Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, May 1983;
Sleeve illustration by Jim Cooper;
Layout by Mary Blood;
Photography by Veronica Hall

Musicians

Dave Weatherall: lead vocals, concertina;
Alan Taylor: lead vocals [3, 10], vocals, fiddle,mandol;
Martin Hall: vocals, accordion, concertina, guitar

Tracks

Side 1

1. Rolling Down to Old Maui (Roud 2005) (4.06)
2. Jack the Jolly Jack Tar (Roud 511; Laws K40) (3.32)
3. Maids of Culmore (Roud 2493; Henry H687) (4.10)
4. The Sailor’s Song (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27) (2.44)
5. London’s Ordinary, or Every Man in His Humour (2.50)
6. Danny Deever (6.00)

Side 2

7. Broken-Down Squatter (Roud 8392) (4.52)
8. Davy Lowston (3.52)
9. Clear the Track and Let the Bulgine Roll (Roud 810) (3.31)
10. Banks of the Lee (Roud 6857) (3.51)
11. The Bigler (Roud 645; Laws D8) (3.18)
12. Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) (4.04)

All tracks trad. except
Track 6 Rudyard Kipling, Peter Bellamy;
Track 7 Charles amd Horace Flowers

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, February 1988;
Front cover photograph by Peter Garner;
Back cover photograph by Roger Liptrot

Musicians

Dave Weatherall: lead vocals, concertina;
Alan Taylor: lead vocals [4, 9], vocals, guitar, fiddle;
Martin Hall: vocals, accordion, concertina, guitar

Tracks

Side 1

1. Cold and Raw (Roud 3007) (4.00)
2. Whaleman’s Lament (Roud 2000) (2.36)
3. So Happy I’ll Be (2.33)
4. The Bantry Girl’s Lament (Roud 2999) (5.16)
5. Northwest Passage
6. White (Roud 5732) (4.54)

Side 2

7. Santa Fe Trail (Roud 5096) (4.11)
8. April Song (1.43)
9. Carrigdhoun (4.52)
10. Farewell Nancy (Roud 527; Laws K14; Henry H755) (1.59)
11. On Top of the Car (4.47)
12. Shenandoah (Roud 324) (4.23)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs;
Track 5 Stan Rogers;
Track 6 Elder Edmund Dumas;
Track 8 poem Ted Robinson, tune Jim James;
Track 9 words Denny Lane;
Track 11 Fred.W. Leigh, V.P. Bryan, Harry von Tilzer

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Photograph by Dave Weatherall;
Artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Martin Hall: vocals, guitar, concertina, accordion, fiddle

with
Dave Weatherall: concertina, harmony vocals;
Linda Adams: harmony vocals;
Jez Lowe: chorus;
Bev Sanders: chorus;
Paul Adams: chorus, percussion

Tracks

Side 1

1. It Changes (3.32)
2. The Weary Whaling Grounds (Roud 2011) (5.11)
3. Bonny Barbry (Roud 545; G/D 1:84) (3.15)
4. Nostradamus (4.00)
5. Belly and Back (RoudBS B32643) (2.47)
6. The Recruiting Sergeant (5.38)

Side 2

7. The Bonny Labouring Boy (Roud 1162; Laws M14; Henry H576) (3.54)
8. Between the Wars (3.06)
9. The Shanty Boy (Roud 4374) (1.55)
10. The Rambling Comber (Roud 1473) (4.09)
11. I Never Knew (5.11)
12. Non Illegitimum (3.11)
13. Coulter’s Candy (Roud 19019) (4.20)

Tracks 1, 6, 11-12 Martin Hall;
Tracks 2-3, 5, 7, 9-10, 13 trad.;
Track 4 Al Stewart;
Track 8 Billy Bragg

Compiled and produced by Paul Adams;
Original recordings by Paul Adams;
Cover illustration by Jim Cooper;
Layout by Mary Blood

Musicians

Jolly Jack [1-2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22]:
    Dave Weatherall: lead vocals, concertina;
    Alan Taylor: vocals, guitar, fiddle;
    Martin Hall: vocals, accordion, concertina, guitar

