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Hack-Poets Guild: Blackletter Garland

Blackletter Garland Hack-Poets Guild One Little Independent Records TPLP1690 (LP, UK, 10 March 2023) One Little Independent Records TPLP1690CD (CD, UK, 10 March 2023)

Produced by Gerry Diver;
Recorded in homes and studios across Robin Hood’s Bay, London, Nottingham, Birmingham, West Oxfordshire and Hampshire, under lockdown in 2020/21, England:
The Tunehouse Studio, London; Mutebox at Primary, Nottingham; Loz Studio, Stirchley, Birmingham; Woodshed Studio, West Oxfordshire;
Mastered by Nick Watson;
Stamps by Desdemona McCannon;
Photographs by Marry Waterson;
Design by Pete Manley at Made Four;
Videos by Marry Waterson

Musicians

Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson, Nathaniel Mann

with
Gerry Diver, Barney Morse-Brown, Laurence Hunt, Pete Flood, Meraud Fergerson

Tracks

1. Ten Tongues (3.16)
2. Daring Highwayman (Roud 1553) (2.57)
3. The Devil’s Cruelty (Roud V14231) (5.30)
4. Laying the Ghost (3.31)
5. Birds of Harmony (6.07)
6. Hemp & Flax (Roud V32749) (2.36)
7. Something to Love Me (Roud V4408) (3.12)
8. Meat for Worms (4.17)
9. The Troubles of This World (3.41)
10. Rare Receipts (5.42)
11. Be Kind to Each Other (Roud V7219) (3.10)
12. Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (6.25)

Track 1 Marry Waterson, inspired by Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore by Percy Manning, 1897;
Track 2 words Bodleian Library, Douce Collection, music Lisa Knapp;
Track 3 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘The Devils cruelty to Mankind Being a true relation of the life and death of George Gibbs’, 1663, Bodleiean Libraries, Wood Collection: Wood 401(195), melody and additional lyrics Nathaniel Mann;
Track 4 Marry Waterson, inspired by Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore by Percy Manning, 1903;
Track 5 from ‘Woody Choristers – Birds of Harmony’, Bodleian Ballads, Doque Collection, melody trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Track 6 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘Whipping Cheare / Or the wofull lamentations of the three Sisters in the Spittle / when they werein new Bride-Well’, 1625, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads 1:208-209;
Track 7 adapted from the Harding Collection, 1860, melody and additional lyrics Marry Waterson;
Track 8 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘[An exhortation to despise the gifts], whych we receive by faylynge fortune’, by Thachame, T., 1552, Bodleian Libraries, Douce Collection, fragm. d.12(9), melody Nathaniel Mann;
Track 9 lyrics Bodleian Libraries, Douce Collection, melody trad. arr. Lisa Knapp;
Track 10 lyrics adapted from Broadside entitled: ‘ROMES DOCTOR / Or, / Rare Receipts, prescribed by J.P. for the use of the late Chancellor / and the Jesuin Newgate, against they come to their Trial’, 1689, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads V:122, melody and additional lyrics Nathaniel Mann;
Track 11 adapted from the Harding Collection, melody and additional lyrics Marry Waterson;
Track 12 as sung by Rosie Hensley, NC 1916, collected by Maud Karpeles and Cecil Sharp. Ballad in Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge, trad., arr. Lisa Knapp

Videos

Hack-Poets Guild perform Ten Tongues:

Hack-Poets Guild perform Daring Highwayman:

Hack-Poets Guild perform Hemp & Flax: