Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, 26/27 May 1980;
Notes by Jez Lowe;
Sleeve drawing by Geoff Marsh;
Sleeve artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Jez Lowe: guitar, dulcimer, harmonica, whistle, organ, vocals;
Sylvia Barnes: whistle, vocals;
Jim Barnes: cittern, guitar

Tracks

Side 1

1. Sedgefield Fair / Roxborough Castle (4.19)
2. Pit Boy (2.43)
3. Willy’s Lyke Wake (Roud 30; Child 25; G/D 4:843) (3.56)
4. The Dark Shores (2.35)
5. Johnny Seddon (3.15)
6. Beaumont’s Light Horse (3.32)

Side 2

7. Poor Old Wedgebury (3.)
8. Fill the Tankard (Roud 2598) / Kildale Jig (3.42)
9. The Head of Wear Water (3.37)
10. Pretty Saro (Roud 417) (3.58)
11. Wheel of Fortune (Roud 1075; G/D 6:1173; Henry H790) (4.28)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 1a, 8a Jez Lowe;
Track 2 Colin Dryden;
Track 4 Bernie Parry;
Track 7 trad. / Jez Lowe;
Track 9 words John Masefield, music Roy Palmer

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, March 1983;
Cover design by G. & A.M. Marsh

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, harmonica;
with
Jake Walton: hurdy-gurdy;
John Bowden: melodeon, concertina;
Stewart Watkins: bass;
Gerry Hallom: banjo

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Old Durham Waltz (3.14)
2. A Hard Life (3.51)
3. Cursed Be the Caller (3.15)
4. My Keel Lad (Roud 9021) (3.05)
5. Mary Martindale (4.42)
6. Annie Munro (4.12)

Side 2

7. High Part of the Town (3.24)
8. I’ll Never Get Home (3.57)
9. Foggy Banks (4.02)
10. Black Diamonds (4.03)
11. The Old Durham Road (4.43)

CD Reissue Bonus Track

12. Time for Leaving (3.56)
    recording out-take

Tracks 1-3, 5, 7, 10-11 Jez Lowe;
Track 4 trad.;
Track 6 words trad., music Jez Lowe;
Track 8 trad., new words Jez Lowe;
Track 9 trad. arr. Jez Lowe;
Track 12 trad. New Zealand, new verses and music Jez Lowe

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, August 1985;
Front photograph by Olive Trick;
Cover art by Geoff Marsh

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, keyboards, banjo, harmonica, whistle;
Jake Walton: vocals, guitar, hurdy-gurdy [1-10];
Anne-Marie Flanagan: Gerry Hallom, vocals [1-10];
Sylvia Barnes: whistle, vocals [11-16];
Jim Barnes: cittern, guitar [11-16]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Back in Durham Jail (4.30)
2. The Galloway Lad (3.49)
3. Gatineau Girls (4.27)
4. The Boys of Belly Row (4.59)
5. Northern Echoes (3.55)

Side 2

6. Galloways (4.00)
7. Old Bones (4.31)
8. Shippersea Bay (5.07)
9. The Honest Working Way (4.36)
10. Chick Henderson’s March (3.35)

CD Bonus Tracks from Jez Lowe (1980)

11. Sedgefield Fair / Roxborough Castle (4.20)
12. Pit Boy (2.44)
13. Willy’s Lyke Wake (Roud 30; Child 25; G/D 4:843) (3.57)
14. The Dark Shores (2.36)
15. Johnny Seddon (3.16)
16. Beaumont’s Light Horse (3.31)

Tracks 1-11 Jez Lowe;
Track 12 Colin Dryden;
Tracks 13, 15-16 trad.;
Track 14 Bernie Parry

Produced and recorded by Jo Partridge at The Airfield Studio, Cornwall, March 1986;
Cutting engineer: Mike Walker, Trident Studios;
Executive producer: Paul Adams;
Photography by Michael Wigg

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [2, 5-6, 8, 10-11], guitar [1, 7-8, 10-11], harmonica [1, 3, 11] whistle [1, 3, 7-8], cittern [2-3, 6, 9], banjo [5], synthesiser [8];
Jake Walton: vocals [1, 4, 6, 10-11], hurdy-gurdy [1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11], guitar [4, 6, 10], dulcimer [8];
Jo Partridge: electric guitar [4, 6], percussion [5-6, 11], vocals [11]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Patrik’s Song / Dance (4.27)
2. Brockie Lads (4.21)
3. Todds Dance / Monferrina (3.34)
4. Trees (4.18)
5. Japs and English (4.27)

Side 2

6. Reign of the Fair Maid (3.40)
7. Galician Dances (3.59)
8. The Bergen (3.57)
9. Rothbury Races / Morpeth Lasses (2.43)
10. Gold and Silver (3.48)
11. The Ballad of Johnny Collier (4.37)

CD Bonus Tracks

12. Over Seal Sands (3.43)
13. Appleby Gallop (3.51)
14. The Spinning of the Wheel (3.38)

Track 1 Patrik Ewen, Jake Walton;
Tracks 2, 3a, 5, 8, 11 Jez Lowe;
Tracks 3b, 7, 9 trad. arr. Jake Walton, Jez Lowe;
Track 4 Jake Walton, E. Liorzou;
Tracks 6, 10 Jake Walton

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams, March and April 1988;
Photography by R.L. Allison

