Produced and recorded by Joe Rusby at Pure Records Studio, Yorkshire;
Mastered by Nick Cooke at Nim Mastering;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Jack Rutter: vocals, guitars, bouzouki, duet concertina

Tracks

1. Hey John Barleycorn [Joseph Bryan Geoghegan] (Roud 2141) (3.46)
2. The Bilberry Moors (3.59)
3. The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83) (5.00)
4. Morning Trumpet (Roud 15077) (3.25)
5. I’ll Take My Dog and My Airgun Too (Roud 363) (2.41)
6. Hatton Woods (Roud 5531) (3.39)
7. Stormy Winds (Roud 284) (3.55)
8. Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War (Roud 1533; G/D 1:179; Henry H556) (4.18)
9. It Hails, It Rains (Roud 608; G/D 5:983; TYG 36) (2.27)
10. The Dalesman’s Litany [F.W. Moorman / Dave Keddie] (TYG 70) (4.14)
11. The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224) (4.55)

All tracks trad. arr. Jack Rutter except
Track 2 words John Swain, music Jack Rutter;
Track 10 words F.W. Moorman arr. Jack Rutter, tune Dave Keddie arr. Jack Rutter

Video

Acknowledgements

Thank you very much to Jack for a copy of this wonderful CD!

Produced and recorded by Joe Rusby at Pure Records Studio, Yorkshire;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Photography by Kate Griffin;
Design by Tom Pitts at Hand Drawn Pixels

Folk Radio UK review by Peter Shaw

Musicians

Jack Rutter: vocals, guitars, bouzouki, duet concertina, harmonium;
Sam Sweeney: fiddle;
Alice Robinson: Northumbrian small pipes;
Sam Fisher: flugelhorn

Tracks

1. I Was Once a Young Ploughboy (Roud 1446; Henry H780) (3.19)
2. The Hills of Longdendale (3.09)
3. The Lancashire Liar (3.37)
4. Fair Janet & Young James (Roud 44; Child 64; G/D 6:1100) (6.34)
5. The Brundeanlaws (Roud 9257) (3.35)
6. John White (Roud 1641) (3.24)
7. The Shepherd’s Song (Roud 5124) (3.38)
8. When Jones’s Ale Was New (Roud 139; G/D 3:561) / A Little Jig for the Cumberland Arms (3.57)
9. Down by the Derwent Side (Roud 1114) (2.12)
10. The Sledmere Poachers (Roud V3975) (3.41)
11. Fieldfares (4.55)

Tracks 1, 3, 8a trad. arr. Jack Rutter;
Track 2 words Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946), music Jack Rutter;
Track 4 words trad. / Jack Rutter, music trad. arr. Jack Rutter;
Track 5 trad. arr. Jack Rutter, Sam Sweeney;
Tracks 6-7, 9-10 words trad., music Jack Rutter;
Track 8b Jack Rutter;
Track 11 words F.W. Moorman from Songs of the Ridings, music Jack Rutter

Video

Jack Rutter sings I Was Once a Young Ploughboy:

Produced by Joe Rusby;
Mastered by Nick Cooke

Musicians

Jack Rutter: vocals, guitars, bouzouki

Tracks

1. Solsbury Hill (3.32)
2. Small Northern Town (2.15)
3. The Queen of the May (Roud 594) (3.44)
4. It Won’t Hurt (When I Fall Down From This Barstool) (2.56)

Track 1 Peter Gabriel;
Track 2 learned from Fourteen Corners (Huddersfield);
Track 3 learned from Bryony Griffith’s album Nightshade (2014);
Track 4 Dwight Yoakam

Produced and recorded by Joe Rusby at the Arch Recording Studio, Southport;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Photography by Maddie Farris;
Design by Tom Pitts at Hand Drawn Pixels

Folking.com review by Bill Golembeski

Musicians

Jack Rutter: vocals, guitars, bouzouki, harmonica, duet concertina, harmonium;
Mike McGoldrick: pipes, flute, whistle;
Patsy Reid: fiddle, viola

Tracks

1. Bold Nevison the Highwayman (Roud 1082) (3.43)
2. Earl Scarslington’s Seven Daughters (Roud 24; Child 8) (4.33)
3. Many’s the Night (The Harvest Home) (Roud 5595; G/D 3:632) (3.20)
4. Sledburn Fair (Roud 2543) (2.31)
5. Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight (Roud 4015; Child 195) (3.36)
6. Ninety Nine & Ninety (Roud 161; Child 1) (3.30)
7. The Shepherd on the Mountain (Roud 1433, 32501) (3.33)
8. James Atley & Sir Fenix (Roud 4022; Child 244) (5.47)
9. Upon the Mountains High (3.38)

All tracks words trad., Jack Rutter, music Jack Rutter except
Track 3 words trad., Jack Rutter, Ammon Wrigley, music Jack Rutter,
Track 6 trad. arr. Jack Rutter,
Track 9 words Edwin Waugh, Jack Rutter, music Jack Rutter

Videos

Jack Rutter sings Bold Nevison the Highwayman:

Jack Rutter sings Earl Scarslington’s Seven Daughters: