Produced by Phil Beer;
Recorded by Alan Green at Mid Wales Sound Studios;
Mastered by Tony Bridge at Pye Studios, London;
Sleeve design by Glynis Owens

Musicians

Phil Beer: mandolin, mandocello, guitar;
Paul Downes: vocals, mandocello, mandolin, guitar [5, 9, 12-13]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Jigs: Stanley’s Favourite / The Brighton Shuffle
2. Dan Tucker / Soldier’s Joy
3. Two Reels
4. Green Rag
5. Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
6. Hornpipes: Joe’s Hornpipe / Poppy Leaf
7. Good King Arthur’s Days (Roud 130; G/D 3:704)

Side 2

8. Morning Sky
9. Slip Jigs
10. Three Pretty Maids (Roud 1456)
11. Jigs
12. Up to the Rigs (Roud 868; G/D 2:299)
13. Jigs
14. Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2; Henry H86)

All tracks trad. except
Track 1ab, 4, 6a Phil Beer;
Track 8 Dan Fogelberg

Produced by Simon Emmerson and Mass;
Recorded at the Presshouse Studios, Colyton, Devon, January 2006;
Pre-production at Riverside Studios, Exeter, autumn 2005;
Recording engineers: Mick Dolan, Mass;
Mixed by Mass with Simon Emmerson and Show of Hands

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals [1-5, 7-16], guitar [2, 4-9, 12-13, 15], cello-mandolin [1, 10-11, 14], cuatro [3], concertina [16];
Phil Beer: vocals [1, 5, 8-9, 11, 13-16], fiddle [1, 6, 8, 10, 15], guitar [2, 5, 13], cello-mandolin [3-4, 12, 16], cuatro [7, 9, 14], mandolin [11]

with
Sally Barker: vocals [1, 12];
Vladimir Vega: pan pipes [1, 11, 14], vocals [14];
Matt Clifford: keyboards [1, 7, 14], vocals [1, 14];
Sarah Allen: accordion [10, 15];
Biddy Blythe: flute [15], whistle [10, 15];
Nick Scott: pipes [10, 15]

Tracks

1. Columbus (Didn’t Find America) (5.15)
2. Day Has Come (3.46)
3. The Preacher (4.28)
4. Cutthroats, Crooks and Con-Men (3.27)
5. The Blue Cockade (Roud 191; TYG 2) (5.48)
6. The Soldiers Joy (1.35)
7. Exile (5.13)
8. The Man in Green (3.11)
9. The Dove (4.10)
10. The Well (3.54)
11. The Hunter (4.55)
12. Captains (4.15)
13. The Blind Fiddler (Roud 7833) (3.57)
14. Santiago (7.16)
15. Galway Farmer (6.44)
16. Time After Time (4.05)

All tracks written by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 5-6, 13 trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 9 Jacques Brel;
Track 16 Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper

Produced by Show of Hands and Gerrard O’Farrell;
Wicker Man illustration by David Juniper;
Artwork by Stylorouge

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals, guitar, cuatro, mandocello, concertina, acoustic bass, mandolin;
Phil Beer: vocals, uitars, mandolin, fiddle, cuatro, viola, mandocello

with
Matt Clifford: keyboards [1, 3, 5, 8];
Chris While: vocals [5];
Simon Care: melodeon [4];
Joe Partridge: percussion [8];
Lucy Watkins, Richard Hammond, Paul Banham: vocals [3, 8];
Kate Rusby: vocals [12];
Chris Wood: fiddle [12];
Andy Cutting: melodeon [12]

Tracks

1. Cousin Jack (5.08)
2. Longdog (2.43)
3. The Shout (4.00)
4. Wessex Medley: Carrick Roads / Plum Pudding / The Rocky Roaf to Chudleigh (3.39)
5. Dark Fields (3.49)
6. The Train (3.28)
7. Flora (Roud 957; Laws P29; Henry H578) (4.21)
8. Crazy Boy (5.37)
9. The Warlike Lads of Russia (Roud V17408) (2.20)
10. Farewell Angelina (5.01)
11. The Bristol Slaver (4.04)
12. High Germany / Molly Oxford (6.26)

