Recorded and produced by Seumas Ewens;
Sleeve design by Janet Kerr;
Photograph by Peter T. Blacow

Musicians

Alan Bell: vocals, concertina;
Pete Rodger: vocals;
Brian Osborne: vocals, guitar;
Stuart Robinson: guitar, melodeon, mandolin, bouzouki, 5-string banjo

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151)
2. The Ladies Dance at Whitsun
3. The Blowing Sands
4. A Young and Single Sailor (Roud 264; Laws N42; G/D 5:1038, 6:1201; Henry H471)
5. The Rape of Glencoe
6. I’m Looking for a Job

Side 2

7. Sir Thomas Tylesley
8. Windmills
9. La Pique (Roud 2563)
10. Sambo’s Song
11. The Lord Middleton
12. The Dark Island

Tracks 1, 4, 9 trad. arr. Taverners;
Track 2 Austin John Marshall;
Tracks 3, 7-8, 10, 12 Alan Bell;
Track 5 Jim McLean;
Track 6 Matt McGinn;
Track 11 Ron Baxter, Alan Bell

Notes

For The Lord Middleton see also the Mudcat Café thread Fleetwood & Fishing: Songs of the Trawling Trade.

Musicians

Alan Bell: vocals, concertina;
Pete Rodger: vocals;
Brian Osborne: vocals, guitar;
Stuart Robinson: guitar, melodeon, mandolin, bouzouki, 5-string banjo

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Ballad of a Working Man (2.50)
2. The Seasons Round (Roud 169) (3.12)
3. Ae Fond Kiss (2.40)
4. The Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206) (3.28)
5. Bogie’s Bonnie Belle (Roud 2155; G/D 7:1396) (2.08)
6. Goodbye Sam Laycock (2.40)

Side 2

7. The Ploughman (Roud 2538) (2.17)
8. Farewell She (Roud 1034, 803; Henry H504) (2.26)
9. Bread and Fishes (4.26)
10. In a British Man-of-War (Roud 372) (3.50)
11. The Horn of the Hunter (Roud 1859) (3.50)
12. The Wyre Waterside (3.15)

Tracks 1, 6, 9, 12 Alan Bell;
Tracks 2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-11 trad.;
Track 3 Robert Burns

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall;
Sleeve design by Frank Hicklin

Musicians

Brian Osborne: vocals, guitar

Tracks

Side 1

1. Old Pendle
2. The Penny Wager (Roud 393)
3. Queen of Hearts (Roud 3195)
4. Just As the Tide Was Flowing (Roud 1105)
5. The Barley and the Rye (Roud 23268)
6. Blow the Candles Out (Roud 368; Laws P17; G/D 4:788)
7. The Coal-Owner and the Pitmans Wife
8. Ae Fond Kiss (Roud V1011)

Side 2

9. Peat Bog Soldiers
10. The Tailor’s Breeches (Roud 1610; TYG 49)
11. The Snows (Roud 3154)
12. The Brisk Young Butcher (Roud 167; G/D 7:1466)
13. The Shearin’s Not for You (Roud 4845; G/D 7:1486)
14. The Blantyre Explosion (Roud 1014; Laws Q35)
15. Farewell to Fiunary (Roud 2317)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1 words Milton Allen, additional verse, music Brian Osborne;
Track 7 words William Hornsby (1844), music trad.;
Track 8 Robert Burns;
Track 9 words Johann Esser, Wolfgang Langhaff; music Rudi Goguel adapt. Hanns Eisler, Ernst Busch;
Track 15 Rev. Norman McLeod (1783-1862)

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall

Musicians

The Alan Bell Folk Band,
Poulton Silver Prize Band

Tracks

Side 1

1. Calling-On Song
2. Spring Song
3. The Christian Man
4. Fair Stood the Wind
5. The Boy and the Dream
6. The Concertina Man
7. So Here’s to You

Side 2

8. Overture
9. Dance on Christmas Day
10. Francoise in Flanders
11. Marching
12. The Band in the Park
13. It’s Over
14. Gone With the Wind Yesterday
15. It’s My Life and I’ll Lead It

Note: The album picture and tracklist were copied from Discogs.com

Mastered by Peter Haigh at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh;
Photo of Alan Bell by Stuart Wright;
Design by John Slavin at DesignFolk

Musicians

Alan Bell: vocals [1-3, 5-8, 10-12, 14-16], English concertina [14];
Eddie Green: guitar [1-6, 10, 13-14, 16], bass guitar [8, 11-12, 15-16], banjo [8];
Andrew Green: guitar [2-6, 8, 10-16];
Sue Jennings: fiddle [1-2];
Liz Moore: vocals [4];
Th’ Antique Road Show (George Critchley, Rob Malaney, Nick Caffray): vocals [9];
Rebecca Green: vocals [13];
full choir [11, 15-16]

Tracks

1. The Lakeland Fiddler (3.29)
2. Windmills (3.35)
3. The Minstrel (3.26)
4. Alice White (3.16)
5. Fair Stood the Wind (3.49)
6. The Band in the Park (5.09)
7. Song for Mardale (3.24)
8. The Ballad of the Working Man (2.44)
9. The Dark Island (5.01)
10. Letters from Wilfred (5.52)
11. The Jacinta (3.49)
12. Spring Song (2.51)
13. A Sailor’s Sky (3.10)
14. Bread and Fishes (4.16)
15. In My Homeland (4.24)
16. So Here’s to You (3.55)

All tracks by Alan Bell except
Track 9 words Alan Bell, music Iain MacLachlan