Recorded and mixed by Alex Borwick and Ben Lehane at Elektra Studios, Dublin 2 on 2 March 2014;
Cover image ‘Spøkefugl’ (2013) by Solveig Bergene

Musicians

Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton, Sinéad Lynch: vocals

Tracks

1. Doomsday (1.59)
2. Rags Upon the Poddle, a.k.a. William Reilly’s Courtship (Roud 537, Laws M9) (5.14)
3. Lassie Lie Near Me (Roud V39584) (4.20)
4. Lord Landless (3.55)
5. Farewell to Fiunary (Roud 2317) (3.18)

Track 1 words Joseph Hart (1762), music Abraham Woods (1789), from The Shenandoah Harmony;
Track 2 words trad., adapted and music Fergus Russell;
Track 3 Robert Burns;
Track 4 words trad., music Fergus Russell;
Track 5 trad.

Recorded live, produced and mixed by John Murphy at St Mary’s Church, Howth; St Luke’s Church, Cork; Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast; Guerrilla Sounds Studios, Dublin;
Tracks 11-12 recorded live under the River Lagan, Belfast;
Mastered by Christoph Stickel in Munich in 2018;
Artwork and design by Ruth Clinton;
Jellyfish illustration by Meabh Meir

Musicians

Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton, Sinéad Lynch: vocals

Tracks

1. The Trees They Grow Tall (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222) (6.37)
2. Doomsday (1.58)
3. The Well Below the Valley (Roud 2335; Child 21) (4.48)
4. Lassie Lie Near Me (Roud V39584) (4.23)
5. Ca’ the Yowes (Roud 857; G/D 5:1014; Henry H175) (4.02)
6. The Ballad of Springhill (4.06)
7. All Around the Loney-O (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (3.53)
8. The Female Convict (1.53)
9. Buried in Kilkenny (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (4.42)
10. Via Extasia (5.04)
11. Caoin I (2.35)
12. Caoin II (4.32)

Tracks 1, 7, 9 trad.;
Track 2 words Joseph Hart (1762), music Abraham Woods (1789), from The Shenandoah Harmony;
Tracks 3, 10 Liam Weldon;
Tracks 4-5 Robert Burns;
Track 6 Peggy Seeger (1960);
Track 8 words Thomas Dale (1819), music Robert Boyd (c.1822), from The Shenandoah Harmony

Video

Landless sing The Trees They Grow Tall on the RTÉ lyric FM programme The Blue of the Night in June 2017:

Produced, recorded and mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy at The Meadow Studio, Wicklow, and Guerrilla Studios, Dublin;
Additional recording by Cian Hamilton;
Mastered by Shawn Joseph, Optimum Mastering, Bristol;
Cover image: ‘Skeleton Boquet’ by Charles Bierstadt, 1975;
Inside image: ‘Rose Boquet’ by Charles E. Danforth, 1870s;
Artwork and design by Ruth Clinton

KLOF Magazine review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Ruth Clinton: vocals; piano, pipe organ, pump organ and clavichord[1, 5-6, 8-9];
Sinéad Lynch: vocals;
Méabh Meir: vocals; shruti box, singing bowls [6, 10];
Lily Power: vocals

with
Cormac MacDiarmada: fiddle, viola, banjo [1, 3, 6, 8-10];
Alex Borwick: trombone [1]

Tracks

1. The Newry Highwayman (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260) (5.19)
2. Blackwaterside (Roud 312; Laws O1; Henry H811) (2.43)
3. Lúireach Bhríde (Brigid’s Breastplate) (6.09)
4. Fisherman’s Wife (3.01)
5. The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry (Roud 197; Child 113) (6.08)
6. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031) (4.43)
7. The Hag (3.26)
8. My Lagan Love (Roud 1418) (4.03)
9. The Wounded Hussar (Roud 2699) (4.17)
10. Ej Husári (5.16)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 words Annemarie Ní Churreáin, music Landless, commissioned for the inaugural RTÉ Folk Awards by Aoife Nic Cormaic, 2018;
Track 4 Ewan MacColl;
Track 7 poem Robert Herrick, 1648, music Sinéad Lynch;
Track 8 Joseph Campbell;
Track 9 Thomas Campbell, 17999;
Track 10 trad. Slovak

Video

Landless sing Fisherman’s Wife: