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Ewan MacColl
Person · male · United Kingdom · Salford · born 1915 · died 1989 · recording since 1955
British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (1915–1989)
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Also known as E. McColl · Ewan McColl · James Henry Miller · 伊万·麥科爾
Timeline
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1910s
1950s
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Debut release: The Singing Sailor
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Album: Bad Lads and Hard Cases: British Ballads of Crime and Criminals
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Album: The Singing Streets: Childhood Memories of Ireland and Scotland
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1960s
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Album: Songs of Two Rebellions: The Jacobite Wars of 1715 and 1745 in Scotland
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Album: Broadside Ballads (London: 1600-1700), Volume Two: Female Frollicks and Politicke
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Album: Song of a Road: A Radio Ballad About the Building of the M1 Motorway
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Biography
English biography2,772 words · 11 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370622371
Biography
James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was a British folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to Scottish parents, he was one of the originators of the 1960s folk revival and wrote such songs as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Dirty Old Town".
MacColl collected hundreds of traditional folk songs including the version of "Scarborough Fair" later popularised by Simon & Garfunkel, and released dozens of albums with A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger and others, mostly of traditional folk songs. He also wrote many left-wing political songs, remaining a steadfast communist throughout his life and actively engaging in political activism.
Early life and early career
MacColl was born as James Henry Miller at 4 Andrew Street, in Broughton, Salford, England, on 25 January 1915 to Scottish parents, William Miller and Betsy (née Henry), both socialists. William Miller was an iron moulder and trade unionist who had moved to Salford with his wife, a charwoman, to look for work after being blacklisted in almost every foundry in Scotland. Betsy Miller knew many traditional folk songs such as "Lord Randall" and "My Bonnie Laddie's Lang A-growing", of which her son later created written and audio recordings; he later recorded an album of traditional songs with her.
James Miller was the youngest and only surviving child in the family of three sons and one daughter (one of each sex was stillborn and one son died at the age of four). They lived amongst a group of Scots and James was brought up in an atmosphere of fierce political debate interspersed with the large repertoire of songs and stories his parents had brought from Scotland. He was educated at Grecian Street School, Salford, England. He left school in 1930 after an elementary education, during the Great Depression and, joining the ranks of the unemployed, began a lifelong programme of self-education whilst keeping warm in Manchester Central Library. During this period he found intermittent work in a number of jobs and also made money as a street singer.
Miller joined the Young Communist League and a socialist amateur theatre troupe, the Clarion Players. He began his career as a writer helping produce and contributing humorous verse and skits to some of the Communist Party's factory papers. He was an activist in the unemployed workers' campaigns and the mass trespasses of the early 1930s. One of his best-known songs, "The Manchester Rambler", was written just after mass trespass of Kinder Scout. He was responsible for publicity in the planning of the trespass.
In 1932 the British intelligence service MI5 opened a file on MacColl after local police asserted that he was "a communist with very extreme views" who needed "special attention". For a time the Special Branch kept a watch on the Manchester home that he shared with his first wife, Joan Littlewood. MI5 caused some of MacColl's songs to be rejected by the BBC and prevented the employment of Littlewood as a BBC children's programme presenter (see: "Christmas tree" files).
Personal life
He was married three times: to theatre director Joan Littlewood (1914–2002) from 1934 to 1948; to Jean Mary Newlove (1923–2017) from 1949 to 1974, with whom he had two children, a son Hamish (1950–2024), and a daughter, the singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl (1959–2000); and to American folksinger Peggy Seeger (b. 1935) from 1977 until his death in 1989, with whom he had three children, Neill, Calum, and Kitty. He collaborated with Littlewood in the theatre, and with Seeger in folk music.
Acting career
In 1931, with other unemployed members of the Clarion Players he formed an agit-prop theatre group, the "Red Megaphones". During 1934 they changed the name to "Theatre of Action" and not long after were introduced to a young actress recently moved up from London. This was Joan Littlewood who became MacColl's wife and work partner. In 1936, after a failed attempt to move to London, the couple returned to Manchester, and formed the Theatre Union. In 1940 a performance of The Last Edition – a 'living newspaper' – was halted by the police and MacColl and Littlewood were bound over for two years for breach of the peace. The necessities of wartime brought an end to Theatre Union. MacColl enlisted in the British Army during July 1940, but deserted in December. Why he did so, and why he was not prosecuted after the war, remain a mystery. In an interview in June 1987, he said that he was expelled for "anti-fascist activity". Allan Moore and Giovanni Vacca wrote that MacColl had been subject to Special Observation whilst in the King's Regiment, owing to his political views, and that the records show that, rather than being discharged, he was declared a deserter on 18 December 1940. In her autobiography, Joan Littlewood wrote that MacColl (then still known as Jimmie Miller) was stationed at Richmond, North Yorkshire and wrote to her regularly to say how much he hated it, and that he announced his change of name when she greeted him back at Manchester railway station. Littlewood also wrote that, when they were performing a play about military desertion after the war in Ormesby (close to where he had been stationed), MacColl was briefly arrested, after being recognised locally, and moved to an army detention barracks at Northallerton before being released after a few days.
In 1946, members of Theatre Union and others formed Theatre Workshop and spent the next few years touring, mostly in the north of England. In 1945, Miller changed his name to Ewan MacColl (influenced by the Lallans movement in Scotland).
In the Theatre Union roles had been shared, but now, in Theatre Workshop, they were more formalised. Littlewood was the sole producer and MacColl the dramaturge, art director and resident dramatist. The techniques that had been developed in the Theatre Union now were refined, producing the distinctive form of theatre that was the hallmark of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as the troupe was later known. They were an impoverished travelling troupe, but were making a name for themselves.
Traditional music
During this period MacColl's enthusiasm for folk music grew. Inspired by the example of Alan Lomax, who had arrived in Britain and Ireland in 1950, and had done extensive fieldwork there, MacColl also began to collect and perform traditional ballads. His long involvement with Topic Records started in 1950 with his release of a single, "The Asphalter's Song", on that label. When, in 1953 Theatre Workshop decided to move to Stratford, London, MacColl, who had opposed that move, left the company and changed the focus of his career from acting and playwriting to singing and composing folk and topical songs.
In 1947, MacColl visited a retired lead-miner named Mark Anderson (1874–1953) in Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, who performed to him a song called "Scarborough Fair"; MacColl recorded the lyrics and melody in a book of Teesdale folk songs, and later included it on his and Peggy Seeger's The Singing Island (1960). Martin Carthy learnt the song from MacColl's book, before teaching it to Paul Simon; Simon & Garfunkel released the song as "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" on their album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, popularising the obscure and unique folk tune. Ewan MacColl, a decade after collecting the song, released his own version accompanied by Peggy Seeger on guitar in 1957 on the LP "Matching Songs of the British Isles and AmericaMatching Songs of the British Isles and AmericaSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracksA1The Sweet KumadeeA2The Golden VanityA3His Old Grey Beard Kept Waggin’A4Overshoes and Leggin’sA5The Gypsy LaddieA6The Black Jack DavyA7The Sheffield ApprenticeA8I Was Brought Up in CornwallB1There Was a Puggie in a WellB2Froggie Went A-Courtin’B3My Sailor BoyB4Sweet WilliamB5The Fishes SongB6The Fish of the SeaB7Scarborough FairB8The Cambric Shirt" and an a capella rendition another decade later on "The Long Harvest" (1967).
Over the years MacColl recorded and produced upwards of a hundred albums, many with English folk song collector and singer A. L. Lloyd. The pair released an ambitious series of eight LP albums of some 70 of the 305 Child Ballads. MacColl produced a number of LPs with Irish singer songwriter Dominic Behan, a brother of Irish playwright Brendan Behan.
In 1956, MacColl caused a scandal when he fell in love with 21-year-old Peggy Seeger, who had come to Britain to transcribe the music for Alan Lomax's anthology Folk Songs of North America (published in 1961). At the time MacColl, who was twenty years older than Peggy, was still married to his second wife.
