> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Prospect Providence
Cockersdale: Prospect Providence
Prospect Providence EFDSS ESLP 001 (LP, UK, 1985) |
Recorded by Paul Adams at Fellside Recordings, Workington, Cumbria;
Produced by English Folk Dance & Song Society;
Artwork and cover illustration by Ian A. Rogers
Musicians
Keith Marsden: vocals, guitar;
Val Marsden, Peter Ogley: vocals;
Brian Senior: vocals, harmonica;
John Coy: guitar;
Jamie O’Dwyer: fiddle;
Steve Turner: concertina
Tracks
Side 1
- Prospect Providence
- I Remember Morley
- Billy Armitage
- Willey ’Ole Lad
- City Lament
- Funeral Song
Side 2
- The Drovers
- Old Peculier
- St Aubin Sur Mer
- The Vampire
- Hessle Road
- Bring Us a Barrel
All tracks Keith Marsden except
Track 10 Rudyard Kipling, Keith Marsden
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Doin’ the Manch’
Cockersdale: Doin’ the Manch’
Doin’ the Manch’ Fellside Recordings FE072 (LP, UK, 1988) |
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams at Fellside Recordings, Workington, Cumbria, December 1988;
CD bonus tracks from the Cockersdale archive, source unknown, possibly 1989;
Design by Graham Pirt;
Notes by Keith Marsden
Musicians
Keith Marsden, Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
with
Dave Howard: guitar
Tracks
LP Side 1
- Doin’ the Manch’ (5.50)
- The Black and Bitter Night (4.12)
- Jack Ashton (3.47)
- Coal Town Road (1.58)
- Normandy Orchards (4.50)
LP Side 2
- Knocking at the Door (7.02)
- Weary Cutters (Roud 8772) (3.04)
- When All the World (2.05)
- Morley Main (7.18)
- Home Lads, Home (4.36)
CD Bonus Tracks
- Prospect Providence (5.57)
- Willy-Ole Lad (3.59)
- The Drovers (3.43)
All tracks by Keith Marsden except
Track 2 Peter Bellamy;
Track 4 Allister MacGillivray;
Track 7 trad.;
Track 8 Charles Kingley, Keith Marsden;
Track 10 Cicely Fox Smith adapt. Sarah Morgan
> Folk Music > Books > Picking Sooty Blackberries
Picking Sooty Blackberries
Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt (editors), |
The Songs
The songs are referenced by page numbers.
- Bring Us a Barrel
- Billy Armitage
- Crack Your Whip
- When All the World
- Ellesmere Port
- City Lament
- I Remember Morley
- Greasy Mac
- Vampire
- Hessle Road
- Old Peculiar
- Prospect Providence
- Mr Midland
- Ten Pints of Tetleys
- Willy ’Ole Lad
- The Drovers
- Funeral Song
- Jack Ashton
- St Aubin sur Mer
- Idlers and Scivers
- Normandy Orchards
- Morley Main
- Doin’ the Manch’
- Left, Left, Right, Steady Man
- Tortoises Alwasy Come Last
- Lucinda
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Been Around for Years
Cockersdale: Been Around for Years
Been Around for Years Fellside Recordings FECD101 (CD, UK, 1994) |
Recorded February 19/20, 1994;
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Cover design by Graham Pirt;
Photography by Chris Sugden;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
Tracks
- Follow Me ’Ome (3.53)
- Hills of Mullaghbawn (Roud 2362) (3.04)
- Jamie Foyers (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106) (3.44)
- Lost at 21 (3.22)
- Three Cheers for Booze (4.21)
- Will Ye Go to Flanders? (Roud 8544) (2.23)
- Cholera Camp (5.59)
- Raglan Road (3.03)
- St Aubin Sur Mer (3.16)
- Left, Left, Right, Steady (5.06)
- Race Against Time (3.39)
- Roll on the Day (3.02)
- Thames Lighterman (3.03)
- Jarrow Song (3.15)
Tracks 1, 7 Rudyard Kipling, Peter Bellamy;
Tracks 2, 6 trad. arr. Cockersdale;
Track 3 Ewan MacColl;
Tracks 4, 11, 14 Graham Pirt;
Track 5 Chris Sugden;
Track 8 trad. arr. Patrick Kavanagh;
Tracks 9, 10 Keith Marsden;
Track 12 Allan Taylor;
Track 13 Alasdair Clayre
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Wide Open Skies
Cockersdale: Wide Open Skies
Wide Open Skies Fellside Recordings FECD123 (CD, UK, 1997) |
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Cover photograph and design by Graham Pirt;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
Tracks
- Tree Song (2.27)
- Home Fit for Heroes (3.06)
- The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.33)
- Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60) (2.09)
- Skyehouse Bridge (4.05)
- Ash and Oak (2.48)
- Anderson’s Coast (5.01)
- Barrett’s Privateers (4.43)
- Auld Fisher’s Farewell to the Coquet (4.05)
- Us Poor Fellows (3.10)
- Long Long Road (2.48)
- Single Handed (3.49)
- Death Is Not the End (3.18)
- Tortoises Always Come Last (4.49)
- A Pilgrim’s Way (5.49)
Tracks 1, 15 words Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy;
Track 2 words Les Barker, music Martin Carthy;
Tracks 3-4 trad. arr. Cockersdale;
Track 5 Graham Pirt;
Tracks 6, 12 Chris Sugden;
Track 7 John Warner;
Track 8 Stan Rodgers;
Track 9 Robert Roxby, Thomas Doubleday;
Track 10 Peter Bellamy;
Track 11 Archie Fisher;
Track 13 Dob Dylan;
Track 14 Keith Marsden, Chris Sugden
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale
Other records with Cockersdale
Steve Turner, Eclogue, LP, Fellside FE042, 1984
Various Artists: The Derby Tup Presents…, cassette, BBC Radio Derby DTP-01, 1988
Various Artists: Banklands: The Story of Fellside Records, CD, Fellside FECB100, 1994
Various Artists: Flash Company: A Celebration of 25 Years of Fellside Records (1976-2001), 2 CD, Fellside FECD156, 2001
Various Artists: Voices in Harmony: English Traditional Songs, CD, Fellside FECD158, 2001
Various Artists: Enlist for a Soldier: The Soldier in Song From the English Civil War to the Falklands, CD, Fellside FTSR3, 2002
Various Artists: Nowt So Funny As Folk, CD, Ada ADA105CD, 2003
Folk for M.S., Generosity: A Unique Collection Celebrating 20 Years of Folk for M.S., CD, WildGoose WGS365CD, 2009
Various Artists: Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018