Produced and recorded by Gordon Jones and Bob Thomas;
Digitally mastered at Charlotte Street Studios, Wakefile, West Yorkshire;
Photography by David Harrold;
Art direction and design by Jim Hutcheson

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Sloth and the Greed (3.00)
2. Mother’s Day (4.02)
3. The Last God of England (3.27)
4. Time (2.47)
5. Tamlyn (Roud 35; Child 39; G/D 2:330) (8.17)

Side 2

6. A Babe of the World (4.16)
7. Without Thinking Love (4.15)
8. The Backward King (2.52)
9. Frivolous Love (3.04)
10. Rachel (6.16)
11. Just Like John Barleycorn (3.25)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Track 5 trad. arr. Pete Morton

Produced by Gordon Jones and Bob Thomas;
Recorded by Richard Robinson at Pace Studios, Milton Keynes;
Photography by David Harrold;
Art direction and design by Jim Hutcheson

Musicians

Pete Morton: acoustic guitar, vocals;
Roger Wilson: fiddle, viola, mandolin, backing vocals;
Simon Edwards: button accordion, pianomandolin, backing vocals;
Mickey Firebird: electric guitar;
Hester Goodman: ukulele

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Prisoner (3.27)
2. Simple Love (2.42)
3. Water from the Houses of Our Fathers (3.30)
4. The First Day (3.01)
5. The Little Boy’s Room (3.42)
6. Another Train (3.15)

Side 2

7. Lucy (3.00)
8. The Old Grey Moon (3.00)
9. One Big Joke (2.23)
10. Girls Like You (2.15)
11. River of Love (3.17)
12. Somewhere in Love (3.40)
13. Live Your Life (3.16)

All tracks written by Pete Morton

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Recorded by Tony Bonner and mixed at Charlotte Street Studios, Wakefile;
Photography by David Morton;
Design and artwork by Jim Hutcheson

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals;
Simon Styrene: bass, backing vocals;
Simon Skevington: guitar, backing vocals;
Alan Flanders: drums, percussion;
Sally Barker: backing vocals [2];
The Wilson Family: vocals [6]

Tracks

1. Mad World Blues (3.21)
2. Song Bird (4.37)
3. Kurdistan (3.30)
4. it Is What It Is (3.48)
5. Down to Earth (4.03)
6. John Barleycorn (Intro) (0.14)
7. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (4.20)
8. Patriotic Claptrap (2.21)
9. Malnutrition at Standing Rock (5.47)
10. Keys to Love (2.49)
11. Crazy Man (3.21)
12. Katie (3.27)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Track 6 trad. arr. The Wilson Family

Produced by Gordon Jones and Pete Morton;
Recorded at Beaumont Street Studios, Batley;
Engineered by Tony Bonner;
Illustrations by Bent Linley;
Photography by Tony Redmond;
Design and artwork by Hemisphere

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals;
Vaughan Phelps: bass [2-4, 7, 9-13];
Mike Willoughby: harmonica [4-5, 10-11, 13];
Karen Tweed: piano accordion [3-4, 6-7, 9, 11, 13];
Sally Barker: vocals [1-3, 6, 9-10, 13];
Tom McConville: fiddle [2, 8, 14];
Roger Wilson: fiddle [4, 9, 13];
Jez Luton: guitar [10, 14]

Tracks

1. Change (5.06)
2. Heartland (4.04)
3. On Your Side (3.52)
4. Family Tree (3.28)
5. Through It All (2.34)
6. Learning of a Miracle (3.05)
7. From Ireland (3.01)
8. One Truth (2.19)
9. Courage, Love and Grace (5.04)
10. Cheating Man (3.32)
11. Love Me in Eden (3.49)
12. The Lion and the Lamb (4.03)
13. The Harrowing of Pride (6.31)
14. Eternity (4.24)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Tracks 7, 9-10, 13 Pete Kenny;
Track 5 Pete Kenny, Pete Cooke;
Track 12 TV Smith

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Photography by Detlef Lütje;
Illustration by John Hodkinson;
Layout and design by Chloe Rush at HOT Publicity, Milton Keynes

CD 1 (Urban Folk Vol. I) recorded by Tony Bonner at Charlotte Street Studios, Wakefield;
CD mastering by Warwick Pilmer;
CD 2 (Urban Folk Vol. II: ‘Self Destrictive Fools’) recorded by Warwick Pilmer at Beaumont Street Studios, Batley

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitar;
Roger Wilson: vocals, guitar, electric guitar [CD 2], mandolin [CD 2], fiddle;
Simon Edwars: vocals, accordion;
Doc Marten: percussion [CD 1]

Tracks

CD 1: Urban Folk Vol. I

1. Love’s Trainee (Part. 1) (3.56)
2. The Fox (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38) (2.22)
3. Hey Joe (5.05)
4. Lord Randall (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (7.17)
5. Absent Love (3.22)
6. Old Joe Clark (Roud 3594) / The Louisiana Two Step (3.00)
7. Delia (Roud 3264) (4.14)
8. Bleak Mist (3.08)
9. Rambleaway (Roud 171; G/D 7:1485) (4.28)
10. False Bride (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (4.20)
11. Shadow of an Absent Friend (3.20)
12. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (4.20)

CD 2: Urban Folk Vol. II ‘Self Destructive Fools’

13. Running Outta Lovin’ (3.41)
14. When You See Those Flying Saucers (3.01)
15. Little Musgrave (Roud 52; Child 81) (7.25)
16. Goodbye My Love (4.04)
17. The Belly Boys (3.22)
18. Cuckoo’s Nest (Roud 1506) (5.16)
19. O’Reilly (3.25)
20. Swimming Song (3.07)
21. None So Fair (3.41)
22. Love Hurts (3.32)
23. Derwentwater’s Farewell (Roud 2616) (4.12)
24. Jack o’ Diamonds (2.44)

Tracks 1, 5, 6b, 8 Simon Edwards;
Tracks 2, 4 trad. arr. Pete Morton;
Tracks 3, 6a, 7, 10 trad. arr. Roger Wilson;
Tracks 9, 18, 23 trad.;
Track 11 John Saich;
Tracks 12, 19 Bob Dylan;
Track 13 Chris Thompson;
Track 14 Buchanan Brothers;
Track 16 Barrie Morgan;
Track 17 first verse trad., other verses Roger Wilson;
Track 20 Loudon Wainwright III;
Track 21 Pete Kenny;
Track 22 Felice & Boudleaux Bryant;
Track 24 Bob Dylan, Ben Carruthers

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Recorded by Tony Bonner at Low Fold Audio, Lancaster;
Mastered by Tony Bonner at Clipstore, Leeds;
Photography by Philip Gamble;
Design by Chloë Rush, HOZ Publicity, Milton Keynes

Musicians

Pete Morton: acoustic guitar, vocals

Tracks

1. The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (3.39)
2. The Gay Goshawk (Roud 61; Child 96) (7.56)
3. Sylvia (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35) (2.02)
4. The Banks of the Nile (Roud 950; Laws N9; G/D 1:99; Henry H238a) (5.26)
5. A Farmer’s Boy (Roud 408; Laws Q30; G/D 5:960) (4.18)
6. The Mower and the Dairymaid (Roud 833) (3.13)
7. The Lincolnshire Poacher (Roud 299) (2.29)
8. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Roud 52; Child 81) (6.52)
9. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (3.31)
10. Dick Turpin (Roud 621; Laws L10) (3.12)
11. The Banks of the Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224) (5.46)
12. The Rose in June (6.38)
13. Night Visiting (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783) (4.35)

All tracks trad. arr. Pete Morton

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Recorded by Tony Bonner at The Barn, Dent, Cumbria;
Mixed and mastered by Tony Bonner at Clipstore, Leeds;
Illustration and photography by Bob Bridgewater

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, acoustic guitar;
Andy Cutting: accordion;
Julie Murphy: additional vocals;
Tom McConville: fiddle

Tracks

1. Drink to Me Only (5.15)
2. Hunting the Heart (9.25)
3. Twitching Net Curtains (4.17)
4. Forgiveness Hill (5.02)
5. Constant Motion (5.49)
6. Madam or Sir (3.22)
7. Battle of Trafalgar (4.04)
8. Maybe Nothing’s Spoken (4.43)
9. Deep Blue Sea (3.25)
10. The Desert (3.45)
11. Thanksgiving (4.10)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Track 1 words Ben Jonson, tune anon, arr. Pete Morton;
Track 4 Bing Lyle, Pete Morton

