunes. English vocal harmonies like you have never heard them, showing that English folk and Celtic music are inextricably linked.

Tracks: The Pitman's Courtship, Working at the Coalface, The Snow It Melts The Soonest, Charley Fox, Frankie's Trade, The Flower of Magherally, The Golden Dustman, Bonny At Morn, Geordie Gill, Loving Hannah, Widdecombe Fair, The Flower of Finae, The Bulgine Shanty, John Ball, The Parting Song.

Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman

Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman - Bonnet & Shawl
Dragon Records - 1996
The quality of the songs is matched by the performances of Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman. This is singing on a grand scale showing an understanding for the material and the nature of the tunes.

Tracks: Bonnet & Shawl, Gallowgate Lad, Row On, Old Fid, Thirteen Pence A Day, My Johnny, Follow Me 'Ome, The Carter, Waterloo, Rose in June, Rio, Gan to the Kye, Stately Southerner.

Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman - Constant Lovers
Old and New Tradition
- 2000 This is the best yet heart felt singing wonderful songs Dave and Anni just get better and better.
Tracks: Constant Lovers, All Along the Rossendale, Sir Richards Song, Sandgate Lass on the Ropery Banks, Linden Lea, Tyne of Yarrow, Hexamshire Lass, My Lady of Autumn, Sandgate Wife's Nurse Song, Old King Cole, The Blackbird, Limehouse Reach, The Young Walsers, Silvery Moon, Barbara Allen
Beggars Velvet

Beggars Velvet - Lady of Autumn
This album previously only available on vinyl has been re-released by popular request. Dave Webber Anni Fentiman, Cathy and Charlie Yarwood make up this quartet who have become almost legendary in the anals of Folk Harmony Singing
There is one track extra to the original recording which completes the collection of Beggars Velvet singing It is 'The Parting Song' written by Dave after the death of his good friend John Purdy. and a perfect ending to a wonderful album.

Tracks: Lady of Autumn, Oak and Ash and Thorn, the Blackbird, Sweet Time, Dropping Time, Westlin Winds, Watch and Chain, Blessed Quietness, Flanders, Our Jack, May Song, Rolling Home, Parting Song.

Pete Watkinson

Pete Watkinson - Hampshire Rose
A long overdue debut album from this fine singer. Traditional and new songs accompanied and unaccompanied
.

Tracks: The Run of the Downs, View the Land, Australia, Rise up Jock, George Fox, Pretty Saro, Just as the Tide was a Flowing, Little Vagabond, Hampshire Rose, Jack Tar, Home Lads Home, Old Adam, Song fo Vic, Rout of the Blues, Christmas Eve 1914 / Silent Night

Johnny Collins

Johnny Collins - Now and Then
A New album of mostly new songs from an old master

Tracks: Boy's of Killybegs, The Centurion, Crossing the Water, No More Fish, She Stands on the Quay, Too Far From She, I'm going Home to Georgia, Jutland, Martin Luther King, Misty Mourne Shore, the North Wall, Parting Song, Prince of Peace, River Days, Smugglers Song, Sailor Town,

Bob Walser

Bob Walser - When Our Ship Comes Home
Goodmix of Traditional and New writing from this fine source. Bob was shanty man at the world famous Mystic Seaport
. Excellent renditions of some previously unrecorded shanties and songs from Bob's own research.

Tracks: Nothin' but a Humbug, Uncle Bud, The Deepwaterman, Fire Down Below, Shanghai Passage, Long Summer Day, The Old Red Duster, Drinkin' that Wine, Litten's Hornpipe / Hun Hayden, Down Trinidad, Farewell Dear Friends, Ho the last One, The Nautical Life, The Gooses Minuet / The Nymph, He Ho Down Below, Blood on the Sails, Down the River of Gambia, When our Ship comes Home, Here We Come Home in a Leaky Ship.

Our complete catalogue now extends to over 20 CDs, grouped into various themes. Follow these links for more albums

 

 

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