Compiled and arranged by Tutfy Swift;
Recorded by Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios;
Produced by Neil Wayne;
Sleeve photography by Chris Hall;
Sleeve design by Sue Dransfield and Tufty Swift

Musicians

Tufty Swift: four-stop one-row melodeon, fiddle, mouth organ;
Alan Harris: banjo, double bass, piano;
Sue Harris: hammered dulcimer, oboe

Tracks

Side 1

1. Winster Processional / Blue-Eyed Stranger No. 2 (3.06)
2. Kit White’s Square Eight (2.14)
3. Father’s Whiskers (3.27)
4. Mr Gubbin’s Bicycle (2.06)
5. The Officer’s Polka (2.16)
6. Sam Steel’s Waltz and Schottische (2.10)
7. Buttered Pease / Mulberry Bush (2.41)
8. Boatman’s Dance (2.30)
9. Rig-a-Jig (2.36)
10. Old Mother Casey (2.29)

Side 2

6. Herbert Smith’s Four-Hand Reel (2.29)
7. Swedish Tune (2.10)
8. Gaspé Reel (3.15)
9. Tip-Top Polka (2.25)
10. Waltz Me, Willy (2.38)
11. Brass Nuts (2.22)
12. Winster Morris Gallop / The Miner’s Standard (2.53)
13. Miss Baker’s Hornpipe (1.40)
14. Lady of the Lake / Buffalo Girls (3.06)

All tracks trad. arr. Tufty Smith except
Track 4 John Kirkpatrick

Recorded by Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios, April/May 1978;
Produced by John Kirkpatrick;
Sleeve design and photography by Bryan Ledgard, R&B Art

Musicians

Sue Harris: vocals [2, 4-6, 8-10], hammered dulcimer [1-3, 7], piano [8];
Tufty Swift: one-row 4-stop melodeon [1, 5, 9-10];
Martin Brinsford: mouth organ [1, 7, 10], tambourine [1, 10], skulls bass [5];
Alan Harris: tenor banjo [1, 5-6, 9], guitar [7], double bass [2, 10];
John Kirkpatrick: two row melodeon [1], button accordion [4], Anglo concertina [5];
Jenny Harris: vocals [3], harmony vocals [9-10]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Perry Gutter / All Asiden (5.23)
2. The Donkey’s Death (2.50)
3. Old Man in a Wood / Gay Ladies’ Polka (4.30)
4. McCaffery (Roud 1148) (5.30)
5. Put On Your Ta-Ta, Little Girl (3.10)

Side 2

6. Just Watch the Ivy (3.05)
7. Pottings Polka (2.29)
8. In the Midst of Night (4.34)
9. Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab, H624) (3.46)
10. All the Months of the Year / All the Year Round (7.30)

All tracks trad. arr. Sue Harris except
Track 1, 7, 10b Sue Harris;
Track 5 Fred Leigh;
Track 6 A.J. Mills, Harry Castling

This is (shortened) compilation CD reissue of two Free Reed LPs: Tufty Swift’s How to Make a Bakewell Tart and Sue Harris’ Hammers & Tongues. Some of the missing tracks can be found on the Free Reed anthology This Label Is Not Removable.

Tracks

Hammers & Tongues

1. Perry Gutter / All Asiden (5.23)
2. Old Man in a Wood / Gay Ladies’ Polka (4.30)
3. Put On Your Ta-Ta, Little Girl (3.10)
4. Just Watch the Ivy (3.05)
5. Pottings Polka (2.29)
6. In the Midst of Night (4.34)
7. Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab, H624) (3.46)
8. All the Months of the Year / All the Year Round (7.30)

How to Make a Bakewell Tart

9. Winster Processional / Blue-Eyed Stranger No. 2 (3.06)
10. Kit White’s Square Eight (2.14)
11. Father’s Whiskers (3.27)
12. Mr Gubbin’s Bicycle (2.06)
13. The Officer’s Polka (2.16)
14. Sam Steel’s Waltz and Schottische (2.10)
15. Buttered Pease / Mulberry Bush (2.41)
16. Boatman’s Dance (2.30)
17. Rig-a-Jig (2.36)
18. Old Mother Casey (2.29)
19. Herbert Smith’s Four-Hand Reel (2.29)
20. Swedish Tune (2.10)
21. Gaspé Reel (3.15)
22. Tip-Top Polka (2.25)
23. Waltz Me, Willy (2.38)
24. Brass Nuts (2.22)
25. Winster Morris Gallop / The Miner’s Standard (2.53)