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The Taverners: Blowing Sands

Blowing Sands (Trailer LER 2080)

Blowing Sands
The Taverners

Trailer Records LER 2080 (LP, UK, 1973)

Recorded and produced by Seumas Ewens;
Sleeve design by Janet Kerr;
Photograph by Peter T. Blacow

Musicians

Alan Bell, vocals, concertina;
Pete Rodger, vocals;
Brian Osborne, vocals, guitar;
Stuart Robinson, guitar, melodeon, mandolin, bouzouki, 5-string banjo

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151)
  2. The Ladies Dance at Whitsun
  3. The Blowing Sands
  4. A Young and Single Sailor (Roud 264; Laws N42)
  5. The Rape of Glencoe
  6. I'm Looking for a Job
  1. Sir Thomas Tylesley
  2. Windmills
  3. La Pique
  4. Sambo's Song
  5. The Lord Middleton
  6. The Dark Island

Tracks 1, 4, 9 trad. arr. Taverners;
Track 2 Austin John Marshall;
Tracks 3, 7-8, 10, 12 Alan Bell;
Track 5 Jim McLean;
Track 6 Matt McGinn;
Track 11 Ron Baxter, Alan Bell

Notes

For The Lord Middleton see also the Mudcat Café thread Fleetwood & Fishing: Songs of the Trawling Trade.