SCS 14
Anne Mason Annex
Blackdog and sheepcrook : songs of west country Gipsies
- Folktracks [Folktrax], 1975.
- 1 audiocassette : analog
Cassette. Tracks sung by Carolyne Hughes except where otherwise indicated. Musical instruments: Voice.
Side A: 1. Blackdog and Sheepcrook [Flora] talk after about her grandmother -- 2. Blind Beetles [Died for Love] explanation of song after -- 3. Jew's Garden [Child #156] talk before and after -- 4. Lord Thomas & Fair Ellen [Child #73] explantion after -- 5. Bird in the Bush [Three Maidens] -- 6. Paddies Lie Down [Paddy Backwards] talk before -- 7. Billy Boy [My Boy Billy] -- 8. Draggle Tailed Gypsies [Child #200] talk before and after -- 9. Tuning Up -- 2 pieces of mouth music for Step Dancing [talk before] -- 10. Flash Girls and Airy Too [Seventeen Come Sunday] -- 11. Banks of the Sweet Primeroses talk after -- 12. Jealousy Thoughts [Poison in a Glass of Wine] / sung by daughter Celia, talk after -- 13. Drowsy Sleeper explanation of Romany after -- 14. Georgie [Child #209] talk before and after -- 15. Soldier and the Lady [Nightingales Sing] talk before and after -- Side B: 1. I Am a Romany [Song of the Thrush] talk before -- 2. Talk about Romany life etc. -- 3. Adieu to Old England Adieu talk before and after -- 4. Flower of Servantmen [Child# 106] talk before -- 5. The London Murder [Oxford Girl] talk after about grandmother -- 6. A Blacksmith Courted Me talk after -- 7. Sprig of Thyme talk before about age of song -- 8. The Little Boy [Lady Maisry Child #65] -- 9. Brake of Briars [Bridgwater, Bruton Town] / sung by husband John Hughes with talk after about his work -- 10. Henry My Son [Child #12] / sung by daughter Carrie.