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Ballads and Candles
Ballads and Candles is an album by Maddy Prior.
It was recorded from concert performances during a tour of Cambridge, London and Warwick in 1999/2000 and released on CD in 2000.
The songs are drawn from all of Maddy's career. June Tabor joins in for three songs from "Silly Sisters": "Singing The Travels" (that includes an extra verse not in the previous recording), "My Husband's Got No Courage In Him" and "Doffing Mistress". Maddy sings
- "Roadways in Ancient Ireland", in "Feil-Sgribhinn Eoin MacNeill", 1940
- "The Devil's Puzzle: A Survey of Men's Notions of Man", Robert Gregg Bury, 1949.
- "Anglo-Irish Songwriters", 3 Candles, 1958
- "Irish Street Ballads", Three Candles Press, 1939/1952; Irish Book Centre, 1962,
- "More Irish Street Ballads", Three Candles Press, Dublin 1965,
See also.
- Traditional Irish