Recorded and mixed by Julien Batten at Quayside Studios, Newcastle;
Cover design and photography by Tomas Swain

Musicians

Dan Walsh: banjo, vocals, guitar

with
Will Pound: harmonica;
Rachel Newton: harp, backing vocals;
Sean Taylor: bass;
Will Schrimshaw: drums;
Luke Martin: piano;
Paul Knox: Northumbrian pipes;
Kieran Szifris: flute

Tracks

1. Hammer and Nail (5.00)
2. Lease of Life (6.23)
3. Mwashah / Egypt Cottage (5.33)
4. Every Day Is a Better Day (3.48)
5. Don’t Go Grouchy (3.36)
6. Drive the Cold Winter Away (Roud V9375) (6.29)
7. Deep Down (3.34)
8. Pointless Greedy Figures (5.53)
9. Joxer’s Tune / Boxing Day / Vortex (8.53)
10. Northumberland and Back (6.42)
11. Who Do I Want to Be (5.14)
12. Last Chance to Believe the Truth (3.06)

All tracks written by Dan Walsh except
Track 1 Paul Thorn;
Tracks 3a, 6, 10cd trad. arr. Dan Walsh;
Tracks 4, 11 James Baskett, Dan Walsh;
Track 10a Alistair Anderson

Produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Northamptonshire, England;
Photography by Paul Michael Hughes;
Artwork by Mark Hutchinson

Musicians

Dan Walsh: 5-string banjo, vocals;
Will Pound: harmonica

with
Martin Simpson: acoustic guitar;
Christi Andropolis: vocals;
Bernhard Schimpelsberger: udu, cajon, table, konnakol

Tracks

1. The Jolly Beggarman (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274) (2.38)
2. Wrath of the Rain (3.18)
3. Two Lives Lost (4.31)
4. CCC (2.43)
5. Old Tom of Oxford (2.59)
6. The Chosen Few (0.50)
7. Hammer and Nail (4.55)
8. Leaving Toon (3.38)
9. My Lagan Love (0.54)
10. Turkish Delight (3.43)
11. Stop Breaking Down (2.47)
12. The Wrong Sample (3.48)
13. Big Country (5.12)
14. Clay & Ottie (3.40)
15. Seanamhac Tube Station / Floating Candle / Pressed for Time (5.14)

Tracks 1, 7, 15b trad. arr. Dan Walsh, Will Pound;
Track 2 Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Johnny Fean, Eamon Carr, Charles O’Connor (Horslips);
Tracks 3-4, 12 Dan Walsh;
Track 5 trad. arr. Will Pound;
Track 6 Jimmy Bergin;
Track 7 Paul Thorn, Billy Maddox;
Tracks 8, 10 Will Pound;
Track 11 Robert Johnson;
Track 13 Béla Fleck;
Track 14 Tim Stafford;
Track 15a John Carty;
Track 15c Gordon Duncan

Produced and engineered by Mark Hutchinson;
Assistant engineer: Adam Sinclair at Blast Studios;
Recorded at Blast Studios, Noewcastle, and Rooksmere Studios, Northamptonshire;
Mastered by Calum Malcolm;
Photography by Paul Michael Hughes;
Artwork by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Dan Walsh: banjo, vocals [2-3, 5-7, 10-11], guitar [4, 10];
Rachel Newton: harp [2-3, 7, 9-11], vocals [3, 5, 7, 10];
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin [2-5, 7-11];
Christi Andropolis: fiddle [3, 5, 10-11], vocals [5, 11];
Jon Proud: bass [2-5, 7, 9-11];
Adam Sinclair: drums [2-5, 7, 9-11], darbuka [9]

Tracks

1. Jigs: Lost at Sea / No More Clues / Page One (3.03)
2. When a Man’s in Love (4.52)
3. New Farming Scene (3.44)
4. Bread and Butter (2.29)
5. The Wiseman (3.07)
6. The Same But Different (4.34)
7. Darkness Descends (3.53)
8. Snow in March (3.41)
9. Lesley’s Cheesecakes: Ruchenitsa / Lesley’s Cheesecakes (3.18)
10. At Least Pretend (3.58)
11. More About You (2.56)
12. Reels: Cesiumfrancolithicmyxialobidiumrixydixydoxidrexidroxhide / Kenny’s Return / Swallow’s Tail / Road to Errogie / Calgary Fiddler’s Welcome to Shetland / The High Reel (7.03)

