Tracks

1. Hank Dogs: Lucky Break (4.39)
   from Bareback
2. Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt: Trip To Fowey / Cuckold Came Out of the Amery / Indian Queen (5.22)
   from Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt (Topic TSCD489, 1997)
3. Oysterband: Sail on By (3.29)
   from Deep Dark Ocean
4. Waterson:Carthy: Claudy Banks (Roud 266; Laws N40; G/D 5:1036; Henry H5, H693) (6.45)
   from Common Tongue (Topic TSCD488, 1996)
5. Rory McLeod: Be My Rambling Woman (4.23)
   from Lullabies for Big Babies
6. Billy Pigg: Gypsy’s Lullaby / The Hawk / Memories / Coates Hall (4.57)
   from Wild Hills o’ Wannie (Topic 12TS227, 1974)
7. Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick: The Begging Song (Roud 286; G/D 3:488) (4.30)
   from Life and Limb (Topic TSCD491, 1998)
8. John Kirkpatrick: A Lord of Steam and Iron (3.40)
   from Earthling (Music & Words MWCD 4006, 1994)
9. Coope, Boyes & Simpson: Falling Slowly (3.11)
   from Falling Slowly (No Masters NMCD9, 1996)
10. Louie Fuller: Hopping Down in Kent (Roud 1715) (2.03)
    from Green Grow the Laurels: Country Singers From the South (Topic 12TS285, 1976)
11. The Watersons: Country Life (Roud 1752) (1.58)
    from For Pence and Spicy Ale (Topic 12TS265, 1975)
12. The Barely Works: Byker Hill (Roud 3488) (5.06)
    from The Big Beat (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 024, 1990)
13. Edward II: Brilliant Pebbles (4.17)
    from Wicked Man
14. The Albion Band: Yellow Dress (4.45)
    from 1990 (Topic 12TS475, 1990)
15. Walter Bulwer, Billy Cooper, Daisy Bulwer, Reg Hall, Mervyn Plunkett, Russell Wortley: Red Wing Polka (2.24)
    from English Country Music (Topic 12TS296, 1976)
16. Harry Cox: Bold Fisherman (Roud 291; Laws O24; G/D 4:834) (2.49)
    from Come Let Us Buy the Licence (The Voice of the People Series Vol. 1, Topic TSCD651, 1998)
17. Savourna Stevenson, June Tabor, Danny Thompson: The Baker (4.22)
    from Singing the Storm (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD102, 1996)
18. Billy Bragg: A New England (2.13)
    from Back to Basics

CD 1 compiled by Ian Anderson. He wrote the sleeve notes, too.

Tracks

CD 1: The Rough Guide to English Folk

1. Bellowhead: Yarmouth Town (3.47)
   from Hedonism (Navigator NAVIGATOR042, 2010)
2. Emily Portman: Tongue-Tied (4.20)
   from The Glamoury (Furrow FUR002, 2010)
3. Ian King: Adieu to Old England (Roud 1703) (4.38)
   from Panic Grass & Fever Few (Fledg’ling FLED 3082, 2010)
4. Kathryn Tickell: The Wedding / Because He Was A Bonny Lad (3.39)
   from Debateable Lands (Park PRKCD50, 1999)
5. Pete Coe: Byker Hill (Roud 3488) (3.19)
   from Backbone (Backshift BASH CD57)
6. The Imagined Village: My Son John (Roud 678; Henry H131) (6.08)
   from Empire and Love (ECC002, 2010)
7. Bob & Ron Copper: The Sweet Primroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841) (2.05)
   from Come Write Me Down (Topic TSCD534, 2001)
8. Nancy Wallace: The Welcome Sailor (Roud 604; Laws N29; Henry H581) (3.44)
   from The Black Sun (Rif Mountain RM-006, 2011)
9. Andy Cutting: Charlie / Come Back (3.23)
   from Andy Cutting (Lane LANECD01, 2010)
10. Chris Wood: Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470) (7.55)
    from The Lark Descending (R.U.F. RUFCD10, 2005)
11. Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson: Bonaparte’s Lament (Roud 349) (3.15)
    from Gift (Topic TSCD579, 2010)
12. Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight: Revoiced (3.14)
    from The Days That Shaped Me (One Little Indian TPLP1087CD, 2011)
13. Jason Steel: The False Bride (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (2.53)
    from Fire Begot Ash (Rif Mountain RM-002, 2010)
14. The Old Swan Band: Walter Bulwer’s No. 2 & 1 (3.54)
    from Swan for the Money (WildGoose WGS378CD, 2011)
15. Bella Hardy: The Herring Girl (4.14)
    from Songs Lost & Stolen (Navigator NAVIGATOR 045, 2011)
16. Shirley Collins: Just As the Tide Was Flowing (Roud 1105) (1.35)
    from The Power of the True Love Knot (Polydor 583 025, 1967)
17. Dalla: Bishop’s Jig / No Song No Supper (4.15)
    from Cribbar (DACD05, 2010)

CD 2: The Rough Guide to Coope Boyes & Simpson

1. The Forward March (2.33)
2. Horkstow Grange (Roud 1760) (3.46)
3. Fairground Attraction (4.06)
4. Uttoxeter Souling Song (Roud 304) (1.14)
5. Heaven’s Waiting Room (4.01)
6. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (4.10)
7. Living It Up (4.31)
8. The Sea Must Have an Ending (3.59)
9. The River Flows (5.14)
10. Twenty-Four Seven (3.36)
11. Cold Coasts of Iceland / Three Ships (6.46)
12. Shuffling Jack (2.25)
13. Since the Exodus Began (3.23)
14. Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) (3.17)

Track 1 Ernest Jones, Jim Boyes;
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 14 trad. arr. Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Lester Simpson;
Tracks 3, 7-8, 10, 12 Lester Simpson;
Tracks 5, 9, 13 Jim Boyes;
Track 11 Mike Waterson

Tracks 1, 12-13 are from Falling Slowly (NMCD9, 1996);
Tracks 6, 14 are from Hindsight (NMCD11, 1998);
Track 7 is from Christmas Truce Kerstbestand (NMCD14, 1999);
Tracks 3, 9 are from Where You Belong: A Song Cycle for Belper (NMCD15, 1999);
Tracks 4-5, 8, 10-11 are from Twenty-Four Seven (NMCD20, 2002);
Track 2 is from Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth and Percy Grainger (NMCD22, 2005)