Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. The Black Sluice (3.11)
2. I Wish, I Wish (Roud 495) (3.41)
3. John Hardy (Roud 3262; Laws I2) (4.13)
4. Shetland Tunes (5.24)

Track 1 Georgia Shackleton;
Tracks 2-4 trad.

Recorded at Mini-theater De Melkbus / Dordrecht (NL);
Mixed and mastered by Burger Productions / Dordrecht (NL)

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. Coal Tattoo (3.31)
2. Forget Me Nots (3.23)
3. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) (3.29)
4. Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out) (2.47)
5. Our Town (4.05)
6. Dinghies on the River Wensum / Steamboats on the Saskatchewan (5.18)
7. Little Rabbit (4.13)

Track 1 Billy Edd Wheeler;
Tracks 3, 7 trad:
Track 4 Jimmy Cox

Recorded by Sam Cook at Capsize Audio Productions;
Artwork by Lucy Ducker

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar, vocals;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

with
Adam Clark: banjo

Tracks

1. War Pigeon (4.23)
2. Coal Tattoo (3.29)
3. The Dog Who Would Not Be Washed / Carn Gorm to Blue Ridge (3.50)
4. Lonesome George (2.45)
5. Endurance (6.02)
6. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) (2.56)
7. Black Sluice (3.49)
8. Dinghies on the River Wensum / Hoverboards at Hunstanton (4.16)
9. Molly Vaughan (Roud 166; Laws O36; Henry H114) / Knackens Polska (7.21)
10. Katie Dear (Roud 711; Laws G21) (5.31)
11. Whiskey Kisses (3.53)
12. Little Rabbit (4.05)

Tracks 1, 3a, 4-5, 7, 11 Georgia Shackleton;
Track 2 Billy Edd Wheeler;
Track 3b Ian Hardie;
Tracks 6, 9ab, 10, 12 trad.;
Tracks 8ab Nic Zuppardi

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. The Fashionable Farmer (4.28)
2. Radish Boys (Roud 8788) (2.27)
3. Only Viveka (3.45)
4. Old Blue (Roud 4313) (3.39)
5. The Stanford (3.57)
6. Powte’s Complaint (3.25)
7. Fenland Song (2.24)
8. Bolton Lodge (4.17)
9. Vals till Lars-Olov / The Penknife Killer (4.14)
10. Down into the Sea (4.58)

Track 1 Georgia Shackleton, Nic Zuppardi;
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 9b trad.;
Track 3 Karen Tweed;
Tracks 5, 10 Georgia Shackleton;
Track 7 Fred Rooke;
Track 8 Nic Zuppardi;
Track 9a Carina Normansson

Musicians

Christina Alden: vocals, guitar;
Alex Patterson: violin, mandolin;
Noel Dashwood: dobro, vocals;
Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. Mandy Lynn (4.05)
2. Bonnie Blue Eyes (Roud 762?) (3.04)
3. Mary And Joe’s (2.06)
4. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) (3.18)
5. Starry Crown (Roud 17638) (2.11)
6. Travelling Soldier (5.01)
7. Tom Dooley (Roud 4192; Laws F36A) (3.30)

Track 1 Nic Zuppardi arr. The Shackleton Trio;
Track 2 trad. arr. and music Christina Alden, Alex Patterson;
Track 3 Alex Patterson arr. Christina Alden, Alex Patterson;
Track 4 trad. arr. The Shackleton Trio;
Track 5 trad. arr. Alden Patterson and Dashwood, verses 4-6 Christina Alden, Alex Patterson;
Track 6 Bruce Robinson arr. The Shackleton Trio;
Track 7 trad. arr. Noel Dashwood

Recorded by Marc Burger at Mini-theater De Melkbus / Dordrecht (NL)

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. The Fashionable Farmer (3.54)
2. Black Sluice (3.22)
3. Bolton Lodge (3.59)
4. Bad Bad Woman (2.40)
5. Ostrich for Sale (6.13)
6. John Hardy (Roud 3262; Laws I2) / June Apple (5.48)
7. Travellin’ Soldier (4.53)
8. Byard’s Leap / Wackidoo (4.34)
9. Lonesome George (2.43)
10. The Stanford (4.01)

Track 1 Georgia Shackleton, Nic Zuppardi;
Tracks 2, 9-10 Georgia Shackleton;
Track 3 Nic Zuppardi;
Track 4 Izzy Cox;
Track 7 The Chicks (Dixie Chicks);
Track 8b Annbjørg Lien, Bjørn Ole Rash

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin

Tracks

1. Gonna Retrain as Santa Claus (3.33)

Track 1 Georgia Shackleton

Produced by The Shackleton Trio;
Recorded by Aaren Bennett at Falcor Studios;
Mastered by Josh Clark at Get Real Audio;
Photography by Simon Boosey;
Artwork by Nic Zuppardi

Tradfolk review by Jon Wilks
Folking.com review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin, banjo

Tracks

1. No Road Across Mousehold (Roud V2919) (3.14)
2. Little Wooden Shoes (Roud V13439) (4.59)
3. Mandy Lynn (4.14)
4. Wildman Peter (4.37)
5. Hold the Line (4.06)
6. Bird’s Nest Bound (3.34)
7. Byard’s Leap / Wackidoo (4.43)
8. Ballad of Barton Broad (Roud 1781) (3.22)
9. Eel Song (3.26)

Tracks 1-2, 8 trad. arr. Georgia Shackleton;
Tracks 3, 5, 7a Nic Zuppardi;
Tracks 4, 9 Georgia Shackleton;
Track 6 Charley Patton;
Track 7b Annbjørg Lien, Bjørn Ole Rash;
Al tracks arr. The Shackleton Trio

Video

The Shackleton Trio perform Eel Song:

The album title refers to Norfolk singer Harry Cox’s pet.

Produced by Georgia Shackleton and Aaren Bennett;
Recorded by Aaren Bennett at Falcor Studios;
Mastered by Josh Clark at Get Real Audio;
Artwork by Andy Stanhope at Well Creek Rose Art;
Sleeve design by Nic Zuppardi

At the Barrier album review by John Barlass
KLOF Magazine review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, harmonium, vocals

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. Twenty Eighteen (Roud 542) (2.23)
2. Come, Little Leaves (Roud 1775) (2.20)
3. Ramblin’ Robin (Roud V5416) (1.30)
4. What Will Become of England? (Roud 1779) / Yarmouth Hornpipe / Harry’s Seagull (2.53)
5. Small Birds Whistle (Roud 199; Child 106; G/D 1:163) (2.25)

LP Side 2

6. The Blacksmith (Roud 816) (4.30)
7. Watson’s Hornpipe / Swanton Abbott Hornpipe (3.54)
8. Yarmouth Fishermen’s Song (Roud 2434) (2.16)
9. Windy Old Weather (Roud 472) (2.18)

All tracks trad. arr. Georgia Shackleton except
Track 2 words George Cooper, music Thomas J. Crawford;
Track 4c Georgia Shackleton

Video

Georgia Shackleton sings Windy Old Weather:

Recorded and mixed by Aaren Bennett and Alex Patterson;
Mastered by Owen Turner;
Artwork by Christina Alden

Folking.com review by Bill Golembeski

Musicians

Christina Alden: guitar, banjo, vocals;
Aaren Bennett: guitar, vocals;
Alex Patterson: fiddle, tenor guitar, vocals;
Georgia Shackleton: fiddle, vocals;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin, banjo, vocals

Tracks

1. Island / Pull Down Your Vest (3.08)
2. The Greenland Shark (2.50)
3. Holy Mackerel (3.17)
4. Five Thousand Miles (3.37)
5. Winder Slide (2.40)
6. A Tune for the Girls / Tune for the Gulls (3.38)
7. Handsome Molly (Roud 454; G/D 6:1192; Henry H615, H625) (4.08)
8. Buffy / Mary and Joe’s (3.34)
9. Bird’s Nest Bound (3.35)
10. Dig Away (4.47)

Tracks 1a, 4, 6b Georgia Shackleton;
Tracks 1b, 7 trad.;
Track 2 Christina Alden;
Track 3 Nic Zuppardi;
Track 5 Joe Larose;
Track 6a Liz Carroll;
Track 7 trad., Christina Alden, Alex Patterson;
Tracks 8ab Alex Patterson;
Track 9 Charley Patton, Georgia Shackleton;
Track 10 Christina Alden, Alex Patterson

Video

Kitewing play Handsome Molly at Canopy Theatre in Hungate Church, Beccles in February 2023:

Acknowledgements

Thank you very much to Georgia for an early digital copy of this beautiful album and to Christina and Alex for a copy of the CD at their concert in Elmshorn, Germany.

Produced by The Shackleton Trio;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Aaren Bennett;
Artwork by Nic Zuppardi

Folking.com review by Bill Golembeski

Musicians

Georgia Shackleton: vocals, fiddle, harmonium;
Aaren Bennett: guitar, vocals;
Nic Zuppardi: mandolin, banjo, vocals

Tracks

1. Bows of London (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (4.02)
2. Two Hundred Days (4.53)
3. The Dog Who Would Not Be Washed / Cape Breton Dream (3.05)
4. Black Sluice (3.35)
5. Frost Fair (3.10)
6. Cabin Fever Set (3.05)
7. Lonesome George (2.43)
8. War Pigeon (4.04)

All tracks written by Georgia Shackleton arr. The Shackleton Trio except
Track 1 trad.;
Track 3b Pierre Schryer

Video

The Shackleton Trio sings Black Sluice live in Tivoli, Copenhagen on 26 August 2019: