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Plain Capers
Morris Dance Tunes from the Cotswolds
John Kirkpatrick
Morris Dance Tunes from the Cotswolds, compiled and arranged by John Kirkpatrick
Engineered by Alan Green at Mid-Wales Sound Studios
Front Photography by Paddy O'Beirnes
Original design by Sue
Dransfield
Design for compact disc by Tony Engle
Produced by John Kirkpatrick and Neil Wayne
Musicians
John Kirkpatrick: anglo concertina, button accordion,
two-row and four-stop-one-row melodeons, jews harp
Sue Harris: oboe and hammered dulcimers
Martin Carthy: guitar
Martin Brinsford: mouth organ and tambourine
Fi Fraser: fiddle
Track 2 John Kirkpatrick pub Free Reed Music
Tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15 Trad. arr. John Kirkpatrick pub Free
Reed Music
Tracks 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 Trad. arr. John Kirkpatrick & Martin Carthy pub Free Reed Music / Mole Music
some notes on Glorishears
a note on Constant Billy:
[Trad. arr. John Kirkpatrick]
This Morris dance tune in three versions from Longborough, Sherbourne and Adderbury was performed by John Kirkpatrick
and chums (including Martin Carthy) in 1976 on Plain Capers. It was also included in 2001 on the anthology The Carthy Chronicles.
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side 1
(2:41)
Hammersmith Flyover (in the style of
Longborough)
(2:09)
Old Molly Oxford (Field Town)
(2:08)
Black Jack (Longborough style) /
Old Black Joe (Badby) /
Old Black
Joe (Bucknell) (5:27)
Blue Eyed Stranger /
Willow Tree (Bucknell) (4:03)
Brighton Camp (Eynsham) /
The March Past (Eynsham) (3:41)
Bobby and Joan (Field Town) /
Bobbing-A-Joe (Wheatley) (3:23)
Monk's March (Sherborne) /
The Fieldtown Processional (4:56)
side 2
Sweet Jenny Jones (Adderbury) /
The Sherborne Jig (Sherborne) /
The Sherborne Jig (Longborough)
(3:40)
Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington)
(1:36)
Highland Mary (Bledington) /
Highland Mary (Oddington)
(3:45)
Wheatley Processional
(2:59)
Maid of The Mill (Bucknell) /
Cuckoo's Nest (Longborough)
/
William and Nancy (Bledington)
(5:32)
The Buffoon (Adderbury) /
The
Fool's Jig (Bampton)
(3:10)
Constant Billy (Longborough)
/
Constant Billy (Sherborne) /
Constant Billy (Adderbury)
(5:38)
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