Classic A.L. Lloyd
Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908- 29 September 1982), usually known as A. L. Lloyd or Bert Lloyd, was an English folk singer and collector of folk songs, and as such was a key figure in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
Bert Lloyd was a great father-figure to the aspiring folk-revivalists of the 60s. His albums are good – well chosen traditional songs sung with great conviction – he sang beautifully if not always in perfect pitch (who cares). He was a consummate performer and put great spirit into the songs he sang. He was recorded in Australia, (where he spent most of the years of his childhood) in America and England. There are probably over 100 albums that he has sung on.
Classic A.L. Lloyd is a generous seventy-six minute long covering his recording period with Topic Records.Here are the folk club favourites such as John Barleycorn, Farewell to Tarwathie and Sovay; the shanties "Roll and Down the Bay" and "Blood Red Roses" (which he sang in John Huston's film "Moby Dick"); Australian songs and whaling songs.
We hear Bert in different moods from the tender - "Foggy Dew", and "Weaver and the Factor Maid" - to the joyful amusement of "Short Jacket and White Trousers", and "Byker Hill". He approached the big ballads in the same way he sang the lesser songs not with awe and respect but as good stories worth telling, just listen to "Tam Lin" or the "Demon Lover" then tell me that the big ballads are boring.
The songs are accompanied in the main by the great Alf Edwards on concertina and by the young Dave Swarbrick on fiddle, the assortment of additional musicians and singers read like a folk revival hall of fame. Eleven of the tracks are unaccompanied.
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Bert Lloyd was a great father-figure to the aspiring folk-revivalists of the 60s. His albums are good – well chosen traditional songs sung with great conviction – he sang beautifully if not always in perfect pitch (who cares). He was a consummate performer and put great spirit into the songs he sang. He was recorded in Australia, (where he spent most of the years of his childhood) in America and England. There are probably over 100 albums that he has sung on.
Classic A.L. Lloyd is a generous seventy-six minute long covering his recording period with Topic Records.Here are the folk club favourites such as John Barleycorn, Farewell to Tarwathie and Sovay; the shanties "Roll and Down the Bay" and "Blood Red Roses" (which he sang in John Huston's film "Moby Dick"); Australian songs and whaling songs.
We hear Bert in different moods from the tender - "Foggy Dew", and "Weaver and the Factor Maid" - to the joyful amusement of "Short Jacket and White Trousers", and "Byker Hill". He approached the big ballads in the same way he sang the lesser songs not with awe and respect but as good stories worth telling, just listen to "Tam Lin" or the "Demon Lover" then tell me that the big ballads are boring.
The songs are accompanied in the main by the great Alf Edwards on concertina and by the young Dave Swarbrick on fiddle, the assortment of additional musicians and singers read like a folk revival hall of fame. Eleven of the tracks are unaccompanied.
http://lix.in/-4ba0d4
Enjoy the Master
Er ....... Bert Lloyd, a lovely man, and the perfect antidote to the grumpy Ewan McColl, was an AUSTRALIAN ......
inthealley said...
June 24, 2009 5:41 PM
I have loved him ever since I heard The Two Magicians, and Dave Swarb too. Thanks
The Irate Pirate said...
June 26, 2009 2:28 AM