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Poachers Pocket: Fair Game

Poachers Pocket: Fair Game (WildGoose WGS267CD)

Fair Game
Poachers Pocket

WildGoose Studios WGS267CD (CD, UK, 1994)

Traditional and new, tunes and songs in the English style

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire, in 1994;
Cover photo of ‘Stinker’ Wood by his mum;
Backliner drawing by Fran Wood

Musicians

Penny Hicks: mandolin, guitar, vocals, hands;
Ian Holland: electric and acoustic guitar, electric bass, vocals, stomach;
Katy Holland: vocals, thighs, stool;
Ann Stonehouse: fiddle, thighs, stool;
Lesley Weston: percussion;
Simon Weston: button accordion, concertina;
Fran Wood: vocals, whistles, crumhorn, hands

Tracks

  1. Around the World for Sport / There Came a Young Man (3.16)
  2. Luck of the Draw (4.33)
  3. Captain Campbell / Birnie Bouzle (4.10)
  4. I Know My Love (Roud 60; Laws P25) (3.05)
  5. Salmon Tales / Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (3.30)
  6. My Love’s an Arbutus / Morgan Magan (2.49)
  7. A Man Is in Love / Calliope House (3.56)
  8. A Heart Like a Wheel (4.38)
  9. Margaret’s Waltz (4.36)
  10. Do You Love an Apple? (Roud 654; TYG 33) (4.03)
  11. Star Above the Garter / The Weavers (2.59)
  12. Three Pretty Maids (Roud 899; G/D 7:1493) (3.05)
  13. Dancing Bear / Polka d’ Aveyron (3.46)

All tracks trad. arr. Paochers Pocket except
Track 2 Paul Brady;
Track 6b Turlough O’Carolan;
Track 7a Mike Scott;
Track 7b Dave Richardson;
Track 8 Anna McGarrigle;
Track 9 Pat Shaw