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Roy Bailey: New Bell Wake

New Bell Wake (Acorn CF 262)

New Bell Wake
Roy Bailey

Acorn Records CF 262 (LP, UK, 1976)
Fuse Records CFCD262 (CD, UK, March 1999)

 New Bell Wake (Fuse CFCD 262)

Recorded at Acon Studios in March 1976 by Colin Sanders
Produced by Roy Bailey and Colin Sanders
[10] produced by Leon Rosselson
Sleeve design and photography by Tony Riley

Musicians

Roy Bailey, guitar [1-2, 5], vocals;
Leon Rosselson, banjo [1], guitar [2, 5-6, 8, 10], piano [10], mellotron [10];
John Leslie, concertina [1-2, 5, 7];
Chris Leslie, fiddle [1-2, 4-5, 7-8]

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The New Bell Wake (3.48)
  2. Spare Me the Life of Georgie (4.28)
  3. Flying Cloud (5.59)
  4. John Barleycorn (3.39)
  5. The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 162; Child 299) (4.20)
  1. The Wymondham Fight (3.02)
  2. Lord Franklin (3.07)
  3. The Beggar Man (3.37)
  4. Adieu, Adieu (4.58)
  5. Fair's Fair (3.15)

Track 1 trad. from Room for Company, edited by Roy Palmer;
Tracks 2, 9 trad. from Songs of the Midland, edited by Roy Palmer;
Track 3 trad. from The Singing Island, edited by Ewan MacColl;
Track 4 trad. from The Constant Lovers, edited by Frank Purslow;
Track 5 trad. learned from Crowdy Crawn;
Track 6 Bill Meek;
Track 7 trad. arr. Bailey, Leslie;
Track 8 trad. from Seeds of Love, edited by Stephen Sedley;
Track 10 Leon Rosselson