TOM and BARBARA BROWN, Prevailing Winds, (Wild Goose 306). Lovers of English folk songs will welcome this second recording from the forty-year West County veterans. Traditional songs like "Sir Francis Drake," "The Farmer and His Wife," and "The Bitter Withy," some in their distinctive Cornwall or Devon variants, are sung here in a straightforward energetic style. They accompany themselves on, concertina, guitar, and mandola; with some fine guesting on melodeon and fiddle.--MDR
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