This volume, a model of typographical art, with its fine press work, stout paper, and excellent binding, gives us the pick and choice of the old English ballads. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Child published the songs he collected in a 10-volume opus called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. It contains ... it's a source recording [or] some old version," Hamer says.

Back in London, Sharp would gather his musical notes into a book “English Folks Songs ... the stage with her 23-year-old protege Branson Raines to sing old ballads. “Branson gets it.

Until they met with old Carl Hood ; He comes for ill ... Most curious are many traits of the English (and Scandinavian) ballad, which may possibly (though we cannot regard it as made out) be ...

LOMAX, of Dallas, Texas, has carried into the second generation, through the skillful assistance of his son Alan, his triumphant search for the old English ballads and the American work songs and ...

You might think English Songs and Ballads, compiled by TWH Crosland in ... of Christmas gift for a Ukrainian-speaking four-year-old. And I have sometimes wondered unkindly whether her gift ...

Such is the raucous infectiousness of Dick Holdstock and Allan MacLeod, whose concert that night mixes songs of the sea, land songs, drinking songs and ballads, all of the English and Scottish ...

It was a shame, because Thompson is one of England's last great ballad singers ... of folk music's deep simplicity. The 54-year-old singer opened with "Dear Mary," one of several songs co-written ...