Matt Quinn

Produced by Dan Quinn and Jim Ward;
Recorded and mastered by Jim Ward at Country Branch Studios, Crawley;
Notes by Dan Quinn;
Photos by Rebe Cleveland;
Front cover by Chris Molan

Musicians

Dan Quinn: vocals [2-3, 5, 7, 9, 11-12], melodeons;
Matt Quinn: vocals [4, 6-7, 10], chorus vocals [2, 12], melodeons

Tracks

1. Cat Among the Tails / The Radstock Jig (3.40)
2. The Fox and the Grey Goose (2.54)
3. The Creel (3.42)
4. The Banks of Sweet Dundee (3.42)
5. The Jealous Sailor (4.26)
6. Rosemary Lane (3.51)
7. Raking the Hay (2.42)
8. Valse Clog / Italian Mazurka (4.21)
9. Young Leonard (3.52)
10. Us Poor Fellows (5.50)
11. Coming Home From the Wake (2.58)
12. The New Deserter (6.39)
13. Follow On / The Adelphi Polka (4.23)

All tracks trad. except
Track 5 Bob Davenport;
Track 10 Peter Bellamy

Produced, recorded and mixed by Tom A. Wright at Powered Flight Music, Sheffield, and by Dohan Mehmet at Boombox Production House;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Photography by Seth Tinsley;
Artwork by Katy Coope

Musicians

Matt Quinn, vocals, melodeons

with
Seth Tinsley, guitar ;
Cuthbert Noble, vocals ;
Liz Giddings, fiddle

Tracks

1. The Nobleman and the Thresherman (3.16)
2. Lumps of Plum Pudding / Nap Over (4.48)
3. Green Broom (4.02)
4. John Kimmel’s Accordion Fantasy (3.07)
5. Le Reve du Queteux / Spirit of the Dance (4.24)
6. Norwich Gaol (4.56)
7. Thaxted Square / Bacca Pipes (4.20)
8. The Slow Burner (3.32)
9. The Week Before Easter (8.44)
10. Reel a Maritimes / Set a Ubert / Reel des Voyageurs (4.15)
11. Katie the Conqueror (3.42)

All tracks trad., all tracks arr. Matt Quinn except
Track 2b Matt Quinn;
Tracks 4, 10 trad. arr. Seth Tinsley, Matt Quinn;
Track 6 Peter Bellamy arr. Cuthbert Noble, Matt Quinn;
Track 7a Simon Ritchie;
Track 8 Nigel Chippindale arr. Liz Giddings, Matt Quinn;
Track 11 Sandra Kerr

Produced by Tom A Wright;
Recorded by Tom A Wright at Underbank School Room;
Mixed by Tom A Wright at Powered Flight Music, Sheffield;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Artwork and design by Katy Coope

Musicians

Matt Quinn, duet concertina;
Owen Woods, melodeon

Tracks

1. La Pecheuse / Galope de Joseph Couture (3.16)
2. Where’s That Blasted Bus? / Yippee Ki-Yay Melon Farmer (4.55)
3. The Whitefriar’s Hornpipe (2.26)
4. Dalafiolen (4.02)
5. Le Marche de Thomas Pomerleau / Brighton Camp (4.29)
6. Are These the Last Days of Summer? (3.50)
7. Odd Socks / Home Is Where You Wear Your Hat (4.18)
8. From Night Till Morn (4.12)
9. Kristjani Reilender / Vanaisa Reilender (4.49)
10. Valse des Poêles (4.15)
11. The Steamboat Quickstep / Open Sarsaparilla! (3.29)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 2a, 7a Owen Woods;
Tracks 2b, 7b, 11b Matt Quinn;
Track 4 Sven Nyhus;
Track 6 Roger Peppe;
Track 10 Simon Riopel

Recorded by Matt Quinn;
Lead vocals recorded by Tom Wright;
Edited and mixed by Tom A Wright at Powered Flight Music, Sheffield;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Artwork by Katy Coope

Musicians

Matt Quinn, vocals, one-row melodeons, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, tambourine, triangle, shaker, stomp

Tracks

1. Toilet Roll (2.50)
2. Stranger in the Old Town (2.43)
3. Rat’s Advice (3.03)
4. A Message from Genghis Khan (2.52)
5. Johnny Strikes Up the Band (2.19)
6. Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (3.58)

Tracks 1, 4 Jim Eldon;
Track 2 Jim Woodland;
Track 3 Bing Lyle;
Track 5 Warren Zevon;
Track 6 Bob Dylan

Video

Matt Quinn sings Jim Eldon’s song Toilet Roll:

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Tom Wright at The Keystone, Sheffield;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Artwork and design by Maria Alzamora

Tradfolk review by Jon Wilks

Musicians

George Sansome: guitar, vocals;
Matt Quinn: mandolin, vocals

Tracks

1. Tyne of Harrow (3.44)
2. Tailor in the Tea Chest (3.30)
3. Sheffield Park (3.58)
4. I Once Loved a Boy (3.32)
5. The Fox and the Grey Goose (2.20)
6. Night Visiting Song (5.11)
7. I Live Not Where I Love (4.09)
8. My Son in Amerikay (3.02)
9. Thornaby Woods (4.16)
10. Lost in a Wood (4.56)
11. The Death of Andrew (8.20)

All tracks trad. except
Track 8 words Ali McLoughlin, music trad.

Video

George Sansome and Matt Quinn sing I Live Not Where I Love: