Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green

by Gwilym Davies

Gwilym Davies has spent a lifetime enthusiastically recording folk songs and tunes, mainly from southern England and the USA. He follows in the footsteps of well known folk song collectors such as Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This book describes hidden musical gems, drinking songs, children's ditties, ballads, wassails and bawdy tales, along with colourful characters he met along the way. Through this book Gwilym shares his passion for our folk heritage and traditional songs.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2020

About the author

Despite his Welsh name, Gwilym Davies hails from Hampshire. His early interest in music making came in the skiffle craze of the sixties, strumming out chords on an old banjo. The folk music boom of the sixties awakened his curiosity to explore the roots of his folk culture which he then set out to research. As well as being a song collector, Gwilym is known as a singer and multi-instrumentalist musician and is an active performer in his locality. He has written many short publications on folk song, but this is his first venture into a longer work.