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Isla Cameron, Louis Killen: The Waters of Tyne (Prestige INT 13059)

The Waters of Tyne
Northumbrian Songs and Ballads
Isla Cameron (1927-1980), Louis Killen

Prestige International INT 13059 (LP, UK, 1961)

Recorded by The City of London Studios;
Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Ewan MacColl;
Notes by Ewan MacColl

Musicians

Isla Cameron: vocals [1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16];
Louis Killen: vocals [2, 4-6, 8-9, 11, 13, 15];
Peggy Seeger: guitar [1, 4, 10, 12], banjo [3, 6, 9, 11, 14]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. The Waters of Tyne
  2. Buy Broom Buzzems
  3. Doon the Waggon Way
  4. Cushie Butterfield
  5. The Oak and the Ash
  6. Blaydon Races
  7. Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom
  8. The Black-Leg Miners

Side 2

  1. The Sandgate Lass’s Lament
  2. Cannily, Cannily
  3. The Oakey Strike Evictions
  4. Sandgate Nursing Song
  5. The Banks of the Dee
  6. Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny
  7. The Cruel Sister
  8. Dance to Your Daddy

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 4, 6 George Ridley (1835-1864);
Track 10 Ewan MacColl (1915-1989);
Track 11 Tommy Armstrong (1848-1920);
Track 12 Robert Nunn (1808-1853);
Track 14 Joe Wilson (1841-1875)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alex Lioubimov for sending me the cover picture and album details that he found somewhere on the net.

See also Nick Guida’s Tradition Records discography.