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Many thanks. I have been searching for this.

Beautiful images, perfect music.

For Mia and me happy mothers day!

Great version of Sylvia

i really want to learn to sing these songs for I have always loved Cathal's phrasing.; he sings with such ease. I met him on my thirty first birthday on the 31st July at a festival in County Donegal. The man is brilliant, I am just reading Sinead O'Conner's book "Rememberings" and she talks about that Bel Canto singing with ease. Cathal is that pure essence of that .Thank you so much for honoring this great singer.

Do you any of paddy singing. Is he still on earth?

I had the great good luck to meet this wonderful man who allowed me to record his concert. I as a junior engineer at BBC Radio Manchester in late 1977 , a Sunday evening concert in Liverpool. I can’t recall what happened to the tapes because I left Radio Manchester shortly thereafter and lived overseas the rest of my life. Great memories of a great singer songwriter. 33:25

thanks a million for uploading, real gem from the past, unfindable, used to listen to the record in the UCC listening lab instead of studying English Lit :)

What a great Album, thanks for posting it.

Phantastic! A good friend sent me here. I said, I love Joan Baez's voice - if only she had less vibrato. My friend said, go with Jean Ritchie, then. He was plain right!

What a great album

This must be my all time favorite album. We miss you Jean.

A 'solo' album in the true sense - nothing but himself and the occasional bit of bodhran or guitar! Thanks for uploading, I've had McConnell's other solo album for a long time but never the chance to hear this. One of the greats, and probably the only Irish musician of modern times who is a good traditional singer as well as a top-class instrumentalist.

Thanks for posting this - just came across it - been a fan of Ralph's since 1973 and remember my copy of Ralph, Albert and Sydney so well - unfortunately the vinyl version bit the dust a number of years ago!

Slow Air: The Dark Woman Of The Glen 3:30 A2 Reel: The Maid Behind The Barrel 1:44 A3 Song: Erin The Green 4:56 A4 Reels: Johnny Going To Ceilidh / The Gossoon That Beat His Father / The Long Slender Sally Bodhrán - Robin Morton 2:18 A5 Jig And Polka: The Maho Snaps / Jenny Lind 2:14 A6 Slow Air, Jig And Reel: The Wedding Of Molly / The Three-Hand Jig / Peter Flanagan's 4:47 A7 Reels: People's Reel / Lady Montgomery Guitar - Willie Johnson* 1:30 B1 Jig And Reel: McConnell's Gravel Walk / The Laurel Tree Bodhrán - Robin Morton 2:25 B2 Set Dance And Reels: Andy Kerrin's / McHugh's Reel / The Primrose Road Guitar - Willie Johnson* 2:20 B3 Reels: The Shannon Breeze / Nugent's Reel 2:17 B4 Slow Air: St. Donard's Cairn 3:15 B5 Song: Edmund On Lough Erne's Shore 3:14 B6 Carolan's Concerto 2:39 B7 Reels: Big John's Reel / Kitty The Hare Guitar - Willie Johnson* 2:23 B8 Jig And Reel: Siney's Jig / The Noon Lasses

Thank you so much for this. I love Jean Ritchie

Ah...Ralph, Albert & Sydney... My most fav of all the men I've ever heard...And there have been many From Bert jansch...to Paul Simon...My English Hero...Always the best concerts I have ever experienced...Love ya Ralph xxxxxxxxxx

I met Ralph when he visited the USA for a brief tour in Autumn 1995. My daughter was a newborn; my wife and mother-in-law were incensed that I went to two shows, at The Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling NY and The Turning Point in Piermont NY. I just ordered a sealed copy of this LP for my now 27 year-old daughter.

This album floods my mind with memories of the late 1970’s. I must have played this album a few hundred times back then, listening to it with friends who loved it as much as I did, listening to it alone a lot too. Out of all of Ralph McTell’s albums this has always been my favorite. His gentle self shines through. The sound is quite good. Right now my eyes are filled with tears. Thank you for posting this album by Ralph McTell.

07:25 "Le garçon empoisonné" took me by surprise. Breandán Breathnach once made the sweeping generalisation that traditional songs don't jump language barriers - but here we have Lord Rendal (Child no. 12; Roud no. 10) in French. I suspect that this version is Canadian, as the ballad is widespread across North America.

My favorite version of the Zimmerman blues is on this album.

Bless you, thank you Ray Huffman.

Thanks for putting this on YT... I never liked commercialised country, this is so similar to celtic/irish music pure I was intrigued by the song Here Sits A Young Lady.. could not find the lyrics so sat down and listened to them and here they are as best I can transcribe My Parents raised Me Tenderly They had no child but me But my mind was set on rambling around and with him I couldn’t agree There was a girl in this same town She was so wondrous fair There was no other girl in the country run That with her I could compare I asked her if she would agree For me to cross over the Maine She said she would prove true to me Till I return again I got my things went to the dock Her tears shown down like wine We kissed shook hands and parted I left My girl behind As I walked out one morning To view Old George’s square The mail post boat ust arose And the post boy met me there He handed me a letter which give me to understand That the girl I left behind me had married another man I turned myself all around and about I knew not what to doing I read on a few lines further And I found the news were true I followed the old train That company I will resign I’ll ramble around from town to town For the girl I left behind Written by Jean Ritchie

0:00 Thousand Mile Blues, 4:15 Sugar On The Floor 6:47 The Cuckoo 9:00 With Kitty I'll Go 11:28 Little Pack O Tailors 14:15 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore 19:16 High Hills and Mountains 23:35 The Royal Telephone 26:42 Old George's Square 29:46 Old Daddy Grumble 32:25 Here Sits A Young Lady 33:09 Jimmy The Taylor-O 35:11 Let the Sun Shine Down On Me

Love that music

Classic and timeless!

Thank you for posting this! I’ve been an American follower of McTell since 1972 and a visit from a couple of Brits. We exchanged a LOT of music over the few days I was their temporary stopping point, and when they left they gave me their copy of what may have been his first album. It contains Streets of London, Michael in the Garden (which I especially like since my name is Michael and all my best friends tell me there’s something wrong with me), and The Ferryman … I’m sorry I can remember other songs by name at the moment, but I’ll bet I can still sing along with the album. As a budding singer songwriter at the time I was introduced to McTell, he immediately became a mentor, and through the years, still trying to improve my own work, I have continued to soak up any and everything I can find of McTell’s. I have never had the pleasure of seeing him in live performance and I may never, which be my loss. I have found him a consummate songwriter, storyteller, interpreter of fine poetry (his Summer Girls inspired by Dylan Thomas’ works, for instance), and skilled in a variety of genre of guitar styles. I was 23 when I first heard him, I’m 73 now, and I hope Ralph McTell lives and performs forever…. Or at least til I’m not here to listen to him anymore.

Yknow, “sugar on the floor” is a happy song, but I find it tearjerking and psychedelic as well. There’s a lot of reverb and it’s sweetly out of tune.

Ralph has written some beautiful clever songs….i remember going to Fairfield’s Hall in Croydon and was mesmerised by his guitar playing… wonderful times …thankyou Ralph

learnt a number of tunes off here including his version of waltzing matilda and Dry Bone Rag

Ralph was another one of the 60's/70's generation of UK's "Folk" artists who's great talent never got the credit they deserved in the UK whilst many mediocre Pop artists were feted.

Lovely album. I seem not to have it in my vinyl collection. It seems a bit more modern than older albums. We had Jean in our neck of the woods when we did an Appalachian holiday show at California Revels in Oakland probably mid '90's. Oakland CA 2022

Someone should isolate these tracks for posting. I don’t know how to. I love this album. I love Jean Ritchie.

im 35 and I grew up in the wrong time era , love this type of music. Today music is just trash.

Like the best wines, these song writers and performers get better through time. How could you ever choose a favourite from any of them?! x

Thank you, Ray. This is beautiful♡

Thanks for sharing this album.

Thanks for honouring the playing of Cathal..this is "Dark Woman of The Glen"

To this day I regret not going to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass when she and Pete Seeger appeared together.

Fine FINE singer songwriter Street s of London ,/ Atlanta Street s By author F.Mendelson also labeled as Blind sammie rather than Blind Samuel ( unfortunate slips of the pens) Old Chris a fiddler of Albuquerque NM

My all time favorite album...I sing these songs in the echo chambers of Coyote Gulch and other box Canyons in the South West.

Been a fan of Ken Bloom for a long time ever since taking a few lessons and talking out a new instrument design with him, the Dulcidura. Just amazing! Love this album!

nice cover

What a treasure! Enormous thanks.

nobody rollicks 'the gravel walk' like mr. mcconnel. thank you so much for posting!

I've never heard this album before. Thanks for uploading! Jean collected the song at 11:29 from the Irish singer Elizabeth Cronin in the 1950s th-cam.com/video/_qWncp2SSMA/w-d-xo.html The tune is a reel called "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" th-cam.com/video/m-a5ppoxI9I/w-d-xo.html

00:00 Trim the Velvet 01:49 Pendant que le moulin tourne 03:36 Newlynn Town 05:50 Bourrée berrichonne: L'etoile 07:25 Le garçon empoisonné 11:00 Candlelight Fisherman 14:10 Ma mère ma très chère mère 17:05 Pas d'été 18:20 La Rosalie 21:35 Geordie 23:47 Bourrée D'Auvergne: San Tu Piero 25:05 Allons la belle 29:13 Miss Monaghan 31:00 Sixpenny Money 32:36 La chanson des mensonges 37:11 Vosgian Waltz: Les moissonneurs 39:27 Sans-souci 42:10 Seventeen come sunday 44:54 Si bheag si mhor

Jean was so wonderful.

Thank You!

Thanks ! I was looking for his version of carolan's concerto, hard to find