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Pauline Cato & Tom McConville: The Surprise

Pauline Cato & Tom McConville: The Surprise (TCCD02)

The Surprise
Pauline Cato & Tom McConville

Tomcat Music TCCD02 (CD, UK, 1999)

Recorded at Old Bridge Studios, Ilkley;
Produced and engineered by Chris Newman;
Post production by Warwick Pilmer at Clipstore;
Sleeve design by Dan Bedford and Bryan Ledgard at Ledgard Jepson, Sheffield

Musicians

Pauline Cato: Northumbrian pipes;
Tom McConville: fiddle, vocals;
Chris Newman: guitars, keyboards, bass, mandolin, octave mandolin;
Maggie Boyle: harmony vocals [5]

Tracks

  1. Jessie’s Polka (1.52)
  2. The Mystic Policeman (The Journeyman Tailor) (3.25)
  3. The Auld Wheel / Miss Thornton’s Reel / Rolling in the Rye Grass (3.16)
  4. The Glen Aln / The Champion (2.22)
  5. Azalea (4.31)
  6. Hadrian’s Wall / The Helicopter Jig / Holey Ha’penny (4.25)
  7. Little Jenny / The Surprise (3.22)
  8. Catgut Jim the Fiddler (4.34)
  9. Will Atkinson’s Sunglasses / St. Joseph’s Reel (2.53)
  10. Archie’s Fancy (2.46)
  11. The City of Savannah / The South Shore (3.10)
  12. The Fisher’s Farewell to the Coquet (5.46)
  13. Sir Sidney Smith’s March + variations (3.00)
  14. Jessie Smith / Daly’s Reel (2.46)

Tracks 1, 3bc, 6c, 9b, 12, 14 trad.;
Track 2 words R. Emery, music Tom McConville;
Track 3a James Scott Skinner;
Track 4a Will Atkinson;
Tracks 4b, 11b James Hill;
Track 5 Kieran Halpin;
Tracks 6ab, 9a Tom McConville;
Tracks 7, 10 T.W. (Billy) Pigg;
Track 8 words Ned Corvan, music Tom McConville;
Track 11a Frank Livingstone;
Track 13 trad., variations by Pauline Cato