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, harmonica, keyboards;
with
Sylvia Barnes: vocals;
Roger Watson: fiddle, vocals;
Jake Walton: hurdy-gurdy, vocals;
Anne-Marie Flanagan: Bev Sanders, backing vocals;
Brian Stewart: bass;
Mike James: clarinet;
Paul Adams: percussion

Tracks

Side 1

1. Another Man’s Wife (5.29)
2. A Small Coal Song (4.15)
3. The Midnight Mail (4.23)
4. Dandelion Clocks (4.18)
5. London Danny (3.55)
6. Nella Can Keep It for Treasure (4.30)

Side 2

1. The Land of the Living (4.32)
2. Nearer to Nettles (6.33)
3. Father Mallory’s Dance (3.28)
4. Yankee Boots (4.08)
5. A New Town Incident (5.58)

All songs written by Jez Lowe

Recorded and produced by Paul Adams at Fellside Studios, July-August 1990;
Assistant engineer Graham Bell;
Photography Peter Mernheh

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, banjo, harmonica;
Bev Sanders: vocals, percussion, whistle;
Rob Kay: vocals, keyboards, melodeon, recorder, percussion

with
Chris Leslie: fiddle

Tracks

Side 1

1. You Can’t Take It With You (4.13)
2. The Famous Working Man (3.39)
3. One Man Bound (5.13)
4. Old Hammer-Head (4.04)
5. Boonas (4.32)
6. The Soda Man (5.25)

Side 2

7. Davis & Golightly (4.26)
8. Jordan (Roud 2103) / The Begging Bowl (4.40)
9. Wannie Wind (4.16)
10. Alice (4.35)
11. Fun Without Fools / Swiss Reel (5.11)
12. The New Moon’s Arms (4.10)

All songs written by Jez Lowe except
Tracks 1, 9, 12 Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders;
Track 8b Rob Kay;
Track 8a trad .arr. Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders, Rob Kay

This collection compiled by Jez Lowe;
Remastered by Paul Adams in July 1992

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [1-17], guitar [4-8, 10-11, 13-17], cittern [1-3, 8, 12, 14], harmonica [1, 6, 8, 14], banjo [3, 9], whistle [5, 7, 14], keyboards [5, 13], dulcimer [10], organ [11], piano [15];
Jake Walton: vocals [4, 17], hurdy-gurdy [1-2, 9-10, 14-15], dulcimer [4-5], guitar [17];
Gerry Hallom: backing vocals [1, 15];
Anne-Marie Flanagan: backing vocals [1, 3, 10, 15];
Sylvia Barnes: backing vocals [6], whistle [6];
Jim Barnes: cittern [6];
Jo Partrigde: drum programming [9];
Linda Adams: harmony vocals [13];
Bev Sanders: vocals [16], guitar [16];
Bob Surgeoner: vocals [16], double bass [16];
Bill Surgeoner: fiddle [16]

Tracks

1. Back in Durham Gaol (4.28)
2. Brockie Lads (5.13)
3. Galloways (3.58)
4. Black Diamonds (4.00)
5. The Bergen (3.58)
6. Sedgefield Fair (4.20)
7. The Old Durham Road (4.43)
8. Chick Henderson’s March (3.33)
9. Japs and English (4.35)
10. Old Bones (4.28)
11. Cursed Be the Caller (3.12)
12. High Part of the Town (3.28)
13. The Grey Cock (Roud 179; Child 248) (5.20)
14. The Old Durham Waltz (3.12)
15. Shippersea Bay (5.04)
16. Ballad of Johnny Collier (4.21)
17. The Honest Working Way (4.30)

All songs written by Jez Lowe except
Track 13 trad. arr. Jez Lowe

Track 6 is from Jez Lowe (FE023, 1980), produced by Paul Adams, May 1980;
Tracks 7, 11, 14 are from The Old Durham Road (FE034, 1983); produced by Paul Adams, March 1984;
Track 4 alternative take of a song from The Old Durham Road, produced by Jo Partridge, August 1984;
Track 12 live recording of a song from from The Old Durham Road, produced by Paul Adams, July 1992;
Track 13 is from A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (FE047, 1986), produced by Paul Adams, April 1985;
Tracks 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17 are from Galloways (FE049, 1985), produced by Paul Adams, August 1985;
Tracks 2, 5, 9 are from Two a Roue (FE055, 1986), produced by Jo Partridge, March 1986;
Track 16 is a new recording of a song from Two a Roue, produced by The Bad Pennies, June 1992

Recorded by Graham Bell and Paul Adams at Fellside Studios, May-June 1993;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Front photograph by Ken Archer;
Sculpture by Ken Rowden, courtesy of Bede’s World, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [1-10, 12-13], guitar [1, 4-6, 9-11, 13], cittern [3, 8], mandolin [3], banjo [12], harmonica [1, 8], dulcimer [7], keyboards [7];
Bev Sanders: vocals [1-8, 10-13], percussion [1, 3, 6, 8, 12];
Bob Surgeoner: double bass [3-4, 6, 8, 12], keyboards [1, 9-11], banjo [5, 8], accordion [1, 13], vocals [1-2, 7, 8];
Billy Surgeoner: fiddle [1, 3-4, 6, 8, 11-12], keyboards [5], whistle [10], bamboo whistle [7], vocals [2], sampling [1];
with
Paul Adams: drums [7]

