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Janet Russell & Christine Kydd
Janet Russell & Christine Kydd Greentrax Recordings TRAX011 (LP, UK, 1987) |
Produced by Peter Haigh with Janet Russell and Christine Kydd;
Recorded and mixed at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh, by Peter Haigh;
Photography by Norman Chalmers;
Artwork by John Haxby, Art Surgery
Musicians
Janet Russell: vocals, guitar;
Christine Kydd: vocals, guitar;
with
Jim Sutherland: percussion [6];
Ron Shaw: cello [7b];
Norman Chalmers: concertina [12a]
Tracks
- Buy Broom Besoms (Roud 910) (2.13)
- Dainty Davie (Roud 2387) (4.07)
- Up wi’ the Carls o’ Dysart / The Deil’s Awa wi’ the Exciseman (Roud 16787) (1.52)
- Deja Mal Mariée (3.40)
- Bonny at Morn (Roud 3064) (3.28)
- Children of Africa (2.22)
- My Donal / Ode to Big Blue (5.50)
- Tae the Weavers (3.14)
- Old & Strong / The Mountain Song (2.21)
- Do You Love an Apple? (Roud 654; TYG 33) (2.44)
- Last Carol (2.42)
- Stand Up, Fight for Your Rights / Everyone ’Neath a Vine & Fig Tree (1.46)
Tracks 1-2, 10 trad. arr. Janet Russell, Christine Kydd;
Track 3, 8 Robert Burns;
Tracks 4-5, 12 origin unknown arr. Janet Russell, Christine Kydd;
Track 7a Owen Hand;
Track 7b Gordon Lightfoot;
Track 9a Littlebear Morena;
Track 9b Holly Near;
Track 11 Nancy Nicolson
> Folk Music > Records > Janet Russell: Gathering the Fragments
Janet Russell: Gathering the Fragments
Gathering the Fragments Harbourtown Records HAR/HARC 003 (LP/cassette, UK, 1988) |
Recorded and mixed at Pier House Studios, Granton Square, Edinburgh;
Produced by Peter Haigh, Janet Russell and Jim Woodland;
Photography and design Jini Rawlings
Musicians
Janet Russell: vocals [1-12],
guitar [1-10, 12];
with
Mary Macmaster: electro harp [1];
Nick Keir: whistle [2];
Paul Stevens: fiddle [3-4];
Jack Evans: bass guitar [4, 9];
Tom McConville: fiddle [5-6, 9];
Sally Barker: backing vocals [6],
keyboards [9]
Tracks
Side 1
- Old Woman Is Watching (2.30)
- The Children Are Running (4.13)
- The Blude Red Rose (3.50)
- The Band of Shearers / The Musical Priest / The Wind That Shakes the Barley (3.50)
- The Hills of Artmorn (3.10)
- All the Tunes in the World (3.20)
Side 2
- The Secretary’s Song (3.53)
- Sanctuary (4.38)
- Fast Bright Nights (4.02)
- Choices (3.22)
- Land o’ the Leal (Roud 8999) (3.36)
- Curtain Call (3.36)
Track 1 Anne Cameron, Mary Troup;
Track 2 Nick Keir;
Track 3 Robert Burns;
Track 4 trad.;
Track 5 Roy Williamson;
Track 6 Ewan McVicar;
Tracks 7, 9-10, 12 Janet Russell;
Track 8 Jim Woodland;
Track 10 Lady Nairne
> Folk Music > Records > Janet Russell: Bright Shining Morning?
Janet Russell: Bright Shining Morning?
