Recorded at [???] and Westhill Studios;
Mastered by SRT;
Photography by Rebecca Cresta;
Design and artwork by Tim Marrs

Musicians

Peter Knight: violin;
Vincent Salzfaas: congas;
Roger Flack: guitar

Tracks

1. The Butterfly (7.53)
2. Si Beg Si Mor (5.08)
3. Sharp Goes Walkabout (9.50)
4. The Water Carriers (9.54)
5. Rolling Down the Bourne (5.08)
6. Camberwell Beauty (4.39)
7. Autumn Leaves (6.04)
8. The Banks of the Suir (8.30)

Tracks 1-2, 8 trad. arr. Gigspanner;
Tracks 3-4 Peter Knight;
Tracks 5-6 Gigspanner;
Track 7 published by Peter Maurice Music

Recorded live at Gigspanner’s May 2010 UK tour;
Sleeve design and artwork by Tim Marrs

Musicians

Peter Knight: violin, vocals;
Vincent Salzfaas: djembe, congas;
Roger Flack: guitar, vocals

Special guests:
Hugh Crabtree: melodeon;
Joe Caudwell: didgeridoo

Tracks

1. The Butterfly (8.11)
2. Picnic (3.45)
3. Mrs McGrath (Roud 678; Henry H131) (6.16)
4. Dave Robert’s French Waltz (6.06)
5. Two Constant Lovers (Roud 466; Laws K17; G/D 6:1244) (6.00)
6. Too Late for Shadows (7.30)
7. Sitting on Top of the World (6.07)
8. The Water Is Wide (Roud 87; Child 204) (7.02)
9. Bonny Birdy (Roud 3972; Child 82) (9.26)
10. Sharp Goes Walkabout (10.43)
11. Rolling Down the Bourne (4.31)

Produced and mixed by Gigspanner and Edward Blakeley;
Mastered by Edward Blakeley;
Photography by Elly Lucas;
Sleeve design by Tim Marrs

Musicians

Peter Knight: violins, mandolin, vocals and spoons;
Roger Flack: guitar, bass, vocals, fiddlesticks, eggs;
Vincent Salzfaas: djembe, congas, vocals

with
Edward Blakeley: bass, banjo [5]

Tracks

1. Bows of London (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (5.24)
2. She Moves Through the Fair instrumental (8.29)
3. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031) (9.04)
4. Mad Tom of Bedlam (4.39)
5. King of the Fairies set dance (5.59)
6. Louisiana Flack instrumental (3.30)
7. A Week Before Easter (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (4.38)
8. Down by the Sally Gardens (Roud 32872) instrumental (2.42)
9. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206) (8.28)

All tracks trad. arr. except
Track 4 trad., Nic Jones, Dave Moran;
Track 6 Peter Knight

Videos

Filmed at The Cut Arts Centre, New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk;
Cover photography by Elly Lucas;
Cover artwork by Tim Marrs and Kate Stretton

Musicians

Peter Knight: violin, Octave violin, vocals;
Roger Flack: guitar, vocals;
Vincent Salzfaas: congas, djembe, vocals

Tracks

1. She Moved Through the Fair instrumental
2. Mad Tom of Bedlam
3. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206)
4. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031)
5. The Butterfly
6. Louisiana Flack instrumental
7. Bonny Birdy (Roud 3972; Child 82)
8. King of the Fairies set dance

All tracks trad. arr. except
Track 6 Peter Knight

Recorded at Nettlebed Folk Club in January 2017;
Mixed and mastered by Edward Blakeley;
Photography by Deborah Knight;
Artwork by Tim Marrs and Kate Stretton

Musicians

Peter Knight: fiddle, vocals;
Roger Flack: guitar, vocals;
Phillip Henry: dobro, chatturangui, vocals;
Hannah Martin: fiddle, tenor guitar, banjo, vocals;
Sacha Trochet: percussion, vocals

