Produced by Gerry Diver and Lisa Knapp;
Recorded at Scorching Sun Studios by Gerry Diver;
Mixed by Chris Brown except track 1 mixed by Gerry Diver and remixed by Youth;
Mastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod Mastering, Cardiff;
Photography by Michael Robert Williams;
Artwork by Jeff Teader

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, fiddle [2-4, 9-10], guitar [7-8, 10], hammered dulcimer [2, 6], banjo [5], autoharp [2, 4], percussion [7], string arrangements [4];
Gerry Diver: fiddle [2, 4, 7-10], hammered dulcimer & autoharp [2, 4], accordion [4-5, 10], guitar [1], percussion [1-2], bells, bangs & viola [7], recorders, whistles, timpanis & bass [2], string arrangements [2, 7, 9-10];
Ben Clark: drum [4];
John Hennessey-Brown: cello [1];
Brendan MacCaulay: pipe drones [4]

Tracks

1. Blacksmith (Roud 816) (5.34)
2. There U R (5.01)
3. Beggar Beggar (Roud 212; Child 279 Appendix; G/D 2:275; Henry H810) (4.53)
4. Wild & Undaunted (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260; Henry H691) (4.53)
5. Little Bird (4.14)
6. Lavender (Roud 854) (3.17)
7. The Bitter Withy (Roud 452) (4.00)
8. Ride Along (4.46)
9. Dew Is on the Grass (Roud 11; Child 112; G/D 2:301) (3.29)
10. Six Dukes (Roud 78) (4.41)
11. Salisbury Plain (Roud 1487) (3.31)

Track 1 trad. arr. Gerry Diver, Lisa Knapp;
Track 2 word Lisa Knapp, music Gerry Diver;
Tracks 3-4, 6-7, 9-11 trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Tracks 5, 8 Lisa Knapp;

Tracks 1, 4-5 arranged and produced by Lisa Knapp;
Tracks 2-3 produced by Gerry Diver
All tracks mixed by Gerry Diver;
Cover art by Dom Cooper

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, guitar, fiddle, percussion;
Alasdair Roberts: guest vocals, guitar;
Gerry Diver: fiddle, bass;
Pete Flood: percussion

Tracks

1. A May Garland (Roud 305) (3.17)
2. Hunt the Hare part I (4.09)
3. Hunt the Hare part II (3.50)
4. The Pleasant Month of May (Roud 153; Henry H697) (4.58)
5. Green Jack (4.42)

Tracks 1, 4 trad.;
Tracks 2-3, 5 Lisa Knapp

Produced, recorded and mixed by Gerry Diver;
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Photos and design by David Angel

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals [all], harp [4, 7-8], glass harp [3], autoharp [1], hammered dulcimer [5], viola [6], additional programming [1], drums [4], percussion [4, 8];
Gerry Diver: strings [1-6, 8], piano [1-6, 8-9], tenor and bass guitars [2, 5, 7], pedal steel [9], autoharp [2-3], foot tap [1], glockenspiel [2], recorders [5], keyboards and programming [2-4, 6-7], additional percussion [8]

with
James Yorkston, Marry Waterson: vocals [4];
Alasdair Roberts: vocals and guitar [7-8];
Kathryn Williams: vocals [9];
Bonnie Diver (age 9): vocals [9];
Martin Carthy: guitar [6];
Pete Flood: drums and percussion [2, 5, 7-8];
Oliver Cherer: programming [1];
Johnny Hennessey-Brown: cello [5-6];
Zi Lan: guzheng [3];
Kenny Dickenson: trumpet [5]

Tracks

CD Hidden Seam

1. Shipping Song (5.00)
2. Hidden Seam (5.39)
3. Ruler of the Rest (3.52)
4. Black Horse (4.28)
5. Seagiver (5.50)
6. Two Ravens (4.03)
7. Hunt the Hare (4.10)
8. Hunt the Hare (Pt. 2) (3.53)
9. Hushabye (4.42)

Track 1 words Lisa Knapp, music Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver;
Tracks 2-3, 5-8 Lisa Knapp;
Track 4 Lal Waterson, Christine Collins;
Track 9 Lisa Knapp, Kathryn Williams

EP Black Horse

1. Black Horse radio edit (3.30)
2. Seagiver radio edit (4.02)
3. Two Ravens (4.03)
4. Shipping Song (5.00)

Recorded on 11 September 2013 for Mark Radcliffe’s BBC Radio 2 programme The Folk Show.

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, hammered dulcimer;
Gerry Diver: autoharp

Tracks

1. Hunt the Hare (Pt. 2) (3.00)
2. Shipping Song (4.27)
3. Ruler of the Rest (3.31)

Produced and mixed by Gerry Diver;
Photography by Ben ‘Jinwoo’ Webb and Teresa Klasener;
Cover art by Dom Cooper

Lisa Knapp interview by Jon Wilks of TradFolk (at the time Grizzly Folk)

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, viola [1, 4, 6, 10], pump organ [4, 8], keyboards [4], violin [5, 11], hammered dulcimer [6-7], programming [1-2, 5, 9, 12], foot taps [12], percussion [11];
Gerry Diver: violin tracks [3-4, 12], harmonium tracks [3], additional percussion [2], organ [3, 7], banjo [8, 12], hammered dulcimer [4], electric guitar [4], percussion [4, 7], piano [3-5], bass guitar [4, 11-12], acoustic guitar [4], recorder [4], accordion [12], programming [3-4, 7, 11], keyboards [4];
Pete Flood: drums and percussion [2, 4, 7, 12];
Dave East: concertina [8], additional vocals [2];
Steve Roud: spoken voice [1];
Graham Coxon: vocals and guitar [3];
David Tibet: vocals [4];
Bonnie Diver: spoken voice [7];
Mary Hampton: vocals [8], additional vocals [2];
Scott Miligan, Doreen Leighter: additional vocals [2]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Night Before May Day (4.05)
2. Till April Is Dead / Hal-an-Tow (Roud 1520) (3.39)
3. Searching for Lambs (Roud 576; Henry H548) (4.41)
4. Staines Morris (Roud V18894) (4.12)
5. May Garland (Roud 305) (3.12)
6. Lily White Hand (Roud 564; Laws P18) (6.23)

Side 2

7. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151) (4.49)
8. Bedfordshire May Day Carol (Roud 305) (3.05)
9. Where’s Troy? (0.39)
10. Don’t You Go A-Rushing (Roud 330) (4.14)
11. The Pleasant Month of May (Roud 153; Henry H697) (4.49)
12. Padstow May Song (Roud 305) (4.28)

Tracks 1, 5-6, 9-11 trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Tracks 2, 12 trad. arr. Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver;
Track 3 trad. arr. Gerry Diver, Lisa Knapp, Graham Coxon;
Track 4 trad. arr. Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver, Davir Tibet;
Track 7 trad. arr. Gerry Diver, Lisa Knapp;
Track 8 trad. arr. Gerry Diver, Lisa Knapp, Mary Hampton

Video

This is an EP supporting the 2017/18 Save fRoots crowdfunding campaign.

Music arranged and recorded by Lisa Knapp;
Notes by Lisa Knapp;
Mixed and mastered by Gerry Diver;
Photo by Judith Burrows

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, all instruments

Tracks

1. The Loss of the Ramillies (Roud 523; Laws K1; G/D 1:28) (3.44)
2. My Bonny Cuckoo (Roud 24351) (4.22)

All tracks trad.

Recorded, arranged and produced by Lisa Knapp;
Mixed by Gerry Diver

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals, viola [2], piano [5];
Gerry Diver: percussion [3];

Tracks

1. The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.49)
2. Barbary Ellen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236) (13.11)
3. May Song (Roud 305) (2.15)
4. Murder of Maria Marten (Roud 18814) (4.52)
5. Ploughboy’s Glory (Roud 202) (5.28)

All tracks trad.

