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Ashley Hutchings: By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept

Produced by Ashley Hutchings, assisted by Paul Hopkinsn;
Recorded by Paul Hopkinson at Foundry Recording Studio, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 2017 and 2018;
Tracks 2, 14 The Ashley Hutching All Stars, recorded in 1988;
Track 6 The Albion Dance Band, recorded in 1987;
Track 9 The Rainbow Chasers, recorded in 2005;
Track 27 The Albion Band, recorded in 1999;
Design and artwork by Mick Toole

Musicians

Ashley Hutchings: voice [1, 3, 5, 16a, 21,32], lead vocals [2, 15], vocals [8, 11, 27, 31], introduction [14], bass guitar [2, 6, 8, 11, 15, 18], acoustic bass guitar [9];
J.J. Stoney: keyboard [1, 5, 8, 11, 15, 17-18, 22, 32], organ [16b];
Polly Bolton: vocals [2, 6, 14, 20];
Pete Zorn: vocals [2], soprano saxophone [2, 6], percussion [2];
Clive Gregson: vocals [2], acoustic guitar [2];
John Shepherd: keyboard [2, 6, 14, 20];
Dave Mattacks: drums [2];
Barry Coope: vocals [4];
Ken Nicol: acoustic guitar [4, 18, 20, 27], electric guitar [11, 27], lead electric guitar [15, 18];
Joe Broughton: violin [4, 20, 27], mandolin [27];
Jo Hamilton: viola [4, 20], vocals [9];
Robin Wilson: violin [4, 20];
Anna Picken: cello [4, 20];
Simon Care: melodeon [6];
Phil Beer: electric guitar [6];
Trevor Foster: drums [6];
Jane Wildsmith: voice [7];
Tim Walker: trombone [8];
Chris Sheldon: banjo [8];
Fred Claridge: drums [8, 11, 15, 18], clown horn [8];
Ruth Angell: violin [9, 11, 15, 18];
Mark Hutchinson: acoustic guitar [9];
Blair Dunlop: acoustic guitar [11, 15, 31], electric guitar [15, 18, 24], introduction [15], mandocello [18], vocals [24, 31];
Michael Maloney: voice [12, 19, 28, 30];
Becky Mills: backing vocals [15], vocals [16b, 18, 22], acoustic guitar [18, 22];
Kitty Macfarlane: vocals [17], acoustic guitar [17];
Gillie Nicholls: vocals [27];
Neil Marshall: drums [27];
Adrianna Thanou: lead vocals [29];
Robert Tralo: second vocals [29];
Aurel Qirjo: violin [29];
Telando Feto: clarinet [29];
Agron Murat: llautë (lute) [29];
Agron Nasi: dajre (frame drum) [29]

Tracks

CD 1: Gloucester Docks Revisited

  1. Elegie XII—an excerpt (1.35)
  2. Kitty Come Down the Lane (3.27)
  3. The Meadow (0.30)
  4. Art Nouveau (3.01)
  5. St Valentine’s Day Sonnet (1.22)
  6. Trip to Bath (2.41)
  7. Sultana Cake (0.19)
  8. Cul-de-Sac (2.55)
  9. Our Stolen Season (4.13)
  10. Has This Hotel So Many Secrets? (0.40)
  11. Devil-May-Care in Our Dancing Shoes (4.02)
  12. Eugene Onegin—an excerpt (0.54)
  13. It Was My Heart (1.39)
  14. I Dreamed a Dream (4.17)
  15. Thirty-Two Years and a Lifetime (4.53)
  16. Epilogue / French Catholic Wedding Tune (2.18)

CD 2: Other Tales of Love

  1. Avona and the Giant (4.30)
  2. Above the Angels (4.29)
  3. Aire and Angells (1.46)
  4. If There’s No Other Way (5.20)
  5. If Love Has Wings (0.30)
  6. The Swift (3.38)
  7. Such a Crazy Marriage (3.20)
  8. Polly on the Shore—an excerpt (2.39)
  9. I Remember Every Detail (0.28)
  10. I Was Thinking of Clarissa (0.48)
  11. Welcome to the World (5.21)
  12. Notes From the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man - Part One (6.19)
  13. Sykaleshe (4.22)
  14. Notes From the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man - Part Two (1.10)
  15. Lost in the Haze (3.42)
  16. Romeo and Juliet—excerpt / Song from Cymbeline (3.17)

Tracks 1, 19 John Donne;
Tracks 2, 5, 9, 14, 16a Ashley Hutchings;
Track 3 Louis MacNeice, from The Strings are False;
Track 4 Ashley Hutchings, Ken Nicol;
Track 6 Ashley Hutchings, John Shepherd;
Track 9 Ashley Hutchings, J.J. Stoney, Fred Claridge;
Track 10 excerpts from Last Year in Marienbad;
Tracks 11, 15, 31 Ashley Hutchings, Blair Dunlop;
Track 12 Aleksandr Pushkin;
Track 13 from Les Dames du Bois du Boulogne;
Track 16b trad. arr. Ashley Hutchings;
Track 17 Kitty Macfarlane;
Track 18 Ashley Hutchings, Joe Topping;
Track 20 Ashley Hutchings, Joe Broghton;
Track 21 from Pierre Beaumarchais’ play The Marriage of Figaro;
Track 22 Becky Mills;
Track 23 from the film A Farewell to Arms;
Track 24 trad. arr. Blair Dunlop;
Track 25 from the film Casablanca;
Track 26 from the film Charge of the Light Brigade;
Track 27 Ashley Hutchings, Gillie Nicholls, Ken Nicol;
Tracks 28, 30 Anton Chekhov;
Track 29 trad. arr. Saz’iso;
Track 32a William Shakespeare;
Track 323 William Shakespeare arr. Kitty Macfarlane