Produced by John Wood and Clive Gregson;
Executive producer John Wood;
Recorded at Woodman Studios, Elland and Fellside Recordings, Workington, 14-12 June 2002;
Production master by Paul Adams;
Photographs by Charles Devlin;
Design concept by Kirsty McGee

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, acoustic guitar, flute;
with
Clive Gregson: acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, electric piano, organ;
Boo Hewerdine: guitar, vocals;
Neill MacColl: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, autoharp;
Jo Hamilton: viola;
Martin Hughes: drums;
Geth Griffith: bass guitar, double bass

Tracks

Original CD

1. Rich (3.28)
2. Cats’ Eyes (4.26)
3. Take What You Need (2.47)
4. Golden Honeysuckle Rose (3.24)
5. Skin (2.57)
6. The Wrong Girl (3.45)
7. Wild Garlic (3.47)
8. Tube Player’s Wife (2.45)
9. Bliss (5.11)
10. Venice (3.53)
11. Never Can Last (3.52)
12. She’s Got to Travel (3.04)

Reissue

1. Rich (3.30)
2. Cats’ Eyes (4.26)
3. Take What You Need (2.49)
4. Skin (2.59)
5. The Wrong Girl (3.47)
6. Bliss (5.13)
7. Venice (3.53)
8. Never Can Last (3.52)
9. She’s Got to Travel (3.06)
10. Little Things (bonus track) (3.12)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Boo Hewerdine;
Recorded by John Etchells;
Artwork and graphic design: Chris Sands;
Photography: Chris Sands

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, flute;
Mat Martin: guitar, mandolin;
Jonny Bridgwood: double bass;
Roy Dodds: drums;
Neill MacColl: guitars, high-strung guitar, marxophone;
John Spiers: melodeon, bandoneon;
Boo Hewerdine: guitar

Tracks

1. Plane Vapours (4.21)
2. Spit & Shine (3.51)
3. The Prisoner (4.00)
4. Coffee Coloured Strings (3.56)
5. Spider Lullaby (3.45)
6. Cloudwatching (2.13)
7. Put Back The Stars (3.12)
8. Safe Harbour Song (2.41)
9. Sophie (3.06)
10. Summer Frost (3.19)
11. Kisses (5.22)
12. Bitter Aloe (3.02)
13. St. Mark’s Place (3.14)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Neill MacColl;
Recorded by Steve Stewart;
Artwork and graphic design: Mat Martin;
Photography: Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, flute;
Mat Martin: guitar, mandolin, high-strung guitar, banjo, vocals;
Ben Nicholls: double bass;
Roy Dodds: drums, percussion;
Neill MacColl: electric guitars, high-strung guitar

Tracks

1. Thank You (3.12)
2. Fresh Water (3.36)
3. Alchemy (3.32)
4. India (4.10)
5. Lazy Eye Blues (3.25)
6. One Star (3.44)
7. Heart (4.06)
8. The Right Way Home (2.39)
9. Chicory (1.43)
10. Brittle (5.35)
11. Steady (3.33)
12. Static (3.57)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Rough-hewn demos and cover versions from Kirsty McGee and Mat Martin, featuring four demos for songs later to appear on the album The Kansas Sessions and two cover versions, including one by producer of The Kansas Sessions, Mike West.

A great sister-disc to ’Kansas’, or for those people interested in the development of songs and the influences songwriters have on one another, and in a really live, bare sound on disc.

Produced by Mat Martin;
Recorded in Glorious Lo-Fi by Mat Martin;
Mastered by Steve Stewart at the Old Vicarage, Cambridgeshire;
Artwork and Graphic Design: Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, mandolin;
Mat Martin: banjo, guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin, banjo uke, feet, vocals

Tracks

1. Share Croppers (3.12)
2. Killer Wasps (2.42)
3. Dust Devils (3.51)
4. Betray My Trust (1.48)
5. No Way to Treat t Friend (5.15)
6. The Profit Song (2.51)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee except
Track 1 Kreg Viesselman;
Track 4 Mike West

