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The High Level Ranters

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The High Level Ranters are a traditional band from Newcastle, England They took their name from that city’s High Level Bridge (which isn’t far from the High Level Folk Club). They specialise in songs and tunes from the north of England. Their original line-up, from 1969 to 1979, consisted of Alistair Anderson (concertina, Northumbrian pipes), Tommy Gilfellon (guitar), Johnny Handle (accordion, piano), and Colin Ross (fiddle, Northumbrian pipes). Latterly the group became a trio of Ross, Handle, and Jim Hall (Northumbrian pipes).

Top songs

  1. Aa'm Glad the Strike's Done
  2. Dance to your daddy
  3. The Sandgate Girl's Lament / Elsie Marley
  4. Mi' Laddie Sits Ower Late Up
  5. Byker Hill
  6. Hexham Quadrille (Billy's Jig / Kielder Fells)
  7. Doon The Waggonway
  8. The Hexamshire Lass
  9. Fenwick Of Bywell
  10. Billy Boy
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  1. Meggy's Foot
  2. Adam Buckham
  3. The Hewer
  4. Doon the Wagon Way
  5. Because He Was a Bonny Lad / Salmon Tails Up the Water / Sweet Hesleyside
  6. Bellingham Boat / Lambskinnet
  7. Shew's The Way to Wallinton / The Peacock Followed the Hen
  8. The Lads of North Tyne / The Redesdale Hornpipe
  9. The Keel Row / Kafoozalum / The Washing Day
  10. The Surprise
  11. Nae guid luck aboot the hoose
  12. I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come
  13. King's Hall / John of Carrick
  14. A Miner's Life
  15. The Collier's Rant
  16. The Auchengeich Disaster
  17. Farewell to the Monty
  18. Little Chance
  19. The Breakdown / The Blanchland Races
  20. The Lads of Alnwick / Lamshaw's Fancy
  21. Dance To Yer Daddy
  22. The Miner's Lockout
  23. The South Medomsley Strike
  24. Proudlock's Hornpipe / The Hesleyside Reel
  25. The Blacking Miners
  26. Proudlock's Hornpipe / Hesleyside Reel
  27. The Bonny Pit Laddie
  28. Coilsfield House / Thom's March
  29. The Putter
  30. Elsie Marley / Hoop Her Hand And Gird Her
  31. My Gaffer's Bait
  32. Whinham's Reel / Nancy
  33. The Durham Lockout
  34. Shews the Way to Wallington/The Peacock
  35. The Banks Of The Dee
  36. The Coal Owner and the Pitman's Wife
  37. The Hartley Calamity
  38. Bonnie Woodha
  39. I'll Have A Collier
  40. The Kielder Hunt
  41. Stanley Market
  42. The Sandgate Girl's Lament, Elsie Marley
  43. Fairly Shot Of Her / A Wife Of My Own
  44. The Stoneman's Song
  45. The Lass Doon On The Quay
  46. Fortune Turns The Wheel
  47. Hornpipes - Alston Flower Show / Jane Of Biddlestone
  48. The Collier's Pay Week / Cut and Dry Dolly / Success To The Coal Trade / My Lad Is O'er Bonny For The Coal Trade
  49. Hornpipes - The Marquis Of Waterford / Bottle Bank / The Hawk
  50. Captain Bover / Here's The Tender Comin' / Success To The Fleet
  51. Doon The Waggonway (feat. Johnny Handle)
  52. Because He Was A Bonny Lad, Salmon Tails Up The Water, Sweet Hesleyside
  53. Moonshine Polka
  54. Eccles Wakes
  55. The Bonny Pit Laddie Pt. 2
  56. Chips And Shavings / Jack's Alive / Dear Tobacco
  57. Bonny Beeswing
  58. The White Hare Of Howden
  59. The Sandgate Girl's Lament / Elsie Marley (feat. Johnny Handle)
  60. La Russe / The Winshield's Hornpipe / Jane's Fancy / Da Road To Houll
  61. The Biddlestone Hornpipe / The Last Of The Twins
  62. Whinham's Jig / Billy's Jig
  63. shews the way to wallington
  64. Swalwell Lasses / South Shields Lasses
  65. The Ruby / The Quarrelsome Piper
  66. Gan Te the Kye
  67. The Canny Shepherd Laddies
  68. Town Green Polka / Jenny Bell Polka
  69. Border Spirit
  70. Felton Lonnin
  71. Billy's Jig / Kielder Fells
  72. Newcastle Wakes
  73. Foxhunters / Bilsmoor
  74. Blinkin' Tibbie / The Pear Tree
  75. Rowly Burn / Coates's Hornpipe
  76. The Sandgate Girl's Lament/Elsie Marley
  77. The Boat Race
  78. The Bonny Pit Laddie, Pt. 2
  79. The Quayside / Miss Ward's Reel
  80. When The Boat Comes In
  81. Shew's the Way to Wallinton/The Peacock Followed the Hen
  82. The Butterclout / Such A Wife As Willie Had / Willy Is A Bonny Lad
  83. Coilsfield House. Thom's March
  84. Proudlock's Hornpipe/Hesleyside Reel
  85. Chevy Chase + The Alnwick Football Song
  86. Cushie Butterfield
  87. The Lambton Worm
  88. The Hexhamshire Lass
  89. Wallington Hall / Billy's Reel
  90. The Keel Row, Kafoozalum, The Washing Day

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