Transatlantic Folk Box Set (2005)

About this title: Influential British folk label Transatlantic is given the box treatment with Sanctuary's limited-edition Transatlantic Folk Box. While the three discs, focused mainly on the mid- to late '60s, compile enough proper British folk to score a Charles Dickens film adaptation, there's a veritable quarry of rock-infused selections that help make this sprawling 70-track collection notable. English stalwarts like Ralph McTell ("Streets of London"), the Young Tradition ("Chicken on a Raft"), and Bert Jansch ("Running from Home") are dutifully represented, but it's the inclusion of odder birds such as ... read more

Tracks:

1. The Patriot Game [Behan]
2. The Gardener [Traditional]
3. She Moved Through the Fair [Traditional/Colum]
4. Three Ravens [Traditional]
5. Rockin' the Cradle [Traditional]
6. Coming Down from Aldermaston [Carter/Hancock]
7. Night Visiting Song [Traditional]
8. Died for Love [Traditional]
9. Ballad of Lee Harvey Oswald [Harvey/Grimes]
10. Her Hair Did Not Hang Low [Campbell]
11. John Peel [Traditional]
12. Ballad of the Five Continents [Atterson/Causley]
13. The Big Bird [Woods]
14. Running from Home [Jansch]
15. White House Blues [Traditional]
16. Lucifer's Cage [Giltrap]
17. Little Sally Walker [Grossman]
18. The Lonesome Boatman [Furey]
19. John Barleycorn [Traditional]
20. Eternity Will Soon Be Over [McGinn]
21. Goodbye Booze [Traditional]
22. Open the Door Softly [Traditional/Boucica]
23. Dragonfly [Brierley]
24. A Most Peculiar Man [Simon]
25. You Gotta Go Down This Way [Bunting]
26. Streets of London [McTell]
27. Join Us in Our Game [Pegg]
28. Light Flight [Take Three Girls Theme] [Jansch/Renourn/McSh]
29. Both Sides Now [Mitchell]
30. Rick Rack [Rafferty]
31. Hall of Mirrors [McCullough/Woods/Mo]
32. Standing in the Rain [Carter]
33. I Loved Her So Long [Young]
34. Morning Glow [Durham/Bown]
35. Working Class Millionaire [Digance]
36. Song for Susan [Cartwright]
37. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie [Traditional/Burns]
38. We Can Swing Together [Hull]
39. One Man Band [Tilston]
40. Saturday Round About Sunday [Connolly]
41. It Suits Me Well [Denny]
42. Rubber Band [Waterson]
43. The Ploughboy's Dream [Traditional]
44. Don't Count Me Out [Rafferty]
45. Old Man [Newman]
46. Love in Ice Crystals [Oldfield]
47. Up to Now [Dransfield]
48. Targets [Andrews]
49. Journey's End [Bell/Coppin]
50. Open the Door [Collins]
51. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme [Traditional]
52. Stranger in the World [James]
53. The Circle Game [Mitchell]
54. Pretty Polly [Traditional]
55. Marcie [Mitchell]
56. Angie/Work Song [Graham/Adderley]
57. Chicken on a Raft [Tawney]
58. God Bless the Unemployed [Nicholson]
59. Kiss the Children Twice [Nicoll]
60. The Wild Rover [Traditional]
61. Henry Joy [Traditional]
62. My Love's in Germany [Traditional]
63. Starchild [Pegg/Strutt]
64. Morning Brings the Light [James]
65. Dreams for Me [Woods]
66. The Cutty Wren [Traditional/Wood]
67. England 1914 [McTell]
68. The Rules of the Game [Rosselson]
69. Time to Go Home [Bird]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.