> Folk Music > Records > Jill & Bernard Blackwell: Adventures of Notion

Jill & Bernard Blackwell: Adventures of Notion

Adventures of Notion Jill & Bernard Blackwell Fellside Recordings FE056 (LP, UK, 1986)

Recorded January 1986 by Paul Adams;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Sleeve photograph by David Knowles;
Sleeve design by Mike Scott

Musicians

Bernard Blackwell: vocals, guitar, small pipes, melodeon, concertina;
Jill Blackwell: vocals, flute, harmonium;
Alan Bond: bones;
Dave Tebbs: percussion;
Richard Tallet: bodhrán, harmonica

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Hesleyside Reel (3.54)
2. Hunting a Loaf (4.00)
3. Edwin in the Lowlands (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113) (4.50)
4. Paddy Maloney (Roud 6342) (1.41)
5. Botany Bay (Roud 5478) (3.58)
6. Sitting on Top of the World (2.36)

Side 2

7. Sweet Hesleyside / Bonnie Cragside (4.20)
8. Blessed Quietness (4.00)
9. The Standing Stones (Roud 2151) (4.12)
10. Too Much of a Good Thing (2.28)
11. Green Grows the Laurels (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab) (5.12)

All tracks trad. arr. Jill & Bernard Blackwell except
Track 1 T.J. Elliott;
Track 5 words trad., music Mick Slocum;
Track 6 Lonnie Carter, Walter Jacobs;
Track 7b Tom Carruthers;
Track 8 Manie P. Ferguson, William J. Kirkpatrick