All tracks written by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 4ac Phil Beer;
Tracks 4b, 7, 9 trad.;
Track 10 Bob Dylan;
Track 12a trad. arr. Steve Knightley;
Track 12b trad. arr. Chris Wood, Andy Cutting

Produced by Simon Emmerson and Mass;
Recorded at the Presshouse Studios, Colyton, Devon, January 2006;
Pre-production at Riverside Studios, Exeter, autumn 2005;
Recording engineers: Mick Dolan, Mass;
Mixed by Mass with Simon Emmerson and Show of Hands

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals [1-12], acoustic guitar [1-2, 5-6, 9-11], acoustic bass [9], cuatro [1-2, 4, 10-11], mandocello [2-3, 5-6, 12];
Phil Beer: lead vocals [4, 7], vocals [1-2, 6], fiddle [1-4, 6-7, 10-11], viola [1-2], mandolin [1, 4, 10-11], slide guitar [2, 9], acoustic guitar [3], melodeon [6], cuatro [9], dobro [11];
Seth Lakeman: vocals [1], tenor guitar [1, 4];
Paul Downes: guitar [8];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1, 6-8], double bass [1, 3-7, 10-12], cello [6, 12];
Matt Clifford: piano [3, 5, 8, 12], keyboards [9, 11], backing vocals [4];
Paul Wilson: melodeon [3-4, 10], backing vocals [4];
Jackie Oates, Lizzie Wescott: fiddle [4];
Phil: ebow [5], acoustic guitar [4], backing vocals [4];
Mass: bass [2], shaker [5], keyboards [12], percussion programming [1-4, 6, 10-11], drum programming [1-2, 4, 6, 10-12], backing vocals [4];
Johnny Kalsi: tablas [2], mazhar [2], shaker [5];
Fisherman’s Friends: Haul Away choir [2];
Lyme Bay, the sea [3]

Tracks

1. Witness (3.31)
2. Roots (4.48)
3. The Dive (4.41)
4. The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe (5.36)
5. Undertow (5.18)
6. If I Need Someone (3.33)
7. Innocent’s Song / Gwithian (4.38)
8. Union Street (Last Post) (4.14)
9. The Bet (4.21)
10. Ink Devil (5.01)
11. Scratch (3.40)
12. All I’d Ever Lost (5.47)

All tracks Steve Knightley except
Track 4a, 7b Phil Beer;
Track 4b trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 6 George Harrison;
Tracks 7a poem by Charles Causley, music Johnny Coppin;
Track 8 Steve Knightley, Matt Clifford

Produced by Stu Hanna;
Additional engineering and production by Mark Tucker;
Recorded at Riverside Studios, Exeter

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals [1-12], guitar [2, 4, 6, 8], tenor guitar [2-3, 5, 7-10], mandocello [1, 3, 11-12], cuatro [5, 9], harmonica [8];
Phil Beer: vocals [1, 3-4, 8-11], fiddle [2, 5, 7-8, 11], strings [3, 6, 11-12], mandolin [4, 11], mandocello [6], slide guitar [7], guitar [9-10], cuatro [12];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1-4, 6, 8-12], double bass [1-6, 8-12];
Andy Tween: cajon [2, 11], percussion [2, 11], drums [6, 8];
Stu Hanna: guitar [2, 8];
Jim Causley: vocals [4];
David Delarre: vocals [4], guitar [4];
James Delarre: vocals [4], fiddle [4];
Debbie Hanna: vocals [6, 12];
Matt Clifford: piano [6, 12], Hammond B3 [8], keyboards [8];
Jackie Oates: vocals [7,11]

Tracks

1. Lowlands (Roud 681; Henry H469) (2.20)
2. Evolution (3.23)
3. The Man I Was (3.33)
4. The Napoli (3.10)
5. Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) (4.12)
6. IED: Science or Nature (4.58)
7. The Vale (4.46)
8. Arrogance Ignorance and Greed (3.39)
9. Secret World (5.05)
10. The Worried Well (2.12)
11. The Keys of Canterbury (Roud 573) (3.41)
12. Drift (4.34)