Bright Shining Morning? Harbourtown Records HARC/HARCD 026 (cassette/CD, UK, 1993) |
Recorded and mixed at Pier House Studios, Granton Square, Edinburgh;
Produced by Peter Haigh, Janet Russell and Jim Woodland;
Photography and design Jini Rawlings
Musicians
Janet Russell: vocals, guitar;
Mary Macmaster: clarsach, electro harp;
Tom McConville: fiddle;
Sara Grey: vocals;
Lynda Hardcastle, Maggie Boyle, Helen Hockenhull, Alan Rose, Tim Moon, Jim Ellison: vocals [1, 14]
Tracks
- Bright Shining Morning? (3.17)
- Ettrick (3.32)
- Childminder’s Song (2.24)
- Can’t Hug You (3.44)
- Fly Away (4.20)
- Sheath and Knife (Roud 3960; Child 16) (5.25)
- Gartan Mother’s Lullaby (4.47)
- Mouth Music (2.22)
- Jeannie Jenkins (2.21)
- Song for a Seafarer (4.15)
- Soweto (4.20)
- Accidents (2.10)
- Bury My Heart (3.22)
- St. Peter’s Fields (3.22)
- I Know Love (5.22)
- The Bluebell Polka (1.23)
Tracks 1, 4 Janet Russell, Jim Woodland;
Track 2 poem by Lady John Scott, tune Archie Fisher;
Track 3 Janet Russell;
Tracks 5, 10 Jan Harmon;
Tracks 6, 8-9 trad. arr. Janet Russell;
Track 7 words Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell), music trad. arr. Janet Russell, Ianto Thornber;
Track 11 Eileen Penman;
Tracks 12-15 Jim Woodland;
Track 16 Jimmy Shand
> Folk Music > Records > Janet Russell & Christine Kydd: Dancin’ Chantin’
Janet Russell & Christine Kydd: Dancin’ Chantin’
Dancin’ Chantin’ Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX077 (CD, UK, 1994) |
Produced by Jack Evans;
Recorded at CaVa East Studios, Edinburgh, by Nik Kinloch;
Cover illustration by John Gibb;
Design by John Haxby, Art Surgery
Musicians
Janet Russell: vocals, guitar;
Christine Kydd: vocals, guitar;
with
James Mackintosh: bongos and kashishi [6];
Michel Byrne: additional vocals [4];
Jim Sutherland: bodhrán [1, 14];
Mairi Campbell: stepping [2],
viola [3, 9];
Jack Evans: Ashbory bass [3, 9, 11, 13],
Overton whistle [13]
Tracks
- Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie (Roud 6192; G/D 4:776) (2.12)
- The Fisherman’s Wife (2.20)
- Logan Water (Roud 6842; G/D 6:1123) (3.36)
- Les Filles des Forges / Faca sibh Mairi nighean Alastair / Up & Awa’ wi’ the Laverock (3.53)
- Duncan Gray (Roud 8688) (2.22)
- Lady Mary Anne (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222) / Reel o’ Stumpie, O (Roud 7252; G/D 7:1398) / Tail Toddle (Roud 11275; G/D 8:1716) (2.47)
- The Terror Time (4.29)
- Strathmartine Braes (Roud 6258) (1.23)
- Clerk Saunders (Roud 3855; Child 69) (4.57)
- La Caille (2.36)
- Pride’s Awa’ (4.04)
- The Bluebell Polka (1.19)
- The Parting Glass (Roud 1801; G/D 8:1516) (3.35)
- Jock Since Ever / Macaphee (Roud 20741) / Ho Ho Bonny Lass (2.28)
All tracks trad. arr. Janet Russell, Christine Kydd except
Tracks 3, 5 Robert Burns;
Track 4c Andy Hunter;
Track 7 Ewan MacColl;
Track 8 Mary Brooksbank;
Track 11 Davie Robertson;
Track 12 F. Stanley, Paddy Roberts;
> Folk Music > Records > Janet Russell: Love Songs and Fighting Talk
Janet Russell: Love Songs and Fighting Talk
Love Songs and Fighting Talk Harbourtown Records HARC/HARCD 052 (CD, UK, 2008) |
Recorded at Shireshead Studio, Lancaster, by Tony Bonner;