A compilation of songs recorded between 1987 and 2001

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals

Tracks

1. Family Tree (3.33)
2. The First Day (3.12)
3. Tamlyn (Roud 35; Child 39; G/D 2:330) (8.35)
4. Water from the Houses of Our Fathers (3.38)
5. Without Thinking Love (4.36)
6. The Prisoner (3.42)
7. The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (3.42)
8. Songbird (4.37)
9. The Gay Goshawk (Roud 61; Child 96) (7.59)
10. The Battle of Trafalgar (4.04)
11. Another Train (3.30)
12. Constant Motion (5.49)
13. Drink to Me Only (5.15)
14. Kate (3.27)

Tracks 3, 5 are from Frivolous Love (HAR 001, 1987);
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 11 are from One Big Joke (HAR 004, 1988);
Tracks 8, 14 are from Mad World Blues (HARC/HARCD 018, 1992);
Track 1 is from Courage, Love and Grace (HARCD 029, 1995);
Tracks 7, 9 are from Trespass (HARCD 037);
Tracks 10, 12-13 are from Hunting the Heart (HARCD 040)

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Recorded by Mark Warden at Foel Studios, Llanfair Caereinion;
Mastered and manufactured at Clipstore Ltd, Leeds;
Photography by Bob Bridgewater;
Design by Joe Pieczenko

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals

Tracks

1. The Two Brothers (4.13)
2. The Luckiest Man (4.52)
3. Simplicity (3.36)
4. Goodbye to Oil (4.04)
5. Listening to My Boots (4.31)
6. Love Stood in My Way (3.45)
7. Naseby Field (3.31)
8. The Shepherd’s Song (3.53)
9. The Government Wall (3.32)
10. Six Billion Eccentrics (4.18)
11. St George Slew the Dragon (4.50)

All tracks written by Pete Morton

Produced by Gordon Jones;
Recorded by Tony Bonner at Shireshead Studio, Lancashire in August 2005;
Mastered and manufactured at Clipstore Ltd, Leeds;
Photography by Gordon Jones;
Front cover art by John Hall;
Design by Mike Garden, Birnam CD

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals;
Roger Wilson: fiddle, mandolin, guitar;
Neil Segrott: bass;
Chris Parkinson: accordion, harmonica

Tracks

1. Harvest (4.19)
2. The Shores of Italy (6.09)
3. Great Gold Sun (5.19)
4. Further (6.14)
5. The Busker’s Song (5.21)
6. In Another Life (4.46)
7. Corruption Country (5.07)
8. I’m in Love With Emily Dickinson (4.40)
9. A Love That I Don’t Understand (4.07)
10. The Post Office Queue (5.00)
11. Another Train (4.52)

All tracks written by Pete Morton

Produced by Pete Morton and Simon Squire;
Recorded by Simon Squire at the Barn, Yeovil, Hobnob Cottage, Crewkerne, The Little Backroom, Leicester, and Car Colston, Notts;
Engineered and mixed by Annie the cat;
Mastered by Mike Hockenhull at Brook Row Studios, Oakworth;
Photography by Alan Hassall;
Painting by Mary Jules Clark;
Layout and design by Joe Pieczenko

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitars, keyboards, glockenspiel;
Bazira Ward Davies: vocals;
Jon Brindley: guitars;
Roger Wilson: fiddle, guitars;
James Budden: double bass;
Chris Handcock: percussion;
Jo Freya: tenor and soprano saxophones;
Chris Parkinson: accordion

Tracks

1. Casa Abierta (5.20)
2. Tá mé ’mo shuí (I am Sitting) (4.13)
3. Dilbar (My Love) (4.15)
4. Dat du mien Leevsten büst (2.22)
5. La Corrida (The Bullfight) (4.10)
6. Malaika (Angel) (6.15)
7. Avond (Evening) (4.21)
8. Trên Arall (Another Train) (4.20)
9. Karwan (The Convoy) (4.55)
10. Arirang (5.31)

Track 1 Salvador Cardenal;
Tracks 2, 4, 10 trad.;
Track 3 writer unknown;
Track 5 Francis Cabrel;
Track 6 Fadhili Williams / trad.;
Track 7 Lenneart Nijgh, Boudewijn De Groot;
Track 8 Frances Jones, Les Barker, Pete Morton;
Track 9 Xosnav Tello

