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The Best of A.L. Lloyd
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The Best of A.L. Lloyd Prestige/International INT 13066 (LP, USA, 196x) |
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Today, an album with this title would be a compilation with tracks from the singer's previous albums. This one, however, actually has all new recordings, with some of the songs on no other of Lloyd's albums.
Recorded by Saga Studios, London
Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein
Musicians
A.L. Lloyd, vocals;
Alf Edwards, concertina [1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14]
Tracks
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Review
This review is from Gramophone, May 1967:
A.L. Lloyd has been described as “the father confessor of the British Folk Revival”. If you listen to the songs and read the sleeve-note on The Best of A. L. Lloyd (Transatlantic XTRA 5023) you will understand why young folk singers who want to know the facts about a song—not only the words and music, but the history behind it—are likelier to turn to A. L. Lloyd than anybody else. The 14 songs he sings are all traditional and English (well, some of the tunes are Irish) and include The Farm Servant, Tigery Orum, Fanny Blair (an unusual song about a perjured nymphet which might have come straight out of The News of the World), The Molecatcher, and a version of Walker Shore and Byker Hill in the unusual “additive 9/8” time which sometimes turns up in the dancing tunes of the North East. With Alf Edwards on the concertina on some tracks but not all, this is probably the best buy of the month.