Folk-Legacy Records
Illustration — Sandy and Caroline Paton Folk-Legacy Records was an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton and Lee Baker Haggerty. Folk-Legacy has produced more than 120 recordings.
Folk-Legacy Records
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- Folk-Legacy Records was established or created on 1 January 1961.
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- Sandy Paton
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- Sharon
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Illustration — Sandy and Caroline Paton Folk-Legacy Records was an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton and Lee Baker Haggerty. Folk-Legacy has produced more than 120 recordings.
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Recording and cover photographs were done by Sandy Paton while Haggerty was the business manager. Sandy and Caroline were singers in their own right, having been designated the Connecticut State Troubadours for 1993–1994. They lived in Sharon, Connecticut until Sandy's death in 2009. In 2019, the label's collection was transferred to Smithsonian Folkways.
Master list / discography • FL No. — Year — Artist — Title • 1 — 1962 — Frank Proffitt — Frank Proffitt, Reese, North Carolina • 2 — 1962 — Joseph Able Trivett — Joseph Able Trivett, Butler, Tennessee • 3 — 1962 — Edna Ritchie — Edna Ritchie, Viper, Kentucky • 4 — 1962 — Fleming Brown — Fleming Brown • 5 — 1963 — Howie Mitchell — Howie Mitchell • 6 — 1962 — Richard Chase — Richard Chase tells three "Jack" Tales • 7 — 1963 — Paddy Tunney — The Man of Songs • 8 — 1963 — Peg Clancy Power — Down By the Glenside • 9 — 1962 — Marie Hare — Marie Hare, Strathadam, New Brunswick, Canada • 10 — 1963 — Tom Brandon — The Rambling Irishman • 11 — 1963 — Max Hunter — Ozark Songs and Ballads • 12 — 1963 — Eugene Rhodes — Talkin' About My Time • 13 — 1963 — Hank Ferguson — Behind These Walls • 14 — 1964 — Ray Hicks — Ray Hicks Telling Four Traditional "Jack Tales" • 15 — 1964 — Lawrence Older — Lawrence Older, Middle Grove, NY • 16 — 1964 — Golden Ring — Golden Ring: A Gathering of Friends for Making Music • 17 — 1964 — Hobart Smith — Hobart Smith, Saltville, Virginia • 18 — 1964 — Arnold Keith Storm — Take the News to Mother • 19 — 1964 — Bob and Ron Copper — English Shepherd and Farming Songs • 20 — 1965 — Harry Cox — Traditional English Love Songs • 21 — 1965 — Bill Meek — Traditional and Original Songs of Ireland • 22 — 1964 — Beech Mountain — The Traditional Music of Beech Mountain, NC, Volume 1 • 23 — 1965 — Beech Mountain — The Traditional Music of Beech Mountain, NC, Volume 2 • 24 — 1965 — Dock/DrakeWalsh, Garley Foster — The Carolina Tar Heels • 25 — 1964 — Hector Lee — The Folklore of the Mormon Country • 26 — 1965 — Sarah Ogan Gunning — Girl of Constant Sorrow • 27 — 1965 — Grant Rogers — Songmaker of the Catskills • 28 — 1966 — Sandy and Jeanie Darlington — Songs and Ballads • 29 — 1965 — Howie Mitchell — The Mountain Dulcimer, How to Make It and Play It • 30 — 1966 — Sandy and Caroline Paton — Sandy and Caroline Paton • 31 — 1967 — Rosalie Sorrels — If I Could Be the Rain • 32 — 1968 — Hedy West — Old Times and Hard Times • 33 — 1968 — Sarah Cleveland — Ballads and Songs of the Upper Hudson Valley • 34 — 1968 — Norman Kennedy — Ballads and Songs of Scotland • 35 — 1968 — Michael Cooney — The Cheese Stands Alone • 36 — 1968 — Frank Proffitt — Memorial Album • 37 — 1970 — Tony and Irene Saletan — Folk Songs and Ballads • 38 — 1970 — Sara Grey — Sara Grey with Ed Trickett • 39 — 1971 — Joe Hickerson — Joe Hickerson with a Gathering of Friends • 40 — 1970 — Gordon Bok — A Tune for November • 41 — 1971 — New Golden Ring — Five Days Singing, Volume 1 • 42 — 1971 — New Golden Ring — Five Days Singing, Volume 2 • 43 — 1976 — Howie Mitchell — The Hammered Dulcimer, How to Make It and Play It • 44 — 1972 — Gordon Bok — Peter Kagan and the Wind • 45 — 1972 — John Wilcox — Stages of My Life • 46 — 1972 — Ed Trickett — The Telling Takes Me Home • 47 — 1972 — Jim Ringer — Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go • 48 — 1972 — Gordon Bok — Seal Djirl's Hymn • 49 — 1973 — Jean Redpath — Frae My Ain Countrie • 50 — 1974 — Helen Schneyer — Ballads, Broadsides and Hymns • 51 — 1974 — Bob Zentz — Mirrors and Changes • 52 — 1975 — Sandy and Caroline Paton — I've Got a Song • 53 — 1975 — Betty Smith — Songs Traditionally Sung in North Carolina • 54 — 1975 — Gordon Bok — Bay of Fundy • 55 — 1975 — Rick and Lorraine Lee — Living in the Trees • 56 — 1975 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — Turning Toward the Morning • 57 — 1976 — Kendall Morse — Lights Along the Shore • 58 — 1976 — Joe Hickerson — Drive Dull Care Away, Volume 1 • 59 — 1976 — Joe Hickerson Drive — Drive Dull Care Away, Volume 2 • 60 — 1976 — Joan Sprung — Ballads and Butterflies • 61 — 1976 — Archie Fisher — The Man With a Rhyme • 62 — 1976 — Margaret Christie and Ian Robb — The Barley Grain for Me • 63 — 1976 — Harry Tuft — Across the Blue Mountains • 64 — 1977 — Ed Trickett — Gently Down the Stream of Time • 65 — 1977 — John Roberts and Tony Barrand — Dark Ships in the Forest, Ballads of the Supernatural • 66 — 1977 — Bill Staines — Just Play One Tune More • 67 — 1978 — Bob Zentz — Beaucatcher Farewell • 68 — 1978 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — The Ways of Man • 69 — 1978 — Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise — For Foul Day and Fair • 70 — 1979 — Bill Staines — The Whistle of the Jay • 71 — 1979 — Ian Robb — Ian Robb and Hang the Piper • 72 — 1979 — Gordon Bok — Another Land Made of Water • 73 — 1980 — Joan Sprung — Pictures to My Mind • 74 — 1980 — Howard Bursen — Cider in the Kitchen • 75 — 1981 — Various Artists — The Continuing Tradition Sampler, Volume 1: Ballads • 76 — 1981 — Ron Kane and Skip Gorman — Powder River • 77 — 1980 — Jerry Rasmussen — Get Down Home • 78 — 1980 — Seamus and Manus McGuire — Humours of Lissadell • 79 — 1980 — Kendall Morse — Seagulls and Summer People • 80 — 1980 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — A Water Over Stone • 81 • 82 — 1981 — Jonathan Eberhart — Life's Trolley Ride • 83 — 1981 — Cindy Kallet — Working on Wings to Fly • 84 — 1981 — Gordon Bok — Jeremy Brown and Jeannie Teal • 85 — 1981 — Helen Bonchek Schneyer — On the Hallelujah Line • 86 — 1982 — Amidon, Simpson, Rock Creek — Sharon Mountain Harmony: A Golden Ring of Gospel • 87 — 1983 — Paul Van Arsdale — Dulcimer Heritage • 88 — 1985 — Lorre Wyatt — Roots and Branches • 89 • 90 — 1983 — Art Thieme — That's the Ticket • 91 — 1982 — Ray Fisher — Willie's Lady • 92 — 1982 — Ed Trickett — People Like You • 93 — 1983 — Cliff Haslam — The Clockwinder • 94 — 1983 — Gordon Bok — A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12-String • 95 — 1983 — Skip Gorman — New Englander's Choice • 96 — 1983 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — All Shall Be Well Again • 97 — 1983 — Boarding Party — Tis Our Sailing Time • 98 — 1983 — Cindy Kallet — Cindy Kallet 2 • 99 — 1985 — Ann Mayo Muir — So Goes My Heart • 100 — 1987 — Sandy and Caroline Paton — New Harmony • 101 — 1985 — Jerry Rasmussen — The Secret Life of Jerry Rasmussen • 102 • 103 — 1987 — Skip Gorman — Trail to Mexico • 104 — 1985 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — Fashioned in the Clay • 105 — 1986 — Art Thieme — On the Wilderness Road • 106 — 1985 — Ian Robb — Rose and Crown • 107 — 1986 — Cathy Barton and Dave Para — On a Day Like Today • 108 • 109 — 1987 — Boarding Party — Fair Winds and a Following Sea • 110 — 1987 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — Minneapolis Concert • 111 • 112 — 1989 — Gordon Bok, et al — Ensemble • 113 • 114 — 1989 — Barton, Para, Paton — Twas On a Night Like This: A Christmas Legacy • 115 — 1989 — Ed Miller — Border Background • 116 — 1990 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — And So Will We Yet • 117 • 118 — 1990 — Gordon Bok — Return to the Land • 119 • 120 — 1992 — David Paton — Music From the Mountain • 121 — 1992 — Barton, Para, Trickett, Tuft, Paton — For All the Good People, A Golden Ring Reunion • 122 — 1993 — Larry Kaplan — Worth All the Telling • 123 — 1995 — Rick Fielding — Lifeline • 124 — 1998 — Dan Milner — Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea • 125 — 2000 — Various Artists — Ballads and Songs of Tradition • 126 — 1999 — Carol Barney, John Sherman — Ceol Anam • 127 — 1999 — David Paton, et al — All Hands Around • 128 — 2001 — D. Cowan, A. Cargill, S. Brown — The Songs and Ballads of Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill • 129 — 2001 — Dan Milner and Bob Conroy — Irish in America • 130 — 2001 — Howie Bursen — Banjo Manikin • 131 — 2003 — Boarding Party — Too Far From the Shore • 132 — 2003 — Various Artists — Irish Songs From Old New England • 133 — 2004 — Johnson Girls — "On the Rocks" • 134 — 2004 — Poor Old Horse — The Curates Egg • 135 — Art Thieme — Chicago Town and Other Points West • 136 — 2007 — Bill Shute and Lisa Null — The Feathered Maiden and Other Ballads • 137 — 2007 — Bill Shute and Lisa Null — American Primitive • 138 — Johnson Girls — Fire Down Below • 139 — 2010 — Horizons — Bob Zentz • 140 — 2010 — Called Away — Chris Koldewey • 1001 — 1983 — Gordon Bok — Clear Away in the Morning • 1002 — 1989 — Sandy and Caroline Paton — When the Spirit Says Sing • 1003 — 1992 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — The First Fifteen Years, Volume 1 • 1004 — 1992 — Bok, Muir, Trickett — The First Fifteen Years, Volume 2 • 1005 — 1995 — Gordon Bok — North Wind's Clearing • 1006 — 2000 — Ann Mayo Muir — The Music of Ann Mayo Muir
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