Tracks

1. A Call for the North Country (3.37)
2. These Coal Town Days (3.02)
3. Kid Canute / Scotty Moore’s Reel (4.33)
4. Just Like Moses (4.45)
5. She’ll Always Be Freedom (A Song for Saoirse) (4.04)
6. Greek Lightning (4.00)
7. Dover, Delaware (3.50)
8. Teardrop Two-Step (4.28)
9. Too Up and Too Down (4.55)
10. The Bulldog Breed (4.22)
11. Last of the Widows (3.27)
12. Mike Neville Said It (So It Must Be True) (3.29)
13. Bede Weeps (3.12)

All songs written by Jez Lowe

Produced by Paul Adams;
Recorded by Graham Bell and Paul Adams at Fellside Studio, Workington, UK in March/April 1985;
2005 CD remixed and mastered by Ron Angus at Studio One, the Audio Loft,County Durham in May 2005;
Album notes by Gordon Massey, Tantobie Records;
Sleeve design and artwork by Bryan Ledgard

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica whistle;
Bev Sanders: vocals, whistle, percussion;
Bob Surgeoner: double bass, keyboard, slide guitar, accordion, banjo, vocals;
Billy Surgeoner: violin, keyboards, whistle, vocals

with:
Graham Bell: didgeridoo

Tracks

1995 CD

1. Sons of the Century (4.56)
2. Sweep Horizons Clean (3.52)
3. The Crake in the Morning (2.26)
4. The Guilts (4.50)
5. Alibi Child (5.12)
6. Song of the Indian Lass (4.55)
7. Workhouse (3.19)
8. Aloysius (3.39)
9. Dry Season Land (4.02)
10. Bait Up (4.34)
11. Tenterhooks (4.27)
12. Homefires / Felton Lonnin (Roud 3166) / Here’s the Tender Coming (Roud 3174) (6.17)

2005 Bonus Tracks from Banners (1993)

13. Banners Gathering / Slogans of Labour (7.26)
14. Weave and Worry (3.33)
15. Big Meeting Day (5.21)
16. An Everasting Drum (3.54)
17. A Long Walk Home (5.05)
18. Ready for Tomorrow (1.32)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe except
Track 12b trad., additional words by Johnny Handle;
Track 12c trad. arr. Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders

Originally produced by Fred Purser, Lez Lowe and The Bad Pennys;
Recorded at Trinity Heights Studio, Newcastle, UK, August-October 1997;
Production consultant: Paul Adams;
Track 14 recorded by George Welch at Cluny Studio, Byker, UK, in May 1997;
Reissue compiled at Handshake Studios, Darlington, UK, by Neil Scarth in February 2003;
Reissue produced by Jez Lowe and Andy Smyser;
Original artwork by Wolfgang Wolff, courtesy of Götz Wolff;
Band photography by Ken Archer;
Graphic design by Jim Rosfeld;
Liner notes by Gene Shay, Jez Lowe and Andy Smyser

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica, mandolin, dulcimer, banjo, piano;
Billy Surgeoner: violin, keyboards, whistle, saxophone, percussion, vocals, piano;
Jez Luton: double bass, electric stand-upbass, keyboards, guitar, vocals;
Judy Dinning: vocals, keyboards, percussion

with guests:
Jake Walton: hurdy-gurdy;
Rob Kay: melodeon, accordion

Tracks

1998 CD

1. Glad Rags Again (5.05)
2. Tom-Tom (3.33)
3. Propping (4.28)
4. Sod All (5.07)
5. Spitting Cousins (3.58)
6. Spares Or Repair (5.13)
7. The Limping Drinker’s Polka (3.55)
8. Go Away Joe (3.50)
9. Had Away, Gan On (4.19)
10. The Parish Notices (4.59)
11. Idle Time (3.55)
12. If I Had Another Penny (4.09)

2003 Bonus Tracks

13. Easy Town (5.44)
14. A Lass to Want Me (4.24)
15. Slack Water Sea (3.53)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Compiled by Neil Searth at Handshake Stifio, Darlington, Co Durham, 1998;

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica;
Billy Surgeoner: fiddle, keyboards, whistle;
Jez Luton: double bass, vocals;
Judy Dinning: vocals, percussion;
Bob Surgeoner: double bass [4];
Joe Gannet: concertina [5]

Tracks

1. Glad Rags Again (3.45)
2. Bait Up (4.42)
3. Last of the Widows (3.28)
4. Big Meeting Day (5.23)
5. A long Walk Home (4.28)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Track 1 edited from The Parish Notices;
Track 2 recorded live at The Walton Tavern, Essex, 1997;
Track 3 recorded live at The Loaded Doc, Sydney, Australia, 1997;
Track 4 from Banners, EDC Records, ECD001;

Recorded live at the Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington, England, on 13 May 2000 with special guest Jake Walton

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica;
Judy Dinning: vocals, percussion, keyboards;
Billy Surgeoner: fiddle, keyboards, whistle, vocals;
Simon Haworth: bass, keyboards, mandolin, vocals;
Jake Walton: hurdy-gurdy

Tracks

CD 1

1. Another Man’s Wife (5.03)
2. The Soda Man (4.34)
3. Black Diamonds (4.37)
4. Galloways (4.39)
5. Sweep Horizons Clean (3.56)
6. The Guilts (4.45)
7. The Military Road (4.20)
8. Just Like Moses (4.49)
9. High Part of the Town (4.34)
10. The New Moon’s Arms (4.11)
11. Tom Tom (4.13)

