♪♫ Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town

I recently finished reading Rob Young's Electric Eden (an excellent history of folk music in the UK), and came across MacColl and Charles Parker's Radio Ballads for the first time. You can watch Philip Donnellan's interpretation of three of them HERE

Cry From The Cut (BBC Radio 1962)

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♪♫ Andrew Weatherall - Live @Chinwag (Outlaws Yacht Club 13/6/13)

Chinwag is an evening of conversation and music run by Chris Madden and the good people at Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds. Recently we were lucky to have an enlightening chat with Andrew Weatherall followed by a set on the turntables playing a selection of dub, rockabilly and rock n roll.
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