Recorded in 1960 in Hampstead, St. Pancras and Edinburgh.

All tracks were included in 1965 on the compilation LP Bonny Lass Come O'er the Burn (Topic 12T128).

Musicians

Ray Fisher: vocals [1-4];
Archie Fisher: vocals [1, 4], guitar [1, 3-4]

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
The Night Visiting Song (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783) (2.58) Far Over the Forth (Roud 3360) (3.48)	The Twa Corbies (Roud 5; Child 26) (2.09) Kilbogie (Roud 95; G/D 4:851) (3.05)

All tracks trad.

All tracks were reissued in 1965 on the LP Bonny Lass Come O'er the Burn

Recorded by Bill Leader at the Fisher Family's home in Monkseaton, Northumbria in 1965;
Notes by Norman Buchan;
Photograph by Joe Boyd

Musicians

Archie, Ray, Cindy, Joyce, Audrey and Priscilla Fisher: vocals;
Archie Fisher: guitar accompaniment

Tracks

Side 1

Side 2

Come All Ye Fisher Lassies (Roud 12504) (1.51) The Family led by Ray Schooldays Over (Roud 16146) (1.27) Ray & Archie acc. guitar The Rigs o' Rye (Roud 985) (3.25) Archie acc. guitar Donal Ogue (Young Dan) (Roud 3379) (2.53) Joyce acc. guitar For Our Lang Biding Here (Roud 8561) (1.45) Archie acc. guitar Joy of My Heart (1.55) The Family lead by Ray & Archie acc. guitar

Hey Ca' Through (Roud 8692) (1.08) Ray, Joyce, Audray and Priscilla What's Poor Mary Weeping For (Roud 2118; G/D 8:1606) / Bonny Lassie O (Roud 4845; G/D 7:1486) (1.57) Ray & Archie acc. guitar I Am a Miller tae My Trade (Roud 888; G/D 7:1489) (2.43) Cindy & Joyce I Am a Freeborn Man (2.05) Archie acc. guitar The Birken Tree (Roud 5069; G/D 4:802) (2.12) Joyce & Cindy Aince Upon a Time (Roud 3361; G/D 7:1399) (1.29) Ray & Archie acc. guitar

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 1-2, 10 Ewan MacColl;
Track 6 Hugh S. Roberton;
Track 7 Robert Burns;

Recorded at Craighall Studios, Edinburgh, and Livingstone Studios, Barnet, 1968;
Produced by Bill Leader;
Design and photography: Sovereign Studios, Leeds

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, guitar, dulcimer, concertina, sitar;
John MacKinnon: violin, mandolin;
John Doonan: piccolo, whistle

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Open the Door Softly (1.57) Reynardine (Roud 397; Laws P15; G/D 2:333) (2.39) The Terror Time (2.39) The Three Gypsies (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124) (2.57) The Kielder Hunt (Roud 5126) (2.40) The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 162; Child 299; G/D 7:1470) (1.54)	The Child on the Road (Roud 20; Child 3) (2.22) The Beggar Wench (Roud 2153; G/D 2:303; TYG 65) (2.20) Bogie's Bonny Belle (Roud 2155; G/D 7:1396) (2.51) Matt Highland (Roud 2880) (4.38) Farewell She (Roud 803; Henry H504) (2.38) The Snows They Melt the Soonest (Roud 3154) (2.18)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 Ewan MacColl

Recorded in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire by Bill Leader;
Produced by Bill Leader
Cover picture: The Field of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745, after Sir W. Allen, Radio Times Hulton Picture Library

See also Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger's album The Jacobite Rebellions. It has the same cover picture and was recorded by Bill Leader too.

