KATY CRUEL
Created on 21/10/2020Latest update on 12/02/2024
Artist: Peggy Seeger
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1955
On Folk Songs Of Courting And Complaint. (Roud #1645) Appalachian variation on Scottish ballad The Light Bob's Lassie.
Covers:
- 1959:
Sandy Päton [as Katie Cruel for Elektra]
- 1962:
Jean Redpath [as The Light Bob's Lassie]
- 1964:
- 1964:
New Christy Minstrels [as Miss Katy Cruel]
- 1966:
- 1966:
Marie Laforêt [as Katy cruelle]
- 1971:
Karen Dalton [as Katie Cruel on In My Own Times]
- 1987:
Mary Black [as Leaboy's Lassie]
- 1992:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [as When I First Came To Town]
- 2005:
Bert Jansch [on The Black Swan, with Beth Orton and Devendra Banhart]
- 2007:
- 2008:
Robin Pecknold [Fleet Fox solo]
- 2010:
- 2011:
- 2019:
Richard Thompson [as The Light Bob's Lassie on Topic's 80th year anthology]
- 2019:
Lankum [as Katie Cruel, the Karen Dalton way]
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- 1955
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- 1955
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- 1955
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- 1962
- FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE, THE
- 2003
- HEADING FOR HOME
Covers from artist:
- 1950s
- POOR ELLEN SMITH
- 1951
- BRAVE WOLFE
- 1955
- BUTCHER'S BOY, THE
- 1955
- LONESOME ROAD, THE
- 1955
- LAZY FARMER BOY, A
- 1955
- I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN
- 1955
- MY HORSES AIN'T HUNGRY
- 1957
- SHADY GROVE MY DARLING
- 1957
- BLACK JACK DAVID
- 1957
- LADY GAY
- 1957
- DEVILISH MARY
- 1957
- LOWLAND SEA, THE
- 1957
- MAID ON THE SHORE, THE
- 1957
- FREIGHT TRAIN
- 1957
- HUSH-A-BYE
- 1958
- COME ALL YOU FAIR AND TENDER LADIES
- 1958
- TWO SISTERS, THE
- 1958
- RAGING SEA, HOW IT ROARS, THE
- 1958
- THREE BUTCHERS, THE
- 1958
- MARY ANN
- 1958
- FARMER'S CURST WIFE, THE
- 1958
- RAMBLING GAMBLER
- 1960
- HANDSOME MOLLY
- 1960
- BILLY BARLOW
- 1962
- EARLY, EARLY IN THE SPRING
- 1962
- WAYFARING STRANGER, THE
- 1962
- LOVER'S GHOST, THE
- 1962
- MARY HAMILTON
- 1962
- DEATH'S BLACK TRAIN IS COMING
- 1965
- NEVER WED AN OLD MAN
- 1965
- DARK EYED SAILOR, THE
- 1966
- BOLAKINS (LAMKIN)
- 1967
- THREE RAVENS
- 1967
- LITTLE MARGARET
- 1967
- FARE YOU WELL OLD JOE CLARK
- 1976
- LORD ABORE AND MARY FLYNN
- 1979
- I'M GONNA BE AN ENGINEER
- 1981
- NOBODY KNEW SHE WAS THERE
- 1984
- PRETTY SARO
- 1986
- REYNARDINE
- 1992
- OLD GREY MARE, THE
- 2003
- HENRY LEE
- 2003
- I AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW
- 2003
- DEAR COMPANION
- 2005
- LOVING HANNAH
- 2008
- MOLLY BAWN
