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Flash Company

Flash Company (Fellside FE050)

Flash Company
A celebration of the first 10 years of Fellside Records

Fellside Recordings FE050 (LP, UK, 1986)

Flash Company
A celebration of 25 years of Fellside Records (1976-2001)

Fellside Recordings FECD156 (2 CD, UK, 2001)

 Flash Company (Fellside FECD156)

Compiled by Paul Adams. All artists' royalties for the LP tracks have been donated to Nic Jones and his family.

LP Tracks

LP Side 1LP Side 2
  1. Bram Taylor: The Banks of the Bann
  2. Steve Turner: Bonnie George Campbell
  3. Gerry Hallom: The First Surveyor
    from Old Australian Ways
  4. Jez Lowe: Licence to Kill / Planxty Zimmerman
  5. Linda Adams: Yellow Handkerchief
  6. Martyn Wyndham-Read: The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing
  7. The Famous 5 + 1: The Banks of Green Willow
    Martin Carthy, John Bowden, Jez Lowe, Linda Adams, Roy Harris + Paul Adams; this is an alternate take from the one on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs with Paul Adams singing instead of Martin Carthy

All tracks previously unreleased
All tracks (P) 1986 except track 7 (P) 1985
  1. Bobby Eaglesham: As I Roved Out
  2. Roy Harris: The Parson and the Clerk
  3. Nic Jones: The Warlike Lads of Russia
    from The First Folk Review Record
  4. Jolly Jack: Doodle Let Me Go
  5. Sara Gray & Ellie Ellis: Going to the West / Peach Bottom Creek
  6. Peter Bellamy & Dave Swarbrick: The Maid of Australia
    from the Both Sides Then recording sessions
  7. Martin Carthy: The Bloody Fields of Flanders / Far Over Struy
  8. Swan Arcade: The Wayworn Traveller
    (with Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and lots of others)

All tracks except track 3 previously unreleased
All tracks (P) 1986 except track 2 (P) 1985; track 3 (P) 1974; track 6 (P) 1979

CD Tracks

The first CD is basically a reissue of the 1986 LP of the same name which was released to celebrate Fellside Recordings' 10th anniversary. The CD has four more tracks (3, 7, 13, 16) and leaves out The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing by Martyn Wyndham-Read which is now available on the CD reissue of his Emu Plains album.

The second CD is a collection of tracks from recent Fellside Recordings albums.

CD 1CD 2
  1. Bram Taylor: The Banks of the Bann
  2. Steve Turner: Bonnie George Campbell
  3. Cockersdale: Cholera Camp
  4. Gerry Hallom: The First Surveyor
    from Old Australian Ways
  5. Jez Lowe: Licence to Kill / Planxty Zimmerman
  6. Linda Adams: Yellow Handkerchief
  7. Martyn Wyndham-Read: The Exile of Erin
    a variant of the recording from Emu Plains
  8. The Famous 5 + 1: The Banks of Green Willow
    Martin Carthy, John Bowden, Jez Lowe, Linda Adams, Roy Harris + Paul Adams; this is an alternate take from the one on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs with Paul Adams singing instead of Martin Carthy
  9. Bobby Eaglesham: As I Roved Out
  10. Roy Harris: The Parson and the Clerk
  11. Nic Jones: The Warlike Lads of Russia
    from The First Folk Review Record
  12. Jolly Jack: Doodle Let Me Go
  13. Marilyn Middleton-Pollock: Man in the Moon
  14. Sara Gray & Ellie Ellis: Going to the West / Peach Bottom Creek
  15. Peter Bellamy & Dave Swarbrick: The Maid of Australia
    from the Both Sides Then recording sessions
  16. Terry Docherty & Robin Dunn: Sally Wheatley
  17. Martin Carthy: The Bloody Fields of Flanders / Far Over Struy
  18. Swan Arcade: The Wayworn Traveller
    (with Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and lots of others)

All tracks except track 11 previously unreleased
All tracks (P) 1986 except track 3 (P) 2000, track 11 (P) 1974, track 13 (P) 1989, track 16 (P) 1998
  1. Sandra Kerr, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan: The Scalene Set
  2. Steve Tilston: Down Falls the Day
  3. Lucky Bags: Leatherwinged Bat
  4. Keith Kendrick: Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away
  5. Simon Haworth: Mozie Law / The Eleventh Avenue Jig
  6. Kathy Stewart: Celestial Shoes
  7. Rick Kemp: Deep in the Darkest Night
    from Escape
  8. Franky Armstrong w/ Maddy Prior: The Well Below the Valley
    from Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn
  9. Tryckster: Father O'Rarkey
  10. Sisters Unlimited: Collier Lassie
  11. The Rufus Crisp Experience: Angeline the Baker
  12. Clive Gregson: Fred Astaire
  13. Grace Notes: All That Is Gold
  14. John Conolly & Pete Sumner: Fiddler's Green
  15. 422: Big John McNeill's Set
  16. John Wright: Never Be the Sun
  17. Bob Fox & Benny Graham: The Miner's Life Guard
  18. Hughie Jones: Marques
  19. Mad Pudding: Vahideh's Fine Shoes
  20. John Kirkpatrick: Wassail Song
  21. Buz Collins: December Came in Early This Year
  22. Johnny Silvo & Diz Disley: Trouble in Mind
  23. Alistair McCulloch: Jigs

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 19, 21, 22 (P) 1999; tracks 2, 5, 13, 14 (P) 1998; tracks 4, 7, 8, 11, 20 (P) 1997; track 10 (P) 1995; tracks 15, 23 (P) 2000; track 16 (P) 1993; track 17 (P) 1996; track 19 (P) 1991