Front cover design by Alan Johnson

Musicians

Joan Mills: vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7-9, 11-12, 14];
Michael Raven: guitar, drum

Tracks

Side 1

1. Death and the Lady (Roud 32443) (4.30)
2. The Jolly Highwayman (Roud 1553) (2.23)
3. Lisa Lan (2.57)
4. Ladies Don’t Go A-Thieving (Roud V28087) (2.21)
5. Robin Hood’s Dance (2.19)
6. Staines Morris / La Folia Saraband / Adson’s Saraband (3.03)
7. Saraband (2.18)

Side 2

8. The Lichfield Greenhill Bower Processional (2.34)
9. The Captain’s Apprentice (Roud 835) (3.24)
10. Can Y Melinyd / Troseg Y Gareg (2.38)
11. Sarah Collins (Roud V1284) (3.33)
12. The White Gloves (1.36)
13. La Russe Waltz / Paris Polka (2.58)
14. The Queen of the Night (2.24)

Tracks 1-2, 11 trad. adapted Michael Raven;
Tracks 5-6, 9 trad. arr. Michael Raven;
Tracks 3, 7, 10, 12-14 Michael Raven;
Track 4 trad., music Dave Moran;
Track 8 trad., words Michael Raven

Recorded at Mid-Wales Sound Studios;
Engineered by Alan Green;
Cover photograph: Coal-seller at the entrance to Russel Street, taken in the 1880s by Dr. Dingle, courtesy of Wednesbury Library

The songs are selected from the book, The Jolly Machine by Michael Raven.

Musicians

Joan Mills: vocals [1-2, 4-7, 10-11, 13];
Michael Raven: vocals [1, 11-13], drum [4], mando-cittern [7]

Saga [3-5, 9, 12-13]:
Chris Mordey: guitar, vocals, lead vocals [9, 12];
Roger Warren: banjo, guitar;
Paul Richardson: organ, drums, vocals, lead vocals [3];
John Squire: fiddle, mandolin

Tracks

Side 1

1. [JM, MR] Chartists’ Anthem (2.31)
2. [JM] Nailmaker’s Lament (1.54)
3. [S] Charlie’s Song (2.41)
4. [JM, S] Redditch Needlemaker’s Lament (2.29)
5. [JM, S] Landlord Don’t You Cry (2.58)
6. [JM] Freedom and Reform (3.44)

Side 2

7. [JM, MR] John Whitehouse (1.49)
8. [CM] Potter’s Chant (0.40)
9. [S] Waiting for Wages (1.39)
10. [JM] Wednesbury Town (1.39)
11. [MR, JM] Jolly Machine (2.06)
12. [MR, S] Colliers’ Rant (1.33)
13. [JM, MR, S] Tommy Note (3.34)
14. [BC3] Dudley Canal Tunnel Song (3.00)

The CD is a modified reissue of the two LPs The Halliard : Jon Raven and Michael Raven and Joan Mills’ The Jolly Machine with a few tracks from a 1973 Jon Raven LP and the 1966 LP The Black Country Three spread in.

Musicians

Jon Raven [2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 15] :
Jon Raven: vocals, guitar;
Nic Jones: fiddle [10], guitar [12];
Tony Rose: concertina [10]

The Halliard [1, 3, 5, 7-8, 11, 13] :
Dave Moran: vocals;
Nic Jones: vocals [7-8], guitar;
Nigel Paterson: vocals, mandolin, tenor recorder

The Black Country Three [9, 14, 29] :
Jon Raven: guitar, lead vocals;
Mike Raven: guitar, vocals;
Derek Craft: flute, vocals

Mike Raven, Joan Mills [16-28] :
Joan Mills: vocals;
Mike Raven: guitar, vocals

Saga [16-28] :
Chris Mordey: guitar, vocals;
Roger Warren: banjo, guitar;
Paul Richardson: organ, drums, vocals;
John Squire: fiddle, mandolin

CD Tracks

The Halliard : Jon Raven

1. [H] Calico Printer’s Clerk (Roud 13210) (3.09)
2. [JR] The Unquiet Grave (Roud 51; Child 78) (3.15)
3. [H] Ladies Don’t Go A-Thieving (2.43)
4. [JR] Midsummer Fair (Roud 137) (2.08)
5. [H] To the Weavers Gin Ye Go (instrumental) (2.20)
6. [JR] Long Lankin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735) (3.53)
7. [H] Going for a Soldier, Jenny (Roud V1224) (2.21)
8. [H] The Workhouse Boy (Roud 29495) (3.13)
9. [BC3] Row Bullies Row (Roud 928) (2.27)
10. [JR 1973] Lancashire Lads (Roud 588; G/D 1:89) (2.28)
11. [H] A Thousand Miles Away (Roud 1778; G/D 6:1102) (2.21)
12. [JR] Love and Murder (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202) (4.02)
13. [H] The Last Farewell of Frost, Jones & Williams (3.30)
14. [BC3] Jolly Joe (Roud 1129) (2.51)
15. [JR] The Rambling Sailor (Roud 518; G/D 7:1477) (2.30)

Mike Raven: The Jolly Machine

16. [JM, MR] Chartists’ Anthem (2.31)
17. [JM] Nailmaker’s Lament (1.54)
18. [S] Charlie’s Song (2.41)
19. [JM, S] Redditch Needlemaker’s Lament (2.29)
20. [JM, S] Landlord Don’t You Cry (2.58)
21. [JM] Freedom and Reform (3.44)
22. [CM] Potter’s Chant (0.40)
23. [S] Waiting for Wages (1.39)
24. [JM] Wednesbury Town (1.39)
25. [MR, JM] Jolly Machine (2.06)
26. [MR, S] Colliers’ Rant (1.33)
27. [JM, MR] John Whitehouse (1.49)
28. [JM, MR, S] Tommy Note (3.34)
29. [BC3] Dudley Canal Tunnel Song (3.00)