CD 2

12. Old Bones (5.00)
13. Kid Canute / Scotty Moore’s Reel (4.56)
14. London Danny (4.06)
15. Greek Lightning (4.4)
16. Weave and Worry (3.39)
17. Big Meeting Day (5.27)
18. Last of the Widows (3.22)
19. Back in Durham Gaol (4.42)
20. These Coal Town Days (2.58)
21. Introductions (0.50)
22. You Can’t Take It With You (4.47)
23. The Bergen (3.52)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe except
Track 11, 22 Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders

Produced and arranged by Lez Lowe and The Bad Pennys;
Recorded by Fred Purser at Trinity Heights Studio, Newcastle, UK, August-October 1997;
Cover photography by Alan Bennington;
Graphics by John Dunbar

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar [1, 3-4, 6, 8-12], cittern [1-2, 7], harmonica [2, 7], whistle [7, 11], piano [8];
Judy Dinning: vocals [1-5, 8-9, 11-12], bodhrán [1, 7], percussion [2, 4], piano [3, 10], keyboards [11-12];
Simon Haworth: vocals [1-2, 5, 11-12], bass [1, 3-4, 7-12], keyboards [2];
Kate Bramley: vocals [1-3, 5, 8-9, 11-12], violin [1-4, 7, 9, 11-12], viola [4]

with guests:
Sam Pirt: accordion [1, 3, 9-11];
Jeff Armstrong: percussion [1], drums [3, 9];
Andy May: low whistle [6]

Tracks

1. Skin Too Thin (3.45)
2. Ballad of Tasker Jack (4.59)
3. I Saw Hands (4.54)
4. In My Trade (4.31)
5. Armstrong’s Army (2.20)
6. Maddison (5.24)
7. Latchkey Lover (4.24)
8. Mother’s Day (4.39)
9. Fancy Goods (4.12)
10. Matchboxes (3.59)
11. The Big Fear (5.31)
12. Long Iron (5.58)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Produced by Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies;
Recorded by Peter Boyle at Northern Recording Studios, Consett, County Durham in May 2004;
Mastered by Ron Angus at The Audio Loft;
Photography by Alan Bennington;
Artwork and cover design by Brian Ledgard

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, mandolin;
Kate Bramley: vocals, violin, percussion;
Andy May: vocals, accordion, Northumbrian smallpipes, uillean pipes, piano, whistles;
Sean Taylor: vocals, fretless and fretted bass, percussion

with
Bob Fox: vocals;
Peter Boyle: percussion, vocals;

Tracks

1. You and Your Golden Vanity (3.45)
2. Donnini Doolally (6.05)
3. Sugar Water Sunday (4.56)
4. Regina Inside (4.10)
5. Vikings (4.13)
6. The Fan Dancers Daughter (4.05)
7. Hoi Polloi (4.19)
8. Calico (6.46)
9. Keep Them Bairns Away (3.18)
10. A Penitent’s Lent (3.32)
11. Gull’s Eye (2.27)
12. Bloodstained (7.32)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Produced by Steve Knightley;
Recorded by Phil Beer at Riverside Studio, Exeter, Devon in February 2007;
Mastered by Dave Pick at FTG Studios, Gloucestershire;
Photography by Alan Bennington;
Sleeve design and artwork by Bryan Ledgard

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern;
Phil Beer: tenor guitar, slide guitar, fiddle, mandolin, vocals;
Kate Bramley: fiddle, vocals;
David de la Haye: bass guitar, vocals;
Jenna: vocals;
Steve Knightley: guitar, tenor guitar, cuatro, vocals;
Andy May: piano, tin whistle;
Dave McKeown: clarinet

Tracks

1. Jack Common’s Anthem (3.59)
2. The Sea and the Deep Blue Devil (3.50)
3. Taking on Men (3.22)
4. Black Trade (4.04)
5. The Miami (5.04)
6. Will of the People (4.37)
7. Yellow Hair (3.47)
8. Heaney’s Finger (3.25)
9. Working Dirty (4.49)
10. A Few Frontiers (3.46)
11. Jack’s Return (2.39)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe except
Track 8 Jez Lowe, Kate Bramley

CD recorded live at the Caedmon Hall, Gateshead on Tyne on 29 February 2008, by Ron Angus, assisted by Adam Taylor;
Mixed by Ron Angus and David de la Haye at Studio One, Washington;
DVD produced and staged by Badapple Theatre;
Sound mastered by Ron Angus;
Filmed at Bishop Auckland Town Hall, Whitby Coliseum, Carlisle Tithe Barn, St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow;
Sleeve photography by Rik Walton;
Concert photography by Roger Liptrot

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica;
Kate Bramley: vocals, violin, mandolin;
Andy May: Northumbrian pipes, piano, accordion, whistle, vocals;
David de la Haye: bass guitar, vocals

Guests on the DVD:
Benny Graham: vocals, melodeon;
Shona Mooney: fiddle, vocals

Tracks

1. A Call for the North Country (3.59)
2. Cursed Be the Caller (4.08)
3. A Dream of Steam and Freedom (3.52)
4. The Boys of Belly Row (4.00)
5. Mary Martindale (4.48)
6. Too Up and Too Down (4.02)
7. A Hard Life (4.59)
8. The Famous Working Man (3.10)
9. All Trawl (4.00)
10. Davis and Golightly (4.21)
11. Bait Up (3.56)
12. I’ll Never Get Home / Durham Waltz (5.06)
13. The Sun and the Moon and Me (3.24)
14. Chick Henderson’s March (3.31)
15. Northern Echoes (3.37)
16. Fun Without Fools / Swiss Reel (5.44)
17. The Honest Working Way (4.18)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Recorded by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studio, Wallsend on Tyne, May 2010;
Produced by David de la Haye and Jez Lowe;
Orchestration by Andy May;
Concept by Jez Lowe;
Photography by Penelope Page;
Design by Bryan Ledgard

