Two-Way Trip by Peggy Seeger And Ewan Mac Coll, released on Folkways in 1961.

PREFACE by Ewan MacColl

I mostly sing Scots and English songs. The Scots material was part of the background of ray childhood, the English I began to acquire during my adolescence and have gone on adding to my store ever since. The Scots songs are closest to me, with the Liverpool shanties and forebitters running them a close second.
As for American folkmusic, my first contact with it was during the late thirties when I heard some of the Library of Congress recordings broadcast in the first B.B.C. folksong series. I can still remember the tremendous impact they made on me, and still recapture something of the initial excitement that was roused in me by hearing Woodie Guthrie, Blind Willie Johnson. Texas Gladden..

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https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/two-way-trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyUqIfGa1Y&list=RDLdyUqIfGa1Y&start_radio=1

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