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Various Artists The Iron Muse
Elektra EKL 279 (Mono)
Released: 1964
Production: A L Loyd
- A L Loyd: The Celebrated Working Man
- Bob Davenport: Collier Rant
- Anne Briggs:The Recruited Collier
- A L Loyd: Pit Boss
- Louis Killen: Banks Of Dee
- Bob Davenport: Row Between The Cages
- Bob Devenport: The Durham Lockout
- Louis Killen: The Blackleg Miner
- Matt McGinn: Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster
- Celebrated Working Man's Band: Miners' Dance Tunes
- Celebrated Working Man's Band: Weaver March
- A L Loyd: Weaver And The Factory Maid
- Ray Fisher: The Spinner's Wedding
- A L Loyd: Poor Cotton Wayver
- Matt McGinn: Swan Necked Valve
- Anne Briggs: The Doffing Mistress
- Matt McGinn: Foreman O'Rourke
- Ray Fisher: Dundee Lassie
- Louis Killen: Farewell To The Monty
- Celebrated Working Man's Band: Miners' Dance Tunes
Licensed from Topic Record in the UK with a booklet giving notes on the songs, written by A L (Bert) Lloyd.
In the mid-60s, the era of the oppressed worker seemed as much a part of British industry's past as the grimy and foggy urban view on the cover of this album. Then came the miners' strike in the 80s and the Blackleg Miner didn't seem so outdated after all.