Singer-songwriter
Seeger and MacColl recorded several albums of searing political commentary songs. MacColl himself wrote over 300 songs, some of which have been recorded by artists (in addition to those mentioned above) such as Planxty, the Dubliners, Dick Gaughan, Phil Ochs, the Clancy Brothers, Elvis Presley, Weddings Parties Anything, The Pogues and Johnny Cash. In 2001, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook was published, which includes the words and music to 200 of his songs. Dick Gaughan, Dave Burland and Tony Capstick collaborated in The Songs of Ewan MacColl (1978; 1985).
Many of MacColl's best-known songs were written for the theatre. For example, he wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" very quickly at the request of Seeger, who needed it for use in a play she was appearing in. He taught it to her by long-distance telephone while she was on tour in the United States (from where MacColl had been barred because of his Communist past). Seeger said that MacColl used to send her tapes to listen to whilst they were apart and that the song was on one of them. This song, which was recorded by Roberta Flack for her debut album, First Take, issued by Atlantic records in June 1969, became a No. 1 hit in 1972 and won MacColl a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, while Flack received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
In 1959, MacColl began releasing LP albums on Folkways Records, including several collaborative albums with Peggy Seeger. His song "Dirty Old Town", inspired by his home town of Salford in Lancashire, was written for the play Landscape with Chimneys (1949) produced by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop. It went on to become a folk-revival staple and was recorded by the Spinners (1964), Donovan (1964), Roger Whittaker (1968), Julie Felix (1968), the Dubliners (1968), Rod Stewart (1969), the Clancy Brothers (1970), the Pogues (1985), the Mountain Goats (2002), Simple Minds (2003), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (2003), Frank Black (2006) and Bettye LaVette (2012).
MacColl's song "The Shoals of Herring", based on the life of Norfolk fisherman and folk singer Sam Larner was recorded by the Dubliners, the Clancy Brothers, the Corries and more. Other popular songs written and performed by MacColl include "The Manchester Rambler", "The Moving-On Song" and "The Joy of Living".
Ewan has a short biography of his work in the accompanying book of the Topic Records 70-year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten. Five of his recordings, three of them solo, appear in the boxed set:
on CD #4:
track 2, "Come All Ye Fisher Lads", with the Fisher Family, from their album The Fisher Family.
on CD #5:
track 4, "Go Down You Murderers", from Chorus from the Gallows
on CD #6:
track 9, "To the Begging I Will Go", from Manchester Angel
track 14, "Sixteen Tons", with Brian Daly, from the single Sixteen Tons/The Swan Necked Valve
track 18, Dirty Old Town, from the single Dirty Old Town/Sheffield Apprentice.
Political songs
MacColl was one of the main composers of British protest songs during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s he penned "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" and "The Ballad of Stalin" for the British Communist Party.
When asked about the song in a 1985 interview, he said that it was "a very good song" and that "it dealt with some of the positive things that Stalin did". In 1992, after his death, Peggy Seeger included it as an annex in her Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, saying that she had originally planned to exclude the song on the grounds that Ewan would not have wanted it included, but decided to include it as an example of his work in his early career. The B-side of the record, Sovietland (Land of Freedom) was not included in the songbook.
MacColl sang and composed numerous protest and topical songs for the nuclear disarmament movement, for example "Against the Atom Bomb", The Vandals, Nightmare, and Nuclear Means Jobs.
He wrote "The Ballad of Tim Evans" (also known as "Go Down You Murderer") a song protesting against capital punishment, based on an infamous murder case in which an innocent man, Timothy Evans, was condemned and executed, before the real culprit was discovered.
MacColl was very active during the miners' strike of 1984–85 in distributing free cassettes of songs supportive of the National Union of Mineworkers, entitled Daddy, what did you do in the strike? The title song was unusually aggressive in its language towards the strikebreakers. This collection was only released on cassette and remaining copies are rare, but some of the less aggressive songs have featured on other compilations. At MacColl's 70th birthday party, he was presented by Arthur Scargill with a miner's lamp to show appreciation for his support.
In his last interview in August 1988, MacColl stated that he still believed in a socialist revolution and that the communist parties of the west had become too moderate. He stated that he had been a member of the Communist Party but left because he felt that the Soviet Union was "not communist or socialist enough".
Radio
MacColl had been a radio actor since 1933. By the late 1930s he was writing scripts as well. In 1957 producer Charles Parker asked MacColl to collaborate in the creation of a feature programme about the heroic death of train driver John Axon. Normal procedure would have been to use the recorded field interviews only as source for writing the script. MacColl produced a script that incorporated the actual voices and so created a new form that they called the radio ballad.
Between 1957 and 1964, eight of these were broadcast by the BBC, all created by the team of MacColl and Parker together with Peggy Seeger who handled musical direction, conducted a great many field interviews, and wrote songs, either together with MacColl or alone. MacColl wrote the scripts and songs, as well as, with the others, collecting the field recordings which were the heart of the productions.
Teaching and theatre
In 1965 Ewan and Peggy formed the Critics Group from a number of young followers, with Charles Parker in attendance, frequently recording the group's weekly sessions at MacColl and Seeger's home. The initial aim of improving musical skills soon broadened to performing at political events, the Singers' Club where MacColl, Seeger and Lloyd were featured artists and theatre productions. Members who became performing folk singers in their own right included Frankie Armstrong, John Faulkner, Sandra Kerr, Dennis Turner, Terry Yarnell, Bob Blair, Jim Carroll, Brian Pearson and Jack Warshaw. Other members, including Michael Rosen, joined primarily for theatre productions, the Festival of Fools, a political review of the previous year.
As the theatre group's importance grew, members more interested in singing left. The productions ran until the winter of 1972–73. Members' differences with MacColl's vision of a full-time touring company led to the group's breakup. The offshoot group became Combine Theatre, with a club of their own mixing traditional and original folksongs and theatrical performances based on contemporary events, into the 1980s.
Death and legacy
After many years of poor health (in 1979 he suffered the first of many heart attacks), MacColl died on 22 October 1989, in the Brompton Hospital, in London, after complications following heart surgery. His autobiography Journeyman was published the following year. The lifetime archive of his work with Peggy Seeger and others was passed on to Ruskin College in Oxford.
There is a plaque dedicated to MacColl in Russell Square in London. The inscription includes: "Presented by his communist friends 25.1.1990 ... Folk Laureate – Singer – Dramatist – Marxist ... in recognition of strength and singleness of purpose of this fighter for Peace and Socialism". In 1991 he was awarded a posthumous honorary degree by the University of Salford.
His daughter from his second marriage, Kirsty MacColl, followed him into a musical career, albeit in a different genre. She died in a boating accident in Mexico in 2000. His son with Peggy Seeger, Neill MacColl, is the long-standing guitarist for Mancunian musician David Gray. His grandson Jamie MacColl has also developed a musical career of his own with the band Bombay Bicycle Club.
In 2025, punk band Dropkick Murphys along with guest Billy Bragg covered MacColl's song "School Days Are Over" on their album For the People. The song is a favorite of Bragg's.
Quotation
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 99 | 97.9th |
| Studio albums | 83 | 99.7th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 83 | 99.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 34 | 72.8th |
| Genres | 14 | 98.6th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (99 release groups · 83 studio albums)
Albums · 83
1955 · studio album
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A1The Ship in DistressA2Johnny ToddA3Haul on the BowlineA4The Cruel Ship’s CaptainA5The DreadnoughtA6Santy AnnaA7The Coast of PeruA8Row Bullies RowA9Blood Red RosesB1Off to Sea Once MoreB2Blow the Man DownB3The Flying CloudB4Lord FranklinB5Paddy DoyleB6Van Diemen’s LandB7The Greenland Whale Fishery1956 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks
A1We’re a’ Jolly Fu’A2The Calton WeaverA3When She Came Ben She BobbitA4The Laird of the Dainty Doon ByeA5Blow the Candle OutA6Donald BlueA7The Brewer LaddieA8We’re Gayly YetA9A Wee Drappie O’tA10The Cuckoo’s NestB1Green Grow the Rashes, OB2The Day We Went to RothesayB3The Bonnie Lassie Who Never Said NoB4The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s ByreB5Jock Hawk’s Adventures in GlasgowB6The Brisk Young LadB7I Wish That You Were Dead GuidmanB8The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Plaidie Awa’B9Andro and His Cutty Gun1956 · studio album
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A1To the Begging I Will GoA2The Brewer’s DaughterA3Fitba’ CrazyA4The Lion’s DenA5Jaime Raeburn’s FarewellA6The Burcher BoyA7The Bonnie Bunch of RosesB1The Banks of Sweet DundeeB2Miss BrownB3Cock o the MiddenB4My Last Farewell to StirlingB5The Sheffield ApprenticeB6Come All Ye Tramps and HawkersB7Macpherson’s LamentB8Van Diemen’s Land1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks
A1The Blackball LineA2Do Me AmaA3Reuben RanzoA4The Handsome Cabin BoyA5A Hundred Years AgoB1StormalongB2The Coast of PeruB3The GaugerB4Sally RacketThar She Blows! Whaling Ballads and Songs
1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Sperm Whale FisheryA2Blood Red RosesA3Farewell to TarwathieA4The EclipseA5The Cold Coast of GreenlandA6The Twenty-Third of MarchA7The Coast of PeruB1We’ll Rant and We’ll RoarB2Reuben BanzoB3The Bonny Ship the DiamondB4The Cruel Ship’s CaptainB5Off to Sea Once MoreB6Heave Away, My JohnnyB7Paddy and the WhaleB8Greenland Bound1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 35:42
A1Row Bullies Row2:35A2Paddy Doyle0:47A3Wild Goose Shanty1:27A4While Cruising Around Yarmouth2:53A5Old Billy Riley0:29A6Handsome Cabin Boy4:42A7South Australia2:21A8Blow Boys Blow1:38B1Whup Jamboree1:21B2Banks of Newfoundland3:25B3Whiskey Johnny2:01B4Do Me Ama3:31B5Jack Tar2:12B6Paddy West4:24B7Haul on the Bowline0:45B8A Hundred Years Ago1:11Bad Lads and Hard Cases: British Ballads of Crime and Criminals
1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1Turpin HeroA2Spence BroughtonA3IvorA4The Bonnie Banks of Airdrie (Child #14)A5Superintendent BarrattA6Barratty-ParrattyA7Go Down You MurdererA8Van Diemen’s LandB1Whiskey in the JarB2Bill BrownB3The Banks of the Royal CanalB4The Black Velvet BandB5Hard CaseB6The Ballad of Bentley and CraigB7Treadmill SongB8Gilderoy1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks
A1Haul on the BowlineA2Row Bullies RowA3The Cruel Ship’s CaptainA4The DreadnoughtA5Paddy DoyleB1Santy AnnaB2Johnny ToddB3Blood Red RosesB4Lord FranklinB5Blow the Man Down1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1The Wark of the WeaversA2The Blantyre ExplosionA3Moses of the MailA4Fourpence a DayA5Champion at Keepin’ ’em RollingA6The Four Loom WeaversA7The Plodder SeamB1Cosher Bailey’s EngineB2The Gresford DisasterB3Cannily, CannilyB4The Coal-Owner and the Pitman’s WifeB5Poor Paddy Works on the RailwayMatching Songs of the British Isles and America
1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1The Sweet KumadeeA2The Golden VanityA3His Old Grey Beard Kept Waggin’A4Overshoes and Leggin’sA5The Gypsy LaddieA6The Black Jack DavyA7The Sheffield ApprenticeA8I Was Brought Up in CornwallB1There Was a Puggie in a WellB2Froggie Went A-Courtin’B3My Sailor BoyB4Sweet WilliamB5The Fishes SongB6The Fish of the SeaB7Scarborough FairB8The Cambric Shirt1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1Whistle, Daughter, WhistleA2Once I Had a True LoveA3The American StrangerA4My Bonny Miner LadA5Let No Man Steal Your ThymeA6GeordieA7Buy Broom BesomsB1GeordieB2The Maid on the ShoreB3Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?B4Still I Love HimB5The Water of TyneB6The Bleacher Lass of KelvinhaughB7Bobby Shaftoe1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 29:28
A1Govan Pool-Room Song3:20A2Old Bob Ridley3:01A3The Sporting Races Of Galway3:01A4The Old Bitch Fox (Chivvy-O)2:56A5Football Crazy2:31B1Creeping Jane3:36B2Card Playing Song2:24B3The Cock Fight1:37B4Bold Thady Quill2:46B5The Turpin-Sugar Ray Fight4:161958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1Card Playing SongA2The Bold Gambling BoyA3Gaelic FootballA4Creeping JaneA5Morrissey and the Russian SailorA6The Cock FightA7The Sporting Races Of GalwayB1Old Bob RidleyB2Reynard the FoxB3SkewballB4The Turpin-Sugar Ray FightB5The Football MatchB6Govan Pool-Room SongB7Heenan and Sayers1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1Join the British ArmyA2The Ghost Army of KoreaA3The Ballad of Wadi MaktillaA4The Young Trooper Cut Down in His PrimeA5Bless ’em AllB1Any ComplaintsB2The Second Front SongB3Seven Years in the SandB4Farewell to SicilyB5Browned OffB6When This Ruddy War Is Over1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1Haul on the Bowlin’A2Row, Bullies, RowA3The Coast of PeruA4The Black Ball LineA5The Ship In DistressA6The GuagerB1Blow the Man DownB2Do Me AmaB3Santy AnnaB4The Flying CloudB5A Hundred Years Ago1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1The Song of the Iron RoadA2Droylsden WakesA3The Calton WeaverA4Twenty-One YearsA5The Best Little Door BoyA6Oh, Dear MeA7Will CairdB1The Iron HorseB2The Durham StrikeB3The Collier LaddieB4The Colour Bar StrikeB5The Swan-Necked Valve1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 43:51
A1Johnny Lad2:32A2The False Lover Won Back (Child #218)5:01A3Aikendrum2:05A4The Gairdener Chyld (Child #219)4:42A5The Maid Gaed to the Mill1:58A6The Elfin Knight (Child #2)4:08A7The Banks of the Nile4:13B1Hughie Grame (Child #191)B2Mormond Braes1:47B3Glasgow Peggy (Child #228)3:12B4The Monymusk Lads2:18B5The Trooper and the Maid (Child #299)3:56B6I Loved a Lass2:19B7Lord Thomas and Fair Annie (Child #73)5:40The Singing Streets: Childhood Memories of Ireland and Scotland
1959 · studio album
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A1Home, Family, Neighbors, Streets & OathsA2Singing Games and Ring GamesA3Skipping Rope, Bouncing Ball and Counting RhymesB1Street Songs, Election Ditties, the Police, Prisons, Enemies, Jeers and SnobsB2Songs and Rhymes of the SeasonsB3Street Poetry, Nonsense Rhymes and Songs, and TauntsB4Night, Miscellaneous Street Songs and the Day’s End1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1Derek BentleyA2The Black Velvet BandA3Jamie Raeburn’s FarewellA4Johnny O’BreadiesleyA5Hughie the GraemeA6MinorieA7The Treadmill SongB1Turpin HeroB2The Crafty FarmerB3McKafferyB4Jimmy WilsonB5The Lag’s SongB6Van Dieman’s LandB7Go Down Ye Murderers1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 36:02
