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Shreds and Patches

John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris: Shreds and Patches (Topic 12TS355)

Shreds and Patches
John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris

Topic Records 12TS355 (LP, UK, 1977)
Guimbarda GS-11.087 (LP, Spain, 1980)
Topic Records TSDL355 (digital download, UK, March 2010)

 John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris: Shreds and Patches (Guimbarda GS-11.087)

Recorded by John Gill at Riverside Studios, London, April and July 1977;
Produced by Tony Engle and John Kirkpatrick;
Notes by John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris;
Design by Tony Engle;
Photography by Bob Naylor

Musicians

John Kirkpatrick: Anglo concertina, bass concertina, melodeon, button accordion, vocals;
Sue Harris: hammered dulcimer, oboe, piano, vocals;
Penny Harris: second hammered dulcimer [3, 8];
Tufty Swift: 4-stop one-row melodeon [3, 12];
Derek Pearce: banjo, bass drum, percussion;
Geoff Harris: guitar

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Waterman’s Dance (2.32)
  2. The Gipsy Laddie (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124) (3.50)
  3. Apple Core / Nipper (3.40)
  4. The Tailor and the Louse (Roud 16577) (3.30)
  5. Peg Huglestone’s Hornpipe (2.26)
  6. Little Sir William (Roud 73; Child 156; G/D 2:208) (4.45)

Side 2

  1. The Game of All Fours (Roud 232) (2.28)
  2. Penny for Them (2.55)
  3. Whitefryer’s Hornpipe / Shreds and Patches (5.14)
  4. Johnny Sands (Roud 184; Laws Q3; G/D 2:319) (2.05)
  5. Oakham Poachers (Roud 1686) (5.16)
  6. Bread and Jam Waltzer / Mister Gubbin’s Bicycle (3.45)

All tracks trad. arr. John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris except
Tracks 3a, 8 Sue Harris;
Tracks 3b, 9b, 12 John Kirkpatrick