> Folk Music > Records > Mick Ryan & Pete Harris: Something to Show

Something to Show

Something to Show (WildGoose WGS318CD)

Something to Show
Mick Ryan & Pete Harris

WildGoose Studios WGS318CD (CD, UK, 2004)

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan, vocals;
Pete Harris, vocals, harmony vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, banjo, fretless bass guitar, whistles, percussion

with
Paul Burgess, fiddle;
Paul Sartin, oboe;
Tim Van Eyken, melodeon

Tracks

  1. The Ballad Seller (4.51)
  2. The Queen of the May (4.35)
  3. Sons of the Land (3.45)
  4. Farewell My Dearest Dear (5.04)
  5. Jack Went A-Sailing (3.54)
  6. The Grey Hawk (3.19)
  7. King Kaley (6.40)
  8. Work, Work, When It's Gonna Stop? (3.00)
  9. Something to Show (5.20)
  10. Faithless Sally Brown (4.12)
  11. The Last of England (4.07)
  12. Two Brethren (3.11)
  13. The Prince of Peace (4.24)
  14. The Eighteenth of June (5.41)

Tracks 1, 8, 13 Mick Ryan arr. Pete Harris;
Track 2 words trad., tune Ian Palmer;
Tracks 3, 7, 9 Mick Ryan;
Track 4, 14 trad. arr. Mick Ryan, Pete Harris;
Track 5 trad. adapted Mick Ryan, arr. Pete Harris;
Tracks 6, 12 trad. arr. Pete Harris;
Track 10 poem by Thomas Hood adapted Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan;
Track 11 Graham Moore

> Folk Music > Records > Mick Ryan: The Navvy's Wife

The Navvy's Wife

The Navvy's Wife (WildGoose WGS360CD)

The Navvy's Wife
A musical drama by Mick Ryan
Mick Ryan et al

WildGoose Studios WGS360CD (2 CD, UK, 2008)

“The Navvy's Wife gives voice to those whose life were shaped by the great drive to carve out Britain's canals, railways and roads. This itinerant way of life conferred hardship and uncertaincy on the women caught up in it but of these mothers, lovers, wives and widows the newspapers had very little to say; of their longings, sorrows, hopes and joys they said nothing, nothing at all …”

Musicians

Mick Ryan, vocals;
Jackie Oates, vocals, five string fiddle-viola, shruti;
Paul Downes, vocals, guitar, mando-cello, mandolin, banjo;
Judy Dunlop, vocals;
Heather Bradford, vocals;
Roger Watson, vocals, melodeon, concertina

Tracks

Act 1 / CD 1Act 2 / CD 2
  1. [MR] Men from Limerick (3.41)
  2. [JO, JD, HB] The Women's Song (4.00)
  3. [JO] My Paddy (2.00)
  4. [MR] Don't Forget (3.23)
  5. [HB] Mammy's Poem (2.01)
  6. [HB] Farewell My Son (3.33)
  7. [JO] My Paddy (part 2) (2.07)
  8. [MR, JO] The Right Thing (2.09)
  9. [MR] Don't Forget (part 2) (2.56)
  10. [JO] I Miss Him (2.38)
  11. [RW] The Railway Age poem (1.46)
  12. [RW] Brassey (4.50)
  13. [JD] The Navvy's Wife (7.23)
  14. [JD, JO, HB] Women Not Their Wives (4.46)
  15. [Cast] They All Hate (3.41)
  16. [PD, JD] The Eyes Have it (5.18)
  17. [JD] Farewell (3.43)
  18. [RW] Dangerous Enough poem (0.53)
  19. [RW] So Many Ways to Die (3.32)
  1. [MR, JD] Poppies (3.49)
  2. [MR] The Journey (2.45)
  3. [MR] What Brought Paddy Over poem (3.41)
  4. [HB] We Get All Sorts (2.32)
  5. [PD] Here Comes Mick (4.17)
  6. [RW] Just like You (4.56)
  7. [MR] Something to Show (4.20)
  8. [MR] The Journey (part 2) (1.49)
  9. [HB] Wasn't He the Lucky One? (1.54)
  10. [JO; JD, HB] Aren't We the Lucky Ones? (3.10)
  11. [MR, RW] The Land Around You (4.06)

All words and music are by Mick Ryan except
Tracks 1, 28 words Mick Ryan, music trad.;
Track 13 words Mick Ryan, music trad. adapted Mick Ryan;
All spoken verse is by Mick Ryan, and the musical accompaniment to this which is not integral with a subsequent or previous song is traditional;
All prose is freely adapted from testimony taken from the books:
Ultan Cowley: The Men Who Built Britain; Terry Freeman: The Railway Navvies