1Green Grow the Rashes, O2:162Landlady, Count the Lawin1:193I Maun Hae a Wife2:124O That I Had Ne’er Been Married1:355Galloway Tam0:516I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain0:487There’s Cauld Kail in Aberdeen0:488A Braw Wooer2:339The Rantin’ Dog, the Daddie O’t0:4910Ay, Waukin, O2:1311Duncan Gray1:0412Wha’ll Mow Me Now?2:1513Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie0:5214Hey, Ca’ Thro’0:4615To Daunton Me2:4816Jumpin John0:5217What Can a Lassie Do Wi’ an Auld Man?3:1618The Dusty Miller0:4719Tibbie Dunbar1:0120The Cooper O’Cuddy1:2421She’s Fair and Fause1:3922The Deil’s Awa Wi’ Th’ Exciseman1:2323A Man’s A Man For A’ That2:311960 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Come Fill Up Your GlassesA2Ballad Of The CarpenterA3The Ballad Of SpringhillA4The Lifeboat MonaA5Trafford Road BalladA6The Fireman's Not For MeA7The Lag's SongB1The Crooked CrossB2There's Better Things For YouB3Brother, Won't You Join In The Line?B4Space Girl's SongB5Come All You Gallant ColliersB6Come, Me Little SonB7The Fitter's SongB8Exile's Song1960 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1The Bonnie Banks o’ AirdrieA2The Auld Man’s Mare’s DeadA3The Braes o’ BalquitherA4The Crooked BawbeeA5Lovely NancyA6Galla WaterA7Will Ye Go to Flanders?B1The Spinning WheelB2Robbie and GrannieB3A Wee Drappie O’tB4Lord RandalB5To Daunton MeB6The Duke of AtholSongs of Two Rebellions: The Jacobite Wars of 1715 and 1745 in Scotland
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1Ye Jacobites by NameA2Such a Parcel of Rogues in a NationA3Will Ye Go zo SheriffmuirA4Wae's Me for Prince CharlieA5Charlie He's My DarlingA6The Haughs of CromdaleA7The Bonnie MoorhenA8Johnnie CopeB1Cam Ye O'er Frae FranceB2There's Three Brave, Loyal FellowsB3This Is No My Ain HouseB4The Piper O' DundeeB5Donald MacGillavryB6MacLean's WelcomeB7Will Ye No Come Back AgainB8The Wee, Wee German LairdieThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads)
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1Johnnie o’ BreadisleyA2The Dowie Dens o’ YarrowA3Lord RandallA4Sir Patrick SpensA5The Burning o’ AuchendounA6Our GoodmanA7The Rantin’ LaddieB1Bawbee AllanB2The Brown GirlB3The Three RavensB4The Bonnie Earl o’ MurrayB5The Battle of HarlawB6Thomas Rhymer1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks
A1The Barnyards of DelgatyA2The Highland Muster RollA3The Wee Wee German LairdeeA4Friendless MaryA5The Bonnie Lass of FyvieA6Roy’s WifeA7Charlie O CharlieA8Tail ToddleA9Lassie Wi’ the Yellow CoatieA10Kissin’s No SinB1Bonnie AnnieB2Johnnie CopeB3The Wars of GermanyB4Maggie LauderB5Nicky TamsB6Johnny LadB7Eppie MorrieB8The Reel of Stumpie1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 54:54
A1The Keach in the Creel4:25A2I'm a Rover3:03A3The Scranky Black Farmer2:56A4The Band of Shearers1:40A5Jock Hawk's Adventure in Glasgow3:32A6The Brewer Laddie3:33A7The Wind Blew the the Bonnie Lassie's Plaide Awa'3:10A8The Monymusk Lads2:37A9The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre2:56B1Bogie's Bonnie Belle3:20B2Lamachree and Megrum2:45B3The Road and the Miles to Dundee3:53B4The Lothian Hairst2:43B5It Happened on a Day3:07B6I'm a Working Chap2:39B7Johnny Sangster2:53B8Drumdelgie3:15B9She Was a Rum One2:271961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1Waly, WalyA2Richie Story (Child #232)A3The Crafty Farmer (Child #283)A4The Barring of the Door (Child #275)A5Jenny NettlesA6Old Lady All Skin and BonesA7TullochgorumB1The Two Brothers (Child #49)B2Just as the Time Was FlowingB3JackaroB4The Carrion CrowB5Matty Groves (Child #81)B6The Bartley ExplosionB7The Devil's Nine Questions (Riddles Wisely Expounded - Child #1)Ewan MacColl Sings British Industrial Ballads
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1The Wark of the WeaversA2The Blantyre ExplosionA3Fourpence a DayA4Droylsden WakesA5The Collier LaddieA6The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s WifeA7Poor Paddy Works on the RailwayB1Twenty-One YearsB2The Four Loom WeaversB3Champion at Keepin’ ’em RollingB4Cosher Bailey’s EngineB5The Iron HorseB6The Durham StrikeB7The Calton WeaverB8Cannily, CannilyBroadside Ballads (London: 1600-1700)
1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks
A1Room for CompanyA2Pity’s LamentationA3There’s Nothing to Be Had Without MoneyA4The Midwife’s GhostB1A Merry Progress to LondonB2London’s LotteryB3London Mourning in AshesB4King Lear and His Three Daughters1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks
A1The Sailor’s AlphabetA2Bold Riley OA3Haul Away for RoseA4Nancy of YarmouthA5Tom’s Gone to HiloA6Sally BrownA7The Dockyard GateA8Hilo SomebodyA9The DolphinB1Trim-Rig DucksieB2Little Sally RacketB3Gal With the Blue Dress OnB4The Leaving of LiverpoolB5Bring ’em DownB6Hilo John BrownB7Short Jacket and White TrousersB8The Blackball LineB9General TaylorThe New Briton Gazette Volume 2
1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1The Banks They Are RoseyA2RosalieA3March With Us TodayA4Lullaby for the TimesA5No Agents Need ApplyA6The Printer's TradeA7The Ballad of Jimmy WilsonB1The Big HewerB2The Shoals of HerringB3The Young BirdsB4Needle and ThreadB5Hey Ho! Cook and Rowe!B6The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceB7Come Live With MeB8When I Was YoungBroadside Ballads (London: 1600-1700), Volume Two: Female Frollicks and Politicke
1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks
A1The Female FrolicA2Give Me My Yellow HoseA3A King and No KingB1Constance of Cleveland1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1Blood Red RosesA2Van Diemen’s LandA3The Greenland Whale FisheryA4Paddy DoyleA5Johnny ToddA6Lord FranklinB1Reuben RanzoB2The Cruel Ship’s CaptainB3The Handsome Cabin BoyB4Sally RacketB5The DreadnoughtB6Off to Sea Once MoreB7StormalongFourpence a Day and Other British Industrial Folk Songs
1963 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1Poor Paddy Works on the RailwayA2The Gresford DisasterA3The Four Loom WeaverA4I’m Champion at Keeping ’em RollingA5The Collier LaddieB1The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s WifeB2The Iron HorseB3The Blantyre ExplosionB4The Wark of the WeaversB5Fourpence a DayB6Cosher Bailey’s EngineEnglish and Scottish Folk Ballads
1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks
A1Henry MartinA2The Baron of BrackleyA3The Cruel MotherA4Lord RandallA5The Bitter WithyB1The “Sweet Kumadie”B2The Demon LoverB3Hughie the GraemeB4The Prickly BushB5The Beggar ManThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3
1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks
A1The Broom of Cowdenknowes (Child 217)A2Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Child 46)A3Fair Ellen (Child 63)B1Sweet William (Child 106)B2The Elfin Knight (Child 1)B3Glenogie (Child 238)B4Henry Martin (Child 250)1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1As I Came in by FisherrowA2The Spinning WheelA3My Apron NowA4Tibbie FowlerA5The Beggar LaddieA6The Weary Pund o’ TowA7The Baron o’ LeysB1The Earl of ErrolB2The Shepherd and His WifeB3Fare Ye Weel My Auld WifeB4Hey, How Johnny LadB5Blythsome BridalB6The Braes o’ Balquither1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1The Wark o’ the WeaversA2Droylsden WakesA3The Four Loom WeaverA4The Calton WeaverA5Oh, Dear MeA6The Coal-Owner and the Pitman’s WifeA7Fourpence a DayA8The Gresford DisasterA9Will CairdB1The Iron HorseB2Poor Paddy Works on the RailwayB3Cannily, CannilyB4The Song of the Iron RoadB5The Blantyre ExplosionB6The Collier LaddieB7Moses of the MailThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2
