CLAUDY BANKS
Created on 10/11/2025Latest update on 08/05/2026
Artist: Frederick White
Author: traditional
Label: EFDSS
Year: 1909
Cylinder recording, probably by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Roud #266. Broken-token-ballad, released on A Century Of Song ('98). Cecil Sharp collected a version on Joanne Slade from Minehead, Somerset in 1904. Claudy (Clóidich) is a place in County Londonderry, so this ballad may have Irish roots.
Covers:
- 1955:
George Maynard [Peter Kennedy recording, released in '76 onTopic LPlp Ye Subjects Of England as The Banks Of Claudy]
- 1960:
Copper Family [Peter Kennedy recording at Cecil Sharp House and released on A Century Of Song along with the (o); one of the Coppers most famous family jewels]
- 1960:
Bob Copper & Ron Copper [idem on LPp A Pinch Of Salt - British Sea Songs, Old & New (Topic - '00)]
- 1964:
Joe Heaney [idem on LP The Road From Connemara - Songs and Stories Told and Sung to Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (Topic - '00)]
- 1966:
Alex Campbell [idem]
- 1971:
Shirley Collins [with The Albion Country Band]
- 1971:
Martyn Wyndham-Read [idem]
- 1985:
Loreena McKennitt [on LP Elemental as The Banks Of Claudy]
- 1996:
Waterson:Carthy [vocal: Eliza Carthy]
