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The Yellow Haired Laddie

The Yellow Haired Laddie Andy May Fellside Recordings FECD174 (CD, UK, March 2003)

Recorded by Paul Adams;
Produced by Paul Adams and Andy May;
Cover design based on a photograph by Stan May;
Artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Andy May, Northumbrian pipes, piano;
with
Simon Haworth, guitar, cittern, bass, vocals;
Kathryn Tickell, fiddle, viola;
Stan May, harmonica;
Simon James, poem

Tracks

1. King of the Pipers / Phil's Favourite (2.49)
2. Rowley Burn / The Piper in the Well (3.09)
3. Peacock's March / The Drunken Parson / Rookland Lasses (4.31)
4. The Bonny Lass of Bon Accord (3.57)
5. Piper's Song (4.17)
6. Da Slockit Light (3.14)
7. Go To Berwick Johnny / Dog Leap Stairs / Because He Was a Bonny Lad (3.07)
8. Bobby Shaftoe (2.43)
9. Blow the Wind Southerly / Sidlaw Hills (3.56)
10. Cheviot Lament (2.54)
11. The Golden Eagle / The Banks Hornpipe (3.16)
12. Roslyn Castle / The Mason's Apron (5.53)
13. Caller Herrin / Sir Sidney Smith's March (3.39)
14. Farewell to the Dene / The Spey in Spate / Billy Pigg's Hornpipe (4.28)

Tracks 1a, 3ab, 7ac, 8-9, 11a, 12, 13b trad.;
Track 1b Ian Scott;
Track 2a Foster Charlton;
Track 2b Andrew Davidson;
Track 3c, 14c Billy Pigg;
Track 4, 14b James Scott Skinner;
Track 5 Simon Haworth;
Track 6 Tom Anderson;
Track 7b Alistair Anderson;
Track 10 Simon James;
Track 11b Parazotti;
Track 13 Nathaniel Gow;
Track 14a Willie Taylor

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> Folk Music > Records > Andy May: Happy Hours

Happy Hours

Happy Hours Andy May Fellside Recordings FECD224 (CD, UK, April 2009)

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Julian Batten at Quayside Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne, Summer 2008;
Produced by Andy May;
Photography Reed Ingram Weir;
Graphic design by Lillias Kinsman-Blake;
Front coverdesign by Andy May

Musicians

Andy May, Northumbrian pipes, piano;
Ian Stephenson, guitar, double bass;
Sophy Ball, fiddle;
Julien Batten, accordion;
Andrew Davison, Northumbrian pipes [9];
Benny Graham, vocals [11]

Tracks

1. Swearybox / The Hawk (2.38)
2. Regular Climber Set: unknown / The Regular Climber (3.16)
3. All Night Long: All the Night I Lay with Jockey / Juniper Hill (4.30)
4. Five Four: Bréhattitude (5.05)
5. Nine Eight: Kiss'd Her Under the Coverlet / Shew's the Way to Wallington (2.30)
6. Ellington (3.41)
7. James Hill Set: Earl Grey / XYZ / The Quayside (3.58)
8. Arethusa / Trip to Scarborough (5.42)
9. Pipes Duet: Catcherside / Owen Hackett's / The Glasgow City Police Pipe Band (4.15)
10. Happy Hours / Reepakan Polka (3.36)
11. One Miner's Life (4.05)
12. The Countess of Galloway / The Topiarist / I'm Going to Speke (4.27)
13. Muiñeiras: Muiñeira de Pontesampaio / Muiñeira a Camposa (3.37)

Track 1a Tom Anderson;
Track 1b James Hill;
Tracks 2a, 3, 5, 9b trad.;
Track 2b, 6 Andy May;
Track 4 Bruno le Tron;
Tracks 7, 8a attributed to James Hill;
Track 9a Ian Scott;
Track 9c Pipe Major Donald McLeod;
Track 10a Vacher;
Track 10b trad. Finnish;
Track 11 Ed Pickford;
Track 12a Roland Lofthouse;
Track 12b Tom Oakes;
Track 12c Joe Scurfield;
Track 13 trad. Galician

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Other records with Andy May

Simon Haworth, Taking Routes, CD, Fellside FECD172, 2003

Various Artists, Landmarks: 25 Years of a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD203, 2006

The Queensberry Rules, Take Your Own Roads, CD, Fellside FECD227, 2009