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [1-3, 5-6, 8-11, 13, 15, 17], guitar [1-3, 5-6, 9-12, 15, 17], banjo [5], cittern [1, 8], harmonica [2, 5], whistle [8];
The Bad Pennies:
    Kate Bramley: violin [1-2, 15], 5-string violin [3, 10, 17], mandolin [9], vocals [1-3, 5-6, 9-10, 12-13, 15, 17];
    Andy May: Northumbrian pipes [1, 3, 10], piano [2, 12, 17], harmonium [5, 11], accordion [9, 15], vocals [8, 13];
    David de la Haye: fretless bass [1-3, 5, 8-10, 12, 15, 17], percussion [2, 5, 9, 15]

with
Benny Graham: vocals [3, 13, 15];
Louisa Jo Killen: vocals [10];
Hinny Pawsey: violin [3, 12, 17], vocals [8, 13];
The Young‘uns: vocal interludes;
Bert Draycott: announcer;
The Tyneside Maritime Chorus: backing vocals [15]

Tracks

1. Barnstorming (3.59)
2. A Tonic for the Toffs (2.56)
3. The Lost Piper (3.38)
4. Weather (0.14)
5. Watter’s Coming Annie (4.01)
6. Darling’s Other Daughter (3.45)
7. Sport (0.23)
8. It’s a Champion Life (4.20)
9. The Ex-Pitman’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team (4.41)
10. The Judas Bus (4.08)
11. All Clear (3.10)
12. Back to the Land Girls (2.13)
13. Bare Knuckle (2.20)
14. Cobblers (0.24)
15. Hands Feet (3.18)
16. Sale (0.35)
17. Gramophone Dancing (3.33)
18. Why That’s It Folks (1.35)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Compiled and mastered by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studio, Wallsend, UK;
Cover design by Penelope Page

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [1-18], guitar [1, 3-7, 9-13, 15, 17-18], accordion [1], cittern [2, 4, 14], harmonica [2, 14], keyboard [3], banjo [4], piano [11], mandolin [16];
Kate Bramley: violin [1, 5, 13, 17], vocals [5, 13];
David de la Haye: bass [1];
Jake Walton: hurdy-gurdy [2, 12];
Gerry Hallom: vocals [2];
Anne-Marie Flanagan: vocals [2];
Sylvia Barnes: vocals [3, 11];
Roger Wilson: violin [4];
Andy May: piano [5], accordion [13], keyboards [18];
Sean Taylor: bass [5];
Bill Surgeoner: violin [6, 9, 12], vocals [8, 10, 12], tin whistle [10];
Judy Dinning: vocals [6, 9-10, 12], percussion [10, 12];
Simon Haworth: vocals [6, 10, 12], bass [6, 12-13], keyboards [9-10];
Bev Sanders: vocals [8, 14], percussion [14];
Bob Surgeoner: vocals [8];
Rob Kay: vocals [14], keyboards [14];
Vin Garbutt: vocals [17], tin whistle [17];
David de la Haye: bass [17-18], drum programme [18];
Hinny Pawsey: vocals [18], violin [18];
Andrew Cadie: vocals [18], trumpet [18]

Tracks

1. Old Bones (4.25)
2. Back in Durham Gaol* (4.27)
3. A Small Coal Song* (4.16)
4. Father Mallory’s Dance* (3.27)
5. Dover, Delaware (3.57)
6. High Part of the Town (4.04)
7. London Danny (4.06)
8. These Coal Town Days* (3.04)
9. The Bergen (3.47)
10. Galloways (4.43)
11. Yankee Boots* (4.10)
12. Black Diamonds (4.26)
13. Greek Lightning (4.57)
14. You Can’t Take It With You* (4.09)
15. Last of the Widows (3.20)
16. We’ll Hunt Him Down (3.31)
17. My Blood (4.30)
18. The Simian Son (6.23)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe except
Track 14 Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders;
Track 17 Jez Lowe, James Keelaghan

Track 1 new version of a song from Galloways (1985), recorded July 2012;
Track 2 from Galloways (1985);
Tracks 3-4, 11 from Bad Penny (1988);
Track 5 live version of a song from Bede Weeps (1993), recorded at The Compass Club, Whitby, May 2005;
Tracks 6, 9-10, 12, 15 from Live at the Davy Lamp (2000);
Track 7 alternative version of a song from Bad Penny (1988), recorded by ABC Radio, Melbourne, 1997;
Track 8 from Bede Weeps (1993);
Track 13 live version of a song from Bede Weeps (1993), recorded at Dumfries and Galloway Festival 2003;
Track 14 from Briefly on the Street (1988);
Track 16 live version of a song from the Darwin Song Project (2009), recorded at Rothbury Roots, Northumberland, May 2012;
Track 17 recorded and produced by David de la Haye 2012;
Track 18 recorded and produced by David de la Haye 2010, remixed 2012;

Produced and recorded by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studio, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Mastered by Christopher Leary at Melograf Mastering;
Artwork by Penelope Page