Produced by Mike West;
Recorded by Mike West at The Ninth Ward Pickin’ Parlour;
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering;
Artwork and graphic design: Mat Martin;
Photography: Graham Smith

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, mandolin, percussion, junk;
Mat Martin: banjo, guitar, tenor guitar, wood banjo, banjo uke, washboard, percussion, junk, vocals;
Katie Euliss: string bass, zils, vocals;
Colin Mahoney: drums, percussion, dumbek;
Mike West: mandolin, electric and acoustic guitars, dobro, jug, percussion, junk, vocals;
Larry Maxey: clarinet;
Tom Johnson: trombone, vocals

Tracks

1. Bonecrusher (2.38)
2. Gunsore (2.48)
3. Sandman (3.34)
4. Sparks (3.56)
5. Alibi Blues (2.28)
6. No Way to Treat a Friend (5.33)
7. Lamb (2.10)
8. Killer Wasps (2.14)
9. Shame (2.00)
10. Dust Devils (3.57)
11. The Profit Song (2.25)
12. Faith (4.46)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Mat Martin;
Recorded by Barkley McKay on location at Contact, Manchester, on 10 October 2009;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer for MOTTOsound;
Artwork and graphic design by Mat Martin;
Photography by Pauline Keightley;
Video by Phil Davies;
Live sound by Ibrar Haque

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar;
Mat Martin: banjos, tenor guitar, banjo uke, vocals;
Nick Blacka: double bass;
Rob Turner: drums, junk

with special guests
James Steel: electric guitar;
Clive Mellor: harmonica;
Christopher Cundy: bass clarinet, saxello

Tracks

1. Omaha (3.53)
2. Alibi Blues (2.25)
3. Last Orders (3.46)
4. Sandman (3.35)
5. Bliss (5.33)
6. The Last to Understand (3.42)
7. Stonefruit (4.00)
8. Dust Devils (4.07)
9. Faith (5.09)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Kirsty McGee & Barkley McKay;
Recorded and mixed by Barkley McKay at Valley Wood Studios;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer of MOTTOSound;
Photography by Ed Swinden;
Design by Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, high-string, flute, glockenspiel;
Nick Blacka: double bass;
Carrie Elkin: vocals;
Josef: trumpet;
Hugh Lawrence: drums, percussion;
Barkley McKay: piano, 1961 Hammond organ, glockenspiel;
Clive Mellor: harmonica;
Myshkin: vocals;
Danny Schmidt: vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, vocals;
Mike West: banjo, mandolin

Tracks

1. Something Going On (4.01)
2. I Burn For You (3.16)
3. Sequins (4.17)
4. Solace (3.32)
5. Rebecca (4.37)
6. New Bird (3.04)
7. Setting of the Sun (2.27)
8. God and the Sparrowherder (2.39)
9. Dust Rising (3.13)
10. Aberdeen (3.59)
11. String Baby (3.09)
12. What Love Entails (3.37)
13. Contraband (3.52)
14. All Thing Must Change (2.28)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Kirsty McGee & Barkley McKay;
Recorded and mixed by Barkley McKay at Valley Wood Studios;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer of MOTTOSound;
Photography by Ed Swinden;
Design by Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, high-string, flute, glockenspiel;
Nick Blacka: double bass;
Carrie Elkin: vocals;
Josef: trumpet;
Hugh Lawrence: drums, percussion;
Barkley McKay: piano, 1961 Hammond organ, glockenspiel;
Clive Mellor: harmonica;
Myshkin: vocals;
Danny Schmidt: vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, vocals;
Mike West: banjo, mandolin

Tracks

1. Sandman (3.34)
   from The Kansas Sessions
2. Setting of the Sun (2.27)
   from Contraband

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Kirsty McGee, Howard Jacobs and Barkley McKay;
Recorded and Mixed by Barkley McKay at Valley Wood Studio;
Additional recording by Nick Foots, Ryan Kelly amd Biff Roxby;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer at MOTTOsound

