Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire;
Cover graphic by Joan Carrigan Cork

Musicians

Chris Bartram: fiddle, cello, double bass, guitar, percussion;
Keith Holloway: melodeons, mandolin, electric bass, bells and percussion;
Charlie Marsden: side drum

Tracks

1. Prince’s Royal (2.57)
2. Maid of the Mill (2.14)
3. Martial Air (2.55)
4. Dancing Bear (2.51)
5. Jennette and Jennott / Lullaby of Broadway (3.19)
6. Swinging Safari / Gloucester Hornpipe (5.41)
7. Joella’s Jig / Geoffrey’s Third Birthday (3.36)
8. Three Around Three / Will’s Way (4.01)
9. Apres la Pluie (2.55)
10. Green and Gold (2.32)
11. Cliffe Hornpipe (1.38)
12. Lumps of Plum Pudding (2.36)
13. Prince William (2.31)
14. Silverton Polka (3.05)
15. Mustapha (3.27)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 Henry Purcell;
Track 7a Paul Nye;
Tracks 7b, 9 Keith Holloway;
Track 8b Will Ward;
Track 10 Chris Bartram;
Track 13 trad. from John Walsh’s Compleat Dancing Master (1731)

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire;
Cover picture courtesy of Vale and Downland Museum Trust;
Back cover picture by Nadine Stah White;
Inside photo by Davie Goffey

Musicians

Chris Bartram: vocals, fiddle, cello, double bass, guitar, guitar portugesa;
Keith Holloway: vocals, melodeon, mandolin, drum;
Diney Godfrey: vocals;
Joan Holloway: bones;
Charles Spicer: oboe

Tracks

1. “Within This Hive We’re All Alive…” (0.10)
2. Pop Steers’ Polkas (2.53)
3. Six Nights Drunk (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab) (2.35)
4. Shepherds’ Hey / The Squire’s Dance (2.25)
5. “A Curious Race Has Come to Pass…” (0.11)
6. The Wantage Tram (2.33)
7. The Wantage Hornpipe (3.16)
8. “Here Stop and Spend a Social Hour…” (0.10)
9. Two Takes the One (4.00)
10. Six Pretty Maids (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (1.55)
11. Tommy Make Room / Old Towler (3.28)
12. “Before the Gods…” (0.09)
13. The White Horse Shepherd (Roud 284) (5.18)
14. The Rifles (Roud 587) (1.57)
15. Jockie to the Fair (1.36)
16. A Rose by Any Other Name (2.37)
17. The Prize-Winning Hereford Bull (3.42)
18. Over the Hills to Newbury (2.12)
19. Butter and Cheese and All (Roud 510; G/D 4:914) (2.15)
20. The Cup That Cheers (3.01)

All tracks trad. add. Chris Bartram, Keith Holloway except
Tracks 1, 8 words trad.;
Track 5 words anon.;
Track 6 words anon., tune Chris Bartram;
Track 10 trad. arr. Chris Bartram;
Track 12 words G.K. Chesterton;
Track 14 words trad., tune Chris Bartram;
Track 12 Chris Bartram;
Track 20 Chris Bartram, Keith Holloway

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire

Musicians

Chris Bartram: fiddle, tambourine;
Keith Holloway: melodeon, mandolin, triangle, bass drum;
Charlie Marsden: side drum;
from the Mellstock Band:
    Dave Townsend: English concertina;
    Charles Spicer: fife, oboe, pipe, tabor;
    Phil Humphries: trombone

Tracks

1. The Quaker – Bampton, Oxfordshire (2.59)
2. Little Polly Polka – North-West (3.22)
3. The Queen’s Delight – Bucknell, Oxfordshire (4.07)
4. The Blue-Eyed Stranger / The Forester – Bucknell / Leafield, Oxfordshire (4.00)
5. Lumps of Plum Pudding – Bampton, Oxfordshire (1.38)
6. Trunkles / Rigs of Marlow – Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire (4.31)
7. Jockie to the Fair – Abingdon, Berkshire (1.42)
8. Bean Setting – Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire (2.11)
9. Green and Gold – Abingdon, Berkshire (2.32)
10. Princes Royal – Abingdon, Berkshire (2.56)
11. Beatrice Hill’s Three-Handed Reel – Herefordshire (3.08)
12. The Black Joke – Adderbury, Oxfordshire (3.28)
13. The Ladies Pleasure – Bledington, Gloucestershire (2.21)
14. The Ninety-Five / A Hundred Pipers – North-West (4.28)
15. The Crossed Pipe Dance (Greensleeves) – Bampton, Oxfordshire (1.58)
16. Dilwyn – Dilwyn, Herefordshire (3.48)
17. Constant Billy – Abingdon, Berkshire (2.01)
18. Shepherd’s Hey / Squire’s Dance – Abingdon, Berkshire (2.31)
19. Swaggering Boney – Longborough, Gloucestershire (2.10)
20. Princess Royal – Bampton, Oxfordshire (2.38)
21. The Lass of Dallogill / Lillibulero – North-West (4.50)

Produced by Alistair Gillies;
Recorded by Alistair Gillies at AGP Studios, Broseley, Shropshire in 2004/5;
Sleeve design by Chris Bartram and Alistair Gillies

Musical Traditions Review by Rod Stradling

Musicians

Chris Bartram: vocals

Tracks

1. The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841) (5.42)
2. Marrowbones (Roud 183; Laws Q2; G/D 2:318; Henry H174; TYG 6) (3.31)
3. The Yorkshire Horse Dealer (Roud 4588) (3.50)
4. Jealousy (Poison in a Glass of Wine) (Roud 218; Laws P30; G/D 2:210) (3.35)
5. Abergronw (3.12)
6. Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470) (3.42)
7. Take This Yellow Handkerchief (Roud 954) (4.48)
8. The Crocodile (Roud 886; G/D 8:1700; Henry H231a) (5.03)
9. I am John the Farmer (Roud 1752) / My Father Was a Farmer (Roud 16897) (3.24)
10. Ben Was A Hackney Coachman Rare (Roud 1314) (4.09)
11. Three Yorkshiremen Went Hunting (Roud 283; G/D 2:283) (2.20)
12. The Ruffian Robber (Roud 2638; Laws L2) (3.13)
13. Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear (Roud 1035) (3.27)
14. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Heslington (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168) (5.43)
15. The Death of Poor Bill Brown (Roud 609; TYG 41) (3.43)
16. A Jolly Sixpence (Roud 1116) (5.10)