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Blair Dunlop: Bags Outside the Door

Blair Dunlop: Bags Outside the Door (Rooksmere RRCD103)

Bags Outside the Door
Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records RRCD103 (CD EP, UK, 10 October 2011)

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Produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamptonshire;
Photography by Mario Rota;
Design by Mark Hutchinson

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, acoustic guitar

Tracks

  1. Young Billy in the Low Ground (4.52)
  2. Fallout (5.48)
  3. Si Bheg Si Mhor / Granchi (5.25)
  4. Bags Outside the Door (4.24)
  5. Flandyke Shore (Roud 2636) (4.35)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop except
Track 3a Turlough O’Carolan;
Track 5 trad. arr. Nic Jones, Blair Dunlop

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom

Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom

Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom (Rooksmere RRCD106)

Blight & Blossom
Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records RRCD106 (CD, UK, 1 October 2012)

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Produced and engineered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamptonshire, in 2012;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandocello [2], piano [7];
Guy Fletcher: drums [8, 11], percussion [3], fiddle [3, 8], mandolin [8], mandola [8];
Tim Harries: double bass [1, 3, 11];
Ashley Hutchings: electric bass [5];
Mark Hutchinson: vocals [2-3, 8-9], acoustic guitar [2-3, 9], electric bass [2, 8], banjo [3], percussion [2-3, 5], harmonium [8], piano [8];
Rick Lollar*: electric guitar [2, 5];
Megan Lovell*: vocals [2], dobro guitar [5-6], lap-steel guitar [2];
Rebecca Lovell*: joint lead vocals [6], vocals [2], mandolin [2, 5-6];
Chad Malton*: drums [2, 5];
Joan Wassar: vocals [8-9];
Pete Zorn: alto saxophone [8], soprano saxophone [9], whistle [3];
String Quartet (Henry Webster, Dawn Kelleher: violins; Nicky Pound: viola; Sarah Westley: cello) [1, 11]
* are Larkin Poe

Tracks

  1. Secret Theatre (4.50)
  2. Less the Pawn (4.39)
  3. Fallout (5.57)
  4. Threads (4.49)
  5. Billy in the Lowground (4.50)
  6. Black Is the Colour (of My True Love’s Hair) (Roud 3103) (4.20)
  7. The Gown (4.11)
  8. Bags Outside the Door (4.14)
  9. Trouble (4.33)
  10. Seven Brothers (4.42)
  11. Blight & Blossom (5.55)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop except
Track 5 Blair Dunlop / trad. arr. Blair Dunlop;
Track 6 trad. arr. Blair Dunlop;
Track 0 Shawn Colvin, John Leventhal, Tom Littlefield;
Track 10 Richard Thompson

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop / Larkin Poe: Killing Time

Blair Dunlop / Larkin Poe: Killing Time

Blair Dunlop / Larkin Poe: Killing Time (Rooksmere RRCD109)

Killing Time
Blair Dunlop / Larkin Poe

Rooksmere Records RRCD109 (CD EP, UK, 6 May 2013)

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Produced and engineered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamptonshire

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, guitar;
Rebecca Lovell: vocals, mandolin, fiddle, piano;
Megan Lovell: vocals, dobro, lap steel;
Mark Hutchinson: bass, additional vocals, percussion;
Marlon Patton: percussion [1];
Thomas Lovell: finger cymbals

Tracks

  1. Killing Time (2.22)
  2. I’ll Keep It With Mine (5.24)
  3. Sea of Faces (5.25)
  4. Strangler Fig (1.51)
  5. The Month of January (5.03)
  6. Lottie (3.42)

Tracks 1, 4, 6 Rebecca Lovell;
Track 2 Bob Dylan;
Track 3 Blaur Dunlop, Rebecca Lovell, Megan Lovell;
Track 5 trad. arr. Blair Dunlop

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop: House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop: House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop: House of Jacks (Rooksmere RRCD112)

House of Jacks
Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records RRCD112 (CD, UK, 26 May 2014)

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Produced and engineered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamptonshire;
Hammond organ recorded at Dulcitone, Northamptonshire;
Mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, guitars;
Tim Harries: bass guitar;
Guy Fletcher: drums, violin, mandolin;
Jacob Stoney: keyboards;
Mark Hutchinson: guitars, backing vocals, percussion;
Angharad Jenkins: violin [3, 10];
Rebecca Lovell: backing vocals;
Simon Care: melodeon

Tracks

  1. Something’s Gonna Give Way (3.49)
  2. 45s (c.’69) (3.30)
  3. Fifty Shades of Blue (4.30)
  4. House of Jacks (4.10)
  5. Chain by Design (5.31)
  6. Different Schools (4.15)
  7. Violas Reverie (2.41)
  8. The Ballad of Enzo Laviano (5.26)
  9. The Station (3.57)
  10. 45s (c.’14) (4.31)
  11. Song of Two Bridges (4.29)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop except
Track 11 Ashley Hutchings, Ken Nicol

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop: Gilded

Blair Dunlop: Gilded

Blair Dunlop: Gilded (Gilded Wings GWR001)

Gilded
Blair Dunlop

Gilded Wings Records GWR001 (CD, UK, 6 May 2016)

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Produced, recorded and mixed by Tim Thomas at Blueprint Studios;
Mastered by Jason at LOUD Mastering;
Images by Ella Schultz;
Artwork and additional image processing by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, guitars;
Jacob Stoney: keyboards, backing vocals;
Fred Claridge: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Tim Thomas: bass guitar

Tracks

  1. Castello (2.58)
  2. She Won’t Cry for Me (3.51)
  3. First World Problem (3.58)
  4. 356 (4.56)
  5. Temper Your Smiling (6.17)
  6. Up on Cragside (5.04)
  7. Eternal Optimist (3.41)
  8. Let’s Dance to Paganini (3.29)
  9. The Egoist (5.00)
  10. No Go Zones (2.57)
  11. I Don’t Know (3.43)
  12. Phoenix (4.16)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop except
Track 3 Blair Dunlop, Gavin Davenport, Katriona Guilhaumaud (Gilmore), Benjamin Trott, Tom Wright, Tim Yates;
Track 11 Blair Dunlop, Dave Burn;
Track 12 Blair Dunlop, Gita Langley

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop: Notes From an Island

Blair Dunlop: Notes From an Island

Blair Dunlop: Notes From an Island (Gilded Wings GWR005)

Notes From an Island
Blair Dunlop

Gilded Wings Records GWR005 (CD, UK, 27 April 2018)

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Produced by Ed Harcourt;
Recorded by Dani Bennett Spragg at Hoxa HQ & The Wolf Cabin;
Mixed by Pete Fletcher at Black Bay Studio;
Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, guitars, lap steel;
Jacob JJ Stoney: organ, piano, Wurlitzer piano, synthesisers, backing vocals;
Fred Claridge: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Ed Harcourt: bass, backing vocals, Nashville guitar [3], keyboards [10];
Archie Churchill-Moss: melodeon;
Tom Moore: viola, violin [1, 8];
Gitta Langley: violin [4-5];
Brooke Sharkey: backing vocals [8]

Tracks

  1. Spices From the East (5.04)
  2. Feng Shui (4.46)
  3. Sweet on You (4.16)
  4. I Do (5.19)
  5. One and the Same (5.13)
  6. Within My Citadel (3.44)
  7. Nothing Good (4.38)
  8. Threadbare (3.52)
  9. Green Liquor (4.30)
  10. Pallet and Brush (5.19)
  11. Wed to Arms (3.47)
  12. Cobalt Blue (4.11)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop

> Ashley Hutchings, Becky Mills & Blair Dunlop > Records > A Midwinter Miscellany

Ashley Hutchings, Becky Mills & Blair Dunlop: A Midwinter Miscellany

Ashley Hutchings, Becky Mills & Blair Dunlop: Gone Missing (Talking Elephant TECD451)

A Midwinter Miscellany
Ashley Hutchings, Becky Mills & Blair Dunlop

Talking Elephant TECD451 (CD, UK, 15 October 2020)

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Produced by Blair Dunlop;
Executive producer Ashley Hutchings;
Recorded by Blair Dunlop at the homes of Ashley and Blair in September 2020;
Mixed by Paul Hopkinson at The Foundry, Chestetrfield, Derbyshire;
Design by Mick Toole

