The group’s two ’80s albums, combined here, are full of fresh arrangements of traditional songs and tunes. ‘Brass Monkey was a great idea,’ said Martin Carthy. ‘A phenomenal experience.’ Q called it ‘the finest folk group of the 1980s.’
It should have been acknowledged in the booklet for this CD that the image used is an enlarged detail from ‘Stooking’, from ‘The Farmer’s Year’ (1933, Collins & Co, London) by Clare Leighton, copyright Clare Leighton Estate.
Martin Carthy guitar, mandolin, vocals
John Kirkpatrick Anglo-concertina, melodeon, button accordion, vocals
Howard Evans trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
Martin Brinsford c-melody saxophone, mouth-organ, percussion
Roger Williams trombone, vocals
Richard Cheetham trombone
1 Waterman’s Hornpipe
2 Fable of the Wings
3 The Miller’s Three Sons
4 The Maid & the Palmer
5 Bad News
6 Sovay
7 Tip-Top Hornpipe / Primrose Polka
8 Jolly Bold Robber
9 Old Grenadier
10 George’s Son
11 Da Floo’er o’ Taft / The Lass o’ Paties Mill
12 The Handweaver & the Factory Maid
13 The Rose Lawn Quadrille
14 Willie the Waterboy
15 Doctor Fauster’s Tumblers / The Night of Trafalgar / Prince William
16 Riding Down to Portsmouth
17 Trowie Burn
18 The Foxhunt
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