The Cecil Sharp Songs

by Ratatosk

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1.	Cold Blows the Wind (The Unquiet Grave) 04:12	buy track
2.	Barbara Allen 06:25	buy track
3.	The True Lover's Farewell 02:41	buy track
4.	The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (Pretty Polly) 05:27	buy track
5.	The Warfare is Raging 04:49	buy track
6.	The Brisk Young Lover 07:08	buy track

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In around 2007, I began adapting and arranging traditional songs that had been documented by Cecil Sharp in 'English folk songs from the southern Appalachians'.

These are the recordings I did at the time in all their badly recorded glory.

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released March 18, 2014

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Ratatosk Aberdare, UK

Sad songs sung sadly.

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