An acquaintance gave me a copy of this CD called Songs for the Green Man.
It has a lot of standards like Wind that Shakes the Barley, Farewell to Erin and some modern songs like World Turned Upside Down (Digger’s Song) by Leo Rosselson. There’s no info on the artists. Some tracks have lead female vocal, some lead male, some instrumental. On instrumental tracks the line-up is low whistle, fiddle, and some uilleann pipes and plucked strings. The vocalists and intruments sound similar throughout so I think they are all done by the same band.
Anybody have or heard of this CD? The guy who gave me the copy was hoping I’d be able to i.d. the artists but it all sounds like your generic brand “Celtic Band” to me.
Cheers,
Aaron
Sorry Aaron,can’t identify the band on this c.d.,but the song ‘The world turned upside down (the Levellers’ song)’ by Leo Rosselson,strikes a certain resonance with me.
I’m a keen(ish) allotment gardener (for non-British readers,an allotment is a plot of land rented from the local authority,used for growing vegetables,flowers or keeping small livestock).All local authorities in Britain must,by law,provide allotment space to people living in their area.
Allotments provided useful gardening space in many urban,often poor areas,allowing people access to quality fresh home-grown food.They used to have an image of being maintained by ‘old codgers’,usually the retired-women on an allotment were almost unknown-allotments almost harked back to the ‘Dig for victory’ food production campaign of WW2.
Also, many allotment sites over the years have been under pressure from land developers keen to buy up the, often prime urban, land the allotment stand on-and often,the laws weren’t robust enough to prevent authorities from selling off the land.
Happily,things are changing.Gardening in Britain (always a nation of gardeners) has never been as popular-it’s the new rock ‘n’ Roll,the new ‘Black’(or the ‘same old gardening’? 
).Also the Government have realised that allotments are good news-allotment holders tend to be healthier,due to exercise,fresh air,good food,thus saving money on health care for example.Thus laws governing allotments are being strengthened,thus safeguarding our precious plots. 
Now then,a couple of years ago,I saw a play called ‘The Allotmenteers’ (remember ‘The Gondoliers’ geddit?).The play had a very small cast,who played all the characters,and two musicians-fiddle and accordion-who performed said song The play was about a scheming councellor who plans to sell off some allotments to developers,and he is visited by the ghost of Gerard Winstanley,one of the leaders of the original ‘Diggers’.
The Diggers were a proto communistic movement who sprang up in the late 1640’s,in the wake of the British civil war (I say British,and not English,because the whole of the population of the British isles were affected by the strife).They believed that the land belonged to ‘The People’,and planted up swaithes of wasteland and roadsides with crops.
The play,and this very powerful song by Rosselson fired an interest in me to find out more about the various movements from this turbulent period in our history,and I recently discovered a book called ‘The World turned up-sidedown’ by Christopher Hill.
The book not only covers the ‘Diggers’,but also the other radical groups,such as ’ The Levellers’ and ‘The Ranters’ (they sound like crusty rockbands-oops,one of them is!) An interesting read.
Well I’m off now to dig up some leeks and a cabbage-It’s not all whistles you know!