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if you want a playlist for banging folks this probably isn’t the one for you, but if you want to Go Off, Historically then WHAT’S UP 

• The Parson’s Farewell by Bear McCreary (circa 1651)
• Rogues in a Nation by Steeleye Span (1791)
• Black Sails Main Title by Bear McCreary
• You Will Burn by Steeleye Span (actually written in the 1990s, but you wouldn’t think it) 
• Ampleforth/Lay Me Low by The Albion Band (this was written in the ‘70s, but The Albion Band, and this album in particular, is made up of a bunch of old Fairport Convention members with vocals from people like Martin Carthy and Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span, and you really don’t get more Traditional English Folk than that)
• Poor Old Horse by The Albion Band (see above)
• Twa Corbies by Steeleye Span (1611)  
• Babylon Is Fallen by Sacred Harp (1640s – this is the only half-decent version I could find, as previously I’ve only heard it sung around a fire by drunk English civil war reenactors)
• Over the Hills and Far Away by John Tams (late 1600s, sometimes something goes hard because of the feelings it stirs in your breast, and not because it actually goes hard) 
• Dance of the Druids by Bear McCreary (from Outlander)
• Cam Ye O’er Frae France by Steeleye Span (circa 1716) 
• Cold Blows the Wind (The Unquiet Grave) by Morrigan (dates back to as early as 1400) 
• The Elf Knight by Steeleye Span (The Gowans Sae Gae variant of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, 1776) 
• The Outlandish Knight by Bellowhead (another variant of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight)
• The Hangman and the Papist by The Strawbs (another one written in the late 20th century by someone whose past life must have been thrilling) 
• Tam Lin – Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer (1549 – and, listen, this isn’t a banger on its own, but when you compare it to other versions of Tam Lin it goes off)
• King Henry by Steeleye Span (my dad and I go a lot harder than Steeleye Span when we sing this, but still)
• Santianna/Santiano/Santy Anno by The Kingston Trio (1850s, another one that my dad and I destroy on car journeys) 
• Rocky Road to Dublin by The Dubliners (circa 1850s)
• Ye Jacobites by Quilty (Ye Jacobites By Name was written between 1688 and 1746, and rewritten by Robert Burns in 1791) 
• Shiver My Timbers from the Muppet Treasure Island OST (do not fucking judge me, this song is an absolute banger of the first water) 

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a) This is terrific

b) Have some more! (Most of these are traditional, a few of them are more contemporary)

• A Lyke Wake Dirge – Andrew Bird and Matt Berniger
• Henry Martin – Rhiannon Giddens & the Elftones
• Rising of the Moon – The Dubliners
• Black Jack Davy/The Jug of Punch/The Shepherd’s Crook/Tiree Hallows – Caswell Carnahan (just a warning for this one – it involves a lot of historical anti-Romani sentiment)
• Bedlam Boys – Heather Alexander
• The Wheels of the World – John Doyle
• Whiskey in the Jar – The Dubliners
• Donald McGillavry – Silly Wizard
• S’iomadh Rid – Rhiannon Giddens
• Ballad of Accounting – Karan Casey
• Ferryland Sealer – Great Big Sea
• The Trooper and the Maid – The Duhks
• The Wind that Shakes the Barley – Solas
• Old Maui – The Dreadnoughts
• Blackleg Miner – Richard Thompson
• Jack Dolan – John Doyle
• Step it Out Mary – The High Kings
• Matt & Nat’s – Natalie MacMaster
• The Chemical Worker’s Song – Great Big Sea
• Mairi’s Wedding – Orthodox Celts
• Sixteen Tons – Big Bill Broonzy
• The Mull River Shuffle – The Rankin Family

c) I’ve put them all in an actual YouTube playlist, here, for your listening convenience

Oh, hey! My favorite genre! I hope you all like shanties and Irish:

English (but not shanties):
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Shady Grove – Crooked Still (a good band for this sort of thing)
The Elfin Knight – Kate Rusby

Shanties/shanty-style sea songs:
Ring Down Below – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
South Australia – The Kilkennys
Barrett’s Privateers – The Real McKenzies (modern but you’d be hard-pressed to tell)
Blood Red Roses – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
10,000 Miles Away – The Seadogs

Irish:
Dúlamán – Anuna
Nil Na La – Solas
Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile – Seo Linn
’Si Do Mhaimeo I – Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Mairead Nesbitt

Instrumental:
The Landlord’s Walk – Blair Douglas
Gravel Walk – The Rogues (WOW what a jam!)
O’Sullivan’s March – (Linked is The Chieftains’ version, here’s the Boston Pops version I grew up on)

Bonus Macedonian song: Sto Mi et Milo – Kitka (a great group if you’re interested in Eastern European music)

Thank you for this post. This is amazing.

It also helped me find the video for the herding call that brought all the cows to the singer. Link here.

Bellowhead do a version of The Parson’s Farewell that goes even harder than Bear’s, if that’s possible. (It is possible because Bellowhead.)

I’m glad that someone mentioned Bellowhead’s version of The Parson’s Farewell because honestly when I first watched Black Sails and heard that version I thought ‘well it’s good but it’s not as good as Bellowhead’.

I could easily disappear down a Youtube hole and never return with this subject but here’s some of mine:

Lady of the Woods – Jamie Smith’s Mabon (because this list needed more welsh folk music. Also this is a serious earworm, just to warn you now)

The Ballad of George Collins – Sam Lee (which has a delightfully weird video)

Slaves – Faustus

Cobblers Hornpipe – Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band (I always love watching Eliza play and the way her and Saul Rose play off each other is really fun to watch)

Fair Margaret and Sweet William – Jim Moray

Marching Through the Green Grass – Lucy Ward

Child Owlet – Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman (with bonus bloodthirsty video made by their daughters)

Skewball – False Lights

The Lass of Glenshee – Cara Dillon

Cold Haily Rainy Night – The Imagined Village

Silbury Hill – Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin (now known as Edgelarks)

Gentleman Jack – O’Hooley & Tidow (because the world needs more songs about Anne Lister and I love them)

Lady of the Rose/High Street Rose – Seth Lakeman (two for the price of one here as it’s a live video and he used to do this as an encore which almost killed me)

All of Bellowhead’s instrumentals are also brilliant but particularly Frog’s Legs and Dragon’s Teeth, which I exhausted myself a few times trying to dance to at gigs.