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Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World

Paul Clayton
Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World Here, singer and collector Paul Clayton performs fifteen texts collected in The Viking Book of Folk Ballads, including historical ballads to songs about tabloid crime. Rather than reproducing previous traditional singers' performances exactly, Clayton himself enters the "folk process" by combining texts and melodies from different versions of each ballad.

Track Listing

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101
Paul Clayton
01:49
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102
Paul Clayton
03:34
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103
Paul Clayton
01:36
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104
Paul Clayton
02:23
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105
Paul Clayton
02:30
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106
Paul Clayton
05:03
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107
Paul Clayton
02:44
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108
Paul Clayton
06:04
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201
Paul Clayton
01:25
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202
Paul Clayton
02:36
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203
Paul Clayton
02:00
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204
Paul Clayton
04:21
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205
Paul Clayton
03:24
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206
Paul Clayton
02:53
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207
Paul Clayton
06:55