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The Mellstock Band: Songs of Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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Songs of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Saydisc CD-SDL 410 (CD, UK, 17 October 1995) |
Recorded at Valley Recordings, Littleton-on-Severn, in May 1994;
Recorded and produced by Gef Lucena (Saydisc) and David Wilkins (Valley Recordinfs);
Research by Dave Townsend and Caroline Jackson-Houlston;
Front cover illustration: Candlemas Fair, Dorchester 1880,
reproduced by courtesy of Dorset Country Museum;
Design by Genny Lucena
Musicians
Sally Dexter, vocals [2, 4, 6, 12-13, 15, 19-20],
harmony vocals [8, 10];
Julie Murphy, vocals [2, 4, 7, 11-12, 17, 20],
harmony vocals [8, 10, 13, 16, 18];
Ian Giles, vocals [1-2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20],
harmony vocals [13, 16, 19];
Andy Turner, vocals [2-3, 9, 12, 14, 20-21],
harmony vocals [8, 10, 13, 16, 18];
with
The Mellstock Band:
Dave Townsend, concertina [2, 5-6, 8, 15, 21],
bass concertina [6, 11],
violin [7, 18],
speech [8],
vocals [16, 20];
Mark Emerson, violin [1-2, 5, 7, 16, 18, 21],
viola [3, 6, 10, 19],
vocals [20];
Charles Spicer, flute [2, 19],
oboe [1, 12],
vox humana [16, 21],
vocals [20];
Kathryn Locke, cello [1-3, 7, 10, 12-13, 16, 19, 21],
vocals [20]
Tracks
- The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1496) (3.24)
- Jockey to the Fair / Dame Durden (Roud 1209) (2.50)
- The Mistletoe Bough (Roud 2336) (3.31)
- Cupid's Garden (Roud 297; G/D 5:970) (3.23)
- Queen Eleanor's Confession (Roud 74; Child 156; G/D 2:208) (3.40)
- The Spotted Cow (Roud 956) (2.04)
- The Seeds of Love (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) (4.39)
- The Barley Mow (Roud 944) (2.56)
- The Prentice Boy (Roud 263; Laws P35; G/D 2:200) (4.00)
- I Have Parks, I Have Hounds (Roud 1603) (2.56)
- Break o' the Day (Roud 2445) (2.24)
- The Sheepshearing Song (Roud 812) (4.12)
- The Tailor's Breeches (Roud 1610; TYG 49) (2.19)
- The Downhills of Life (Roud 1308) (2.41)
- I Wish, I Wish (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1170; Henry H683) (2.22)
- Joan's Ale (Roud 139; G/D 3:561) (2.31)
- The Outlandish Knight (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (6.23)
- Such a Beauty I Did Grow (Roud 17183) (2.22)
- The Banks of Allan Water (Roud 4260) (3.07 )
- King Arthur Had Three Sons (1.54)
- The Light of the Moon (Roud 21234) (3.25)
All tracks trad. arr. Dave Townsend except
Track 5 trad. arr. Dave Townsend, Mark Emerson;
Track 13 trad. arr. Dave Townsend, Kathryn Locke
Tracks 1, 4-5, 8 are referred to in The Return of the Native;
Tracks 1, 6, 15 The Woodlanders;
Tracks 2, 7, 14, 19 Far From the Madding Crowd;
Track 3 A Laodicean;
Tracks 4, 6, 9-11, 13, 18 Tess of the D'Urbervilles;
Tracks 12, 20 Under the Greenwood Tree;
Track 13 A Few Crusted Characters;
Track 16 Desperate Remedies;
Track 17 proposed dramatisation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles;
Track 21 The Dynasts
> Folk Music > Records > The Mellstock Band: Tenants of the Earth
The Mellstock Band: Tenants of the Earth
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Tenants of the Earth WildGoose Studios WGS281CD (CD, UK, 1996) |
Produced and recorded by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, Wherwell, Hampshire;
Cover picture by Tom Bower
Musicians
Tim Hill, clarinets, flute, vocals;
Phil Humphries, serpent, trombone, vocals;
Charles Spicer, oboes, vox humana, fife, vocals;
Dave Townsend, violin, concertina, percussion, vocals
Special guest:
Chris Leslie, violin
with The Mellstock Quire:
Becca Heddle, Mandy Townsend, treble;
Sheila Smith, Carol Turner, counter;
Andy Turner, tenor;
Ian Giles, bass
Tracks
- Old Wiltshire (Roud 24361) (2.48)
- The Persian Dance / The Waterloo Dance (4.35)
- How Happy's the Man (Roud 1230) (1.45)
- Money Musk / Billy Boy / This Day the Stag Must Die / Fred Williams' Irish Jig (4.26)
- Budmouth Dears / The Downfall of Paris (3.31)
- Sweet Jenny Jones (3.32)
- Devil's Reel / Money Musk / Haul Away the Hawser (2.56)
- Newton's, or St Paul's (Roud 8337) (2.46)
- The Swiss Boy / William Giles' Quadrille (3.34)
- With Raptures Abounding (Roud 24378) (2.09)
- The Original Polka / The Redowa Polka (3.00)
- Great Things (3.05)
- Grandmother's / Hook's no. 27 / Cuckoo's Nest (4.23)
- Rejoice Ye Tenants of the Earth (Roud 23710) (2.56)
- The Wounded Hussar / Time to Remember the Poor (Roud 1121) (7.37)
- Derby / The Knifegrinder / 'Ware Out Mother (5.32)
- Rejoice All Men (Roud 24362) (2.46)
- Boney's Farewell / Hythe March / Newark Quickstep (3.45)
- The Shepherds Amazed (Roud V5591) (2.59)