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The English Concertina
1976
In Come a Bumblebee: Traditional Songs and Tunes on English Concertina
Richard Carlin
1977
The Poppy Leaf: English Concertina Tunes
Richard Carlin
1978
Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance and Square Dance Music of New Hampshire
1999
Deeper Polka: More Dance Music from the Midwest
2002
We'll Rant and We'll Roar: Songs of Newfoundland
Alan Mills
1958
South Jersey Band
South Jersey Band
1957
Folkways Record of Contemporary Songs
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1973
Broadside Ballads (London: 1600-1700) Vol. 2: Female Frollicks and Politicke
Ewan MacColl
1962
Working My Life Away
Magpie
1983
Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas
1997
Live at the Dunham Inn
Magpie
1978
Songs of Sea and Shore
Stuart M. Frank
1980
Different Therefore Equal
Peggy Seeger
1979
Saturday Night at the Bull and Mouth
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1978
Broadside Ballads (London: 1600-1700)
Ewan MacColl
1962
Civil War Naval Songs
Dan Milner, David Coffin, Jeff Davis
2011
The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (May 1982, Vol.1, No. 4): The Political Song Revisited
1982
Fair Winds and a Following Sea
The Boarding Party
1987
Bothy Ballads of Scotland
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
1961
Traditional Songs and Ballads
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
1964
Sea Songs
Louis Killen, Stan Hugill and the X Seamen's Institute
1979
Songs of the Sea: The National Maritime Museum Festival of the Sea: San Francisco, 1979
1980
Bahamian Rake-n-Scrape
Ophie and Da Websites, Bo Hog and Da Rooters
2016
Five Days Singing, Vol. 2
The New Golden Ring
1971
The Man with a Rhyme
Archie Fisher
1976
'Twas On a Night Like This (A Christmas Legacy)
Barton, Para, Paton
1989
Al Tocar Diana: At Break of Dawn: Songs from a Franco Prison
Max Parker
1982
Hot Blast: Contemporary Songs
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1978
Sea Chanties and Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport
Stuart M. Frank, Stuart Gillespie, Ellen Cohn
1978
Salt Atlantic Chanties
Tom Sullivan
1980
A Living Tradition: Selections from Folk-Legacy Records
2019
Deep Polka: Dance Music from the Midwest
1998
Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea
Dan Milner with Guest Artists
2009
Together Again For the First Time
Gordon Bok and Bob Zentz
2017
Rose and Crown
Ian Robb
1985
England's Vietnam: Irish Songs of Resistance
The Men of No Property
1977
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (February 1986, Vol. 3, No. 2)
1986
Classic Maritime Music From Smithsonian Folkways
2004
The Social Power of Music
2019
Ian Robb and Hang the Piper
Ian Robb and Hang the Piper
1979
Tis Our Sailing Time
The Boarding Party
1983
Legacies
Lisa Null
2015
On Deck and Below: The Irish at Sea
Tom Sullivan
1979
By Land or by Sea
Morrigan
1980
Life's Trolley Ride
Jonathan Eberhart
1981
Worth All the Telling
Larry Kaplan
1993
Irish Music from Cleveland
Tom Byrne and Tom McCaffrey
1977
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The History of the Crabb Concertina Firm
Harry Crabb
1976
The Battering Ram / The Concertina Reel / Kiley's Reel
Rodney Miller's New England Dance Band
1999
Laughing Concertina
Brian and the Mississippi Valley Dutchmen
2002
Concerning One Summer In Bonay I Spent
Alan Mills
1958
L'Arlesienne Suite de Concert No. 1
South Jersey Band
1957
The Shellback Song
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1973
The Laird of Drumblair / Speed the Plough
Richard Carlin
1978
A King and No King
Ewan MacColl
1962
Polly Perkins of Paddington's Green
Richard Carlin
1977
The Minstrel Medley
Richard Carlin
1978
The Globetrotter / The Banks
Richard Carlin
1978
The Cuckoo's Nest
Richard Carlin
1977
Jamie Allen
Richard Carlin
1977
Monk's March / Black Nag / First Night in Leadville
Richard Carlin
1978
Brooklyn Lasses / The Curragh Races
Richard Carlin
1978
Chemical Worker's Song
Magpie
1983
The Hunt / The Blackbird
Richard Carlin
1977
Rocky Road to Dublin / The Foxhunter's Jig
Richard Carlin
1977
Clams in the Morning / Trip to Sligo
Richard Carlin
1978
Michael Kennedy's (The Duke of Leinster)
Richard Carlin
1978
Eagle Island Blues: Athapaskan Love Song
Bill Stevens, Frances Williams, and Lisa Jaeger
1997
Sally in the Garden
Richard Carlin
1977
The Poppy Leaf / The Derry
Richard Carlin
1978
City of Savannah
Magpie
1978
In Come a Bumblebee
Richard Carlin
1977
Rambling Sailor
Stuart M. Frank
1980
She's Like a Swallow
Stuart M. Frank
1980
Rattling Roaring Willie
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1978
I'm a Rover
Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl
1978
Band of Shearers
Richard Carlin
1977
O Good Ale
Richard Carlin
1977
Come Upstairs with Me / The Wig
Richard Carlin
1978
What Do You Do All Day?
Peggy Seeger
1979
The Golden Keyboard
Richard Carlin
1978
King Lear and His Three Daughters
Ewan MacColl
1962
The Star of County Down
Richard Carlin
1977
Epping Forest
Richard Carlin
1978
Murphy's Hornpipe
Richard Carlin
1978
There's Nothing to Be Had Without Money
Ewan MacColl
1962
West Fork Gals / Staten Island / Rose Tree
Richard Carlin
1977
Tattered Jack Walsh / Dublin / My Darling Asleep
Richard Carlin
1978
Sheebeg Sheemore
Richard Carlin
1977
Morpeth Rant
Richard Carlin
1978
The Blockade Runner
Dan Milner, Bob Conroy, Arthur Garnett, Harry Lowrey
2011
Lament
Richard Carlin
1977
London Mourning in Ashes
Ewan MacColl
1962
The Blarney Pilgrim
Magpie
1978
Mill o' Tifty's Annie
Richard Carlin
1977
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UNESCO’s World of Music | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
2015
The Jew's Harp: Vibrating Through Many Cultures
2010
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