Recorded by Bill Leader at Leader Sound, Halifax;
[10] recorded at Livingstone Studios, Barnet;
Sleeve design by Claudine Meissner

Musicians

Frankie Armstrong: vocals [2-3, 5, 7b, 10, 13];
Kathy Henderson: fiddle [6];
Sandra Kerr: vocals [2, 4-5, 7a, 8, 11], autoharp [4], concertina [8, 11], Appalachian dulcimer [6, 7c], guitar [4, 9-11], piano [13];
Alison McMorland: vocals [1, 5-6, 7c, 9, 12], banjo [2, 9]

Tracks

Side 1

1. [AM] Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334)
2. [FA, SK] Hares on the Mountain (Roud 329)
3. [FA] Fair Annie (Roud 42; Child 62; G/D 6:1161; Henry H126)
4. The Maintenance Engineer
5. [FA, SK, AM] The Lament of the Working-Class Hero’s Wife
6. [AM] The Jute Mill Song (Roud 2585)
7. Lullabies: [SK] Bye Bye My Baby (Roud 19912) / [FA] Hush Thee My Babby (Roud 19909) / [AM] Bee-o

Side 2

8. [SK] Oo’er, What a Death to Die
9. [AM] The Wee Totum (Roud 5551; G/D 5:1072)
10. [FA] Family Secret
11. [SK] Nothing Between Us Now
12. [AM] John Anderson, My Jo
13. [FA] Lady Bus Driver

All tracks trad. except
Track 4 Sandra Kerr;
Track 5 words Linda Peachey, music trad.;
Track 6 Mary Brooksbank;
Track 8 words Mabel Constanduros, music Gwen Lewis; tune and additional words Sandra Kerr;
Track 11 John Pole;
Track 13 words David Bradford, music Helen Glavin

Side A produced by Dave Ward;
Side B produced by Brian Pearson and Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong sang both of these songs on her 1990 Harbourtown Records album Ways of Seeing too.

Musicians

Frankie Armstrong: vocals
with women from “Babies Against the Bomb”

Tracks

Side 1

1. Message from Mother Earth

Side 2

2. Shall There Be Womanly Times or Shall We Die?

Track 1 Frankie Armstrong;
Track 2 words Frankie Armstrong, Brian Pearson; tune Frankie Armstrong

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alistair Banfield for the record details and photos