> Folk Music > Records > Gerry Hallom: Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh
Gerry Hallom: Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh
Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh Fellside Recordings FE026 (LP, UK, 1981) |
Recorded by Paul Adams 23-25 February and 26 March 1981;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Sleeve design and artwork by Geoff Marsh;
Layout by Mary Blood;
Photograph by Paul Haley
Musicians
Gerry Hallom: guitar, vocals;
Jez Lowe: banjo, whistle, percussion, chorus;
Nic Jones: fiddle;
John Bowden: melodeon, chorus
Tracks
Side 1
- The Overlander (Roud 9107)
- Streets of Forbes (Roud 20764)
- Jog Along Till Shearing
- Andy’s Gone With Cattle
- Mowing the Barley
- Bonnie House of Airlie (Roud 794; Child 199; G/D 2:233)
Side 2
- Song of Artesian Waters
- Shearing at Castlereagh
- ’Ard Tack
- The Bushman’s Song (Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh) (Roud 8399)
- Gypsy
All tracks trad. except
Track 4 Henry Lawson / trad.;
Track 7 Banjo Paterson, O’Sullivan;
Track 8 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 10 Banjo Paterson, trad.;
Track 11 Ralph McTell
> Folk Music > Records > Gerry Hallom: A Run a Minute
Gerry Hallom: A Run a Minute
A Run a Minute Fellside Recordings FE036 (LP, UK, 1983) |
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams in November 1983;
Photograph by Dave Blayney;
Notes by Gerry Hallom;
Sleeve artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Gerry Hallom: vocals, guitar, banjo;
Chris Coe: hammered dulcimer;
Pete Cooper: fiddle;
Anne-Marie Flanagan: vocals;
Jez Lowe: Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, vocals
Tracks
Side 1
- The Free Selector’s Daughter (2.46)
- My Old Man (5.20)
- Bond Street Swell (4.20)
- Bright Fine Gold (1.43)
- With the Cattle (4.53)
Side 2
- General Leeds Clock Meeting (5.27)
- Black Diamond (3.40)
- New Chum Shearer (3.00)
- How McDougal Topped the Score (4.28)
- The Outside Track (4.28)
Tracks 1, 10 Henry Lawson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 2 Ewan MacColl;
Track 3 Charles Thatcher, Gerry Hallom;
Track 4 trad., tune reconstructed Colquhoun;
Track 5 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 6 anon., Gerry Hallom;
Track 7 Jez Love;
Track 8 anon.;
Track 9 Thomas E. Spencer
> Folk Music > Records > Gerry Hallom: Old Australian Ways
Gerry Hallom: Old Australian Ways
Old Australian Ways Fellside Recordings FE074 (LP, UK, 1989) |
Recorded and produced by Paul Adams;
Sleeve concept and notes by Gerry Hallom;
Layout by Mary Blood
Musicians
Gerry Hallom: guitar [1-2, 4-8],
banjo [9], vocals;
Jez Lowe: mandolin [2],
vocals [2];
Nic Jones: vocals [3, 7-9];
Bob Greenwood: special effects [5],
harmonica [8];
Margaret Chadwick: flute [6];
John Bowden: melodeon [9],
vocals [7, 9-10];
Dave Shepherd: fiddle [9-10],
cello [10],
keyboards [10]
Tracks
Side 1
- Where the Dead Men Lie (2.58)
- The Lights of Cobb & Co. (2.58)
- Where the Brumbies Come to Water (2.10)
- Clancy of the Overflow / Old Australian Ways (5.41)
- No More Boomerang (4.21)
Side 2
- Song of the Wheat (3.44)
- Down the River (2.50)
- The First Surveyor (2.50)
- Northward to the Shed (2.24)
- The Grey Gulf Water (3.43)
All tracks trad. except
Track 1 Barcroft Boake, Gerry Hallom;
Tracks 2, 7 Henry Lawson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 3 Will Ogilvie, trad.;
Track 4a Banjo Paterson;
Tracks 4b, 6, 8, 10 Banjo Paterson, Gerry Hallom;
Track 5 Oodgeroo Noojuccle, Gerry Hallom;
Track 9 Will Ogilvie, Gerry Hallom
> Folk Music > Records > Gerry Hallom: Undiscovered Australia II
Gerry Hallom: Undiscovered Australia II
Undiscovered Australia II Musica Pangaea MP10003 (CD, USA, 1996) |
This is a compilation from Gerry Hallom’s three Fellside albums, Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh, A Run a Minute, and Old Australian Ways
See also Martyn Wyndham-Read’s compilation CD Undiscovered Australia.
Musicians
See the album details above.
Tracks
From Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh
- The Overlander (Roud 9107) (4.32)
- Streets of Forbes (Roud 20764) (2.48)
- Jog Along Till Shearing (2.41)
- Andy’s Gone With Cattle (2.18)
- The Bushman’s Song (Travellin’ Down the Castlereagh) (Roud 8399) (4.02)
- Song of Artesian Waters (4.10)
- Shearing at Castlereagh (3.02)
From A Run a Minute
- The Free Selector’s Daughter (2.51)
- With the Cattle (5.06)
- New Chum Shearer (3.07)
- The Outside Track (4.35)
From Old Australian Ways
- Where the Dead Men Lie (2.58)
- The Lights of Cobb & Co. (2.58)
- Clancy of the Overflow / Old Australian Ways (5.41)
- No More Boomerang (4.21)
- Song of the Wheat (3.44)
- Northward to the Shed (2.24)
- The Grey Gulf Water (3.43)
> Folk Music > Records > Gerry Hallom: On the Periphery
Gerry Hallom: On the Periphery
On the Periphery William Boyd Music WBMCD001 (CD, UK, 1997) |
Produced and engineered by Oliver Knight in autumn 1997.
Photography by Lesley Mayo.
Designed and produced by Ledgard Jepson.
Musicians
Gerry Hallom: guitar, banjo [7], vocals;
Pete Cooper: fiddle;
Alan Easterbrook: double bass;
Andy Irvine: harmonica;
Keith Jackman: percussion;
Alistair Lawrence: keyboards;
Tim New: alto sax;
Bert Sawdon: banjo;
Steve Thompson: melodeon;
John Bowden, Nic Jones, Lal Waterson: chorus
Tracks
- All Down the Days (3.45)
- The Rider (4.03)
- The Calm Before the Storm (3.28)
- Taoist Tales (4.56)
- Come Down Days (5.05)
- Lisbon Story (3.30)
- Myra’s Children (4.33)
- City Lights City Limits (3.43)
- The Fizzer (5.20)
- Hey Rain (4.12)
- I Don’t Know Why (3.57)
- Early (3.59)
All tracks Gerry Hallom except
Track 4 Tucker Zimmerman;
Track 10 Bill Scott;
Track 12 Greg Brown
Links
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Other records with Gerry Hallom
Vic Shepherd & John Bowden, A Motty Down, LP, Burlington BURL015, 1982
Jez Lowe, The Old Durham Road, LP/CD, Fellside FE034/FECD34, 1983
Jez Lowe, Galloways, LP, Fellside FE049, 1985
Various Artists, Flash Company: A Celebration of the First 10 Years of Fellside Records, LP, Fellside FE050, 1986
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, The Journey Continues: Fellside at 40, 3 CD, Fellside FECD272, 2016
Various Artists, Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018