Recorded live with no overdubs by Brian Forrester in November 2000 at Hudson-Forrester Studios, Minneapolis, MN;
Mastered by Jim Hemingway, Shutesbury, MA;
Photography by Dan Corrigan;
Layout and design by Eric Peltoniemi

Musicians

Tim Eriksen: vocals, guitar, fiddle, banjo

Tracks

1. Farewell to Old Bedford (Roud 16399) (1.57)
2. Boston (4.27)
3. I Wish the Wars Were All Over (Roud 2036) (3.46)
4. Lass of Glenshee (Roud 292; Laws O6; G/D 5:953; Henry H590) (5.17)
5. Mobile Serenade Polka / Shep Jones Hornpipe (4.30)
6. Garden Hymn (Roud 11502) (2.24)
7. Hicks’ Farewell (3.42)
8. Dress in Blue (2.02)
9. Hope (1.41)
10. Village Churchyard (7.58)
11. Last Chance (4.49)
12. Brown Girl (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212) (6.55)
13. Leave Your Light On (3.35)
14. I Love Music (2.25)

Recorded in a single unedited take with a Rode NT4 and Marantz PMD660 in a tower on the wall surrounding the Benedictine Abbey in Jaroslaw, Poland;
Mixed by Garrett Sawyer and Tim Eriksen, Northfire Recording Studio, Amherst, MA;
Mastered by Jeff Lipton, Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA;
Assistant mastering engineer: Maria Rice;
Photos by Tim Eriksen: transmission corridor near the January Hills, Amherst, MA;
Tim Eriksen portrait by Robert Tobey;
Design by Sonya Cohen Cramer

Musicians

Tim Eriksen: vocals

Tracks

1. As I Travel (The Wandering Boy) (Roud 16772) (4.36)
2. Queen Jane (Roud 39; Child 52; G/D 7:1395) (5.07)
3. Son of God (I love the holy Son of God) (3.43)
4. The Gallows Tree (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248) (2.56)
5. The Drowsy Sleeper (Roud 22621; Laws M4; Henry H722) (3.14)
6. John Randolph (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (4.00)
7. Two Babes (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (3.40)
8. Lass of Glenshee (Roud 292; Laws O6; G/D 5:953; Henry H590) (3.37)
9. Amazing Grace [John Newton] (Roud 5430; Sacred Harp 45t) (4.22)
10. A Soldier Traveling From the North (Roud 162; Child 299; G/D 7:1470) (2.32)
11. Hope (O thou who dries’t the mourner’s tear) (1.47)
12. I Wish the Wars Were All Over (Roud 2036) (2.04)
13. Wrestling Jacob (Come, O thou Traveler unknown) (3.12)
14. Better Days Coming (The glorious time is rolling on) (3.36)

Probably all tracks trad. except
Track 3 Asa Abel (1796-1879);
Track 8 Andrew Sharpe;
Track 9 John Newton;
Track 11 words Thomas Moore (1816);
Track 13 Charles Wesley

Produced by Tim Eriksen and Magdalena Eriksen;
Recorded by Garrett Sawyer at Northfire Recording Studio, Amherst, MA;
Mastered by Jeff Lipton, Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA;
Assistant mastering engineer: Maria Rice;
Marginalia by William or Albinus Otis Hamilton ca. 1835-45 and anonymous ca. 1850;
Design by Sofia Cohen Cramer

Musicians

Tim Eriksen: vocals, bajo sexto, fiddle [4, 9], banjo [11], bowed banjo [1], electric guitar [10, 12]

with:
Peter Irvine: frame drum, tambourine, drums;
Laura Risk: fiddle [4,7];
Eliza Cavanaugh: vocals [10, 12];
Garrett Sawyer: bass [12];
Silas Billings III: bowed glockenspiel [1], glockenspiel [8-10], great fife [3], electric guitar [12];
Reliance ‘Pat’ Billings-Knedlik: trumpet [12];
Citizens of Pumpkintown: chorus [12]

Tracks

1. Every Day Is Three (Roud 3601; G/D 8:1540) (4.14)
2. Bonny Bay of Biscay (Roud 6949) (2.18)
3. How Come That Blood (Roud 200; Child 13; TYG 35) (3.44)
4. Mountains of Pomeroy (Roud 37830) (3.20)
5. Roslin Castle (6.08)
6. Hindoo Air (1.26)
7. Philadelphia (3.24)
8. A Thousand Times Adieu (3.48)
9. The Lover’s Mistake (2.48)
10. The Mice (3.42)
11. Gabriel’s Trumpet (Roud 3386) (6.36)
12. Song of the Old Folks (Old Lang Syne) (Roud 13892) (3.19)
13. When Shall We All Meet Again (2.48)