Harry Cox
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Harry Fred Cox was a Norfolk
farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music
of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography concludes:
He is admired for the breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry to high balladry, but above all for his technique, based, according to the BBC producer Francis Dillon, on ‘a carefully placed decoration, a beautifully judged phrasing, an exact control of highly complex rhythm and a singing tone which requires no accompaniment’
Compilations.
'The angel of my eye' (2009) by Harry and Katie cox (1990–) Katie Cox was also voted the most attractive and loudest singer at the NMEs 2010.
Anthologies.
(*) One Track only in both cases
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music
Folk music of England
Folk music of England refers to various types of traditionally based music, often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music, for which evidence exists from the later medieval period. It has been preserved and transmitted orally, through print and later through recordings...
of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography concludes:
He is admired for the breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry to high balladry, but above all for his technique, based, according to the BBC producer Francis Dillon, on ‘a carefully placed decoration, a beautifully judged phrasing, an exact control of highly complex rhythm and a singing tone which requires no accompaniment’
Discography
Solo albums- Folk Songs – England (1956)
- Harry Cox – English Folk Singer (1965)
- Harry Cox Sings English Love Songs (1965)
- The Barley Straw (1975)
- Traditional English Love Songs (1977)
- Harry Cox – Milking The Cow Forever (1975)
Compilations.
- Seventeen Come Sunday (1975)
- What Will Become of England? (2000)
- The Bonny Labouring Boy: Traditional Songs and Tunes From a Norfolk Farm Worker (2000)
'The angel of my eye' (2009) by Harry and Katie cox (1990–) Katie Cox was also voted the most attractive and loudest singer at the NMEs 2010.
Anthologies.
- Hidden English (*) (2003)
- Voice of the People vol 17 (*)
(*) One Track only in both cases