Produced by Dawson Smith;
Recorded by Kevin ‘Reverb’ Bayliss at Lytton Studio, Leicester;
Mastered at Deadline Studio, Leicester;
Layout and design by Joe Pieczenko

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitar;
Roger Wilson: fiddle;
Lisa Banks: vocals, flute, melodeon;
Caroline O’Donnell: accordion;
Dawson Smith: electric bass;
Steve Cooke: fretless bass;
Paddy Hdgkinson: mandolin, mandola, double bass;
James Lynch: keyboards

Tracks

1. The Sock on the Line (5.02)
2. Bigger Than Life (5.04)
3. Related to Me (3.49)
4. Disobedience (4.40)
5. The Café Song (5.09)
6. India (4.08)
7. The Nightmare of the Sons (3.44)
8. Good Enough for Me (3.16)
9. When We Sing Together (4.06)
10. In the Days When Time Was Different (9.45)

All tracks written by Pete Morton

Produced by Pete Morton and Paul Adams;
Recorded by Paul Adams and George Hunter-Brown;
Front cover photo by Joe Dilworth;
Artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitar, harmonica;
Maggie Boyle: vocals, flute;
Chris Parkinson: melodeon, piano accordion, vocals;
Jon Brindley: fiddle, guitar;
James Budden: bass, vocals;
Linda Adams: chorus vocals

Tracks

1. Farmer’s Boy Frap (Roud 408; Laws Q30; G/D 5:960) (3.56)
2. Heart of the Land (4.51)
3. Rambling Though Old England (6.19)
4. The Love of You (4.30)
5. The Manchester Rambler Frap (5.35)
6. A-Begging I Will Go Frap (Roud 286; G/D 3:488) (4.49)
7. The Journeyman (5.30)
8. Ghost of a Sailor, including All for Me Grog (Roud 475; G/D 3:580) (3.46)
9. Corporatocracy (3.36)
10. Bedside Song (4.00)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Tracks 1, 6, 8 Pete Morton / trad.;
Track 5 Pete Morton / Ewan MacColl

Produced by Paul Adams and Pete Morton;
Recorded by Paul Adams and George Hunter-Brown;
Photographs by Pete Morton;
Photograph of Pete Morton by Claudia Hopman;
Artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitar;
Jon Brindley: guitar;
Chris Parkinson: melodeon, accordion, harmonica, piano, chorus vocals;
Ciaran Algar: fiddle, bouzouki, banjo, mandolin, chorus vocals;
James Budden: double bass, bass harmony vocals;
Linda Adams: harmony vocals

Tracks

1. The Herefordshire Pilgrim (6.21)
2. Bloomsbury Boy (5.17)
3. Poverty Frap (Roud 3491; TYG 14) (5.03)
4. All the Life Before (5.45)
5. Lucky (4.24)
6. One Hundred Years Ago (5.33)
7. Slave to the Game (Roud 868; G/D 2:299) (5.05)
8. The Land of Time (3.57)
9. Old Boston Town (4.25)
10. Oh, What Little Lives We Lead (4.20)

All tracks written by Pete Morton except
Tracks 3, 7 trad. adapted Pete Morton

Pete Morton re-recorded some of his most popular songs as bis early albums are either deleted or not easy to obtain.

Produced by Paul Adams and Pete Morton;
Recorded by Paul Adams and George Hunter-Brown;
Artwork by Mary Blood;
Photographs by Paul Adams (front cover) and Claudia Hopman (inside)

Musicians

Pete Morton: guitar, vocals;
Full House:
    Ian Jones: melodeon, flute, vocals;
    Chris Lee: fretless bass guitar, double bass, mandolin, electric guitar, vocals;
    Clare ‘Fluff’ Smith: fiddle, vocals;
    Nick Mitchell: guitar, vocals;
    Mark Woolley: percussion, low whistle, vocals

