The Body Blow

by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger

Type: Album
Released: 1 January 1999
Label: Topic
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1:00:24
Community rating: 3.83/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Broadcast on 27 March 1962 and prepared with the Polio Research Fund, 'The Body Blow' studies the psychology of pain and endurance through the testimony of people living with polio. Its twelve tracks are among the most intimate of the series, Parker's actuality recordings doing much of the work that songs do elsewhere in the ballads.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, storytelling, spoken-word, archival, observational

Tracklist

Introduction (2:47)
What Day Did The World Stop Moving? (7:26)
Do You Recall How You Climbed The Mountains? (4:13)
Can't Breathe... (6:12)
I Often Think Back... (2:53)
The World Is A Bed... (3:53)
I Wasn't Afraid While I Was In The Lung... (5:31)
Well First Of All...Appreciate The Situation... (7:17)
While There's Life, There's Hope... (5:00)
It's Goodbye Now... (2:54)
How Can I Do All The Small Things? (5:16)
Stronger Than Pain Is The Human Will To Survive... (5:16)
Closing Announcement / The Hidden Foe... (1:46)

Credits

Ewan MacColl - primary artist, script by, songwriter, vocals
Alf Edwards - concertina [english concertina], ocarina
Alfie Kahn - flute, harmonica