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Harry Cox
Portraits: Harry Cox
Genres: Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (46) - Disc #1
1. What Will Become Of England?
2. My Life
3. A-Going To Widdliecombe Fair
4. Working In A Gang
5. The Spotted Cow
6. Barton Waltz
7. The Harvest
8. The Barley Straw
9. The Farmer's Servant
10. The Pretty Ploughboy
11. My Grandfather And My Father
12. Jack Tar On Shore
13. Two Hornpipes: Yarmouth And Meg Merilees
14. On Board Of The Kangaroo
15. Young And Growing
16. My Mother
17. My Upbringing
18. The Foggy Dew
19. Hunger And Pay
20. Three Toasts
21. Nelson's Monument
22. I Used To Go Along Of Him
23. Barton Broad Babbing Ballad
24. Babbing For Eels
25. Talk And Melodeon Pieces
26. Singing In Public Houses
27. Charming And Delightful
28. The Old Songs
29. On Yon Lofty Mountain
30. Learning From My Father
31. She Never Had To Sit Down
32. The Turkish Lady
33. Poaching
34. Henry The Poacher
35. Windy Old Weather
36. My Father At Sea
37. Sweet William
38. How My Father Learned Songs
39. The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song
40. The Crocodile
41. The Soldier And Sailor's Prayer
42. London Is As Sharp As the Edge Of A Knife
43. Up To The Rigs Of London Town
44. Up To The Present I Ain't Forgot Anything Yet
45. Blackberry Fold
46. Adieu To Old Eng-E-Land, Here's Adieu

CD Details

All Artists: Harry Cox
Title: Portraits: Harry Cox
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder Select
Original Release Date: 2/15/2000
Release Date: 2/15/2000
Genres: Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Traditional Blues, Traditional Folk, British & Celtic Folk, Celtic, Europe, Britain & Ireland
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 011661183926, 011661183926

CD Reviews

Brilliant English Folk Music

Jay Immel | Otley, Iowa United States | 12/26/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Harry Cox (1885-1971) was one of the twentieth century's finest interpreters of traditional English folk music. In 1953, archivists Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy interviewed Cox and taped him performing over two dozen songs. "What Will Become of England?" is a marvelous anthology of these recordings. In the interviews the album includes, Cox engagingly discussed his childhood, his life as a farm laborer in Norfolk, and his musical repertoire. The songs in the anthology feature his powerful unaccompanied vocals. The album includes ribald tales ("The Farmer's Servant") and tender love songs ("The Spotted Cow"). Cox also sang about fishing ("Barton Broad Babbling Ballad") and sailing ("The Yarmouth Fisherman's Song"). Regardless of the subject matter, all of the music is excellent. "What Will Become of England?" wonderfully chronicles the life and singing of an English legend."