Produced by Gordon Jones;
Photographs by Lizzie Coombes;
Design by Joe Pieczenko
Musicians
Janet Russell: vocals, guitar;
Najam Jawed: tabla [2, 10, 14];
Steve Tilston: guitar [6];
Tom McConville: fiddle [7];
Gill Redmond: cello [14]
Tracks
- Pretty Polly (Roud 268; Laws N7; G/D 1:171, 1:172) (3.39)
- Eppie Morrie (Roud 2583; Child 223) (4.00)
- The Creole Girl’s Lament (3.20)
- Steely Water / Donal Óg (Roud 3379) (6.33)
- Waxie’s Dargle (2.14)
- Mary Ambree (Roud V41815) (3.05)
- Sodger’s Cairn (5.41)
- Matt Hyland (Roud 2880) (6.54)
- Collier Laddie (Roud 3787; G/D 5:991) (2.50)
- Banks of Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224) (4.33)
- My Laddie Sits (Roud 3181) / Maire Nighean Alastair / Gie My Love Brose (Roud 8552, 12585) (1.53)
- The Pigeon and the Sparra (2.21)
- Waly Waly up the Bank (Roud 87; Child 204) (3.30)
- Wexford Lullaby (5.03)
- Willie Brewed a Peck o’ Maut (Roud V5060) / Barren Rocks of Aden / Swing Yer Maw (3.03)
Tracks 1-2, 13 trad. Scots;
Tracks 3, 12 words Janet Russell, tune trad.;
Track 4a Nancy Kerr;
Tracks 4b, 8 trad. Irish;
Track 5 trad.;
Tracks 6, 10 trad. English;
Track 7 poem by Mary Symon, tune Janet Russell;
Track 9 trad. Scots / Robert Burns;
Track 11a trad. N.E. England;
Track 11b trad. Scots Gaelic;
Track 11c, 15a Robert Burns;
Track 14 trad. / John Renbourn;
Track 15c Glasgow Music Hall song
> Folk Music > Records > Janet Russell
Other records with Janet Russell
Various Artists: The Stones of Callanish, 2 LP/CD, Mrs Ackroyd DOG 005/6, 1989
Various Artists: Music & Song of Scotland, CD, Greentrax CDTRAX030, 1989; CD, Greentrax CDGMP8017, 2021
Sisters Unlimited: No Limits, CD, Harbourtown HARCD 013, 1991
Various Artists: Undefeated, 2 cassettes, Fuse M100, 1993
Sisters Unlimited: No Bed of Roses, CD, Fellside FECD104, 1995
Various Artists: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 1, CD, Linn CKD 047, 1996
Various Artists: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 2, CD, Linn CKD 052, 1996
Various Artists: Fyre & Sworde: Songs of the Border Reivers, CD, Fellside FECD131, 1998
Various Artists: The Wings of Butterflies: Songs by Les Barker, CD, Mrs Ackroyd DOG 013, 1999
Chumbawamba: Readymades, CD, Mutt CD001, 2002
Leon Rosselson: The Last Chance, CD, Fuse CFCD008, 2002
Various Artists: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 10, CD, Linn CKD 199, 2002
Various Artists: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 11, 2 CD, Linn CKD 200, 2002
Various Artists: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 12, CD, Linn CKD 201, 2002
Various Artists: And They All Sang RosselSonGs, CD, Fuse CFCD012, 2005
Various Artists: Women Folk, CD, Fellside FECS2, 2005
Various Artists: Landmarks: 25 Years of a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD203, 2006
Various Artists: People and Songs of the Sea, CD, Greentrax CDTRAX338, 2009
Leon Rosselson: The World Turned Upside Down, 4 CD, PM Press PMA 014-2 / Fuse CFCD077, 2011
Sisters Unlimited: No Change of Heart, CD, SISU 003, 2013
Various Artists: The Journey Continues: Fellside at 40, 3 CD, Fellside FECD272, 2016