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Paul Clayton/Foc'sle Singers: Foc'sle Songs and Shanties

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton/Foc'sle Singers

Shanties and foc'sle (forecastle) songs lightened the burden of work aboard ship and provided entertainment to off-duty sailors. This recording features Massachusetts singer Paul Clayton...continue...

Paul Clayton: Bay State Ballads

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Singer and avid folksong collector Paul Clayton presents a selection of Massachusetts ballads from land and sea. From songs discovered in whaling journals to broadside...continue...
Personnel: Paul Clayton (vocals, dulcimer)....continue...

Paul Clayton: British Broadside Ballads in Popular Tradition

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton: Dulcimer Songs and Solos

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton: Folksongs and Ballads of Virginia

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Massachusetts native Paul Clayton spent his college years at the University of Virginia collecting songs and writing a thesis about Child ballads found in the...continue...

Paul Clayton: Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Here, singer and collector Paul Clayton performs fifteen texts collected in The Viking Book of Folk Ballads, including historical ballads to songs about tabloid crime....continue...

Paul Clayton: Cumberland Mountain Folksongs

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Paul Clayton

Collector Paul Clayton performs the songs and ballads he collected in the Cumberland Mountains of Virginia and Kentucky in the 1950s—a repertoire that includes both...continue...

Paul Clayton: Unholy Matrimony [Remaster]

1 CD / Collectors' Choice Music / 2006-08-29

Tracks: Stay Away from the Girls; Wooden Legged Parson, The; Will the Weaver; Mother-In-Law Song; I Wish I Was Single Again; Old Wife Who Wanted Spruncin', The; Charleston Merchant, The; Life on the Installm...
Artists: Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton was a fixture on the Greenwich Village folk scene who died way too young, in his mid-'30s in 1967. Nowadays, he is mostly...continue...
Personnel: Paul Clayton; Bob Yellin (banjo).

Paul Clayton is one of the unsung heroes of the '60s folk revival. He was an avid collector of folk songs and an early companion of Bob Dylan, who m...continue...

Paul Clayton: Whaling and Sailing Songs: The Tradition Years

1 CD / VI / 2005-11-22

Tracks: Maid of Amsterdam, The; Old Stormalong; Girls Around Cape Horn, The; Paddy Doyle's Boots; Spanish Ladies; Sally Brown; Dying Sailor to His Shipmates, The; Ranzo; Mermaid, The (Child #289); Johnny's G...
Artists: Paul Clayton

Solo performer: Paul Clayton (vocals, guitar).

Recorded in June 1956. Originally released on Tradition Records (1005). Includes liner notes by Paul Clayton.

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Paul Clayton: Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick

1 CD / Tradition / 1997-10-14

Tracks: Maid of Amsterdam, The; Old Stormalong; Girls Around Cape Horn, The; Paddy Doyle's Boots; Spanish Ladies; Sally Brown; Dying Sailor to His Shipmates, The; Ranzo; Mermaid, The; Johnny's Gone to Hilo; ...
Artists: Paul Clayton

Solo performer: Paul Clayton (vocals, guitar).

Recorded in June 1956. Originally released on Tradition Records (1005). Includes liner notes by Paul Clayton.

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Paul Clayton: Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick

1 CD / Legacy / 1993-12-06

Artists: Paul Clayton

Solo performer: Paul Clayton (vocals, guitar).

Recorded in June 1956. Originally released on Tradition Records (1005). Includes liner notes by Paul Clayton.

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