UK Music Reviews Index
Individual Performers:
- Session A9 - What Road?
- Ray Andrews - Classic English Banjo
- Jim Bainbridge - Galloway House
- Jim Bainbridge - Lights on the River
- Jim Bainbridge & Patrick Forester - The Drunken Billy Goat
- Stephen Baldwin - "Here's one you'll like, I think"
- Damien Barber - The Furrowed Field
- Chris Bartram - Yorkie: Traditional Songs from England
- Mark Bazeley & Jason Rice - Moor Music
- Billy Bennett - Almost a Gentleman - Songs and Recitations
- The Bismarcks - Joanna: Traditional Dance Music from England
- The Bismarcks - Upstream - Traditional Dance Music from England
- Bob Blair - Reachin' for the High High Lands
- The Boat Band - A Trip to the Lakes
- Brass Monkey - Flame of Fire
- The Brazil Family - Down by the Old Riverside
- Anne Briggs - A Collection
- Neil Brookes and Tony Weatherall - The Whitchurch Hornpipe
- Bob Cann - 'Proper Job' - Melodeon Playing from Dartmoor 1952-1988
- Daisy Chapman - Ythanside
- John Cocking - 'Uppards' - North Country Monologues
- Chris Coe - A Wiser Fool
- Coope, Boyes and Simpson - Triple Echo
- Jimmy Cooper - Dulcimer Player
- The Copper Family of Rottingdean - Come Write Me Down
- Harry Cox - The Bonny Labouring Boy
- Harry Cox - What Will Become of England? (Mike Yates' review)
- Harry Cox - What Will Become of England? (Steve Winick's review)
- Moira Craig - On Ae Bonny Day
- The Cullivoe Band with Willie Hunter - Willie's Last Session
- Dàimh - The Pirates of Puirt
- The Dartmoor Pixie Band - The Pixies Strike Again
- Bob Davenport and The Rakes - The Red Haired Lad
- Dearman, Gammon & Harrison - Black Crow, White Crow
- Gwilym Davies - There's a Clear Crystal Fountain
- Ray Driscoll - Wild, Wild Berry
- Duck Soup - Duck Soup
- Will Duke - Out of the Box
- Will Duke and Dan Quinn - Scanned: music for lungs and bellows
- Jock Duncan - Ye Shine Whar Ye Stan!
- Jock Duncan - Tae the Green Woods Gaen
- George Dunn - Chainmaker
- David Faulkner & Steve Turner - English and Border music for Pipes - review 1
- David Faulkner & Steve Turner - English and Border music for Pipes - review 2
- Flowers and Frolics - Reformed Characters
- Thomas Fraser - Long Gone Lonesome Blues, You and My Old Guitar, Treasure Untold
- Geckoes - The Red Horse
- Grand Union - Union Specific
- Alexander D Great - The Windrush Collection
- Harry Green 1874-1868 - Old songs and folk songs from Essex
- Gordon Hall - Good Things Enough
- Billy Harrison & Jim Eldon - Yorkshire Fiddle Tunes, Songs and Carols
- Bob Hart - A Broadside - Vic Smith review
- Bob Hart - A Broadside - John Moulden review
- Lizzie Higgins - In Memory Of ... 1929-1993 - review 1
- Lizzie Higgins - In Memory Of ... 1929-1993 - review 2
- Katie Howson & Jeannie Harris - Unbuttoned
- Willie Hunter & Violet Tulloch - Leaving Lerwick Harbour
- Mary Humphreys and Anahata - Sharp Practice
- Gibbie Hutchison - Shetland Springs 'Frae Da Bonnie Isle'
- Jimmy Hutchison - Corachree
- Bill Jones - Turn to Me
- Willie Kemp and Curly Mackay - A Gie Bicker
- Willie Kemp, Curly Mackay, George Morris and Tom Wright - The Cornkisters. Volumes 1 - 3
- Norman Kennedy Live in Scotland
- Enoch Kent - I'm a Workin' Chap
- William Kimber - Absolutely Classic
- Sam Larner - Now is the Time for Fishing
- Vic Legg - I've Come to Sing a Song
- Bob Lewis - The Painful Plough
- Jimmy MacBeath - Tramps & Hawkers
- Jimmy MacBeath and Davie Stewart - Two Gentlemen of the Road
- Catriona MacDonald - Bold
- Iain MacDonald & Iain MacFarlane - The First Harvest
