| A Little Box of Delights |
| |
| [Tracklist]
MTCD408-9 2 CDs, 41 tracks, 150 minutes £10.00 Unlimited stockA collection, or more properly, a selection, of tracks from various MT Records CDs, providing forty-one tracks and two and a half hours that particularly delight me and, I hope, fittingly mark the end of twenty-two years of record production. | |||
|
| Catch It, Bottle It, Paint It Green | 
| |
| [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] Songs from the Gwilym Davies collection: a companion CD to the book of the same name MTCD379 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 25 tracks, 64 minutes. Unlimited stockGwilym 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. | |||
| Wait Till the Clouds Roll By | 
| |
| [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] Part 3 of the Old World / New World Trilogy
MTCD518-0. 3-CD Set + 52 page integral booklet in DVD case £20.00 79 tracks, 222 minutes. Only 1 leftCommercial 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. | |||
|
| Oh, Listen Today | 
| |
| [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] The roots of American Old-Timey fiddle music
MTCD517 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 30 tracks, 78 minutes. Only 3 leftThirty 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. | |||
| A Distant Land to Roam |
| |
| Anglo-American Songs and Tunes from Texas to Maine [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist]
MTCD516 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 25 tracks, 78 minutes Only 2 leftAmong these 25 songs and tunes that have gone across the seas, a distant land to roam, you will find some very recognisable versions. Bradley Kincaid sings The Two Sisters and Fair Ellender and Lord Thomas, Bob Cranford sings Babes in the Wood, Bascom Lamar Lunsford sings The Derby Ram, and Emry Arthur sings Jack Hall.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. | |||
|
| Robert Leng and Jossy 'Pop' Mainprize with Jim Eldon | 
| |
[Review] [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] Songs and Tales from Flamborough Head MTCD203 25 tracks, 45 minutes £10.00 Only 2 leftIn 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. | |||
|
| Vaughan Williams in Norfolk Vol 2 CD-ROM | 
| |
Digital book with embedded MIDI files, [Review] [List of Songs] by Alan Helsdon MTCD254 £12.00 Only 2 leftThis 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. | |||
| Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas |
| |
| The Early Recordings 1985-85 [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] [Review]
MTCD405 22 tracks, 81 minutes £10.00 Only 2 leftE II started as a dance band in Cheltenham in 1980, and recorded three cassettes, Demos, Promos and Ethos in 1985 and 1986. They were thinking about calling their next cassette d'Artagnan - but in 1987 the Cooking Vinyl record company came along with an LP offer, so that ended the series of pretentious record titles!This CD contains all the cassette tracks, from "the best little English dance band on the planet" as someone called it back then. | |||
| Harry Upton |
| |
| Why Can't it Always be Saturday? [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist]
MTCD371 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 22 tracks, 78 minutes Only 1 leftHarry Upton was born in 1900 in Hove, Sussex. His father, Frank, from whom he learned most of his songs, was a shepherd from West Blatchington and must have been born c.1865 and, to Harry's knowledge, had been a shepherd on the South Downs all his life. By the time he was 13, Harry had left school and was working as his father's shepherd boy. He worked with his father for about five years and then left to become a carter, working with horses on the Dyke Hills, beyond Brighton. Harry worked with horses until his marriage in 1927 when he moved to Balcombe to work as a tractor driver, a job that was to last for 40 years.This CD contains almost all of the songs he let Mike Yates record - including Canadee-I-O and The Wreck of the Northfleet. | |||
| David Stacey |
| |
| Good Luck to the Journeyman [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] [Review]
MTCD360 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 24 tracks, 74 minutes Only 2 leftDavid Stacey was born and brought up in Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1943. From his twenties he spent many years alternating between archaeology in Israel and apple and hop picking in Kent. There he met Mary Ann Haynes' son Ted, and Nelson Ridley's nephew Henry - and through them, many other Gypsies and Travellers in the area. He was privy to many of the sing-songs they participated in, and learned a good number of their songs. Back home, in later life, he encountered a number of other Travellers in north Essex and Cambridgeshire, and a local traditional singer, Walter Jarvis - learning more songs on the way - in addition to the repertoire he'd acquired from books and records. This is a most interesting and unusual CD. | |||
| The Willett Family |
| |
| Adieu to Old England [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist]
MTCD361-2 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £16.00 2 CDs - 35 tracks, 101 minutes Only 1 leftTopic released their first ever LP of English traditional singers in 1963 - The Willett Family: A Roving Jouneyman. They acknowledged the help of Ken Stubbs, who first located and recorded the Willetts. Musical Traditions Records are now - 50 years later - very pleased to be able to present those first 31 Ken Stubbs recordings, plus 4 tracks from elsewhere, making this the complete recorded repertoire of the Willett Family ... generally accepted as amongst the finest English Gypsy singers ever recorded. | |||
|
| Bernie Cherry | 
| |
 [Review 2] [Review 1] [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist] With powder, shot and gun
MTCD359 + 24 page integral booklet in DVD case £12.00 21 tracks, 76 minutes. Only 2 leftBernie 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. | |||
| George Townshend |
| |
| Come, Hand to Me the Glass [Booklet Notes] [Tracklist]
MTCD304-5 + 28 page integral booklet in DVD case £16.00 53 tracks, 154 minutes Only 2 leftThe new double CD version. All the songs he recorded for Brian Matthews in 1960/61. The 24 full-length songs appearing in full in the single CD version, plus the 5 songs not included in full there, plus 5 more not included at all ... and now, plus all the 19 songs he recorded for Ken Stubbs. | |||
|
| House Dance CD-ROM | 
| |
| [Review] [Contents] Digital book with embedded audio files, by Dan Worrall
MTCD251 £12.00 Only 1 leftThe heyday of the Anglo-German concertina (1860s to World War I) coincided with a time when social dances in houses, barns, woolsheds and community halls were all the rage in working class urban and rural areas. Here are 172 archival recordings of 36 early concertina players performing schottisches, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, barn dances, mazurkas, and varsovianas from Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa. The digital book explores such topics as: | |||
| Nineteenth century social dances; Global sources of the house dance repertoire; Old-style octave playing on the concertina; The banning of house dances in early twentieth century Ireland; Biographies and playing styles of early concertina players (with recordings); Modern players in the old octave style (with recordings); A tutorial in octave playing (with recordings, walking you through playing in octaves and across the rows); Discography. Includes more than 150 photos and graphics, and more than 200 sound files in MP3 format. | |||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