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, mandolin, harmonica;
Andy May: Northumbrian pipes, uilleann pipes, accordion, piano;
Kate Bramley: violin, vocals;
David de la Haye: electric bass;
Kari MacLeod: violin;
Martin Douglas: percussion;
Rod Clements: slide guitar;
Maggie Holland: banjo;
Ian Thompson: double bass;
Laura Bell: alto and soprano saxophone;
Christine Stockton, Paul Stockton: backing vocals

Tracks

1. The Lazarus Dance (4.53)
2. Tether’s End (4.42)
3. The Pitmen Poets (4.12)
4. Berlin 36 (2.30)
5. Jesse Owens’ Shoes (3.55)
6. The Ballad of Dorando and Johnny (4.21)
7. Morpeth Olympics (5.49)
8. Unprotected (2.54)
9. Candles (3.59)
10. Austerity Alphabet (4.24)
11. Names (2.56)
12. The Wrong Bus (3.03)
13. The Town Hall Yard (3.24)
14. Bother At the Hoppins (4.41)
15. Lass of Hexhamshire (3.37)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Produced by David de la Haye;
Recorded by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studio, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015;
Mastered by Christopher Leary at Melograf Mastering;
Cover image by Jez Lowe;
Artwork by Penelope Page

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, mandolin;
Benny Graham: vocals, melodeon;
Kate Bramley: vocals, violin;
Andy May: Northumbrian pipes, piano, harmonium, mandolin, melodica, whistle, vocals;
David de la Haye: bass, keyboards, percussion, vocals

Tracks

1. Humbug, Bonnie Lad (3.24)
2. A-Wassailing (Roud 209; TYG 22) (2.52)
3. Mistletoe on Tyne (3.15)
4. The Boxing Day Blues (2.54)
5. Christmas List (3.07)
6. Christmas Thought (2.19)
7. Cauld Feet Again Pet (5.04)
8. The Elves Have Left the Building (2.41)
9. Wor Sale (0.37)
10. Canny Auld Christmas (2.53)
11. Christmas Beach Party (3.59)
12. The New Tyne Bridge / Christenmass Day in the Morning (3.25)
13. The Dunstan Lullaby (Roud 8885) (2.12)
14. Winter Sunderland (2.52)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe except
Tracks 2, 13 trad. arr. Benny Graham;
Track 7 Benny Graham;
Track 10 J. Wilson;
Track 12 trad. arr. Andy May;
Track 14 Richard B. Smith, Felix Bernard, new lyrics Jez Lowe

Recorded live;
Photography by John Millard and Eddie Bailey;
Design by Michael Bailey

Musicians

Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham, Jez Lowe

Tracks

1. These Coal Town Days (2.56)
2. The Devil’s Ground (4.11)
3. Stanley Market (3.57)
4. The Row Between the Cages (Roud V35950) (3.07)
5. Shiftin’ to the Toon (4.27)
6. The Pitman’s Dream (5.43)
7. South Medomsley Strike (Roud V40590) (7.36)
8. Just One Spark (1.42)
9. The Ex-Pitmen’s Potholing Pub Quiz Team (5.40)
10. Blackleg Mining Man (3.37)
11. The Collier Laddie’s Wife (3.17)
12. Sheel Raw Flood / Off to California (4.55)
13. Wor Nanny’s a Maizor (4.16)
14. Judas Bus (4.18)
15. Farewell Johnny Miner (5.51)
16. The Miner’s Lifeguard (Roud 3510) (5.30)
17. Bonus Track: The Pitmen Poets (4.10)

Tracks 1, 9, 14, 17 Jez Lowe;
Tracks 2, 5 Billy Mitchell;
Tracks 3-4, 12a, 13 Tommy Armstrong;
Track 7 Tommy Armstrong, Johnny Handle;
Track 6 Alexander Barrass;
Track 8 Benny Graham;
Track 10 Jock Purdon;
Track 11 Billy Mitchell, Jane Wade;
Tracks 12b, 16 trad. arr. The Pitmen Poets;
Track 15 Ed Pickford

Recorded round the kitchen table at Boomchang;
Inner sleeve photography by Daniel Graham;
Package design by Michael Bailey

Musicians

Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham, Jez Lowe

Tracks

1. Black Diamonds (3.53)
2. Schooldays Over (1.53)
3. The Birth of the Lad (4.02)
4. Celebrated Working Man (Roud 3486) (3.24)
5. Last of the Widows (3.07)
6. Go to Work on Monday (2.58)
7. I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come (3.57)
8. The Collier’s Way (3.49)
9. Coughin’ Well / 1915-1972 (4.30)
10. Big Meeting Day (4.59)
11. Going to the Mine (3.11)
12. Ordinary Copper (3.32)
13. Coal Mountain (4.12)
14. When Geordie Thoo and I was Young (4.34)
15. Lord George (2.56)

Tracks 1, 5, 10, 13 Jez Lowe;
Track 2 Ewan MacColl;
Track 3 Tommy Armstrong;
Track 4 trad. arr. Bob Fox;
Track 6 Si Kahn;
Track 7 James Anderson;
Track 8 Dacy Steele;
Track 9 Billy Mitchell;
Track 11 Johnny Handle;
Track 12 Ray Hearne;
Track 14 Alexander Barrass, Benny Graham;
Track 15 trad. arr. Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox

Tracks 1-2, 4, 6 recorded and produced by Jez Lowe;
Tracks 3, 5 recorded and produced by David De la Haye

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica;
Kate Bramley: violin, viola;
Andy May: piano