- George Macpherson - The Swans on the Loch and other traditional tales from Skye
- Alison McMorland - Cloudberry Day : Scots Songs and Ballads
- The Millen Family - Down Yonder Green Lane
- Ellen Mitchell - Have a Drop Mair
- New Victory Band - One More Dance and Then
- Matt Norman - Eight Days Late: English Music for Mandolin
- The Old Hat Concert Party - Music, Songs and Step-dancing from East Anglia
- The Old Swan Band - Swan-Upmanship
- Chris Ormston - Time Out of Mind
- Walter Pardon - A World Without Horses
- Walter Pardon - Put a bit of Powder on it, Father
- Alf Peachey, Sam Friend and Jimmy Knights - The Contented Countryman
- Phoenix - after the fire
- Cyril Poacher - Plenty of Thyme (Dan Quinn's review)
- Cyril Poacher - Plenty of Thyme (Steve Winick's review)
- The Posh Band - English
- Christine Primrose and Brian Ó hEadra - An Turas: Gaelic song from Scotland and Ireland
- Joe Rae - The Broom Blooms Bonny - Ian Olson review
- Joe Rae - The Broom Blooms Bonny - Vic Smith review
- Jeannie Robertson - The Queen Among the Heather
- Stanley Robertson - Rum Scum Scoosh! - songs and stories of an Aberdeen childhood
- Ed Rennie - Narrative
- Debbie Scott - Debbie Scott
- John Shaw - Regional Curiosity: Songs and tunes on solo mountain dulcimer
- Shepheard, Spiers & Watson - They Smiled as We Cam In
- James Scott Skinner - The Strathspey King
- Phoebe Smith - The Yellow Handkerchief
- Wiggy Smith and other Smith Family members - Band of Gold
- John Spiers & Jon Boden - Bellow
- Tom Spiers - Allan Water
- Greg Stephens & Crookfinger Jack - The beggar boy of the north
- Belle Stewart - Queen Among the Heather
- Davie Stewart - Go On, Sing Another Song
- Davie Stewart - Davie Stewart
- Elizabeth Stewart - Binnorrie: Songs, Ballads and Tunes
- Sheila Stewart - From the Heart of the Tradition
- Sheila Stewart - ... and time goes on ... (Vic Smith's review of the CD)
- Sheila Stewart - Time goes on ... and time goes on ... (Bob Pegg's review of the cassette)
- Stömp - Machine Without Horses
- John Strachan - Songs from Aberdeenshire
- Jack Tarling - Down in the Fields where the Buttercups do Grow
- Jane & Amanda Threlfall with Roger Edwards - Sweet Nightingale
- George Townshend - Come, Hand to Me the Glass (Vic Gammon's review)
- George Townshend - Come, Hand to Me the Glass (Mike Yates' review)
- Cath and Phil Tyler - Dumb Supper
- Gordon Tyrrall - So I've Heard
- John Waltham - Farewell to the Green Fields
- Andrew and Margaret Watchorn - Lecchemede
- Emily Weygang and Ben Harker - Emily Weygang and Ben Harker
- Peta Webb - The Magpie's Nest
- Peta Webb and Ken Hall - As Close As Can Be
- Jeff Wesley - Rum and Raspberry
- Chris Wood - The Lark Descending
- Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley - Skyran
- Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley - Mither o' the Sea
- Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll - the Calling: English Fiddle Music
Various Performers:
- Voice of the People Topic Records' 20-CD series
- Anglo International - Anglo concertina playing from around the world
- The Birds Upon the Tree - and other traditional songs and tunes - review 1
- The Birds Upon the Tree - and other traditional songs and tunes - review 2
- Border Fiddles: Border Traditions volume 1
- Borderers - Ballads, songs and tunes from the Scottish Borders
- Brightest and Best - Village Carols from Beeston, Nottinghamshire
- The Carrying Stream - School of Scottish Studies: Collecting Scotland's Traditions since 1951
- A Catalogue Sampler - tracks from each of the MT Records' releases to 2002.
