''Prodigal Son'' is a 2007 album recorded by the English guitarist

Martin Simpson Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voi ...

and released on the

Topic Records Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.M. Brocken, ...

label. The album won the Best Album award at the

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and acoustic music. The awards have been given annually since 2000 by British ra ...

2008 and the track ''Never Any Good'' won the Best Original Song award and is included on the ''2008 Folk Awards'' album issued by Proper Music Distribution. The accompanying book to the Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set ''

Three Score and Ten ''Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People'' is a multi-CD box set album issued by Topic Records in 2009 to celebrate 70 years as an independent British record label. The album consists of a hardback book containing the seven CDs and a paper ...

'' lists this as one of the classic albums.Three Score and Ten Accompanying Book
/ref> the track ''Never Any Good'' is track 7 on the fifth CD in the boxed set.

Track listing

Reference to folk song indexes will be used where identified. These references are from the three major numbering schemes, the Roud Numbers, Child Ballad Numbers originating from

Francis James Child Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of r ...

and the Laws Numbers from the George Malcolm Laws numbering system. # "Batchelors Hall" (Dick Connette, Roud 385) 4:45 # " Pretty Crowing Chicken" (Trad. Roud179;Child 248) 2:53 # "Lakes Of Champlain" (Trad.) 4:36 # "She Slips Away" (Martin Simpson) 3:18 # "The Granemore Hare" (Trad. Roud 2993) 5:55 # "Mother Love" (Martin Simpson) 1:52 # " Little Musgrave" (Trad. Roud 52;Child 81) 5:54 # "A Love Letter" (Martin Simpson) 3:14 # "Duncan & Brady" (Trad. Roud 4177; Laws I9) 2:41 # "Never Any Good" (Martin Simpson) 5:23 # "Good Morning Mr Railroad Man" (Trad.) 3:27 # "Louisiana 1927" (Randy Newman) 4:19 # "La Rivolte" (Martin Simpson) 1:52 # "

Andrew Lammie "Andrew Lammie" is Child ballad 233 (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud 98). It is said to record a historical event, with the grave of the heroine in thchurchyardat Fyvie. Synopsis Tifty’s Annie falls in love with Andrew Lammie, a lord's trumpeter. ...

" (Trad. Roud 98; Child 233) 9:18 # "Kit's Tune; When A Knight Won His Spurs" (Martin Simpson; Public Domain) 5:18

References

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