Music From The Glen
Sunday October 13th, 2013 with Colin Henein
Thanksgiving: Traditional farming songs and tunes

All songs of farms and farming this morning on Music from the Glen to celebrate Thanksgiving. A fair number of songs and tracks brought forward from the vinyl archives to make this show a look at both newer and older thanksgiving themes.

Glistening Fields
Iarla O'Lionaird - Foxlight - Realworld

Harvest Gypsies
Kris Drever - Black water - Reveal

John barleycorn
Crowfoot - Footpath - Self

The boys of bluehill / The stack of barley
Arcady - Many happy returns - Shanachie

Barnyards of Delgaty
Ar Sklorferien - Ar Sklorferien - Opus Vogue

Corn stalk fiddle
George / Gerry Armstrong - Simple Gifts - Folkways

The lazy farmer
Maclaine Colston / Saul Rose - Sand & soil - Get real

Simonside rel / Wedderburns Cave / Dookin' for Apples
Alistair Anderson - Dookin for Apples - Front Hall

I sowed some seeds
Martin Carthy - Essential Martin Carthy - Topic

The wind that shakes the barley / The reel with the beryle
The Chieftains - The best of the Chieftains - Legacy

The green fields of england
Peter Bellamy - The transports - Topic

The green fields of Canada
Greg T. Brown / Jeremy Keddy - Trees - Self

The little stack of barley / The blackberry blossom / The green fields of America
Jean Carignan - Archives - Tout Crin

Farm! Farm!
Finest Kind - For honour and for gain - Fallen Angle

Harvest home / toss the feathers
Boys of the Lough - Open Road - Topic

My father had an acre of land
The Copper Family - Come write me down - Topic

The threshing song
The Copper Family - Come write me down - Topic

Bringing in the sheaves
Paddy Tutty - The last holdout - Self

Harvest song
Jim Causley - Fruits of the earth - Self

The cocky farmer
Tommy Makem / Liam Clancy - Two for the early dew - Shanachie

All among the barley
Johnny Collins - The best of the early years - Fellside

The farmer Michael Hayes
Dolores Keane / John Faulkner - Farewell to Eirinn - Green Linnet

Harvest storm
Altan - The first ten years - Green Linnet

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