- A Century of Song - A Celebration of Traditional Singers since 1898
- Children's Singing Games - skipping, ball-bouncing, line & ring games from the UK
- Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland, Vols 1 & 2
- Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk - Comic Songs, Music hall Songs and Parodies
- Down in the Fields - An Anthology of traditional folk music from Rural England
- Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 1951
- English Country Music - Billy Cooper, Walter & Daisy Bulwer, Scan Tester, Reg Hall, etc
- English Customs and Traditions
- English Folk Dance Project - Cotswold Series, Vol 1 - the music of Cry Havoc
- English International - A history of the English Concertina
- English Originals - A defining collection of English folk song
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Digital Edition (CD-ROM + Audio CD)
- Gaelic Songs of Scotland - Women at Work in the Western Isles: Alan Lomax Collection
- Good Hearted Fellows - Traditional folk songs, music hall songs and tunes from Suffolk, recorded 1971 to 1977 by Keith Summers
- Good Order! - songs from Eastbridge Eel's Foot
- Hamish Henderson Collects - Songs, ballads and a story from the School of Scottish Studies Archives
- Hamish Henderson Collects, Volume 2 Songs, ballads and a story from the School of Scottish Studies Archives
- Hark, Hark! What News! - Village Carols from the Royal Hotel, Dungworth
- Harky, Harky - Carols from Padstow in Cornwall
- Heel & Toe - songs, tunes and stepdances from the Sam Steele collection
- Here's Luck to a Man - Gypsy Songs and Music from South-East England
- Horsemen's Harvest - Tunes, songs and poems from Norfolk and Suffolk
- Just Another Saturday Night: Sussex 1960 - Songs from Country Pubs
- Melodeon Greats
- Melodeon Players from East Anglia - The Pigeon on the Gate
- North East Tradition 1 - New Recordings from the North East Folklore Archive
- Northumberland Rant
- Orkney - Land, Sea & Community - Scottish Tradition Series, volume 21
- The Quiet Hills - An anthology of music and song from Northumbria
- The Radio Ballads 1 to 8: a personal overview of the series
- Radio Ballad No 1: The Ballad of John Axon
- Radio Ballad No 2: Song of a Road
- Radio Ballad No 3: Singing the Fishing
- Radio Ballad No 4: The Big Hewer
- Radio Ballad No 5: The Body Blow
- Radio Ballad No 6: On The Edge
- Radio Ballad No 7: The Fight Game
- Radio Ballad No 8: The Travelling People
- Romany Yog - songs for stick-fires old and new
- Root & Branch 1 - A New World
- Root & Branch 2 - Everybody Swing, The Fifties: 1947-63
- Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year - Live Christmas Day 1957 Broadcast on BBC Radio
- Songs from the Company of The Butley Oyster
- Songs from the Golden Fleece - A song tradition today
- Songs of Seduction - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Songs Sung in Suffolk - Popular Folk Songs, Old Songs and Ballads
- Sook and Blaw - Melodeon, Harmonica and Concertina Classics from 1910 to 1950
- Spirit of the Border
- Stepping Up - A History of the New Wave of English Country Dance Music
- A Story to Tell - Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-79
- Traveller's Joy - Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005
- Travellers Tales, Vols 1 & 2 - songs, stories and ballads from Scottish Travellers
- Up in the North and Down in the South
- The Voice of the People - A Selection from the Series of Anthologies
- Where the Wind Blows - An Anthology of traditional folk music from Coastal England
- William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book and CD - 337 dance tunes + 13 track CD
- The Wind in the Reeds - The Northumbrian Smallpipes
- World Library of Folk and Primitive Music Volume 1 - England
- World Library of Folk and Primitive Music Volume 3 - Scotland
Books:
- The Anglo Concertina Music of William Kimber - Dan M Worrall
