USED: Various - The Flax In Bloom. Traditional Songs, Airs & Dance Music In Ulster. (3xCD, Comp, Gat)

Media Condition:  Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)
Label: Topic Records
Catalogue Number: TSCD677T
Country:    UK  
Released:  28 Apr 2014
Genre:       Folk World & Country
Style:         Folk

Comments:
Clean disc with a few light marks & scratches, faultless playback. Minor shelf wear & signs of handling, still well kept.
 

Notes:

Field recordings from 1952 and 1953 made by Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle. 
The CD's come with a 100 page booklet of lyrics, notes and biographical details of many of the performers.

. Fermanagh & Donegal
1-1. Paddy Tunney - Lough Erne Shore 2:04
1-2. Brigid Tunney - The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcocks Crow 3:54
1-3. Joe Tunney - Polka - Untitled 1:04
1-4. Joe Tunney - Single Jig - Pat Hart's 1:06
1-5. Joe Tunney - Reels - Miss Monaghan / The Green Mountain / The Scholar 0:38
1-6. Annie Lunny - My Charming Buachaill Roe 1:54
1-7. Annie Lunny - Dearthairin O Mo Chroi 2:36
1-8. John Doherty - Single Jig - Bundle And Go 0:43
1-9. John Doherty - Reel - Miss McLeod's 1:14
1-10. John Doherty - Slip Jig - Gurty's Frolics 1:13
1-11. John Doherty - Moorlough Mary 4:27
1-12. John Doherty - Reel - Marry When You're Young 1:06
1-13. John Doherty - Boney Crossing The Alps 1:10
1-14. John Doherty - The Last Figure Of The Lancers 0:58
1-15. Mick Gallagher (2) - The Rollicking Boys Around Tandragee 2:25
1-16. Maureen Melly - Buachaillin Donn 2:04
1-17. Maureen Melly - Paddy Shinahan's Cow 1:32
1-18. Maureen Melly - Farewell Green Erin 1:04
1-19. Paddy Tunney - The Blackbird 3:39
1-20. Neil O'Boyle - Reel - The Loughanure Tune 2:25
1-21. Neil O'Boyle - Reel - Sean Sa Cheo 1:32
1-22. Neil O'Boyle - Pleoid Ar An Fharraige Is I Ata Mor! 1:51
1-23. Neil O'Boyle - Verse And Air - Sraid Na mBurcach 1:21
1-24. Sheila Gallagher - An Seanduine Doite 1:54
1-25. Sheila Gallagher - In Aimsir Bhaint An Fheir 0:34
1-26. Pat Bell Keown - The Wearing Of The Britches 2:08
1-27. Maureen Melly - The Blackbird Of Avondale 2:13
1-28. Maureen Melly - My Dark Slender Boy 1:20
1-29. Simie Doherty - Reel - Bonnie Kate 0:53
1-30. Simie Doherty - Reel - Cuffe Street 0:39
1-31. Simie Doherty - Reel - The Pigeon On The Gate 1:11
1-32. Simie Doherty - Reel - The Tullaghan Lasses 0:57
1-33. Simie Doherty - Reel - Mooney's Favourite 0:58
1-34. Brigid Tunney - The Heathery Hills 3:07
1-35. Brigid Tunney - The Soldier & The Sailor 1:22
1-36. Brigid Tunney - Wee Paddy Molloy 1:33
1-37. John Doherty - Hornpipe - The Atlantic Roar 1:07
1-38. John Doherty - Rocking The Cradle 3:26
. Dance Music
2-1. Johnny Pickering - Highland - The Basket Of Oysters / Jig - Jackson's Rum Punch 1:44
2-2. Johnny Pickering, Jimmy Pickering - Highlands - Green Grow The Rushes Oh / Love, Will You Marry Me 1:24
2-3. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Jigs - Biddy The Bowl Wife / I Lost My Love And I Care Not / King Of The Cannibal Islands 3:10
2-4. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Polkas - Untitled / Untitled / Jenny Lind 3:19
2-5. Vincent McCusker (2), John McCusker (3) - Reel - The First Of May 1:03
2-6. Vincent McCusker (2), John McCusker (3) - 3 Untitled Mazurkas 1:36
