Produced by Bill Leader.
Recorded by Bill Leader and Nic Kinsey
Production Master Nic Kinsey, Livingston Studios;
Sleeve photographs by Bill Leader;
Sleeve designed by Janet Kerr

Musicians

Lea Nicholson: vocals, concertina [1, 3-4, 6, 9, 11-12], double tracked concertina [2, 7], bass concertina [6];
Brian Cooper: virginal [5, 7];
Robin Dransfield: guitar [4];
Stan Ellison: guitar [6, 11];
Mick Jones: guitar [8];
Chris Nicholson: percussion [6], tambourine [11];
Bob Pegg: vocals [10];
Barry Ruffel: guitar [2, 10], harmonium [1, 10];
Packie Byrne: whistle [1];
Jacqueline Emmett and Kevin Sheldon: declamation on [2];
Tim Hart, Maddy Prior, Johnny Butler, Jean Nicholson, Terry and Gay Woods: chorus on [1, 12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Here We Come A-Wassailing (Roud 209; TYG 22) (4.08)
2. Glory of the North (1.51)
3. Greenland Bound (Roud 970; G/D 1:10) (2.25)
4. Lea Rig Variations (3.28)
5. I Live Not Where I Love (Roud 593) (2.31)
6. I’m the Urban Spaceman (2.54)

Side 2

7. Allegro from the trio sonata in C for two manuals and pedal (4.35)
8. Along the Rossendale (2.14)
9. The Coast of Peru (Roud 1997; Laws D26) (3.02)
10. The False Knight on the Road (Roud 20; Child 3) (3.17)
11. Kopya (1.20)
12. All Through the Beer (Roud 475; G/D 3:580) (2.21)

All tracks trad. arr. Nicholson except
Track 4 Tom Clough arr. Nicholson
Track 5 trad. arr. Cooper
Track 6 Neil Innes
Track 7 Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Dom Gregory Murray
Track 8 Mick Jones

Musicians

Lea Nicholson: vocals [2-6, 9, 11, 13], concertina [1, 3-7, 10, 13], guitar [2, 7-8, 11-12], bouzouki [9, 13];
Stan Ellison: vocals [1, 8, 10], guitar [1-3, 5-7, 9-13], bouzouki [8];
Rick Kemp: bass [2, 9, 11, 13];
Ian Whiteman: organ, piano [7, 9, 11];
Sam Charters: percussion, harmonium [3, 7, 9];
Christine Nicholson: percussion [12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Lazy Afternoon (4.42)
2. Mr. Finch (3.53)
3. Boogaloo (3.33)
4. Hitch-Hike Song (0.33)
5. Pipe on the Hob / Boring with the Gimlet (2.28)
6. A Mistake No Doubt (2.06)
7. God Bless the Unemployed (An Anthem) (3.33)

Side 2

8. Just Because (4.11)
9. Song for a Dead Mole (3.55)
10. Jules’s Birthday (3.22)
11. Just Another Song (2.48)
12. Sootyfoot (2.03)
13. Living by the Water / The Dark Islander (5.41)

Tracks 1, 3, 8, 10, 12 Stan Ellison;
Tracks 2, 4, 7, 9, 11 Lea Nicholson;
Tracks 5, 13b trad. arr. Lea Nicholson, Stan Ellison;
Track 6 McCullough;
Track 13a Anne Briggs

A few tracks of this album have been included in Transatlantic Records anthologies:

• Lazy Afternoon on Transatlantic Story (Castle ESF CD 654, 4 CD, 1998),
• God Bless the Unemployed on Transatlantic Folk Box Set (Sanctuary SMETD137, 3 CD, 2004),
• Song for a Dead Mole on Scarborough Fair (Castle CMETD1273, 3 CD, 2006)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brent W Burhans for the information on this record.

Recorded by Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios except
Track 2 recorded by Mike Oldfield at Througham, Gloucester;
Digitally remastered at Blue Strike, Harrogate, February 1992 and Provident Street, Derby, 1999

Musicians

Lea Nicholson: treble and bass concertinas;
Mike Oldfield: guitar: sleigh bells, bodhrán [2];
Tony Green: train whistle [3];
Robin Dransfield: guitar [4];
Rus Ballard: timpani, choir, Hammond organ, synthesiser, guitar [6];
Rod Argent: contra bass part played on synthesiser [8-10];
Nicholas Kraemer: continuo played on harpsichord [8-10]

Tracks

1. The Liberty Bell (2.29)
2. Kopya (1.27)
3. Glenn Miller Medley: Moonlight Serenade / Chattanooga Choo Choo / In the Mood (5.21)
4. Lea Rigs (2.35)
5. Lasst uns erfreuen (1.49)
6. Dam Buster’s March (3.49)
7. Courtly Masquing Ayres (2.19)
8. Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 4, BWV 1049: Allegro (8.02)
9. Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 4, BWV 1049: Andante (2.53)
10. Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 4, BWV 1049: Presto (4.50)

All tracks arr. Lea Nicholson;
Track 1 John Philip Sousa;
Track 2 Yugoslav dance tune;
Track 3a Glenn Miller, Parish;
Track 3b Warren;
Track 3c Razaf, Garland;
Track 4 Tom Clough;
Track 5 trad. arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams;
Track 6 Coates, Mair; originally recorded as a single for Virgin Records;
Track 7 from the John Adson collection of 1623;
Tracks 8-10 Johann Sebastian Bach