Tracks

1. Thankful (2.59)
2. Voices in the Dark (3.02)
3. The Wrong Bus (3.03)
4. If I Could Buy a Blighty (3.19)
5. Names (2.56)
6. In the Nick of Time (2.27)

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Tracks 3,5 are from The Ballad Beyond (2015)

Produced and recorded by David Crickmore;
Mastered by David de la Haye;
Sleeve design and artwork by Jermome Dineen

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals [1, 3-9,11], harmonica [1, 6], bouzouki [1, 5, 7, 10], dulcimer [2, 8], accordion [2, 4, 7], mandolin [3-4, 6, 9, 11], harmonium [8];
Steve Tilston: vocals [1-11], guitar [1-11], arpeggione [2], 10-string guitar [10-11], slide guitar [11];
David Crickmore: bass [1], Fender Rhodes [2], percussion [1, 3-4, 11], Mark Boyce: drums [1, 5-6];
Hugh Bradley: double bass [2-7, 10-11];
Kate Bramley: fiddle [3-4, 11]

Tracks

1. The Janus Game (3.16)
2. Lucky Sami (4.40)
3. The Wagga Moon (4.40)
4. Leaving for Spain (4.02)
5. Crosses, Crescents and Stars (4.05)
6. The Strings That Wizz One Strummed (3.14)
7. Shiney Row (3.33)
8. Tatteres and Torn (4.25)
9. Mrs Einstein (3.26)
10. On Beacon Hill (5.00)
11. Goodbye Johnny D’s / Hey Frankie (4.02)

All tracks written by Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe

Produced by David de la Haye;
Recorded at Anomaly Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Badapple Studio, North Yorkshire, in July to October 2017;
Photography by Simon Haworth;
Artwork by Kari MacLeod;
Design by Lisa Kirkbride

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, all instruments except:
Andy May: Northumbrian pipes;
Kate Bramley: violin;
David de la Haye: bass

with
Rachel Hamer, Benny Graham, Kari MacLeod: vocals;
Robbie Sherratt: string synthesyser

Tracks

1. Waggon Way (Roud 3480) (1.36)
2. Benwell Lass (2.52)
3. Broom Bezzoms (Roud 1623; G/D 3:489) (1.20)
4. Fill the Tankard (Roud 2598) (3.00)
5. Market Day (4.17)
6. Blind Willie (Roud 2620) (3.14)
7. Byker Hill (and Walker Shore) (Roud 3488) (3.06)
8. Follow the Horses (Roud 1366) (2.14)
9. Here’s the Tender Coming (Roud 3174) (1.27)
10. Keel Lad (Roud 9021) (2.56)
11. Lumley (3.23)
12. Bobby Shafto (Roud 1359) (4.08)
13. Salty Shields (Roud V37106) (2.50)
14. Sair Fail’d (Roud 3062; G/D 3:481) (2.36)
15. Do Li A (Roud 2611) (3.40)

All tracks trad.

Recorded at The Fly By Night, Fremantle, Western Australia, 10 April 2004;
Original recording by Ian Manning for ABC Radio National;
Compiled and edited by Kate Bramley, July 2018;
Mastered by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studios, Durham;
Original concert promoter Ray Downes;
Photography by Sally Greenberg, Hugh MacMillan, Woods Hole Folk Society;
Artwork by Lisa Kirkbridge

Musicians

Jez Lowe, James Keelaghan: vocals, guitars

Tracks

1. Hillcrest Mine / Black Diamonds (5.29)
2. My Skies (3.28)
3. Old Bones (4.01)
4. Sweetgrass Moon (4.04)
5. The Bergen (3.48)
6. Woodsmoke & Oranges (5.04)
7. A Dream Of Steam Freedom (4.33)
8. Mirabeau Bridge (5.01)
9. Dover Delaware (4.27)
10. Gladys Ridge (4.01)
11. You Can’t Take It With You When You Go (3.50)

Tracks 1a, 2, 4, 10 James Keelaghan;
Tracks 1b, 3, 5, 7, 9 Jez Lowe
Track 6 Ian Tamblyn;
Track 8 Sam Larkin;
Track 11 Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders

Musicians

See the original albums

Tracks

CD 1

The Old Durham Road

1. The Old Durham Waltz (3.14)
2. A Hard Life (3.51)
3. Cursed Be the Caller (3.15)
4. My Keel Lad (Roud 9021) (3.05)
5. Mary Martindale (4.42)
6. Annie Munro (4.12)
7. High Part of the Town (3.24)
8. I’ll Never Get Home (3.57)
9. Foggy Banks (4.02)
10. Black Diamonds (4.03)
11. The Old Durham Road (4.43)
12. Time for Leaving (3.56)

Jez Lowe (Side 1)

13. Sedgefield Fair / Roxborough Castle (4.19)
14. Pit Boy (2.43)
15. Willy’s Lyke Wake (Roud 30; Child 25; G/D 4:843) (3.56)
16. The Dark Shores (2.35)
17. Johnny Seddon (3.15)
18. Beaumont’s Light Horse (3.32)

Tracks 1-3, 5, 7, 10-11, 13a Jez Lowe;
Track 4, 13b, 15, 17-18 trad.;
Track 6 words trad., music Jez Lowe;
Track 8 trad., new words Jez Lowe;
Track 9 trad. arr. Jez Lowe;
Track 12 trad. New Zealand, new verses and music Jez Lowe;
Track 14 Colin Dryden;
Track 16 Bernie Parry