All tracks written by Dan Walsh except
Track 2 Dan Walsh, Will Pound, Adam Sinclair;
Track 3 Pat McGarvey, Roddy Neilson;
Track 5 Dan Walsh, James Baskett;
Track 7 Dan Walsh, Tom Cronin;
Tracks 9a, 12ce trad. arr. Dan Walsh;
Track 10 Davy Carton, Leo Moran (The Saw Doctors);
Track 12d Adam Sutherland;
Track 12e Alan Gifford

Produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Northamptonshire;
Photography by Johnny Dent

Musicians

Dan Walsh: vocals, banjo, guitar, bodhrán;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin;
Patsy Reid: fiddle;
Meaghan Blanchard: backing vocals;
Mark Hutchinson: backing vocals, percussion

Tracks

1. Time to Stay (3.10)
2. Lost Rambler (2.15)
3. Hermit of Gully Lake (3.29)
4. With a Memory Like Mine (5.19)
5. Wobbly Trolley (2.56)
6. The Song Always Stays (3.36)
7. Whiplash Reel (4.46)
8. Only Way to Go (3.01)
9. The Missing Light (2.36)
10. The Tune Set: A Tune for Sarah / Rambling in Barra / Food for Thought / Thanks to the Kiwis (6.28)
11. Dancing in the Wind (3.40)

All tracks written by Dan Walsh except
Track 3 Dan Walsh, base on a trad. Finnish tune;
Track 4 Darrell Scott, Anthony Scott;
Track 8 Dan Walsh, Meaghan Blanchard

Produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Northamptonshire;
Photography by Johnny Dent;
Sleeve design by Nic Zuppardi

Musicians

Dan Walsh: vocals, banjo, guitar, bodhrán;
Tom Chapman: cajón, percussion;
Mark Hutchinson: backing vocals

Tracks

1. The Vaults (2.58)
2. Want What You Don’t Have (3.51)
3. Funky Haystack (3.30)
4. Glen Gottage No. 1 / Glen Gottage No. 2 (1.43)
5. The Suilin (3.38)
6. Going to the USA (3.28)
7. 7/8’s: Newlyn Wind / Nearly Home (4.02)
8. Leave This Land (3.36)
9. Chase Suite (4.35)
10. Out of Here (3.39)
11. Banish Set: Banish Misfortune / Washington’s March / Small Halls / Summer Rain (4.29)

All tracks written by Dan Walsh except
Tracks 4-5, 11ab trad.

Recorded by Anthony Robb live at Mount Hooley;
Mastered by Anthony Robb and Alistair Anderson at Hooky Mat Records;
Photography by Andy Craig;
Design by Robert Barnes of BDI

Musicians

Alistair Anderson: English concertina, Northumbrian pipes;
Dan Walsh: banjo, guitar, vocals

Tracks

1. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms (3.02)
2. Johnny Cope (Roud 2315; G/D 1:125) / Cold Snap (3.57)
3. It’s a Real Steal Reel (3.26)
4. At Least Pretend (4.09)
5. Reel From Border Ridge / Wobbly Trolley (4.12)
6. Good Morning Mr Railroad Man (3.25)
7. Whitewater (3.06)
8. Shady Grove (Roud 4456) (3.06)
9. Geld Him Lassies, Geld Him / Risty Gulley (3.19)
10. Ivaldo Mendonca’s Welcome to Alnwick/ The Big Dance Reel (4.31)
11. Nancy Clough (2.58)
12. When a Man’s in Love (Roud 990; Laws O20; Henry H211) (3.52)
13. The Laird of Drumblair / Big John Mcneil (2.42)
14. Snowblind / Franklin River (3.33)
15. Encore: The Road to the North / Lasses Pass the Brandy (4.11)

Tracks 1, 2a, 6, 8-9, 12, 13b, 15b trad.;
Tracks 2b, 3, 5a, 10ab, 14ab, 15a Alistair Anderson;
Track 4 Leo Carton, Davy Moran;
Tracks 5b Dan Walsh;
Track 7 Bela Fleck;
Track 11 Tom Clough;
Track 13a James Scott Skinner

Produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson at Rooksmere Studios, Northamptonshire;
Photography by Johnny Dent;
Sleeve design by Nic Zuppardi

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Dan Walsh: vocals, banjo, guitar, bodhrán;
Ciaran Algar: fiddle;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. Late Night Drive (2.33)
2. Life on the Ground (3.51)
3. 80 Years of Pleasant Half Hours (3.31)
4. Sixes and Sevens: 5 p.m. Darkness / No Answers (5.10)
5. Same Time Different Place (4.17)
6. Dizzy Heights: Ten Bells / Dizzy Heights (5.21)
7. Plan B: The Bridges / Slow Progress P/ Plan B (3.45)
8. The Light of Day (3.52)
9. When I’m Back Around (3.16)
10. Lydian Set: Sinrise Jig / Scaling the Fort (5.54)
11. Tuesday Night Session: The Fox / The Grog’s Malt / Victoria Park / Tuesday Night Session (4.44)
12. Sleep With One Eye Open (3.29)

