Rout of the Blues

Robin and Barry Dransfield

[@chrismanorfarm]

Not played this for years.love it.

[@angeladryden8259]

Absolutely my favorite! ❤

[@andrewwillan3372]

One of my favourite folk performances ever. An amazing duo! Love them.

[@SteveBridges-w5y]

One of the greatest duo's ever....I can't help singing along and swapping parts for the sheer enjoyment of singing....weird perhaps but that's the way......

[@chrisclarke4541]

One of my top favourite songs of my youth.

[@themottoist5659]

Fantastic! I hadn't listened to this wonderful duo for about 20 years but suddenly their name cropped up. Is there a better memory trigger than music?

[@chrisclarke4541]

I just love this song with its reference to Salisbury Plain. Some of my ancestors lived in Amesbury near Stone henge .

[@davidjoynson1289]

Lovely to hear it again...have played this song for many years in folk clubs

[@vivienneshilling6503]

Loved it then and still do. So many memories

[@brianac37]

When requested to sing a song one night at the Old Cock Inn, Droitwich, I had no guitar with me, but Robin was kind enough to let me play that lovely little Martin of his. We saw quite a lot of them around the greater midlands area back then, and it was always a pleasure to meet them and listen to their wonderful music.

[@annegreen6748]

Did you ever meet Roger Green?

[@brianac37]

@@annegreen6748 I'm sorry Anne but my memory is not what it was, and I can't say that I did. However, if he was a regular at the Cock then there is a good chance that we did meet, as I was friendly with the organisers there and we met up at several venues including the Swan at Worcester the Nags Head Malvern, and at the ceilidh dances at Greenstreet Farm in Hallow.

[@annegreen6748]

@@brianac37 OK. It was worth a try. Thank you.

[@johnhope4829]

Wonderful to hear this again . I bought the album when it was released from one of those specialist record shops that used to sell folk and blues records in the Charing Cross Road in the sixties , before money became the measure of all things .The Dransfields never received the acclaim they were due . Their voices and harmonies were unique and sound as fresh today as they did fifty years ago. Their version of The Waters of Tyne is the best by far of that beautiful song.

[@gregward4392]

it's the saddest truth that money is now the measure. These two are massively talented. It's a sound that I honestly believe cannot be equaled. I'm afraid the good old days really were best.

[@musik102]

Charing Cross Rd? Was that Dobell's? That whole block were Dobell's was situated is long gone. I used to love Collett's when it was in Oxford St or New Oxford St

[@chriswhitham2140]

Exactly - wonderful to hear this again for the first time in years. I must have bought this album about the same time you did. I saw them perform at a little folk club above a pub near Manchester - the room was packed with maybe forty people (gasp). The club was run by Mike Harding (when he was a folk-singer who joked between songs, rather than a comedian who occasionally sang), and he had lots of friends come by to play there and at local folk weekends - Nic Jones, Rosie Hardman, Tony Rose, Dave & Toni Arthur, as well as local talent . THE thing I've remembered about this song all these years is the (dare I call it dis-harmony?) on the word "Blues" or "too" at the end of each verse - striking!

[@suzannelawson9215]

I live in USA but originally from UK. I used to take my holidays to London in the 1970's and 1980's. I absolutely love this duo. I only have one of their albums but not the one with the song you mentioned called "The Waters of Tyne." Is there any chance you could upload this song here on KZbin? I cannot find any of their album here. Thank you.

[@bilco73]

I first saw the Dransfields with Ralph McTell at the Guildhall in Plymouth in 1970, I went out next day and bought either this or "Lord of all I behold" and Ralph's "Revisited" and "Spiral Staircase". Great days, followed them and RMc ever since.

[@nolan1854]

Many a happy hours spent with Robin in Worcester in the 1960's. We had Rosie Hardman and Robin "on site",( they were both at the collage) and so much going on folk-wise. The Nag's Head, Malvern also holds so many fond memories!

[@annegreen6748]

Did you ever meet Roger Green?

[@grahammorris6235]

@@annegreen6748 I knew so many folkies back in the 1960/70's that names escape me. Any particular venue?

[@annegreen6748]

@@grahammorris6235 Pubs around the Midlands. He lived at Redditch. (Before I met him, in Australia) I just wondered, it being a small world and all that :)

[@grahammorris6235]

@@annegreen6748 I think he may have been one of Alan Bremners mates (?). Alan lived near the Tardiebig (Spelling!) public house, on the Redditich road. I was at Greenmore Collage with Alan and I think, just maybe, the three of us sometimes used the folk clubs around Bromsgrove ?

[@annegreen6748]

@@grahammorris6235 Alan's name isn't one I recall him mentioning but it is quite likely your paths crossed at some point. Thanks for taking time to reply.

[@kololikate]

Lovely to hear this yesterday at a folk gathering. The singer thought it was traditional then discovered it was by The Dransfields. Bring back lovely memories for me. I have the vinyl album.

[@cjsb22lr]

is traditional

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Very much English traditional.

[@nicedave29]

Love this song - I learned to play it like this a few years ago but so pleased to have found the original version!

[@millmanator123]

Love this song

[@frederikcoppens2274]

Heerlijk nummer

[@robertrowe3709]

Great album

[@robertrowe3709]

Bought this album when it first came out. Never tired of hearing it.

[@mikesurman8576]

Baz you are amazing Robin you are fantastic please reform even for a one off but it must be in Hastings a huge sell-out spread the word

[@trevdowson263]

ME TOO

[@blaisecompton3442]

I found a version with alternative opening lines - a slightly better rhyme - "As I was a walking o'er Salisbury Plain, A sad sorry sight I did view ..."