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

1. Gaol Song (Roud 1077) / Trallee Gaol Irish polka / Clinch Mountain Backstep Appalachian fiddle tune (6.17)
2. Chemical Worker’s Song (3.42)
3. L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (4.67)
4. Paddy West (Roud 3092) (3.42)
5. Hold the Lantern (2.39)
6. Let the Wind Blow High or Low (Roud 308; G/D 5:946; Henry H711) (5.33)
7. White Dove / Wynchburgh Junction fiddle tune (6.14)
8. The Gardener (3.57)
9. Keep Your Hand on the Plough (3.33)
10. The Bonny Ship the ‘Diamond’ (Roud 2172; G/D 1:11) (5.24)
11. What You Do With What You’ve Got (4.03)
12. 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

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

1. Bridge (0.22)
2. Night Hours (5.58)
3. Harvest Gypsies (3.48)
4. The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155) (6.47)
5. The Ballad of Yorkley Court (5.44)
6. Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) / Jackie Tar hornpipe (5.13)
7. Mary and the Soldier (Roud 2496; G/D 1:91; Henry H782) (5.00)
8. Willie o’ the Winsbury (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221) (5.54)
9. Moved On (4.37)
10. The Grazier Tribe (Roud 2998) (6.00)
11. Along the Castlereagh (Roud 8399) (4.09)
12. 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:

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

1. Hope and Glory (4.49)
2. Working Chap (Roud 5591; G/D 3:656) (4.44)
3. Turning of the Year (4.21)
4. Reedcutter’s Daughter (Roud 5397) (5.05)
5. The Last Ploughshare (5.35)
6. Hawk’s Call (Roud 3348) (3.35)
7. A Monument to the Times / The Stepped Ford (4.24)
8. Via Extasia (5.19)
9. The Poacher’s Fate (Roud 793; Laws L14) (4.11)
10. The Tide (6.11)
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:

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

1. Sing We All Merrily (Roud 13314) (3.24)
2. Up in the Morning Early (Roud V12718) / The Christmas Road (4.17)
3. Bring Hither Now the Holly Bough (2.41)
4. Carol Reading / Shortly Before 8.30pm (1.27)
5. Hail! Smiling Morn (Roud 1346) (2.56)
6. Winter Berries (2.20)
7. The Old Churchyard (Roud 3386) (4.01)
8. The Bear Song (4.03)
9. Night Came Early (1.36)
10. The King (Roud 32955) (3.05)
11. Da Day Dawn / Like as the Thrush in Winter (4.34)
12. The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Roud 3154) (3.46)
13. Snow Falls (4.11)
14. Wassail Recipe (0.46)
15. Cornish Wassail (Roud 209) (2.35)
16. Heading for Home (4.05)
17. 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 Laurie 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

Produced by Jimmy Aldridge, Hazel Askew, Sid Goldsmith, Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Tom Moore;
Recorded and mixed by Tom Moore at Giant Wafer Studios in Wales and Joe’s Garage in Bristol;
Mastered by Sam Proctor;
Album artwork by Thomas Shahan;
Photos by Emma Ledwith;
Design by Katie Jones

Folk Radio UK album announcement

Musicians

Hannah James: vocals, accordion, percussion, step dance;
Hazel Askew: vocals, harmonium, harp, melodeons, tenor guitar, shaker;
Rowan Rheingans: vocals, fiddle, viola, electric guitar, shaker;
Jimmy Aldridge: vocals, banjo, guitar, electric guitar;
Sid Goldsmith: vocals, guitar, electric guitar, cittern, double bass

Tracks

1. Summer’s In (4.26)
2. The Cuckoo (Roud 19967) (2.02)
3. On May Morning (1.05)
4. Following the Old Oss / Padstow May Song (Roud 305) (3.46)
5. May Day (4.53)
6. The Ant and the Grasshopper (2.58)
7. May Morning Dew (Roud 5405) (3.31)
8. Staines Morris (Roud V18894) (2.42)
9. Midsummer Divinations (1.52)
10. Sweet Lemeney (Roud 193) (3.26)
11. Limu (1.19)
12. Midnight (1.11)
13. Mikaelidagen (2.24)
14. Free Party (3.41)
15. I’m Going in a Field (2.18)
16. River Came Back (3.41)
17. Aftermath (4.26)
18. Yellow Sun (1.36)
19. What’cha Gonna Do? (2.30)
20. Fires (3.33)
21. Ligō (1.58)
22. Longest Hot Summer (4.39)
23. Another Summer (1.38)
24. Harvest Festival (2.08)
25. Harvest Song (Roud 2471) (1.59)
26. That Was How It Was / We’ll All Stand Up Together (Roud 12870) (2.11)
27. Good as Gone (4.47)

Track 1 chorus, first verse and tune Anne Briggs, 1973, all other verses by Hannah James, 2025;
Track 2 traditional children’s rhyme set to music by Benjamin Britten in Friday Afternoons, 1933-35; introduction text from The Pocket Encyclopedia of Natural Phenomena by Thomas Furly Forster, 1827;
Track 3 words Sid Goldsmith, 2024;
Track 4a Tony Deane, 1996;
Tracks 4b, 7, 10 trad;
Track 5 Rowan Rheingans, 2024;
Track 6 Leon Rosselson, 1972;
Track 8 words from The Maypole Song from Robert Cox’s Actæon and Diana 1656, tune from John Playford’s The Dancing Master 1651, put together by William Chappell in Popular Music of the Olden Time, Vol. 1, 1859;
Track 9a Anna Eliza Bray in Traditions, Legends, Superstitions and Sketches of Devonshire on the Borders of the Taymar and the Tavy, 1838;
Track 9b edited from Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, 1686 by John Aubrey;
Track 9c British Calendar Customs, A.R. Wright and T.E. Lones, 1936: i. 16;
Track 11 trad. Älvdalen, Sweden, translation by Annika Vallgren;
Track 12 Rowan Rheingans, 2024, featuring a voice note of fiddler Jonas Åkerlund playing for dancers at Tobakspinnarstämman in Nås, Sweden, in 2019;
Track 13 trad. Swedish, translation by Linnea Wallander and Jerk Rönnols;
Track 14 Jimmy Aldridge, 2024;
Track 15 Ivor Cutler, 1967;
Track 16 Hazel Askew, 2020;
Track 17 Jimmy Aldridge, 2023;
Track 18 Hannah James, 2025;
Track 19 Béla Fleck, 2024;
Track 20a Hazel Askew, 2024;
Track 20b John Stow, The Survey of London, 1598 (abridged);
Track 20c a monk of Lilleshall Abbey, 15^th century;
Track 21 traditional Latvian, translation by Aida Rullis and Zintis Rullis, with thanks to Julia Eales;
Track 22 Ray Hearne, 2014; the tune is a variant of Ciaran Boyle’s version of The Granemore Hare;
Track 23 Hannah James, 2024;
Tracks 24, 26a Laurie Lee (1914-1997), Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year (abridged);
Track 25 trad. words from the singing of David Sawyer of Ogbourne, Wiltshire, and found in Alfred Williams’ Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames, 1923, tune by Hazel Askew, 2025;
Track 26b trad., collected from William Shepherd in Winchcombe Union workhouse, Gloucestershire, 8 April 1909;
Track 27 Robin Williamson, 1965

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