Hannah Sanders

Produced and arranged by Hannah Sanders & Liz Simmons;
Recorded at Mount Pleasant Studios by Flynn Cohen, Gloucester, MA;
Mixed and mastered at Dimension Sound Studios by Matt Malikowski, Jamaica Plain, MA;
Design by Jeremy Parker;
Photography by Sid Ceaser

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitar [4-5], dulcimer [3];
Liz Simmons: vocals, guitar [1-4];
Flynn Cohen: waldezither [1]

Tracks

1. Fire and Wine (3.38)
2. The Bird in the Bush (3.42)
3. Broken Promises (3.47)
4. Sovay (2.42)
5. World Begun (2.50)

Track 1 Steve Ashley;
Tracks 2, 4 trad.;
Track 3 Liz Simmons;
Track 5 Hannah Sanders

Recorded and produced by Ben Savage;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, dulcimer, guitar;
Ben Savage: dobro, guitar;
Ben Smith: guitar [2]

Tracks

1. I’ll Weave My Love a Garland (4.47)
2. Seven Curses (4.11)
3. Hard Times (4.29)

Track 1 trad. arr. Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 2 Bob Dylan arr. Hannah Sanders;
Track 3 Stephen Collins Foster arr. Hannah Sanders

Recorded and produced by Ben Savage;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Photography and design by Sid Ceaser

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitar, baritone dulcimer;
Jon Thorne: double bass;
Evan Carson: percussion, bodhrán;
Ben Savage: guitar, dobro, backing vocals;
Anna Scott: cello;
Jade Rhiannon: backing vocals [2];
Ruth Sanders: backing vocals [9]

Tracks

1. I’ll Weave My Love a Garland (4.47)
2. Joshuay (2.12)
3. The Werewolf (4.48)
4. Go Your Way (4.01)
5. Geordie (4.59)
6. A Sailor’s Life (3.05)
7. Bonny Bunch of Roses / Mayflower Stranger (6.27)
8. I Gave My Love a Cherry (3.33)
9. Pleasant and Delightful (3.18)
10. Miles Weatherhill and Sarah Bell (3.40)
11. Lord Franklin (3.44)

Tracks 1-2, 5, 9-10 trad. arr. Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 3 Michael Hurley;
Track 4 Anne Briggs;
Tracks 6-8, 11 trad. arr. Hannah Sanders

Videos

Produced by David Travers-Smith;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by David Travers-Smith at Found Sound Toronto;
Additional UK engieering by Ben Savage and Phil Beer;
Photography by Rosie Hardy;
Album design by Chris Collins

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitar, baritone dulcimer;
Ben Savage: vocals, guitar, dobro;
Kevin Breit: mandocello, guitar, mandola;
Jon Thorne: double bass;
Jim Causley: backing vocals;
Katriona Gilmore: backing vocals, mandolin;
Evan Carson: percussion;
Jade Rhiannon: backing vocals

Tracks

1. The Fall (Hang) (4.00)
2. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maids (4.41)
3. The Sun Is Gonna Rise (4.50)
4. What’s It Tonight My Love? (5.29)
5. Lady Margaret (3.57)
6. Clayton Boone (6.00)
7. Deep Blue Sea (4.23)
8. Ribbons and Bows (3.46)
9. The Unquiet Grave (4.34)
10. Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather (6.02)

Tracks 1, 4 Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Tracks 2, 5-7, 9 trad. arr. Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 3 Bill Miller;
Track 8 Richie Stearns;
Track 10 Bob Dylan

Videos

Recorded by Ben Savage and David Travers-Smith;
Mixed, mastered and produced by David Travers-Smith at Found.Sound.Toronto, CA;
Original art by Alan Forbes;
Photography by Rosie Hardy;
Design by Chris Collins;
Tarot cards by AE Waite / Pamela Colman Smith

