A few years ago a call from Cecil Sharp House sent me across town to collect a collection of folkdance and tune 78s from a house clearance. Our pal Bob Spencer in Barrow has just done some sterling work work on greasing and springing the REVERB wind-up gram, and I'm now digitising them for Gordon Jones at Furness Tradition and digging into the history of the sessions with the Help of the Vaughan Williams library.
Thursday, 18 September 2025
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