Bonus episode of In The Roud.

6th August sees the rerelease of Catch Me If You Can - Songs from Cornish Travellers on CD and digital download. 

For this episode, I am joined by Viv & Vic Legg (descendents of said Cornish Travellers) and Pete Coe (who made the original recordings in the first place)

This rerelease comes from Veteran - The Traditional Music Label

Roud 40 - LORD BATEMAN

History Guest: Steve Gardham & Ruth Perry

Singer guest: John Kirkpatrick

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Joseph Taylor

Tom Willett - album: Adieu to Old England - The Willet Family

Alice Penfold - album: Here's Luck to a Man

Nimrod Workman - album: Mother Jones' Will

Eunice Yeatts McAlexander - album: Far in the Mountains Vol. 1

Gordon Hall

John Reilly

Modern performances:

The Askew Sisters

Jon Boden - A Folk Song A Day

Nic Jones

Magpie Lane

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 39 - THE KING'S DAUGHTER LADY JEAN

Guest: Jo Miller

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Maureen Jelks

John Strachan

Willie Mathieson

Sara Cleveland

Modern performances:

Hedy West

Tim Erikson

Martin Simpson

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 38 - THE TWO BROTHERS

Historical guest: Jo Miller

Singer Guest: Kirsty Law

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Lizzie Higgins - album: In Memory of Lizzie Higgins 

Lucy Stewart

Mrs J (Florence) Puckett - album: When Cecil Left the Mountains

Texas Gladden

Belle Stewart

Jeannie Robertson

Sheila Stewart

Modern performances:

Rubus

Peter Bellamy

Jon Boden

Jim Causley

Granny's Attic

Alison McMoreland & Peta Webb

Fay Hield

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 37 - PROUD LADY MARGARET

Guest: Nora Rodes

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Lizzie Higgins - album: In Memory of Lizzie Higgins

Modern performances:

 Pete & Chris Coe

Katherine Campbell

Ewan MacColl

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 36 - CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP

Historical guest: Steve Roud

Singer Guest: Barbara Snape

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Maggie Murphy

Duncan Williamson

Sarah Makem - album: As I Roved Out

Willie Clancy

Seamus Ennis

Modern performances:

Bellowhead

Jon Boden's A Folk Song a Day

Karine Polwart & Alasdair Robert

Ewan MacColl

Tim Hart & Maddy Prior

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 35 - TAM LIN

Historical guest: Amy Leach

Singer Guest: Piers Cawley

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Betsy Johnston & Willie Whyte (same track)

Duncan Williamson

Eddie Butcher

Modern performances:

The Old Songs Podcast episode on Tam Lin with Jim Moray

Mike Waterson

Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

Moira Craig

Ewan MacColl

The Forgetmenauts

Jon Boden - A Folk Song a Day

The Imagined Village (Tam Lyn Retold)

Frankie Armstrong

Fairport Convention

Seb Stone

Amy Leach

Anne Briggs

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 34 - THE BROOMFIELD WAGER

Historical guest: Brian Peters

Singer Guest: Rachael McShane

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Traditional versions: Gordon Hall

Jean Orchard

Viv Legg

Cyril Poacher - album: Plenty of Thyme

George Dunn - album: Chainmaker

Pop Maynard - album: Down the Cherry Tree

Walter Pardon

Carolyne Hughes

Modern performances:

Martin Carthy (with Dave Swarbrick) (1965)

Martin Carthy (1971)

Dr. Faustus

Bellowhead

Jon Boden - A Folk Song a Day

Rachael McShane

June Tabor

Simpson/Cutting/Kerr

Frankie Armstrong

Chris Coe (accompanied by Johnny Adams)

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 33 - HIND ETIN

Guest: Helen Lindley 

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Modern performances:

Gavin Davenport Jim Moray

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down

Roud 32 - KEMPY KAY

Guest: Helen Lindley 

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Your host: Matt Quinn

Modern performances:

Martin Carthy

Folk song recourses:

Sing Yonder

The Vaughn Williams Memorial Library

Sussex Traditions

GlousTrad

Tobas an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Jon Boden’s A Folk Song A Day

Andy Turner’s A Folk Song A Week

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers:

Veteran Records

Topic Records

Musical Traditions

One Row Records

 Other Folk Song/Music podcasts:

The Old Songs Podcast

Every Folk Song

Folk On Foot

Fire Draw Near

Handed Down