Folk Used Vinyl 146 Items

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

White vinyl. Original inner sleeve. Tiny wear.

Critically-acclaimed, criminally-overachieving Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts is known as a superlative original songwriter as well as an interpreter of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. For the past twenty years, his recordings have alternated between these two complimentary poles, with "pop" records such as The Amber Gatherers and A Wonder Working Stone nestling in his expansive back catalogue alongside "folk" albums such as No Earthly Man and What News (with Amble Skuse and David McGuinness). Additionally, all of these records possess a further dimension, derived from their collation of songs together into one album-length statement. This is part of Alasdair"s great achievement in his career - for him, this thing of music and song hasn"t come the eons it"s travelled to simply entertain.These impulses fully present and well honed, Alasdair returns to his roots with Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional song. Recorded live in the studio, it is an entirely solo collection of twelve traditional ballads and songs sparsely arranged for acoustic guitar, piano and voice. The majority of the songs originate in Alasdair"s homeland of Scotland, with a couple from Ireland and one from Prince Edward Island on Canada"s eastern seaboard too.The record takes its title from a line in the final verse of one of its songs, "The Baron o" Brackley" - a ballad of feuding clans and matrimonial betrayal from the north-east of Scotland. Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall: it"s a title which goes some way towards encapsulating many of the record"s themes. Collectively the songs treat of various conflicts and tensions - those of gender; of class, status and position; and of geography and tribal belonging - and the roles and responsibilities expected at the various intersections of these constructs. That we should never forget!As with many of Alasdair"s recordings, Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall contains ballads aplenty...

Red Vinyl Edition.

Purple vinyl is close to NM. Tiny wear. Limited edition.

Vinyl close to NM. Cover with slightly bumped corner

Still sealed with hype sticker. 140gr vinyl.

Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

Still in shrink but opened. Original inner sleeve. Vinyl is close to NM.

Includes original inner sleeve.

Orange vinyl. Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Tiny wear. Limited edition.

Still sealed with hype sticker. 2022 reissue.

White vinyl seems unplayed. Original inner sleeve.

Vinyl closer to NM

Transparent Blue and green vinyl.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.
Records are close to VG+

Blue vinyl version!

Records are slightly warped but still enjoyable.
Cover as new with faintly worn corners.

White vinyl. Cover close to NM

CD close to NM and cover to VG+

Original inner sleeve. Tiny wear. Limited edition, hand numbered.

Still sealed. Green vinyl Limited edition.

Gold vinyl version!

160 gram vinyl.

Small light scuff on side A.
Record is close to VG+.
Cover as new with a slightly dented corner.

US reissue from 2016. Black labels. Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Copy close to NM

cardboard sleeve

Cover with slightly bumped corner, close to NM

Red vinyl

With booklet

Original inner sleeve and poster. Limited edition.

tiny wear. Original inner sleeve

close to NM. Original inner sleeve

Clear/Gold vinyl. Still in shrink, but opened, with hype OBI