AL Lloyd: An Evening with AL Lloyd | CD review

(Fellside Recordings)Along with Ewan MacColl, AL "Bert" Lloyd was arguably the most important figure in the British folk movement of 1950s and 60s. He was a fine singer, a song-collector and writer whose colourful career included work on an Australian sheep farm, editing the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs with his admirer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and helping the early careers of such folk celebrities as the Watersons, as artistic director of Topic Records. He recorded a series of albums (some...

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