Musicians

Ashley Hutchings: spoken word, vocals, bass guitar;
Becky Mills: vocals, acoustic guitar;
Blair Dunlop: vocals, acoustic and electric guitar

with special guest
Judy Dunlop, vocals [9]

Tracks

  1. Crocuses Poem (excerpt) / Crocuses (3.37)
  2. Raggle Taggle Lad (4.56)
  3. Her Name Was Mary (2.51)
  4. The Mill on the Floss (excerpt) (1.47)
  5. Animal’s Carol (3.22)
  6. Hibernation (1.39)
  7. Three Angels (2.06)
  8. Sweet November (2.53)
  9. Mahogany Tree (2.27)
  10. Silence of Snow (3.05)
  11. Ancient Midwinter Customs (1.43)
  12. The Christ Child Lay on Mary’s Lap (4.25)
  13. Christmas Wreath (3.31)

Track 1a Christopher Smart;
Tracks 1b, 8 Becky Mills;
Track 2 Ashley Hutchings, Ken Nicol;
Tracks 3, 13 Ashley Hutchings, Blair Dunlop;
Track 4 George Eliot;
Track 5 from Kenneth Grahame’s book The Wind in the Willows, music Becky Mills;
Track 6 Ashley Hutchings;
Track 7 trad. / Ashley Hutchings;
Track 9 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, music Judy Dunlop;
Track 10 Ashley Hutchings, Ruth Angell;
Track 12 poem by G.K. Chesterton, music Blair Dunlop

> Folk Music > Records > Blair Dunlop: Out of the Rain

Blair Dunlop: Out of the Rain

Blair Dunlop: Out of the Rain (Gilded Wings GWR012CD)

Out of the Rain
Blair Dunlop

Gilded Wings Records GWR012CD/LP (CD/2 LP, UK, 24 May 2024)

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Produced by Jim Moray;

KLOF review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Blair Dunlop: vocals, guitars, lap steel;
Jim Moray: lap steel, guitars, keyboards, double bass;
Holly Brandon: fiddle;
Archie Churchill-Moss: accordion;
Graham Coe: cello;
Jamie Morrison: drums;
Ellie Gowers: harmony vocals

Tracks

The CD has tracks 1-12 only

LP Side 1

  1. Ain’t No Harm
  2. Let’s Get Out of the City
  3. Midday Mass
  4. Julietta

LP Side 1

  1. I Wanna Be Running
  2. Slipstream
  3. Brick on Brick (HA9)
  4. When Will I Learn?

LP Side 3

  1. Boots on the Side
  2. For All the Trees
  3. 1989 San Remo Conqueror

LP Side 4

  1. Let’s Get Out of the City (radio mix)
  2. Iberian Season
  3. I Wanna Be Running (Live Acoustic)
  4. Midday Mass (Live Acoustic)

All tracks written by Blair Dunlop

Video

Blair Dunlop sings I Wanna Be Running:

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Ashley Hutchings et al: Great Grandson of Morris On (Talking Elephant TECD062) Ashley Hutchings and Friends: Great Grandson of Morris On, CD, Talking Elephant TECD062, 2004

Ashley Hutchings & Ernesto de Pascale: My Land Is Your Land (Esoteric ECLEC 2078) Ashley Hutchings & Ernesto de Pascale, My Land Is Your Land, CD, Esoteric ECLEC 2078, 2008

The Albion Band: Fighting Room (own label) The Albion Band, Fighting Room, EP, own label, 2011

The Albion Band: The Vice of the People (Powered Flight POWDCD02) The Albion Band, The Vice of the People, CD, Powered Flight POWDCD02, 2012

Folk Awards 2012 (Proper PROPERFOLK12) Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012, 3 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK12, 2012

Folk Awards 2013 (Proper PROPERFOLK14) Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013, 3 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK14, 2013

Nic Jones: The Enigma of Nic Jones (Topic TSDVD590) Nic Jones, The Enigma of Nic Jones, DVD, Topic TSDVD590, 2014

Ashley Hutchings: Paradise and Thorns (Talking Elephant TECD410) Ashley Hutchings: Paradise and Thorns, 2 CD, Talking Elephant TECD410, 2018

Painted Sky: From the Blue (Gilded Lily GILDEDB1) Painted Sky, From the Blue, CD, Gilded Lily GILDEDB1, 22 May 2024