All tracks written by Dan Walsh except
Track 12 Lester Flatt

Recorded live at the Floodgate Alehouse, Stafford, probably in January 2020;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchinson;
Photography by Tim Ball;
Chalk artwork by Esther Brennan;
Sleeve design by Nic Zuppardi

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Dan Walsh: vocals, banjo, guitar, stomp

Tracks

1. Over the Border (5.34)
2. Still a Town (3.56)
3. The Suilin (3.48)
4. Plan B: The Bridges / Slow Progress / Plan B (3.37)
5. At Least Pretend (4.22)
6. Late Night Drive (2.28)
7. Whiplash Reel (5.08)
8. Calliope House / Tuesday Night Session (3.06)
9. Darkness Descends (3.46)
10. Only Way to Go (2.59)
11. Moonshine 68 (2.32)
12. Jack Crawford (3.53)
13. The Song Always Stays (4.03)
14. You Can Call Me Al (4.12)
15. Joxers Set: Joxers Tune / The Vaults / Summer Rain / High Reel (7.12)
16. Sleep With One Eye Open (2.41)

All tracks composed by Dan Walsh except
Tracks 3, 15d trad. arr. Dan Walsh;
Track 5 Davy Carton, Leo Moran;
Track 8a Dave Richardson;
Track 9 Dan Walsh, Tom Cronin;
Track 10 Dan Walsh, Meaghan Blanchard;
Track 12 Johnny Handle;
Track 14 Paul Simon;
Track 16 Lester Flatt

Video

Dan Walsh performs live at the Floodgate Alehouse:

Recorded and mixed by Chris Pepper at Saltwell Studios, Huntingdon;
Mastered by Nick Cooke Mastering;
Photography by Tim Ball;
Sleeve design by Nic Zuppardi

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Brooks Williams: vocals, acoustic and resonator guitars;
Dan Walsh: vocals, banjo, guitar, banjola

Tracks

1. Church Street Blues (2.51)
2. Columbus Stockade Blues (Roud 7480) (4.07)
3. Just Listen (4.49)
4. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine / Lockdown Hoedown (3.39)
5. It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie (2.40)
6. Well Well Well (3.21)
7. Imagine That (3.37)
8. Stays the Same (3.36)
9. Paper Jam (2.40)
10. Tornado Smith (3.26)

Track 1 Norman Blake;
Tracks 2, 4a trad;
Track 3 Mark Lemaire;
Tracks 4b, 9 Dan Walsh;
Track 5 Billy Mayhew;
Track 6 Bob Dylan, Danny O’Keefe;
Track 7 Jamie O’Hara, Kieran Kane;
Track 8 Brooks Williams, Dan Walsh;
Track 10 Brooks Williams;

Video

Brooks Williams and Dan Walsh perform Church Street Blues:

A collection of jigs, reels and hornpipes from O’Neill’s tune book O’Neill’s Music of Ireland, arranged for clawhammer banjo

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Hutchison;
Album design by Nic Zuppardi

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Dan Walsh: 5-string banjo, banjola, guitar, bodhrán

Tracks

1. The Old Bush / Humours of Ballinacarrig / Jenny Picking Cockles / Salamanca Reel reels (4.17)
2. Strop the Razor / The Rivals / Kesh Jig jigs (5.30)
3. Chief O’Neill’s / Cork Hornpipe hornpipes (3.24)
4. Comb Your Hair and Curl It / Swaggering Jig slip jigs (2.11)
5. Contradiction Reel reel (3.40)
6. Roudledum slip jig / Dairy Maid jig (2.33)
7. Fermoy Lasses / Sporting Paddy reels (2.12)
8. Dunphy’s Hornpipe / Tomgraney Castle hornpipes (3.01)
9. Hag With the Money / Saddle the Pony jigs (2.57)
10. Drops of Brandy / Last Night’s Fun slip jigs / The Rising Sun reel (3.08)
11. Crabs in the Skillet jig / Miss Crawford reel (2.44)
12. Coming From the Wedding / The Star Hornpipe hornpipes (3.14)
13. Within a Mile of Dublin / The Dawn / Mullingar Races reels (3.37)
14. Monaghan / Lucky Penny / Mooncoin Jig jiga (4.50)
15. Will You Come Down to Limerick / Morning Star slip jigs / Mooncoin Reel reel (3.54)