The Wassailers [5, 20]:
    Nick Caffrey: vocals;
    Roger Masters: vocals, guitar;
    Phil Heald: vocals, accordion

Woodbine Lizzie [11]:
    Dave Cooper: vocals;
    John Holland: vocals, guitar;
    Alan Simpson: vocals, mandolin;
    Bill Cronshaw: concertina

Linda Adams: vocals [3, 21];
Barry Skinner: vocals [7, 10], guitar [7];
Geoff Lakeman: concertina [10];
Jill & Bernard Blackwell: vocals [8];
Steve Turner: vocals, concertina [12];
Patti Reid: vocals [14];
Iain MacGillivray: vocals, guitar [16];
Richard Grainger: vocals [18]

Tracks

1. Jolly Jack: Rolling Down to Old Maui (Roud 2005) (4.00)
2. Jolly Jack: Farewell Nancy (Roud 527; Laws K14; Henry H755) (1.50)
3. Linda Adams: Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold (Roud 553; Laws N17; G/D 1:176) (4.05)
4. Jolly Jack: Doodle Let Me Go (Roud 3221) (2.03)
5. The Wassailers: My Donal / Whitby Whaler (6.09)
6. Jolly Jack: The Sailor’s Song (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27) (2.40)
7. Barry Skinner: Admiral Benbow (Roud 3141) (3.07)
8. Jill & Bernard Blackwell: Paddy Maloney (Roud 6342) (1.42)
9. Jolly Jack: Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) (4.00)
10. Barry Skinner: The Sailor and the String (Roud 511; Laws K40) (2.33)
11. Woodbine Lizzie: Icy Acres (3.32)
12. Steve Turner: Make and Break Harbour (4.50)
13. Jolly Jack: The Bigler (Roud 645; Laws D8) (3.15)
14. Patti Reid: Bonnie Annie (Roud 172; Child 24; G/D 6:1225) (4.59)
15. Jolly Jack: Whaleman’s Lament (Roud 2000) (2.28)
16. Iain MacGillivray: Rolling Home (Roud 4766) (3.55)
17. Jolly Jack: Davy Lowston (3.48)
18. Richard Grainger: The Faithful Sailor Boy (Roud 376; Laws K13; G/D 1:66; Henry H543) (3.03)
19. Jolly Jack: Clear the Track and Let the Bulgine Roll (Roud 810) (3.26)
20. The Wassailers: Roll the Wood Pile Down (Roud 4443) (3.07)
21. Linda Adams: Sailor Home From the Sea (2.27)
22. Jolly Jack: Shenandoah (Roud 324) (4.21)

All tracks trad. except
Track 5a Owen Hand;
Track 5b Richard Grainger;
Track 11 Colin Wilkie;
Track 12 Stan Rogers;
Track 21 words Dorothy Hewett, tune Martyn Wyndham-Read

Tracks 1, 6, 9, 13, 17, 19 from Jolly Jack, Rolling Down to Old Maui (FE035, 1983);
Tracks 2, 15, 22 from Jolly Jack, A Long Time Travelling (FE067, 1988);
Track 3 from Paul and Linda Adams, Among the Old Familiar Mountains (FE006, 1978);
Track 4 from Flash Company (FE050, 1987);
Tracks 5, 20 from The Wassailers, Wassailers (FE012, 1978);
Tracks 7, 10 from Barry Skinner, Bushes & Briars (FE011, 1978);
Track 8 from Jill & Bernard Blackwell, Adventures of Notion (FE056, 1986);
Track 11 from Woodbine Lizzie, By Numbers (FE019, 1979);
Track 12 from Steve Turner, Jigging One Now (FE030, 1982);
Track 14 from Patti Reid, Patti Reid (FE061, 1987);
Track 16 from Iain MacGillivray, Rolling Home (FE053, 1986);
Track 18 from Richard Grainger, Herbs on the Heart (FE038, 1984);
Track 21 previously unreleased, recorded in 1975