> The Halliard > Records > The Halliard : Jon Raven
The Halliard : Jon Raven
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The Halliard : Jon Raven Broadside BRO 106 (LP, UK, 1968) |
Cover design by Jon Raven;
Notes by Jon Raven and Dave Moran
Musicians
The Halliard [1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13] :
Dave Moran: vocals;
Nic Jones: vocals [7, 9], guitar;
Nigel Paterson: vocals, mandolin, tenor recorder
Jon Raven [2-3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14] :
Jon Raven: vocals, guitar;
Nic Jones: guitar [12]
Tracks
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Sleeve Notes
The Halliard have become something of a legend in their own time. Some three years ago the group was typical of many local groups (or national groups for that matter), performing a variety of material. In 1966 they started work on a new repertoire based on the much maligned broadside. Broadsides had waxed and waned in popularity from the 17th to the late 19th century, at which time they virtually disappeared. These broadsides migh contain news stories or songs about newsworthy events – murder, love, etc. or traditional songs borrowed by the printers to fill their weekly output. Many of the songs on these broadsides are directed to be sung to some popular tune of the day which might be found in one of the many ballad operas though many of the tunes are now lost.
The Halliard, whilst travelling the country playing in clubs, colleges and concerts, have spent many hours exploring the broadside collections of town and college libraries. They have indeed waded through “a veritable dunghill” of material in order to find the few gems. Add to these “discoveries” on of their curiously attractive tunes and the animation of their live performance and you have a “Halliard” song. It is the vibour, rhythm and excitement of the Halliard's live performance that has attracted som many of their admirers and not a few imitators. Songs like The Lancashire Lads, The Workhouse Boy and the Calico Printer's Clerk are now know better and sung louder in many English Folk Song Clubs than the “old favourites”.
Apart from commuting between Essex and the rest of the country the group run their own successful club, the Chelmsford Folk Song Club, founded by Dave Moran, who was also well know as editor of the folk magazine Folk Scene. In their home club, as elsewhere, the unusual and sensitive singing of Dave Moran and Nic Jones and the inventive and interesting playing of Nigel Paterson and Nic Jones have brought them wide acclaim from their audiences.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Alistair Banfield for the cover picture and record details of The Halliard : Jon Raven.
> Nic Jones > Records > Mike Raven & Joan Mills with Saga: The Jolly Machine
Mike Raven & Joan Mills with Saga: The Jolly Machine
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The Jolly Machine Folk Heritage Recordings FHR 053 (LP, UK, 1974) |
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];
Mike 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
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> The Halliard > Records > The Halliard : Jon Raven / The Jolly Machine
The Halliard : Jon Raven / The Jolly Machine
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The Halliard : Jon Raven / The Jolly Machine Mike Raven MR77 (CD, UK, 1997) |
The CD is a modified reissue of the two LPs The Halliard : Jon Raven and 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] : The Halliard [1, 3, 5, 7-8, 11, 13] : The Black Country Three [9, 14, 29] : |
Mike Raven, Joan Mills [16-28] : Saga [16-28] : |
CD Tracks
The Halliard : Jon Raven | Mike Raven: The Jolly Machine |
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Links
Review of The Jolly Machine by Aaron Milenski