Various Artists: You Never Heard So Sweet – review

(Topic)Fourteen years ago, Topic Records released a 20-volume series of traditional songs from across Britain and Ireland, recognised today as a classic folk anthology. Now there are four new titles in the Voice of the People collection, ranging from a set devoted to Irish singer Sarah Makem to an album of Gypsy music, and You Never Heard So Sweet, compiling traditional singers from the south of England. These are not slick studio sets, but unaccompanied recordings – mostly from the 1950s and ...

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