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, flute, bass flute, saw;
Clive Mellor: harmonica;
Howard Jacobs: drums, percussion, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, waterphone, berimbau, whistling;
Nick Blacka: double bass;
James Steel: electric guitar;
Biff Roxby: tenor trombone, bass trombone, flugelhorn, tuba, humming;
Barkley McKay: piano;
Marc Ribot: electric guitar, banjo, ukulele

Tracks

1. Salt (2.48)
2. To the Dogs (2.49)
3. A Plague (4.38)
4. A Family Trait (4.15)
5. Those Old Demons (3.53)
6. Pray (4.19)
7. Magnolia (3.47)
8. Love’s Great Lie (3.38)
9. Sweet Talk (3.17)
10. Survival (4.18)
11. Your Main Man (3.14)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee, published by Kirsty McGee | Big Oak Songs

Produced by Kirsty McGee and Barkley McKay;
Recorded live at York St John University by Barkley McKay and students on the BA Music Production programme as part of an artist residency;
Mixed and post-production by Barkley McKay at Valley Wood Studio Leeds;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer for MOTTOsound;
Artwork inspired by 18^th century cyanometer (device to measure the blueness of the sky) by Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, backing vocals;
Ellis Davies: lead guitar;
John Ellis: piano, keyboards [1-2, 4-5];
Barkley McKay: piano [3];
Dave Tompkins: double bass;
Howard Jacobs: drums, percussion, clarinet, bass clarinet;
Biff Roxby: bass trombone, trombone

Tracks

1. Diamond Days (3.30)
2. Electricity (5.46)
3. If I Had a Dollar (3.14)
4. Little Stars (3.05)
5. No Imaginary Kiss (3.55)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Produced by Kirsty McGee and Biff Roxby;
Recorded and mixed by Barkley McKay at Valley Wood Studio, Leeds;
Overdubs recorced by Biff Roxby at The WoodRooms, Salford;
Robert Garson overdub recorced at Red Barn Recorders, Joshua Tree, California;
Tomás Oliveira overdub recorded remotely at Garência Studios, São Paulo, Brazil;
Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer at MottoSound;
Artwork by Ekaterina Prokopyeva, Belarus, design by Mat Martin

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, bass flute [13];
Phill Howley: drums, glockenspiel [8];
Sam Quintana: double bass;
Clive Mellor: harmonica [1];
Barkley McKay: guitar [1], Hammond [1, 6, 8], piano [4, 10, 14], dulcitone [13], lap steel [4], slide guitar [6];
Nick Walters: trumpet [2-3, 5, 8-10, 12];
Howards Jacobs: clarinet [2-3, 5, 9], bass clarinet [6], tenor saxophone [6], percussion [3, 6, 8, 12];
Biff Roxby: trombone [2], tenor trombone [3, 12], bass trombone [3, 8-9], tuba [6], backing vocals [1, 8];
Anton Hunter: electric guitar [3, 6, 8-9, 12-13], baritone guitar [6, 12], effects [3, 6, 8-9, 12-13];
Robert Garson: guitar [5];
Clive Mellor: harmonica [7, 12];
Tomás Oliveira: glass harp [11]

Tracks

1. Moving On (3.13)
2. I Take You in My Arms (3.44)
3. Butterfly Pin (3.23)
4. Madness & The Moon (4.51)
5. Electricity (4.38)
6. Raven’s Eyes (4.46)
7. Copenhagen (5.06)
8. Second Tuesday (3.16)
9. Highway Dog Rose (3.12)
10. The Glimmer in the Corner of Your Eye (5.15)
11. Greedy Little Things (3.27)
12. Mesquite Honey (4.37)
13. The Deafening Sound of Stars (8.13)
14. Scorpion in a Mason Jar (3.45)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee

Demos produced and recorded by Kirsty McGee

Musicians

Kirsty McGee: vocals, guitar, recorder [1], flute choir [2-3]

Tracks

1. Love’s a Bird (4.16)
2. Murmuration (2.59)
3. Birdsong (1.44)

All tracks written by Kirsty McGee