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Steve Ashley’s Family Album

	Steve Ashley’s Family Album Steve Ashley Woodworm Records WR 002 (LP, UK, 1983) Road Goes On Forever RGF CD002 (CD, UK, 1991)
	Steve Ashley’s Family Album Revisited Steve Ashley Talking Elephant Records TECD465 (CD w/ bonus tracks, UK, 30 July 2021)

Produced by Steve Ashley, Dave Pegg, and Bruce Rowland;
Recorded by Dave Pegg and Mark Powell at Woodworm Studios, Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire;
Track 13 recorded by Martin Mitchell at Steve’s home in Cheltenham, UK, in 2016;
Mastered by Brude Rowland;
Remastered by Martin Mitchell for Talking Elephant Records, 2021;
Cover photography by Tim Matyear;
Artwork and layout by Mick Toole;
2021 sleeve notes by Simon Jones

Folk Radio UK review by Peter Shaw

Musicians

Steve Ashley: vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mouth organ;
Chris Leslie: fiddle, mandola, backingvocals;
Simon Nicol: electric guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo;
Dave Pegg: bass guitar, fretless bass;
Bruce Rowland: drums, percussion;
Martin Brinsford: mouth organ, melodeon;
‘Capes’: vocal harmonies (arr. Tom Morrell) [3, 7];
Mark Powell: keyboards;
Trevor Foster: drums [5, 2021 CD 11]

LP Side 1

1. Family Love (4.11)
2. Born to Rule (4.10)
3. Pancake Day (2.30)
4. Lost and Found (3.17)
5. Once in a While (4.28)
6. Feelin’ Lazy (4.27)

LP Side 2

7. I’m a Radio (2.55)
8. Days Like Today (3.07)
9. Love Is All We Live For (3.38)
10. Little Bit of Love (4.43)
11. The Rough With the Smooth (6.56)

CD Family Album Revisited

1. Family Love (4.11)
2. Born to Rule (4.10)
3. Pancake Day (2.30)
4. Lost and Found (3.17)
5. Once in a While (4.28)
6. Feelin’ Lazy (4.27)
7. I’m a Radio (2.55)
8. Days Like Today (3.07)
9. Love Is All We Live For (3.38)
10. Little Bit of Love (4.43)
11. Somewhere in a Song (3.06)
    1982/3 recording outtake
12. The Rough With the Smooth (6.56)
13. For Bruce (2.16)
    new 2016 recording

All songs written by Steve Ashley

Sleeve Notes by Steve Ashley

In January 1979 the Steve Ashley Family Show was first performed in Cheltenham. Taking part were Chris Leslie, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol and Martin Brinsford along with a couple of dancers and a slapstick pastry cook. We repeated the show a few times with the addition of Bruce Rowland and the vocal harmony group Capes. The most memorable performances were for Help the Aged and The International Year of the Child.

The songs on this record are those from the show. I had hoped to see them released on an album by 1980, but the record companies that we approached at the time were unwilling to take the risk. Throughout 1981 I found myself playing festivals and benefits for CND and to peace groups everywhere and my previous songs were left on ice. Unfortunately the “Family Tapes” were left to gather dust at Dave Pegg’s Woodworm Studios. Throughout their three year confinement various people have urged me to release the songs myself and so with great support from the musicians involved and after a few small changes here and there, I have taken that advice.

After all, family love is a joy to see and it seems foolish for us not to enjoy such pleasures while we can.

Steve Ashley, Cheltenham 1982