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Let the Wind Blow High or Low
Let the Wind Blow High or Low Fellside Recordings FECD264 (CD, UK, 20 October 2014) |
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Adams;
Produced by Paul Adams, Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith;
Photographs by Bill Osment and Kate Coxhead;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Jimmy Aldridge: vocals, banjo;
Sid Goldsmith: vocals, guitar;
Olly Craigan: bodhrán;
Aaron Catlow: fiddle
Tracks
- Gaol Song (Roud 1077) / Trallee Gaol Irish polka / Clinch Mountain Backstep Appalachian fiddle tune (6.17)
- Chemical Worker’s Song (3.42)
- L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (4.67)
- Paddy West (Roud 3092) (3.42)
- Hold the Lantern (2.39)
- Let the Wind Blow High or Low (Roud 308; G/D 5:946; Henry H711) (5.33)
- White Dove / Wynchburgh Junction fiddle tune (6.14)
- The Gardener (3.57)
- Keep Your Hand on the Plough (3.33)
- The Bonny Ship the “Diamond” (Roud 2172; G/D 1:11) (5.24)
- What You Do With What You’ve Got (4.03)
- The Cottager’s Reply (5.04)
Tracks 1abc, 4, 6, 7b, 10 trad.;
Track 2 Ron Angel;
Track 3 Jean Ritchie;
Track 5 Barrie Temple, Steve Evans;
Track 7a Ewan MacColl;
Track 8 Sid Goldsmith;
Track 9 anon., Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 11 Si Kahn;
Track 12 poem Frank Mansell, music Chris Wood
> Folk Music > Records > Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Night Hours
Night Hours
Night Hours Fellside Recordings FECD278 (CD, UK, 9 December 2016) |
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Phil Davies at Room4studios in Bristol;
Produced by Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith;
Executive producer for Fellside: Paul Adams;
Artwork by Meg Buick;
Photography by Paul Blakemore
Musicians
Jimmy Aldridge: vocals, banjo, fiddle;
Sid Goldsmith: vocals, guitar, double bass, concertina;
Teyr (James Gavin: fiddle;
Tommie Black-Roff: accordion;
Dominic Henderson: uilleann pipes, whistles)
Tracks
- Bridge (0.22)
- Night Hours (5.58)
- Harvest Gypsies (3.48)
- The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155) (6.47)
- The Ballad of Yorkley Court (5.44)
- Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) / Jackie Tar hornpipe (5.13)
- Mary and the Soldier (Roud 2496; G/D 1:91; Henry H782) (5.00)
- Willie o’ the Winsbury (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221) (5.54)
- Moved On (4.37)
- The Grazier Tribe (Roud 2998) (6.00)
- Along the Castlereagh (Roud 8399) (4.09)
- Something Good (3.39)
Track 1 night time in Bristol;
Tracks 2, 9 Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 3 Boo Hewerdine;
Tracks 4, 6-8, 10 trad. arr. Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 5 Humphrey Lloyd, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 11 A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson;
Track 12 Sid Goldsmith, Jimmy Aldridge
Video
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith with Teyr perform Night Hours at Priston Village Hall in 2016:
> Folk Music > Records > Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Many a Thousand
Many a Thousand
Many a Thousand Many a Thousand Records MATR18001 (CD, UK, 7 September 2018) |
Produced by Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith;
Recorded by Dylan Fowler;
Mixed by Sid Goldsmith;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Artwork by Rosanna Morris;
Design by Tim Morris
Folk Radio UK review by Thomas Blake
Musicians
Jimmy Aldridge: vocals, banjo, guitar;
Sid Goldsmith: vocals, guitar, concertina, double bass;
Tom Moore: violin, viola;
Twm Dylan: double bass;
Fred Harper: drum kit, pandeiro
Tracks
- Hope and Glory (4.49)
- Working Chap (Roud 5591; G/D 3:656) (4.44)
- Turning of the Year (4.21)
- Reedcutter’s Daughter (Roud 5397) (5.05)
- The Last Ploughshare (5.35)
- Hawk’s Call (Roud 3348) (3.35)
- A Monument to the Times / The Stepped Ford (4.24)
- Via Extasia (5.19)
- The Poacher’s Fate (Roud 793; Laws L14) (4.11)
- The Tide (6.11)
- The Seasons (5.30)
Tracks 1, 3, 7, 10 Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 2 trad. arr. Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith, additional lyrics Martin Carthy;
Tracks 2, 4, 9 trad. arr. Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 5 John Conolly;
Track 6 trad. arr. Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith, new verses Jimmy Aldridge, Sid Goldsmith;
Track 8 Liam Weldon (1976);
Track 11 words Joseph Campbell, Jeff Wesley, arr. Peta Webb, Ken Hall
Video
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith play Turning of the Year:
> Folk Music > Records > Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Awake, Arise
Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Awake, Arise
Awake, Arise Many a Thousand Records MATR19001 (book w/ CD, UK, 6 December 2019) |
Produced by Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, and Neil Segrott;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil Segrott;
Album artwork by Ihomas Shahan;
Photos by Caraway Studios, Elly Lucas, Emily Fairweather, and Barry Saveli;
Design by Alan James at Rendition Graphics
Folk Radio UK review by David Kidman
Musicians
Hannah James: vocals, accordion, percussion;
Hazel Askew: vocals, melodeon, harp, shruti box;
Rowan Rheingans: vocals, fiddle, viola, banjo, baritone banjo;
Jimmy Aldridge: vocals, banjo, guitar;
Sid Goldsmith: vocals, guitar, double bass
Tracks
- Sing We All Merrily (Roud 13245) (3.24)
- Up in the Morning Early (Roud V12718) / The Christmas Road (4.17)
- Bring Hither Now the Holly Bough (2.41)
- Carol Reading / Shortly Before 8.30pm (1.27)
- Hail! Smiling Morn (Roud 1346) (2.56)
- Winter Berries (2.20)
- The Old Churchyard (Roud 3386) (4.01)
- The Bear Song (4.03)
- Night Came Early (1.36)
- The King (Roud 19109) (3.05)
- Da Day Dawn / Like as the Thrush in Winter (4.34)
- The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Roud 3154) (3.46)
- Snow Falls (4.11)
- Wassail Recipe (0.46)
- Cornish Wassail (Roud 209) (2.35)
- Heading for Home (4.05)
- Hope Is Before Us (4.26)
Track 1 trad., rewritten and added verses by Hannah James;
Track 2a verses Robert Burns, chorus trad. collected by Robert Burns, tune trad. Cold and Raw;
Tracks 2b, 9 Lauri Lee (1914-1997): Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year (2016);
Track 3 words Stephen Fawcett, first published in Bradford Legends (1872), tune Christopher Edwin Willing;
Track 5 Reginald Spofforth;
Track 6 Thomas Furly Forster: The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Natural Phenomena (1827);
Track 7 trad. from Almeda Riddle, with some lines from Silas W. Leonard, A.D. Fillmore: The Christian Psalmist (Louisville, KY, 1854);
Track 8 Rowan Rheingans;
Tracks 10, 15 trad.;
Track 11a trad. Shetland fiddle tune;
Track 11b Edmond Holmes (1902);
Track 12 Thomas Doubleday (1821) / trad.;
Track 13 John Tams (1980);
Track 14 a 1722 recipe of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, from Dorothy Hartley: Food in England (London: MacDonald and Jane’s, 1954);
Track 16 Peggy Seeger;
Track 17 words William Morris: Chants for Socialists (1885), rewritten and added to by Hazel Askew, tune Hazel Askew
Video
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Other records with Jimmy Aldridge and/or Sid Goldsmith
Various Artists, The Journey Continues: Fellside at 40, 3 CD, Fellside FECD272, 2016
The Norfolk Broads, In the Valley of the Flowers, CD, own issue, 2017
Various Artists, Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018
Julie Abbé, Numberless Dreams, CD, Anisogoma ANIS001, 2020
Various Artists, Stand Up Now: Songs From the Landworkers’ Alliance, CD, Many a Thousand MATR21001, 2021
Tamsin Elliott, Frey, CD, Penny Fiddle PFR2206CD, 2022
Tarren, Revel, CD, Tarren, 29 August 2022