All tracks Steve Knightley except
Track 1 trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 5 Bob Dylan;
Track 9 Peter Gabriel;
Track 11 trad. / Steve Knightley

Produced and arranged by Mark Tucker and Steve Knightley;
Recorded and mixed by Mark Tucker at the Green Room, Devon;
Poetry recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London
Engineered by Jonathan Allen, assisted by Matt Jones;
Design by Stylorouge

Musicians

Show of Hands (Steve Knightley, Phil Beer, Miranda Sykes)
and guests: Jackie Oates, Jim Causley, Paul Downes, Ed Rennie, Geoffrey Lakeman, Rex Preston, Chris Hoban, Mark Tucker, Andy Cutting, Phillip Henry;
The Urban Soul Orchestra [2:11]

Tracks

CD 1, read by Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton

1. Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen
   Music: The Flowers of the Forest (1.23)
2. Lamplight, by May Wedderburn Cannan
   Music: The Sunshine of Your Smile (1.59)
3. Concert Party: Busseboom, by Edmund Blunden
   Music: It’s a Long Was to Tipperary (1.36)
4. A Girl’s Song, by Katherine Tynan
   Music: Goodbye-ee (1.56)
5. I Have a Rendezvous With Death, by Alan Seeger
   Music: Keep the Home Fires Burning (1.21)
6. The Lads in Their Hundreds, by A.E. Housman
   Music: Isca Rose (1.36)
7. To Victory, by Siegfried Sassoon
   Music: Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire & The Menin Gate (2.16)
8. Who’s for the Game?, by Jessie Pope
   Music: Love Will Make the World Go Round (1.06)
9. The Silent One, by Ivor Gurney
   Music: Pack Up Your Troubles (in Your Old Kit Bag) (1.37)
10. Requiem for the Dead of Europe, by Yvan Goll
    Music: Roses of Picardy (1.17)
11. The General, by Siegfried Sassoon
    Music: Bombed Last Night (1.11)
12. Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg
    Music: Fred Karno’s Army (1.26)
13. The Call, by Jessie Pope
    Music: The Padre (1.30)
14. Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
    Music: Landsend (2.23)
15. Trench Poets, by Edgell Rickword
    Music: When This Bloody War Is Over (1.38)
16. To an Athlete Dying Young, by a.E. Housman
    Music: If You Were the Only Girl in the World (1.48)
17. August 1914, by Isaac Rosenburg
    Music: The Hallsands (1.21)
18. The Soldier Addresses His Body, by Edgell Rickword
    Music: I Wore a Tunic (1.38)
19. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, by W.B. Yeats
    Music: Cain McSlainte (1.00)
20. Slumber Song, by Siegfried Sassoon
    Music: Silent Night (1.39)
21. The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke
    Music: Thaxted (1.22)
22. For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon
    Music: Coming Home & Bonny Light Horseman (3.32)

CD 2: Show of Hands

1. The Gamekeeper (3.47)
2. Goodbyee / If You Were the Only Girl in the World / the Lovely Nymph (3.23)
3. The Lads in Their Hundreds (3.27)
4. The Padre (4.13)
5. Coming Home (3.33)
6. It’s a Long Way to Tipperary (1.39)
7. The Sunshine of Your Smile (3.06)
8. Silent Night (3.09)
9. Love Will Make the World Go Round (2.30)
10. Goodbye ’Til the Next Time (3.16)
11. The Blue Cockade (live at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, 2013) (6.08)
12. Requiem (3.20)

Produced by Mark Tucker and Show of Hands;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Tucker at the Green Room, Upottery, Devon;
Photography by Rob O’Connor;
Design and art direction by Stylorouge

