Artist	Song
Fairport Convention	Sloth
from Meet On the Ledge - The Classic Years (1967-1975) (1999)
The Poozies	Company of Women
from Raise Your Head (A Retrospective) (2000)
Ian Matthews	Seven Bridges Road
from Valley Hi (2005)
Jez Lowe	A Call for the North Country
from Bede Weeps (2006)
Shooglenifty	Scraping the Barrel
from The Arms Dealer's Daughter (2003)
Fotheringay	The Sea
from No More Sad Refrains - The Anthology (2000)
A.L. Lloyd	The Weary Whaling Grounds
from Leviathan! - Ballads & Songs of the Wailing Trade (1998)
The Men They Couldn't Hang	Smugglers
from Waiting for Bonaparte (2007)
The Unthanks	The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
from Here’s the Tender Coming (2010)
Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey	School Taught Me / The Streets of London
from Songs of Life from a Dying British Empire (1981)
Archie Fisher	Yonder Banks / The Shipyard Apprentice
from Sunsets I've Galloped Into.... (1996)
Maddy Prior	Winnifer Odd
from Shining Bright: The Songs of Lal & Mike Waterson (2002)
Oliver Knight	Evona
from Mysterious Day (2002)
John Tams	Who Will Blow the Candle Out Tonight
from Unity (2000)
The Copper Family	Spencer the Rover (Bob & Ron)
from Come Write Me Down: Early Recordings of the Copper Family of Rottingdean (2001)
Billy Pigg	Wild Hills O'Wannie
from The Northumbrian Small Pipes (1996)
Peter Bellamy	Fair Annie
from Fair Annie & Peter Bellamy (2004)
Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle	Here's to Tom Paine
from All Under the Sun (1996)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset	Blackbird
from The Bairns (2008)
Steve Ashley	Ships of Shame
from Time and Tide (2007)
Brass Monkey	The Handweaver and the Factory Maid
from The Complete Brass Monkey (1993)
Mary Ann Carolan	In London So Fair
from Voice of the People 02: My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean - Songs of Tempest & Sea Battles, Sailor Lads & Fishermen (1997)
Tim Van Eyken & Robert Harbron	Sussex Waltz
from One Sunday Afternoon (2009)
Paddy Tunney	The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow
from Voice of the People 06: Tonight I'll Make You My Bride - Ballads of True & False Lovers (1997)

Comment:

If you think former Fairport vocalist Ian Matthews ripped off the Eagles in his version of "Seven Bridges Road," you've got it backwards; this version predates the Eagles' by [i]seven years[/i]. Two of Brit folk's finest players, guitarist Richard Thompson and fiddler Dave Swarbrick, spur each other to a near meltdown in a song they cowrote, Fairport Convention's epic "Sloth." Steve Tilston and ex-wife Maggie Boyle wrap an American history lesson around four chords and honeyed harmonies in "Here's to Tom Paine." And we close out our tour through the ancestral home of bangers and mash with a tune far more inviting than the island's cuisine — occasional Albion Band member John Tams' "Who Will Blow the Candle Out Tonight."

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