Tracks

1. Another Train (5.39)
2. Shepherd’s Song (5.00)
3. Disobedience (4.43)
4. Related to Me (4.34)
5. Shores of Italy (7.38)
6. The Luckiest Man (6.10)
7. Corruption Country (4.08)
8. Bigger Than Life (4.38)
9. Battle of Trafalgar (4.03)
10. Further (4.56)
11. Listening to My Boots (4.09)
12. Two Brothers (4.59)
13. Sock on the Line (4.58)
14. When We Sing Together (4.33)
15. 7 Billion Eccentrics (3.38)

All songs written by Pete Morton

Produced by Gaz;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Adams and George Hunter-Brown;
Artwork by Mary Blood;
Photographs by Paul Adams

Musicians

Emily Sanders: vocals, fiddle;
Pete Morton: vocals, guitar;
Chris Parkinson: vocals, accordion, melodeo

Tracks

1. House of the Rising Sun (Roud 6393) (2.05)
2. Mountain Road / Christmas Eve (3.31)
3. Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54; G/D 2:327) (3.52)
4. O, Come All Ye Faithful (Roud 24755) / Mayden Lane (2.56)
5. The Wexford Carol (Roud 22086) (4.11)
6. A-Roving on a Winter’s Night (Roud 3601; G/D 8:1540) (2.14)
7. Midnight on the Water waltz (2.31)
8. In the Bleak Midwinter (Roud 46421) (4.51)
9. The Beggar (Roud 1573) (2.56)
10. What Is This Fragrance? (3.45)
11. The King (Roud 32955) (1.51)
12. The Snows of Winter Fall (5.38)
13. Moldovan Tune (3.14)
14. Follow That Star (3.45)
15. Seven Billion Eccentrics (Christmas edition) (3.12)
16. Bonus Track: O, Little Town of Bethlehem (Roud 24752) (4.22)

All tracks trad. arr. Emily Sanders, Chris Parkinson, Pete Morton except
Track 1 trad. / words Phillips Brooks / tune Lewis H. Redner;
Track 7 Luke Thomasson;
Track 8 Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst;
Track 12 Graeme Miles;
Track 14 Gary Boyle;
Track 15 Pete Morton;
Track 16 tune Lewis H. Redner / words Phillips Brooks / trad.

Produced by Benjamin MacDhui;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Yarrow at Field Street Recording Studios, Leek;
Photography by Poppy Cockburn;
Cover painting by Kat Blockley;
Design and layout by Breed Media

Folking.com review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitars;
Sarah Matthews: fiddle;
Matt Quinn: mandolin, banjo, concertina;
Justin Twigg: double bass;
George Sansome: guitar, euphonium;
Mark Woolley: djembe, bodhrán, cajon, low whistle;
Alice Jones: piano, clarinet;
Julie Wigley: vocals [6];
Jude Rees: vocals [8]

Tracks

1. A Golden Thread (4.13)
2. Immigrant Child (5.14)
3. Barbry Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236) (5.44)
4. Yemini Moon (5.48)
5. We Are the Trees (4.57)
6. I Live Your Love (4.31)
7. Universal Basic Income (3.38)
8. Emily Dickenson (6.16)
9. Grenfall Carol (5.07)
10. Metropolitan Safari (3.48)
11. Farmer’s Boy (Roud 408; Laws Q30; G/D 5:960) (4.31)

Probably all tracks by Pete Morton except
Track 1 Pete Seeger, additional verses Pete Morton;
Tracks 3, 11 trad.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Yarrow ad Maude Music, Leek, England, in 2024;
Cover art: ‘Freedom’ by Charlie Gavin;
Design and layout by Ella Khafaji

Musicians

Pete Morton: vocals, guitars;
Matt Quinn: mandolin, vocals;
Sarah Matthews: fiddle, viola, vocals;
Justin Twigg: bass;
George Sansome: guitar;
Mark Woolley: percussion, low whistle;
Paul Yarrow: keyboards;
St Mary’s Catholic Academy Leek Choir: vocals [1]

Tracks

1. The Rivers of the Isle (4.30)
2. You’re the One I Care About the Most (2.58)
3. The Genuine You (5.47)
4. Sharing the Land (3.33)
5. Birdsong and Green (3.33)
6. Lives We Lead (3.23)
7. Newton’s Parakeet (5.51)
8. Die for Love (4.10)
9. The Ghost of a Sailor (7.57)
10. Forevermore (5.08)

All songs by Pete Morton except chorus of Sing John Ball by Sydney Carter