Tracks

1. The Butterfly (8.35)
2. Silbury Hill (6.13)
3. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206) (8.00)
4. The Banks of the Nile (Roud 950; Laws N9; G/D 1:99; Henry H238a) (5.20)
5. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031) (10.36)
6. Last Broadcast (8.14)
7. Sharp Goes Walkabout (9.57)
8. The Boy That Wouldn’t Hoe Corn (9.11)
9. King of the Fairies set dance (7.53)

All tracks trad. arr. except
Tracks 2, 6 Hannah Martin, Phillip Henry;
Track 7 Peter Knight

Video

The Gigspanner Big Band performs Silbury Hill at Tewkesbury’s Roses Theatre in 2015:

Produced by Gigspanner and Edward Blakeley;
Cover photography: Capt Black 76 / 123rf.com;
Artwork by Tim Marrs and Kate Stretton

Musicians

Peter Knight: fiddle, keyboards, mandolin, vocals;
Roger Flack: guitar, bass, vocals;
Sacha Trochet: percussion, bass, vocals

Tracks

1. Urban’s Reel (4.25)
2. Spencer the Rover (Roud 1115; TYG 3) (6.27)
3. Green Gravel (Roud 1368; Henry H48b) (5.59)
4. Lament for the Wife of Urban Law (4.40)
5. Peggy and the Soldier (Roud 907; Laws P13; G/D 6:1129) (4.21)
6. Bold Riley (Roud 18160) (4.27)
7. The Blackbird (live instrumental) (6.36)
8. Penny the Hero (live) (6.15)
9. Rocking the Cradle (Roud 357) (7.53)

All tracks trad. arr. Gigspanner except
Track 1 Gigspanner;
Tracks 4, 7 Peter Knight

Produced by Edd Blageley and the Gigspanner Big Band;
Recorded by Edd Blageley in November 2019;
Illustration by Tim Marrs;
Design and layout by Kate Williams

Musicians

Roger Flack: guitars, bass, vocals;
Phillip Henry: dobro, slide guitars, tenor guitar, harmonica, vocals;
Peter Knight: violin, vocals;
Hannah Martin: violin, viola, banjo, vocals;
John Spiers: melodeons, concertina, vocals;
Sacha Trochet: percussion, bass, vocals

Tracks

1. Awake Awake (Roud 22621; Laws M4) (6.07)
2. Long A-Growing (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222) (4.43)
3. Searching for Lambs (Roud 576; Henry H548) (8.32)
4. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray (Roud 237; Child 201; G/D 6:1257) (6.59)
5. Daddy Fox (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38) (4.21)
6. Haul on the Bowline (Roud 652; G/D 1:1) (5.11)
7. Earl Brand (Roud 23; Child 7; G/D 2:220) (5.41)
8. The Snows They Melt the Soonest (Roud 3154) (6.13)
9. Courting Is a Pleasure (Roud 454; G/D 6:1192; Henry H615, H625) (7.13)
10. The Star of Munster / Reel du Tricentenaire (9.04)

All tracks trad. arr. Gigspanner Bg Band

Video

The Gigspanner Big Band rehearses Silbury Hill at L’espace, Verteillac, France, in October 2019:

Photography by Elly Lucas

Folk Radio UK review by Peter Shaw

Musicians

Peter Knight: violins, mandolin, vocals and spoons;
Roger Flack: guitar, bass, vocals, fiddlesticks, eggs;
Vincent Salzfaas: djembe, congas, vocals [1, 4-6, 8-9];
Sacha Trochet: percussion, vocals [2-3, 7]

Tracks

1. She Moves Through the Fair instrumental (8.29)
2. Bold Riley (Roud 18160) (4.27)
3. The Blackbird (live instrumental) (6.36)
4. The Butterfly (7.53)
5. Bows of London (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (5.24)
6. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031) (9.04)
7. Urban’s Reel (4.25)
8. Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór (5.08)
9. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206) (8.28)

Track 8 is from Lipreading the Poet (2009);
Track 4 is from Doors at Eight (2011);
Tracks 1, 5-6, 9 are from Layers of Ages (2015);
Tracks 2-3, 7 are from The Wife of Urbal Law (2017)

Recorded by Edd Blakeley live at venues across South West England in July 2022;
Mixed by Edd Blakeley;
Project management and artistic direction by Deborah Knight;
Graphic design and illustration by Tim Marrs;
Band photography by Elly Lucas and Bethany Key

Folk Radio UK review by Thomas Blake

Folk on Foot: Raynor Winn and the Gigspanner Big Band on the South West Coast Path

Musicians

Roger Flack: guitars, bass, vocals;
Phillip Henry: dobro, slide guitars, tenor guitar, harmonica, vocals;
Peter Knight: violin, vocals;
Hannah Martin: violin, viola, banjo, vocals;
John Spiers: melodeons, concertina, vocals;
Sacha Trochet: percussion, bass, vocals;
Raynor Winn: spoken words [2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27]

Tracks

CD 1

1. Cadgwith Anthem Overture (0.55)
2. Saltlines (1.15)
3. Shower and Sunshine (3.26)
4. Pause (2.02)
5. The Pollen Path (3.26)
6. Lemonday (Roud 193) (5.05)
7. The Last Stronghold (1.44)
8. Beauty of Kashmir (Roud 3314) (3.30)
9. Cadgwith Anthem (Roud 3314) (5.54)
10. Crofty Boys (1.22)
11. Cornish Lads Are Fishermen (1.04)
12. May Day Carol (Roud 305) (4.57)
13. The Edge (2.29)
14. The Isle of France (Roud 1575) (5.39)
15. High Tide (3.22)

CD 2

16. The Padstow May Song (Roud 305) / Voici Le Mois De Mai (5.16)
17. From the Mist (3.29)
18. Sweet Spring (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) (4.22)
19. Withers (2.18)
20. Brixham Town / Ranzo (Roud 328) / Woodland Flowers / Helston Furry Dance (4.44)
21. Gansey Knitters (2.17)
22. The Dilly Song (Roud 133) (5.19)
23. Sea Dancer (2.18)
24. Ten Thousand Miles (Roud 422) (3.56)
25. Found (1.14)
26. Salt Song (6.18)
27. Home (2.02)
28. Estren / The Three Knights (9.42)

All tracks trad. except
Track 26 Hannah Martin

Video

Saltlines trailer:

I ordered this album quite early in September 2024 but Brexit being Brexit expect to get my copy of the CD here in Germany weeks after its official release day of 11 April. So as the release day has been reached I tried to buy a digital download. But I can’t find it anywhere, neither on the band’s website nor on Bandcamp, Apple nor Amazon. Very disappointing; it looks like they don’t want my money …

Artwork by Tim Marrs Illustration

KLOF Magazine review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Roger Flack: guitars, bass, vocals;
Phillip Henry: dobro, slide guitars, tenor guitar, harmonica, vocals;
Peter Knight: violin, vocals;
Hannah Martin: violin, viola, banjo, vocals;
John Spiers: melodeons, concertina, vocals;
Sacha Trochet: percussion, bass, vocals

Tracks

Tracklist deduced from album review; track order yet unknown

1. The Suffolk Miracle (Roud 246; Child 272; Henry H217)
2. Silver Dagger (Roud 22620, 22621; Laws M4; Henry H722)
3. Sovay (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35)
4. What Wondrous Love (Roud 5089; Sacred Harp 159)
5. The Rolling of the Stones (Roud 38; Child 49)
6. Hard Times Come Again No More (Roud 2659) / Arthur Peter’s Reel
7. The Basket of Eggs (Roud 377; G/D 2:307)
8. Betsy Williams
9. Hind Horn (Roud 28; Child 17; G/D 5:1022)
10. Fortune Turns the Wheel (Roud 3798; G/D 3:667)
11. Northern Frisk / The Red Haired Boy / Moth From Upstairs

All tracks trad. except
Track 6a Stephen Collins Foster;
Track 6b Peter Knight