| Description | Track 1: Programme introduction to 'Songs of the Frontier' 0.10 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker discusses depiction of life in the American West in films, comparing this with folk songs, with extract from 'Navajo Trail', introduces 'Buffalo Skinners' 1.25 mins
Track 3: Tom Parley sings 'Buffalo Skinners', discussion of conflict of frontier between old and new ways of life 2.42 mins
Track 4: Ewan MacColl sings 'Johnny of Breadislie', discussion of land disputes 4.13 mins
Track 5: Peggy Seeger sings 'Sioux Indians', discussion of man's command over environment and arctic expedition of John Franklin 3.46 mins
Track 6: A. L. Lloyd sings 'Lord Franklin' 2.09 mins
Track 7: Paul Lennihan sings 'Paddy and the Whale' , discussion of violence in frontier land, introduces song of American Civil War 2.38 mins
Track 8: Tom Parley sings 'Quantrell', discussion of Highland border disputes 3.13 mins
Track 9: Ewan MacColl sings 'The Baron of Brackley' 4.13 mins
Track 10: Programme credits 0.26 mins
Track 11: Test signal 0.19 mins
Track 12: Programme introduction to 'Flash Lads and Hard Cases', discussion of depiction of outlaws
Track 13: Extract from the song 'Wanted Man', discussion of folk songs and ballads about outlaws 0.55 mins
Track 14: A. L. Lloyd sings 'Turpin Hero', discussion of 'Flash Lad's popularity 3.53 mins
Track 15: Belle Stewart sings 'False Knight upon the Road', discussion of songs about execution of eighteenth century 'Hard Cases' 1.55 mins
Track 16: Ted Culver sings 'Newry Town', discussion of popular sympathy with outlaw 2.59 mins
Track 17: Peggy Seeger sings 'Sam Bass', discussion of female outlaws 3.18 mins
Track 18: Frankie Armstrong sings 'Sovay', discussion of tragedy of punished outlaws 2.37 mins
Track 19: Peggy Seeger sings 'I've Been a Bad Bad Girl', discussion of frustration of 'flash lads' and 'hard cases' 3.52 mins
Track 20: Ewan MacColl sings 'Flying Cloud' 5.41 mins
Track 21: Programme credits 0.26 mins
Total: 51.11 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0128780 |