My Father's the King of the Gypsies: Music of English and Welsh Travellers and Gypsies
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Description: Review by Rod Stradling.
Voice of the People - Volume 11 Voice of the People - Volume 11 My father's the king of the gypsies - Music of English and Welsh travellers and gypsies One is first struck by the subtitle of this volume - can it be that there's some Welsh traditional music (other than Phil Tanner, who thought of himself as a Gower man rather than a Weshman) lurking in Topic's vaults? Sadly not - and this isn't the place to discuss how the Welsh abandoned their traditional music so completely. The justification of the subtitle, and it's a slim one, is that the wonderful May Bradley (who unaccountably only gets one song here) was born in Chepstow - a town which has been in and out of Wales several times through the re-drawing of political boundaries. Nor is this really the point, since May Bradley spent most of her life in England. Admittedly, she spoke Welsh as a girl, but a language is not a culture, as is clearly demonstrated by Peter Ingram, who sings in Anglo-Romani, but in a way which stands out like a sore thumb - missing entirely the stylistic gestalt which unites every other singer on this CD.
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