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Root & Branch 1 'A New World'
released : 2000
available at the English Folk Dance and Song Society Website
 Label : EFDSS published by EFDSS includes articles, essays and photographs |
01.Van Diemen's Land 02.Van Diemen's Land 03.Jim Jones at Botany Bay 04.The Wild Colonial Boy 05.Harkie's Polka 06.The Streets of Port Arthur 07.Tom Sherman's Barroom 08.St James' Hospital 09.The Butcher Boy 10.Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow 11.Little Margaret 12.Tom Dula 13.The Shores of Lough Bran 14.The Green Fields of Canada 15.Won't you come to me in Canada 16.I been a Swede from North Dakota 17.The Pear Tree Frank Hinchliffe 18.Edward 19.Wild and Wicked Youths 20.Who am I ? |
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'Root & Branch' is a music journal published by the EFDSS twice a year. It aims to focus attention on the folk tradition and includes a full-length CD, articles and essays, facsimiles and photographs in a package. This first edition is built around songs that tell of the experiences and emotions of people when they are uprooted geographically, spiritually and musically. "Van Diemen's Land" is also known as "Wild and Wicked Youths". This song has crossed many borders. There are three different virsions (Irish, Scottish and English) on this CD. Cara's version was recorded in 1999. For this recording, she learnt the melody and words principally from a virsion by Tim Lyons. Her interpretation invites comparison with track 02 (Enock Kent's) and track 19 (Frank Hinchliffe's). |