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Artist: Eliza Pace
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1937
Lomax recording in Hyden, KY (mis-identified as In Bridgewater Town; real title: The Cruel Brothers). Eliza had been visited by Cecil Sharp (in 1917) for her broad range of folk repertoire, while making her own brand of moonshine on the side. Roud #18 (also as Bruton Town).
Covers:
A.L. Lloyd [on Riverside anthology Great British Ballads Not Included In The Child Collection]
Alex Campbell [as Bruton Town]
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick [as Bruton Town]
Pentangle [idem]
Tim Hart & Maddy Prior [idem]
Carolyne Hughes [Peter Kennedy recording in Dorset]
Anne Briggs [as Bruton Town; outtake from the sessions for her Topic debut album, reissued in '24]
Sandy Denny [idemn; BBC recording released in '86 on Who Knows Where The Time Goes]
Nelson Ridley [Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger recording in Kent]
Martin Simpson [title track cd]
Bellowhead [as Bruton Town]
Same theme (head of the family objecting against wedding plans) was copied from similar scenes in Boccaccio's Decamerone (14th century), in Hans Sachs' Der Ermordete Lorens (16th century) and in Keats' Isabella And The Pot Of Basil (19th century).
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)
Belgium