Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick 'The Treadmill Song' Bewdley Festival 2013
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Channel: AaranAardvark · 2013 · Music
Performing as part of Bewley Festival at the Mercure Hotel on 18 October 2013. Unfortunately not the best seat in the house for image grabbing but it is an audience eye view of these two masters at work. Folk Against Fascism http://www.folkagainstfascism.com/about.html Gaol Song / Treadmill Song [ Roud 1077 ; Ballad Index FaE022 ; trad.] The Gaol Song was collected by H.E.W. Hammond from William Davy, Beaminster Workhouse, Dorset in June 1906. Davy's text was combined with a version of the song collected at the same time from Sam Gregory, who was also a resident in the Workhouse, with further changes made my A.L. Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams when they published it in 1959 in The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. For more details on William Davy's life and for specifics of editorial changes see Malcolm Douglas' reissue of this book (Classic English Folk Songs, EFDSS, 2003).
