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Harvest SHSP4073 1977 |
Produced by Ashley Hutchings Engineers: Jerry Boys, Vic Gramm Recorded at Sawmills Studio, Golant, Cornwall and Sound
Techniques, London Special thanks are due to John Tams and Eddie Upton for their assistance in the planning of the album,
and to David Busby for the cooking.
the ensemble
Bob Cann, melodeon, calling; Jimmy Cooper, hammer dulcimer; John Tams, melodeon, mouth organ; Terry Potter, mouth organ; Michael Hebbert, duet concertina, synthesiser; Peter Bullock,
clarinet, baritone saxophone, piano, synthesiser; John Rodd, anglo concertina; Graeme Taylor, electric and acoustic guitars; Ashley Hutchings, electric bass guitar; Michael Gregory, drums, tambourine
sleeve notes
This album of tunes for dancing features traditional and revivalist musicians playing together (some of the latter using
electric instruments). Most of the recordings were made at sessions in Cornwall's Sawmill Studio. Hidden away as it is up
a creek off the River Fowey, Sawmills is not the sort of studio you come across every day. It is in fact a converted sawmill
(pictured at the turn of the century on the fron cover) and is totally inaccessible by road. You either have to take a boat
down the river and up the creek or walk along an old rail-track which about three times a day groans under the weight of a
consignment of fresh clay transported in clattering old wagons. Needless to say, recording stops when the wagons hove in view.
The sessions were great fun and consequently the music that came out of them is just right for dancing. So form up sets everyone!
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Side 1
La Russe:
La Russe / Cadum Woods /
Blueball Polka(4:25)
Buttered Peas(3:50)
Hullichan Jig(2:25)
Waves of Joy:
I'm Noo Awa' Tae Bide Awa' /
Rosin the Bow /
The Minstrel Boy(4:12)
Heel-and-Toe Polka
(The Belfast Polka)(2:40)
Tavern in the Town(2:48)
Side 2
Double Quadrille:
Danish Double Quadrille /
Old Comrades' March(6:15)
Jumping Joan
(The Rogue's March)(3:12)
Dorset Four-Hand Reel
(2:33)
Hornpipes:
Broken Hornpipe
/
Rickett's
Hornpipe(5:22)
Reels:
Speed the
Plough /
Dave Knick-Knack
/
Far From Home(3:18)
Cumberland
Square Eight:
Cock o'the
North /
My Love
She's But
a Lassie Yet(3:23)
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