Louis Killen

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Doodle Let Me Go 01:46 Tools
Paddy Lay Back 01:59 Tools
Leave Her, Johnny 01:59 Tools
The Diamond 01:59 Tools
Three Score and Ten 01:59 Tools
One Penny 01:59 Tools
The Blackleg Miners 01:18 Tools
Dollia 01:46 Tools
The Trimdon Grange Explosion 03:13 Tools
The Banks of Sweet Primroses 02:18 Tools
The Flying Cloud 07:12 Tools
Young Edwin In The Lowlands 03:14 Tools
The Banks Of The Dee 02:27 Tools
The Cock 03:06 Tools
One May Morning 02:09 Tools
Up The Raw 01:14 Tools
Heave Away My Johnny 01:50 Tools
The Wild Goose 01:50 Tools
The Bramble Briar 05:02 Tools
Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny 03:15 Tools
Hilo Johnny Brown 01:07 Tools
Rolling Down To Old Maui 00:00 Tools
Off To Sea Once More 00:00 Tools
With My Pit Boots On 01:50 Tools
Aw Wish Pay Friday Would Come 03:15 Tools
The Ship In Distress 02:59 Tools
All Things Are Quite Silent 02:51 Tools
The Anti-Galician Privateer 02:07 Tools
Blow the Man Down 02:25 Tools
Farwell To The Monty 03:13 Tools
Topman And The Afterguard 00:00 Tools
Lord Franklin 02:33 Tools
Threescore and Ten 03:14 Tools
As We Were A-Sailing 03:29 Tools
The Bold Princess Royal 04:43 Tools
All For Me Grog 03:21 Tools
Sair Fyeld Hinny 02:13 Tools
Bring 'Em Down 00:00 Tools
Mingulay Boat Song 02:18 Tools
Thorneymoor Woods 03:56 Tools
Bold Riley 02:05 Tools
Good Bye, Fare Thee Well 00:00 Tools
Shoals Of Herring 03:55 Tools
Ship In Distress 03:02 Tools
Derwentwaters Farewell 04:19 Tools
Shallow Brown 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinny 03:16 Tools
The Coast of Peru 02:34 Tools
Goodbye, Fare Thee Well 01:50 Tools
Johnny Todd 01:54 Tools
Aw WIsh Pay Day Friday Would Come 03:16 Tools
As We Were A - Sailing 03:29 Tools
Roll the Chariot Along 03:14 Tools
The Brambe Briar 05:05 Tools
Farewell to the Monty 03:14 Tools
Derwentwater's Farewell 04:20 Tools
Bold Princess Royal 04:44 Tools
The Shoals of Herring 03:34 Tools
The Last Leviathan 03:17 Tools
Greenland Whale Fisheries 02:22 Tools
Blood Red Roses 03:16 Tools
Row Bullies Row 03:08 Tools
Keep Your Feet Still 03:15 Tools
Good Ale 02:34 Tools
Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy 02:51 Tools
Liverpool Judies 03:15 Tools
Rounding The Horn 03:15 Tools
The Blackleg Miner 01:20 Tools
Paddy Works On The Railway 02:39 Tools
Pleasant and Delightful 03:16 Tools
The Dreadnaught 02:18 Tools
The Coal Owner and the Pitman's Wife 02:36 Tools
Suzy Anna 01:41 Tools
Henry Martin 03:05 Tools
The Factory Girl 04:06 Tools
Santiano 01:46 Tools
Haul Away For Rosie 03:01 Tools
The Wild Goose Nation 01:41 Tools
John Rise Her Up 02:36 Tools
Handsome Cabin Boy 02:36 Tools
The Recruited Collier 02:39 Tools
Paddy West 03:17 Tools
Aa Cud Hew 02:34 Tools
The Dalesman's Litany 03:05 Tools
The Cropper Lads 01:44 Tools
As We Were a Sailing 03:17 Tools
The Four Loom Weaver 02:48 Tools
Haul On The Bowline 02:22 Tools
The Jolly Grinder 02:20 Tools
The Blackleg Miles 01:36 Tools
Short Jacket & White Trousers 03:16 Tools
Aw Wish Pay Friday Would Come (feat. Colin Ross) 02:51 Tools
The Week Before Easter 01:46 Tools
Davy Lowston 03:04 Tools
Cruising 'Round Yarmouth 03:16 Tools
Lowlands 03:36 Tools
The Sheffield Apprentice 03:04 Tools
Leaving Of Liverpool 03:16 Tools
Up the Raw (feat. Colin Ross) 02:51 Tools
Charles Docherty 02:35 Tools
Pit Boots 01:49 Tools
Bold Jack Donehue 03:16 Tools
The Blacksmith 01:59 Tools
Whiskey, You're the Devil 01:49 Tools
The Old Blind Cow Caught Fire 02:20 Tools
In The Sidings 02:51 Tools
Jug of Punch 03:16 Tools
The Irish Rover 03:16 Tools
I's the Boy 02:20 Tools
Bold Jack Donehue (Story) 02:20 Tools
Johnny McEldoo 02:20 Tools
Beer, Beer, Beer 02:20 Tools
The Trim Rigged Doxy 02:51 Tools
As we were a-saìling 03:30 Tools
Rosin the Bow 02:20 Tools
Young Edwin In The Lowlands Low 03:10 Tools
Holy Ground 02:51 Tools
Blackwaterside 01:46 Tools
Whiskey Is the Life of Man 03:30 Tools
Sheffield Apprentice 01:59 Tools
The Blind Cow Caught Fire 02:35 Tools
Bonny At Morn 01:58 Tools
Ca' The Yowes 01:58 Tools
John Barleycorn 01:46 Tools
When Fortune Turns The Wheel 01:46 Tools
Dance t' th' Daddy 01:46 Tools
The Lovely Irish Maid 01:46 Tools
Doodle Let Me Go 01:46 Tools
Waltzing Matilda 01:46 Tools
The Black Ball Line 01:46 Tools
Greenland Bound 02:43 Tools
The Herring Gutter's Song 01:59 Tools
Sheepshearing's Over 01:46 Tools
The Jolly Tinker 02:35 Tools
Hanging Johnny 03:07 Tools
A Long Time Ago 01:58 Tools
The Trim-Rigged Doxy 01:46 Tools
The Dark-Eyed Sailor 03:13 Tools
Tom Paget 01:59 Tools
Johnson's Motor Car 01:59 Tools
Bold Jack Donahue 01:59 Tools
Bold Jack Donahue Story 01:59 Tools
Paddy Lay Back 01:59 Tools
The Oakey Strike Evictions 01:59 Tools
Leave Her, Johnny 01:59 Tools
The Banks of the Sweet Primroses 01:59 Tools
The Leaving of Liverpool 01:59 Tools
Real Old Mountain Dew 01:59 Tools
The Diamond 01:59 Tools
Three Score and Ten 01:59 Tools
One Penny 01:59 Tools
Hilo, Johnny Brown 01:59 Tools
Carol for 12th Day 01:59 Tools
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(10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013) Louisa Jo Killen (né Louis Killen) was one of the most widely influential musicians of the folk revival and a key voice of English traditional song. She was a hard-core, unadulterated folksinger whose passionate delivery was matched by a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of the songs and the working people who made them. Born and raised in the heart of the industrial North East of England, she came early to a love of folk music. Nurtured by a singing family whose tastes ran from liturgical music to cowboy songs, Irish ballads, grand opera, blues, jazz, classical and local Music Hall, the dominant music in his life has been the folk music of the British Isles. Killen's family background is predominantly Irish: her paternal great-grandfather brought the family from County Mayo to the banks of the River Tyne in 1852. Her grandfather married a Scotswoman and her father an Irishwoman. Though her ancestry is largely Celtic, being a native Tynesider strongly affected her approach to music. Tyneside is an area that absorbs other cultures and converts them into its own - even after thirty-five years living in the USA, Killen's speaking accent still denoted her roots. The mixture of Irish, Scots and English living in the coal-mining and industrial region known to the ancients as Northumbria set it apart from the rest of England, pulling into it the musical traditions of all three countries while maintaining its own distinct musical style. Killen drew on all four traditions to bring a wide range of folk music to her audiences. To these four is added the Anglo-American tradition of deep-water shantying and sailor ballads common to both nations. Louisa Jo's first-hand experience working aboard brigs, brigantines, schooners and sloops in the late '60s and early '70s put her in the forefront of the current revival of maritime music on both sides of the Atlantic. In a career spanning over forty years, with more than thirty-five albums/CDs to his credit, Killen's influence as a performer, teacher and inspiration to others was unparalleled. Over forty recordings spanning most of the latter part of the 20th Century. Louisa Jo was a living folk legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Killen http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/19/louis-killen Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.