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A Rose From the Bush

A Rose From the Bush Martyn Wyndham-Read Greenwich Village GVR 222 (LP, UK, 1984) The Rose / The Queensland Shed’s Begun Martyn Wyndham-Read Greenwich Village Records GVRS 222 (single, UK, 1984)

Recorded at Foel Studios, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys between February 21 and 28, 1984
Engineered by Brian Snelling
Mastered at PRT Studios, London by Tony Bridge
Front cover illustration by Dan Wyndham-Read
Sleeve design by Chris Groom

Musicians

Martyn Wyndham-Read: vocals [1-13], acoustic guitar [1, 6-7, 10];
Martin Carthy: vocals [1-2], acoustic guitar [1, 13];
John Kirkpatrick: vocals [1, 9], concertina [1, 3, 9, 11], melodeon [1, 4, 13];
Phil Beer: fiddle [1, 4, 10, 13]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Opal Beds of Australia (4.38)
2. Bag of Nails (1.36)
3. Otago (5.10)
4. The Old Bark Hut (Roud 22662) (4.19)
5. Flowers of England (2.44)
6. The Rose (3.40)

Side 2

7. The Year of the Drum (4.18)
8. On the Road with Liddy (2.00)
9. Reedy Lagoon (4.43)
10. Cock of the North (2.53)
11. Sussex Drinking Song (3.00)
12. The Culler’s Lament (2.18)
13. The Queensland Shed’s Begun (3.14)

Tracks 1, 3 Graeme Miles;
Tracks 2, 4, 8-9, 13 trad. arr. Martyn Wyndham-Read;
Track 5 Sylvia Watts;
Track 6 Amanda McBroom;
Track 7 Wendy Joseph;
Track 9 poem by Jimmy Connors;
Track 10 Dorothy Hewett, Martyn Wyndham-Read;
Track 11 Hilaire Beloc arr. Martyn Wyndham-Read;
Track 12 Peter Cape