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals [1-9, 11-12], mandocello [1-2, 11], tenor guitar [1-2, 4, 6, 9, 12], guitar [3-4, 7, 10], concertina [5-6, 11], cuatro [8];
Phil Beer: vocals [1-2, 4-10], fiddle [1-2, 4-6, 8, 10], mandolin [4, 7, 9, 12];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1-4, 7-9], double bass [1-9, 11]

with guests:
Jack Knightley: cajon [1, 6-7];
Michael Wood: spoken Saxon [1];
Ange Hardy: vocal landscape [1, 12];
Chris Hoban: accordion [2-3, 5-6];
Bridge Inn Shantymen (Paul Downes, Chris Hoban, John Redmond, Mick Ryan, Mark Tucker): vocals [2, 5];
Mark Tucker: percussion design [6];
Phillip Henry: mouth organ [6], mouth harp [7], dobro [9];
Hannah Martin: fiddle [6, 9];
Jackie Oates: vocals [12], fiddle [12]

Tracks

1. Breme Fell at Hastings (3.35)
2. Hallows’ Eve (3.18)
3. Hambledon Fair (4.02)
4. The Long Way Home (3.21)
5. Keep Hauling (2.47)
6. ’Twas on One April’s Morning (4.52)
7. Sweet Bella (3.46)
8. The Old Lych Way (3.43)
9. Walk with Me (When the Sun Goes Down) (2.40)
10. Virginia (3.10)
11. John Harrison’s Hands (4.33)
12. Mesopotamia (4.00)

Tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 12 Steve Knightley;
Tracks 2, 8 Chris Hoban;
Track 3 trad., tune Portsdown Hill by Steve Knightley;
Track 5 Andrew Cadie;
Track 6 trad., tune Isca Rose by Steve Knightley;
Track 10 trad.;
Track 11 Dick Gaughan, Brian McNeill

CD 1 recorded live at Moments, Bremen, on 5 October 1997;
CDs 2 and 3 live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, on 26 September 2005:
Liner notes by Sean McGhee;
Photos by Christine Meyer;
Mastered by Johannes Scheibenreif;
Artwork by Hamoun Beyraghdar

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Steve Knightley: vocals, guitar, cuatro, mandolin [1997], mandocello [2005], concertina [2005];
Phil Beer: guitar, violin, vocals, mandolin [2005], cuatro [2005];
Miranda Sykes: vocals and double bass [2005]

Tracks

CD 1: Live at Moments, Bremen, 5 October 1997

1. Medley: Man of War / The Well / The Oak (10.10)
2. Don’t It Feel Good (5.58)
3. The Red Rose of England (0.53)
4. The Crow on the Cradle (4.39)
5. Cars (4.59)
6. Medley: Plum Pudding / Rocky Road to Chudleigh (3.49)
7. Armadas (7.27)
8. Longdog (4.28)
9. Crazy Boy (5.33)
10. Exile (7.33)
11. Corinna, Corinna (3.17)
12. The Blind Fiddler (5.34)
13. The Train (3.48)
14. 900 Miles (5.58)
15. High Germany (5.33)

CD 2: Live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, 26 September 2005

1. Don’t It Feel Good (5.13)
2. Red Diesel (4.26)
3. Reynardine (Roud 397; Laws P15; G/D 2:333) (5.16)
4. Undertow (5.36)
5. Medley: Lumps of Plum Pudding / Leaving of Wessex (1.59)
6. The Crow on the Cradle (6.59)
7. The Blind Fiddler (2.17)
8. Galway Farmer (4.57)
9. The Oak (4.51)
10. I Promise You (5.31)

CD 3: Live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, 26 September 2005

1. The Dive (7.40)
2. When You Think It’s All Over (4.04)
3. Country Life (6.23)
4. Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy (Roud 165) (6.44)
5. Cousin Jack (7.47)
6. Medley: The Train / Santiago / The Soldiers Joy (14.45)
7. Medley: The Setting / Mary From Dungloe (5.42)
8. Roots (4.50)

All tracks by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 1.4, 2.6 Sydney Carter;
Tracks 1.5, 2.5 Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Tracks 2.3, 4.4 trad.