CD 2

Galloways

1. Back in Durham Jail (4.30)
2. The Galloway Lad (3.49)
3. Gatineau Girls (4.27)
4. The Boys of Belly Row (4.59)
5. Northern Echoes (3.55)
6. Galloways (4.00)
7. Old Bones (4.31)
8. Shippersea Bay (5.07)
9. The Honest Working Way (4.36)
10. Chick Henderson’s March (3.35)

Jez Lowe (Side 2)

11. Poor Old Wedgebury (3.)
12. Fill the Tankard (Roud 2598) / Kildale Jig (3.42)
13. The Head of Wear Water (3.37)
14. Pretty Saro (Roud 417) (3.58)
15. Wheel of Fortune (Roud 1075; G/D 6:1173; Henry H790) (4.28)

Tracks 1-10, 12 Jez Lowe;
Tracks 11, 14-15 trad.;
Track 13 words John Masefield, music Roy Palmer

CD 3

Bad Penny

1. Another Man’s Wife (5.29)
2. A Small Coal Song (4.15)
3. The Midnight Mail (4.23)
4. Dandelion Clocks (4.18)
5. London Danny (3.55)
6. Nella Can Keep It for Treasure (4.30)
7. The Land of the Living (4.32)
8. Nearer to Nettles (The Weaver’s Reply) (6.33)
9. Father Mallory’s Dance (3.28)
10. Yankee Boots (4.08)
11. A New Town Incident (5.58)

Bonus Tracks

12. The Golden Vanity (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37) (3.52)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, guitar; Linda Adams, concertina. 1994
13. When I Was Young (Roud 2593) (2.45)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, dulcimer; Martin Carthy, guitar; Linda Adams, concertina. April 1985
14. The Grey Cock (Roud 179; Child 248) (5.18)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, guitar, keyboard; Linda Adams, vocals. April 1985

Tracks 1-11 Jez Lowe;
Tracks 12-14 trad.

CD 4

Briefly on the Street

1. You Can’t Take It With You (4.13)
2. The Famous Working Man (3.39)
3. One Man Bound (5.13)
4. Old Hammer-Head (4.04)
5. Boonas (4.32)
6. The Soda Man (5.25)
7. Davis & Golightly (4.26)
8. Jordan (Roud 2103) / The Begging Bowl (4.40)
9. Wannie Wind (4.16)
10. Alice (4.35)
11. Fun Without Fools / Swiss Reel (5.11)
12. The New Moon’s Arms (4.10)

Bonus Tracks

13. Felton Lonnin (Roud 3166) / Here’s the Tender Coming (Roud 3174) (3.20)
    Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders, Dave Palmer, vocals. 19 September 1991
14. The Bergen (4.04)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, guitar; Bev Sanders, vocals; Rob Kay, keyboard. 23 August 1991.
15. License to Kill / Planxty Zimmerman (4.09)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, guitar, cittern, harmonica; Anne-Marie Flanagan, vocals; Bryan Stewart, bass guitar; Paul Adams, percussion. 24 February 1986.

Tracks 1, 9, 12 Jez Lowe, Bev Sanders;
Tracks 2-7, 10, 11a, 14 Jez Lowe;
Tracks 8a, 11b, 13ab, 15b trad.;
Track 8b Rob Kay;
Track 15a Bob Dylan

CD 5

Bede Weeps

1. A Call for the North Country (3.37)
2. These Coal Town Days (3.02)
3. Kid Canute / Scotty Moore’s Reel (4.33)
4. Just Like Moses (4.45)
5. She’ll Always Be Freedom (A Song for Saoirse) (4.04)
6. Greek Lightning (4.00)
7. Dover, Delaware (3.50)
8. Teardrop Two-Step (4.28)
9. Too Up and Too Down (4.55)
10. The Bulldog Breed (4.22)
11. Last of the Widows (3.27)
12. Mike Neville Said It (So It Must Be True) (3.29)
13. Bede Weeps (3.12)

Bonus Tracks

14. Town Tales (3.41)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, guitar, cittern; Brian Peters, melodeon. 2018
15. Gull’s Eye (3.33)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, cittern, mandolin; David de la Haye, percussion. 2019
16. Bowness Bells (4.01)
    Jez Lowe, vocals, cittern; Kate Bramley, fiddle; Boo Hewerdine, guitar; Rory McLeod, percussion; Ruth Notman, vocals, accordion; Julie Matthews, vocals, guitar. January 2010

All tracks written by Jez Lowe

Recorded by Jez Lowe at home in June and July 2020;
Mixed and mastered by David de la Haye at Anomaly Studios, Durham;
Live recording from Lichfield Guildhall, December 2019;
Photography by Neil Rutherford, Penelope Page and Aidan Lowe;
Artwork by Lisa Kirkbridge

Musicians

Jez Lowe: vocals, guitar, cittern, mandolin, dukcimer, banjo, keyboards, accordion, harmonica, whistle, strings, bodhrán

Tracks

1. Shaking Monty (3.41)
2. This Is Not My Tribe (4.26)
3. Louisa’s Choosing (3.48)
4. Time Rich, Cash Poor (4.17)
5. Farmer Sun (3.04)
6. High Handenhold (3.51)
7. Three Indian Kings (4.24)
8. Honeymoon Terrace (3.49)
9. Loon in the Moon (3.44)
10. Coal Mountain (4.22)
11. Talk to Me Dirty in Geordie (Live) (6.03)
12. The Corly Croons (3.58)

All tracks Jez Lowe