MTCD379 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

25 tracks, 64 minutes.

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Gwilym Davies has been recording source singers in the UK and USA for nearly 50 years.  This CD is a selection of 25 recordings and is a companion CD to his book, Catch It, Bottle It, Paint It Green. which can be obtained from Pegasus Publishers.

MTCD204   57 tracks, 60 minutes   £10.00

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MTCD518-0.  3-CD Set + 52 page integral booklet in DVD case   £20.00

79 tracks, 222 minutes.

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Commercial recordings of American songs that have made it back to the Old World via 78rpm discs and/or printed music, together with how they sounded when taken up by the British oral tradition.

There are quite a few songs here that you probably never knew were American, nor can imagine what the 'original' sounded like.

MTCD378 + 32 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

27 tracks, 81 minutes

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He had a sizeable repertoire of songs which were mainly learned from his parents and other members of his family, but others that he had 'picked up along the way'.  Traditional songs were the central part of his repertoire, but he also sang Victorian sentimental parlour ballads and Music Hall songs.

This CD is another of our 'complete recorded repertoire' releases, containing 27 songs - many of which are very full versions.

MTCD517 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

30 tracks, 78 minutes.

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Thirty tracks of vintage American Old-Timey fiddle music, with tunes that are derived from Britain and Europe.  Includes such well-known names as: Ed Haley, Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts, Narmour & Smith, Emmett Lundy, The Red-Headed Fiddlers, Edden Hammons, and many others.

MTCD406-7   2 CDs, 67 tracks, 160 minutes   £10.00

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This 2-CD Set has 67 songs from 22 singers, including the now relatively well-known Arthur Wood and Billy Pennock.

MTCD377 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

28 tracks, 80 minutes.

Charlie Bridger, of Stone-in-Oxney, Kent, was recorded by Andy Turner on 15th April 1983.  Charlie sang him 30 songs; 28 of which appear on this CD.  He's a lovely singer, with some terrific tunes to his songs.

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MTCD516 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

25 tracks, 78 minutes

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Perhaps less easily recognisable are: The Stanley Brothers - Poison in a Glass of Wine; Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers - Go and Leave Me if You Wish It, Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers - Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me; Louisiana Lou - The Oxford Girl; Hattie and Ernest Stoneman - When Shall We get Married, John?  And downright extraordinarily, you'll hear The Southern Melody Boys with their Little Ball of Yarn and Blind Boy Fuller with Our Goodman or Seven Nights Drunk.

MTCD203   25 tracks, 45 minutes   £10.00

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In 1988, Jim Eldon was gathering material for a cassette album of East Yorkshire fireside tales, and a friend took him to Flamborough and introduced him to Robert Leng and Jossy 'Pop' Mainprize.  The few snippets of ditties that had been dotted among the stream of tales grew into a whole repertoire of songs as more were remembered.  Eventually a cassette of songs and one of tales were issued on Jim's Stick Records label.

The fishermen's tales and poaching yarns speak for themselves.  There is very little editing in the stories section of this collection.  One yarn would spark another and the titles and track separations are just there to help you navigate through them if you want to revisit a particular favourite.

MTCD375-6 + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

56 tracks, 132 minutes

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She had a phenomenal memory ... while raising six children she probably didn't have too much spare time for singing, and it was only in her later years that she was encouraged to visit folk clubs and festivals as a performer.  But to have a repertoire of sixty or so songs, and to sing 35 of them off the cuff in one day when Alison McMorland visited her was quite an acievement - not to mention reciting the 19 eight-line verses of Murphy's Little Girl without a stumble.

Everyone who knew her commented on her delightful, friendly personaliy - and the account of her life found in these pages shows that she was an almost unbelievably hard-working woman.  The don't make 'em like Freda any more!

MTCD254   £12.00    

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This is Volume 2 of the Vaughan Williams in Norfolk CD-ROM (MTCD253), we published in 2014.  It covers the three Norfolk collecting trips Ralph Vaughan Williams made in April 1908, October 1910 and December 1911.  He met some 22 singers and collected 93 songs from them.  As before, they are presented in staff notation, with full texts, and with link to MIDI sound files of the tunes, and there's a very substantial page of information on the singers.

MTCD373 + 32 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

20 tracks, 80 minutes

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These were sung by Bob Lewis first, alternating with Bob Copper, and are presented in the order they occurred in performance, with no songs missed out.  I have edited the inter-song comments so that we end up with a duration of almost exacyly 80 minutes.  This is an absolutely splendid record; Bob Copper accompanies himself on concertina for most of his songs, and I have never heard Bob Lewis in better voice.  MT Records' 10% Sales Royalties will go to support the Sussex Traditions organisation.

MTCD5145.  2 CDs + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

83 tracks, 149 mins.

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A two volume set of ballads, songs and music from people, families and areas encountered by Cecil Sharp on his 1916-18 collecting trips to Appalachia, taken from both commercial and private recordings.

Performers include: Horton Barker, Emmett Lundy, Luther Strong, Emma Shelton, Ella Shelton, Bill Stepp, Emory Stoop, Eliza Pace, Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, and 20 others.  A Mike Yates production.

