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The Halliard: The Last Goodnight!

The Last Goodnight! The Halliard Olde Musick OMMCD05 (CD, UK, 1 November 2006)

After the release of The Halliard (Nic Jones, Dave Moran & Nigel Paterson): It’s the Irish in Me, they recorded 15 songs as a demo for their Saga record label. The group were given a copy of the master tape, but the album was never released by Saga or elsewhere until now.

Recorded in 1968, the disc was remastered in 2005/6;
Tracks 16, 18 recorded by John Bushby in Tasmania in late 2005;
Track 17 recorded by John Dipper in North Cave, UK in February 2006

Musicians

Dave Moran: lead vocals […, 16, 18];
Nic Jones: vocals […, 17], guitar;
Nigel Paterson: vocals, guitar;
Graham Hodge: guitar [17];
John Bushby: bouzouki, guitar, whistle [16, 18];
Malcolm Bushby: fiddle [16, 18]

Tracks

1968 Recording Session

1. Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750) (3.20)
2. Ballad of Tim Evans (3.58)
3. Ballad of Dick Turpin (Roud 621; Laws L10) (2.20)
4. Patrick McCaffery (Roud 1148) (3.20)
5. Robin Hood (Roud 71; Child 140; G/D 2:243) (2.55)
6. Nightingale in the East (Roud 2655) (2.55)
7. With Wellington We’ll Go (Roud 5824; G/D 1:153) (3.10)
8. The Suffering of Charles Adolphus King (3.36)
9. Turpin’s Bonny Black Bess (Roud 856) (2.56)
10. Bold Captain Grant (Roud 1286) (2.57)
11. Plains of Abraham (3.30)
12. Miles Weatherhill and Sarah Bell (Roud V7515) (3.02)
13. Bold Nelson (Roud 1082) (3.16)
14. Captain Kidd (Roud 1900; Laws K35) (2.46)
15. The Sad Lamentation of John Kington (4.13)

Additional Tracks

16. The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83) (3.17)
17. Rakish Young Fellow (Roud 829) (3.09)
18. Stow Brow (Roud 185; Laws K18; G/D 1:20; TYG 7) (3.57)

Tracks 1, 3-4, 11, 14 trad. arr. Nic Jones, Dave Moran, Nigel Paterson;
Track 2 Ewan MacColl;
Tracks 5, 10, 13, 17 words trad., tune Nic Jones;
Track 6 words trad., tune trad., Nigel Paterson;
Tracks 7-8, 12, 15-16, 18 words trad., tune Nic Jones, Dave Moran;
Tracks 9 words trad., tune Dave Moran;