1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1The Beggar ManA2Lord GregoryA3Young BeichanA4Glasgow PeggyA5Among the Blue Flowers and the YellowA6Bessie Bell and Mary GreyB1The Bonnie House O’ AirlieB2Captain Ward and the RainbowB3The Gypsy LaddieB4The Broomfield HillB5Hughie GraemeB6GeordieB7Proud Lady MargaretB8The Sweet Kumadee1965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Any ComplaintsA2The Fortress SongA3Farewell to SicilyA4The Ballad of Wadi MaktillaA5The Dying SoldierA6The Ghost Army of KoreaA7Browned OffA8When This Ruddy War Is OverB1Join the British ArmyB2On the Move TonightB3The Second Front SongB4Seven Years in the SandB5Hand Me Down Me PetticoatB6The Young Trooper Cut Down in His PrimeB7Bless ’em All1965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 58:11
1John Axon was a railway man...3:232It was 4 a.m. that Saturday...1:553The iron road road is a hard road...9:524It doesn't matter where you come from...5:565The rain was gently falling...2:156Come all you British loco men...3:387The repair was done...3:158I may be a wage slave on Monday...4:279Come all you young maidens...2:4010Steam train, steam train...3:5311Under the large injector steam-valve...3:1712The engine had reached the distant signal...11:3613On the 3rd of May 1957...2:04The Manchester Angel: Traditional English Songs
1966 · studio album
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A1We Poor Labouring MenA2GeorgieA3Barbara AllenA4Sheepcrook and Black DogA5The Bramble Briar (Strawberry Town)A6One Night as I Lay on My BedA7The Grey CockB1To the Begging I Will GoB2The Sheep-Stealer (I Am a Brisk Lad)B3The Manchester AngelB4The Bold RichardB5The Press GangB6Round Cape HornB7Through MoorfieldsB8Homeward Bound1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 58:23
1When you hew a lump of coal1:212Out of the dirt and darkness I was born3:463Schoolday's over; come on then, John2:334Now don't be late2:175You're at the pit bank2:406Oh dear, the experience to go down the pit5:557When I am down the pit1:548So now you know how coal is got3:269Jimmy, come back, come back2:2510Yes... he was working next to me4:0511And yet it's good to come from the pit1:3412Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand2:4813Down in the dark2:4514In Durham and Northumberland, I'm sorry for to say2:4115A miner has to possess that sense of humour3:2116Coal is a thing that's cost life to get5:4017Today, safety is the prime factor4:5418Deep down in a man's heart4:181967 · studio album
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A1Minorie (Scots)A2The Swan Swims Sae Bonnie (Scots)A3There Was an Old Lord (American)A4Peter and I (American)A5The Cruel Mother (English)A6The Cruel Mother (American)A7Down by the Greenwood Sidey-O (American)A8The Lady From Lee (English)A9The Cruel Mother (American)B1Lord Randal (Scots)B2Jimmy Randal (American)B3Henry My Son (English)B4Willie Doo (Scots)B5Croodin Doo (American)B6Billy Boy (American)B7The Shepherd Lad (Scots)B8Clear Away the Morning Dew (English)B9Katie Morey (American)The Long Harvest (Record Four)
1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1Bawbee Allan (Scots)A2Barbry Ellen (English)A3Barbry Allan (American)A4Sir Eglamore (English)A5Wild Boar (American)A6Old Bangum (American)A7Ole Bangum (American)B1Lord Gregory (Scots)B2Lass of Roch RoyalB3Georgie Jeems (American)B4Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (American)B5The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter (English)B6The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daugher (American)The Long Harvest (Record Eight)
1967 · studio album
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1Young Beichan (Scots)2Lord Bateman (American)3Turkish Rover (Canadian)4The Cherry-Tree Carol (English)5Sweet Mary and Sweet Joseph (American)6Joseph and Mary (American)7Lucy Wan (English)8Fair Lucy (American)9What Brought the Blood Upon Your Right Shoulder Dear? (Irish)10Edward (American)11The Puddy in the Well (Scots)12Froggie Went A-Courting (American)13King Kong Kitchie (American)14There Was an Old FrogThe Long Harvest (Record Seven)
1967 · studio album
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1George Collins (English)2Young Collins (American)3Clerk Colven (Scots)4Giles Collins (American)5The Dying Hobo (American)6Lord Thomas of Winesberrie (Scots)7John Barber (Canadian)8The Three Ravens (English)9The Three Ravens (English)10The Twa Corbies (Scots)11The Crow Song (American)12The Three Crows (American)13The Three Ravens (American)14Poor Old Crow (American)15Blow the Man Down (Canadian)16Sir Patrick Spens (Scots)17Sir Patrick Spens (American)1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 59:46
1Up jumped the herring, the king of the sea...2:042Come all you gallant fishermen...1:533It's up with the dawn...4:454Years ago, you started very young...4:245I started to go to sea in 1892...1:496So it's off with a boiler full of steam...3:547When the wind is freshening...5:018What shall it profit a fisherman...2:549It's busk ye, my lads, get you up on the deck...2:3010There's no feeling like coming into harbour...3:1511Came a'ye fisher lassies...3:3312Up jumped the herring...10:2613Cwa, ye herring fishermen...4:3614A' the week your man's away...3:5515Wi' our nets and gear...2:0516Our ships are small...2:421967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Riddles Wisely Expounded (English)A2The Devil’s Nine Questions (American)A3The Elfin Knight (Scots)A4O, Say Do You Know the Way to Selin (American)A5Scarborough Fair (English)A6The Elfin Knight (American)A7The Cambric Shirt (American)A8My Father Had an Acre of Land (English)B1The Daemon Lover (English)B2The House Carpenter (American)B3The House Carpenter (American)B4Well Met, Well Met (American)B5The Dreadful Ghost (Canadian)B6The Ghost Ship (Englsih)B7Pretty Polly (American)The Long Harvest (Record Nine)
1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks
A1The False Knight and the Wee Boy (Scots)A2The False Knight Upon the Road (Scots)A3The False Fidee (N. American)A4The False Knight Upon the Road (Nova Scotia)A5The Dowie Dens of Yarrow (Scots)A6The Dewy Dens of Yarrow (N. American)A7Yarrow (N. American)A8Willie’s Rare and Willie’s Rare (Scots)A9The Braes of Yarrow (N. American)B1The Wife in Wether’s Skin (Scots)B2The Daughter of Peggy O (English)B3Gentle Fair Jenny (N. American)B4Rissolty Rossolty (N. American)B5Queen Jane (N. American)B6The Death of Queen Jane (English)B7Jane Was a Neighbour (N. American)B8Queen Jean (Scots)B9Poor Sally (N. American)B10Six Lords Went A-Hunting (English)B11Two Dukes (N. American)The Long Harvest (Record Five)
1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks
A1The Crafty Farmer (Scots)A2Well Sold the Cow (Canadian)A3The Highwayman (English)A4The Highwayman Outwitted (English)A5The Fair Damsel From London (American)A6The Wife of Usher’s Well (Scots)A7The Three Babies (American)B1Lord Lovell (Scots)B2Lord Lover (American)B3Abe Lincoln Stood at the White House Gate (American)B4The New Ballad of Lord Lovel (American)B5Sir Hugh (Or, the Jew’s Daughter)B6The Fatal Flower Garden (American)B7Little Saloo (American)B8It Rained a Mist (American)B9The Burly Burly Banks of Barbee (American)B10The Bonnie Banks of Airdrie-O (Scots)The Long Harvest (Record Three)
1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Our Goodman (Scots)A2Five Nights Drunk (American)A3Lamkin (Scots)A4Lammikin (American)A5The Gypsy Laddie (Scots)A6Black Jack Davy (American)A7The Heartless Lady (American)A8Harrison Brady (American)B1The Broomfield Hill (Scots)B2Fair Maid on the Shore (American)B3The Lover’s Ghost (English)B4The Grey Cock (American)B5I’m a Rover (Scots)B6Here’s a Health to All Good Lovers (Scots)B7Lover in the Night (English)1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1May Colvin (Scots)A2Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (American)A3The Outlandish Knight (English)A4Billy Came Over the Main White Ocean (American)A5The Willow Tree (American)A6The Wife of Kelso (Scots)A7Rich Old Lady (American)A8Johnny Sands (English)B1The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England’s Daughter (English)B2The Douglas Tragedy (Scots)B3Earl Brand (American)B4The Lady and the Dragon (American)B5The Prickle Holly Bush (English)B6Hangman (American)1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
