BONNY BLACK HARE

Created on 12/03/2002
Latest update on 04/07/2023

Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1966

With Dave Swarbrick; reissued on erotic folk cd The Bird In The Bush - Traditional Songs Of Love & Lust. Ex member of The Ramblers (with Ewan MacColl and Alan Lomax). Expert on English folksongs. Wrote Folk Song In England ('67) and worked for both the BBC and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Artistic Director of Topic Records (folklore & marxism).

Covers:

1967:

Martin Carthy [also with Dave Swarbrick]

1970:

Fairport Convention [also with Dave Swarbrick]

2006:

Steeleye Span

Widow Of Westmoreland's Daughter, Tam-lin and Jack Orion (Child ballad Glasgerion) are three other Lloyd songs Fairport learned through Swarbrick.

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