Recorded by Paul Adams 23-25 February and 26 March 1981;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Sleeve design and artwork by Geoff Marsh;
Layout by Mary Blood;
Photograph by Paul Haley

Musicians

Gerry Hallom: guitar, vocals;
Jez Lowe: banjo, whistle, percussion, chorus;
Nic Jones: fiddle;
John Bowden: melodeon, chorus

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Overlander (Roud 9107)
2. Streets of Forbes (Roud 20764)
3. Jog Along Till Shearing
4. Andy’s Gone With Cattle
5. Mowing the Barley
6. Bonnie House of Airlie (Roud 794; Child 199; G/D 2:233)

Side 2

7. Song of Artesian Waters
8. Shearing at Castlereagh
9. ’Ard Tack
10. The Bushman’s Song (Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh) (Roud 8399)
11. Gypsy

All tracks trad. except
Track 4 Henry Lawson / trad.;
Track 7 Banjo Paterson, O’Sullivan;
Track 8 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 10 Banjo Paterson, trad.;
Track 11 Ralph McTell

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams in November 1983;
Photograph by Dave Blayney;
Notes by Gerry Hallom;
Sleeve artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Gerry Hallom: vocals, guitar, banjo;
Chris Coe: hammered dulcimer;
Pete Cooper: fiddle;
Anne-Marie Flanagan: vocals;
Jez Lowe: Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, vocals

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Free Selector’s Daughter (2.46)
2. My Old Man (5.20)
3. Bond Street Swell (4.20)
4. Bright Fine Gold (1.43)
5. With the Cattle (4.53)

Side 2

6. General Leeds Clock Meeting (5.27)
7. Black Diamond (3.40)
8. New Chum Shearer (3.00)
9. How McDougal Topped the Score (4.28)
10. The Outside Track (4.28)

Tracks 1, 10 Henry Lawson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 2 Ewan MacColl;
Track 3 Charles Thatcher, Gerry Hallom;
Track 4 trad., tune reconstructed Colquhoun;
Track 5 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 6 anon., Gerry Hallom;
Track 7 Jez Love;
Track 8 anon.;
Track 9 Thomas E. Spencer

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Sleeve concept and notes by Gerry Hallom;
Layout by Mary Blood

Musicians

Gerry Hallom: guitar [1-2, 4-8], banjo [9], vocals;
Jez Lowe: mandolin [2], vocals [2];
Nic Jones: vocals [3, 7-9];
Bob Greenwood: special effects [5], harmonica [8];
Margaret Chadwick: flute [6];
John Bowden: melodeon [9], vocals [7, 9-10];
Dave Shepherd: fiddle [9-10], cello [10], keyboards [10]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Where the Dead Men Lie (2.58)
2. The Lights of Cobb & Co. (2.58)
3. Where the Brumbies Come to Water (2.10)
4. Clancy of the Overflow / Old Australian Ways (5.41)
5. No More Boomerang (4.21)

Side 2

6. Song of the Wheat (3.44)
7. Down the River (2.50)
8. The First Surveyor (2.50)
9. Northward to the Shed (2.24)
10. The Grey Gulf Water (3.43)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1 Barcroft Boake, Gerry Hallom;
Tracks 2, 7 Henry Lawson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 3 Will Ogilvie, trad.;
Track 4a Banjo Paterson;
Tracks 4b, 6, 8, 10 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 5 Oodgeroo Noojuccle, Gerry Hallom;
Track 9 Will Ogilvie, Gerry Hallom

This is a compilation from Gerry Hallom’s three Fellside albums, Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh, A Run a Minute, and Old Australian Ways

See also Martyn Wyndham-Read’s compilation CD Undiscovered Australia.

Musicians

See the album details above.

Tracks

From Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh

1. The Overlander (Roud 9107) (4.32)
2. Streets of Forbes (Roud 20764) (2.48)
3. Jog Along Till Shearing (2.41)
4. Andy’s Gone With Cattle (2.18)
5. The Bushman’s Song (Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh) (Roud 8399) (4.02)
6. Song of Artesian Waters (4.10)
7. Shearing at Castlereagh (3.02)

From A Run a Minute

8. The Free Selector’s Daughter (2.51)
9. With the Cattle (5.06)
10. New Chum Shearer (3.07)
11. The Outside Track (4.35)

From Old Australian Ways

12. Where the Dead Men Lie (2.58)
13. The Lights of Cobb & Co. (2.58)
14. Clancy of the Overflow / Old Australian Ways (5.41)
15. No More Boomerang (4.21)
16. Song of the Wheat (3.44)
17. Northward to the Shed (2.24)
18. The Grey Gulf Water (3.43)

Produced and engineered by Oliver Knight in autumn 1997.
Photography by Lesley Mayo.
Designed and produced by Ledgard Jepson.

Musicians

Gerry Hallom: guitar, banjo [7], vocals;
Pete Cooper: fiddle;
Alan Easterbrook: double bass;
Andy Irvine: harmonica;
Keith Jackman: percussion;
Alistair Lawrence: keyboards;
Tim New: alto sax;
Bert Sawdon: banjo;
Steve Thompson: melodeon;
John Bowden, Nic Jones, Lal Waterson: chorus

Tracks

1. All Down the Days (3.45)
2. The Rider (4.03)
3. The Calm Before the Storm (3.28)
4. Taoist Tales (4.56)
5. Come Down Days (5.05)
6. Lisbon Story (3.30)
7. Myra’s Children (4.33)
8. City Lights City Limits (3.43)
9. The Fizzer (5.20)
10. Hey Rain (4.12)
11. I Don’t Know Why (3.57)
12. Early (3.59)

All tracks Gerry Hallom except
Track 4 Tucker Zimmerman;
Track 10 Bill Scott;
Track 12 Greg Brown

Links

Review by Dave Beeby in The Living Tradition