1The Trooper and the Maid (Scots)2A Soldier Travelling From the North (American)3Trooper and the Maid (American)4Betsy (English)5The Brewer’s Daughter (American)6The Keach in the Creel (Scots)7The Little Scotch Girl (English)8Lord Thomas and Fair Annie (Scots)9Little Margret (American)10Sweet William and Fair Annie (Scots)11Lady Margaret (American)12Lowlands of Holland (English)13The Lowlands of Holland (Scots)14The Lowlands of Holland (American)1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks
A1Kissing’s Nae SinA2The Little CarpenterA3Stonecutter BoyA4When I Was in My PrimeA5The Mill-Mill OA6Bonny Bunch of Rushes GreenA7Lassie Gathering NutsA8If He’d Be a BuckarooA9Let Me in This Ae NichtA10Whistle Daughter WhistleA11Eppie MorrieA12Supper Is Nae ReadyB1The Spinning WheelB2A Pretty Fair MaidB3Firelock StileB4Where Are You Going, My Pretty Little GirlB5O Gin My Love Were You Red RoseB6Young MunroB7The BugabooB8Dainty DavieB9The First Time EverB10Sweet Thames Flow Softly1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks
A1Ballad of AccountingA2Beans, Bacon and GravyA3EpithalamiumA4The Farmer Is the ManA5Grey OctoberA6The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s WifeA7Come Live With MeA8Fragments From Slavery DaysA9Sit DownB1The Klan SongB2Fourloom WeaverB3China RagB4In ContemptB5Strike for Better WagesB6The Warming PanB7Rockabye BabyB8I Am a Union WomanB9The WhigB10The Whigs of FifeB11Brother Did You Weep1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks
A1Ballad of the TradesA2The Shepherd LadA3The Wanton SeedA4The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Plaidie Awa’A5The Coachman and His WhipA6The Thrashing MachineA7Maid of AustraliaA8The Cuckoo’s NestA9The Gairdener’s ChyldeB1The VintnerB2Andrew and His Cutty GunB3The Game of “All Fours”B4The CobblerB5The ModieworkB6The Furze FieldB7The Long Peg and AwlB8The Maid Gaed to the MillB9The Bird in the BushB10She Was a Rum One1969 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks
A1Titus Andronicus’s ComplaintA2Gernutus, The Jew of VeniceB1The Spanish TragedyB2A Warning Piece to England Against Pride and Wickedness1969 · studio album
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A1The Taming of a ShrewA2King Lear and His Three DaughtersB1Arden of FavershamB2The Frolicksome Duke or the Tinker’s Good FortuneThe World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Volume 2
1972 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
1Cabin Boy2When You're a Fighter You're Different3The Net Hauling Song4The Iron Road5Dark the Night6Freeborn Man7Fitter's Song8Gypsy Jack of All Trades9Alone10The Driver's Song11Moving On Song12Miner's Wife13Hot Asphalt14The Battle Is Done With1972 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 53:11
A1The Bonny Bunch of Roses5:56A2The Tunnel Tigers2:39A3A Roving Hielan’ Man2:27A4The Iron-Moulder’s Wedding3:10A5The Bold Poachers3:00A6Ye Hae Lien Wrang Lassie1:16A7The Fowler2:25A8The Maid of Reigate5:14B1Sheath and Knife6:33B2Alan Tyne of Harrow3:46B3Roseberry0:30B4The Molecatcher3:31B5James Herries3:10B6The Penny Wager3:04B7The Tattie-Lifting Song3:05B8Lament for the Death of a Nobody3:25Folkways Record of Contemporary Songs
1973 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 45:55
A1The Ballad of Accounting2:36A2We Don't Want to Live Like That!1:36A3Black and White1:52A4Cut-Price Hero2:23A5Lament for the Death of a Nobody3:10A6Nightshift2:20A7Jimmy Gray1:35A8The Children1:25B1Nightmare3:59B2The Shellback Song4:25B3The Companeros4:06B4Bufallo Holler3:31B5Song of Myself4:18B6Yankee Doodle2:42B7Look at You!1:47B8Darling Annie4:101973 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1Student EdwardA2Song of ChoiceA3I’m Gonna Be an EngineerA4Let’s PretendA5My SonA6We Are the Young OnesA7Uncle SamB1Hello FriendB2Tall and ProudB3Big CigarsB4We Are a Nation of Animal LoversB5Che GuevaraB6Angela DavisB7Wasteland LullabyB8Brother Did You WeepB9Dead Men1976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks
A1The Driver’s SongA2Virginia LagsA3Sheet-Mill BluesA4Halifor BandA5Forty MilesA6Harry SaundersA7Chylde OwletA8Last ChanceA9DrinkingB1Gonna Be an EngineerB2Roy’s Wife of AldivallochB3The First Time EverB4Edom O’GordonB5Sweet WillieB6I’m a Freeborn Man16Big Man1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1The Riddle SongA2Brave Honest Jack TarA3Allende’s SongA4Johnny SangsterA5Tam LinA6Dull MondayA7The Lag’s SongB1The Parliamentry PolkaB2Barbara AllenB3As I Came in by FisherrawB4Song for CalumB5The Fishy CrabB6Willie ReillyB7The Ale-WifeB8Thought of TimeSaturday Night at the Bull & Mouth
1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1The Blackleg MinerA2Rambling ManA3Young PeggyA4John J. CurtisA5John HardyA6Willie’s Lyke-WakeA7The Ballad of SharpevilleB1Freight TrainB2YthansideB3SoapB4Th’ Owd ChapB5Rattling Roaring WillieB6Up in WisconsinB7Mysterious LoverB8I’m a Rover1978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks
A1Blast Against BlackguardsA2The Tenant FarmerA3The Pay-Up SongA4EmilyA5Cut Price HeroA6You and IA7Legal IllegalB1The InvaderB2The Father’s SongB3White Wind1979 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 49:16
A1Jock o’ the Side (Child 187)6:25A2The Suffolk Miracle (Child 272)4:36A3Clyde’s Water (Child 216)6:47A4Child Waters (Child 63)6:30B1Fair Annie (Child 62)10:45B2Lang Johnny More (Child 251)6:45B3The False Knight of the Road2:45B4Edom O’Gordon4:431980 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
A1Seven Days of the WeekA2Miss HeroinA3In Praise of Famous Men (and Women)A4LadybirdA5Lullabye for a Very New BabyA6The Plutonium FactorA7The VandalsA8Kilroy Was HereB1The AndroidsB2What the Poet Called HerB3Nobody Knew She Was ThereB4My Old ManB5Get Rid of ItB6Swallow and TroutB7Four-Minute Warning1981 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 49:38
A1Chylde Owlet (Child 291)3:04A2Sweet William’s Ghost (Child 77)3:50A3Fair Flower of Northumberland (Child 9)5:40A4The Laird o’ Wariston (Child 194)3:49A5The Half-Hitch (Child 31)8:08B1Lady Diamond (Child 269)4:08B2Fair Janet (Child 62)7:06B3Child Maurice (Gil Morice) (Child 83)7:00B4The Cruel Brother (Child 11)6:531982 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 52:53
A1Geordie (Child 209)3:10A2The Laird o’ Logie (Child 182)3:45A3Auld Matrons (Child 249)4:50A4Fair Rosamund2:10A5Glasgerion (Child 67)6:30A6Queen Eleanor’s Confession (Child 156)5:15B1Young Peggy (Child 298)3:00B2The Grey Cock (Child 248)3:18B3Young Johnstone (Child 88)6:00B4Hind Horn (Child 17)5:15B5Eppie Morrie (Child 223)3:40B6Jellon Graeme (Child 90)6:001983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 53:48
A1North Sea Holes2:35A2The Shoals of Herring3:54A3The Lags’ Song2:48A4Come, Me Little Son3:52A5The Moving-On Song3:18A6Sweet Thames, Flow Softly5:00A7I’m a Rambler4:36B1Freeborn Man3:46B2The Driver’s Song2:07B3The Ballad of Springhill3:19B4Thirty-Foot Trailer3:58B5Down the Lane3:06B6The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face2:21B7The Big Hewer3:09B8The Battle Is Done With3:09B9Dirty Old Town2:50Daddy, What Did You Do In The Strike?
