Roberts and Barrand

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Roberts and Barrand
Also known asJohn Roberts and Tony Barrand
OriginCornell University
GenresTraditional folk music
Years active1969—
LabelsGolden Hind Music
Associated actsNowell Sing We Clear
John Roberts
WebsiteRoberts and Barrand

Roberts and Barrand is a musical group formed in 1969 by John Roberts and Tony Barrand while they were graduate students in psychology at Cornell University. Much of their repertoire is traditional English music, although they have also recorded albums of traditional sea shanties.

The duo are also members of the four-man act Nowell Sing We Clear.

Discography[]

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well... (1971, 2001)[]

Traditional English Ballads and Songs

  1. "Spencer the Rover"
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  6. "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter"
  7. "Silicosis"
  8. "The Coachman"
  9. "The Lincolnshire Poacher"
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  17. "Thyme"

Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)[]

Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets

  1. Introduction
  2. "New York Girls"
  3. Captain Samuels on his sailors
  4. "Blow the Man Down"
  5. Impressions of a first voyage
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  9. The wreck of the Staffordshire
  10. "The Flying Dutchman"
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  13. Immigration conditions
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  15. Perils of transatlantic dalliance
  16. "Maggie May"
  17. "Peter Street"
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Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)[]

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  3. "Barbara Allen"
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  8. "The Albatross"
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  13. "Albert and the Lion"
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Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)[]

Ballads of the Supernatural, with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff

  1. ""
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  3. "The Wife of Usher's Well"
  4. "Tom of Bedlam"
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  6. "The Foggy Dew"
  7. "The Derby Ram"
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  9. "Reynardine"
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  11. "Polly Vaughn"
  12. "The Two Magicians"

Live at Holsteins! (1983)[]

Eat Bertha's Mussels

  1. "John Barleycorn"
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  3. "Garners Gay"
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  8. "Boozing"
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  12. "The Barley Mow"

An Evening at the English Music Hall (1984)[]

with Maggi Pierce, David Jones, Andy Barrand, Louis Killen, and Murray Callahan

Recorded Live at the Troy Music Hall, Troy, New York, 1974

  1. "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
  2. "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
  3. "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
  4. "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
  5. "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
  6. "Last Neet" (Lou Killen)
  7. "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
  8. "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
  9. "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
  10. "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)

A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)[]

A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs

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  4. "A Smuggler's Song"
  5. "The Three Butchers"
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  9. "The Outlandish Knight"
  10. "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford"
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  12. "Sam Hall"
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  14. Great War Trilogy:
    • "The Valley of the Shadow"
    • "The Old Barbed Wire"
    • Long, Long Trail"

Naulakha Redux (1997)[]

Songs of Rudyard Kipling

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  2. "Tommy"
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  4. "The Land"
  5. "Philadelphia"
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  7. "Mandalay"
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  15. "Danny Deever"
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Heartoutbursts (1998)[]

English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger

  1. "Brigg Fair"
  2. "Seventeen Come Sunday"
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  6. "Rufford Park Poachers"
  7. "Lord Bateman"
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  13. "Horkstow Grange"
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  15. "William Taylor"
  16. "Lord Melbourne"
  17. "Lisbon"
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Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)[]

Live in Concert

  • "Anchor Song"
  • "The Golden Vanity"
  • "High Barbary"
  • "Jonah and the Grampus"
  • "A Pilgrim¹s Way"
  • "Old Bangum"
  • "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
  • "Two Foxes"
  • "All Through The Ale"
  • "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"
  • "Nell"
  • "The Nutting Girl"
  • "Claudy Banks"
  • "The Week Before Easter"
  • "The Cockerham Devil"
  • "Row on"

As featured performers in an anthology[]

  • Pleasant and Delightful, Vol 2 – Living Folk (1972)
  • Songs and Sounds of the Sea – National Geographic Society (1973)
  • Clearwater – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1974)
  • The Audience Pleased – Oberlin College (1976)
  • Clearwater II – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1977)
  • Champlain Valley Festival Highlights – Champlain Valley Festival (1990)
  • Homeward Bound – Revels (2002)

External links[]

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