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Ewan MacColl accompanied by Peggy Seeger - The Manchester Angel

A couple of weeks before we moved into our house, we were at a folk festival about a hundred kilometers away. There were some flyers for a forthcoming folk and rock record sale scattered around on table and one of our party said, “Isn’t that the road you’re moving to?” It was. It was the house next door and the record sale was on the day after we moved in. It was that sort of area. I popped next door to say hello and fill my boots with as much folk as I could afford.

This was pre-discogs days, so someone selling their collection out of their shed is less likely to happen nowadays, sadly.

This was one of the albums I picked up. It has a version of one of my favourite folk songs, Round Cape Horn.

Now, I’m pretty sure that Peggy Seeger made an appearance at a Stop The War gig I attended in 1991 at the Hackney Empire. I barely new who she was, but remember it was a big deal.

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