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Town Fools: Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey

Town Fools: Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey (Playbones PBCD 23)

Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey
Town Fools

Playbones Records PBCD 23 (CD, Germany, 1999)

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Recorded and mixed by folke Jensen at Ultraschall Studios;
Mastered by Peter Herenberg at .ham. Audio Mastering GmbH;
Band photo by Thomas Kock;
Layout and lithos by Creative Concept, Soltau

Musicians

Helge Becker: lead vocals;
Ulrike Buth: violin, mandolin;
Kristin Ludewig: accordion;
Momo Gruhlke: bass, backing vocals, whistling, mandolin;
Sven Nieder: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Ole Kock: guitar, lead vocals, percussion, beer can

with
Bobby Sundmacher: 5-string banjo, backing vocals;
Ronnie Bromhead: tin whistles, low whistle, backing vocals;
Sibylle Krebs: congas, bongos;
Hiolger Krause, Micke Jochmann: backing vocals;
The Kitchen Singers: Town Fools, Aidan O’Hanlan, and Jacquie, Ronnie Bromhead, Bobby Sundmacher, Mike Jochmann, Catherine Pfeifer, Anja Tölle, Markus Schladt, Berit Jaschke, Holger Krause

Tracks

  1. The Rising of the Moon (Roud 9634) (2.38)
  2. Night Visit (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) (2.57)
  3. The Passenger (5.51)
  4. I’ll Tell Me Ma (Roud 2649; Henry H48e) / Ballydesmond No. 1 (3.25)
  5. The Mist on the Moor / The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud V15395) (4.31)
  6. The Tinker’s Son (3.16)
  7. Take Me up to Monto / Bill Hart’s (2.24)
  8. Hot Asphalt (Roud 2134) (3.45)
  9. Poor Paddy (Roud 208) / The Rising of the North (5.37)
  10. Dol-li-a (Roud 2611) (3.26)
  11. These Rocks and Hills (2.32)
  12. The Parting Glass (Roud 3004; G/D 8:1531; Henry H769) (17.05)

All tracks trad. arr. Ole Kock, Momo Gruhlke except
Track 3 Iggy Pop, Ricky Gardiner;
Tracks 5a, 11 Ole Kock;
Track 5b Seamus O’Farrell;
Track 6 Momo Gruhlke, Ole Kock;
Track 9b Gary Miller

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Town Fools: A Night on the Town

Town Fools: A Night on the Town (Town Fools 4711-08/15)

A Night on the Town
Town Fools

Town Fools 4711-08/15 (CD, Germany, 2001)

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Produced by Ole Kock;
Recorded with a digital 8 track;
Mastered by Peter Herenberg at .ham. Audio Mastering GmbH;
Photography by Tim Fulda;
Cover concept and design by Ole Kock

Musicians

Helge Becker: lead vocals;
Ulrike Buth: violin, backing vocals;
Kristin Ludewig: accordion;
Hinnerk Onken: bass, backing vocals;
Sven Nieder: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Ole Kock: guitars, vocals, melidodica, harmonica, glockenspiel, farfisa, percussion, samples

Tracks

  1. Captain Booze (2.30)
  2. This Town (2.48)
  3. Milltown (3.46)
  4. Under a Drunken Moon (2.44)
  5. November (3.28)
  6. Gerdundula (2.56)
  7. She Moved Through the Fair (Roud 861; Henry H141) (6.08)
  8. My Friend, the Sewer Rat (2.30)
  9. Sycamore Leaves (2.55)
  10. Mean Old World (4.24)
  11. Meeting Past Midnight (5.28)
  12. The Wake (13.41)

All tracks by Ole Kock except
Track 6 Manston and James (Francis Rossi, Bob Young);
Track 7 trad;