The Owl Service have compiled a great folk music mix covering the likes of Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins & Davy Graham, Lal & Mike Waterson and lots more. Listen to it below:
Tracklisting
01 – Anne Briggs – Polly Vaughan
02 – The Albion Band – I Was a Young Man
03 – Shirley Collins & Davy Graham – Proud Maisrie
04 – Lal & Mike Waterson – Fine Horseman
05 – Chris Foster – The Grey Cock
06 – Shirley Collins – Bonny Boy
07 – Steve Ashley – Fire & Wine
08 – The Young Tradition – A Lyke Wake Dirge
09 – Anne Briggs – Willie O’Winsbury
10 – Andrew King – The Week Before Easter
11 – Michael Raven & Joan Mills – Katie Cruel
12 – The Young Tradition – The Loyal Lover
13 – Peter Bellamy – Henry VII & the Shipwrights
14 – The Watersons – The North Country Maid
15 – Martin Carthy – Polly on the Shore
16 – Bandoggs – Ladies Don’t Go Thieving
17 – Derek & Dorothy Elliott – Maria Marten
18 – Anne Briggs – The Snow it Melts the Soonest
19 – Steeleye Span – The Bold Poachers
20 – Shirley & Dolly Collins – The Gower Wassail
21 – Mike Waterson – Sorry the Day I Was Married
22 – Anne Briggs – Go Your Way
23 – Fotheringay – The Banks of the Nile
24 – Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick – The Two Magicians
25 – Dave & Toni Arthur – The Cruel Mother
26 – The Young Tradition – The Rolling of the Stones
27 – Silver Birch – A Lyke Wake Dirge
28 – Sweeney’s Men – Standing on the Shore
29 – Shirley & Dolly Collins – When a Man’s in Love
30 – Anne Briggs – In Thorneymoor Woods
31 – Michael Raven & Joan Mills – Ladies Don’t Go Thieving
32 – Anne Briggs – Fine Horseman
33 – The Young Tradition – The Banks of the Nile
34 – Mike Waterson – The Bitter Withy
35 – Shirley Collins – Turpin Hero
36 – The Pentangle – A Lyke Wake Dirge
37 – Shirley & Dolly Collins – Polly on the Shore
In other news: Stone Tape Recordings are going to be re-pressing the Owl Service anthology ‘She Wants to be Flowers, But You Make Her Owls’. As with the first pressing it will come as a single data DVD containing everything the Owls ever released, plus artwork files and the complete video footage of our Rough Trade East instore performance from 2010. The packaging will be some kind of CD-sized version of the original release.