> Folk Music > Records > Mick Ryan & Paul Downes: Away in the West

Away in the West

Away in the West (WildGoose WGS375CD)

Away in the West
Mick Ryan & Paul Downes

WildGoose Studios WGS375CD (CD, UK, 2010)

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan, vocals;
Paul Downes, harmony vocals, guitar, banjo, mando-cello, acoustic bass guitar;
Jackie Oates, five string viola;
Paul Hutchinson, accordion

Tracks

  1. The Pauper's Path (4.43)
  2. The Bells Rang (4.69)
  3. Summer Is A-Coming In (3.12)
  4. Jack in Luck (7.13)
  5. Greenland (3.05)
  6. South Armagh (3.43)
  7. The People Must Be Amused (4.18)
  8. Love Is Life (4.16)
  9. Vinland (5.24)
  10. No Evil (3.01)
  11. Upon a Field (4.22)
  12. Fire Against the Cold (3.41)
  13. How Wide's the Ocean (3.22)
  14. The Institute (4.30)

All tracks Mick Ryan except
Track 4 words Mick Ryan, music Paul Downes;
Track 5 trad. arr. Paul Downes;
Tracks 6, 11 words Mick Ryan, music trad.;
Track 7 words Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan, Paul Downes

> Folk Music > Records > Mick Ryan: The Pauper's Path

The Pauper's Path

The Pauper's Path (WildGoose WGS379CD)

The Pauper's Path to Hope
A folk opera, celebrating the extraordinary resilience of ordinary people, by Mick Ryan
Mick Ryan et al

WildGoose Studios WGS379CD (2 CD, UK, 2011)

“The Pauper's Path tells the stories of some of those who, though no fault of their own, were forced to enter the dreaded ‘Union’ or ‘Workhouse’. It tells how, by courage, determination, solidarity and love, some were able to at least hope for a better future.”

Musical direction by Paul Downes and Mick Ryan

Musicians

Mick Ryan, vocals;
Paul Downes, vocals, guitar, mando-cello, mandolin, banjos;
Maggie Boyle, vocals, flute, bodhrán;
Roy Clinging, vocals, concertina;
Heather Bradford, vocals;
Judy Dunlop, vocals;
Phoebe Kirrage, vocals

The Characters

Richard [Roy]: A pauper. Formerly hard working. Misses his wife.
Jane [Judy]: A pauper. Saddened by childlessness. Misses Richard.
Mark [Mick]: A pauper. Feckless. Says he sees separation from wife as a relief.
Helen [Heather]: A pauper. Wife of Mark. Also relieved by separation.
Mary [Maggie]: A pauper. Apparently a widow.
A Tramp [Paul]: A vagrant. Apparently slightly insane.
The Workhouse Master [Paul]
A Workhouse Child [Phoebe]: An orphan.

Tracks

Act 1 / CD 1Act 2 / CD 2
  1. [MR, all] The Workhouse (3.30)
  2. [all] Let Us In (1.41)
  3. [PD] This Is the Workhouse /
    You Can't Have That (3.51)
  4. [HB] Time (4.30)
  5. [MR, all] Locks and Bolts (2.52)
  6. [RC] Turn That Mill (3.01)
  7. [JD, MR, all] Fire Against the Cold (3.33)
  8. [RC, JD] Long Ago and Far Away (2.37)
  9. [MR, HB] Free at Last (2.29)
  10. [MB] Who? (2.53)
  11. [JD] My Child (3.10)
  12. [PK] The Workhouse Child (Part One) / [MR, all] Work! Work! When's It Gonna Stop? (4.36)
  13. [all] Industry, Usefulness, Virtue (5.31)
  1. [MR, all] In Their Eyes (2.54)
  2. [PD] The Vagrant's Song (4.36)
  3. [HB, all] The Union (Part One) (2.16)
  4. [JD, RC] Do You Remember? (2.43)
  5. [HB, MR] A Jolly Good Job (4.10)
  6. [MB] That's My Story (4.39)
  7. [PD] Down Among the Dead Men (3.12)
  8. [MR, all] The Union (Part Two) (2.18)
  9. [PK] The Workhouse Child (Part Two) (2.20)
  10. [RC, JD, MB, PD] Is That You? (2.29)
  11. [PK] No One Saw Me (2.42)
  12. [MB] Where Shall I Go? (2.49)
  13. [All] My Home (2.25)
  14. [MR] The Path to Hope (3.37)
  15. [all] The Pauper's Path (4.31)

All words and music are by Mick Ryan except
Tracks 2, 14-15 words Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan, Paul Downes;
Track 3b words Mick Ryan, music trad. adapted Mick Ryan;