1984 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 20:54
A1The Media2:25A2Villain's Chorus3:42A3Holy Joe From Scabsville5:16A4Miner's Wife2:39B1Only Doing Their Job3:11B2Daddy, What Did You Do in the Strike?3:411986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1No MoreA2The MediaA3True LoveA4TomorrowA5The Great ConspiracyA6If You Want the BombA7Un-Public PublicA8Looking for a JobB1Polonium 210B2Don’t Be SurprisedB3Only Doing Their JobB4The MotherB5An Item of NewsB6The Joy of Living1986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 51:55
A1Brown Adam (Child 98)4:30A2Rinordine3:25A3James Herries (Child 243)3:23A4The Wife of Usher’s Well (Child 79)5:48A5Andrew Lammie (Child 233)8:00B1The Elfin Knight (Child 2)5:30B2The Two Sisters (Child 10)4:21B3The Twa Magicians (Child 44)4:37B4Sheath and Knife (Child 16)6:27B5The Lass of Roch Royal (Child 76)5:541986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 52:04
A1Young Hunting (Child 68)5:56A2The Clerk’s Twa Sons o’ Owsenford (Child 72)6:46A3The Lowlands of Holland (Child 92)2:31A4The Laird o’ Drum (Child 236)5:20A5The Little Cabin Boy3:08A6The Bonnie Earl o’ Murray (Child 181)2:14A7Willie Macintosh (Child 183)0:55B1Lady Maisry (Child 65)8:00B2The Broomfield Hill (Child 43)2:57B3Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58)5:12B4Mary Hamilton (Child 173)4:23B5The Bonnie Hind (Child 50)4:421990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 45:35
1Economic Miracle2:482Just the Tax for Me0:493The Grocer4:224Not Going to Give It Back2:355Sellafield Child3:106Bring the Summer Home10:177Maggie Went Green1:078Nuclear Means Jobs4:179House Hungry Blues2:4010Dracumag3:1511Rogue’s Gallery3:2612The Island4:5213We Remember (Naming of Names)1:571999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 58:14
1My mother said I never should...1:332I am tired of always having to shift...1:253Born in the middle of the afternoon...7:204If you took a traveller...4:015Don't I wish the old times would come back again...10:146I like to settle in the wintertime...5:027We never did travel much in the wintertime...2:248The auld ways are changing...3:179These days have gone...1:1110I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area...3:1711People get the impression, o those gypsies they're rogues...3:1812Thy can't read or write...4:0213Bloody isn't it...7:3914Can't see no way out...3:31Song of a Road: A Radio Ballad About the Building of the M1 Motorway
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:00:27
1Introduction2:192We usually finish the shift in the pub...1:043I think it's the soil...2:494We are the consulting engineers...4:085We were in great rush when we did this...1:516My name is...1:357During that time, a survey has been made...1:298It would take quite a lot of men to do the job of one of those machines...1:419Come all you gallant drivers..5:0110I'm a roving rambler...1:0911Deep and straight and low...4:0212Sixty tons of steel...4:4313What made you come into this game?6:5714Just a road...2:4615Oh well that's just the way it is...3:4116When the muck has all been shifted...1:4617Bring up your black squad...3:5818Been on the road so long...1:4319You can talk about your concrete...3:0620The motorway is on the final lap...1:2621We needed a way cut through the land...3:13The Body Blow - A Radio Ballad About the Psychology of Pain
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:00:24
1Introduction2:472What Day Did the World Stop Moving?7:263Do You Recall How You Climbed the Mountains?4:134Can’t Breathe...6:125I Often Think Back...2:536The World is a Bed...3:537I Wasn’t Afraid While I Was in the Lung...5:318Well First of All...Appreciate the Situation...7:179While There’s Life, There’s Hope...5:0010It’s Goodbye Now...2:5411How Can I Do All the Small Things?5:1612Stronger than Pain is the Human Will to Survive...5:1613Closing Announcement / The Hidden Foe...1:46— · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 59:15
1'Twas in Tierra del Fuego in South Amerikay2:132There's a Game Some Call the Fight Game3:153Boxing, to Me, Is the Greates Character-Builder in the World4:404Come All You Gallant Fighting Men1:545Come on Johnny, and Put 'Em up Johnny3:026When You're a Fighter, You're Different3:257Then Come on, Strip off Young Johnny Boy3:508I Like All My Bovers to Be Perfect Skipper1:529When You're Trainging4:1010There's Such a Helluva Lot of Work to Be Done3:4711The Programme Is Set Up2:3412Who Would Have a Boxer for a Husband2:5813You Get to the Hall3:3114On My Right, the Champion, Johnny Boy8:4515What'll We Do With the Man in the Ring?1:3416Johnny, Johnny, You Failed Us3:3117I Don't Think You Can Call Boxing a Sport4:14Great Child Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection
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Tracklist · 10 tracks
A1The Bitter WithyA2Lang A-GrowingA3The Bramble BriarA4The Seven VirginsA5Down in Yon ForestB1The Bold FishermanB2The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal GreenB3Six Dukes Went A-FishingB4The Holy WellB5The Shooting of His Dear— · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 58:43
1I've Always Kept a Diary2:122A Tale of the Children of a Troubled World7:063What Is It Like, the World Outside3:354I Find It Very Difficult to Talk to My Parents1:015Where Is the Child Who Would Climb on My Knees2:456Yes Sir, No Sir, Goodbye1:147What Have You Got to Worry About?6:458I Got Me Tight Black Jeans2:599The World That I Know, It Has Vanished and Gone2:2410I've Had Thoughts4:5311Why Should You Be Lonely1:5512It Actually Gives Me a Thrill4:3113Frankly, the Idea of Intercourse and Sex Revolts Me2:3914I Think We Should Be Getting Married2:4515In a World Like This, Everything Changes So Rapidly4:4516The Tale of the Children of a Troubled World4:0917Life Has Got Everything to Offer3:05
EP · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Alan Lomax & The RamblersSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracksA1Oh! Lula A2Railroad Man B1Dirty Old Town B2Hard Case | 1956 |
Album · 15
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | [untitled]Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracksA1Asphalters Song A2I’m Champion at Keeping ’em Rolling A3The Fireman’s Not for Me A4Poor Paddy Works on the Railway A5The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s Wife A6Collier Laddie A7Four Loom Weaver A8Cannily Cannily A9Jamie Foyers B1As I Went Out One May Morning B2The Burning of Auchendoun B3Brewer Laddie B4The Keach in the Creel B5Van Diemen’s Land B6Blow the Candle Out B7The Sheffield Apprentice B8The Cutty Wren | Compilation | 1956 | |
| 1962 | Whaler Out of New BedfordSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracksA1Whaler Out of New Bedford: A Musical Score From the Film B1The Fitting Out B2Boney B3The Bark Gay Head B4The Boston-Come-All-Ye B5The Coast of Peru B6Mary Ann B7Desolation B8A Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore B9Homeward Bound | Soundtrack | 1962 | |
| 1970 | The World Of Ewan MacColl & Peggy SeegerSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracksA1Dirty Old Town A2The Manchester Rambler A3The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face A4Freeborn Man A5Space Girl A6Black Velvet Band A7The Big Hewer B1The Shoals Of Herring B2Maids, When You're Young B3Thirty-Foot Trailer B4Peggy Gordon B5Poor Paddy Works On The Railway B6Ballad Of Springhill B7Sweet Thames Flow Softly | Compilation | 1970 | |
| 1970 | Living FolkSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 45:26A1Broomfield Hill2:30 A2Strawberry Town2:25 A3I’m a Girl of Constant Sorrow2:00 A4The Driver’s Song2:17 A5Sweet Trinity2:20 A6Lucy Wan2:00 A7The Doffin Mistress1:22 A8Single Girl2:43 A9The Dirty Union Leaders1:25 A10Song of Choice3:47 B1Johnny Sands2:00 B2Irish Dance Music3:30 B3Sea Shanties4:16 B4The Whale Catchers1:48 B5We’ll Rant and We’ll Roar2:20 B6The Crooked Cross2:15 B7Ballad of Ho Chi Minh3:58 B8Brother, Did You Weep?2:30 | Live | 1970 | |
