Artist | Title | Album | Label |
---|---|---|---|
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior | The False Knight on the Road (Child 3) | Summer Solstice | |
Dick Gaughan | Jock O'Hazeldean (Child 283) | No More Forever | |
Karine Polwart | The Wife of Usher's Well (Child 79) | Fairest Floo'r | |
Joan Baez | Lady Gay (Child 79) | Very Early Joan (Concerts 1960-1963) | |
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer | Willie's Lady (Child 6) | Child Ballads | |
Naomi Bedford | Lord Thomas and Fair Ellendor (Child 73) | ||
Sam Amidon | How Come That Blood (Child 13) | ||
Stephanie Hladowski and C Jones | Lord Bateman (Child 53) | ||
Lucy Stewart | The Beggar King (Child 279) | Lucy Stewart: Traditional Singer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Vol. 1 - Child Ballads | |
Ellie Bryan | Sheath and Knife (Child 16) | Am I Born to Die | |
Fairport Convention | Tam Lin (Child 39) | Liege & Lief |
Program:
Child Ballads 2
This week on Fair Folk I share some more songs from the Child Ballads collection, you'll learn a traditional Michaelmas charm the British used to protect themselves from poverty in the coming year, and you'll hear how elves are disrupting road maintenance in Iceland.