The Wild Side of Town
The Albion Band with Chris Baines

Celtic Music CM/CMC 042 (LP/cassette, UK, November 1987)
Celtic Music CMCD 042 (CD, UK, December 1997)

Sleeve Notes

Chris Baines is a tireless champion of urban wildlife, who has done a great deal to bring city people closer to the nature on their doorstep. With his books and T.V. programmes he has converted millions to the idea of wildlife gardening, and The Wild Side of Town has taken that campaign over the fence and into the parks and open spaces beyond.

The great strength of the Albion Band has always been in marrying the voices of our largely rural past to the innovative sounds of new urban music. They have created a style which has always been a beacon for anyone with a love of British traditional music - be they performers or audience.

Chris Baines felt the Albion Band were the ideal musicians to write and perform the music for his T.V. series, The Wild Side of Town, since he too is trying to bring the best of traditional British countryside into the spaces of our modern towns and cities.

Now Chris and the Band have taken their partnership much further. They have combined their talents to create all these new songs which celebrate the wildlife that lives in towns, highlighting the pressure it is under in a very inspiring way.