Strawhead

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall;
Liner notes by Chris Pollington and Gregg Butler;
Sleeve design by Brian Horsfall and Frank Hicklin

Musicians

Gregg Butler: vocals [1-2, 4-11], cornett [1, 3, 6, 8-9, 11], recorder [3, 5-6], treble recorder [8-9], bass drum [7];
Malcolm Gibbons: vocals [1, 3, 5-6, 8-9], 12 string guitar [2-9, 11], bass drum [1, 10];
Chris Pollington: vocals [1, 6, 8-11], 6 string guitar [5], organ [1-2, 4-11], synthesiser [4], descant recorder [8-9]

with
Peter Ashworth: violin [4, 6-9]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Malts Come Down (3.22)
2. Flodden Field (3.35)
3. Watkin’s Ale (4.44)
4. Cawsand Bay (3.35)
5. Admiral Benbow (4.10)
6. When the King Enjoys His Own Again (5.30)

Side 2

1. The Witches’ Song (5.00)
2. The Bonny Bunch of Roses (5.15)
3. Grand Conversation on Napoleon (9.05)
4. Corpus Christi (Over Yonder’s a Park) (4.05)
5. Madcaps of England (3.30)

Track 1 anon. / Strawhead;
Tracks 2, 4 trad. / Gregg Butler;
Tracks 3, 6 anon.;
Tracks 5, 8-9 trad.;
Track 7 Ben Jonson / Gregg Butler;
Track 10 trad. / Gadfan Edwards;
Track 11 trad. / Peter Ashworth;

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall;
Front cover: John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, from a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)

Musicians

Gregg Butler: vocals, cornett, descant/treble/tenor recorders, snare drum;
Malcolm Gibbons: vocals, 12 string guitar, bass drum;
Chris Pollington: melody synthesiser, harmonic synthesiser, 6 string guitar, vocals

with
Peter Ashworth: violin;
Stuart Grills: trumpet in D;
Edward Hoyle: trombone;
Patsy Fraser: percussion [1]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Glory of the North / Interludium (1.15)
2. The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant (6.11)
3. King William’s March (1.16)
4. Marlborough’s Health (1.44)
5. The Battle of Oudenarde / Adagio from Trumpet Concerto in D (Di Melante) TWV51:D7 (3.08)
6. Over the Hills and Far Away (8.13)

Side 2

1. The Careless Gallant (4.19)
2. Stout Seamen Bold (4.59)
3. The Winning of Cales / Interlude: The Snowy Breasted Pearl (5.27)
4. Napoleon on St. Helena (5.00)
5. Charm (2.41)
6. Courante CXVII (1.17)

Tracks 1a, 9b, 10 trad.;
Tracks 1b, 3 Jeremiah Clarke (1673-1707);
Track 2 words trad. / Pete Coe, tune trad.;
Tracks 4, 6 anon.;
Track 5a words anon., tune trad.;
Track 5b Georg Philipp Telemann;
Track 7 words anon. / John Playford, tune Gregg Butler;
Track 8 words anon., tune Chris Pollington;
Track 9a words Thomas Deloney, tune Gregg Butler;
Track 11 words Ben Jonson, tune Gregg Butler;
Track 12 Michael Praetorius

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall;
Brass arrangements by Chris Pollington;
Front cover design by Marilyn Campbell

Musicians

Gregg Butler: vocals, cittern, cornett, lysarden, French horn, sopranino, descant, treble and tenor recorders;
Malcolm Gibbons: vocals, 12 string guitar, percussion;
Chris Pollington: Polyphonic synthesiser, Fender Rhodes piano, Korg synthesiser, electric piano, flanger and phaser effects, 6-string guitar, vocals

with
Peter Ashworth: violin;
The Northern Brass Consort:
    Stuart Grills: B^♭ and D trumpets;
    Michael Lormor: B^♭ and D trumpets, flugelhorn;
    Lawrence Yates: French horn;
    Edward Hoyle: trombone;
    Ian Duckworth: tuba

Tracks

Side 1

1. Drink Old England Dry (3.20)
2. Who Liveth So Merry (3.35)
3. Battle of Waterloo (4.44)
4. John Barleycorn (3.35)
5. Clever Tom Clinch (4.10)

Side 2

1. Cap La Hogue (5.00)
2. Lord Nelson (5.15)
3. Concerto di Cornetto (9.05)
4. The Jingo Song (4.05)
5. Monmouth (3.30)

Side 3

1. Marching Along
2. The Cavalilly Men
3. Vive le Roy
4. The Battle of Preston
5. Flodden Field / Flowers of the Forest

Side 2

1. The Culloden Exhortation
2. The Poore Man Payes for All
3. Witch of Wookey
4. Mad Maudlin
5. Young British Soldier
6. July 1916

Track 1 anon. / Welsh trad. adapted Chris Pollington;
Track 2 trad.;
Track 3 trad. / Gregg Butler;
Track 4 Thomas Robins / trad.;
Track 5 Jonathan Swift / Gregg Butler;
Track 6 anon. / Akeroyd;
Track 7 anon., M. Gibbons / Chris Pollington;
Track 8 Chris Pollington;
Track 9 G. H. Farrell;
Track 10 anon. / trad.;
Track 11 Robert Browning / Holborne adapted Chris Pollington;
Track 12 Gregg Butler / anon.;
Track 13 anon., Gregg Butler / anon.;
Track 14 Gregg Butler;
Track 15 trad. / Gregg Butler, trad.;
Tracks 16-17 anon. / Gregg Butler;
Track 18 Gregg Butler (after Harrington) / Chris Pollington;
Track 19 anon.;
Track 20 Rudyard Kipling / trad.;
Track 21 Chris Pollington / trad.

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall;
Brass and string arrangements by Chris Pollington

Musicians

Strawhead:

Gregg Butler: cornett, mute cornett, citern, French horn, vocals, drum;
Malcolm Gibbons: 12 string guitar, vocals, Portuguese guitar, drum;
Chris Pollington: synthesisers (Crumar Multiman-5-Orchestrator, Korg M500, Casio 201), acoustic piano, harmony vocals, Chinese blocks, drums

with
The Northern Brass Consort:
    Stuart Grills, Michael Lormor: trumpets;
    Lawrence Yates: French horn;
    Edward Hoyle: trombone;
    Richard Hoyle: tuba;
The Speranza String Quartet:
    Stephen Barnes, Michael Tomason: violins;
    Alison Ballard: viola;
    Andrew Bennet: cello;
Albie Hilton: flute, piccolo

Tracks

Side 1

1. At Ye Hoppe: Three Renaissance dance tunes (2.05)
2. This Little Barleycorn (3.00)
3. General Wolfe (5.00)
4. Noble Arghyll (4.10)
5. The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna (6.20)

Side 2

1. Where Golden Grass Doth Grow (6.50)
2. The Deadly Wars: I’m Adoun for Lack o’ Johnnie / A Poor But Honest Soldier (6.40)
3. The Duke of Monmouth’s Lament (3.55)
4. The Sussex Toast (5.00)

Track 1a Schiarazula Marazula, anon.;
Track 1b Volta, anon.;
Track 1c Volta, Michael Praetorius (1571-1621);
Track 2 words anon.;
Track 3 trad.;
Track 5 Charles Wolfe;
Track 6 Martin Parker;
Track 7a slow air from the third movement of Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy;
Track 7b Robert Burns;
Track 8 Robert L’Estrane;
Track 9 tune Eric Winter

Recorded and produced by Brian Horsfall

Musicians

Strawhead:
Gregg Butler: vocals, banjo-cittern, cornett, mute cornett, melophone, descant recorder;
Malcolm Gibbons: vocals, 12 string guitar, tabor;
Chris Pollington: vocals, keyboards: Crumar Multiman-orchestrator 52, Casio 100P, Casio MT65, Korg M500, Kawai acoustic piano

The Northern Brass Consort:
Stuart Grills, Michael Lormor: B^♭ and D trumpets;
Lawrence Yates: French horn;
Edward Hoyle: trombone;
David Roberts: tuba

Tracks

Side 1: 1492-1590

1. Eldorado
2. The Mariner’s Song
3. A Toye
4. Colonising Virginia - 1587
5. Spagnoletta / 1588 - The Spanish Armada
6. Adieu to Old England

Side 2: 1591-1618

1. Grenville and the Revenge
2. A Dreame
3. The Madre De Dios
4. Almand for James I
5. Fortune My Foe
6. Raleigh’s Last Goodnight
7. Where Golden Grass Doth Grow
8. Spanish Ladies

Tracks 1, 5a Chris Pollington;
Track 2 words from the Comedy of Common Conditions, about 1570; tune An Almande by Robert Johnson, 1683-1633;
Tracks 3, 8 Giles Farnaby (active 1560-1600);
Track 4 Gregg Butler;
Track 5b words and tune anon. ca. 1600, additional tune Strawhead 1983;
Tracks 6-7, 9, 13 words Gregg Butler, tune Chris Pollington;
Track 10 anon. 1603;
Track 11 anon. 16^th century;
Track 12 words first two lines Sir Raleigh Raleigh, rest Gregg Butler, music Gregg Butler;
Track 14 trad.

Recorded and produced by Chris Pollington at Dragontail Studios;
Photography by Paul Duxbury;
Sleeve and insert design and artwork by Gregg Butler;
Front cover concept by Chris Pollington

Musicians

Strawhead:
Gregg Butler: lead vocals, vocals, cornetts, melophone, cittern, recorder;
Malcolm Gibbons: lead vocals, vocals, 12 string guitar, drum;
Chris Pollington: vocals, all keyboards

with
Alison Younger: dulcimer [4, 7]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Impossibilities
2. The Power of the Sword
3. A Mad World My Masters
4. A Marching Song of The New Model Army
5. Ask Me No More / Jamaica
6. Sceptres and Crowns

Side 2

1. A Catch
2. The Contented
3. Old England Turned New
4. I Live Not Where I Love
5. When Cannons Are Roaring
6. The Royal Head Is Severed

Track 1 words condensed and rewritten by Gregg Butler from a 1647 original by Edward Ford, Roxburghe Ballads (1869-1896), tune Chris Pollington;
Track 2 words rearranged by Gregg Butler from an anonymous original, Merry Drollery Complete (1691), tune Love Lies Bleeding, from Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859);
Track 3 words rearranged and rewritten by Gregg Butler from an anonymous original reprinted in Political Ballads of the 17^th and 18^th Century (1860), tune Chris Pollington;
Track 4 adapted and collated by Gregg Butler from Lesley’s March to Scotland and Lesley’s March to Longmarston Moor, The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819);
Track 5 words anon, Merry Drollery Complete (1691), tunes Monks March and Jamaica, trad., English Dancing Master (1670);
Track 6 words James Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles (1659), tune Chris Pollington and Hole in the Wall, trad., English Dancing Master (1670);
Track 7 words anon, Merry Drollery Complete (1691), tunes Chris Pollington afer All in a Garden Green, trad., English Dancing Master (1670), Three Merry Boys from Kent, Soldiers Three, both from Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859);
Track 8 words rearranged and slightly rewritten by Gregg Butler from an anonymous original, Merry Drollery Complete (1691), tune Gregg Butler;
Track 9 words condensed and slightly rewritten by Gregg Butler from an anonymous original, Merry Drollery Complete (1691), tune Chris Pollington after Rout of the Blues, trad.;
Track 10 words Gregg Butler after an original in The Roxburghe Ballads, tune trad., from Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859);
Track 11 John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies (1662);
Track 12 anon, Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859), tune Chris Pollington