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1982
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
Song Of A Road
1999
Topic
TSCD 802
CD
Tracks:
1. Introduction (appears on other albums)
2. We Usually Finish The Shift In The Pub...
3. I Think It's The Soil...
4. We Are The Consulting Engineers...
5. We Were In A Great Rush When We Did This...
6. My Name Is...
7. During That Time, A Survey Has Been Made...
8. It Would Take Quite A Lot Of Men To Do The Job Of One Of Those Machines...
9. Come All You Gallant Drivers...
10. I'm A Roving Rambler...
11. Deep And Straight And Low...
12. Sixty Tons Of Steel...
13. What Made you Come Into This Game?
14. Just A Road...
15. Oh Well That's Just The Way It Is...
16. When The Muck Has All Been Shifted...
17. Bring Up Your Black Squad...
18. Been On The Road So Long...
19. You Can Talk About Your Concrete...
20. The Motorway Is On The Final Lap...
21. We Needed A Way Cut Through The Land...
Personnel:
Singers: Isla Cameron, John Clarence, Seamus Ennis, Lou Killen, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Jimmy MacGregor, Francis McPeake, Isabel Sutherland, Ciryl Tawney, William V. Thomas
John Armitage: drums
Jim Bray: double bass
John Chilton: trumpet
Fitzroy Coleman: guitar
Alf Edwards: concertina, ocarina
Francis McPeake: uillean pipes
Bob Mickleburgh: trombone
Peggy Seeger: banjo, autoharp
Bruce Turner: clarinet

A radio-ballad (no.2) about the building of the M1 motorway
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Topic TSCD 801)
Singing The Fishing (Topic TSCD 803)
The Big Hewer (Topic TSCD 804)
The Body Blow (Topic TSCD 805)
On The Edge (Topic TSCD 806)
The Fight Game (Topic TSCD 807)
The Travelling People (Topic TSCD 808)
Available from Topic Records