Recorded and produced at Leader Sound by Bill Leader;
Russell Square photographs and sleeve back photograph by Pete Kennedy;
Sleeve design by Janet Kerr

Musicians

David Hughes: finger style acoustic guitar, lead vocals and harmonies;
Mick Linnard: lead guitar, acoustic rhythm guitar, bass guitar, volume pedal bass, volume pedal guitar, vocal harmonies;
Pick Withers: drums, percussion

Tracks

Side 1

1. Phone In
2. Khartoum
3. Winter Snow Blue Night
4. Primrose Walk
5. September
6. Raining in Nivelles

Side 2

7. French Escalators
8. Russell Square
9. Fairground Waltz
10. Friday Up and Sunday Down
11. Jazz Woodbine
12. River Man

All tracks written by David Hughes and Mick Linnard except
Tracks 1, 3 David Hughes;
Track 12 Nick Drake

Recorded and mixed by David Fowler at Erratic Studios, London;
Tracks 11-12 recorded at The Works, London

Musicians

David Hughes: acoustic guitar, vocals;
Sugar Ray Monzon Benitez di Jesus: percussion;
G.T. Moore: lead guitar [11];
Mick Linnard: rhythm guitar [11];
Roy Dodds: hi hat;
Ric Sanders: violin [12]

Tracks

1. Here Come the Grammar School Boy (1.58)
2. Kissing on the Beach (2.59)
3. Curtains (3.55)
4. Grazi Tanto / Square Peg (5.53)
5. Winter Snow Blue Night (4.23)
6. Boomtown Rat (2.21)
7. Road to Rome (5.55)
8. Phone In (2.58)
9. Ferry of love / Everybody’s Crying Mercy (2.44)
10. 3 P.M. Unless Stated (1.57)
11. Long Long Road (4.04)
12. A Song of England (5.44)

All tracks written by David Hughes except
Tracks 7 Dave Evans;
Track 9b Mose Allison

Produced by David Hughes;
Recorded by Mark Tucker in the Live Room at Woodworm Studio, Oxon, on 29-30 October 1998;
Mixed by Mark Tucker and David Hughes;
Mastered by Nick Watson, SRT;
Executive producer and photographs: Colin Edwards;
Artwork by John Adams, Studio 46

Musicians

David Hughes: acoustic guitar, vocals, percussion;
Chris Leslie: mandolin, vocals

Tracks

1. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (Roud 394) (2.45)
2. In Dulci Jubilo (4.51)
3. Once in Royal David’s City (3.11)
4. The Holly and the Ivy (Roud 514) (2.39)
5. Away in a Manger (Roud 25304) (4.23)
6. Auld Lang Syne (Roud 13892) (2.21)

All tracks trad.

Produced by David Hughes and Mark Tucker;
Executive producer: Colin Edwards;
Remastered by Mark Tucker at Ibiza;
Sleeve notes by Nick Skeens;
Artwork by John Adams

Musicians

David Hughes: acoustic guitar, vocals;
Gerry Conway: drums [1, 3];
Eddi Reader: lead vocals [3];
Jacqui McShee: backing vocals [10];
Ric Sanders: violin [13];
Julie Matthews: backing vocals [16]

Tracks

1. Jelly Babe (3.37)
2. Project X (0.54)
3. Heart of Stone (5.05)
4. Active in the Parish (3.00)
5. Who’s That? - The Summer of Love (2.50)
6. Wasted (3.52)
7. Everybody’s Talking’ ’Bout FM (2.55)
8. An Ordinary Life (3.30)
9. Watching Brazil (4.06)
10. The Human Heart (4.05)
11. Curtains (3.59)
12. Matilda (3.53)
13. A Song of England (live with Ric Sanders) (5.28)
14. Hold Your Horses Woman (live with Fairport Convention) (3.37)
15. Fifty Yards (live) (2.44)
16. Recognised (4.01)
17. State of the Nation (3.47)
18. This Other Eden (6.25)
19. Being a Poet (live) (3.23)

All tracks written by David Hughes

Tracks 11, 13 are from Curtains (HYCD 200 126, September 1992);
Tracks 4-7, 10, 17 are from Active in the Parish (TFC999CD, August 1995);
Tracks 1, 3, 9, 18 are from This Other Eden (TFCCD2003, November 1999);
Tracks 8, 12, 14-15 are from Fifty Yards of David Hughes (TFCCD1099, January 1998);
Tracks 16 is from Shouting at the Radio (EP TFCCD2004, March 2000);
Tracks 18 is from The Fairport Tour (TFCCD 2001, August 1998)