2-7. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Highlands - Monymusk / Kafoozalum / Maggie Pickens 3:10
2-8. Vincent McCusker (2), John McCusker (3) - Jig - Tatter Jack Walsh 1:00
2-9. Vincent McCusker (2), John McCusker (3) - Set Dance - The Princess Royal 1:55
2-10. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Hornpipe - The Man From Newry / Barndance - The Barndance 3:10
2-11. Vincent McCusker (2), John McCusker (3), Benignus McCusker - Set Dance - Jockey To The Fair 2:05
2-12. John McCusker (3) - Set Dance - The Orange Rogue 1:53
2-13. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Reels - McKenna's / The Tinker's Apron / The Antrim
2-14. McCusker Brothers Ceili Band - Single Jig - The Sweets Of May
2-15. John Maguire - Reel - The Gosson That Beat His Father 1:13
2-16. John Maguire - Reel - The First House In Connaught 1:21
2-17. John Maguire - Jig - Lovely Nancy 1:09
2-18. John Maguire - Reel - The Maid Of The House 1:11
2-19. John Maguire - Reel - The Boys Of Leefive 1:20
2-20. John Maguire - Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest 1:21
2-21. Paddy McLuskey - Polka - All The Way To Galway 0:41
2-22. Paddy McLuskey - March - Napoleon Crossing The Alps 0:39
2-23. Paddy McLuskey - Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest 0:52
2-24. Paddy McLuskey - Reel - The Ewe With The Crooked Horn 1:06
2-25. Danny McNiff - Jig - Coming Home From Reilly's Party 1:22
2-26. Eddie Moor - The Clap Dance - The Soldier's Joy 1:00
2-27. Philip Breen - Highlands - Unidentified / Monymusk 1:41
2-28. Philip Breen - Waltz - Woodland Whispers 1:00
2-29. Philip Breen - Reels - The Flax In Bloom / The Dairymaid / The Galway Rambler 3:09
2-30. Sean McGuire, Liam Donnelly (2), Tom Turkington, Bill Montgomery (3), John Maguire - Reels - The Sailor's Bonnet / Kiss The Bride / Roaring Mary 3:05
2-31. Sean McGuire, Bill Montgomery (3) - Reels - The Flax In Bloom / The Millstone / The Dairymaid 4:28
. Travellers
3-1. Christy Purcell - The Dark-Eyed Gypsy 2:14
3-2. Mary Connors - What Brought The Blood? 3:04
3-3. Lal Smith - I Am A Maid That's Deep In Love 3:16
3-4. Mary Doran - Here's A Health Unto All Travellers 4:06
3-5. Paddy Doran - Three Old Jolly Sportsmen 2:06
3-6. Mary Connors - The Lovely Banks Of Lea 4:05
3-7. Christy Purcell - The Bandy-Legged Mule
3-8. Mary Connors, Paddy Doran - Marrow Bones (The Blind Man He Can See No. 1)
3-9. Lal Smith - Early, Early On The Month Of Spring
3-10. Christy Purcell - The Lodging-House In Carrick-On-Suir
3-11. Mary Doran - The Rambling Irishman
3-12. Paddy Doran - Dungarvan
3-13. Lal Smith - The Bold English Navvy 3:04
3-14. Paddy Doran - Hornpipe - The Little Beggar Man 0:40
3-15. Winnie Ryan - Going To Mass Last Sunday 2:10
3-16. Paddy Doran - Kate From Ballinamore 1:38
3-17. Mary Connors, Paddy Doran - 'Tis Miles I Have Travelled (The Blind Man He Can See No.2) 1:05
3-18. Christy Purcell - The Fair At Spancil Hill 1:28
3-19. Mary Connors - Come All You Loyal Lovers 4:54
3-20. Winnie Ryan - Early, Early All In The Spring 3:45
3-21. Paddy Doran - Blackwaterside 2:23
3-22. Mary Connors - I Wish I Was In Newross Town 2:54
3-23. Lal Smith - Nancy Hogan's Goose 2:02
3-24. Winnie Ryan - I Am A Poor Girl And My Life It Is Sad 3:51

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Barcode 7 14822 06772 0