Produced and recorded by Fairport Convention;
Recorded and mixed at Woodworm Studios, Oxfordshire;
2001 remastering by Andrew Thompson at Sound Generation;
Original cover and booklet designed by Mick Toole;
2001 CD booklet redesign by Malcolm Holmes

Musicians

Simon Nicol: vocals, guitar and stuff;
Dave Pegg: bass guitar, acoustic basses, mandolin, bouzouki, vocals;
Dave Mattacks: drums, keyboards, everything else

with
Harold Wells of Williamscot: spoken introduction [2];
Richard Thompson: lead guitar [8];
Cathy Lesurf: vocals [6]

and on the 2001 CD bonus tracks:
Dave Swarbrick: mandolin [9], vocals [9], backing vocals [11], fiddle [10-11];
Trevor Lucas: vocals [10-11], electric guitar [10-11];
Jerry Donahue: electric guitar [10-11]

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. How Many Times (3.30)
2. Bird From the Mountain (4.51)
3. Honour and Praise (5.22)
4. The Hiring Fair (5.54)

LP Side 2

5. Instrumental Medley ’85: The Riverhead / Gladys’ Leap / The Wise Maid (5.09)
6. My Feet Are Set for Dancing (4.01)
7. Wat Tyler (5.36)
8. Head in a Sack (4.23)

2001 CD Bonus Tracks from Cropredy 1982

9. Angel Delight (4.32)
10. Polly on the Shore (Roud 811) (5.15)
11. Lucky Old Sun (5.36)

Track 1 Richard Thompson;
Track 2 Ralph McTell;
Track 3 John Richards;
Track 4 Ralph McTell, Dave Mattacks;
Tracks 5ab Dave Pegg;
Track 5c trad. arr Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg;
Track 6 Cathy Lesurf;
Track 7 Ralph McTell, Simon Nicol;
Track 8 Dave Whetstone;
Track 9 Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks;
Track 10 trad. arr. Trevor Lucas, Dave Swarbrick, music Dave Pegg;
Track 11 Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie

Produced and recorded by Fairport Convention;
Recorded and mixed by Tim Matyear at Woodworm Studios, Bardorf St Michale, Oxfordshire in spring 1986;
Digitally mastered and cut at Townhouse Studios, Londonw;
Cover and booklet designed by Mick Toole;
Photography by John Woodward and Garry Hunter

Musicians

Simon Nicol: acoustic and electric guitar;
Maartin Allcock: solo acoustic guitar [4], acoustic, electric and slice guitars, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, double bass [3], all other instruments [8];
Ric Sanders, electric and octave violins, keyboards [4];
Dave Pegg: bass, acoustic guitar [3], mandola;
Dave Mattacks: drums, percussion, keyboards

with
Richard Thompson, Jerry Donahue: lead guitars [10]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Rutland Reel / Sack the Juggler (3.13)
2. The Cat on the Mixer / Three Left Feet (3.30)
3. Bankruptured (2.57)
4. Portmeirion (5.18)
5. Jams O’Donnell’s Jigs (2.41)

Side 2

5. Expletive Delighted (1.45)
6. Sigh Beg Sigh Mór (7.05)
7. Innstück (3.02)
8. The Gas Almost Works (1.51)
9. Hanks for the Memory: Shazam / Pipeline / Apache / Peter Gunn (4.31)

Tracks 1, 4, 6 Ric Sanders;
Tracks 2, 8 Maartin Allcock;
Tracks 3, 5 Dave Pegg;
Track 7 trad. arr. Dave Mattacks, Ric Sanders, Simon Nicol;
Track 9 John Kirkpatrick;
Track 10a Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood;
Track 10b Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen;
Track 10c Jerry Lorcan;
Track 10d Henry Mancini

Produced and recorded by Fairport Convention;
Recorded and mixed at Woodworm Studios, Oxfordshire;
2001 remastering by Andrew Thompson at Sound Generation;
Original cover and booklet designed by Mick Toole;
2001 CD booklet redesign by Malcolm Holmes

Musicians

see above for the individual albums

Tracks

CD 1: Gladys’ Leap

1. How Many Times (3.30)
2. Bird From the Mountain (4.51)
3. Honour and Praise (5.22)
4. The Hiring Fair (5.54)
5. Instrumental Medley ’85: The Riverhead / Gladys’ Leap / The Wise Maid (5.09)
6. My Feet Are Set for Dancing (4.01)
7. Wat Tyler (5.36)
8. Head in a Sack (4.23)

Track 1 Richard Thompson;
Track 2 Ralph McTell;
Track 3 John Richards;
Track 4 Ralph McTell, Dave Mattacks;
Tracks 5ab Dave Pegg;
Track 5c trad. arr Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg;
Track 6 Cathy Lesurf;
Track 7 Ralph McTell, Simon Nicol;
Track 8 Dave Whetstone

CD 2: Expletive Delighted

1. The Rutland Reel / Sack the Juggler (3.13)
2. The Cat on the Mixer / Three Left Feet (3.30)
3. Bankruptured (2.57)
4. Portmeirion (5.18)
5. Jams O’Donnell’s Jigs (2.41)
6. Expletive Delighted (1.45)
7. Sigh Beg Sigh Mór (7.05)
8. Innstück (3.02)
9. The Gas Almost Works (1.51)
10. Hanks for the Memory: Shazam / Pipeline / Apache / Peter Gunn (4.31)

Tracks 1, 4, 6 Ric Sanders;
Tracks 2, 8 Maartin Allcock;
Tracks 3, 5 Dave Pegg;
Track 7 trad. arr. Dave Mattacks, Ric Sanders, Simon Nicol;
Track 9 John Kirkpatrick;
Track 10a Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood;
Track 10b Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen;
Track 10c Jerry Lorcan;
Track 10d Henry Mancini