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The Iron Muse
The Iron Muse is the title of two albums of industrial folk music released by Topic Records. Subtitled A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music, the first album came out in 1963 as a long-play vinyl record, and the second in 1993 as a CD.
The 1963 album received several favourable reviews at the time, and is referred to in the book accompanying Topic Records' 70th anniversary boxed set, Three Score & Ten, "as one of the most stimulating and satisfying records in the Topic catalogue."
Later commentary has focused on how the songs were chosen for inclusion in the vinyl album, the extent to which some of them are truly traditional, and the role played by the album in the second British folk revival.
The Iron Muse, arranged and produced by A. L. Lloyd, is an anthology of industrial folk music. The featured singers and musicians are Anne Briggs, Bob Davenport, Ray Fisher, Louis Killen, A. L. Lloyd, Matt McGinn, and The Celebrated Working Man's Band. Recorded in an ad hoc studio at Champion's in Hampstead, London, by Bill Leader and Paul Carter, the album has sleeve notes and a four-page insert containing tune and song details, including lyrics.
Side 1 consists of tunes and songs from coal-mining. Side 2 starts with a weaving tune, continues with songs covering weaving, foundry work and shipbuilding, and ends with a final coal-mining song and a set of coalfield tunes. The album contains the earliest recording of Anne Briggs.
The album was also released by the American record-label Elektra Records in 1964; the tracks are in a different order, and omit The Collier's Daughter.
Numbers in brackets are track numbers on the CD album. Songs and tunes are traditional except where noted.
Lloyd drew on the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, a collection of 18th and 19th century folk-songs and Northumbrian smallpipe tunes, when selecting the "Miners' Dance Tunes" that open and close the album.
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The Iron Muse
The Iron Muse is the title of two albums of industrial folk music released by Topic Records. Subtitled A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music, the first album came out in 1963 as a long-play vinyl record, and the second in 1993 as a CD.
The 1963 album received several favourable reviews at the time, and is referred to in the book accompanying Topic Records' 70th anniversary boxed set, Three Score & Ten, "as one of the most stimulating and satisfying records in the Topic catalogue."
Later commentary has focused on how the songs were chosen for inclusion in the vinyl album, the extent to which some of them are truly traditional, and the role played by the album in the second British folk revival.
The Iron Muse, arranged and produced by A. L. Lloyd, is an anthology of industrial folk music. The featured singers and musicians are Anne Briggs, Bob Davenport, Ray Fisher, Louis Killen, A. L. Lloyd, Matt McGinn, and The Celebrated Working Man's Band. Recorded in an ad hoc studio at Champion's in Hampstead, London, by Bill Leader and Paul Carter, the album has sleeve notes and a four-page insert containing tune and song details, including lyrics.
Side 1 consists of tunes and songs from coal-mining. Side 2 starts with a weaving tune, continues with songs covering weaving, foundry work and shipbuilding, and ends with a final coal-mining song and a set of coalfield tunes. The album contains the earliest recording of Anne Briggs.
The album was also released by the American record-label Elektra Records in 1964; the tracks are in a different order, and omit The Collier's Daughter.
Numbers in brackets are track numbers on the CD album. Songs and tunes are traditional except where noted.
Lloyd drew on the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, a collection of 18th and 19th century folk-songs and Northumbrian smallpipe tunes, when selecting the "Miners' Dance Tunes" that open and close the album.