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1999
The Ballad Of John Axon
Topic TSCD 801
Song Of A Road
Topic TSCD 802
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
Ewan MacColl
Shuttle & Cage
1957
Topic
10T13
10-inch LP
Tracks:
1. The Wark of the Weavers
(appears on other albums)
2. The Blantyre Explosion
(appears on other albums)
3. Moses of the Mail
(appears on other albums)
4. Fourpence a Day
(appears on other albums)
5. Champion at Keeping 'em Rolling
(appears on other albums)
6. The Four Loom Weavers
(appears on other albums)
7. The Plodder Seam
8. Cosher Bailey's Engine
(appears on other albums)
9. The Gresford Disaster
(appears on other albums)
10. Cannily, Cannily
(appears on other albums)
11. The Coal-owner and the Pitman's Wife
(appears on other albums)
12. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
(appears on other albums)
Related recordings:
Fourpence a Day: British Industrial Folk Songs (Stinson Records SLP 79)
Second Shift (Topic 10T25)
Steam Whistle Ballads (Topic 12T104)