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitars, dulcimer;
Ben Savage: vocals, guitars, dobro, drums

with;
Jon Thorne: double bass;
Burke Carroll: pedal steel;
Evan Carson: percussion;
Chris Coole: banjo;
David Travers-Smith: horns, organ;
Oh Susanna, Jess Morgan, Katriona Gilmore & James Roberts, David Bentley: additional vocals

Tracks

1. Selkie Song (4.57)
2. I Met a Man (3.56)
3. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (4.57)
4. A Thousand New Moons (3.14)
5. Every Night When the Sun Goes In instrumental (2.04)
6. 7 (3.26)
7. Reynardine (4.43)
8. The Santa Fe Trail (4.59)
9. Awake (2.50)
10. One Grain of Sand (5.11)
11. Reaching (5.32)

Probably all tracks Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage except
Track 2 words Woody Guthrie, music Billy Bragg;
Track 5, 7 trad.;
Track 8 James Grafton Rogers;
Track 10 Pete Seeger;

Videos

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage sing Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key:

Performed and arranged by Ben Savage and David Travers-Smith;
Artwork by Jess Morgan

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitars, dulcimer;
Ben Savage: vocals, guitars, dobro, drums

Tracks

1. Ships (3.14)
2. If I Needed You (3.26)
3. If I Were a Carpenter (3.37)
4. A Song for You (5.37)
5. Hurt in Your Heart (3.58)
6. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (4.49)
7. Unquiet Grave (5.32)
   

Track 1 Greg Brown;
Track 2 Townes Van Zandt;
Track 3 Tim Hardin;
Track 4 Gram Parsons;
Track 5 John Martyn;
Track 6 words Woody Guthrie, music Billy Bragg;
Track 7 trad.

Acknowledgements

Thank you very much to Hannah and Ben for sending me a copy of this EP.

Recorded and mixed by Ben Savage at The Old Pelly Schoolhouse, Hastings, in August 2020;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Photography by Rosie Hardy;
Graphic design by Chris Collins;
Original art by Naomi Randall

Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, guitars, dulcimer;
Ben Savage: vocals, guitars, dobro, drums

Tracks

1. A Winter’s Night (3.27)
2. Polly O Polly (2.56)
3. When First I Came to Caledonia (4.09)
4. Lovely Joan (4.17)
5. False True Love (3.39)
6. A-Life A-Lie (4.00)
7. Sweet Nightingale (4.10)
8. Earl Richard (4.10)
9. Lark in the Morning (2.26)
10. River Don’t Run (4.52)

All tracks trad. except
Track 6 Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 10 Richard Guard, Anna Crockatt

Video

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage sing (A-Roving on) A Winter’s Night:

Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Savage,
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Cover photography by Rosie Hardy;
Album artwork by Chris Collins

Bright Young Folk album review by Mike Davies
KLOF Magazine album review by Peter Shaw

Musicians

Hannah Sanders: vocals, dulcimer, acoustic guitars, electric guitar [6];
Ben Savage: vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, dobro, lapsteel, drums;
Jon Thorne: double bass;
Evan Carson: drums, percussion [3, 5, 8];
Pete Eaglesfield: organ [3-4, 8];
Ed Cook: synthesisers [3, 5];
Flynn Cohen: mandolin [4, 7];
Jess Morgan: vocals, harmonica, kazoo [4, 7-8];
Jade Rhiannon, Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame, Liz Simmons: vocals [4, 7-8];
David Bentliey: vocals [4, 8]

Tracks

1. Border Widow’s Lament (4.03)
2. Castles and Old Kings (5.28)
3. First Footing (4.18)
4. The Youngest Sailor (4.08)
5. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (4.30)
6. Save My Life (3.37)
7. Say Darlin’ Say (4.02)
8. The Lilac Bloom (4.58)
9. The Lavender’s Ready instrumental (2.56)
10. Marbletown (Every Night When the Sun Goes In) (4.45)

Tracks 1, 7, 10 trad. arr. Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 2 Johnny Dickinson;
Tracks 3-4, 6, 8-9 Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage;
Track 5 words Richard Fariña, music trad.

Videos

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage sing The Youngest Sailor: