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Artist: Ewan MacColl
Author: Ewan MacColl
Label: BBC/Argo/Topic
Year: 1964
Written for The Travelling People (knive grinders, gypsies, nomads), last of a series of eight BBC radio documentaries (released in '68 on Argo) made by MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker. Rest of the series: one about railwaymen, highway workers, herring fishermen, the mines, polio patients, teenagers in England and witchcraft.
Covers:
Liam Clancy [as I'm A Freeborn Man]
Johnstons [n°1 IRE as Travelling People shortly before Mick Moloney and Paul Brady joined this family band]
Dubliners [idem]
Donovan [idem but shelved]
Davy Graham & Holly [as I'm A Freeborn Man]
Shanachie [as Travelling People]
Cherish The Ladies [as Freeborn Man Of The Travelling People]
North Sea Gas [idem]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)