> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Prospect Providence
Cockersdale: Prospect Providence
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Prospect Providence EFDSS ESLP 001 (LP, UK, 1985) |
Recorded by Paul Adams at Fellside Recordings, Workington, Cumbria;
Produced by English Folk Dance & Song Society;
Artwork and cover illustration by Ian A. Rogers
Musicians
Keith Marsden: vocals, guitar;
Val Marsden, Peter Ogley: vocals;
Brian Senior: vocals, harmonica;
John Coy: guitar;
Jamie O’Dwyer: fiddle;
Steve Turner: concertina
Tracks
Side 1
- Prospect Providence
- I Remember Morley
- Billy Armitage
- Willey ’Ole Lad
- City Lament
- Funeral Song
Side 2
- The Drovers
- Old Peculier
- St Aubin Sur Mer
- The Vampire
- Hessle Road
- Bring Us a Barrel
All tracks Keith Marsden except
Track 10 Rudyard Kipling, Keith Marsden
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Doin’ the Manch
Cockersdale: Doin’ the Manch
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Doin’ the Manch Fellside Recordings FE072 (LP, UK, 1988) |
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Recorded and produced by Paul Adams at Fellside Recordings, Workington, Cumbria, December 1988;
CD bonus tracks from the Cockersdale archive, source unknown, possibly 1989;
Design by Graham Pirt;
Notes by Keith Marsden
Musicians
Keith Marsden, Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
with
Dave Howard: guitar
Tracks
LP Side 1
- Doin’ the Manch’ (5.50)
- The Black and Bitter Night (4.12)
- Jack Ashton (3.47)
- Coal Town Road (1.58)
- Normandy Orchards (4.50)
LP Side 2
- Knocking at the Door (7.02)
- Weary Cutters (Roud 8772) (3.04)
- When All the World (2.05)
- Morley Main (7.18)
- Home Lads, Home (4.36)
CD Bonus Tracks
- Prospect Providence (5.57)
- Willy-Ole Lad (3.59)
- The Drovers (3.43)
All tracks by Keith Marsden except
Track 2 Peter Bellamy;
Track 4 Allister MacGillivray;
Track 7 trad.;
Track 8 Charles Kingley, Keith Marsden;
Track 10 Cicely Fox Smith adapt. Sarah Morgan
> Folk Music > Records > Picking Sooty Blackberries
Picking Sooty Blackberries
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Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt (editors), |
The Songs
The songs are referenced by page numbers.
- Bring Us a Barrel
- Billy Armitage
- Crack Your Whip
- When All the World
- Ellesmere Port
- City Lament
- I Remember Morley
- Greasy Mac
- Vampire
- Hessle Road
- Old Peculiar
- Prospect Providence
- Mr Midland
- Ten Pints of Tetleys
- Willy ’Ole Lad
- The Drovers
- Funeral Song
- Jack Ashton
- St Aubin sur Mer
- Idlers and Scivers
- Normandy Orchards
- Morley Main
- Doin’ the Manch’
- Left, Left, Right, Steady Man
- Tortoises Alwasy Come Last
- Lucinda
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Been Around for Years
Cockersdale: Been Around for Years
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Been Around for Years Fellside Recordings FECD101 (CD, UK, 1994) |
Recorded February 19/20, 1994;
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Cover design by Graham Pirt;
Photography by Chris Sugden;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
Tracks
- Follow Me ’Ome (3.53)
- Hills of Mullaghbawn (Roud 2362) (3.04)
- Jamie Foyers (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106) (3.44)
- Lost at 21 (3.22)
- Three Cheers for Booze (4.21)
- Will Ye Go to Flanders? (Roud 8544) (2.23)
- Cholera Camp (5.59)
- Raglan Road (3.03)
- St Aubin Sur Mer (3.16)
- Left, Left, Right, Steady (5.06)
- Race Against Time (3.39)
- Roll on the Day (3.02)
- Thames Lighterman (3.03)
- Jarrow Song (3.15)
Tracks 1, 7 Rudyard Kipling, Peter Bellamy;
Tracks 2, 6 trad. arr. Cockersdale;
Track 3 Ewan MacColl;
Tracks 4, 11, 14 Graham Pirt;
Track 5 Chris Sugden;
Track 8 trad. arr. Patrick Kavanagh;
Tracks 9, 10 Keith Marsden;
Track 12 Allan Taylor;
Track 13 Alasdair Clayre
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale: Wide Open Skies
Cockersdale: Wide Open Skies
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Wide Open Skies Fellside Recordings FECD123 (CD, UK, 1997) |
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Cover photograph and design by Graham Pirt;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Val Marsden, John O’Hagan, Graham Pirt: vocals
Tracks
- Tree Song (2.27)
- Home Fit for Heroes (3.06)
- The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.33)
- Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60) (2.09)
- Skyehouse Bridge (4.05)
- Ash and Oak (2.48)
- Anderson’s Coast (5.01)
- Barrett’s Privateers (4.43)
- Auld Fisher’s Farewell to the Coquet (4.05)
- Us Poor Fellows (3.10)
- Long Long Road (2.48)
- Single Handed (3.49)
- Death Is Not the End (3.18)
- Tortoises Always Come Last (4.49)
- A Pilgrim’s Way (5.49)
Tracks 1, 15 words Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy;
Track 2 words Les Barker, music Martin Carthy;
Tracks 3-4 trad. arr. Cockersdale;
Track 5 Graham Pirt;
Tracks 6, 12 Chris Sugden;
Track 7 John Warner;
Track 8 Stan Rodgers;
Track 9 Robert Roxby, Thomas Doubleday;
Track 10 Peter Bellamy;
Track 11 Archie Fisher;
Track 13 Dob Dylan;
Track 14 Keith Marsden, Chris Sugden
> Folk Music > Records > Cockersdale
Other records with Cockersdale
Steve Turner,
Eclogue,
LP, Fellside FE042, 1984
Various Artists,
The Derby Tup Presents…,
cassette, BBC Radio Derby DTP-01, 1988
Various Artists,
Banklands: The Story of Fellside Records,
CD, Fellside FECB100, 1994
Various Artists,
Flash Company: A Celebration of 25 Years of Fellside Records (1976-2001),
2 CD, Fellside FECD156, 2001
Various Artists,
Voices in Harmony: English Traditional Songs,
CD, Fellside FECD158, 2001
Various Artists,
Enlist for a Soldier: The Soldier in Song from the English Civil War to the Falklands,
CD, Fellside FTSR3, 2002
Various Artists,
Nowt So Funny As Folk,
CD, Ada ADA105CD, 2003
Folk for M.S.,
Generosity: A Unique Collection Celebrating 20 Years of Folk for M.S.,
CD, WildGoose WGS365CD, 2009
Various Artists,
Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label,
3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018