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals [1-3, 8a, 13], guitar, concertina, dulcimer, mandolin;
Barbara Dickson: vocals [2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15], guitar, bodhrán;
John MacKinnon: vocals [2, 5, 12], violin, mandolin

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
[AF] Cam Ye o'er Frae France (Roud 5814; G/D 1:120) [AF, BD, JM] The Three Healths [AF] Wha Wadna Fight for Charlie [BD] The White Cockade (Roud 191; TYG 2) [JM] My Bonny Hieland Laddie [BD] The Hieland Widow's Lament Prestonpans [AF] The Battle of Prestonpans / Killicrankie	[BD] O'er the Water to Charlie (Roud 729; G/D 1:135) Prince Charlie [BD] Highland Harry (Roud 3809; G/D 1:134) [JM] The Fate o' Charlie [AF] The Highlander's Lament O'er the Water [BD] The Flowers o' the Forest (Roud 3812)

Tracks 1, 3, 7-8, 13-14 trad arr. Archie Fisher;
Tracks 2, 10 trad arr. Archie Fisher, Barbara Dickson, John MacKinnon;
Tracks 4, 6, 9, 11, 15 trad arr. Barbara Dickson;
Tracks 5, 12 trad arr. John MacKinnon

Produced by Ray Horricks;
Engineered by Robert Sibbald on 4-track in Edinburgh and by Terry Johnson and David Grinsted on 8-track in London;
Cover photo by Ian McCalman

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals [1, 3, 5-8, 11-14], guitar;
Barbara Dickson: vocals [2, 4, 6, 8-14];
Des Haldane, Rab Noakes: backing vocals, guitar;
Ronnie Reay: bass;
Bill Kemp: drums;
Roger Coulam: organ;
Jack Ellory: flute;
Alex Sutherland: trombone, piano

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
The January Man (2.34) You Like the Sun (3.04) Morning (2.02) Tears of Rage (4.16) Friends and Lovers (2.06) Somebody Counts on Me (3.26) The Frolicsome Alcoholic Mermaid (1.40)	If I'd Stayed Around (4.34) Lullaby for Father (2.37) I Am the Great Sun (1.56) First of the Few (3.03) Fiddler's Green (4.02) Together Forever (2.34) Thro' the Recent Years (2.52)

Track 1 Dave Goulder;
Track 2 Andrew Lothian;
Tracks 3, 5, 9, 11, 14 Archie Fisher;
Track 4 Bob Dylan, Richard Manuel;
Tracks 6, 8, 13 Rab Noakes;
Track 10 Charles Causley, Archie Fisher;
Track 12 John Conolly

Recorded in Edinburgh on 4 track, engineer Robert Sibbald, and in London on 8 track, engineer David Grinsted;
Produced by Ray Horricks;
Photograph: Ian McCalman

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, lead guitar;
Barbara Dickson: backing vocals;
Daryl Ronswick: bass, bass guitar;
Rab Noakes: backing vocals, rhythm guitar;
Bill Kemp: drums;
Alex Sutherland: piano, attangements, string group conductor;

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Orfeo (Roud 136; Child 19) (8.46) To Joan Eardley (1.52) Silver Tassie (Roud 30954) (2.30) The Mountain Rain (3.24) Just in Passing (2.34)	From a City Balcony (3.24) The Norway Maid (Roud 197; Child 113) (4.36) Tak' the Road (Roud 4599; G/D 4:875; Henry H18a) (1.46) Sadness Salesman (2.55) The Last Time I Saw Esau Shaw (3.16) Whatever Happened to Me? (2.43)

Tracks 1, 7-8, trad arr. Archie Fisher;
Tracks 2, 6 Archie Fisher, Edward Morgan;
Track 3 words Robert Burns, music Archie Fisher;
Tracks 4-5, 9, 11 Archie Fisher;
Track 10 Archie Fisher, Rab Noakes

Recorded and edited by Sandy Paton;
Notes by Archie Fisher;
Photograph by David Gahr

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, guitar;
Wendy Grossman: concertina, banjo, dulcimer;
Kathy Westra: cello;
Lani Herrmann: fiddle;
Annie Mayo Muir: flute;
Lorraine Lee: magic dulcimer [6, 15]

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Twa Bonnie Maidens (Roud 3772) (3.23) Welcome Royal Charlie (Roud 5817) (3.03) Dark Eyed Molly (2.59) Queen Among the Heather (Roud 375; G/D 5:962; Henry H177) (3.49) Jock Stewart (Roud 975) (2.57) The Witch of the West-mer-lands (4.38) The Echo Mocks the Corncrake (Roud 2736; G/D 5:945; Henry H18b) (2.42)	Western Island (2.01) Upstairs, Downstairs (Roud 19923) (1.58) Mount and Go (Roud 3860; G/D 7:1361) (3.13) The Wounded Whale (Roud 2004) (4.09) The Cruel Brother (Roud 26; Child 11) (5.45) Helen of Kirkconnell Lea (Roud 8191) (3.29) [CD only] Coshieville (3.04) South Wind (3.19)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 3, 6, 8 Archie Fisher;
Track 14 Stewart MacGregor;
Track 15 Donal O'Sullivan

Recorded by Tony Engle at Riverside Studios, Barnes;
Produced by Tony Engle and Tony Russell;
Notes by Arthur Argo;
Sleeve design by Tony Engle;
Photograph by courtesy of Jill Curnick

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, guitar;
Allan Barty: fiddle [1, 3-4, 10, 12, 14], mandola [5, 7, 9];
John Tams: melodeon [1, 4, 10, 12, 14]

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
O Charlie, O Charlie (Roud 2584; G/D 3:401) (2.07) Lindsay (Roud 94; Child 226; G/D 4:854) (2.32) The Broom o' the Cowdenknowes (Roud 8709) (3.41) Mally Lee (Roud 6130) (2.33) Will Ye Gang, Love (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1170; Henry H683) (3.54) The Flower of France and England, O (Roud 5532; G/D 4:719) (3.50)	The Laird o' Windy Wa's (Roud 135; G/D 4:778) (2.13) Men o' Worth (2.51) Looly, Looly (2.50) Dreg Song (Roud 8628) (1.38) Adam Cameron (Roud 5528) (4.19) Blackbirds and Thrushes (Roud 329) (2.26) The Gallant Ninety Two (Roud 1877; G/D 1:70) (1.20) The Rovin' Ploughboy (Roud 2138) (1.53)

All tracks trad. except
Track 8 Archie Fisher

Recorded during Archie Fisher's summer tour of Canada and the USA in 1985 by Digitracks Mobile Recording, Scarborough, Ontario;
Arranged and produced by Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers;
Engineered by Greg Roberts;
Mixed by Garnet Rogers and Greg Roberts at George Axon Studios, Toronto;
Front cover photo: Garnet Rogers;
Back cover photos and inside sleeve: Martin Franklin

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, guitar;
Garnet Rogers: fiddle

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Borderland (3.29) The Mosstrooper's Lament (3.00) The Long and Lonely Winter (2.28) The Winter It Is Past (Roud 583; G/D 6:1104) (2.23) The Laird of Udny (Roud 135; G/D 4:778) (4.24) Lassie o' the Morning (4.59) Joy of My Heart (3.10)	Ettrick (2.28) Mallie Leigh (2.30) The Final Trawl (3.53) The Boatie Rows (Roud 3095) (3.00) The Last Leviathan (5.12) Rolling Home (Roud 4766) (7.41)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1 words Roger Quinn, music Archie Fisher;
Track 3 Dave Goulder;
Track 4 Robert Burns / trad.;
Track 6 Jack Foley;
Track 7 Hugh S. Roberton;
Track 8 words Lady Mary Scott, music Archie Fisher;
Track 10 Archie Fisher;
Track 12 Andy Barnes;

Recorded by Greg Rogers at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario in September 1987 and February 1988;
Produced by Garnet Rogers;
Executive producer Valerie Rogers;
Mastered at McClear Place,Toronto, Ontario

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals [1-14], acoustic guitar [1-12, 14], guitar synthesiser [2a];
Garnet Rogers: violin [2a, 5, 12], electric guitar [7-8], synthesiser [8], flute [9];
David Woodland: piano [1, 2b], fretless bass [3, 7-8, 10, 14]

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Ashfields and Brine (2.40) Yonder Banks / The Shipyard Apprentice (4.00) The Cuillins of Home (2.30) Southside Blues (3.05) Silver Coin (2.36) The Presence (2.06) Gunsmoke and Whisky (3.00)	Bill Hosie (3.30) I Wandered By a Brookside (Roud 2418) (3.36) Merry England (3.00) The Great North Road (2.10) Eastfield (3.16) The Black Horse (1.10) All That You Ask Me (3.16)

Tracks 1, 7-8, 10-13 Archie Fisher;
Track 2a Graeme Miles;
Track 2b words Archie Fisher, music Bobby Campbell;
Tracks 3, 9 trad. arr. Archie Fisher;
Track 4 Stewart MacGregor;
Track 5 Terry Hiscock;
Track 6 words Stewart MacGregor, music Archie Fisher;
Track 9 words Richard Monckton Milnes, 1^st Baron Hougthon (1809-1885);
Track 14 Keiran Hoss

Recorded, mixed and pre-mastered in Hart Street Studios, Edinburgh;
Engineered by Roy Ashby;
Mastered by Airshow Mastering, Boudler, Colorado, USA;
Sketch by Robert Bateman;
Photography by Stephanie Tristam;
Layout by John Slavin

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin; David Paton: fretless electric 5 string bass

Archie Fisher: vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin; Allan Barty: fiddle, mandolin; Lucy Cowan: fiddle, viola, keyboards; Francis Cowan: cello, bass; Christina Cowan: fiddle; Mike Whelland: percussion

Tracks

Windward Away	The Missing Master
Borderland (3.10) Ontario Dust (4.43) Bonnie Border Lass (3.23) Windward Away (3.33) Surge of the Sea (2.36) River and the Road (3.56) Shepherd on the Hill (5.12) Every Man's Heart (3.29) Ride Through the Rainbow (3.38) Speak Your Name (4.10) Before Eternity (4.30)	The Final Trawl (3.29) The Winter It Is Past (Roud 583; G/D 6:1104) (2.38) Silver Coin (2.44) Star of the Belle Isle (3.29) Ashfields and Brine (2.24) Eire Lingers (3.16) Cuillins of Home (2.30) Joy of My Heart (3.00)
Track 1 poem Roger Quin, music Archie Fisher; Tracks 2-4, 6-12, 16-17 Archie Fisher; Track 5 D. MacVicar; Track 13 Robert Burns; Track 14 Mike Hipkiss; Track 18 Gordon Bok; Track 19 trad. Hugh Robertson	Tracks 12-19 were recorded in the 1970's for an album for Tommy Makem and Liam Clacy's Blackbird label which never saw the light of day. The original tapes were subsequently discovered some 27 years later and so Archie included some of these tracks on this CD.

Produced by Archie Fisher;
Recorded by Matthew Zimmerman at Wild Sound, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
with additional recording by Sean Boyd at Artfarm, Accord, New York;
Mixed by Chris Frymire, assisted by Steve Kaul, at Wild Sound;
Mastered by Chris Frymire at Modern Minstrel Mixxing, Minneapolis;
Front and back cover photographs by Joy C. Bennett;
Interior photograph by Chris Koldewey;
Layout and design by Eric Peltoniemi

Musicians

Archie Fisher: vocals, guitar;
Luna Skye: cello [2, 4];
Linda Richards: vocals [4, 8];
Phillip Mazure: guitar [9];
Isaac Alderson: flute [12];
Joel Sayles: bass [12]

Tracks

1. Waltz into Winter (3.29)
2. Bonnie Annie Laurie (Roud 8179) (3.18)
3. Half the World Away (3.12)
4. Lass from the Low Country (Roud 19029) (3.56)
5. Lord of the May (2.57)
6. Mary Ann (Roud 4438) (3.23)
7. No Way to Treat a Friend (3.28)
8. A River Like You (3.25)
9. Song for a Friend (3.36)
10. The Gifts (3.51)
11. You Took the Day (3.30)
12. The Parting Glass (2.48)

Tracks 1, 3, 9, 11 Archie Fisher;
Track 2 poem by William Douglas, music Alicia Scott (1834);
Track 4 words trad. adapted John Jacob Niles, music John Jacob Niles;
Track 5 words trad., music Archie Fisher;
Track 6 trad.;
Track 7 Kirsty McGee;
Track 8 Ian Davison;
Track 10 Richard Berman;
Track 12 Judy B. Goodenough, middle verse by Archie Fisher