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GOOD ORDER! Ladies and gentlemen pleasePart Four of a five-part set of linked reviews of traditonal folk song concerning source singers and the folk revival. Click here for Introduction.
Good Order is an unusual but delightful recording of traditional singing and music from The Eel's Foot in Eastbridge, Suffolk. But this audio portrait of pub folk-singing is no backroom folk club from the 70s, but is based on the restoration of two BBC Radio programs of 'ordinary local people' recorded either side of the Second World War. The album is not so significant as a source of folk song as much as providing a window onto a cultural and social scene that has surely been repeated since ancient times, but which did not survive into the later part of the Twentieth Century. Isolated in a 'rural backwater', the Eel's Foot was surely in something of a timewarp even then. The evening's proceedings used to begin with some step-dancing on a pub table, but the roof of the pub was so low that the dancers presented the grotesque sight of dancing whilst bent double! This image of endearing English eccentricity is in itself entertaining enough to justify purchase of the album. Rik - 5 July 2001
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