- Bob Copper's Sussex - Bob Copper
- The Bonny Fisher Lad Memories of the North Northumberland Fishing Community - ed. Katrina Porteous
- A Book of British Ballads - ed. Roy Palmer
- Boxing the Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties - ed. Roy Palmer
- Before the night was out ... - ed. Katie Howson
- Broadside Black-Letter Ballads printed in the 16th and 17th Centuries - J Payne Collier
- Bushes and Briars - folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams - ed. Roy Palmer
- The Caledonian Pocket Companion - Volume One (Books 1-6) - John Purser (CD-ROM)
- Classic English Folk Songs - a new edition of the Penguin Book - revised by Malcolm Douglas
- The Coleford Jig - Traditional Tunes from Gloucestershire - by Charles Menteith & Paul Burgess
- Dear Companion - Appalachian traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection - ed. Yates, Bradtke, Taylor
- Desire, Drink, and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900 - by Vic Gammon
- Doh Ray Me, When We Wis Wee - Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes - by Ewan McVicar
- Dreams of the Road - Gypsy Life in the West Country - by Martin Levinson and Avril Silk
- The Elliotts of Birtley - by Pete Wood
- English Folk Song - an introductory bibliography - ed. David Atkinson
- An Introduction to the English Mummers' Play - by Eddie Cass and Steve Roud
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Volume 1 - second ed. Mark and Laura Heiman
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Digital Edition (CD-ROM + Audio CD)
- The English Traditional Ballad - theory, method and practice - by David Atkinson
- Folk Song: Tradition, Revival and Re-creation - ed. Ian Russell and David Atkinson
- Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song - by Mary-Ann Constantine and Gerald Porter
- Gavin Greig: 'The Subject of Folksong' - collected writings on Scottish folksong - ed. Stephen Miller
- The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection - a Collection overview
- The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection - Volume 8 - ed. Patrick Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B Lyle and Katherine Campbell
- The Horseman's Word - Blacksmiths and Horsemanship in Twentieth-Century Scotland - Timothy Neat
- The Ingrave Secret: Ralph's People - Frank Dineen
- The Jimmy Shand Story - Ian Cameron
- John Clare and the folk tradition - George Deacon
- A Maid and her Music - The memories, melodeons ... of Ruth Askew - Paul Marsh
- Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands 1660-1900 - Keith Chandler (CD-ROM)
- The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play: A Social History - Eddie Cass
- The Life of a Man - Ron Spicer 1929 - 1996 - Doris Spicer
- Queen Amang the Heather - The Life of Belle Stewart - Sheila Stewart
- Reading the Line - an English-language lined-out Psalmody tradition in Presbyterian Scotland - Norman Campbell
- Sing Us One of the Old Songs - a guide to popular song - 1860-1920 - ed. Michael Kilgarriff
- A Song for Every Season - Bob Copper
- Step Change - new views on traditional dance - ed. Georgina Boyes
- Still Growing - English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection - ed. Roud, Upton & Taylor
- Stopping Places - A Gypsy History of South London and Kent - Simon Evans
- The Summer Walkers - Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers in the Highlands of Scotland - Timothy Neat
- Sussex Folk - The Folk Song Revival in Sussex - Clive Bennett
- Three Extraordinary Collections - Early 18th century dance music for those that play publick - Pete Stewart
- Traveller's Joy - Songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005 - Mike Yates
- William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book and CD - 337 dance tunes + 13 track CD - Geoff Woolfe
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