A Song for Every Season

By common consent, the folk publishing event of 1971 was the joint issue of Bob Copper’s A Song for Every Season ‐ as a book from Heinemann, and as four LP records from Leader Records. Both ventures shared a common title. The book has been republished by Coppersongs. The records are now collectors’ items.

The book deals with three generations of Coppers, living, farming, and singing in Rottingdean, Sussex, where their ancestors had lived, farmed and sung for centuries. Bob Copper also deals with the countryman’s year, its good and bad fortunes, month by month. He appends 47 family songs,...