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Artist: Fairport Convention
Author: traditional
Label: Trailer
Year: 1969
Child ballad #39. Roud #35. Classic elfland ballad first mentioned in The Complaynt Of Scotland (1549). Words since 1769. For John Peel (Top Gear), reissued on the Fairport Unconventional box set and as bonus track on the 2002 edition Heyday. In 1970 on Liege & Lief (Island). In '56 Hamish Henderson collected two field recordings of Tam Lin, one in Glasgow, the other in Aberdeen, both released in '75 on anthology The Muckle Songs - Scottish Tradition 5 but quiet different from Fairport's.
Covers:
Dave & Toni Arthur [on lp Hearken To The Witches Rune]
Anne Briggs [als Young Tambling]
Dave Swarbrick [live, out in '03]
A.L. Lloyd [the Fairports learned it from him, while he collected it from travelling people in Scotland; whenever Bert performed it live he always kept a few sets of the lyrics in his pocket, knowing there'd be requests for it soon as he finished (Swarbrick being one of them)]
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)