Produced by Gerry Diver;
Recorded in homes and studios across Robin Hood’s Bay, London, Nottingham, Birmingham, West Oxfordshire and Hampshire, under lockdown in 2020/21, England:
The Tunehouse Studio, London; Mutebox at Primary, Nottingham; Loz Studio, Stirchley, Birmingham; Woodshed Studio, West Oxfordshire;
Mastered by Nick Watson;
Stamps by Desdemona McCannon;
Photographs by Marry Waterson;
Design by Pete Manley at Made Four;
Videos by Marry Waterson

Musicians

Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson, Nathaniel Mann

with
Gerry Diver, Barney Morse-Brown, Laurence Hunt, Pete Flood, Meraud Fergerson

Tracks

1. Ten Tongues (3.16)
2. Daring Highwayman (Roud 1553) (2.57)
3. The Devil’s Cruelty (Roud V14231) (5.30)
4. Laying the Ghost (3.31)
5. Birds of Harmony (6.07)
6. Hemp & Flax (Roud V32749) (2.36)
7. Something to Love Me (Roud V4408) (3.12)
8. Meat for Worms (4.17)
9. The Troubles of This World (3.41)
10. Rare Receipts (5.42)
11. Be Kind to Each Other (Roud V7219) (3.10)
12. Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (6.25)

Track 1 Marry Waterson, inspired by Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore by Percy Manning, 1897;
Track 2 words Bodleian Library, Douce Collection, music Lisa Knapp;
Track 3 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘The Devils cruelty to Mankind Being a true relation of the life and death of George Gibbs’, 1663, Bodleiean Libraries, Wood Collection: Wood 401(195), melody and additional lyrics Nathaniel Mann;
Track 4 Marry Waterson, inspired by Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore by Percy Manning, 1903;
Track 5 from ‘Woody Choristers – Birds of Harmony’, Bodleian Ballads, Doque Collection, melody trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Track 6 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘Whipping Cheare / Or the wofull lamentations of the three Sisters in the Spittle / when they werein new Bride-Well’, 1625, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads 1:208-209;
Track 7 adapted from the Harding Collection, 1860, melody and additional lyrics Marry Waterson;
Track 8 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘[An exhortation to despise the gifts], whych we receive by faylynge fortune’, by Thachame, T., 1552, Bodleian Libraries, Douce Collection, fragm. d.12(9), melody Nathaniel Mann;
Track 9 lyrics Bodleian Libraries, Douce Collection, melody trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Track 10 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘ROMES DOCTOR / Or, / Rare Receipts, prescribed by J.P. for the use of the late Chancellor / and the Jesuin Newgate, against they come to their Trial’, 1689, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads V:122, melody and additional lyrics Nathaniel Mann;
Track 11 adapted from the Harding Collection, melody and additional lyrics Marry Waterson;
Track 12 as sung by Rosie Hensley, NC 1916, collected by Maud Karpeles and Cecil Sharp. Ballad in Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge, trad., arr. Lisa Knapp

Videos

Hack-Poets Guild perform Ten Tongues:

Hack-Poets Guild perform Daring Highwayman:

Hack-Poets Guild perform Hemp & Flax:

Produced, mixed and mastered by Gerry Diver at The Tunehouse London;
Cover art by Dom Cooper Design

Folking.com review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Lisa Knapp: vocals [1-3, 5-6, 8-9], violin [3], fiddle [7], plucked fiddle [1], additional fiddle [4], strings [1-2, 6-7], leaves [1], field recordings [1], percussion [2];
Gerry Diver: fiddle [1-3, 5-6, 8-9], lead fiddle [4], plucked fiddle [4], hammered dulcimer [2, 7], banjo [5, 8], keyboards [1, 3, 6], piano [2, 9], portative organ [8], percussion [1, 6], additional percussion [2], foot taps [1], programming [1-3, 5-7], vocals [2];
Pete Flood: drums [3, 6], percussion [5, 7], seeds [6]

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. Hawk & Crow (Roud 747) (3.52)
2. Train Song (4.13)
3. Star Carr (3.50)
4. Monaghan Jig / Monks Jig Set (3.38)
5. I Must Away Love (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783) (5.48)

LP Side 2

6. Long Lankin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735) (5.45)
7. Penumbra (2.51)
8. Loving Hannah (Roud 454; G/D 6:1192; Henry H615, H625) (3.51)
9. Lass of Aughrim (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (6.12)

Tracks 1, 5-6, 8-9 trad. arr. Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver;
Tracks 2-3 words Lisa Knapp, music Gerry Diver;
Track 4 trad. arr. Gerry Diver;
Track 7 Lisa Knapp

Video

Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver sing Hawk & Crow; video by Marry Waterson: