Peta Webb

Recorded by Tony Engle;
Produced by Reg Hall;
Notes by Reg Hall and A.L. Lloyd;
Sleeve design and back cover photograph by Tony Engle;
Front cover photograph of Gleaners is from the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library

Musicians

Peta Webb: vocals;
Lucy Farr: fiddle [1, 4, 9];
Michael Plunkett: fiddle [6];
Reg Hall: melodeon [4]

Tracks

Side 1

1. I Have Wandered in Exile (Sweet Inniscarra) (5.10)
2. Oxford City (4.06)
3. The Moorlough Shore (4.21)
4. The Blackbird of Avondale (3.39)
5. Blackwater Side (3.58)

Side 2

1. The Pride of Glencoe (5.37)
2. I Am a Poor Girl (3.53)
3. Moorlough Mary (4.53)
4. The Lovely Banks of Lea (5.00)

All tracks trad.;
Track 1 from Lucy Farr, Co. Galway;
Tracks 2, 5 from Mary Doran, Belfast;
Track 3 from Rita and Sarah Keane, Co. Galway;
Track 4 from Frank Quinn, New York;
Track 6 from Brigid Tunney, Co. Fermanagh;
Track 7 from Winnie Ryan, Belfast;
Track 8 from John Docherty, Co. Donegal;
Track 9 from Mary Connors, Belfast

Produced by Ian Blake;
Recorded by David Kenny at Ideal Sound Recorders;
Photography and sleeve design by James Swinson;
Liner notes by Peta Webb and Pete Cooper

Musicians

Peta Webb: vocals;
Pete Cooper: vocals, fiddle;
Rory McLeod: harmonica [1, 6, 8, 11];
Pete Stanley: Appalachian dulcimer [1], 5-string banjo [6, 9];
Lawrie Wright: piano [4, 7];
Paul Roberts: Border pipes [4];
Ian Blake: bass [5];
Laurie Harper: bass [7];
Mark Emerson: fiddle [10]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Where the Wild Flowers Grow (2.50)
2. Falls of Richmond (2.20)
3. The Rich Man’s Daughter (4.28)
4. Reres Hill (4.30)
5. Dear Companion (3.42)
6. The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (3.45)

Side 2

1. Hard Luck, Hard Times (4.40)
2. My Dark Lover (2.05)
3. Young Love in Springtime (Springtime of Life) (3.25)
4. Beach Song (3.25)
5. High on the Mountain (2.30)
6. The Heart Is True (Our Ship Is Ready) (4.38)

Tracks 1, 9, 11 Ola Belle Reed;
Track 2 trad. arr. Pete Cooper;
Track 3 trad. arr. Peta Webb;
Tracks 4, 12 trad. arr. Peta Webb, Pete Cooper;
Track 5 Jean Ritchie;
Track 6 Than Hall aka Jean Ritchie, Bobbie Goldsboro;
Track 7 Hazel Dickens;
Track 8 anon., Peta Webb arr. Peta Webb, Pete Cooper;
Track 10 Pete Cooper;

Recorded in spring 1989 by John Howson [1, 3, 5-6, 8, 12-14],
David Kenny, Ideal Sound Recorders [2, 7, 9-11],
Michael Kilbane [4];
Produced by Keith Summers, Peta Webb, and John Howson;
Photograph by Linda Fornal

Musical Traditions review by Adrian Banham

Musicians

Peta Webb: vocals;
Caroline Kilbane: flute [4];
Michael Kilbane: uilleann pipes [4];
Pete Cooper: fiddle [11];
Sean Casey: fiddle [14];
Seamus O’Halloran: accordion [14];
Reg Hall: piano [14]

Tracks

1. Happy Happy Were the Days (3.26)
2. You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (3.54)
3. Jogging up to Claudy (1.50)
4. False, False / Old Hag You Have Killed Me (3.26)
5. Roving Round the County Tyrone (2.56)
6. Sweet William’s Ghost (6.24)
7. The Galway Shawl (3.51)
8. The Jackets Green (2.53)
9. A Stór Mo Chroí (4.02)
10. The Bunch of Rushes Green (4.32)
11. The Magpie’s Nest (2.19)
12. Underneath Her Apron (4.47)
13. I Have Wandered in Exile (Sweet Inniscarra) (4.00)
14. The Palm Trees of Kerry (4.26)

Tracks 1, 6-7, 9, 11 trad. arr. Alison McMorland, Peta Webb;
Tracks 2-5, 8, 10 trad.

Recorded by Paul Adams, 3 April 2000
except tracks 1, 3, 8, 11 recorded by Mike Harding, 18 February 1999;
Produced by Paul Adams

Musicians

Peta Webb & Ken Hall: vocals [1-2, 4, 6-7, 9, 11-12, 15, 18];
Peta Webb: vocals [5, 13, 16];
Ken Hall: vocals [3, 8, 10, 14, 17]

Tracks

1. True Lover John (2.50)
2. Yodel It Over Again (2.55)
3. I Wish I Was in Manchester (2.47)
4. The Seasons (3.45)
5. Scarborough Fair Town (4.52)
6. Poison in a Glass of Wine (2.34)
7. Whisky in Me Tay (2.51)
8. The Holland Handkerchief (4.23)
9. I Am Stretched on Your Grave (Táim sinte ar do Thuama) (4.06)
10. The Bacon Butty (4.32)
11. Cotton Mill Colic (2.09)
12. Rough and Rocky (2.55)
13. The Rich Man’s Daughter (4.49)
14. Silver Dagger, Turtle Dove (3.03)
15. Slieve Gallon Braes (2.31)
16. Slán Beo with the House on the Hill (3.37)
17. Uncle Dan McCann (2.42)
18. Rose of My Heart (2.46)

All tracks trad. arr. Peta Webb, Ken Hall except
Track 4 words Joseph Campbell, Jeff Wesley, music trad;
Track 9 words trad. Irish, translated by Frank O’Connor, music Philip King;
Track 10 Fred McCormick;
Track 11 Dave McCarn;
Track 14 Freddy McKay;
Track 18 Hugh Moffat