| 1990 | Black and White: The Definitive CollectionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:05:541Ballad of Accounting2:45 2The Driver's Song2:14 3My Old Man3:31 4Dirty Old Town2:55 5Black and White1:59 6Brother Did You Weep2:00 7The Press Gang1:59 8The Shoals of Herring3:57 9The Manchester Rambler4:45 10Sheath and Knife6:23 11Highland Muster Roll2:02 12Cam Ye O'Er Frae France1:58 13The Maid Gaed Tae the Mill2:09 14The Moving on Song3:24 15Nobody Knew She Was There3:55 16Looking for a Job5:20 17Kilroy Was Here3:39 18The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face2:27 19The Foggy Dew3:51 20The Joy of Living4:41 | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1993 | The Real MacCollSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:00:141Ye Jacobites by Name1:49 2Johnny Cope2:39 3Cam Ye O'Er Fra France2:13 4Haughs O'Cromdale2:50 5Such a Parcel O'Rogues in a Nation2:51 6Farewell to Sicily2:45 7Derek Bentley3:11 8Johnny O'Breadiesley4:13 9Go Down Ye Murderers3:27 10Van Diemen's Land5:35 11Minorie3:07 12Sheep Crook and Black Dog2:35 13The Bramble Briar4:18 14One Night as I Lay on My Bed2:04 15The Grey Cock4:18 16The Blantyre Explosion2:37 17The Gresford Disaster2:26 18Four Loom Weaver2:57 19Song of the Iron Road3:16 20Dirty Old Town1:03 | Compilation | 1993 | |
| 1994 | Scottish Drinking and Pipe SongsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 25 tracks · 1:11:311Bagpipe Pipe Tunes: Hail Ro Ruadh Waternish; Daldownie's Reel; The Spider in the gaff; Slow Gaelic Air4:14 2I'm a Young Bonnie Lassie1:16 3Never Wed an Old Man1:43 4He Widna Wint His Gruel2:29 5My Rovin' Eye1:38 6Jack MacGraw2:35 7My Son David2:39 8Johnny O'Braides-Lee1:40 9MacPherson's Lament6:41 10Lament for William Chisholm2:32 11Blue Bonnets Over the Border1:29 12Three Waulking Songs and a Song for Finishing the Cloth4:25 13Gentle Lady1:40 14Soldier's Song2:12 15Mouth Music1:28 16The Sister's Lament2:11 17Song of the Thrush0:44 18Dandling Spinnish and Waulking Songs7:05 19Pipe Limitations2:28 20Johnny Lad2:32 21The False Lover Won Back5:01 22Aikendrum2:04 23The Gairdener Chyld4:42 24Tha Maid Gaed to the Mill1:58 25The Elfin Knight4:05 | Compilation | 1994 | |
| 1995 | The Legend of Ewan MacCollSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 58:381Dirty Old Town2:55 2The Manchester Rambler4:43 3The Foggy Dew3:50 4My Old Man3:31 5Ballad of Accounting2:44 6The Gresford Disaster2:23 7The Press Gang1:58 8Cam’ Ye O’er From France?2:15 9Derek Bentley3:11 10Moving-on Song3:23 11The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face2:26 12The Joy of Living4:42 13The Grocer4:21 14The Shoals of Herring3:56 15Kilroy Was Here3:38 16The Wark of the Weavers3:16 17Jimmy Wilson3:30 18The Bonny Moorhen1:56 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 1996 | Folk on 2Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 1:02:501Thirty Foot Trailer3:22 2The Shoals of Herring4:21 3The Fish Gutters Song1:55 4The First Time Ever2:30 5White Wind18:47 6The Berry Fields of Blair1:53 7Going to the West3:04 8The Invader3:55 9My Old Man4:23 10Spinning Wheel3:46 11Joy of Living5:29 12Interview (Ewan MacColl in conversation with Jim Lloyd)9:25 | Compilation | 1996 | |
| 1998 | AntiquitiesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 29 tracks · 1:40:14Disc 1 1First Time Ever I Saw Your Face2:27 2My Old Man3:30 3The Grocer4:22 4Cam Ye O’er Frae France1:57 5Kilroy Was Here3:37 6Just the Tax for Me0:50 7Ballad of Accounting2:44 8Nuclear Means Jobs4:17 9The Foggy Dew3:49 10Looking for a Job5:20 11Not Going to Give It Back2:34 12Ring the Summer Home10:16 13Moving on Song3:22 14Highland Muster Roll2:02 15Sheath and Knife6:21 16We Remember1:55 Disc 21The Manchester Rambler4:45 2Economic Miracle2:47 3The Island4:52 4Maggie Went Green1:07 5The Shoals of Herring3:55 6The Maid Gaed Tae the Mill2:08 7The Press Gang1:56 8House Hungry Blues2:40 9Dracumag3:13 10The Driver’s Song2:11 11Sellafield Child3:11 12Rogues Gallery3:25 13The Joy of Living4:41 | Compilation | 24 August 1998 | |
| 2003 | The Definitive CollectionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:05:371The Manchester Angel3:18 2To the Beggin’ I Will Go2:37 3Sheepcrook and Black Dog2:34 4Fourpence a Day1:18 5Oh Dear Me1:20 6The Collier Laddie5:28 7The Carlton Weaver2:16 8Morrisey and the Russian Salior3:53 9Turpin Hero2:42 10Jimmy Wilson3:31 11The Black Velvet Band4:02 12Hughie the Greame4:44 13The Baron o’ Brackley5:08 14Whae’s Me for Prince Charlie3:59 15The Sheepstealer1:40 16Farewell to Sicily2:44 17The Young Trooper Cut Down in His Prime4:27 18The Press Gang1:58 19The Sweet Kumadie4:26 20Homeward Bound3:32 | Compilation | 2003 | |
| 2009 | Ballads: Murder Intrigue Love DiscordSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 29 tracks · 2:20:00Disc 1 1The Cruel Mother6:43 2Johnnie o’ Breadisley4:13 3Lang Johnnie More5:43 4Jock the Leg3:23 5Hughie the Graeme5:05 6The Douglas Tragedy5:24 7The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow3:03 8Captain Ward and the Rainbow2:00 9Clyde’s Water8:16 10The Crafty Farmer4:20 11Lord Gregory4:58 12Gil Morice8:40 13My Son David3:09 14The Battle of Harlaw3:29 15The Bonnie Hoose o’ Airlie5:38 Disc 21The Rantin’ Laddie3:59 2The Earle of Aboyne5:06 3The Cooper o’ Fife1:30 4Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship10:14 5The Jolly Beggar2:49 6The Beggar Laddie5:13 7Our Goodman3:13 8The Laird o’ Drum5:26 9The Broomfield Hill2:40 10Get Up and Bar the Door3:52 11Hind Horn10:58 12The Trooper and the Maid4:31 13Amang the Blue Flowers and the Yellow2:22 14The Keach in the Creel4:03 | Compilation | 2009 | |
| 2013 | Turpin HeroSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 47:501Let No Man Steal1:39 2Rattlin' Roarin' Willie3:56 3Galloway Tam4:18 4Ivor2:16 5The American Stranger0:50 6She's Fair And Fause3:38 7Jumpin' John2:09 8Still I Love Him2:00 9Gilderoy0:49 10Bill Brown0:50 11The Black Velvet Band2:01 12Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie?3:07 13Wha'll Mow Me Now1:52 14Geordie2:14 15Go Down Ye Murderers3:27 16Duncan Gray2:11 17Whistle, Daughter Wistle3:30 18Turpin Hero1:03 19Once I Had A True Love3:26 20Hard Case2:34 | Compilation | 2013 | |
| 2013 | The Dusty MillerSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 48:591Whiskey in the Jar2:00 2O That I Had Ne'er Been Married1:31 3Spence Broughton3:48 4Maid on the Shore3:10 5Dusty Miller0:46 6Van Dieman's Land4:58 7Landlady, Count the Lawin1:17 8Superintendent Barratt1:25 9My Bonny Miner Lad1:36 10Tibbie Dunbar0:59 11Banks of Royal Canal3:12 12Waters of Thyme1:21 13To Daunton Me2:45 14Bobby Shaftoe1:22 15Treadmill Song3:25 16A Braw Wooer2:30 17Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh4:05 18Bonnie Banks of Airdrie4:33 19Buy Broom Besoms1:04 20Ballard of Bentley and Craig3:12 | Compilation | 13 March 2013 | |
| 2014 | Backup the Best of Ewan MaccollSearch SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 23 May 2014 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Ewan MacColl head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 99 | 97.9th |
| Studio albums | 83 | 99.7th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 83 | 99.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 34 | 72.8th |
| Genres | 14 | 98.6th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Grammy Awards | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ewan_MacColl_1981-1982_%28cropped%29.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacCollbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacColl
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Image: Seattle Folklore Society · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1192339 · MusicBrainz: f8c01287-6bff-4e63-b570-2a61c24e64d6
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