Hermes Nye - Anglo-American Ballads [CD] USA import

Folkways Records

Hermes Nye - Anglo-American Ballads [CD]

Artist: Hermes Nye

Title: Anglo-American Ballads

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070203723

Genre: Folk

Album Tracks

1. Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day
2. A North Country Maid
3. King Arthur Had Three Sons
4. Earl Richard
5. Greenland Whale Fisheries
6. Earl of Murray
7. John Peel
8. The Mermaid (Landlubber)
9. The Red Herring
10. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington

Sung on record and described in liner notes with Hermes Nye's characteristic down-home humor, Anglo-American ballads on this album come from a variety of sources, from an Elizabethan torch song in Shakespeare's Hamlet to a version of "John Peel" taken from a Girl Scout songbook!