MTCD373 + 32 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

45 tracks, 63 minutes

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Also included are 9 tracks from Lemmie Brazil (melodeon), plus one track each from: Jasper and Levi Smith (mouthorgan & tambourine); Jasper and Darby Smith (mouthorgan & guitar); Joe Dozer Smith (diddling); Mary Biddle (diddling); Walter Aldridge (mouthorgan); and John Locke (fiddle) playing his Hornpipe, from the cylinder recording!

Firebird Records FBR 005   15 tracks, 58 minutes   £10.00

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Ten years after their first CD - after the fire - Phoenix return with 43 more less-than-well-known tunes,
forged into 15 new dance sets by several years of playing for dancing at numerous clubs and festivals.

They've found it great fun getting it all together and, with Sidmouth, Haddenham, Bath and Oxfolk Ceilidhs
lined up in the diary, they're All Fired Up about the future!

MTCD405   22 tracks, 81 minutes   £10.00

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This CD contains all the cassette tracks, from "the best little English dance band on the planet" as someone called it back then.

MTCD372 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

31 tracks, 81 minutes.

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From the Mike Yates collections, 1964 - 1978.  The follow-up to the Harry Upton CD - containing the two songs for which there was insufficient space there - plus lots more that are versions of songs which Harry sang, others are sung by people that Harry knew, and songs that Harry would probably have recognised as being the sort of thing that he liked to sing.

29 songs and two recitations from Harry Upton, Johnny Doughty, George Spicer, Louise Fuller, George Attrill, Fred Jordan, William Harding, Bill Whiting, Percy Bridges, The Cantwell Family, Alice Green, Cyril Nunn, Freda Palmer, Son Townsend, Fred Welfare, and Ruth and Clare Pinner.  We believe that none of these recordings are currently available on CD.

MTCD371 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

22 tracks, 78 minutes

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This CD contains almost all of the songs he let Mike Yates record - including Canadee-I-O and The Wreck of the Northfleet.

MTCD254   £12.00    

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MacColl and Seeger’s 1977 book was years ahead of its time in terms of its detailed consideration of all aspects of Gypsy and Traveller songs and culture in the UK.  The Introduction and Music Notes are hugely informative, as are the 12 pages on the 18 singers.  All the 131 songs (in 155 versions) are here as full length MP3 recordings, along with the original texts and staff notations.

MTCD360 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

24 tracks, 74 minutes

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Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader - MTCD253   £12.00    

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Ralph Vaughan Williams spent nine days in and around King’s Lynn in January 1905 and September 1906.  He collected 86 songs and four dance tunes from 20 singers - one of whom also played the fiddle.  Along with much else, this book presents: his itinerary; a narrative account of the trips; all the songs and tunes as PDF pages with song texts, staff notation and playable midi sound files of their tunes; and a very substantial page of information on the singers.

MTCD369-0 Two CDs + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

67 tracks, 149 minutes

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But, most of all, it's the startling quality of his singing which is so impressive.

MTCD367-8 + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

50 tracks, 156 minutes.

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Keith Summers, MT's original editor, died on 30th March 2004, shortly after the release of The Hardy Sons of Dan (MTCD329-0), the double CD of his 1977-83 Co Fermanagh recordings.  This present double CD may be seen as volumes 3 & 4 of that set, and is issued to mark the 10th anniversary of Keith's death.

Many of the same singers are here, plus a good number of others, giving a great selection of traditional songs, ditties, and hunting songs from around Lough Erne's shore - but no more football songs.

MTCD365-6 Two CDs + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

90 tracks, 142 minutes

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MTCD363-4 + 44 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

Two CDs, 89 tracks, 155 minutes.

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This great singer from Birmingham was just one generation away from rural Ireland, with a repertoire ranging from a never before collected English revenant ballad to the music-hall and pop songs of her youth.  CD 1 contains all the Leader and Folktrax 1951 recordings, while CD 2 has 63 songs recorded in 1967 and '71 by Charles Parker, Roy Palmer and Jon Raven, none of which have been previously released.  Both include passages of speech about the songs and her life.  Another 'complete recorded repertoire' release from MT Records.

MTCD361-2 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case   £16.00

2 CDs - 35 tracks, 101 minutes

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MTCD359 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

21 tracks, 76 minutes.

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Bernie is an English traditional style singer with a very interesting repertoire of unusual songs, and/or unfamiliar versions.  Perhaps, equally importantly, he copies no one - either revivalist or traditional.

Twenty-one newly recorded 2013 performances, with occasional melodeon accompaniments by Roger Grimes or Rod Stradling.

MTCD513 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case   £12.00

43 tracks, 77 minutes

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Recently Mike Yates found time to re-listen to some of the recordings that had not made their way onto the four CDs, and was rather surprised to discover just how much good material had been left off the albums, and so set about putting together Far in the Mountains - Volume 5.

MTCD252   £12.00    

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Back in 1987, Bob and Jacqueline Patten published a 120-page book and 60-minute cassette called Somerset Scrapbook.  Now, twenty-five years later, it's available again, completely updated and re-formatted for the digital age with embedded sound files.