STRAYAWAY CHILD, THE

Created on 08/08/2002
Latest update on 09/04/2021

Artist: Michael Gorman
Author: Margaret Barry
Label: Rounder
Year: 1950

Margaret's fiddle player recorded by Peter Kennedy.

Covers:

1953:

Margaret Barry [Lomax recording of an elder, a cappella Margaret, no longer able to accompany herself on banjo]

1965:

Michael Gorman & Margaret Barry [Barbara Dane recording in medley with The Lark In The Morning]

1972:

Kevin Burke [pre The Bothy Band]

1977:

Bothy Band [as The Strayaway Girl and credited to Michael Gorman; also cut Margaret Barry's The Factory Girl]

1989:

Chieftains

2019:

Rapalje

Resembles fiddle tune Bannish Misfortune, recorded by Ed Cronin on cylinder around 1904.

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