Produced by Adrian Sherwood, Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald and Ian King;
Recorded at On-U-Sound Studios, Soho Studios, Little Axe Studios and The Red Room;
Engineered by Brendon ‘Octave’ Harding;
Mixed by Adrian Sherwood;
Mastered by Al Scott at Brighton Mastering;
Sleeve artwork image by Heather McReynolds, apparently derived from a topographic map of the region south-east of Cambridge;
CD package design by David Suff

Musicians

Ian King: lead vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin;
Pete Lockett: percussion;
The Crispy Horns:
    Dave Fullwood: trumpet;
    Chris Petter: trombone;
    Richard Doswell: saxophone and flute

with
Ghetto Priest, Valerie Skeete, Madelaine Edghill: backing vocals;
Denise Sherwood: vocal duet [8];
Skip McDonald: additional guitars and bass;
Doug Wimbish: bass [1];
Filipe Tavares: violin

Tracks

Side 1

1. Adieu to Old England (Roud 1703) (4.38)
2. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031) (6.02)
3. Black-Eyed Susan (Roud 560; Laws O28) (4.52)
4. Evil Eye (3.06)
5. Four-Loom Weaver (Roud 937) (3.48)

Side 2

6. By George (3.38)
7. Flash Company (Roud 954) (4.37)
8. Ah Robin, Gentle Robin (3.41)
9. Take, O Take Those Lips (0.55)
10. How Should I Your True Love Know? (Roud V18911) (2.17)
11. Isle of France (Roud 1575) (3.56)
12. Old Miner (Roud 1136) (3.48)
13. Jovial Broom Man (RoudBS B133075) (5.12)

Tracks 1-2, 7, 11-13 trad.;
Track 3 words John Gay c. 1723, music Richard Leveridge (1670-1758);
Track 4 Ian King, with excerpts from As I Walk Forth (Robert Johnson, 1583-1633);
Track 6 Ian King;
Track 8 William Comysh (1468-1523);
Track 9 John Wilson, Measure for Measure IV, 1;
Track 10 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prinfe of Darkness IV, 5

All musical arrangements composed, performed and recorded by Ian King;
Mastered by Denis Blackham;
Drawings by David Suff

Musicians

Ian King: vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin

Tracks

1. It’s All I Have to Bring Today (1.52)
2. These Are the Days When Birds Come Back (1.52)
3. The Skies Can’t Keep Their Secret! (3.02)
4. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (3.40)
5. We Grow Accustomed to the Dark (3.03)
6. I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose (2.33)
7. I Years Had Been From Home (2.24)
8. The Love a Life Can Show Below (3.14)
9. Because He Loves Her (2.08)
10. Long Years Apart (1.26)
11. You Cannot Put a Fire Out (2.15)
12. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking (2.59)
13. Some Say Goodnight (2.10)
14. “Hope” Is the Thing With Feathers (3.07)
15. I Think to Live—May Be Bliss (4.18)
16. Blazing in Gold (2.02)

All tracks poems by Emily Dickinson, music Ian King